I love using and abusing domain names for marketing. With that in mind we set this up yesterday: HappyChristmas.me Check it out and if you like it share it with your friends! … [Read more...] about Our Christmas Card To You
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Pushing Domains With Silly Ideas
One of the things that I've been getting a bit of a kick out of over the last few months is coming up with new and slightly off the wall ways to push various products. Let's face it - domains and hosting aren't that exciting. It's not as if we are selling race cars or working in Hollywood .. But there's no reason why we can't have a little bit of fun with something and try to … [Read more...] about Pushing Domains With Silly Ideas
How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010
I don't like lazy marketing. I've never given the Golden Spiders permission to email me or my business, yet again today they did. Annoying. However it's also quite amusing .. One of the emails landed in our helpdesk which stripped out ALL the HTML .. what was left over wasn't exactly um .. intelligible.. … [Read more...] about How NOT To Market Via Email – Golden Spiders 2010
Local Knowledge Is Key
If you're going to spend money registering domains in target countries and doing targetted pay per click campaigns you should also take the time to do some basic market research. And no, I don't mean pure figures - I mean cultural stuff.Jonathan Brazil spotted a really silly mistake this morning:If you go to the hassle of buying a .ie and sponsored Google links for Irish … [Read more...] about Local Knowledge Is Key
Reasons Your Spam is a Spam
If you want to tell me why I'm getting an email (newsletter) that's fine. It's actually quite helpful, as I could easily forget how I ended up subscribing myself to a list or if I ordered from somewhere... However putting this kind of text in your email footer is one sure fire way of getting me to list you as a spammer: DISCLAIMER: This message is not "SPAM" because it … [Read more...] about Reasons Your Spam is a Spam