The Savannah Dollhouse by KidKraft is a popular pick this year if you are looking for dollhouse for girls age 3 years old and up.
The Savannah Dollhouse is a large 6 room mansion that stands over 4 feet tall! It is decorated as a true southern style mansion and comes completely furnished with 14 pieces of hand built wooden furniture. Very elegant!
Rabu, 25 November 2009
Minggu, 15 November 2009
Tinker Toys Marketing
As I was putting the finishing touches on my new "Web Site ToolKit" last night I realized how much that putting together any marketing strategy or campaign is like assembling Tinker Toys or Legos.
If you're not familiar with these, they're kid's toys with pieces or components that fit together to make something bigger and more complex - a machine you can play with.
And if everything isn't put together correctly, the machine doesn't run and do what it was meant to do.
On Sunday night I announced the Web site ToolKit to the InfoGuru Support Forum and discovered that in the process of people ordering the ToolKit, a few parts of my online "marketing machine" were broken.
They were easily fixed but it got me thinking about how everything in marketing is much like this: it either works flawlessly or it breaks down because some component wasn't properly attached to the other components.
This is one reason why so many marketing activities don't produce the result they were designed to do: attract more clients. We go through the motions; it *looks* like marketing but the "machine" has actually broken down and we don't realize it.
Here are three "marketing machines" you may be familiar with:
Networking - You decide to get into networking and spend a lot of time at events meeting people, but you attract very few clients. Are all your marketing components in place and working? Personal presentation, Audio Logo, asking questions, business card, article to send to potential prospects, the follow up call.
Speaking - You want to give talks to potential clients, but it's hard to book presentations, let alone attract clients. Which marketing of these components need work? Speaker's kit, phone call to organizations, talk promotion, the talk itself, overheads and handouts, a call-to-action, your follow-up email and call to interested prospects.
Web Site - You have a web site but you're disappointed in the results you're getting. Have you missed some of the components or failed to fine-tune them? Quality design and text format, page headlines, outline of problems, addressing prospects' issues, case studies, detailed service information, free information, eZine signup, optimized for search engines.
Every single marketing machine you create will usually work a lot better if you do the following things:
1. Do some research. Find out what works from someone who has experience. Books, manuals, online courses, consultants and coaches should all be considered. Don't try to make this stuff up, copy success.
2. Create a plan. What are you going to do and when are you going to do it? What resources do you need? What information do you have to assemble? What written or online materials are required? Do you need to rehearse or test before you "go live."
3. Give it your best shot. Pay attention to the details - all the components that need to fit together for the marketing machine to work. Fine-tune and adjust as you go. Try to look from the prospect's points of view. Be flexible while still making a commitment to do the best you can do.
4. Evaluate and readjust. Some things probably went well, some could have been better, and others were total flops. Document what worked and what didn't, so the next time you can do even better. Work at developing a bullet-proof marketing machine that gets results every time.
If you don't take these steps, all you can expect from your marketing is random results. You won't have a marketing machine that's designed to attract clients consistently. Your marketing will be like a broken tinker toy - useless and no fun to play with.
Think of your marketing as a machine with several essential components that all have to work in harmony to produce the marketing results you desire - more clients attracted to your business.
If you're not familiar with these, they're kid's toys with pieces or components that fit together to make something bigger and more complex - a machine you can play with.
And if everything isn't put together correctly, the machine doesn't run and do what it was meant to do.
On Sunday night I announced the Web site ToolKit to the InfoGuru Support Forum and discovered that in the process of people ordering the ToolKit, a few parts of my online "marketing machine" were broken.
They were easily fixed but it got me thinking about how everything in marketing is much like this: it either works flawlessly or it breaks down because some component wasn't properly attached to the other components.
This is one reason why so many marketing activities don't produce the result they were designed to do: attract more clients. We go through the motions; it *looks* like marketing but the "machine" has actually broken down and we don't realize it.
Here are three "marketing machines" you may be familiar with:
Networking - You decide to get into networking and spend a lot of time at events meeting people, but you attract very few clients. Are all your marketing components in place and working? Personal presentation, Audio Logo, asking questions, business card, article to send to potential prospects, the follow up call.
Speaking - You want to give talks to potential clients, but it's hard to book presentations, let alone attract clients. Which marketing of these components need work? Speaker's kit, phone call to organizations, talk promotion, the talk itself, overheads and handouts, a call-to-action, your follow-up email and call to interested prospects.
Web Site - You have a web site but you're disappointed in the results you're getting. Have you missed some of the components or failed to fine-tune them? Quality design and text format, page headlines, outline of problems, addressing prospects' issues, case studies, detailed service information, free information, eZine signup, optimized for search engines.
Every single marketing machine you create will usually work a lot better if you do the following things:
1. Do some research. Find out what works from someone who has experience. Books, manuals, online courses, consultants and coaches should all be considered. Don't try to make this stuff up, copy success.
2. Create a plan. What are you going to do and when are you going to do it? What resources do you need? What information do you have to assemble? What written or online materials are required? Do you need to rehearse or test before you "go live."
3. Give it your best shot. Pay attention to the details - all the components that need to fit together for the marketing machine to work. Fine-tune and adjust as you go. Try to look from the prospect's points of view. Be flexible while still making a commitment to do the best you can do.
4. Evaluate and readjust. Some things probably went well, some could have been better, and others were total flops. Document what worked and what didn't, so the next time you can do even better. Work at developing a bullet-proof marketing machine that gets results every time.
If you don't take these steps, all you can expect from your marketing is random results. You won't have a marketing machine that's designed to attract clients consistently. Your marketing will be like a broken tinker toy - useless and no fun to play with.
Think of your marketing as a machine with several essential components that all have to work in harmony to produce the marketing results you desire - more clients attracted to your business.
Senin, 09 November 2009
Mbah Gendeng
Karena sulit tidur, iseng saja menyentil mbah gendeng walaupun posisi blog saya jauh di belakang akan tetapi tidak ada salahnya mengutip postingan Mbah Gendeng Makin Gendeng dari blog lainnya yang sampai dengan malam ini belum juga terindex di mesin pencari google.co.id
Sebagai pemula saya tidak tahu apa-apa yang menyebabkan halaman tersebut tidak masuk dan belum juga terindex dengan baik. Tapi daripada blog ini didiamkan sekian lama dan sama sekali tidak melakukan update apapun kesempatan ada ide postingan untuk melakukan update di salah satu blog yang terbengkalai ini.
Sebagai pemula saya tidak tahu apa-apa yang menyebabkan halaman tersebut tidak masuk dan belum juga terindex dengan baik. Tapi daripada blog ini didiamkan sekian lama dan sama sekali tidak melakukan update apapun kesempatan ada ide postingan untuk melakukan update di salah satu blog yang terbengkalai ini.
Mbah gendeng sedang menjadi topik pembicaraan di kalangan para blogger, bukan karena kemampuan supranatural atau kemampuan dia dalam bidang klenik, akan tetapi mbah gendeng sedang mempunyai hajatan yang biasa disebut kontes Belajar SEO.
Kontes mengejar kata kunci “mbah gendeng “ dengan menjadikan google.co.i d sebagai jurinya sampai waktu akhir kontes ini siapa yang nongol di tempat pertama dialah yang keluar sebagai pemenang,
Mungkin mbah gendeng sendang ingin mengambarkan keadaan dunia sekarang ini yang semakin gendeng, kita tahu bawa banyak sekali pemberitaan yang tidak sepantasnya dilakukan oleh seorang anak manusia akan tetapi pada jaman sekarang itu sudah menjadi hal yang lumrah dan menjadi hal yang wajar, dengan kata mbah gendeng mungkin kita akan dingatkan kepada kegendengan yang telah terjadi selama ini.
Atau mungkin mbah gendeng sendang mempraktekan ilmu dengan minta dukungan dari para blogger Indonesia dan mengadakan hajatan yang katanya dikaitkan dengan ulang tahunya yang jatuh pada bulan januari 2010 ini, entah apa tujuan dari kontes seo ini.
Yang jelas kontes mbah gendeng ini adalah salah satu kontes seo yang akhir-akhir ini sendang menjadi trend guna meningkatkan kemampuan dan keahlian para blogger dalam hal optimasi kata kunci, dimana di Indonesia blogger sudah menjadi trend dan hobby di kalangan masyarakat, harapan saya Cuma satu semoga semakin jaya para blogger Indonesia dengan adanya kontes-kontes seperti ini.
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