http://thomasdean.com Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:05:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting new political ? blog on Barack Obama Issues http://hopesforamerica.com/ They are popping up everywhere. http://thomasdean.com/latest/barack-obama-issues/ I would say Bravo & case closed. A class act. http://tinyurl.com/5qa9us (poor mashable - ouch - that must have hurt) Tom http://thomasdean.com/latest/john-reese-puts-the-mashable-post-to-bed/ Is Twitter Vulnerable to Marketer Attack? Thats the title of an interesting post on Mashable. http://mashable.com/2008/06/18/twitter-ebook/ Apparently Mark Rizzin takes a dim view of John Reese's involvement with Twitter and paints "ebook salesman" in a negative light. unscrupulous jerks bringing in a load of undesirables IMHO I think he is way off base. Fortunately for those ... http://thomasdean.com/latest/is-twitter-vulnerable-to-marketer-attack/ The Nuclear Option (film adaptation) From the Walkley Public Affairs Conference on Social Media, Sydney, 6 May 2008. Below the video is a link to the text version of this. Highly recommended reading from The Human Network. Here is the text version http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=48 The moral of the story... we think you get it. Oh yea ... http://thomasdean.com/latest/twitters-nuclear-option/ Here is a short video to spur your thinking. If you are still unsure about social marketing with facebook, myspace, blogs, weebly, tumblr, youtube etc. just look at what the current political candidates are doing. Tom http://thomasdean.com/latest/social-marketing/ This is the true story by marketing psychologist, Dr. Glenn Livingston, about making money starting out with an information product on Guinea Pigs. :-) How I Fired All My Corporate Clients And Went From $ZERO To $28,462 per-month in PASSIVE INCOME - Starting With a $9.99 E-Book On Guinea Pigs! Read The ... http://thomasdean.com/latest/the-six-figure-guinea-pigs/ iTunes Take Over? Interesting article about Aplle becoming the "New Bully" - Compares bundling if iTunes and the dependency of ipods and ipods phones on using iTunes to access content (remember we talked about the importance of being able to deliver content via iTunes. All of our site platforms can do ... http://thomasdean.com/latest/itunes-apple-the-new-bully/ Gary Halbert was one of the best of not the best copywriter in the world. Sadly Gary Halbert passed away this year. His family has left the newsletter online. It may be the best resource available anywhere to learn the art of copy writing and direct sales pieces. The complete Golden ... http://thomasdean.com/latest/the-golden-nuggets-method/ Seth Godin has a video clip on youtube & google that I will share with you. It's from his Purple Cow tour about making your marketing succeed by making it remarkable. It's good information. Notice that it is only 18min long but it will seem like it is longer ... http://thomasdean.com/latest/seth-godins-purple-cow/ Unconventional Guerrilla Marketing We've talked about Web 2.0 and Social networking a little bit. Lets talk about using it in marketing a product for a small business. The latest video from this company posted on youtube has had over 3 million views (they did something bad to an ipod). A video ... http://thomasdean.com/latest/unconventional-guerrilla-marketing/