19 Best Online Marketing Quotes for the Past Two Weeks - Nov. 30, 2007

November 30, 2007

I skipped this column last week because I was shopping, of course. So two weeks for the price of one!

1. The absolute most important thing you can do to attract strong affiliate and joint venture partners is to have a high-demand, well-positioned and highly-effective training program. - Brian Clark on How to Tap Into Other People’s Traffic (And Have Them Thank You)
2. If you can’t make a decision, don’t go into marketing. Don’t try to manage a marketing team, either. - ian on Marketing is About Decisions
3. The most successful blogs don’t try to manipulate readers into voting for their posts. They just give them what they want. - Jon Morrow on http://www.copyblogger.com/blogging-for-digg/
4. We can’t let blogging take up all of our time. We have to set limits. Amazingly, by setting limits, we become more effective and more powerful, not less. - Leo Babauta on Haiku Blogging
5. Don’t try to take 100% credit. Instead, show how you played your part in the larger customer conversation. - Ian Lurie on Integrated Marketing To Clever Monkeys (the more things change…)
6. Even the legitimate use of an urgent message will still be recognized by your audience as a promotional tactic. If you are not being genuine and honest, you run the risk of losing the respect and loyalty of some prospects. - Crystal Blahnik on Urgency Tactics to Increase Your Online Conversions
7. This week, as you draft, give yourself permission not to be perfect. If you want to go for perfect, make time to revise. - Kenneth W. Davis on Postpone Perfect
8. Great strategy starts and ends with the consumer and how the product or service can improve their daily life. - John Herrington on Improve Their Quality of Life
9. If I’d jumped on the “average” description based upon millions of web users around the world, I would have ignored my readers. - Lorelle VanFossen on Readers vs Visitors - Whose Needs are You Meeting?
10. Every marketing team should have one member that’s part of their target market. - Matt J McDonald on The 5 Day New Marketing Kickstart - Wednesday
11. I am a crappy photographer but I know 100% that David Hobby is the go-to guy on lighting. I know this because of his flagship content. - Chris Garrett on Spreading Your Ideas
12. Whether I’m in the shower, eating, reading, driving, exercising, talking, IMing, emailing, working, writing or playing with my kids, I always think to myself, “You know, that would make a great post!” It’s a bit sad, actually. - Leo Babauta on The Top 20 Ways to Come Up With Amazing Ideas
13. There is one thing that we should all be choosing to do right now: Decrease the percentage of traffic that Google sends to your site in the first place - Wendy Piersall on 27 Website Promotion Sources That Have Nothing to do with Google or SEO
14. Management guru Peter F. Drucker, honorary chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, attributes much of his success in life to his early habit of writing 10 to 12 thank you notes a day. - Ashley Graham on The All Mighty Thank You
16. Competing products already established in the marketplace means that people are already making money from the market. - Matthew Sherborne on Make Your Next Info-Product a Success!
17. Comfortable search marketers puke all over everyone else on the rollercoaster. We know this because your clients are calling us. - Marty Weintraub on
    Ride the Search Rollercoaster or Exit Now

18. Successful blogs satisfy their readers. - Steven Snell on 5 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger

19. If your business only offers services in a particular part of the country, then you don’t need to be marketing on the Internet with generic phrases that will bring in people who cannot take advantage of your company. - Scott Buresh on What Every Search Engine Optimization Company Should Know about Keyphrase Choice

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