Comments on: How To Personally Chauffeur Your Clients Out The Door http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/ Marketing for Businesses Without Marketing Departments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:44:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: 303 Insanely Interesting Links From 2007 -- Jarkko Laine - Insanely interested http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-8112 303 Insanely Interesting Links From 2007 -- Jarkko Laine - Insanely interested Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:44:12 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-8112 [...] How To Personally Chauffer Your Clients Out The Door, IttyBiz [...] [...] How To Personally Chauffer Your Clients Out The Door, IttyBiz [...]

]]> By: Phil Gerbyshak http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1276 Phil Gerbyshak Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:34:31 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1276 What a fantastic article! Duh, don't advertise for your competitors, unless you want to work for them instead of for yourself. Great advice Naomi! First time reader, now a subscriber! What a fantastic article! Duh, don’t advertise for your competitors, unless you want to work for them instead of for yourself.

Great advice Naomi! First time reader, now a subscriber!

]]> By: Naomi Dunford http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1062 Naomi Dunford Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:30:05 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1062 @ Aruni - I'm not anti-ads. I'm anti-senseless-beyond-your-control- competitive-and-tacky ads that don't make any money anyway. BlogHer totally doesn't qualify as any of those. :) Way to go on the PR thing. Rock on! And I saw that on Huffington. Way to go us! @ Aruni – I’m not anti-ads. I’m anti-senseless-beyond-your-control- competitive-and-tacky ads that don’t make any money anyway. BlogHer totally doesn’t qualify as any of those. :)

Way to go on the PR thing. Rock on! And I saw that on Huffington. Way to go us!

]]> By: Aruni http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1061 Aruni Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:47:41 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1061 As usual, I'm late to the conversation. I agree that running AdSense on your blog makes no sense if you are selling your own wares due to what you already mentioned. However, I do run BlogHer Ads. I have yet to see any of their ads compete with my product offerings and some of them are quite interesting & informative. I really admire what they are doing. In fact, I learned about the Quickbooks competition to win $50K from one of their ads. I hope I win but because I don't have time to tell more than few dozen folks to visit and vote and I don't have a video that features gourmet, oraganic, Thai dog food I'm not sure I will. However, because I submitted their PR people discovered my entry and thought it was neat (i.e., Quicken for baby) and have started pitching my company as a small company using Quickbooks for press stories. My guess is that since I don't have a PR dept that having them keep their eyes open and submit my company/me as someone to talk to will be more effective than me doing it. @Naomi - you probably already saw this but Nataly did an awesome post on her blog where she mentioned us. Her post is now on the Huffington Post site. Cool beans! As usual, I’m late to the conversation. I agree that running AdSense on your blog makes no sense if you are selling your own wares due to what you already mentioned.

However, I do run BlogHer Ads. I have yet to see any of their ads compete with my product offerings and some of them are quite interesting & informative. I really admire what they are doing. In fact, I learned about the Quickbooks competition to win $50K from one of their ads. I hope I win but because I don’t have time to tell more than few dozen folks to visit and vote and I don’t have a video that features gourmet, oraganic, Thai dog food I’m not sure I will.

However, because I submitted their PR people discovered my entry and thought it was neat (i.e., Quicken for baby) and have started pitching my company as a small company using Quickbooks for press stories. My guess is that since I don’t have a PR dept that having them keep their eyes open and submit my company/me as someone to talk to will be more effective than me doing it.

@Naomi – you probably already saw this but Nataly did an awesome post on her blog where she mentioned us. Her post is now on the Huffington Post site. Cool beans!

]]> By: Naomi Dunford http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1056 Naomi Dunford Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:13:20 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1056 @ James - Totally. I mean, let's face it. We can all be bought. I just don't want to go down in history having been bought for less than a buck. I mean, send me Durtbagz and we're in business, but... @ James – Totally. I mean, let’s face it. We can all be bought. I just don’t want to go down in history having been bought for less than a buck. I mean, send me Durtbagz and we’re in business, but…

]]> By: James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1054 James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:18:16 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1054 @ Naomi - that's what I said. The competition doesn't exist. The Bay doesn't exist for Sears. Sears doesn't exist for the Bay. They are competition and don't acknowledge each other's existence. But I agree that if a Sears client asks about the Bay, the Sears salespeople better know everything down to what size booty the Bay salespeople have. And then redirect the client to how nice the booty at Sears is :) --> is Canadian and can be bought for large sums of money to publicize other people's business. Write me with an offer I can't refuse. @ Naomi – that’s what I said. The competition doesn’t exist. The Bay doesn’t exist for Sears. Sears doesn’t exist for the Bay. They are competition and don’t acknowledge each other’s existence. But I agree that if a Sears client asks about the Bay, the Sears salespeople better know everything down to what size booty the Bay salespeople have. And then redirect the client to how nice the booty at Sears is :)

–> is Canadian and can be bought for large sums of money to publicize other people’s business. Write me with an offer I can’t refuse.

]]> By: Naomi Dunford http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1050 Naomi Dunford Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:44:48 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1050 @ Evan - Exactly! If you have something intelligent to say about the competition, you'd be remiss if you didn't. You don't just put up a billboard and tell the competition to come and post whatever they want, as long as they pay you 83 cents a month. @ Shane - Co-opetition. I like it. Kind of "the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." @ Evan – Exactly! If you have something intelligent to say about the competition, you’d be remiss if you didn’t. You don’t just put up a billboard and tell the competition to come and post whatever they want, as long as they pay you 83 cents a month.

@ Shane – Co-opetition. I like it. Kind of “the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”

]]> By: Naomi Dunford http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1049 Naomi Dunford Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:42:03 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1049 Hi everyone! Look! Comments! I don't know why I don't just set a timer to go in and check instead of waiting for WordPress to notify me. Poo-poo heads. @ Lorna - Reviewing and physically sending people away are different. I think reviews are awesome! @ James Parr - Absolutely! I talk about Mason from Small Fuel and Sonia from Remarkable Communications here all the time. I just don't accept their money anonymously to let them put ugly ads on my blog. @ James Chartrand - (Because James is Canadian, he'll understand). It's like we were talking about before - you don't go to Sears and see them selling shirts that say The Bay on them, just because The Bay's paying them some obtusely nominal fee for the privilege. It's not only unprofessional, it's unheard of in anything but online business. Maybe if your advertisers were paying you a small fortune, fine. But few of us will retire on Adsense revenue. Hi everyone! Look! Comments! I don’t know why I don’t just set a timer to go in and check instead of waiting for WordPress to notify me. Poo-poo heads.

@ Lorna – Reviewing and physically sending people away are different. I think reviews are awesome!

@ James Parr – Absolutely! I talk about Mason from Small Fuel and Sonia from Remarkable Communications here all the time. I just don’t accept their money anonymously to let them put ugly ads on my blog.

@ James Chartrand – (Because James is Canadian, he’ll understand). It’s like we were talking about before – you don’t go to Sears and see them selling shirts that say The Bay on them, just because The Bay’s paying them some obtusely nominal fee for the privilege. It’s not only unprofessional, it’s unheard of in anything but online business. Maybe if your advertisers were paying you a small fortune, fine. But few of us will retire on Adsense revenue.

]]> By: James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1033 James Chartrand - JCM Enterprises Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:25:25 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1033 Tongue twister. We call it networking :) Tongue twister. We call it networking :)

]]> By: shane http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1032 shane Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:33:00 +0000 http://ittybiz.com/how-to-personally-chauffer-your-clients-out-the-door/#comment-1032 There is a word that is about to appear in our dictionary that a competitor told me when we sat to have coffee two weeks ago : <b>"Co-opetition"</b>. The idea that competitors often work together and benefit each other. Heck - our blogs is a great example. We compete for a similar audience, but have found that pooling our energies helps everyone. The question is whether or not your efforts are intentional. There is a word that is about to appear in our dictionary that a competitor told me when we sat to have coffee two weeks ago : “Co-opetition”. The idea that competitors often work together and benefit each other. Heck – our blogs is a great example. We compete for a similar audience, but have found that pooling our energies helps everyone.

The question is whether or not your efforts are intentional.

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