Atricle Dump - Internet and Businesses Online

Do You Know What's Working And What Isn't?
I will guarantee you that every manager can improve thier skills in some area. Many managers focus only on what they are doing wrong while others only focus on what they are doing right. The problem with either strategy is clear...Three of the questions I often ask the participants in my seminars are:1. What are you doing in your life, career or business that is working? 2. What are you doing in these areas that is not working? 3. What did you used to do in these areas that worked – that you have stopped doing?These three critical questions can keep you traveling in the right dire

s to do. No hardcore late night sessions doing endless keyword research or inflating our keyword densities to cheat the system.

(We’ve concluded that trying cheat a multi-billion dollar mega corporation with thousands of geeks programming and watching our every move was a dumb idea.)

Simply putting out content that the market wanted appreciated is all we do now.

Guess what? My sites now enjoy a plethora of top 10 rankings in Google for scores of keyword phrases. Keywords people are actually using to find my site, not just “vanity” keywords no one searches on.

We are doing this with no aggressive or even moderately aggressive search engine optim

Four Poster Beds for the 21st Century
For centuries the four poster bed has been considered the ultimate dream, for practical, status or for romantic reasons. This still seems to be the case today, although wood and plastics are being used to make four poster beds as well as the traditional solid woods.As a business devoted to customer satisfaction, we would like to give our clients the designs that they want, and not make what we want, and expect or hope that they like them, or not as the case may be.The best thing that product manufacturers can have from customers is feedback. It has become clear to me that negative feedback can be

The Dodo, T-Rex, and Aggressive Search Engine Optimization – Gone Forever. Here’s What You Can Do Now…

You can really take a lot of flak from people who don’t read and listen carefully to what you say.

Note to reader: Never declare the death of something even if it is a foregone conclusion and 100% true unless you are ready for some grief from the peanut gallery.

Such was the case when we started telling people on webinars and teleconferences that SEO was dead.

SEO? DEAD? My goodness you could hear the cans of whoopass opening up from all the 90-pound geekling search engine optimization firms around the world.

The pocket protector (a geek’s gauntlet) had been thrown down.

Context has a lot to do with any bold statement and declaring SEO dead was in a context that explains perfectly what I meant by it.

The web has changed drastically this year. Call it web 2.0 or whatever you wish, but the webscape is a mighty different place than it was a year ago.

Everything has changed from search engines to social networking to publishing platforms (what you actually run your content on).

I guess I should qualify that by saying the web has changed, but most marketers have yet to wake up and smell the coffee.

Back to SEO being dead. The context in which this declaration was made was when we were recently discussing the new results we’d gotten from heavy testing and the fact that what used to work for us no longer worked.

One might think “bummer, man!” Actually it is a blessing in disguise. With the right system for publishing, the right technology, tools and tactics, the web is easier to market on than it ever has been before.

Website owners no longer have to pour through endless forum threads and documentation, expensive courses and training seminars to learn heavy-duty search engine optimization.

It is no longer necessary to do anything more than post and rank, once you have the right tools working for you.

One big reason is that Google and the other engines are switching to become more dynamic and fluid in their rankings. This is evidenced by our own testing and what you’ve probably seen yourself.

There has been a fluidity to search engine rankings in the last few months unbecoming the slow, lumbering state the engines used to operate in when trying to stay up to date and relevant.

Google is actually living up to its promise to reward webmasters who develop relevant, topical, visitor-useable content. Visitor Optimization, they call it.

It was a leap of faith, but we started publishing solely to please our markets without aggressively optimizing. Just like Google asked us to do. No hardcore late night sessions doing endless keyword research or inflating our keyword densities to cheat the system.

(We’ve concluded that trying cheat a multi-billion dollar mega corporation with thousands of geeks programming and watching our every move was a dumb idea.)

Simply putting out content that the market wanted appreciated is all we do now.

We are doing this with no aggressive or even moderately aggressive search engine optimi

A $40 Million Dollar Little Known Referral Strategy
Would you like to know how a car wash chain with only 12 locations has cleaned over 33,373,975 cars and has an annual revenue of over $40 Million (that is not a misprint) using little to no paid advertising?Well, sit forward because I'm about to tell you. The company name is "Car Spa" and here's how I discovered their brutally effective referral strategy. I often go to Taco Bell to have lunch and read a book. I noticed a little flyer next to their cash register.A few days later I stopped in with my family to get a frozen yogurt and right next to the cash register was the same flyer.The nex

k’s gauntlet) had been thrown down.