Begging: Marketing Simplified!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Begging: Marketing Simplified!

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When trying to attract attention, build a brand, or expand the scope of your market, you will invariably a great deal of time and a good deal of money on creativity, social media broadcasting, giving out 'free samples' and incentives for 'signing up', sponsoring contests, utilizing advertising services, developing a fancy unforgettable logo, sloganating (inventing a brilliant and highly memorable slogan), news releases, publicity shows and other types of buzzing, bullhorning and barnstorming.

While all of the above approaches are indeed commendable, the most honest approach to marketing, and perhaps one of the most cost-effective, is simply humbling yourself, being very polite, and begging. That's right. Simply asking for a stranger's (or prospect's) attention and consideration for a few moments.

The elegance of begging cannot be overstated. It is devoid of pretense, manipulation, subliminal suggestion, bait-and-switch and technology.

Yes indeed. Whether you do it using an open guitar case, a picture of a suffering creature, a cardboard box, a sandwich sign, a wooden bowl or a blog, your integrity will be beyond reproach. Some kind people (there are some) will be generous enough to give you what you are asking for, provided that you are not too overwhelming, if you are not frothing at the mouth, and if you are not carrying a weapon.

An example (shameless self-promotion on my part) follows:

Please visit some of my most popular blogs, and feel free to comment on articles, to link to any of them (and I will reciprocate your backlink with an inbound link to your site), or to re-publish any of the content. You can re-publish without permission, provided that you republish any articles in their entirety, with all images and hyperlinks left fully intact and 'live,' and with attribution given to the author (that's me).

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Douglas E Castle