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Table of Contents

1. Editor's Musings
2. Article: GOT MEME? How to Attract Your Clients' and Customers' Attention By Charlie Cook
3. Recommended
4. Internet Sites Reviewed
5. Freebies and Other Good Deals
6. Joke of the Week

1. Editor's Musings

Yesterday was Thanksgiving in Canada. (Yes, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving, but at an earlier date than our US counterparts). So, belated Thanksgiving greetings to my Canadian subscribers.

I spent a lovely four hours yesterday kayaking around Vancouver's Burrard Inlet. The rains considerately stopped for the day; winds died down and the water was still as a bathtub. Bald eagles flew overhead; salmon jumped in the waters and occasionally a harbour seal popped up his head. It was truly a day of abundance and prosperity.

2. GOT MEME? How to Attract Your Clients' and Customers' Attention By Charlie Cook

No "meme" isn't a typo and Got Milk, the more commonly know phrase, is actually a marketing meme. If you've opened up a magazine or watched TV in the last ten years you've seen the fun and memorable Got Milk ad campaign using celebrities with a milk mustache. Chances are it got your attention and you remember the phrase, "Got Milk".

A good meme is simple, provocative and infectious. An effective meme rolls off your tongue and sticks in your mind. Others remember it and pass it along to their friends and colleagues. It's the cultural equivalent of a gene. For those of you without a national advertising budget, helping prospects and clients quickly grasp what you do and having them spread the word about your services is a form of zero cost marketing that you can use.

You may already have a tagline, slogan, or catch phrase you use in your marketing, but does it work as well as a meme? Like a gene, memes synthesize complex information, concepts and ideas and pass them along with little effort. They communicate what you do in a few words or in a short sentence. They enable you to get across the benefits of your products and services to prospects in a form they'll remember and repeat to others.

• Tell people what you do?
• Create a perception of need?
• Start conversations?

1. Labels such as "Trial Lawyer" or "Copy Editor" or "Computer Specialist". The problem with labels is that they don't tell anyone how you can help them, or which problems you solve. In most cases they kill further conversation.
2. Descriptions of work processes and methodologies. These usually start with "I ...". While at some point a prospect may want to know how you work, it is their problems and concerns which interest them the most and are the best place to begin.
3. Offers such as "Buy this and get two free." Your meme isn't meant to convince someone to buy but rather to get his or her interest and start a conversation.

MEMES
Effective marketing memes focus on a specific clientele and a solution, or better yet a common client problem. For example, "I help independent professionals attract more clients", identifies a market and a client problem. It also invites the follow up question "How?" FedEx grew their now billion dollar business with the meme, "When it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight".

Whether you use a meme in the elevator, on your business card or in your mailings, it should help your prospects know whether you are taking to them and define you as someone who can help them solve a problem, and prompt prospects to ask if your products and services could help them, too.

GET MEME
The "Got Milk" campaign used both words and images to get their message across. If you are only relying on words, you may need more than two, but limit it to less than ten. Use the following steps to write your meme.

• Identify your target market.
• Define problems you solve for clients.
• Clarify the benefits you provide.
• Determine what you would like people to do after they hear or see your meme. What question do you want them to ask or what action you want them to take?
• Use this information to write five conversation-starting phrases that summarize who you help and the problems you solve.

Once you have these draft memes, try them out. Some may elicit blank stares; others will prompt people to ask questions or start listing names of people they know who could use your products and services. A good meme can start a chain reaction in people's minds and prompt them to move from prospect to client. When you hear people repeating your meme to others, you'll know you've got one that works.

Coming up with an effective meme isn't easy, but its the lowest cost and most valuable tool in your marketing tool kit. You may be pushing prospects away with your current tagline instead of helping people understand what you do and, more importantly, what you can do for them. So get meme, and get going with your marketing.

#3: Recommended Products: Fine Print

I really wish this software had an affiliate program, because it's a product that I would enjoy promoting.

Fine Print is a utility that offers enhanced printing options. I use it because it lets me print anywhere from 1 to 8 source pages onto one sheet of paper. This saves me time and printing costs when I want to print out a long document or ebook.

The software has other features, including double sided printing, booklet printing, the ability to print watermarks, the ability to delete pages, the choice of skipping graphics, the ability to combine print jobs, and many more.

Works with all printers and Windows applications.

www.fineprint.com

4. Internet Sites -- reviewed by June Campbell

*** Consumer Reviews
Reviews on almost all products imaginable.

*** Avoiding Health Insurance Scams
Information re current health insurance scams circulating in the US.

*** Yahoo Lottery News
Search for winning numbers from various countries.

*** Google News
Google has its own searchable news site.

*** I Know That
Great educational resource site for kids.

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6. Shrinks in Training

Aspiring psychiatrists from various colleges were attending their first class on emotional extremes.

"Just to establish some parameters," said the professor, to the student from Stanford, "What is the opposite of joy?"

"Sadness," said the student.

"And the opposite of depression?" he asked the woman from Harvard.

"Elation," said she.

"And you sir," he said to the young man from Houston University, "How about the opposite of woe?"

The Texan replied, "Sir, I believe that would be giddy-up."

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