Comments on: Win a Free Copy of “The Soccer Mom Myth” http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/ Marketing blog focused on marketing optimization, improving website conversion rates, search engine marketing, web analytics, word of mouth, etc. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:57:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Breakthrough Ecommerce Library » Blog Archive » How To Generate Incredible Word of Mouth Marketing http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-608757 Breakthrough Ecommerce Library » Blog Archive » How To Generate Incredible Word of Mouth Marketing Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:22:46 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-608757 [...] started when I left a tiny post on Future Now’s blog where Holly [...] [...] started when I left a tiny post on Future Now’s blog where Holly [...]

]]> By: Holly Buchanan http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-578255 Holly Buchanan Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:08:56 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-578255 Thanks so much to everyone who wrote in. I hope you all enjoy The Soccer Mom Myth. If I could, I'd like to ask you all a favor - could you post a review on Amazon? I'd really appreciate it! Thanks so much to everyone who wrote in. I hope you all enjoy The Soccer Mom Myth.

If I could, I’d like to ask you all a favor – could you post a review on Amazon? I’d really appreciate it!

]]> By: Anthony http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-573951 Anthony Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:42:56 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-573951 I just put my order in and very much look forward to reading it. I just put my order in and very much look forward to reading it.

]]> By: Shelby http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-571194 Shelby Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:57:18 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-571194 Received my copy and started reading immediately. Thanks! Received my copy and started reading immediately. Thanks!

]]> By: tristan bailey http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-570773 tristan bailey Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:25:19 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-570773 thanks for my copy made it to the uk on Monday. thanks for my copy made it to the uk on Monday.

]]> By: Robert Gorell http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-569415 Robert Gorell Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:21:01 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-569415 UPDATE 3/10: The winners have been notified. If we've been in touch, your copy of The Soccer Mom Myth is on its way. Great comments, everyone! If you missed out on the contest, no worries, the book has officially been released today. Get yours today at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Soccer-Mom-Myth-Michele-Miller/dp/1932226567/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202785210&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Amazon</a>. -Editor, GrokDotCom UPDATE 3/10: The winners have been notified. If we’ve been in touch, your copy of The Soccer Mom Myth is on its way. Great comments, everyone!

If you missed out on the contest, no worries, the book has officially been released today. Get yours today at Amazon.

-Editor, GrokDotCom

]]> By: Adrienne http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-569361 Adrienne Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:42:41 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-569361 Stop stereotyping your customers! There is a growing population of progressively disabled women and moms. I am one of them. Most marketing doesn't acknowledge the needs of women in wheelchairs with all of the related day-to-day issues. Stop stereotyping your customers! There is a growing population of progressively disabled women and moms. I am one of them. Most marketing doesn’t acknowledge the needs of women in wheelchairs with all of the related day-to-day issues.

]]> By: OSCAR CARRERAS http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-529924 OSCAR CARRERAS Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:36:18 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-529924 "Stop sterotyping your customers" We have a few clients that focus on a mainly female audience. That book could be very interested. “Stop sterotyping your customers”

We have a few clients that focus on a mainly female audience. That book could be very interested.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-524095 Elizabeth Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:18:47 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-524095 Stop stereotyping your customers! I can't wait to read this book. I am soccer MOM! And a coach. And I am nowhere near athletic. Not even close. That would be me on the cover of your book - wearing fab red pumps to a game. But alas, it is not very practical, is it? So when I show up wearing Adias shorts and a hoddie, I'd rather not. However I'd do anything for my kids, so when the little league needs a coach I step up to the plate. In joggers. Eeewww. Elizabeth in Canada Stop stereotyping your customers! I can’t wait to read this book. I am soccer MOM! And a coach. And I am nowhere near athletic. Not even close. That would be me on the cover of your book – wearing fab red pumps to a game. But alas, it is not very practical, is it? So when I show up wearing Adias shorts and a hoddie, I’d rather not. However I’d do anything for my kids, so when the little league needs a coach I step up to the plate. In joggers. Eeewww.
Elizabeth in Canada

]]> By: allanGEE! http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-523590 allanGEE! Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:58:57 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-523590 Stop stereotyping your customers. Especially "the first ten" are winners stereotype. End numerical stereotype profiling today and give away just one more book. Doesn't even have to be to me. :) Stop stereotyping your customers. Especially “the first ten” are winners stereotype. End numerical stereotype profiling today and give away just one more book. Doesn’t even have to be to me. :)

]]> By: Carol Ann Wiley http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-522100 Carol Ann Wiley Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:02:26 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-522100 Oops! One of the Stereotypes might just be right--I did not proof my comments well enough to see that I had left out a very important word. "Although * am a 68 year old woman on Medicare, I am NOT sick NOR taking lots of medicines". Sorry for the editing slip. Oops! One of the Stereotypes might just be right–I did not proof my comments well enough to see that I had left out a very important word. “Although * am a 68 year old woman on Medicare, I am NOT
sick NOR taking lots of medicines”. Sorry for the editing slip.

]]> By: Carol Ann Wiley http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-522092 Carol Ann Wiley Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:59:44 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-522092 Holly, congratulations on the new book. I so agree with your plea "to stop stereotyping your customers"! I am a retired woman, mother of 3, none of whom ever played soccer; but also the grandmother of 4, 2 of whom did play soccer and had my daughter driving them to countless soccer games. However, my daughter would not refer to herself as a "soccer mom" and would not respond to a marketing campaign aimed at the same. But I must mention the fact that as a retired woman I constantly have marketing aimed at me that is so based on incorrect stereotypes. Although I am a 68 year old woman on Medicare, I am sick and taking lots of medicines. Although I am retired, I am not wealthy and spending my time as a snow-bird. Although I am an elder, I am not looking to "find" things to fill my time as I am an Internet Marketing Entrepreneur and learning things about computers that even my grandchildren don't know. Although my body has changing and still changing, I am not in the market for creams, pills, cosmetic surgery and other "anti-aging" products. So you can see that I can down on all sides of your plea. Keep up the good work! Holly, congratulations on the new book. I so agree with your plea “to stop stereotyping your customers”!

I am a retired woman, mother of 3, none of whom ever played soccer; but also the grandmother of 4, 2 of whom did play soccer and had my daughter driving them to countless soccer games. However, my daughter would not refer to herself as a “soccer mom” and would not respond to a marketing campaign aimed at the same.

But I must mention the fact that as a retired woman I constantly have marketing aimed at me that is so based on incorrect stereotypes. Although I am a 68 year old woman on Medicare, I am sick and taking lots of medicines. Although I am retired, I am not wealthy and spending my time as a snow-bird. Although I am an elder, I am not looking to “find” things to fill my time as I am an Internet Marketing Entrepreneur and learning things about computers that even my grandchildren don’t know. Although my body has changing and still changing, I am not in the market for creams, pills, cosmetic surgery and other “anti-aging” products.

So you can see that I can down on all sides of your plea. Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Catherine M http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-521844 Catherine M Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:03:50 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-521844 STOP STEREOTYPING YOUR CUSTOMERS! I am just starting an online business and most of my customers I expect to be female. This book should help with the target marketing I wish to do. STOP STEREOTYPING YOUR CUSTOMERS!

I am just starting an online business and most of my customers I expect to be female. This book should help with the target marketing I wish to do.

]]> By: Jessica K http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-521379 Jessica K Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:41:02 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-521379 I have been stereotyped to no end. I have been snuffed at car dealerships as a woman (including one st*pid sales guy who actually told me I couldn't afford what I was looking at so he wasn't going to waste his time - hmmm...does the phrase from Pretty Woman - big mistake - HUGE mistake mean anything? I went to another dealer, bought two vehicles and we drove them back to show the salesman - talk about a jaw hitting the floor - oh, what fun!). I want to yell to the world - "STOP STEREOTYPING YOUR CUSTOMERS!!!!" Never, ever, ever, ever judge a book by its cover - the customer that doesn't fit your own personal idea of a customer might just cost you a HUGE sale and repeat customer. I have been stereotyped to no end. I have been snuffed at car dealerships as a woman (including one st*pid sales guy who actually told me I couldn’t afford what I was looking at so he wasn’t going to waste his time – hmmm…does the phrase from Pretty Woman – big mistake – HUGE mistake mean anything? I went to another dealer, bought two vehicles and we drove them back to show the salesman – talk about a jaw hitting the floor – oh, what fun!). I want to yell to the world – “STOP STEREOTYPING YOUR CUSTOMERS!!!!”
Never, ever, ever, ever judge a book by its cover – the customer that doesn’t fit your own personal idea of a customer might just cost you a HUGE sale and repeat customer.

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-521037 Rebecca Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:02:33 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-521037 Stop stereotyping your customers! Amen! After I get a chance to read this book, I know a few client relations and marketing people in my dept I will undoubtedly share it with. Stop stereotyping your customers! Amen!

After I get a chance to read this book, I know a few client relations and marketing people in my dept I will undoubtedly share it with.

]]> By: Holly Buchanan http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-515722 Holly Buchanan Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:54:51 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-515722 I asked my publisher about the Amazon UK issue - this was the response - "People in the UK can buy the book, but only at Amazon.com, not Amazon.uk." I asked my publisher about the Amazon UK issue – this was the response –

“People in the UK can buy the book, but only at Amazon.com, not Amazon.uk.”

]]> By: Tom http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-513174 Tom Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:35:02 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-513174 Actually, maybe I won't. Not available on Amazon.co.uk. Actually, maybe I won’t. Not available on Amazon.co.uk.

]]> By: Tom http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-513173 Tom Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:34:30 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-513173 Congrats on the new book. Guess I'm off to Amazon to buy it ;-) Congrats on the new book. Guess I’m off to Amazon to buy it ;-)

]]> By: Lars http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-510856 Lars Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:29:51 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-510856 Stop stereotyping your customers! Stop stereotyping my customers! Stop stereotyping all customers! Sounds like a book I need to pick up a copy of. Cheers, Lars http://www.linkedin.com/in/larshjohansson Stop stereotyping your customers!
Stop stereotyping my customers!
Stop stereotyping all customers!

Sounds like a book I need to pick up a copy of.

Cheers,
Lars
http://www.linkedin.com/in/larshjohansson

]]> By: Marketing Prowess http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-510411 Marketing Prowess Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:01:37 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-510411 Stop Stereotyping your customers! Looking forward to the book and thanks for the great offer! Sounds like a winner of a book! Stop Stereotyping your customers!

Looking forward to the book and thanks for the great offer! Sounds like a winner of a book!

]]> By: Robert W http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-510016 Robert W Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:29:55 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-510016 Stop Stereotyping your customers! Stop Stereotyping your customers!

]]> By: Brian Hoecht http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-509865 Brian Hoecht Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:57:16 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-509865 Holly, love all your posts! Even in the car business your message of "Stop stereotyping your customers" is bang on. Women don't want special treatment. They just want good treatment reflective of the individuals they are. Bummer being post #17, but difficult to make a timely blog post from an airplane. Holly, love all your posts! Even in the car business your message of “Stop stereotyping your customers” is bang on.

Women don’t want special treatment. They just want good treatment reflective of the individuals they are.

Bummer being post #17, but difficult to make a timely blog post from an airplane.

]]> By: Rory De Niro http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-509250 Rory De Niro Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:27:09 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-509250 Well done and congradulations on your new book. I love all your books and very much look forward to reading this one too. And cheers to "Stop stereotyping your customers"! Well done and congradulations on your new book. I love all your books and very much look forward to reading this one too. And cheers to “Stop stereotyping your customers”!

]]> By: Mark http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-509092 Mark Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:57:36 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-509092 Great title Sounds like you should have your own blog of the same name. Great title

Sounds like you should have your own blog of the same name.

]]> By: Natalie http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-509008 Natalie Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:10:13 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/02/13/the-soccer-mom-myth/#comment-509008 seriously... what DOES she buy? "Stop stereotyping your customers!" Ugh! seriously… what DOES she buy? “Stop stereotyping your customers!” Ugh!

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