Marketing Software is Often First Created For Personal Use
Released on: October 13, 2008, 6:02 pm
Press Release Author: AdBeau Productions
Industry: Advertising
Press Release Summary: Tim Jensen and his fiancee Carrie wanted to share info on their upcoming wedding on a blog so that friends and family knew of the latest developments. They Just Wanted the Wedding Info to Stay at the Top of the blog, even when new developments were posted. Tim found that he had to develop a new kind of software -- a WordPress plugin -- to accomplish this. As someone involved in sales and marketing, it soon dawned on him that this software could be useful to as an online marketing tool.
Press Release Body: Tim Jensen Says WordpressListBuilder, the powerful New Internet Marketing Wordpress plugin he created, "Started Out As A Gift To My Fiancee..."
Tim Jensen and his fiancee Carrie were putting together a blog to share info on their upcoming wedding so that friends and family knew of the latest developments.
They Just Wanted the Wedding Info to Stay at the Top of the Blog
Each new post he wrote would automatically go above the main post that shared important wedding info. Each time this happened, Carrie requested that he move the info back to the top again. After all, people were primarily going to the site to find the wedding information and should have to scroll way down the page to find it.
A Wordpress Plugin is Born
This is when it dawned on Tim that the best way to accomplish this would be with a wordpress plugin that would keep the wedding information at the top of the blog. Not finding plugin that could do this task, he outsourced the job of writing such a plugin to a programmer (spending a fair chunk of money to do so). Tim Jensen says that he drew some inspiration from Wordpress on Crack (http://internetmarketingmasters.com/wordpress-on-crack.php), an extraordinary package offered by master internet marketer and php programmer Robert Plank.
Tim Jensen, forty and a father of five, markets cell phones for Alltel. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Education and taught school band for 13 years. He says, "I am a musician at heart, as are my kids." Now, he is applying his artistic sensibilities in another direction.
Having experience in marketing, Tim quickly realized the potential of this plugin for online promotions
After using his new plugin for its original purpose, Tim saw that it could be easily be utilized for an array of marketing functions:
* to place an optin form to invite site visitors to signup for a free product or maybe a newsletter * a video sign up form, * coupon. * The possible uses for this plugin were boundless.
When it came the the potential uses of the plugin, Tim realized that the potential uses for WordpressListBuilder.com it were endless.
While Tim previously had previously had been involved in creating other applications for online promotions such as a script for online dimesales, his upcoming wedding has reignited his imagination and interest in online marketing like never before.
Tim Jensen shares sales ideas and experience at as well as several other blogs such as www.success-a-day-at-a-time.com and trustworthyautoresponder.com, and his sales blog Tim-Jensen.com, where he shares sales tactics and marketing and promotion strategies.