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Self Praise is no honour

I find TradeMe a very useful tool - even if my golf clubs didn't sell this week.

Via the Edge website I found this piece of marketing insight from Sam Morgan, Trademe founder:
"His advice to budding online entrepreneurs is to learn code, keep a tight rein on finances and not to bother with advertising until the website is truly established. Initial marketing should be done by word of mouth. "There is no joy of discovery when you find a product through being advertised to," he says. "When did you last tell someone how cool Coke was?"

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  1. Peter Haslam2:22 am

    A very good point. if no one wants to talk about it then it is not very exciting

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