Online sales - what website domain TLD to choose?

Source of statisitics unidentified:

Global Domain Name Statistics

The following chart represents current statistics for many of the worlds most popular domains. Updated April 2008.

Domain Amount Registered Country
.com 74.939.317 Global Generic
.de 11.946.166 Germany
.net 11.171.403 Global Generic
.cn 11.095.572 China
.uk 6.739.198 United Kingdom
.org 6.657.501 Global Generic
.info 4.967.501 Global Generic
.eu 2.830.096 European Union
.nl 2.840.405 Netherlands
.biz 1.951.599 Global Generic
.it 1.507.790 Italy
.us 1.405.787 United States
.br 1.273.622 Brazil
.ch 1.119.012 Switzerland
.ru 1.172.135 Russia
.au 1.085.959 Australia
.jp 1.012.199 Japan
.fr 1.096.984 France
.ca 991.768 Canada
.kr 927.226 Korea
.dk 893.387 Denmark
.es 907.821 Spain
.mobi 896.437 Global Generic
.pl 945.482 Poland
.be 769.056 Belgium
.at 743.245 Austria
.se 715.179 Sweden
.cz 406.394 Czech
.no 337.538 Norway
.nz 324.722 New Zealand
.mx 240.363 Mexico
.pt 204.797 Portugal
.fi 174.821 Finland
.hk 159.443 Hong Kong
.tr 153.628 Turkey
.sk 150.964 Slovakia
.ie 98.227 Ireland
.lt 73.360 Lithuania

Apple Mac Book Air - Yael Naim

With the success of the song did Apple make the song or did the song make Apple Airbook?

Regardless, the actual advertsing has got everyone one talking about the Apple book air song New Soul by bringing it to millions of viewers. Would the song be so popular if so many people did not hear it? It took market awareness through Apples marketing efforts to create the buz, enjoy:



The actual ad:

Google Shares Down - PPC marketing down.

Google shares hit because of decline usage of PPC advertising, a sign of the effects of the current economy or trend in people using alternative marketing techniques?

Pre Marketing

Pre Marketing Strategy

Sometimes it might be worth pre marketing your business/product before its launch to ensure that your sales boom on release. I have not tried this yet but if the product is hot it might be worth looking at. It seems that this technique then get people talking (word of mouth) and everyone then anticipates the release of the 'hot' product/business.

An example of this I came across today, Micheal Jackson's new photoshop by Ebony - Vogue. This techniques has already got people talking about his new song releases and word of mouth has begun through channels such as YouTube.

I may use this technique on the release of our website that will put our competitors on the edge and hopefully get our prospect customers talking.

Ladies and gentlemen, Micheal Jackson:

After all, what are movie trailers for?

Marketing

GUERILLA MARKETING

These guys are nut cases for doing this cool marketing campaign - looks the biz to me.




WOW! This marketing get even better - this is really 'thinking out of the box'; TV MARKETING





Even gets better - SEXY BRANDING?



Skies the limit!



Urban Street Marketing

Sales......

Catching the fish... To do this you need to be a shark.... basically I had a meeting tomorrow with a restaurant owner to sell him some Cobra beer bottles. I thought because he wants to pay by cheque I should get him to sign some documents as a personal gaurantee. Although he knew that he had to sign some documents I phoned him today to remind him about tomorrows meeting and whether he was the actual owner of the place (he got upset). I then asked him if he could have some documents ready as proof of address and signature......... he said this was getting too long winded and he would now look elsewhere. I said fine.......

My thoughts:
1) He was offended because now he could not pull a fast one in the future.
2) He did not want to sign anything because it was likely that his cheques would bounce at some point.
3) I was happy that I saved myself some time by not having to visit him.