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How To Sell More Stuff On Your Website Without Coming Off as An Ass

by ian on August 6, 2008

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I was looking for a couple videos on Youtube to post for another site, and came across this on here from the Big Idea With Donny Deutsch (sp?) show.

Now, I'm not a big fan of this sort of show ( as I really only watch Intervention (because everyone loves a funny drunk), Keeping up with the Kardashians ( big Bruce Jenner fan) and occasionally I'll watch Sunset Tan for a little late night intellectual stimulation.

But I thought this video was actually pretty good for a number of reasons, and sort of apropos to the whole online selling space. So many people try to be a complete know it all, and use all of these sorts of formulaic approaches to selling more stuff

( ie - buy it now cause it's going it away soon and there are only 84,48 left, buy it now because everyone else is doing it (( a lesson in peer pressure I should have learned to avoid after a bad batch of peyote in Mexico circa 1998)) buy it now because if you don't you'll never make your mother proud, etc)

Essentially, the whole of art of online selling has sort of shrunk down to the lowest common element of preying on all of our obvious human frailties in an effort to make as much cash as possible. And I guess I'm guilty of the same thing, so I'm really not trying to pass judgment here - but really liked what the first woman had to say on this video for a number of important reasons. [click to continue…]

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Crazy, Sexy, Beautiful. Why I love Nutty Women

by ian on July 27, 2008

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I love crazy women.  It's hard to explain why - but there is something so magnetically, hynopnotically sexy about a girl who is just balls to the wall nuts.  Take Heather Thomas for example.  Once VERY famous, and very sexy…and still, although a bit on the other side of the street of her prime time  bikini days, still a strikingly beautiful woman.

Which is why I find her lunatic fringe nuttiness so damn sexy

There is a phenomenal freedom that comes with being 18 screws loose of a full tool box, and each one is a little extra scintillating, seductive come hither gaze in my book.

Check out this great interview she did with http://www.retroality.tv. 

Very insightful stuff indeed.

Here are a couple nuggets of advanced intellectual agility that Heather showed off for long time fans like me.

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At first, her contention that Osama Bin Laden was actually a double agent for the USA made no sense to me whatsoever.  But  she clarified her well thought out position nicely with this:

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Which sort of ties it all togther very nicely.  Makes a lot more sense now, doesn't it?

Crazy, sexy women are the best.  They are approachable, because they want to share, opine and discuss.  They are friendlier than most folks, and simply want their voices heard. 

Plus, they are fucking nuts, which you have to admit is a huge turn on.  

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How to Write Headlines That Get the Click:

by ian on April 4, 2008

cnn black president.jpgThis article would probably have been better titled - "what CNN could learn from the National Enquirer".  I came across this story a few minutes ago and it literally JUMPED off the page…but, not for what it said, but what it didn't. [click to continue…]

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Love Them Anyway: A Radical Approach To Managing Crazy Clients

by ian on March 5, 2008

punks in love.jpg(photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordkhan/

I had a really transformational, life changing epiphany a few short days ago, and I'm not so proud to admit it happened while watching a "TED" conference re-run on You Tube featuring their most motivational, inspiring and illumiating speakers over the last few years.  And I was only paying half attention to what was happening on the screen - my ADHD in heavenly high gear ( I'm Probably One Amazing A short and a Double D's heavy on the acronym if anyone ever was) and blissfully paying attention to everything, and nothing at all at the very same time.  [click to continue…]

The Death of Arbitrage is Upon Us…..Yahoo Closes the Door on Iffy Traffic

by ian on February 16, 2008

A final death knell to the once big buck game of "playing the spread" on ad buys across the PPC channels.   Was a popular and very easy way to make money a few years ago, although for the past year or so felt like heavy lifting and no longer very worthwhile ( although I'm sure people have still done phenomenally well).  It appears as if Yahoo - [click to continue…]

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