Are You Different Or Are You Just Like The Masses?
Posted by Sant Qiu in : Strategic Positioning & Branding on November 5, 2007 , add a commentAre you different? Do you stand out from the crowd? Are you unique compared to the rest of your competitors?
If you take a look around, you will notice that all extremely successful people and businesses are different compared to their competitors. They have put in the effort to stand out from the crowd. This is an extremely powerful albeit logically simple concept that will give you the edge over your competitors.
In fact, one of the first things I help all my clients do is to create a distinct differentiation against their competitors. Using this strategy I’ve helped them triple even quadruple their businesses easily.
There are many benefits for being different. (more…)
Join me at Facebook!
Posted by Sant Qiu in : News, Updates & General on November 4, 2007 , add a commentI’ve just joined Facebook - the fastest growing social networking site in the virtual world, even faster than MySpace (according to the latest report). In Facebook I’ll be sharing more of my thoughts and musings and other casual stuffs. You will also get to see my other friends. If you’re interested to join my entourage of friends, simply join Facebook and add me as your friend.
So why do I choose to join Facebook? While MySpace is still the biggest social networking site, Facebook is fast catching up and is predicted to take over in just the next few months. And it’s no wonder.
MySpace is not as user-friendly, aesthetically not as pleasing and doesn’t have those fun applications and games that make Facebook so popular. In sharp contrast, Facebook is well-designed, looks great, works great and have hundreds of fun applications you can use to interact with your friends online. Inviting your friends to join you is also easy. That’s why it’s so easy for people to get hooked in Facebook.
Even though at the moment I’m not a big fan of social networking sites, I believe in learning and keeping up with new developments. By being a member of a social networking site you can get in touch with a huge network of people. To a certain extend this is similar to growing your ‘list’. While most of the members in a networking site are probably there to network and get in touch with friends, there are ways to make attract your targeted audience.
For example, in Facebook you can create and join niche groups that are discussing specific topics. That way you know the members of the group are targeted audience. With the rapid development of massive applications for Facebook the potential is just getting bigger. So join me at Facebook and be part of this giant.
Traffic Generation Challenge 5: The Result & Evaluation
Posted by Sant Qiu in : Traffic Generation on November 2, 2007 , add a commentThis is the last part of my “Traffic Generation Challenge” where I document my efforts of driving massive to this brand new blog from scratch, with little technical knowledge.
October had passed and as promised I’m sharing with you the statistics of the traffic generated since the start of the challenge, 20 days ago (from 11th October). Since then I’ve used my brand new blog as an experiment to apply those traffic strategies taught by various people online. I’m interested to see whether the strategies really deliver great results or are they just hype. In this post I’ll share with you the results I got from what I did and my personal views on the various traffic generation strategies.
The context of this challenge is to get:
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Targeted (quality) traffic
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FREE ‘organic’ (non-paid) traffic
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Maximum result with minimum effort
Here’s the result: (more…)







