We Have a Tie – Prospectors and Potential Partners
Nineteen people voted — with one abstention.
Doug, from Australia, submitted “prospectors,” and his submission received 7 votes.
Andy Murphy submitted “potential partners,” and his submission received 7 votes.
Julie Erickson submitted “Ideal client,” and her submission received 4 votes.
So we will be send Doug and Andy the links for the MP3 audio files and PDF transcripts of a 2- hour discussion on “The Basics of Keywords” that I (Jim) enjoyed developing with Matt Aaron, a Google Pay Per Click Pro.
Judith and I will write a post this week expressing our response to the entries (which we refrained from during the contest) and why we ran this contest.
The first reason was to generate a conversation and we thank you for joining in.
But also we are very serious about changing the language.
More on that in our next post.
Again, thanks for all you sent it and we’ll be connecting again early next week.
Because It Is All in the Connection,
Jim
PS – Join us at the Ayres Hotel (<Manhattan Beach, CA) For “Bridging Heart & Marketing II.”
Come meet everyone, discover what’s effective for your marketing, apply what you learn immediately, and have fun. September 12 thru 14.
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August 24th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Hi Judith and Jim
How wonderful to read all the responses here. Our language is something we use so unconsciously and we adopt what we hear elsewhere so much, that is great to reflect on if the language we use really does reflect what we really think.
I think there really are a few levels to “traffic”. Firstly we have the people who find us by accident through our marketing in some way (blogs, articles, referrals etc). They don’t really have a relationship with us at all but they have been invited to get to know us. I tend to think of these new people as visitors (and very welcome ones), so I guess that fits Doug’s term of prospectors.
Once they have gone past that very early step and have committed to some level of relationship (by returning, joining my mailing list, leaving a blog comment etc) then I refer to them as part of my community. I use this term because the model I use to create my Internet businesses facilitates people interacting with each other and not just me. So they really are part of a community, and not just a mailing list.
I’ve enjoyed reading this discussion and can’t wait to see you all at the Bridging Heart and marketing Conference in a few weeks.
Cheers
Janet
August 25th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Congratulations to the winner … and to everyone who took the time to think of a name … and apply to this contest!
Trudy