Comments on: Marketing School: Turning Weakness Into Strength

By: Fab Quotes Of The Week | Catherine Lawson

Fab Quotes Of The Week | Catherine Lawson — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:36:12 +0000

[...] owner, a freelancer, or frankly a human being is to spin your weaknesses into strengths.” Naomi Dunford at Itty Biz “I don’t make the rules… I just know how to recognize them and follow them.” Kathy at [...]

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Sun Tzu on Business Tactics - Part 3 of 6 | OnYourBusiness — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:58:02 +0000

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By: Not Getting Enough Business? You Have Some Reading to do! « clique

Not Getting Enough Business? You Have Some Reading to do! « clique — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:01:04 +0000

[...] Naomi over at IttyBiz has put together the extremely awesome and in-depth series of articles called Marketing School. This is stuff you need to know. If you don’t know who your target demographic is, then they [...]

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:55:40 +0000

@ Matt – No problem! It was a good question and something I really didn’t know anything about until you mentioned it.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:23:39 +0000

Golly, thanks for the feature! The footer idea is terrific. And brain-dead easy to implement. The message is there, but it’s not hitting anyone over the head.

Thanks for the great (and free) advice on how to make a sale and not look like a cheap-ass!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:05:56 +0000

Excellent. Not only did I learn something about using weaknesses as strengths but I also learned something about recycling. I need to go check that out. I may switch to using ink jet instead of laser for a lot of my printing.

By: kreative_96 » Marketing School: Turning Weakness Into Strength

kreative_96 » Marketing School: Turning Weakness Into Strength — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:09:25 +0000

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By: Evan Burton

Evan Burton — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:49:01 +0000

Woohoo! OK, I have my inspiration for the week.

By: Naomi Dunford

Naomi Dunford — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:42:52 +0000

@ Evan – You are awesome. If I said nothing else, that would be enough. However, since I’ve never said only three words about anything in my life, I’ll continue.

Considering that 60,000 people in the world have CF and 30,000 of them are in the US, there’s 30,000 people domestically. Then, since 60% of people with CF are under eighteen, that means that each of the 18,000 American minors with CF have at least two close family members who are actively involved in their care. That means 12,000 adults with the disease and 36,000 parents. That doesn’t include medical staff, people Googling for research purposes, more distant family members, spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, close friends and people with nothing better to do than sit around on StumbleUpon all day.

I’d say you have a market.

By: Evan Burton

Evan Burton — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:33:25 +0000

I think that focusing on your weaknesses in life is exactly what makes you a better person. If all we did was focused on our strengths then we would never improve our under-developed talents. I think life has a way of guiding us through the attention that is naturally drawn to our weaknesses. I have recently made the decision to turn my biggest weakness, my disease, into my strength by creating my blog based around the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis. The only question is if there are enough CF patients out there interested in this subject to warrant a successful site based on this idea.

To think that a few weeks ago I wasn’t even 100% clear on what a blog was. I feel like my brain has grown to 2x its original size since I’ve started reading up on this stuff. It’s funny how exhausting all of this can be on your mind!

In my quest to become a cool kid I have decided to subscribe to your feed Naomi!

p.s. she’s the one who inspired me to start my blog BTW