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Thin Line Between Love and Selling
Fuel-efficient vehicles have become an obsession of mine in the last few years. So much, that I would love the opportunity to sell one of these little clown cars that get up to 60 miles per gallon. Nothing would please me more than to get up on my fuel-economy soapbox and sell, sell, sell.But what would happen if I worked on a car lot that sold these fuel-efficient cars as well as the big, monster SUVs? Obviously I would have a harder time selling an SUV than I would selling an ultra sleek, runs on banana peels and sunshine, mini-car.Selling comes easy when you’re in love with your product. Your personal excitement will shine through every aspect of the sale and eventually grab hold of yo

dly design, and a delivery system of fresh and valuable information. This long-term approach to business success is a logical extension of the consistent value proposition I was introduced to as an MBA student at Yale.

Let’s stay on this train of thought a little longer. Every aspect of the client experience must also be consistent with the standards set forth by a given search engine optimization company. Whether an SEO company is optimizing a website, hiring an employee or intern, an SEO specialist must take care in considering the totality and long term implications of the consistency of their decisions. Are my SEO’s actions setting me up for now or the future?

Managing After Downsizing
So, you survived the downsizing. Your company did something that will probably show minimal, if any, return -- and will make your job as a manager a living hell. Your life has changed dramatically. People on your staff are frightened, fearful that they may be next to go. They will lie low hoping that they can be spared the next swing of the ax. (You may be feeling the same thing as well.) Teamwork will decrease as people begin to view the person next to them as a threat to that increasingly scarce resource -- a job.At the same time, you will be encouraged to build a strong work unit capable of handling the challenges -- you know the drill. Your financial targets will get higher. You will find that

Knee-deep in one-hundred-fifty-dollar text books and way too much caffeine- concentrated Starbucks coffee at Yale School of Management, I learned a basic, or what I thought was a basic concept - it was a notion of the “Consistent Value Proposition.” Surface level, the theory was simple- when involved in providing a service or selling a product, every aspect of the customer experience must be consistent within the mindset of the prospect- from pricing to packaging, from customer support, billing, e-mail, and even company letterhead. If all these variables of the business equation remain consistent, you will be on the road to satisfying the psychological need of consistency. Notice, I didn’t say that customer acquisition was a foregone conclusion. What I stated was that by satisfying the Homo sapiens need for psychological consistency, the potential client is prepped to continue along the occasionally bumpy road towards a possible online action.

What exactly does the Consistent Value Proposition have to do with Ethical Search Engine Optimization?

There are two main schools or rather philosophies within the search engine optimization world. Thought number one is to work against the search engines and your clients with trickery, smoke and mirrors, unrealistic expectations and short term thinking. Method number two is to work in tandem with the search engines and your reasonably expecting clients, by following the rules the search engines put forth to create a quality, user friendly, relevant, unique, valuable, engaging, sticky, thought provoking, fresh, and intuitive website. Working against the search engines in an unethical SEO or SEM manner may commonly consist of:

Building doorway or cloaking pages
Creating link farms
The use of multiple domains with identical content
Purchasing links
Invisible text
Irrelevant content / misleading content
Automated software used to submit or trick the search engines
Automated software that creates huge numbers of similar pages with little to no unique content
Automated software used to barrage other websites, search engines dialogue boxes, or online forms
Automated software that triggers clicks for PPC ads.

Working with the search engines means abiding by the rules that they, the search engines, set forth in each of their terms of service. The window into Google’s and Yahoo’s rules and regulations can be found for all to see at these addresses:

[Google] http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html
[Yahoo] http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[MSN] http://tou.live.com/en-us/default.aspx?HTTP_HOST=tou.live.com&url=/en-us
[AOL] http://about.aol.com/aolnetwork/aolcom_terms
[Ask] http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/about/terms_of_service.shtml

Working with the search engines is a long-term and time intensive approach to improving your business - no quick fixes here - everything must be consistent to Google and the other search engines. This means that mouth-watering placements from working with the search engines may take longer and many more man-hours than option one’s alternative, which is pulling the wool over the search engines’ eyes. Why would I choose to work with the search engines if results may come faster and easier by bamboozling search engines such as Google and Yahoo? Well, for one, Google measures the importance of every website by a system they call PageRank. PageRank is one of the ways Google parses sites that are relevant and legitimate from illegitimate, spammy or otherwise worthless websites. Tricking the search engines may cause a site to be blacklisted or even “Google sacked,” which would in turn cause Google to not recognize any PageRank on your site – essentially rendering your search engine listings non-existent within the deepest potential pool of customers available.

We are now getting to the center-cut portion of what ethical search engine optimization really is. Ethical search engine optimization can be defined as the philosophy of improving a website’s organic search engine listings by working within the bounds set forth by each of the search engines terms of service. An emphasis is placed on the long-term creation of relevant content, a user friendly design, and a delivery system of fresh and valuable information. This long-term approach to business success is a logical extension of the consistent value proposition I was introduced to as an MBA student at Yale.

How to Be a Great Client
As a consultant, I’m always trying to find ways to provide better service to my clients along with delivering more value for what they pay me. Whether it is a little piece of advice that helps in an area on the periphery of the services I provide or connecting a client with a resource totally unrelated, the focus is always on giving the customer what they need. That got me to thinking about what the customer could do in return to ensure a win-win relationship with consultants or any service provider.Here are five unquestionable ways to becoming a great client:Pay Your Bill on Time Admittedly, this is overstating the obvious, but it’s no fun for service providers to have to chas

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What Makes A Winning Online Ad?
Most people who have been involved with sales & marketing for any length of time have heard the axiom, “Sell them what they want. Then sell them what they need”. But what does it mean? It sounds a little odd doesn’t it?Does it mean that people are frivolous & go around making irrational purchases that don’t meet their needs, before more serious ones that sustain them? Should you try to sell trivial goods first, & then follow up with those that are more substantial? Should you put games & entertainment on your home page, and flour & salt in your follow up messages?No, that’s not it.What it is trying to say is that people buy for emotional reasons. Does anybody buy a Mercedes Benz just

ther websites, search engines dialogue boxes, or online forms
Automated software that triggers clicks for PPC ads.

Free Barcodes
The barcode, generally called the Universal Product Code, has been in use in America since the 1970s. There are several patterns of codes including dots, concentric circles, and hidden images. As barcodes are very useful in tracking inventory and identifying legitimate record labels, it has become a vital tool in all organizations and firms.One can obtain barcodes free of cost. Many types of barcode fonts are available on the market, and many of these barcode fonts can be owned without paying a single penny. Free barcodes are a great relief for many small businesses unable to buy the costly barcodes.Many companies are providing free barcode fonts through online services. One can easily downl

gines’ eyes. Why would I choose to work with the search engines if results may come faster and easier by bamboozling search engines such as Google and Yahoo? Well, for one, Google measures the importance of every website by a system they call PageRank. PageRank is one of the ways Google parses sites that are relevant and legitimate from illegitimate, spammy or otherwise worthless websites. Tricking the search engines may cause a site to be blacklisted or even “Google sacked,” which would in turn cause Google to not recognize any PageRank on your site – essentially rendering your search engine listings non-existent within the deepest potential pool of customers available.

Sales Plan? What's a Sales Plan?
In the past, if you said the word “plan” to me, I would bolt and run. I’m the “creative type,” a former ballet dancer and choreographer—I’m terrible with details. When I was dancing professionally, all the details were taken care of; all I had to do was show up and dance. Even when I was choreographing, as long as I met my deadline for when the dance needed to be complete, I could go with the moment, go with the impulse and see where the dance led.A hearty dose of reality hit when I began to run a dance company. All of a sudden, I had people—employees, volunteers and dancers—waiting. I had to know where we were going and how we were going to get there. It was a different world. Every decision had i

Taking on a particular client, with specific needs as well as expectations also falls under the ethical search engine optimization umbrella. Are you as a client aware that white hat SEO methods will undoubtedly take longer to realize higher rankings? Were you educated enough to understand this throughout the sales cycle, or was this sprung on your after your John Hancock inked the dotted line? Business ethics dictate that it’s your SEO’s responsibility to do so, but common sense tells us that your joint long-term results as a team are really at stake. You should be aware and take an active ear to the overall candor and approach of your potential SEO partner- and remember, consistency and ethics go hand in hand.

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been in force for some time now. Companies have acknowledged that it is not a one-off event, but is more in the nature of a process improvement activity enforceable by government regulations. A comparable process in the case of IT companies is the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model that governs organization processes in I T companies.

What do you think is most popular online business topic? Money or profits? Obviously it is much more popular to discuss making online money rather than creating online profitability, Google says 2175.57% times more popular at the time of writing this. What is wrong with this picture - maybe lots of people talk about making money online, but don't talk much about making profit online because they don't. So what do you talk about most - money or profits?

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