Masters of Marketing - Lifecycle Performance Pros

marketing. With so many people coming online for the first time
every day, old patterns quickly break down. And I, "I had
stopped paying attention" to an online marketing method.
Still, all I had to do was remember what was going on just
before I stopped paying attention: "More classified ad sites
sprang up. Then more and more." Now that I was thinking about
it, what would happen next was obvious:
Software that helps people post ads faster will be invented and/
or become popular. More and more people will use it. Competition
will spring up, forcing the price down, which will increase the
numbers using it...
I didn’t need to look to see if that was going to happen, I only
needed to see if it happened *yet.* (And my test results already
told me it had.)
How To See The Future
For Fun And Profit
This is especially simple while the Internet’s growth rate stays
high:
Whenever you notice more and more people doing something online,
you can be sure there will soon be software to make that easier.
So just imagine what things will be like when large numbers of
people are using that software.
Now you can see the future.
Next, look around in that future for marketing opportunities.
Now you know what’s going to happen and you can be ready to
take advantage of it! (Isn’t that what you’ve always wanted’)
Got it’
Give you an example’
Funny you should ask. I just happen to be finishing up a story
that does exactly that.
To recap: People in my target market --online entrepreneurs-used
to go to classified sites to post their ads, where they
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