June 2nd, 2006 by jhampton
Spending money for marketing makes sense, and billboards are great ways to really make a splash. However, boring billboards waste your marketing budget.
Billboards can be very expensive, but if done well, more than bring in the business to make up for the costly expense.
Take a look at the flickr set for the above billboard. Because [...]
Relevant Tags: billboard, billboard marketing, marketing budget, viral advertising, viral billboard, viral marketing
June 2nd, 2006 by jhampton
When using search marketing to promote your site or your product, you must decide what keywords are worth buying and which ones are worth the most money.
Choosing Targeted KeywordsWhile you can use Overture’s Keyword Selector Tool to find out what people are generally searching on in your industry, and how many searches are done, per [...]
Relevant Tags: e commerce, high bidding, keyword bidding, low bids, online marketing, search marketing
June 2nd, 2006 by jhampton
Selling a house means impressing your prospective buyers on the walkthrough. If it doesn’t go well you can almost guarantee you will not make a sell with that visitor.
Because real estate surveys suggest that almost all decisions on a home are made within the first 3 minutes, making sure your home has curb appeal is [...]
Relevant Tags: home buying, investing in real estate, real estate investing, real estate sales, selling homes
June 2nd, 2006 by jhampton
Yahoo!It was released that earlier this week, Yahoo!’s CEO dropped his salary from $700K a year to $1 per year, making his money from a performance-based stock options plan.
GoogleAll 3 of the top executives at Google make $1 per year with performance-based stock options as well. Google’s 3 top execs, billionaires, have been pulling their [...]
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June 2nd, 2006 by jhampton
If you want to stick to your budget, you need to know how much is the right amount to strive for in each spending category. Just arbitrarily picking numbers will result in a budget that is useless to you and your bank account.
Experts suggest your housing and autos (insurance included) not make up more than [...]
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