Members soapbox Posted September 25, 2008 Members Share Posted September 25, 2008 How much do you rely on word of mouth? How do you drum up business during slow times or anytime? Have you created a Website with metadata geared toward search engines? Do you use e-mail, networking services like LinkedIn, or do you prefer old fashioned phone calls and/or mailings? What works best in your experience? Do you keep a database of contacts and notes of conversations? Do you use any special contact, calendar, or project management software? Feel free to share your secrets below! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelSaulnier Posted September 25, 2008 Members Share Posted September 25, 2008 How much do you rely on word of mouth? How do you drum up business during slow times or anytime? Have you created a Website with metadata geared toward search engines? Do you use e-mail, networking services like LinkedIn, or do you prefer old fashioned phone calls and/or mailings? What works best in your experience?Do you keep a database of contacts and notes of conversations? Do you use any special contact, calendar, or project management software?Feel free to share your secrets below! Yes. Depending on the type of business you may need to do all these things. If you aren't doing this, you're probably losing business to the competitors who do. You must have your website optimized not just for MetaTags... the search engines rely on these less than ever... but the actual content. The more your content on your pages uses correctly the keywords you want to be found with, the more likely you'll score high in the natural results. It's also important to your ranking that "influential" sites in your industry link to you. This doesn't mean connecting to a "link-farm" or something, (which in fact could damage your score), but industry directories, and high traffic sites that actually represent your industry are a big boost to your natural ratings. The search engines don't all rank the same things the same way, but there's no doubt that you need to do things to improve yourself if you aren't already on the first page for the keywords you need. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted September 25, 2008 Members Share Posted September 25, 2008 Michael-Your avatar disturbs me for some reason. I saw the movie, what an evil character... sorry, I`m having trouble differentiating your posts from the Joker... I know its silly but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelSaulnier Posted September 25, 2008 Members Share Posted September 25, 2008 Michael-Your avatar disturbs me for some reason. I saw the movie, what an evil character... sorry, I`m having trouble differentiating your posts from the Joker... I know its silly but... OK... I was getting a little tired of it myself... How's this... a cool pic of my McCarty! M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted September 25, 2008 Members Share Posted September 25, 2008 Thank you. I know its silly but it was really bothering me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted September 26, 2008 Members Share Posted September 26, 2008 How much do you rely on word of mouth? How do you drum up business during slow times or anytime? Have you created a Website with metadata geared toward search engines? Do you use e-mail, networking services like LinkedIn, or do you prefer old fashioned phone calls and/or mailings? What works best in your experience?Do you keep a database of contacts and notes of conversations? Do you use any special contact, calendar, or project management software?Feel free to share your secrets below!I refer to myself as Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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