Lies Of Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
March 31, 2008 at 11:31 pm | In Business Development | Leave a CommentTags: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists
Lies Of Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
I came across these posts today and thought they are worth sharing:
Staying on the entrepreneurial theme, check out this video (Teenaged Tech Millionaires) of a couple of young Irish lads who have recently sold their ebay business idea for millions. Well done lads!
Google Indexing – Content Or Links First
March 25, 2008 at 10:17 am | In Google | Leave a CommentTags: Google, indexing, internal links, new website, outbound link
Google Indexing New Website
This is a quick post on Google indexing.
I have a new site, it’s on a sub-domain and has just turned up in the Google index for one page. I thought that page might be the home page or another page that has around 350/400 words but no. The page that showed first and fast (about four days natural indexing) is the links page. The links page has a single outbound link to a site that’s about a year old, PR 3.
So what’s the deal?
Other pages in the site that have lots of topic specific content and internal links have yet to be indexed. But this ‘afterthought’ of a page with a single outbound link is already position #6 in Google with 35k competition for the same keywords.
Seems to me Google is looking first at what sites we’re relating our content to before taking a closer look at the content itself.
I’ve added an outbound link to another page with very little content on it. It’ll be interesting to see if that page is next to be indexed.
I’ll keep you updated…
Get Passionate. Be Special – Business On The Edge
March 9, 2008 at 10:07 am | In Business Development | Leave a CommentTags: business
I get ‘excited ‘when I read posts like this The Long Slide To Gone.
There’s a challenge in business that is shared by everyone of us.
Avoiding mediocrity.
The mentality that says “we’re no worse than our competitors”.
Some businesses start out mediocare, and that’s fine. We all start somewhere.
But if we’re to do something SPECIAL we have to get ‘PUMPED’ about our industry.
We have to turn our thinking around. We have got to get passionate about what we’re offering people.
What’s next?
How can we be better than everyone else?
How can we give more value to our clients?
Are we on the edge?
Before you enter the trenches for another week ask yourself those questions. Be the best you can be when you can be.
Results – 30 Minute Backlinks
March 7, 2008 at 7:24 am | In Link Building | 4 CommentsTags: 30 minute backlinks, Internet marketing, links
Yes. I Believe 30 Minute Backlinks Works…
I said I’d follow up with my findings after using 30 minute backlinks. This post has been updated, go to the bottom to see edits.
First off I just want to let folk know that I’m not a serial buyer of Internet marketing products (much to the frustration of many an internet marketer no doubt!).
Besides 30 minute backlinks the only other product I ever bought was an ebook about flipping websites.
Another point worth making is I only followed ONE tutorial on 30 minute backlinks. I haven’t had the time to watch the rest of the videos or explore the membership site. Come to think of it, I couldn’t tell you what the complete package contains. Yikees!
Moving on…
A couple of months back we launched a new website and after an initial ‘hurrah!’ with a Google position #1 for my target keyphrase, the page and site in question dropped to page four within a couple of days. This has happened many a time to my new websites that have highly SEO’d pages and a handful of good links suddenly turning up in the Google search index. So it was no surprise when the site dropped like a lead weight.
That’s when the hard work really begins.
A combination of late nights, patients and perseverance saw a change in fortunes. The website was starting the long climb from obscurity to page two #11 in Google. Still, might as well have been on page 1000 for all the use it is to me there. A bit more work and finally I broke through to #10 on page one.
Great. But after a couple of weeks of switching between position #10 and #11 I was ready for a new solution. I went looking for some inspiration and came across 30 minute backlinks. Like I said, I’m not one for buying every Internet marketers pitch but against my better judgement I decided to take the leap. At least if it didn’t work it would be an excuse for me never to buy such products again, having been hurt before.
I put aside an evening to build and submit one of the projects. Five days later something wonderful happened. My site was fluctuating between position #5 and #6 in Google. How much of this breakthrough (it really is a breakthrough!) can I attrubute to 30 minute backlinks?
It’s hard to say as there might have been other influences as a result of earlier work I’d done that was just taking effect. To be honest though, I believe 30 minute backlinks played a major part in pushing my site up the ranks.
I’m going to sit on my hands for a couple of weeks and NOT work on the website, just to see if it can hold its current position – right now it’s #6.
Update Update Update Update …
A few days ago my website has moved up to position #5 in Google for the related key phrase I’m aiming for. The competition for the top four slots are going to be tough to move. All the sites are older than mine (#1 is 1998!), they all have more pages and equal or hire PR (which I’m not sure really matters these days – unless you’re selling links).
I’m going to give it another week without doing any work on the website. If I’m still at #5 after a week or so (hopefully I’ll remain in that position at least) I’ll go back to 30 minute backlinks and see what the other tutorials have to offer.
I’ve an overall strategy for this niche (it’s hardly a niche it’s sooo competitive) but that won’t come into play until I’m satisified I’ve seen all that 30 minute backlinks has to offer. So far so good.
Check out 30 minute backlinks for yourself.
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Are You A Smart Twitt?
March 6, 2008 at 10:26 am | In web tools | Leave a CommentTags: twitt, twitter
Why Twitter?
Watch this short video to find out…
Another good reason to twitter is to keep an eye on what leaders in your industry are doing. You’ll get all the latest software, marketing and business tips, news and reviews by following the people who are at the top of your industry.
If you have a lot of fans (lets say your a blogging guru or similar), then you can encourage your fans to follow you on twitter. That means when you twitt your latest blog post, or affiliate programme (or whatever) your visitors will be notified almost instantly.
So, don’t be fooled, twitter may look like a light-weight web app but in reality it is one of the most powerful social media networking tools out there.
I’ll post a full review of twitter in the near future outlining the many other advantages it offers to the smart twitt! Stay tuned.
Find me on twitter here: http://twitter.com//bluebeard2
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Are You Too Busy?
March 5, 2008 at 11:00 pm | In Business Development | 1 CommentTags: business, Business Development
Sometimes being too selective is better than being too busy.
Recently we (New Odyssey) took on a project, the type of project that we just don’t want to do anymore.
Did it pay? Yes.
Was the client happy? Yes, delighted in fact.
But did it advance our business development? No.
We spent precious time on the type of work we need to leave behind in order to grow. It’s something that we’ve been aware of but this is the first time the scenario has presented itself in a while.
We failed to say, ‘Sorry, we don’t supply that service any more. Here’s the number of someone who may be able to help you’.
I’ve since been in touch with that client to ask them how their project is working out. I also informed them in the nicest possible way that we don’t provide that particular service anymore…but ‘there’s this guy I know who may be able to help you in the future’.
5 Easy Ways To Care For Your Clients Today
March 5, 2008 at 4:12 pm | In Business Development | 2 CommentsTags: business, Care For Your Clients, clients
What will you do today to make your clients feel valued?
Will you:
- Give them some useful free advice ‘out of the blue’?
- recommend a product or service that will make their lives easier?
- get their project finished in double-quick time just to let them know you value them?
- draw their attention to an event that might be of interest to them personally or to their business?
- just ring them and ask if everything is okay, do they need advice or assistance with anything?
Sometimes when we’re snowed under with work it’s easy to forget the people that matter most. They’re the good folk who come to trust your work and value your opinion.
So take a few minutes out, choose one client and think what you can do today to make them feel valued?
Repeat tomorrow with another client and keep going…
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