BEST Tv Shows For Internet Marketers To Watch

That's one of my favorite shows. Very entertaining.

Probably not the answer you're looking for, unless your niche falls in the IM/MMO arena.

Watch what your market watches. If you're in the cooking and recipes niche, watch Cooking Channel and Food Network, and food shows on other networks. Look for the trends, what's hot, what's so overworked that it has no meaning anymore.

If you're in the golf niche, watch golf. Look at what's being advertised and how it's being positioned.

Watch infomercials. What pain points do they hit? What big promises do they make? How do they do it?

I like Shark Tank, and Dragon's Den when I can find it. By this point, Trump bores the snot out of me. If you want a graduate course in ass-kissing, watch "Celebrity" Apprentice.

One thing to keep in mind about all these shows is that their primary reason for existence is entertaining the masses. What you see is a carefully edited version of what really happened. I believe that some of the people appearing on the show are chosen because they haven't a clue, allowing most of the audience to scoff at them for being so naive or ignorant.

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It teaches you how to become awesomely tough and tackle intimidating competition.

John hit the nail on the head. Infomercials. They are essentially the long form sales letters that we as IMers are so used to seeing and writing. You can learn a TON from them.

And yes, watch whatever your niche is. If you don't know how the competition approaches your market how can you make an informed decision on how to approach it yourself?

The ironic part of marketing is that it's all out there in the open if you'd just open your eyes and look. In order for a product creator to reach his market, he has to make his promotions public to that market. That means you have just as much access to them as anybody else. How granted, it's hard to tell what promotions are profitable and what are not, but if you do your research on the company, you can get a pretty good idea.

Personally, I don't watch marketing shows or infomercials. I'd rather watch Big Bang Theory or the Mets try to win a ball game once in a while.

There's Hotel Impossible on the Travel Channel and Restaurant Impossible on the Food Channel.

Bar Rescue has some good stuff, but just too dramatic for me. Someone needs to kick Taffer's butt. There's no need to treat people the way he does, even if it's made up just for TV. What a drama queen.

The great British series "Hustle" comes to mind. OK. It's about a bunch of crooks, but you watch them make clear plans and execute them effectively. They research their target market in great detail and appeal to the the market's desires. In watching this show I'm always noticing parallels to Internet marketing. The similarity ends for me at the illegal and unethical stuff, of course. Still, it's kind of inspiring because it always has a happy ending.

CNBC Titans. Good show, it seems to not only show how they succeeded, but how they overcome some great obstacle, odds or setback to achieve success.




How I Made My Millions: Also shows how people turned problems into profits. And how they persisted and differentiated themselves enough to finally get noticed.

That's easy,

You shouldn't be watching the idiot box.

That thing will turn your brain to jello.

Patrick

He,He. Your statement itself is kinda funny. Or a serious indictment on the quality of your emails.

This is very clever. Totally agree.