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If you’ve been paying attention, you know most businesses experienced a definite downturn over the past year or so…
Profits are under whelming…sales goals are far from being reached…and the outlook doesn’t look to get any better soon.
It’s one thing to hear it on the news but when its your business, your company, your paycheck…you want to take action, but what to do?
In keeping with the mission of this blog to give a glimpse behind the scenes, here’s a blooper of a video on my new trading web site, www.truthaboutmacd.com . The funny bit is at the end of this 75 second clip.
David Meerman Scott made a promo video of his World Wide Rave book. Yours truly shows up at about 1:07
Aside from the gratification of finding myself on YouTube, I post this because I’ve been meaning to comment on the fact that another of David’s suggestions is working out well.
David set an example of giving away totally free content in a blog post earlier this year. He advocates just letting it rip, no registration required. Contrast this with advice aplenty around internet marketing circles that one has to collect contact info from a giveaway download. Conversely, so the common wisdom goes, one must offer t to indhe giveaway to induce people to give up their contact info.
I admit to a little trepedation when I posted the first issue of BackTesting Report as a totally free download. Now, one month later, I can compare the two tactics: totally free vs sign-up required. In January 2009, I offered an excerpt of the same document for anyone who gave me an email address and first name.
The results are stunning. Downloads of the totally free document soared 1100% in free Feb vs registration-required Jan. The thing that really blew me away is that roughly the same percentage of site visitors added their contact info to the mailing list. This is despite the fact that there is no longer a ”bribe”, simply an offer to keep the list informed as new BackTesting Reports become available.
Clearly, a free download gives the material greater circulation and people will still sign up for a mailing list if they want news on a topic that interests them.
Thanks David!
Click here to download the first issue of BackTesting Report free without registration.
BackTesting Report helps you make rational investment and trading choices by giving you the results of rigorous testing of popular technical strategies. It gives you the data without all the effort of backtesting yourself.
Please share this report as you wish. You can email it, link to it, reprint it, or blog about it. Please also include a link back to www.backtestingreport.com and drop me a line so I can publish a link back to you. Thanks!
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(This post and the associated document are licensed this under the Creative Commons License, Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ . I am the majority shareholder of Own Mountain Trading Company, the publisher of BackTesting Report. )
Tags: backtesting, Investing, trading
Here’s a free e-book on marketing that I found very interesting and inspiring. David Meerman Scott is really walking the talk of the World Wide Rave by giving this ebook excerpt away totally free, and making it easy to forward as I am doing now. This gives me a blueprint for making my BackTesting Report more accessible.
Quoting from the author’s blog: ”
Please download my new ebook Lose Control of your Marketing! Why marketing ROI measures lead to failure.
(Please note: This link brings you directly to the PDF ebook with no registration required and no landing page. It is a 1.2MB document, so please be patient.)
Do you market like the Grateful Dead? Or like Led Zeppelin?
(Find out in the ebook).”
Tags: David Meerman Scott, internet, WorldWideRave
The New Rules of Marketing suggests using one’s middle name to stake a unique space on the web. I took note and now googling Jackie Ann Patterson brings me to the top of the list. I’m pretty happy about that. So when New Rules author David Meerman Scott posted a request for photos with the poster for his upcoming book, I was happy to take my new camera out for a spin. I took a walk down University Ave in Palo Alto, stopping at a few cool places along the way.
The Apple Store is not unique to Palo Alto, but its always busy especially during back-to-school season at nearby Stanford University. I have no idea who was in the blue coat reading the newspapers but he stayed oblivious the whole time I snapped pics.
Red Mango is a relatively new kid on the block. Their tart pom yogurt is my favorite, although I haven’t had a chance to sample their competitor in Korean fro yo, Pinkberry.
The next stop was beautifully restored Stanford theater which was running a Bogey double feature.
facebook headquarters sits back from the street down by the train station. The lobby guards were very accommodating as I got a quick shot to update my facebook profile.
I’m looking forward to reading World Wide Rave and learning more about using the web and social media.
Tags: Apple, David Meerman Scott, facebook, Palo Alto, Red Mango, Stanford Theater, WorldWideRave
To claim your report, visit www.backtestingblog.com and fill out the (short) request form in the upper right corner. I’m offering this free stock trading report to people who sign up for my BackTesting Report mailing list.
Tags: backtesting, Investing, trading
I’ve added a new T-Shirt design. Its based on Wikipedia Calculus entry, designed with wordle.net. I make the design available under GPL. You can download the graphic here. (Click link, then Right-click and choose Save Picture As)
If you want it on a T-shirt now, with minimum fuss, visit http://www.cloudclothes.com
Tags: calculus, cloud clothes, t-shirt, wordle
This post has been moved to its own page WP Code Cloud
Tags: cloud, Code Cloud, Free Software Foundation, GPL, open source, t-shirt, wordpress
Cloud Clothes is my latest internet project and quite possibly the most fun yet! The first product line revolves around Wordpress open source code as rendered by wordle.net. Click on any product below to enter my shop. Right now it is cool products for bloggers….more to come….
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