Company Internet Marketing 1

A lot has been written about Guerrilla Marketing Strategies.

Does that mean putting on a monkey suit to attract attention? Of course not.

Or maybe Yes.

Guerrilla Marketing has been championed in recent years by Jay Conrad Levinson, who s written a series of books on the subject. The name simply implies means by which you can implement marketing ideas through low-cost, non-traditional methods.

True story: when I was Advertising Manager at Royal Insurance, I received an unusual delivery one day. When I opened the box, inside was one of those plastic foot models you see in a shoe or department store. This foot was wearing a sneaker and a note attached from a local ad agency

which said, in essence, Now that we ve got our foot in the door let s set up a meeting to discuss how the (name) Ad Agency can assist you and Royal Insurance in your marketing endeavors

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As the summer holiday makers start heading home, Paphos turns from a bustling Mediterranean destination back into a sleepy small town or as some say, a village. I have concluded my second consecutive summer here and anticipating the beauty of the coming autumn and winter seasons, I would like to share a few points about Cyprus for interested vacationers, people relocating and intending to buy property and live here, or anyone just interested in reading.

The thing that weighed heavy on my mind about moving to another country was learning a foreign language. Once my wife, son and I decided to move to Cyprus for the next few years and live close to our family I immediately purchased books

for learning Greek. I feared the possibility of failure, but I approached it with determination and enthusiasm anyway. Unfortunately, the results were not good, any words learned were quickly forgotten. I hoped that maybe in Cyprus it would be easier. I was right, once we arrived I was able to pick up words much more easily and within weeks I had memorized forty words. At that pace by the end of the year I would be fluent which brings me to my first surprise.

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January 26th, 2007 (Charlotte, NC) The popularity of the internet has reached an all time high. With the interchangeability of cell phones, PDA’s and cyber space, people bring the internet with them wherever they go.

With the increase in web surfers has come the increase in websites as well. With more people spending more time on the web, buyers have become more comfortable making purchases on the internet, which has led to the increase in e-commerce websites. Unfortunately, owners of these websites are unable to effectively market their own products on the web.

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For four years I worked in the editorial department of a major Internet directory. My job required me to search for and review thousands upon thousands of Web sites. Oh, the horror!

I could tell you about the company that misspelled its own name. I could rhyme off a list of sites that had no contact information. I could even show you the university site that had a navigation button reading “Course Summery.” But I won’t. Instead, I want to address the less obvious and the overlooked: Web site aesthetics.

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After the recent success of the Million Dollar Homepage, a large number of copy cat sites and people offering free scripts have started to show up, all with the same promises, that you too can make a million just by launching a pixel site. A quick browse through eBay shows hundreds of these so called pixel sites, available for as little as $5 or $100, depending on how deep you look. So can lightening strike twice, is it really possible that you can experience the same kind of success as the original Million Dollar Homepage?

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