PlusOne – Marketing Musings

I came across this is a post on a forum written by Vince of www.quantumorg.com about why businesses need to be working together more. Creating mini collaborative business groups that may come together for certain projects etc.

Its is well worth reading so I have repeated it here. (There is a link to another very good article from NZ at the end).

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After reading it, have a look at the PlusOne Marketing site and see if there are any synergies between your business and ours. Use the contact method on the site or here on this blog to canvas ideas. Continue Reading »

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Ever wondered where your website visitors come from? Now you can easily find out using Geo Visitors from Digitalpoint.com

For instance, here is where visitors in the past few hours to Caricature King are located (ISP locations rather than their exact location)

As you can see there have been some visitors from some amazing places – including Lahore, Islamabad, and northern Venezuela.

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Wondering why your website sales are not what you expect? A survey by Harris interactive of shopping, banking, travel, and insurance Web sites shows that the problems may not be in getting found, or in page loading speed, but the customer experience while on your site.

For instance…

the vast majority — almost 9 out of 10 — of consumers say they experience problems, another large number — 82% — said they’re unwilling to accept a lower level of customer service when comparing online and offline transactions.

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I was in need of some business cards to help spread the word for the online caricatures artists site and thought I’d give one of these online business card printers a go.

I chose Click Business Cards and found they have a very comprehensive set of tools that allows very accurate placements of all the components on the card.

So after fiddling a bit till I was happy, I sent the order away at 11.50am on a Monday. I expected the cards to be delivered possibly by Friday, but more likely the following Monday, given that I live in a regional area, so deliveries tend to take a little longer.

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One of the hurdles of mobile ecommerce has been payment for products or services. The lack of desire to use credit cards on phones (because many applications require you to store these details on your phone) has been a significant barrier.

Now PayPal seem to be focusing on it PayPal seeks mobile recruits.

While there are many who are not keen fans of PayPal, with the millions of users around the world, it could be the critical mass generator that is needed to bring payment via mobile into reality.

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Looking at this thread TrueLocal Cloned Down Under | Threadwatch.org about a business that only took out a .com domain name and left themselves WIDE open. So what does media giant News Limited do – registers the .com.au domain as it sees a great business opportunity.

Lesson here…spend the $45 and get the other domain name….even if you do not host it on any web host, you are at least protected to a much greater degree.

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