Archive for November, 2008

Shocking Blog Analysis: Rate The Guru

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

An interesting site http://www.typealyzer.com/ analyzes what type of person you are by your blog writings.
Out of curiosity, I ran my own blog TimGross.com first (duh, I’m a self-involved narcissist)  
And then I ran quite a few other business marketing blogs to analyze as well. If you’re not familar with the 4-letter labels used in the results, [...]

Online Business Ethics Part 3: Passive Marketing

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Continued from part 1, about business owners being terrified of complaints
Business Owner Type 2:
Overly passive marketing that doesn’t push for the sale. Beyond non-hype, the seller doesn’t even sound that convinced of his product himself.
This is probably the most common pitfall that business owners and entrepreneurs find themselves in. It’s the “If you build it, [...]

Online Business Ethics Part 2: Terrified Of Complaints

Friday, November 7th, 2008

In part 1, I listed the 8 different types of Internet businesses (in terms of ethical approaches). In this post I’m going to focus on #1, the “newbie trap”:
1) Terrified of getting a customer or even subscriber complaint of any type. Terrified even of getting criticized by non-buyers
I’m sure you’ve been in a retail store [...]