Book Yourself Solid Tip: Cash In On The Brilliant, Creative And Quirky You!

Written by Michael Port


Copyright 2005 Michael Port & Associates LLC

What do Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey and Robin Williams have in common? These successful icons never present a watered down version of themselves torepparttar world. So why then do most professionals play it safe and hide their creativity, quirkiness, spirit, spark and passion?

If you are presenting a "diluted" version of yourself torepparttar 135878 world, you are literally suffocating your business. If your business doesn’t just die altogether, it will absolutely be stifled and less successful unless you explore and expose what thrills you, irks you, stimulates you, bores you and amuses you!

One ofrepparttar 135879 quickest and easiest ways you can get booked solid with high paying clients is to berepparttar 135880 quirky, authentic and confident soul who says it like it is and filters nothing!

Toss outrepparttar 135881 society-accepted version of you and stop worrying so much about what others will think. Just berepparttar 135882 radiant person you are when you are relaxing withrepparttar 135883 people you loverepparttar 135884 most.

As soon as you let your authentic side shine, not only will you feel more confident and self-assured but your ideal clients will be immediately attracted to you. As a side benefit, you’ll also send awayrepparttar 135885 not so right people faster so you can spend all your productive hours being exceptional!

The Most Common Small Business Web Site Traffic Killers

Written by John Jantsch


Copyright 2005 John Jantsch

A prospective client asked me to view his web site and give him some advice on how to makerepparttar site better. Unfortunately, his site was such a mess it becamerepparttar 135877 inspiration for this article.

One ofrepparttar 135878 primary reasons to have a web site is to attract and educate visitors. However, this obvious concept seems to be lost on many web designers. The way your site is designed, what’s there and what’s not there, including what's inrepparttar 135879 unseen HTML code, can have a great impact on how much traffic your site will generate.

Here’s my list ofrepparttar 135880 most common web site design sins and traffic killers. Use this list as you design your own site or show it to your web designer. If your web designer doesn’t understand these points or dismisses them as unimportant. . .move on!

One word of warning, we are going to look under that hood of that shiny web page and see some of what makes it run fromrepparttar 135881 search engine view. – This is not always forrepparttar 135882 squeamish.

No title tag or meaningless title tags. – Title tags are part ofrepparttar 135883 HTML structure of every web page. Think of them asrepparttar 135884 informal name ofrepparttar 135885 page. See for yourself. Go to http://www.ducttapemarketing.com . Look up there atrepparttar 135886 top of browser window and you will seerepparttar 135887 words - Small Business Marketing Ideas and Strategies – that’srepparttar 135888 title of that page. Now right click your mouse inrepparttar 135889 page and hit “view source or view page source.” When you do this, you are looking atrepparttar 135890 HTML code for this page. Now, see that [title]Small Business Marketing Ideas and Strategies[/title] Every page has got them and they are one ofrepparttar 135891 most important aspects of your web site. . .yet most people don’t even use them. NOTE: While you are looking at this source code realize that this is whatrepparttar 135892 search engines see. No matter what your page looks like it won’t be found if this code doesn’t help you get found. More on that.

Your title tags can be a great tool for getting you search engine traffic if they are combined with good page content. Notice that my title tag is not Duct Tape Marketing orrepparttar 135893 often used Welcome to My Site. My tag is Small Business Marketing Ideas and Strategies. Now, think about this for a minute. Not too many people search for Duct Tape Marketing and nobody searches for Welcome to My Site, but small business marketing, now that’s another story. Most small business owners wasterepparttar 135894 effectiveness of their title tags with something like: The name of their business or our products. Use title tags and make them part of your site content. Think about what people search for in your industry and name your pages based on that.

Flash Intro pages – Don’t get me started on this one. You know those pages that do all this really cool animated motion graphics and then present you with an entry or splash screen. I’ll admit, these are works of art and I couldn’t design one if I had to, but visit http://www.superclubs.com/home.asp and do that “View Source” trick again and tell me if you think a search engine could tell what that page was about. Remember, search engine spiders can't see pictures or hear sounds!

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