Brian Massey is Author of "The Market for Me: Surviving Job Loss and Building Your Lifetime Career Network." In the book he details the attitudes of job search that will make you more successful, the ways to survive the loss of a job, and how to build a network that becomes a marketplace for your skills. You're not a job seeker. You're a Skills Holder.
Brian Massey, The Conversion Scientist is on the hot seat in an often spirited conversation about content marketing and converting readers into sales. Thanks to the Austin Content Marketing Meetup for hosting this event.
Sixty businesses became Conversion Scientists in January 2010 when they attended the Austin Entrepreneur Network Short Course "Web Analytics: Tools and Best Practices" presented by Brian Massey. This course is being presented again on June 11. Come and earn your lab coat.
What can we learn from the Bad Boys of Conversion? Quite a bit. Although some of these online marketers give the rest of us a bad name with scammy products, they test their pages and know what works and what doesn't.Let's see if we can learn anything from them.
Long Island daily New York Newsday launched a grand ship in their online newspaper at newsday.com. At a reported cost of $4 million they launched a designer’s site and placed their content behind a pay wall. After the passing of three months, they had garnered only 35 paying subscribers. The acquisition cost is staggering.
We call them affiliate marketers, infopreneurs or online goo-roos. They push health care products, supplements, exercise tapes, and get-rich-quick schemes. At their best they are sophisticated landing page optimizers and savvy search engine technicians. At their worst they are spammers, forum trolls and comment leeches. These are the “bad boys” of online sales conversion (and they’re not all boys).While many of us wouldn’t want to associate the hard-hitting big-promise experience with our bran...
In October of 2009, Long Island daily Newsday put their online newspaper behind a pay wall. The effort cost $4,000,000. By January of 2010, newsday.com had gained 35 paid subscribers. Conversion Sciences speculated that they may have an online sales conversion problem.
http://marketformebook.com "Corporations hire without joy, and fire without remorse." This is one of eight Job Search Attitudes from the book "The Market for Me: Surviving Job Loss and Building Your Lifetime Career Network."
This is an actual text-to-speech session captured to illustrate how easy "writing" has become for me. This is my way of saying "thank you" to Maura Thomas and Regain Your Time for helping me reach an important goal: writing a book. RegainYourTime.
The Job Search Attitudes that will get you more interviews at the places you want to work. From the book "The Market for Me: Surviving Job Loss and Building Your Lifetime Career Network"