When economic times are rough, the temptation is to panic beneath the impression businesses everywhere are failing; true enough, it’s hard not to when even Google is said to be preparing layoffs. But smart companies come through these things by trimming fat, making sure their columns add up, paying attention to market forces and trends, and playing their strengths.
SEO Tips for Harder Economic Times
In this month’s Target Marketing Magazine, a TopRank authored article on how small businesses can gain a competitive marketing advantage by leveraging content promotion, blogs, social media and universal search was featured.
PeekYou, Look Harder
Oh, the perils of releasing a "beta" product before it’s ready for prime time.
It is Getting Harder to be Fake
Every day bloggers and members of the media are looking for stories to talk about. If you are afraid to be associated with and talk about your own projects how can you expect others to talk about it? How can you get people to talk about you as much as they talk about competing channels if you are anonymous?
White House Wants Harder Line On Piracy
The Attorney General told a Chamber of Commerce conference the government needs more laws to better protect intellectual property creators.
The SEO Game is Getting Harder
Aaron Wall has an interesting article detailing how his SEOBook and SEOGuy websites have been dumped in the recent Google update.
Online Business: Work Smarter, not Harder
Online business is probably the fastest growing market on the planet. With over 34 million web pages out there and more being created every day it seems like an almost hopeless prospect for the solo home business owner to achieve any sort of success. Think of the competition…….right? Well, almost.
13 Tips for Working Smarter, Not Harder
1) Aim for effectiveness, not neatness. Neatness as an end in itself can even be risky: Putting things away just to clear off your desk can cause you to lose or forget them.
How to Work Smarter, Not Harder
Online, I believe business success is certainly easier to achieve than its brick-and-mortar version. It’s not a free ride and it definitely requires some time let alone work. But on the web, I also believe that one can easily — as that famous clich goes — work smarter instead of harder.