When this all began in the early 90s you could put up a site and it was indexed. Now, you have to wait 6-9 months or more to see if and where you’ll land.
In the old days, the chances of the best site pulling above the fold was pretty good. Now, that’s not the case. You have to weed through ad sites, dead sites and sites that are just a mess (or have the most inbound links which makes them the best dontcha know!).
Before search engine rankings and getting found became a science fair project, Google actually was the best search engine around. Now, those who know better know better.
Years ago, searchers were so mesmerized with this new technology that they visited site after site looking for the best info they could find. Now, they simply click on the first link they come across assuming tacit approval from the search engine bi-polar algorithms. You know what happens when you assume?
At the start forward thinkers were willing to try new things, experiment and think outside the box whether there was even a box or not. Now, we just want packaged solutions that make things happen with no effort and the least amount of expense.
In the beginning, folks like me had allot to learn. And it was like a drug — we couldn’t get enough, we learned new things almost every hour on the hour and still wanted to learn more! It was downright exciting — and for me it still is — but it seems to be a dwindling club I belong to. Now, many choose to be lemmings not leaders.
Ahhhh, the good old days…
At your service,
Judith
Any established consultant with a good reputation will tell you that being selective of who you commit your time, resources and experience to is simply a wise business decision. For one-person shops like mine that pride themselves on personalized customer support, doing so is a necessary time management and customer service quality issue. I only have so much time in a day!
I am here to help those who are willing to make the appropriate efforts and investment in their online business to ensure their success. If a client wants to know what is involved and be challenged to become the onliner they need to be to thrive online — I’m their gal.
Nothing less than a candid initial discussion about each side’s expectations will do. For those who do not like, choose to argue about, disregard or minimize the reality and truth of what will be involved for them to reach their stated goals, to me, that is a red flag. That red flag puts one of those thought bubbles over my head that says “Then, why are you talking to me and wasting both of our time?”
Impressing a potential partner when contacting them with your inquiry will help them separate the wheat from the chaff. For example, cryptic one sentence “inquiries” do not reflect that your project has potential worth perusing. However, by communicating in a courteous and respectful manner, this lets likely partners on both sides know what it will be like to work together.
Be open to partners who want to know that you are serious, that you are committed to your own success, that take the time to clarify inaccurate perceptions so that you have at the very least a basic understanding of what is involved from both cost and time requirements. Those who reflect this level of concern to you before any money is exchanged are those most likely to help you get to where you want to go.
At your service,
Judith
Spam is spam is spam. You send unsolicited, unasked for e-mail, you are a spammer. You fill out Blog comment boxes with your gibberish thinking you can get your site linked to — your intelligence is seriously in question.
Who cares what the person you bought that database of names from claims. Those listed didn’t ask you directly for your information so you don’t e-mail it to them! More importantly don’t believe everything you read, see or that some slick salesperson who simply wants to get your CC info says!
It has nothing to do with if you “feel” those you are sending to “would be” interested. If those folks have not specifically given you permission to e-mail them, regardless of your perception of their need or desire for your information, you simply do not e-mail them. If you do, it’s spam and you are a spammer — period.
Bloggers put all your posts into moderation and don’t even approve anything that has a sniff of being spam. Ignore the comments about how great your Blog is just to get a link on your site from those who cannot provide a name and more substantiative comments related to the post they are “commenting” on. Is your ego that easy to manipulate? Raise your standards!
If onliners were not so gullible, spammers would be out of business! No response — no spammers! No business — no spammers! No approved posts — no spammers! How about everyone simply ignore and not open any e-mail they did not request? Don’t approve any Blog posts that simply stroke your ego. Don’t fall for all the hype and sales pitchy BS.
If it’s sounds too good to be true — believe me — it is!
At your service,
Judith
