Enthusiasm is a powerful thing. One of my favorite business books is “How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling” by Frank Bettger. The whole first chapter is dedicated to ENTHUSIASM. Today I am posting a Gcast (GoogleCast) recording of my reading of the poem “Victory” from that first chapter. Enjoy!
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adminder
adminder is a make money online website that I stumbled upon early on in my web business wanderings. (And never did anything with it) They also have a section on traffic adminder.com/traffic
Service Areas, Google Places and the Monopolisation of Small Business Advertising
Last time the frog broke news on the new “post to your place page” feature in the Google LBC. It was nice to have it picked up by Blumenthal and read his enlightening thoughts on understanding “post to your place page” feature’s importance. Today I noticed another new feature, “Service Areas” (something every small service [...]
Google Adwords Optimisation Center
Google’s adwords explanation A source of info from Goog about their adwords program. Thought I’d throw it on here until I have time to make a better page about Adwords and optimising Adwords campaigns.
See what your visitors see – AttentionWizard’s HeatMaps
I found an interesting service today and thought I would mention it in a quick rant. For anyone concerned with a user friendly interface (and who isn’t?) this tool is brilliant. And it even has a free service! AttentionWizard Heat maps show where users look most (/look first) on your webpages. This particular service uses [...]
Monday Morning Motivational – Find your “Acres of Diamonds!”
Today’s M3 (Monday Morning Motivational)TM is a short clip and harange about self-exploration. The idea of self-exploration comes up again and again in success literature. The book First Things First by Stephen Covey is an excellent example (I used it to create my personal mission statement). Another clear exhortation to examine oneself is found in [...]
Monday Morning Motivationals – A test run
Today I am posting a test run of what will hopefully become a series here on Tenacious Frog… M3 (Monday Morning Motivationals)TM Monday Morning Motivationals will be short podcasts or videos to inspire you as you go about your business week. Today’s Motivational is a quick commentary on a section of The Sticking Point, a [...]
A smart idea and super smart design
Hi there, Just a quick rant about a cool website with a sense style I’d like to imitate. http://www.flippachick.com/ This “chick” has an awesome website design and her portfolio is full of beautifully designed websites too! I’m a frog not a chick and my designs are pretty froggy… For me I am more of an [...]
The Google Local Listings Ads Are Coming…
There has been a lot of talk about these new ads: Google Intros Local Listing Ads to LBC in Limited Markets — Blumenthal My Thoughts on Google Local Listing Ads — David Mihm They haven’t come to Florida yet so I have a little breathing (and learning) time… It seems that the jury is still [...]
Mining your customer database for gold and Google Maps
I have been reading Tom Feltenstein’s 401 Killer Marketing Tactics… so my marketing muscles are looking rather buff. One idea I found in the book that I am applying as we speak for a client is the idea of a customer map. The map would have pin-points at the address of each current/past customer. (actually [...]