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035: SELF Magazine Sucks, WaveApps.com and Psychology-Based Marketing

April 17, 2014


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Fashion and marathons apparently go together according to SELF Magazine.  Learn which finger we give to SELF, why basing your marketing on psychology tactics is a great way to get in the forefront of your potential customers, and an awesome financial management tool on episode 035 of Owning Your Own!



  • Updates! - Interesting news from across the web
  • The Finger – SELF Magazine Makes Fun of Cancer Survivor’s Tu-Tu
  • The Toolbox – Waveapps - Personal Finance Tools


  • Open Up and Say AAAA – Psychology Based Marketing


  • Outro Song (Alan) – Euphony for Robots by Jaylacage (produced by Alan Bush aka O.N.E. (One Never Ends))



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Episode 035 Nugs of Knowledge


  • Myriad?  How do you use? (3:15)
  • Previous guests of the show, Adelaide Marcus and Jon Henshaw have psychology backgrounds (4:15)
  • OYOLOS!!!  (4:45)
  • “New app” on Facebook that shows you who to unfriend by providing information that displays who among your friends is a fan of Nickelback (6:45)
  • New Media Rights did a Reddit AMA. (9:14)
  • Alan has a new Toshiba laptop.  15.6″ with a touchscreen. (10:30)
  • SELF magazine insults a cancer survivor’s outfit she was using to run a marathon (dressed as Wonder Woman with a tu-tu) (12:30)
  • SELF article asked consent to use her picture but the article was offensive; trashing her “fashion sense”.  (15:00)
  • Picking on fashion in a marathon is ridiculous by itself (17:15)
  • The video auto-plays on the article as well (17:30)
  • Waveapps allows you to take multiple business accounts and manage the finances. (22:10)
  • Very useful for the “renaissance” business owners and Waveapps is free.  (24:15)
  • The phone app for Waveapps allows you to take pictures of receipts (28:20)
  • Psychology and Marketing definitely go hand and hand (34:15)
  • Google is perpetually trying to emulate the user experience, using the psychology behind why people like sites over others (36:10)
  • Predicting human behavior is one of the main facets of online marketing. (38:18)
  • All Google’s updates are geared towards thinking like human beings (38:40)
  • Customer perception has changed with online evolution; being a thought leader or knowledge provider. (40:10)
  • Remember Google incorporated +1′s in their SERPs? (43:00)
  • Social Proof is part of the psychology of marketing.  (44:00)
  • Don’t buy links on Fiverr. (47:10)
  • Some businesses it’s a numbers game, some it’s more about finding the right user for a large cash transaction. (47:30)
  • Alan met Jaylacage at a hip-hop forum called H1phop (55:00)
  • Jaylacage is a battle rapper, abstract rhymer and singer from Kentucky (56:10)


 


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