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27 Article Submission Sites: SEO – Link Building

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:31:36 +0000

Increasing your backlinks is an effective way to improve a web site’s search engine page ranking. One popular method for achieving this is to submit relevant write-ups to article directories, which will often allow you to include a link to your site within the author bio.

It’s important that your articles are well-written and that the content is related to your business somehow. You will also need to make sure that your submissions fall within each directory’s guidelines (ie: meets the specified word count, etc.). Below is a list of 27 great places to submit your articles and start building up backlinks to your site.

Here at Perfection Consulting, we assist clients in crafting professional articles, and we can also handle the often time consuming directory submission process for client. Interested in our services? Please contact us today!

Get a FREE Business Plan Review!

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:49:00 +0000

For a limited time, Perfection Consulting will be performing comprehensive business plan reviews at absolutely NO cost. Our professionals will take an objective look at your information and provide you with valuable, honest feedback. We’ll tell you what’s working and what areas could use some improvement. There’s no obligation, so go ahead — fill out the form below to receive your FREE business plan review!

NOTE: Within your message, briefly describe the purpose of your business plan (ie: seeking funding, operations guide, etc.) If you are looking to raise capital, please include the amount and prospective source. Having this additional information can help us provide you with a business plan review that best addresses your specific needs.

Book Review — “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith (2007)

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:03:23 +0000

In his book, Marshall Goldsmith, a well-known executive coach, identifies 20 negative characteristics commonly found in corporate America. These are habits that he believes hinders many successful executives from reaching the next level of achievement. Goldsmith then follows up by offering strategies for transforming these bad traits into positive behavior.

“What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” is a good read for anyone in a managerial position. This book will make you take stock of the way you’re currently doing business, specifically how you’re interacting with those you work with. Although his list of 20 negative habits (shown below) seem fairly common sense, he illustrates through the use of many real-world examples how this behavior is at first often overlooked. Therefore, Goldsmith’s book helps to make readers more aware of their actions so that they can better correct bad behaviors, and thus become even more successful.

1. Winning too much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations — when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.

2. Adding too much value: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.

3. Passing judgement: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.

4. Making destructive comments: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.

5. Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However”: The overuse of these negative qualifiers which secretly say to everyone, “I’m right. You’re wrong.”

6. Telling the world how smart we are: The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.

7. Speaking when angry: Using emotional volatility as a management tool.

8. Negativity, or “Let me explain why that won’t work”: The need to share our negative thoughts even when we weren’t asked.

9. Withholding information: The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.

10. Failing to give proper recognition: The inability to praise and reward.

11. Claiming credit that we don’t deserve: The most annoying way to overestimate our contribution to any success.

12. Making excuses: The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people excuse us for it.

13. Clinging to the past: The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past; a subset of blaming everyone else.

14. Playing favorites: Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.

15. Refusing to express regret: The inability to take responsibility for our actions, admit we’re wrong, or recognize how our actions affect others.

16. Not listening: The most passive-aggressive form of disrespect for colleagues.

17. Failing to express gratitude: The most basic form of bad manners.

18. Punishing the messenger: The misguided need to attack the innocent who are usually only trying to help us.

19. Passing the buck: The need to blame everyone but ourselves.

20. An excessive need to be “me”: Exalting our faults as virtues simply because they’re who we are.

The Key to Happiness – Outsourcing!

admin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:56:20 +0000

In his New York Times Best Selling book “The 4-Hour Workweek“, author Timothy Ferriss explains how to live your life to the fullest by focusing on those things you love to do and outsourcing the rest. He talks about how to free yourself from the daily grind, and instead, experience a world of travel and fun. Mini-retirements is what he calls it, and it’s a fundamental part of becoming what he describes as “The New Rich.”

One of his key points to achieving this life is outsourcing — letting someone else do what it is that you dislike or that you are simply not as experienced in. This is where Perfection Consulting comes into play….we’re your No. 1 resource for all your business planning and marketing consulting needs. We’ve been helping hundreds of clients just like you reach their goals, and you would be amazed at how reasonable our rates are for our many services. Outsource to us and free up your life for those things that truly make you happy!