<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Bill McIntosh &#187; business</title> <atom:link href="http://www.billmcintosh.com/tag/business/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.billmcintosh.com</link> <description>My View On Marketing, Business &#38; Life</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:35:50 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator> <item><title>How To See Naked Search Results</title><link>http://www.billmcintosh.com/training-videos/how-to-see-naked-search-results/</link> <comments>http://www.billmcintosh.com/training-videos/how-to-see-naked-search-results/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:46:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bill McIntosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Training Videos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[google]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homepage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Market Samurai]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marketsamurai.com]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Personalization]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Search]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Web search engine]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.billmcintosh.com/?p=470</guid> <description><![CDATA[Did you know that the Google search results you see aren&#8217;t necessarily those that your customers see? Google is gathering data on your searches for their customized search all the time. So the more searches you do, the more your personal search results are geared toward you as a consumer. So how do you see [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that the Google search results you see aren&#8217;t necessarily those that your customers see? Google is gathering data on your searches for their customized search all the time. So the more searches you do, the more your personal search results are geared toward you as a consumer.</p><p>So how do you see the raw search results without that customization?  First you have to log out of Google.  Go to the Google homepage and see if your email address that&#8217;s associated with your google account is showing at the top right.  if so, click &#8220;Sign out&#8221;.</p><p>Next clear your cookies.  In Firefox you can clear just your Google cookies by going to Tools&#8211;&gt;Options&#8211;&gt;Show Cookies.  Then type &#8220;google&#8221; into the search field and it will show you only Google cookies. Highlight them all and click &#8220;Remove cookies&#8221; at the bottom.</p><p>If you then go to the Google home page you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s no link for &#8220;Web History&#8221; at the top right.  Once you do any one search, you&#8217;ll see that web history link come back, so you&#8217;ll know that Google is STILL collecting data on your web activity.</p><p>So you click &#8220;Web History&#8221; and you are taken to a page which gives you the option to disable customized search.  Click that. Now you are able to see raw search results, just as someone else who&#8217;s never searched for your business before will see.</p><p>See a demonstration of this as well as a chat q and a in the video below.</p><p><div id="saiweb_99d439d92466246c15586f582a24b319" style="width:400px; height:325px;"></div><script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">WPFP(document).ready(function(){$f("saiweb_99d439d92466246c15586f582a24b319","http://www.billmcintosh.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf",{plugins:{controls:{buttonOverColor:'#595959',sliderColor:'',bufferColor:'#636363',sliderGradient:'none',progressGradient:'medium',durationColor:'#3d3d3d',progressColor:'#a1a1a1',backgroundColor:'#000000',timeColor:'#a6a6a6',buttonColor:'#3d3d3d',backgroundGradient:'none',bufferGradient:'none',opacity:1.0}},clip:{url:'http://media.mcintoshmarketing.com/live/google-illusion.flv',autoPlay:false,autoBuffering:false},canvas:{backgroundColor:'#000000'}})});</script> </p><div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/93147f8a-c448-4429-b354-657db4173d0f/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"><img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=93147f8a-c448-4429-b354-657db4173d0f" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"></a><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" defer="defer"></script></span></div><h3><small>Tags</small></h3><p class="mytag"><small> <a href="http://www.billmcintosh.com/category/training-videos" rel="tag">Training Videos</a> </small></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.billmcintosh.com/training-videos/how-to-see-naked-search-results/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dos and Donts of Recession Marketing</title><link>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/dos-and-donts-of-recession-marketing/</link> <comments>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/dos-and-donts-of-recession-marketing/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:22:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bill McIntosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[online marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Advertising & Marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising budget]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Ogilvy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[recession]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.billmcintosh.com/?p=358</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is one time where it&#8217;s VITAL that you don&#8217;t follow your instincts. During a recession, it&#8217;s common for businesses to cut back their advertising and marketing expenditures. But what you should be doing is the exact opposite. This has been proven countless times throughout history. According to David Ogilvy, the &#8220;Father of Advertising&#8221;, &#8220;Studies [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is one time where it&#8217;s VITAL that you don&#8217;t follow your instincts.  During a recession, it&#8217;s common for businesses to cut back their advertising and marketing expenditures.  But what you should be doing is the exact opposite.</p><p>This has been proven countless times throughout history.  According to David Ogilvy, the &#8220;Father of Advertising&#8221;, &#8220;Studies of the last six recessions have demonstrated that companies which do not cut back their advertising budgets achieve greater increases in profit than companies which cut back.&#8221;  He goes on to say, &#8220;In a survey of 40,000 men and women involved in the purchase of 23 industrial products over five years, it was found that share-of-market went up in bad times &#8211; when advertising was continued.”</p><p>I went over many more examples and statistics in my show this past Tuesday.  And here&#8217;s that clip&#8230;</p><p><div id="saiweb_ff2387e76ad7074b546c5a1fc0f0ce9d" style="width:400px; height:325px;"></div><script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript">WPFP(document).ready(function(){$f("saiweb_ff2387e76ad7074b546c5a1fc0f0ce9d","http://www.billmcintosh.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf",{plugins:{controls:{buttonOverColor:'#595959',sliderColor:'',bufferColor:'#636363',sliderGradient:'none',progressGradient:'medium',durationColor:'#3d3d3d',progressColor:'#a1a1a1',backgroundColor:'#000000',timeColor:'#a6a6a6',buttonColor:'#3d3d3d',backgroundGradient:'none',bufferGradient:'none',opacity:1.0}},clip:{url:'http://media.mcintoshmarketing.com/live/marketing-during-recession.flv',autoPlay:false,autoBuffering:false},canvas:{backgroundColor:'#000000'}})});</script> </p><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/97d42664-83c2-4014-a496-16e1db7a4cd5/"><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" style="border: medium none; float: right;" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=97d42664-83c2-4014-a496-16e1db7a4cd5" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog"><script src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" type="text/javascript"></script></span></div><h3><small>Tags</small></h3><p class="mytag"><small> <a href="http://www.billmcintosh.com/category/online-marketing" rel="tag">online marketing</a> </small></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/dos-and-donts-of-recession-marketing/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meet With Me In Orange County!</title><link>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/local/meet-with-me-in-orange-county/</link> <comments>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/local/meet-with-me-in-orange-county/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:48:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bill McIntosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Local]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bill-mcintosh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[increase website traffic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[local marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[local seo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Local SEO Services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[orange county]]></category> <category><![CDATA[southern california]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.billmcintosh.com/?p=292</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you live in Southern California you&#8217;ll want to pay close attention: I&#8217;d like to meet with you personally and help you with your business. It doesn&#8217;t matter what kind of business you have. As long as you have an existing business and would like to increase it then I want to meet with you. [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you live in Southern California you&#8217;ll want to pay close attention: I&#8217;d like to meet with you personally and help you with your business.  It doesn&#8217;t matter what kind of business you have. As long as you have an existing business and would like to increase it then I want to meet with you. Lets make your income and business expansion goals a reality.</p><p>There&#8217;s no charge for this and the only requirement is that you&#8217;re willing to come to my office in Orange County.</p><p>Fill out this form and someone will call you to set up an appointment with me:</p><p><a href="http://bit.ly/5tu8WI">http://bit.ly/5tu8WI</a></p><h3><small>Tags</small></h3><p class="mytag"><small> <a href="http://www.billmcintosh.com/category/online-marketing/local" rel="tag">Local</a> </small></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/local/meet-with-me-in-orange-county/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Private VIP Online Marketing Training Half Off Sale</title><link>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/private-vip-online-marketing-training-half-off-sale/</link> <comments>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/private-vip-online-marketing-training-half-off-sale/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:29:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bill McIntosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[online marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[increase we]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet marketing course]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing course]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing training]]></category> <category><![CDATA[website marketing]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.billmcintosh.com/?p=178</guid> <description><![CDATA[Until Midnight on July 11th, you can get my Business Inner Circle Elite private VIP online marketing training system for HALF OFF. Here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll want to grab your copy for half off: Business Inner Circle Elite VIP Online Marketing Training I&#8217;m holding this little special sale as a way to say THANK YOU to [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Until Midnight on July 11th, you can get my Business Inner Circle Elite private VIP online marketing training system for HALF OFF.</p><p>Here&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll want to grab your copy for half off: <a href="http://www.businessinnercircle.com/gold">Business Inner Circle Elite VIP Online Marketing Training</a></p><p>I&#8217;m holding this little special sale as a way to say THANK YOU to all the people who read my blog and online marketing emails.</p><p>Here&#8217;s where you can grab your copy and save 50%: <a href="http://www.businessinnercircle.com/gold">Business Inner Circle Elite VIP Online Marketing Training</a></p><p>Try My System For 50% Off And Get Five Free Bonuses.</p><p>If the 50% discount isn&#8217;t enough to have you heading to my half off website, these FIVE free gifts will surely do the trick.</p><p><strong>* Bonus 1: Build Your Own Website Training:</strong><br /> This lesson teaches you everything you need to know about how to register a domain name, order &#038; set up hosting and even pick the keywords you want to target.</p><p><strong>* Bonus 2: How To Use WordPress Training:</strong><br /> This covers everything you need to know about installing, editing and running a WordPress based website.  If you&#8217;ve watched any of my live shows you know I highly recommend you use WordPress to run your sites with!</p><p><strong>* Bonus 3: Custom &#8220;Run Your own Twitter Contest&#8221; Plug-in:</strong><br /> This is the same custom plug-in that I had my programmers build for my own contests.  This plug-in is responsible for generating thousands of extra visitors to my website using an amazing viral marketing technique.  This plug-in is still in development, but as an Elite member you&#8217;ll get access to it for NO CHARGE!</p><p><strong>* Bonus 4: Blog Domination Training:</strong><br /> I&#8217;ve already recorded some amazing training that teaches you step by step how to use a blog to create an avalanche of links, traffic and search engine rankings for your website. This training is waiting for you in the members area at no extra cost!</p><p><strong>* Bonus 5: We&#8217;ll Set Up Your First Website At NO COST:</strong><br /> Just sign up for a cheap hosting account using a link my staff will give you and we&#8217;ll completely set-up, install and get running your very own WordPress based website.  Using our video training it will be a snap for you to run.  You just log into your very own admin page and you&#8217;ll be up and running in no time at all!</p><p>WHEW! That&#8217;s a lot of goodies &#8230;and you get it all FREE when you try my entire system for 50% off.</p><p>Go here right now and claim your copy before the sale is over:</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinnercircle.com/gold">Business Inner Circle Elite VIP Online Marketing Training</a></p><p>All the best,</p><p>Bill McIntosh</p><p>P.S. This special half off sale ends at midnight on July 11th.  If you&#8217;d like to get the revolutionary online marketing training system so many people are raving about &#8230; and save 50%, then go here now: <a href="http://www.businessinnercircle.com/gold">Business Inner Circle Elite VIP Online Marketing Training</a></p><p>P.P.S When the sale ends I&#8217;ll be raising the price every day after and who knows&#8230; you may end up having to pay 3X the amount to get this training system in the future!  What are you waiting for? <a href="http://www.businessinnercircle.com/gold">Business Inner Circle Elite VIP Online Marketing Training</a></p><h3><small>Tags</small></h3><p class="mytag"><small> <a href="http://www.billmcintosh.com/category/online-marketing" rel="tag">online marketing</a> </small></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.billmcintosh.com/online-marketing/private-vip-online-marketing-training-half-off-sale/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hello World!</title><link>http://www.billmcintosh.com/news/hello-world/</link> <comments>http://www.billmcintosh.com/news/hello-world/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:51:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Bill McIntosh</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[coaching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consulting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[income]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing consulting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online marketing service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[website]]></category> <category><![CDATA[websites]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://billmcintosh.com/?p=1</guid> <description><![CDATA[Normally a new website will stick up a default page titled &#8220;Hello World!&#8221;. It does this to prove that the site is installed and everything is working, only to be manually deleted immediately after. As I hovered over the &#8220;delete&#8221; button to send this very post to the trash &#8211; I paused. After hundreds &#8211; [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Normally a new website will stick up a default page titled &#8220;Hello World!&#8221;.  It does this to prove that the site is installed and everything is working, only to be manually deleted immediately after.  As I hovered over the &#8220;delete&#8221; button to send this very post to the trash &#8211; I paused.  After hundreds &#8211; maybe thousands &#8211; of &#8220;Hello World!&#8221; posts I have slain in my life, I realized that this title summed up exactly what I wanted to write about.</p><h3>Living In A Marketing Cave</h3><p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/108328795_4a3f6e0e1a_m.jpg" class="right" /><br /> I have been running many different successful companies, mostly at the same time, for many years now.  Because of this, a great many people ask both my executives and myself for marketing and business advice.  Our standard answer was always: &#8220;No, sorry.  Bill is running 27 different businesses right now and he doesn&#8217;t even have time to eat lunch.  Maybe next year he&#8217;ll have time to call you back.&#8221;</p><p>This never sat well with me. I really like to help people and turning them away never made me feel good.</p><p>Over the last few years, a few of my top executives have been asking me to teach many of my cutting-edge, insider marketing tips to others.  It sounded like a good idea, but unfortunately I never had the time to do it.</p><p>Finally I gave in, but decided to do it as an experiment:  I wanted to see if I could teach my staff Internet Marketing.  It&#8217;s one of the more challenging types of marketing to do and there can be big technical barriers for some people.  So I exchanged some of my less productive hours (sleeping) with instructional meetings.  I met with them over three months to teach them both the Internet Marketing basics and some of the new technology I was learning and developing daily.</p><p>After I saw them learning and applying their new skills &#8211; it made me feel really good.  It was a hurdle getting some of our non-technical staff to understand the more advanced concepts, but watching them &#8220;get it&#8221; and then &#8220;win&#8221; using the technology was very rewarding.</p><h3>Entrepreneurial Barbarians at the Gates</h3><p>But now that I had many executives that were practicing their new marketing skills &#8211; they were talking to even more people about it.   They were excited with their newfound knowledge and wanted to share it.<br /> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/500048577_1568a3ee16_m.jpg" class="left" /><br /> This created a circle of people knocking on my door wanting help, me saying &#8220;no&#8221;, followed by people running to my executives asking for help, and then my executives clamoring for me to help them.</p><p>This all culminated recently when I was studying the writing of one of my most trusted mentors. I read that a person&#8217;s wealth and happiness directly correlates with the amount of help he gives to the world. When you exchange valuable help with your fellows you tend to attract money and personal satisfaction.</p><p>Now I know what some of you may be thinking, but this concept isn’t some off-the-wall, mystical, mumbo jumbo.  There is definitely a practical side to how this works which you can see happen. How expert one is in marketing his help and in obtaining payment for the services he provides is critical.  However the central and most important action is in exchanging valuable help with others.</p><p>Sometime shortly after reading this, it hit me like a ton of bricks!</p><p>My real value to the world was in helping other entrepreneurs and business owners grow their businesses!  This has a compounding effect; because not only do I help them, but as their business grows it helps their employees, their future employees, their families and the economy all at once.</p><p>That&#8217;s also when I had the rather sobering realization that the actual &#8220;help&#8221; my businesses were delivering was negligible next to this greater goal.  You see, I&#8217;ve spent a tremendous amount of my time in business selling things like software downloads, membership site access, online “E-books” and advertising of various kinds. And these are the activities I&#8217;ve been devoting 90% (or more) of my time on!</p><h3>Walking Towards the Light</h3><p>So, &#8220;Hello World!&#8221;.  I am officially out of my &#8220;cave&#8221; &#8211; as some of my executives like to call my closed door office &#8211; and the light isn&#8217;t that bad at all!</p><p>Starting today I will no longer be turning away requests for help. If you want my help in growing or creating your business, I&#8217;m here to help you!</p><p>Over the coming days I&#8217;ll be posting more about who I am, my achievements, exactly how I can help you and about my amazing staff (who are all also extremely ready, willing and able to help you too!).</p><p>I&#8217;ll also be asking each of you to tell me what specific areas you want help in &#8211; such as business expansion, personal achievements, income, etc.</p><p>Until then,</p><p>To <strong>your </strong>prosperity</p><p>PS: Feel free to comment below and send me some feedback. I&#8217;d love to hear from you!</p><p><small>(Images courtesy of Steve Deger &amp; Marecky)</small></p><h3><small>Tags</small></h3><p class="mytag"><small> <a href="http://www.billmcintosh.com/category/news" rel="tag">News</a> </small></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.billmcintosh.com/news/hello-world/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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