Internet marketing

(idea by Marius GHENEA at GPEC) There are a lot of models for Groupon (Groupon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) web sites in Romania (Cate clone de Groupon sunt in Romania ? | AurasMihai. Onlineing); Yet, are they, all, doomed to fail? It may be so; you see, in a business like this there are three parties: – The buyer (he wins for the great price); – The mediator (he wins a commission); – The seller (he loses for the poor price); A business model in which the seller always loses will, on the long term, prove to be a failure.

Dorin BOERESCU had the following PPT: GPEC 2011 – Dorin Boerescu View more presentations from 2Parale at his presentation at GPEC. The main idea? If you are an online store, you should make an effort to provide online customer support for more than 9-17; strive to have someone online to answer request after 17:00; see the above graph for the reason behind this.

There are a lot of solutions for SEO services; what I think works best is over delivering results. It’s not easy, and it’s not pleasant; „why should I work more than requested?” Let’s put it like this – if you want, one time, a client, you need to work and deliver; if you need that client to work for you and promote you, and sell your services, you need to do more than this – you need to over deliver. I find it that the best SEO service providers do this thing; you may say „Hey! The best SEO service providers also have some of the highest prices on the market”; I think that’s the trick – you can do both – ask for good money and still make your business partners feel they are receiving more than they are paying. It’s not easy; SEO is all about hard work, lots of knowledge, insights & due to the uncertainties in the SEO world, some luck. Do keep in mind that over delivering, in the SEO world, may be the best option to deliver.

Let’s say you need to check the links to a web site; how to do it? The best solution – Register for Google Webmaster Tools (you need to control ownership of the web site) and you can see in there about 80% of the links that Google „sees” linking to your web site; The quickest solution – Search with Yahoo! Site Explorer (it only shows you 1,000 links to your web site, be them old or new, nofollow or dofollow, on the same web site or on different web site, important links or not; but it’s a fast way); The optimal solution for checking on the competition – If you can’t control ownership of a web site (your competition, for example), the best solution is Open Site Explorer (register for a free account and start exploring; it may see some links which Google might discard, it may not see a lot of the links that Google sees, but it’s a relatively good solution); The extreme solution – check out this article (and this one) for other in-depth solutions for checking links. Hope it helps.

I like ads a lot; I generally don’t watch TV; but when I do watch it, instead of sports, movies, music, documentaries, I like to watch TV ads; It doesn’t take me a lot to see 90% of the most representative ads on the Romanian television, so I stop after a while; but while the fun lasts, I do watch quite a few ads (and most more than one time); Why do I watch them? If you think about it, the ad creators invest a ridiculous amount of money just for 30 seconds of movie; they pack lots of things in 30 seconds; Also, I want to learn how do others manipulate me, and I am very careful with this at ads; Finally, some are fun. And you?