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	<title>Zantay: SEO and Online Marketing Consultant</title>
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	<description>Increasing Sales and Traffic from Search Engines</description>
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		<title>Monthly Link Building Service</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/services/monthly-link-building-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Zantay Monthly Link Building Service has been put together to offer the best link building packages to help your website increase it&#8217;s rankings on Google, Yahoo and MSN.
With over 7 years experience within the online marketing world our team of SEO experts know what the best links are and where to get them.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Zantay Monthly Link Building Service has been put together to offer the best link building packages to help your website increase it&#8217;s rankings on Google, Yahoo and MSN.</p>
<p>With over 7 years experience within the online marketing world our team of SEO experts know what the best links are and where to get them.</p>
<p>In the past we&#8217;ve worked with 26 companies listed in the FTSE 100 stock exchange and are presenting working with clients with a similar caliber.</p>
<p>The reason for us offering this package is that in the past we have had to turn away many clients that don&#8217;t have substantial budgets to work with our team and as a business we have decided that we should have an offering for all businesses that want us to work with us.</p>
<p>Many clients that have worked with Zantay in the past know that our aim is also to improve traffic while keeping conversion rates high, we have managed this over the years by maintaining lists of strong back links and most clients know that strong back links are the first step to achieving good natural listings which in turn generate more sales and enquirers.</p>
<p>We are offering 3 monthly link building packages aimed at growing your business and are calculated to increase your rankings naturally over time, as many people know receiving too many back links at once can cause your website to be black listed or penalized in Google. Our packages are designed to avoid this.</p>
<p>Each month we will submit your selected number of directory submissions, blog comments, Edu blog comments, article submissions and RSS submissions(if required) to our list of highly qualified websites.</p>
<p>All the links we provide come from fully Google indexed websites with high page rank to ensure to receive the best value for money.</p>
<p><strong>Bronze Package:</strong></p>
<p>50 Directory Submissions</p>
<p>15 Do Follow Blog Comments</p>
<p>15 .Edu Blog Comments</p>
<p>50 Article Submissions</p>
<p>50 RSS Submissions</p>
<p><strong>Price: £45 per month (0.25p per link)</strong></p>
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<p>100 Directory Submissions</p>
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<p>15 .Edu Blog Comments</p>
<p>100 Article Submissions</p>
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<p><strong>Price: £75 per month </strong><strong>(0.25p per link)</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Gold Package</strong></p>
<p>200 Directory Submissions</p>
<p>100 Do Follow Blog Comments</p>
<p>25 .Edu Blog Comments<br />
150 Article Submissions</p>
<p>50 RSS Submissions</p>
<p><strong>Price: £130 per month </strong><strong>(0.24p per link)</strong></p>
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<p>Once you have completed the subscription process we will contact you to find out more about your website and your industry so we can fully understand the market that you are in.</p>
<p>Once we have started work you will receive a full report each and every month detailing where the links were placed and the Url of these links.</p>
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		<title>Launched: Travel Digger, Digg for the Travel Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/lead-story/launched-travel-digger-digg-for-the-travel-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we are please to announce the launch of Travel News website www.traveldigger.co.uk
Travel Digger is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. Travel Digger aims to collect and organize travel-related content from across the web while letting the community vote the best articles to the top pages of their categories [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today we are please to announce the launch of <a href="http://www.traveldigger.co.uk" title="Travel News">Travel News</a> website <a href="http://www.traveldigger.co.uk" title="Travel News">www.traveldigger.co.uk</a></p>
<p><img src="http://www.zantay.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tdigger.gif" alt="tdigger.gif" align="left" />Travel Digger is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry. Travel Digger aims to collect and organize travel-related content from across the web while letting the community vote the best articles to the top pages of their categories and sink the most irrelevant one&#8217;s to the bottom. The ultimate goal of <a href="http://www.traveldigger.co.uk" title="Travel News">Travel Digger</a> is to, hopefully, categorize the huge amount of travel-related content available on the web into neat and easy to navigate pages of articles in order of importance/relevance as decided by the community. Basically, it&#8217;s just a niche version of the highly popular <a href="http://www.digg.com">Digg.com</a>.</p>
<p>The site is the first in a long line of community driven news websites in the pipeline for the Zantay Group, with the unique adverting options <a href="http://www.traveldigger.co.uk" title="Travel News">Travel Digger</a> is set to be a hit with the travel industry.</p>
<p>To find out more about <a href="http://www.traveldigger.co.uk" title="Travel News">www.traveldigger.co.uk</a> and about advertising opertunities please contact Zantay by using to provided <a href="http://http://www.zantay.com/contact/">Contact Page</a></p>
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		<title>Doodles: Jack Welch, Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/features/doodles-jack-welch-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Doodles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past while I&#8217;ve been reading what I can get about the mindset of former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. I&#8217;ve read about 4 books about him from people that worked with him at GE to people that try to understand his methods for success.
So how does one man run the worlds largest company?
Leadership! [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the past while I&#8217;ve been reading what I can get about the mindset of former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. I&#8217;ve read about 4 books about him from people that worked with him at GE to people that try to understand his methods for success.</p>
<p>So how does one man run the worlds largest company?</p>
<p>Leadership! that&#8217;s how, not management. And of most of the books I&#8217;ve read &#8220;Leadership&#8221; gave me the best insight into Jack Welch&#8217;s many years of success.</p>
<p>The basis of success for Jack Welch&#8217;s tenure at GE was to let the stars shine through, let the people that do the job make the decisions about the job there doing. All is explained in &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Welch-Leadership-Robert-Slater/dp/0071435271/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1209068554&amp;sr=1-7">Jack Welch on Leadership</a>&#8221;<br />
The other book, Jack Welch the GE way, has opened my eyes to presenting particularly as I work in an agency/client environment where your always presenting a pitch, getting a point across or making sure everyone hears about your great idea.</p>
<p>Very good book indeed.</p>
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		<title>Google updates it&#8217;s toolbar PageRank.</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/news/google-updates-its-toolbar-pagerank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zantay.com/news/google-updates-its-toolbar-pagerank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been reported on many search engine marketing forums that there is an update happening of the Google tool bar for website PageRank.
After running some checks across several Google data centers it would seem that an update is on the way.
The last update a few months back caused a slight stir on these same [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been reported on many search engine marketing forums that there is an update happening of the Google tool bar for website PageRank.</p>
<p>After running some checks across several Google data centers it would seem that an update is on the way.</p>
<p>The last update a few months back caused a slight stir on these same forums with a lot of websites losing some PageRank. This sending some SEO guys in to a panic.</p>
<p>I personally believe that PageRank shouldn&#8217;t be classed as important as most people do, keep your links clean and the incoming links at a steady growth and you should stay clear of PageRank drop of and penalties.</p>
<p>It is also important to remember that not all sites increase or decrease in a PageRank update, sometimes staying the same doesn&#8217;t do any harm to your ranking positions.</p>
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		<title>Why use an SEO Consultant!</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/seo/consultant/why-use-an-seo-consultant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zantay.com/seo/consultant/why-use-an-seo-consultant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many organizations looking to increase their traffic and sales from search engine marketing. And usually at some point decide it&#8217;s time to look at search engine optimization.
SEO marketing has many benefits over other types of search marketing due to the potential return in investment and the low cost compared to pay per click marketing.
So why [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many organizations looking to increase their traffic and sales from search engine marketing. And usually at some point decide it&#8217;s time to look at search engine optimization.</p>
<p>SEO marketing has many benefits over other types of search marketing due to the potential return in investment and the low cost compared to pay per click marketing.</p>
<p>So why use a Consultant?<br />
Many organizations look at outsourcing their SEO campaigns due to the lack of in-house knowledge and understanding of the process.<br />
Any SEO consultant worth this salt will be able to tell you what you need, how much time is involved, how much it should cost and which agency would be best suited.</p>
<p>By using a consultant as a partner, like an additional marketing team member that is there when you need them. You can get the best out of your campaign and achieve the best possible return on investment.</p>
<p>Imagine an organization that sells a niche product in a niche market place. The organization heads off to the larger and best SEO firms. The SEO firms have in place standard setup fees and charges a premium for there service. You believe that your getting a great service with client services account managers and a full team of SEO experts, but what if you don&#8217;t need that level of service.<br />
Talking to a consultant on the phone or a meeting for a few hours can determine what your organization really needs.</p>
<p>On the other hand your budget may not be inline with appointing a larger SEO agency. Using a consultant and you can quickly find out what you should be targeting effectively to achieve the best possible return on investment.</p>
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		<title>We&#8217;re do we start with Social Media Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/news/were-do-we-start-with-social-media-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zantay.com/news/were-do-we-start-with-social-media-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I get asked a lot by people interested in social media marketing we&#8217;re do they get started and my answers are usually based around the way their organization is setup.
Finding out if your organization is social media friendly is the first step.

Would you allow anyone in your organization to talk on your behalf?
Would you allow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get asked a lot by people interested in social media marketing we&#8217;re do they get started and my answers are usually based around the way their organization is setup.</p>
<p>Finding out if your organization is social media friendly is the first step.</p>
<ul>
<li>Would you allow anyone in your organization to talk on your behalf?</li>
<li>Would you allow anyone in your organization the time to communicate online?
<ul>
<li>Do you trust them?</li>
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</li>
<li>Does your organization make it easy for other members to come up with idea&#8217;s?
<ul>
<li>Younger members are more likely to be already involved online</li>
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</li>
<li>Does your organization reward members for forging new paths?</li>
<li>Is your organization open to public customer feedback, both good and bad?</li>
<li>Does your organization have the ability to respond quickly to online messages?</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to allow a customer to publicly leave a good feedback then you must have a process for quickly dealing with bad feedback.</p>
<p>Once you can honestly answered these questions then your organization will be ready to make the most of the Social Media landscape.</p>
<p>To get your head around the tools and networks try <a href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/10/the-five-pillars-of-social-media-marketing.html">The Five Pillars of Social Media Marketing</a></p>
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		<title>Thinkings: Evolution of online marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/thinkings/thinkings-evolution-of-online-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always looking out for the next big thing in online advertising. A while back I thought I got into SEO at the right time, 2001, but once I was in I quickly learned that others had been around for a lot longer.
I also thought that I had missed out on the web 2.0 stuff [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m always looking out for the next big thing in online advertising. A while back I thought I got into SEO at the right time, 2001, but once I was in I quickly learned that others had been around for a lot longer.</p>
<p>I also thought that I had missed out on the web 2.0 stuff kicking off. I even went to a conference about Web 2.0 and thought &#8220;what a load of ****.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t get it, everyone in the travel industry was trying to make Ajax booking engines believing this was their web 2.0 offering to there customers. It surprising how often I still hear this.</p>
<p>So I jumped into blogging in a big way, particularly offering business blogs to clients and building them up to become fast feedback loops and eventually sales channels.</p>
<p>How I&#8217;m starting to believe that I&#8217;m at the forefront of SEO and social media marketing and my RSS feeds and news systems will keep me there. (That&#8217;s only if I understand what the new things are, which isn&#8217;t always easy)</p>
<p>So for me it&#8217;s time to go back, I need to know what made the huge advertising agencies of Madison Ave understand the consumer and build brands and what made <a href="http://www.sethgodin.com">Seth Godin</a> and Yoyodyne great within the direct marketing world. Having this information and converting  it for use in the online world where mass marketing doesn&#8217;t work online is now my goal.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You need to know how to mix cement before you can build a house.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.ciadvertising.org/studies/student/99_spring/interactive/joohwan/bernbach/images/avis01.gif" height="401" width="294" /></p>
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		<title>Social Networks Advertising reaching $2 Billion by 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/lead-story/social-networks-advertising-reaching-2-billion-by-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zantay.com/lead-story/social-networks-advertising-reaching-2-billion-by-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an article over at emarketer explaining that they expect advertising on social networks like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook to bring in more than $2 Billion in revenue by 2010. Don&#8217;t they get it yet!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently read an article over at <a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Reports/All/Emarketer_2000478.aspx?src=report_head_info_sitesearch">emarketer</a> explaining that they expect advertising on social networks like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook to bring in more than $2 Billion in revenue by 2010. Don&#8217;t they get it yet!</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.zantay.com/lead-story/social-networks-advertising-reaching-2-billion-by-2010/#more-24" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
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		<title>Doodles: Confessions of an advertising man.</title>
		<link>http://www.zantay.com/features/doodles-confessions-of-an-advertising-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.zantay.com/features/doodles-confessions-of-an-advertising-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What a book! I&#8217;m only 54 pages in and already I recognize that I&#8217;m under-worked, under-challenged, under-payed and that I want to build my own worldwide agency (If only it was that easy). I didn&#8217;t realize that David Ogilvy coined so many terms and &#8220;old sayings&#8221; that we use every today. &#8220;You pay peanuts, you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a book! I&#8217;m only 54 pages in and already I recognize that I&#8217;m under-worked, under-challenged, under-payed and that I want to build my own worldwide agency (If only it was that easy). I didn&#8217;t realize that David Ogilvy coined so many terms and &#8220;old sayings&#8221; that we use every today. &#8220;You pay peanuts, you get monkeys&#8221; Here are the best bits of the book so far. (Well 54 pages)</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Search all City parks and you won&#8217;t find a statue of a committee&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This is the best by far. Committee&#8217;s get nothing done, except waste time, people set up committee&#8217;s when they can&#8217;t be bothered fixing the problems themselves.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Never set copy in reverse&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>(White text on Black background)  The advertising industry completed research on this in 1963 and found it doesn&#8217;t work, why are people still doing it?</p>
<p>One from Lord Rutherford</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t explain your physics to a barmaid, that&#8217;s bad physics&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Talking about using industry related &#8220;fluff&#8221; words like paradigms, demassification and so on, this is one I really agree with.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The consumer is not a moron, she is your wife, don&#8217;t insult her intelligence.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We sell - or else&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I personally live by this sword and sometimes it gets in the way of trying  to increase brand awareness for clients. I always look for a bottom line, the sale,  and then build a plan that will deliver people to the path that leads them to the sale. You can measure sales, you can&#8217;t measure brand penetration.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The temptation the entertain instead of selling is contagious.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This is very true of my friends in the web design industry. Most graphic artists don&#8217;t consider themselves to be marketers. What they don&#8217;t realize is that their design of a website is the first thing a visitor to a website sees before they read any copy or interact with any other element of the website. It really brings it back to &#8220;first impressions count&#8221; and maybe it changes &#8220;It&#8217;s not what you say, it&#8217;s how you say it.&#8221; to &#8220;It&#8217;s not what you say, it&#8217;s what you see.&#8221;</p>
<p>As I&#8217;m only 54 pages into this book I better cap this blog post for the time being or else I&#8217;ll have written more on this post than is actually in the 54 pages I have read. So here&#8217;s the last one.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t let men write advertising for products which are bought by women&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this transfers over to the online world but I&#8217;d hedge a bet on the safe side and say it does. All the online copy writers I know are men, they&#8217;ve taken on the copy writing as it&#8217;s now seen as being part of on-site SEO, making websites rank higher on search engines etc.  Most of the clients I&#8217;ve been deeply involved with are in the travel industry which has well publicized research that the women in our families decide where we go on holiday and who we book with. Up to now this copy has been written by men, maybe if it was written by women on-site conversation rates would go up. This can only mean more business for the <a href="http://www.seo-chicks.com/415/meatballs-sundaes-social-marketing-and-seth.html/trackback/" title="SEO Chicks">SEO Chicks</a> or maybe a change in the recruitment plans of most online marketing agencies.</p>
<p>When I&#8217;ve completed this book I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be so inspired that I&#8217;ll be booking a one way ticket to Madison Ave, New York and off to build my online marketing agency just like David Ogilvy did.</p>
<p>More from this great book, I got to the end not long after writing the first section of this post.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sales are a function of product-value and adverting&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s surprising how many people don&#8217;t look at it this way. For a while I was a convert of the &#8220;stack&#8217;em high, sell&#8217;em cheap&#8221; brigade. But I certainly believe that promotions and price cuts don&#8217;t bring in true sales or increase brand awareness. And over a longer period can damage the importance of a product or brand.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;They copied all they could follow,</p>
<p>but they couldn&#8217;t copy my mind.</p>
<p>And I left&#8217;em sweating and stealing,</p>
<p>a year and a half behind&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Never a truer word spoken!</p>
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		<title>Doodles: Meatball Sundae</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Boyd</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I read quite a lot of marketing books and every now and then I come across a stat, saying or idea that interests me. So after forgetting a few I decided I&#8217;d add them to my blog.
I&#8217;ve just finished reading Seth Godin&#8217;s latest book Meatball Sundae, very interesting, it&#8217;s not really teaching corporations to suck [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read quite a lot of marketing books and every now and then I come across a stat, saying or idea that interests me. So after forgetting a few I decided I&#8217;d add them to my blog.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve just finished reading Seth Godin&#8217;s latest book Meatball Sundae, very interesting, it&#8217;s not really teaching corporations to suck eggs but making them look at the new marketing (Social Media, etc) from the feet up within their organization.</p>
<p>All companies started off small at one time or another, some with an idea, some with a product, but they delivered goods or products that that space in time demanded for one reason or another. Seth explains that the world is changes or more possible has changed. The book is a good read, very informative and full of clear examples that Seth&#8217;s books are known to content. I&#8217;ll try not and write the whole book here, Mr Godin might get upset andif he takes his own advice at some time or another he&#8217;ll stumplupon this blog post.(Hi Seth, Love the books and if you want to sent me some rubber Squidoo&#8217;s then feel free)</p>
<p>My Doodles:</p>
<p>Just because you want people to come to your site and watch doesn;t mean they will.  (On BudTV)</p>
<p>The shift from &#8220;how many&#8221; to &#8220;who&#8221;</p>
<p>There are a few more inthat I&#8217;ve forgotton at the moment, hencewhy I&#8217;m doddling them on a blog post, so, I&#8217;ll have to read the book again.</p>
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