There are a number of more advanced editing features that you can learn for free at WordPress.org. As always, don’t hesitate to call if you need help.

If you need isn’t urgent, please call my Voice/Fax line at 810-496-0014. To reach my cell phone call 810-471-7767 during normal business hours. You may also visit Eclectic Sales & Creative Marketing online.

When displaying your videos on your site, you don’t want to distract your visitors from your site or content with other YouTube ads and suggested videos. Plus, don’t you want your video to look as cool as possible in a nice “skin”?

That is where Traffic Player comes in. This tool will make your YouTube experience work they way you want for your web site.

If your a client of ESCMI you can purchase the Traffic Player plugin installed to your site for only $44.97 until December 19th.

With Traffic Player you have a choice of 20 cool “skins” to display your videos within, like this iPad image below:

Check out Traffic Player by clicking the link below:
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Thanks to my friend and client John Schmitt who gave me the heads up on the USPS new $.142 rate for carrier route mailing! If you have not heard, you need to pay attention. For most brick and mortar business owners, your core of business comes from a certain radius around your location. If you keep track of your customers and their locations it is easy to figure out. If your not doing something to keep track of your customers, you are missing out on the single most valuable tool for your business and most valuable asset should you ever want to sell your business.

So let’s assume you know that most of your customers come from a few miles away to give up some hard earned cash for what you offer. Then let’s assume that you want to increase the flow of that cash to your business. It is easier to sell an existing customer, but to mail to your customer list cost 44 cents each just for postage. With the Every Door Mailing program you can mail to everyone in the neighbor hood at a rate of only 14.2 cents each. It is likely that your customers neighbors are fairly similar to your customer, now let’s make them customers. The trick is to create an “Irresistible Offer” that will make the phone ring or door ding. You can mail a piece up to 12″ by 15″ that is 3/4″ thick! You have to provide enough of the same piece for all of the particular carrier route, with a minimum of 200 per route and maximum of 5,000. The piece has to be a minimum of 6.125″ tall to qualify. You can get real creative with this. Bulky mail works great – pens, screws, nails, coins and a great number of items can be used in the mail to get attention. This helps the number of responses, it is tough to get anyone’s attention these days. I’m surprised your still with me… but I’m getting to the good part.

Being of “frugal” mindedness. I’ve found the least expensive way to use this program and bring in some dollars. I print a 9″ tall by 6″ wide full color post card and send to targeted routes. The total cost of the mailing is only 28.2 cents each for postage and printing and $100 for design and delivery. Just yesterday I delivered 1,822 pieces to the Clio post office and 566 pieces to the Birch Run post office for iKen Video. We printed up 2,500 post cards so there are about 150 to send out yet but we hit the areas that we wanted to start with. The phone has started to ring today! The same day they hit the street we have strong signs of some good sales coming. With iKen’s offer it requires the clients to gather up their old VHS tapes and bring them in to his location, so that could take a few days. I’ll post an image of the post card here and keep you posted on the progress.

The next mailings will be for Huckleberry Junction Playhouse Theater with some special pizza and party offers and Staley’s Plumbing & Heating offers for new advanced water softeners that reduce Tannin for homeowners using wells near lakes. Let me know if you want to set up a mailing for your Irresistible Offer!

Read more about Direct Mail and review pricing by clicking here.

Google has a tool to find Relevant Info.

You can receive regular emails with the search results for a specific word or phrase – like your name.

Simply go to http://google.com/alerts where you can enter the search word (s) and tell it the frequency of alerts and your email address.

This is a handy tool to gather information about a product or service that you are researching. Now you have the power of Google helping you gather information!

What can you think of as a use for this tool?

It has been my goal for about six months now to bring GKIC style marketing and training to the Flint, Michigan area. Flint is not know for its entrepreneurial spirit, more for the unions. Yet, I know a number of business owners who work hard in their business and have shown an interest in building their business to new levels. Sure, the economy is tough. Sure, money is tight in our market. Sure, there are a thousand “good” reasons not to invest time and money in marketing. As a good Optimist I wasn’t deterred from reaching my goal. I knew that with Derek Freund’s help and some hard work and persistence I could attract at least ten business owners to invest time and money to improve their business. We did just that.

Derek Freund of GKIC presents to local Flint business owners.

This morning marks the beginning of something bigger. In September we will begin a regular series of “Chapter” meetings for No B.S. Michigan. At these chapter meetings you will have the opportunity to share unique marketing ideas with the group and learn from others that are doing great things. Together we can create the “Tipping Point” for Flint and Genesee County. The producers of the community have to thrive and prosper to attract more people to take responsibility and action. I salute those that work hard to build their business, take risk, meet payroll and support our community. Without you our community will fail. The Glazer-Kennedy Insider Circle isn’t a silver bullet to business success, but they have the proper attitude, skills and resources to propel your business to new levels. Together we can learn and through GKIC we will learn from companies throughout the United States of American and beyond.

So, thanks to the following businesses that participated in the Total Control Workshop at Superior Travel Service in Grand Blanc.

Russ Perry – Perry & Associates   (Infinate Banking System)

Carol Hawks – Promo Consultants (Advertising Specialties)

Dan Crannie – Signs By Crannie (Signs, Auto Graphics, Car Wraps)

Gary Gephart – Signs By Crannie

Curt Drury – Gotcha Cover Upholstery (auto, home, commercial upholstery service)

Ken Crim – iKen Video Production (commercial video, residential tape to DVD conversions)

Anthony Martin – Co Card Merchant Processing

Dave Vanitvelt – Vision Solutions Printing (commercial printing)

Bob Scherman – Flint Distributing (Warehouse Space)

In the field of direct response marketing, this is called a “Control”: One or more well-crafted, field tested and current proven methods to magnetically attract new and forever hungry new people to your business. It’s called Magnetic Marketing™ ; the genius behind this system is none other than Dan Kennedy.

Total Control Workshop Grand Blanc Michigan Tuesday July 26, 2011

Seating is Limited & Time is Running Out

This is for ambitious independent marketers only. Serious about commitment to your business; serious as a student of proven direct marketing principles; and serious about making money. We keep the groups to a limited size so every business gets individual attention. This is NOT a “cattle call” or a “one size fits all system”. You will also get a workshop bonus package (a $178 value)

Get Your “Control” and Change Your Life Forever

In this Cutting Edge Control Workshop, you will see exactly how a “Control” is used by businesses like yours to create a predictive system to ensure long-term financial success and maintain your sanity. We even have one e-z method that has been verified by the DMA (Direct Marketing Association) to have a $42:1 average R.O.I. Do the math… for every hundred bucks put in, there’s four-thousand and two-hundred dollars worth of profit.

Learn more about No BS Marketing by visiting:

Dan Kennedy & Jason Marrs co author this must read on price strategy.

We take a slightly different approach to “search engine submission” service. Most service offerings often boast about submitting to 10,000+ search engines. What they don’t tell you is a large percentage of those are useless to you. They enter into off the beaten path, so to speak, search engines that never see the light of day! So many are in foreign countries, that chances are, they are not in your target demographics! Additionally the service that some of these “search engine submission” services provide, for either a one-time submission, monthly submission or whatever the period you select. They make one round of submissions to each of their “10,000+ search engines”/ month and that is what you get for your hard earned money!

Now with our service, we do submit to search engine directories, but not 10,000+. Instead we target 100’s of relevant search engine submissions and submit them. You think we would be done there, right? We are only getting started! Along with the search engine submissions, we also evaluate your website and recommend and/ or incorporate changes that will improve your standings in the search engines. We also work to build links/ backlinks to your site also. We basically work full time monitoring and tweaking your site, the submissions and linking. There are also additional “tweaks and tricks” up our sleeves that we use to increase traffic to your site.

Sampling of search engine services submitted to.

Note: This is just a sampling of some of the search engine services we submit to. This is subject to change, due to availability, relevancy of search engine to site, or we may also switch to one that gets better results. We reserve the right, to change search engine submissions services, as deemed appropriate to best serve you, our customer.

Did you know that there are over 500 million “active” users on Facebook?

View current stats here: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Twitter is developing some interesting uses for interactive events and media.

View a Wiki on Twitter usage here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_usage

There are other networks that are up and coming. Ask your customers where they are interacting. You want to be where your customers and their friends are!

If you are like 97% of other business owners, you have little time to post, tweet and chat up your business online. You have to learn new skills, habits and schedule the time to make it happen. We can take a big part of the burden from you and build your online presence.

Here is the offer:

We will create your accounts for you if you don’t have them set up yet.

We will connect you with a network of “friends” online from your contacts and our various groups of friends and build your network.

We will post relevant content on your pages that link to your web site.

We will update your web site with content and share it on social media sites.

For a complete list of available services click here.