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Marketing Senior Services: Let's Lose the Platitudes catch onto the latest 'trick' and all of a sudden, literally overnight in some cases, those rivers of cash dry up. That is when the snake oil salesmen come out in their droves, once their 'system' is no longer working to it's maximum, that's when they sell it to YOU. Of course, they will show you statements of their Google and Paypal accounts that show 'proof' that, at one time, their system did indeed wRecently I was invited back to Wisconsin to speak to the Wisconsin Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. They wanted to know more about 2 things….how to get more private pay clients, and my thoughts on how we, as senior providers, can do a better job of marketing our businesses to seniors and adult children of aging parents. For this column, I’ Cold Calling's Dark Side Of course, I exaggerate a little, but if you have had any exposure to Internet Marketing then you will have already come across some outlandish claims. That's the aim of this site really. To cut out the B.S. and give you a totally honest and fair appraisal of how to succeed with Internet Marketing.Have you ever wondered why sales managers are so insistent that you cold call?Have you ever wondered why many companies will not even consider a marketing budget, and instead mandate cold calling, make it a job requirement, and tell you you’ll be fired if you don’t do it?Doesn’t it seem a bit strange that you’d be paid so much in salary just There is no such thing as a free lunch and any 'quick and easy' solution will give you just that, quick and easy results that will quickly and easily disappear just as fast. I think a lot of Internet Marketing salesmen (or gurus lol) and like the horse tipsters you come across, the ones that sell 'tips', for a fee. The same flaw is evident in both business models. If a tipster could back enough winners to make a profit, in theory, an unlimited profit as long as he could find someone to take his or her bets, then why on Earth would they share that information with you? The answer of course is that is what they have tried first and they FAILED. That is why they are selling you the information, their first and preferred business model didn't work the first time, so they fall back on their plan B, which is to sell the information to any mug that comes along. Sadly, so it is with Internet Marketing. Not surprisingly, given the size of the burgeoning Internet economy, there are a lot of people out there who have quietly been making hundreds of thousands, if not millions, with tried and trusted systems, which are usually built in house. These systems have always bordered on being legitimate, at least in terms of the search engine law makers and in truth, it never takes long for Google and the like to catch onto the latest 'trick' and all of a sudden, literally overnight in some cases, those rivers of cash dry up. That is when the snake oil salesmen come out in their droves, once their 'system' is no longer working to it's maximum, that's when they sell it to YOU. Of course, they will show you statements of their Google and Paypal accounts that show 'proof' that, at one time, their system did indeed wo Thinking Big For Success ck and easy results that will quickly and easily disappear just as fast. I think a lot of Internet Marketing salesmen (or gurus lol) and like the horse tipsters you come across, the ones that sell 'tips', for a fee. The same flaw is evident in both business models. 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