Craving Attention! Hug-A-Buck

Hug A Buck? - What a strange name - Goodness, who would want to hug one of those dirty, smelly, full of germs pieces of paper?
Well, let me make a few revelations here for you: If that's the way you feel, chances are you will never have many of those pieces of paper to hug.
How can I say that? I can say that because:
1) That's the way I used to feel when I was broke.
2) Which rock have you been hiding under if you haven't heard about the big buzz on the law of attraction?
I will talk about that more at length in future blogs. Today I just want to welcome you to the Hug A Buck blog.

So why 'Hug A Buck'?
My friend Klaus came up with that name because we were both so broke at some point in our life that we were each functioning on a survival mode, worrying about paying the next bill, and when some money would come our way, sometimes we would say "Boy, I could just hug those bucks!" So when Klaus and I decided to go into internet marketing together, he suggested we use that name. I thought it was very appropriate, plus I am very sensitive to the music of words, and 'Hug a buck' sounds pretty musical, don't you think?

When we started out in affiliate marketing, we were newbies at internet marketing strategies. We had each done some type of web marketing: I was a bit familiar with website marketing because I had two web sites - though I can hardly say that they were great marketing tools; I had no marketing plan, no internet marketing strategy, I did consider paying for search engine marketing services, but never did, I had heard of viral marketing but didn't really have a clue how to go about it (I must admit that I am no computer wizard). My web sites were mostly business cards, I was doing email marketing, I was an affiliate of a couple of programs that I thought were great, but never did any active network marketing to promote them.

My friend Klaus knew a lot more than I did. Sometimes he would talk to me about multi level marketing (I sort of know what this is about), direct marketing (this is when you knock on doors, right?), investor marketing ( huhh, I am a real estate investor, perhaps I can grasp the concept of real estate marketing, but what do you mean 'investor marketing'?), postcard marketing (is it what it sounds like?) %u2026. Goodness !!! What is marketing anyway???

More on marketing in future blogs.
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