I am getting a lot or requests for me to put up an image of my business card.

Here is is.  It is die cut, so follows the outline of the bee hive (or hornets nest).  The red rectangle is the back of a regular business card so you can see the size.

If you want me to mail you one to look at, just email me your name and address.  I am happy to.

Nothing kills buzz faster than poor products.  It may not just hurt your product or your company, it could also hurt your state or country.

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I only employ sales people.  I will never employ another non-sales person again.

What do I mean?  Who does the work?

Employee Evangelism is when you create a culture where everyone is a sales person, or at least a buzz marketer.  If you create a culture that does not have room for non-committed employees, you will create an exceptional organization over time.

Challenge everyone to become a fan of the business, and see who bubbles to the top.

Buzz is all about the overnight success, right?  Send out a few emails and it spreads like wildfire and you are a multi-millionaire overnight.

Here is a Buzz Marketing secret.  Most overnight successes are actually years of hard work and risks.

Take Rachel Ray for example.  I remember seeing her books years ago, even though she has only recently gotten tons of buzz.  I went to amazon and found her earliest publication to be in 1980.  I am not sure that is accurate, but even if we throw that one out, she was publishing in the early 1990′s.

Can you stick to creating buzz, creating products and creating an audience for 27 years?  If so, you may have the makings of an overnight success.

Phil Gerbyshak has a good article on business cards, and the handing out of business cards.  He mentions ours as being one of his favorites.

I had one guy once say after one of my presentations that it was worth coming just to see my business card.  Imagine a business card so great you would give up an hour and a half of your life just to look at it.  Maybe I should send it to the Smithsonian?

It really was not that hard.  I just wanted it to be different and to exude who we were (Fun buzz dudes and dudettes), so it is a bee hive that is die cut.  It works.

There is no good reason to have anything in your organization be boring.

We have launched the new Buzzoodle site that focuses our company site specifically on our products and services.  Our biggest problem in the past was too much information in too many places.  We got calls all the time about doing things we were not equipped to do.

Now we have narrowed our focus.  Online Advocacy and Web Seeding are our services if you are busy.  Buzz Mentoring and workshops if you want to do it yourself (along with your staff).

And if you are on a really tight budget, buy a book or eBook.

We have updated our Newsletter to be more value-packed and a double opt-in.

And we have recommitted ourselves to our specialty, which is Employee Evangelism.  Seems like everyone that was doing SEO last year is doing Buzz Marketing this year.  We do not want to be lumped in there, so very specifically, we help you get employees and other advocates involved in creating buzz on a regular basis with education, mentoring and resources.  If you are your only employee, it will still work for you, but if you have a team of people it can be even better.

Thanks for being a reader and please contact me if any of these products or services can benefit you.