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Sneaky Little Internet Marketing Tricks   by Emma O'Connor

We all hate that 7pm unsolicited call from someone trying to earn his or her commission by selling us something we don't really want. A lot of us have quite funny ways of dealing with it (My husband would put our 2y/o on the phone and say 'talk to grandpa' ...They would generally hang up the phone before we did!)

And then there are the companies that send their salespeople door to door, often at dinnertime, to deal with the same disgruntled customer that just hung up the phone.

We all know about this, we all hate it and lately I have come across what I think is the equivalent in Internet marketing.

So the first one, which I must say I was guilty of when I first started (but no more) is the unsolicited advertisement in your inbox from a new 'friend' or 'follower' in Social Media. Sounds a bit like "Hi, would you like to buy something?" Harmless enough but a few lessons in social media etiquette are definitely required! I guess it's easy to just hit delete and even block them if we want to.

The second is just as harmless, and I think a little more annoying, and that is people responding to my classified add with adds for their own business opportunity. Even though I have ticked the box saying it is NOT OK to contact me for commercial purposes, these advertisements still land in my inbox. There is no face, no proper name and the classifieds site masks the email address. As if I would join someone who behaves like this.

Number three is twitter specific and that is Retweet Hijacking. That is someone retweets you and then adds their URL at the end. I now check the link when someone retweets me. It's only happened once and I sent an @ reply (public) saying something like "it seems a bit dodgy that you added your own link to my tweet". I don't know whether they got the message but it hasn't happened to me again.

The fourth is the one that really stands out as sneaky and underhanded to me, and that is using my landing page forms as a way to advertise to me. This has happened twice to me in slightly different ways. Most recently someone filled out their email address, requesting more information, so I emailed them as requested, and the response I got was something like "your opportunity looks interesting... have you thought about this one http://www.imstupidurl.com What the ...?

And the most annoying one of all for me was someone clicking on my PPC add, accessing my landing page and writing "it looks like you're paying too much for your PPC advertising....blah blah http://www.imevenmorestupidurl.com; right there in the 'any questions' line. In short, these people made me pay so they could advertise to me!! That deserves a wrist slap I think. Luckily and ironically I had started my education in Google Adwords and so it hardly cost a thing

I reiterate, as if I would join someone who behaves in any of these ways, with whom I have no relationship, and who holds zero credibility in my eyes.

What do you think?

About the Author

Emma is an online business coach, helping people gain traction in their online campaigns. Emma believes in Helping through Sharing an wishes to help others attain true freedom in their personal and financial lives. She is a life long learner, A Student in personal empowerment and a passionate wife and mother and a global traveler.

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 Sneaky Speakers' Secrets - Cool Tricks to Make Your Message Stick
By Akweli Parker

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You would need to write a very big book to cover all the elements that go into preparing a knockout speech or presentation. And indeed, more than a few forests have been felled by speaker-authors who've attempted to do just that. This article will attempt no such thing.

Instead, it will simply arm you with a few laser-focused tactics that will set you apart as a speaker who informs, engages, and impacts an audience. The following techniques might sound gimmicky. And when used haphazardly, they are. But use these methods judiciously, and audiences will gladly give you a hand -- while eating from the palm of yours.

More importantly, they will remember your message, plea, proposal or pitch, because they remember you. Here go those techniques, in no particular order...

Alliteration. That is, weaving words wonderfully so that similar sounds successively tickle your target's tympanum. Alliteration can dress up important but unfortunately drab-sounding concepts.

Fr'instance, if you were giving a stress-management seminar, you might tell attendees they were going to learn how to, "Relax, Relate, and Release" their stress away in three easy steps. And then you'd devote a few minutes of explanation to each one of those steps.

Here's another example (which you also may have heard before). Which of these sounds better:

1) "Your values, beliefs and actions, not your inherent intellectual capability, will serve as the predictor of your life outcomes." OR...

2) "It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude..."

'Nuff said.

Rhyming and Rhythmic Cadence. A close relative of alliteration, these also rely on our fascination with the song-like manipulation of language. And they too can help your audience remember multiple points more easily.

"This 'Stop Snitchin' epidemic is an insidious menace to our youth, ladies and gentlemen, and it always has three predictably tragic acts: Violence; Sirens; Silence."

Used skillfully, rhyming and cadence can arouse powerful emotion and support from your audience. Just be careful with these -- if you're doing a business presentation, you don't want to turn it into a Poetry Slam.

Acronyms. These words that are substitute abbreviations for entire thought processes can help your audience (and you) remember multi-part concepts in a fun way.

"Today you're going to learn the 'F.I.S.T.' hierarchy for transforming a hostile boss into your best ally. F - Flatter, because bosses need praise, too. I - Interview, because they love to talk about themselves. S - Sympathize with them for pressures they face managing and motivating your team. And T - Take your boss to lunch every now and then, because it can get lonely for him or her at the top."

... And voila, when you lay out a roadmap like that with an acronym, there's the outline for your speech.

And don't forget the good ol' K.I.S.S. method of writing instructional articles -- Keep It Simple, Stupid. Oops, maybe not the best example. But you get the idea.

Audience Connectors

Why do these techniques work? It could be because we humans are always seeking patterns in our environment, so that we can make better sense of the world around us. Don't believe it? Just consider all the people who claim to see deities in the mold patterns on their week-old peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The above techniques are more than just cheap tricks, but rather powerful rhetorical devices that allow you to connect more effectively with your audience.

So before your next speech, put away the PowerPoint, at least initially. First, get out your notepad and your thinking cap, and see what ear-catching phrases you can come up with.

Akweli Parker is the founder of Digital Delta Media LLC, a copywriting firm dedicated to helping individuals and businesses to craft irresistible messages.

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