[thelist] RE: spam?

[ANDREA STREIGHT]

M. Seyon's illustration of a billboard was good. Lots of great advice on 
this topic.

I follow the advice of Seth Godin: don't worry about traffic or even 
customers. Concentrate on vastly improving your product/service, progress 
more every day to the goal of a mind-blowingly excellant product to offer 
those who need it.

To put up a half-baked product and then try to whip people into paying 
attention to it and buying it, that's silly. Even if you grope around in the 
dark, stumbling around in marketing strategies, if the product is improving 
and becoming more richly relevant and helpful on a continuous basis, you'll 
attract customers and even marketing ideas or strategists.

Seth Godin, and many other marketing experts, say: just focus on excellance, 
and you'll be discovered. The Big Influencers who can help you gain fast 
success prefer to discover things on their own, or by recommendations from 
other Big Movers and Shakers. If you, a relative nobody, keep yanking their 
chains and yelling "look at me! drive traffic to me! endorse and praise me!" 
they will hate you and ignore or condemn you publicly.

If you sincerely want to help honest, kind, good people, Goodness will 
protect and prosper you to the extent you're able to handle it. You may have 
to pay some dues, suffer a bit, toughen up, revise, retool, etc. before you 
are worthy of success.


Steven Streight
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