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Marketing is like quilting
bjlabelle
Published on January 14, 2013
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Did you know that marketing is just like quilting? Let me tell you a short story.
I decided today that I was going to work on my son’s quilt, after all, he’s been waiting for it for years now. Anyways it is a star quilt, and it is my first time making a star quilt. I kept looking at the picture and I would feel a little intimidated. Finally in December I said to myself “just go for it, or else he will never get the damn thing”.
There is still a lot more sewing to do, for now i must make the star, as i was piecing the strips together to make part of the star, i kept thinking to myself,” it doesn’t seem right, it looks to darn skinny, i know he’s a skinny kid, but his star doesn’t have to be skinny”, i read the instructions and re measured…everything was as it was suppose to be, but how come the whole sewing it together is not that easy?
It turned out that the my perception of the width was not the same as the author’s perception, in fact if i would have taken the time to STUDY the diagram, i would’ve known the right width. So now I am left with strips of the wrong size, now i have to really think outside the box to get this quilt looking like a star quilt. Maybe this will be as Bob Ross would say “A Happy Accident”.
I know for some that having a website may look intimidating, but once you get in there and explore, you will find that it’s not that bad, and before you know it, you will be installing plug ins, posting your blogs, adding pics and videos, installing and deleting pages, changing your themes, adjusting colors and sub niches.
The tricky part comes to marketing, we all have our own ideas of marketing, and if your anything like me, you will learn the hard way, but thats ok, you just need to be teachable and open minded and that may mean you have to go back and review internet marketing.
There is all kinds of marketing out there, traffic exchanges, safelists, article writing, blogging, free and paid ads, banners, link exchanges. The problem is we all have our own ideas in what works. They all work, some work better then others in different niches. And sometimes… you have to get creative… thats ok too because you will now humble yourself and keep an open mind, and who knows, maybe you will learn a thing or two, even better, you may make a sale or two!
To Happy Quilting…ahhmm, I mean Too Happy Marketing
I decided today that I was going to work on my son’s quilt, after all, he’s been waiting for it for years now. Anyways it is a star quilt, and it is my first time making a star quilt. I kept looking at the picture and I would feel a little intimidated. Finally in December I said to myself “just go for it, or else he will never get the damn thing”.
There is still a lot more sewing to do, for now i must make the star, as i was piecing the strips together to make part of the star, i kept thinking to myself,” it doesn’t seem right, it looks to darn skinny, i know he’s a skinny kid, but his star doesn’t have to be skinny”, i read the instructions and re measured…everything was as it was suppose to be, but how come the whole sewing it together is not that easy?
It turned out that the my perception of the width was not the same as the author’s perception, in fact if i would have taken the time to STUDY the diagram, i would’ve known the right width. So now I am left with strips of the wrong size, now i have to really think outside the box to get this quilt looking like a star quilt. Maybe this will be as Bob Ross would say “A Happy Accident”.
I know for some that having a website may look intimidating, but once you get in there and explore, you will find that it’s not that bad, and before you know it, you will be installing plug ins, posting your blogs, adding pics and videos, installing and deleting pages, changing your themes, adjusting colors and sub niches.
The tricky part comes to marketing, we all have our own ideas of marketing, and if your anything like me, you will learn the hard way, but thats ok, you just need to be teachable and open minded and that may mean you have to go back and review internet marketing.
There is all kinds of marketing out there, traffic exchanges, safelists, article writing, blogging, free and paid ads, banners, link exchanges. The problem is we all have our own ideas in what works. They all work, some work better then others in different niches. And sometimes… you have to get creative… thats ok too because you will now humble yourself and keep an open mind, and who knows, maybe you will learn a thing or two, even better, you may make a sale or two!
To Happy Quilting…ahhmm, I mean Too Happy Marketing
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