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| How to Build a Strong and Powerful Business During a Recession Posted: 15 Nov 2011 12:32 PM PST 
And while I despise the phrase “too big to fail,” it is true that governments are actually, “too important to fail.” At home and in business, we don’t have the luxury to be “too big” or “too important” to fail, so we must be more responsible and either reduce spending or increase revenue. Unfortunately, most politicians feel like they are exempt from having to reduce spending, so they are inclined to always seek methods to increase revenue, which makes our jobs harder when managing our personal or business budgets. While politicians tend to put too much focus on increasing revenue, small business owners tend to put too much focus on reducing spending. Bring Balance To The Force, Young Skywalkeryes During a recession, most business owners pull the reins on advertising budgets, fearful of what tomorrow might bring… Those who remain fearful have forgotten what made them the success they are today. They have forgotten that they have a God-given talent to overcome the incredible obstacles in their paths. Some of the largest companies formed in the history of man owe their success to HOW they adapted to the economy during a recession. They reduced unnecessary expenses and focused completely on those things that made them the most money! Examples of large, successful companies that launched during a recession include: * Burger King – Started during a recession in 1954. * FedEx (Federal Express) – Started during the 1973 recession, a recession that resulted from the 1973-1974 oil embargo. * GE (General Electric) – Started in 1876, by Thomas Edison during the Panic of 1873. * HP (Hewlett-Packard) – Founded in 1939 at the end of the Great Depression. * CNN – Started during the recession of 1980, at the tail-end of the Carter administration, when the economy had been struggling for nearly a decade. * Hyatt Corporation – Opened its first hotel in 1957, during the Eisenhower recession (1957-1958). * IHOP – Also started during the Eisenhower recession. * LexisNexis – Launched as a computerized legal research service in 1973, during the 1973-74 oil embargo. * Microsoft – Started in 1975, during the recession created by the 1973 oil crisis. * MTV Networks – Launched during the economic slump of 1981. * Sports Illustrated – Was launched at the tail-end of the 1953-1954 recession. These companies illustrate that a bad economy will not prevent success, but rather offer opportunities to grow fast and strong. Studies have shown that rather than to reduce advertising during a recession, the wisest business persons will increase the advertising budget during the recession. It Seems Counter-Intuitive, Doesn’t It? The truth of the matter is that recessions bring consumer volatility, which means people are primed to change their spending habits. Most consumers buy goods and services based on habitual behavior. This is the reason that Bing is having such a difficult time taking market share away from Google. If you have used both, most people agree that Bing consistently delivers more relevant results. But consumers are habituated to using Google, because they believe that “Google provides the best search results…” Since the summer of 2009, Bing has been the clear winner in the quality contest. In fact, the quality was so good when Bing was launched that Google raced to upgrade its own search algorithms. In a record time, about six months, Google completely rebuilt its search engine from the ground up. Lucky for Google, its users never noticed how much better Bing was, because they had been drinking the Google Kool-Aid, forever believing that Google was “the best.” During the fall of 2009, Google released the Beta-version of its new search engine, and then in Jan 2010, Google took its new search engine public with the Google Caffeine Update. Once Google’s new search engine had been released, I imagine that its owners and managers sighed a collective sigh of relief. They had managed to return from the quality-underdog to an almost equal search engine, without losing any market share! Your Competition Wants You To Drink The Recession Kool-Aid During a recession, your competitors are weakened, because their customer base is also looking for cheaper or better alternatives. If you tightened the noose on your marketing department, then you will have given your competitors the breathing room they needed to retain their market share, the same as Bing seemed to have done with Google. Lessons From Failures and Successes Bing did not tighten the purse strings on its new search engine, but opened the flood gates of spending. And in the end, Bing’s campaign floundered, because they did not clearly define for the global audience what made them better than Google. Bing had the best opportunity in the history of Google to steal market share from Google. And they blew their opportunity to win market share! Let Bing’s experience be a lesson to you. Open the taps for your marketing and advertising budget, but also be aware of the message you are trying to send to consumers. Don’t leave consumers wondering why they should test their money at your company. Be clear, concise and forceful that your product or service is better. And tell consumers how they can find you. When the recession finally ends, consumers will fall back into the habits they had before the recession began, unless they have adopted new habits in the meantime. You absolutely have to convince consumers to give you a chance, and while they are taking their chance on you, convince them that you should be their new, favorite habit to keep! Burger King did it; CNN did it; IHOP did it, and Microsoft did it! And if you are clever, you can do it too! Recessions are an opportunity for the business-savvy to win new customers and market share. Are you going to accept the challenge before you, or let this opportunity pass you by? If you are not competing for new customers on the Internet, you are making it easy for your competitors to crush you!! Your future customers are on the Internet NOW, looking for new merchants in your local area to serve their needs. Will those people find and choose your competitors or YOU? If you need help with your Local SEO and Local Marketing, then make it a point to find us at: http://MysticMountainMedia.com/ Author: Trey McMartin. Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2011 12:09 PM PST 
What some people do is rely on one “magic method”, but when it comes to getting backlinks to your site, there really is not one “magic method.” There are better methods, but there is no longer one method for backlinking. Depending on how hard it is to rank for a specific keyword, you will need to step up your game and implement several backlinking strategies. First and foremost, unless your article, web page, or whatever you’re trying to rank for is optimized and contains great content, you won’t make it very far, and it won’t stay on the top page of search engines for very long. Creating great content is the best method for backlinking. When others share your content, then you have a winning solution for any post, article, or webpage. So if you want a 100% whitehat backlinking strategy, then make sure it involves great content, great onsite optimization, and allowing others to link back to your site. One way to get your site out in front of people is by utilizing basic RSS strategies and bookmarking. This is what I will cover in this article. I will show you how I do this. However Be Warned: Some backlinking strategies can be aggressive, and in some cases will not be considered playing nice by Google. Remember that Google doesn’t like it when you try to build links with the purpose of getting higher rankings. If you look around the internet and see some of the backlinking strategies outlined by people, you will see that they are not considered whitehat by Google, and they do carry some degree of risk. For instance, if you see an ad that says One Billion backlinks for a dollar, you might want to think twice about plopping down that dollar. SEO experts will tell you that backlinks cannot hurt you, and while that is probably true in 99% of cases, it is wise to know that anything that you do in backlinking for the sole purpose of getting better rankings in Google carries some degree of risk. The risk is also strongly proportional to how aggressive you get with your backlinking strategies, the overall quality of your site, and your promotional endeavors. Just know that whitehat backlinking strategies are generally considered more long term and sustainable, while greyhat or blackhat promotion aims to take advantage of current loopholes, and is much more likely to see traffic dry up or websites banned in the long term. You need to weigh the risks and rewards carefully. So now that I have scared you, let me show you how to get backlinks to your site using a completely whitehat method. You can use this with any keywords and any site you may be trying to boost in readership. This is a great whitehat method of getting instant backlinks to anything you place on the internet. It takes some upfront work but once you have it all put together, it runs on autopilot. Automatic Backlink Formula. First thing you need to do is get a Ping.fm account. Next you need to look at all the platforms that Ping submits to and then sign up for those platforms. This is where your backlinks will come from automatically. Once you have those accounts set up, you then connect them all together. In other words, every time Ping gets info on your post or article, you want it to send to all the social networks you signed up for. So post once, and have that posted to several social networks in one go. The downside to all this is that you have to log into ping.fm to do it each time. One way around this is by creating a Hootsuite account, which takes RSS feeds that can be fed to Ping. So you send your RSS feed (such as the RSS Feed from your website), and connect Hootsuite to Ping. Now every time you post on your site, it goes to ping.fm (via Hootsuite). The beauty is that now you are getting automatic backlinks and exposure from these social networks. There are more sites you can auto-post to other than those listed in Ping. You can look at Hellotxt, PixelPipe, and other sites that do this as well. So you go sign up to those sites individually and add your RSS Feed. Now every time you post you get backlinks and exposure from these sites too, all automatically. Another thing to do is create a free account with Onlywire. This account gets connected straight to But you are not only getting instant backlinks with this strategy! If you are doing appropriate linking strategies within your posts or articles, you want to have a link about every 120 words. If you do this, then when all these places crawl and bookmark your site, or link to it, then all your links are getting crawled and indexed as well. That means they are now following those links to the pages you linked. This builds authority and strength in these backlinks. SO…what you want to do is find a way to bookmark all the places and articles you create, so that you are getting links to links. I hope this one tip will help you with getting the organic backlinks you need for your site. Phillip Longmire has been doing internet marketing full time since 2008. He is a speaker, writer, and business owner. He works with business owners teaching them how to get more traffic to their sites. All his articles, advice, and know how comes from the front lines. http://philliplongmire.com Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources |
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When it comes to getting backlinks there are a lot of methods to consider. Matter of fact you might want to take into consideration all the methods that are available to you. I am not referring to black hat tactics, but legitimate methods of backlinking.| You are subscribed to email updates from SiteProNews Recent Articles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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