Lawrence Tam

Funny dude who grew up in Houston, and retired from Mechanical Engineering at the age of 33. Has 3 kiddos and happily married and marketing full time since 2012. Learn how to take control of your life and health through a simple challenge to keep you healthier one day at a time - Click Here to Learn More.

Little Tikes Playhouse – Time To Upgrade

As of this writing you might have not known that my 2 little kiddos are 4 and 6 and both love to mess around in all kinds of Little Tikes Playhouse sets. I have no clue what the fascination is but my kids play with the all of the time like it's drawing them with some unknown magnetic effect.

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This was one of the sets that my kids play with all of the time at the local toy store near us at Toys R Us. They just loved the different aspects of the playhouse. I think most display units are chosen because of setup or ease of sale. This Little Tikes Playhouse set sells like gangbusters due to the price point and general size of the unit.

I normally or lets say almost 90% of the time try and go out with the family when doing errands. I would say 100% of the time we have gone into Toys R Us and they have a display of this little tikes playhouse it's a sure thing they go and play in it. I remember countless times my kiddos would just play in that ONE set while my wife went to get baby stuff or look for some deals for gifts. I think most times they would even play the entire time so I would just hover in that area taking my phone calls for my internet marketing business while the kids are playing around.

If your wondering, the picture to the right is not of my 2 kids or my wife 😉

What is even more telling is that if there are other kids in the area they are all drawn to this little tikes playhouse. It's like how kids want to play on a jungle gym set when they see one. This is the shiny toy they are pulled to play with. It's fun and I don't have to worry about them hurting themselves with this one too.

Little Tikes Playhouse – Requirements

As a father I generally look at a couple things:

  1. Price (who doesn't?)
  2. Size
  3. Complexity
  4. Durability
  5. Longevity (lasting appeal, will they keep using?)
  6. Possible re-sale?
  7. Shipping and Transportation (will it fit in my Van?)
  8. Something better (more or less expensive?) (more…)
By Lawrence Tam, ago

Article Marketing Tips – Face Punch A Panda

Here are some article marketing tips I found after reading some test studies from people who use UAW.

Before I dive into the testing of another user I wanted to touch on the Google Panda issue. For most the Google Panda was supposed to target content farms and essentially bring down no value adsense sites. Now no value is subjective but in the end duplicate sites and auto-blogs were supposed to be de-ranked and allow valuable sites to make it to the top.

The Event happened April 2011 and 25% of my sites got gobbled up by the panda.

Article Marketing Tips – Panda is Alive!

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I guess you can say it's alive and kicking as I can prove it ate one of my sites up. For marketers like myself when we see this:

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By Lawrence Tam, ago

Generate Web Traffic – Use SEO

One of the critical pieces to building a business especially online is learning how to generate web traffic. I currently work with a couple of methods but the one I wanted to share today was a low cost method I use every day.

Generate Web Traffic – Using SEO

One of the cool things about building a business is that there are so many ways to drive traffic. The 2 main ways are free and paid. In my book they are both paid since your either using money or time. People these days don't put enough emphasis on what their time is worth and just throw it around like it's worthless. I would highly recommend new people to the industry to understand working something for free doesn't work out in the end.generate web traffic

Let's stay on point and talk about how to generate web traffic using SEO.

SEO stand for Search Engine Optimization. It is essentially the art of marketing your business on the internet so search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing will drive their customers to you.

I love this type of business model since it's like opening a store and allowing people to visit depending on their needs. There is very little forced advertising in this method and the amount of traffic generated is primarily determined on what your marketing in terms of keywords.

Sure there are other ways to drive traffic like social network syndication but SEO in my opinion is one of those things that really just worked for me and my business.

SEO will take a couple of skills but the ones I would like to focus on are: (more…)

By Lawrence Tam, ago

MLM Opportunities – Does It Matter For Success?

Are  you in the situation where you feel MLM opportunities are starting to blend together? Or are you the other type of person who feels there is  only ONE other mlm opportunity that could possibly be the right choice for a sustainable future?

MLM Opportunities – Great But Not The End All

If your new to the industry one of the critical things to understand about building a business with all of these great MLM opportunities is that there is probably not just ONE that can do it for you. The industry has opened up and has been better regulated to have multiple business types and services to allow for a rep to prosper in many different ones. It's not like there is that one that could solve the main issue of – making money

MLM opportunities are vehicles. If you understand that many are great, some are good, and others are plain trash you will get the idea that you just need to partner with the ones that fill your needs and move on from there. Too many reps get too caught up in the perfect one and instead of building anything they join they keep searching for the pot of gold. This is a mistake and why so many fail.

MLM opportunities need to treated like a vehicle to make money and that there will be a certain few that you could definitely put your name behind and you would be more than happy to buy the product or use the service. MLM opportunities are like any other business model in that it will take time and money. (more…)

By Lawrence Tam, ago