| Perhaps you have noticed that many small-business | | | | the REAL PROFESSIONAL and knowledgeable |
| online marketing web sites seem to be pretty much | | | | marketing consultants. There are way too many |
| the same. They have flashing lights, bold faced fonts | | | | wannabes out there. And you know what in my day, |
| and lots of pop up gimmicks to get you to buy | | | | we literally ate them for lunch. You know at some |
| something or to fill out a form and receive something | | | | point the BS has to walk and all these sales tricky |
| by e-mail. What I see is so many online pretenders all | | | | tactics need to be seen for what they are. |
| doing the same thing and it is pathetic really. The same | | | | Occasionally we might see a small business marketing |
| old sales tricks both online and during first contacts. | | | | consulting firm with a new type of marketing idea, |
| There are too many non-personal auto responders, | | | | which is fine. But when it is followed up by other |
| assumptions and garbage. It is a real turn off to | | | | tactics online, after a while it just all looks fake. And |
| smarter business people. Are all these sales marketing | | | | really having been in business for 27 years and set up |
| folks going after and targeting all the stupid people, the | | | | our franchises in 23 states and 450 cities where we |
| largest percentage of the market, rather than the best | | | | did business, well it just seems to me I see a whole lot |
| possible clientele? | | | | of talk from a whole lot of wannabes and it quite |
| If so, and I believe this to be the case then in reality | | | | frankly concerns me. Consider all this in 2006. |
| there must be one heck of a lot of room at the top for | | | | |