The REAL Robert Bucci

How to create banner ads that perform Whether you're an entrepreneur, a network marketer, a mom and pop business, or a multi-billion dollar brand, success hinges on your ability to find, attract, and motivate customers.  To achieve this feat, every promotion, banner ad or otherwise, must align with three crucial qualities of any advertising campaign: Grab the viewer's attention (captivation) Make a lasting impression (brand...

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Business owners and entrepreneurs never set out to fail. In fact, the path to success must not include a failure option. (Contingency plans, sure, but only as an alternate path to success.) All of us, at some point, make promises to ourselves, our families, our mentors that we will persevere. We will succeed. The real test is your level of commitment to those promises. What commitments have you made to yourself? Your family? Have you reached...

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A great loss to Social Media Monetization - Perry Belcher It's with a saddened heart that I add this post. As of Oct 1, 2009, Social Media mogul and good friend, Perry Belcher, is hanging up his Social Media teaching spurs and reclaiming a private life. I KNOW! I couldn't believe the announcement on his blog, PerryBelcher.com. Oh, he may be retreating to private life, but he is not disappearing altogether. On his blog, Perry explains how his...