WARNING – Don’t Get Banned From YouTube!
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford
According to this article in USA today, YouTube has 5.5
billion streams and 58.1% of the online video market:
http://tinyurl.com/WhyYouTubeMatters
That means that if you use video in your marketing, you
definitely want your videos on YouTube. Having your
videos on YouTube, when properly submitted, often gets you
top positions for your keywords.
Like many marketers, I submit to a variety of video
sharing sites. Yet, just as with search engines, only a
handful get the vast majority of traffic.
As an Internet marketer, we’ve been conditioned to focus
on quantity. That is, submitting to as many sites as
practical. However, that may not be the best approach.
Flashing back a few years, there were many search engine
submission services that offered to submit your url to
over 1000 of the top search engines. The reality was that
there were fewer than 10 search engines that mattered, and
submitting to many of the other low quality places could
actually HURT your ranking in Google (or the top search
engines at the time).
YouTube has become such an excellent source of traffic that
many marketers have begun marketing too aggressively, and
YouTube is striking back. This blog post by Jeff Schechter
explains the problem nicely: http://tr.im/UToob
Basically, YouTube is noticing that a lot of users completely
ignore their terms of service, “by creating multiple accounts,
overloading tags and keywords at the expense of content, using
‘friend getter’ type softwares, and a host of other ‘black hat’
tactics.”
Many top Internet marketing, and network marketing trainers
have taught using these aggressive tactics. So have many of
the leading video sharing sites. In fact, according to the
blog post above, the top dog in automated video submissions,
Traffic Geyser, has gotten many YouTube users’ accounts shut
down.
Now, I use automated video submissions myself. In fact, I
am part owner of an automated video, audio, article and
press release submission service. That service is called Easy
Push Button Traffic. I became part owner because I loved how
easy and reliably the software works.
I also wanted to give my clients an affordable tool that
WOULDN’T get them banned.
I noticed that many of the other services were encouraging
users to do things like “spinning” content or submitting the
same video repeatedly, only giving them different titles and
descriptions.
You may ask what’s wrong with that? It harms the video sharing
sites by decreasing the quality of user experiences (driving
users to other sites). A person watches a video on a topic, and
then looks for related videos. They watch a second video with
a different title and description, only to discover that it’s
the SAME video. Those users naturally complain to the video
sharing sites, and the video sharing sites naturally strike back
BANNING those who submitted the videos.
At Easy Push Button Traffic, we owners took a different
approach. We insisted on protecting our customers even if they
don’t know that they need protecting. We use what Jay Abraham
calls his “Strategy of Preeminence” – putting the client’s best
interest FIRST!
It’s absolutely CRIMINAL to us to allow one of our users to
spend weeks or even months setting up a video campaign to
generate traffic and brand their products, only to have YouTube
and the other sites delete their work when they notice blackhat
tactics.
We insisted upon being 100% white hat… even when our customers
often asked for blackhat capabilities.
Easy Push Button Traffic bucked the trend in another area. While
many video submission services were adding as many submission
sites as possible, we insisted on ONLY submitting to the top
sites that matter and generate traffic for our target market.
Just as the search engine submission services advertising that
they submitted to over 1000 places often submitted to link
farms, or free-for-all pages on porn sites, many of the video
sites also cater primarily to porn, reality television type
material, and stuff that primarily interested teenagers.
Having your video on many of these sites will actually HURT your
Google ranking. Google owns YouTube incidentally, and their
algorithm does consider where your videos are streamed from!
What matters most when using an automated submission service is
how many quality sites will actually accept and publish your
submissions. It’s also important how much traffic those sites
get.
We’ve subscribed to most of our competitors services, just to
test them out. We often submitted videos, articles, etc., and
then logged in a day or two later to see which ones actually
were displaying our content. With some of the leading services,
less than HALF of the sites that we had registered for, and
properly submitted to, accepted or displayed our submissions.
We had to wonder why none of the other customers of these
services didn’t notice that they were largely buying vaporware.
If their submission weren’t going through and the customers
weren’t even noticing, we had to conclude that they merely
logged in to the control panel at the services, glanced at
the “submission records” but never confirmed that the
submissions were actually physically on the sites!
One of the difficulties with automated submissions is keeping
up with the changing submission rules, and the interfaces at
the various submission sites. That’s actually a full-time job,
and probably why many of the submission from many of the leading
submission services don’t go through. They don’t keep up with
the changes.
Most of these sites are set up for individuals to manually
submit. They often don’t mind automated submissions, since they
need the content for their users, as long as the submissions are
within certain guidelines.
Easy Push Button Traffic actually uses propriety software and
technology that was under development for a VERY long time, and
Our team of programmers are constantly updating it. This allows
us to submit to the video, podcast, article, and press release
sites in a way that makes it look the same as an individual
visiting the sites.
If you are using a video, article, podcast or press release
submission service, you ABSOLUTELY should physically visit some
of the sites periodically and verify that your submission are
physically there.
What you discover may shock you.
One of the other things that shocked us as we set up Easy Push
Button Traffic, and studied our competitors, was how over-priced
they were. We could only conclude that they charged such
ridiculous prices because they had no real competitors. When
you have no competitors, you can charge monopoly prices.
As we looked at pricing, looked at the fact that many of our
client would be struggling entrepreneurs trying to get a
business off the ground so that they could quit a 9-to-5 job
that they hated, we decide to charge a more reasonable rate.
In fact, we decided to initially price our service at roughly
1/4th of what the big dogs charged for their lower-priced
options. We crunched the numbers and saw that we could still
make a profit doing that.
I’ve rambled on long enough, but did want to encourage you to
check out Easy Push Button Traffic. You will discover that it
is the very best value for the money. Your submissions will get
through, they’ll be on sites that send you relevant traffic, and
if you’re one of the next 750 clients, it will only cost you
$27 per month.
Do your business a huge favor – take a minute now and check out:
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Willie Crawford is an internet marketing and traffic generation
expert. He often distributes content (articles, videos,
podcasts, and press releases) to generate highly targeted website
traffic. To do that efficiently he uses the automated submission
service that you’ll find at Easy Push Button Traffic
Generating Website Traffic With Automated Video Submissions
(Part 1)
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford
It’s no secret that the right videos, submitted to the right
places, can generate millions of views.
It’s no secret that the search engines love video and are
constantly crawling video sharing sites. You can often get
a top 10 ranking for a keyword, using video, in under an
hour.
Let’s look at some of the keys to getting some of that
great traffic using videos.
One of the first things that you’ll notice is that in a
lot of niches, tons of people are discovering video.
That means that you need to create and submit more videos,
and you need to submit them to more places. If you don’t
used an automated submission service, that can be very
tedious, and tie up your computer for hours on end.
As you prepare to create your videos, you need to begin
by asking what is it that you want to accomplish. More
specifically, what do you want your viewers to do after
they finish watching a given video?
After you identify the goal of the video, you need to
actually map it out on a “storyboard.” What will be in
each frame, and what will the audio say?
If your video is being created using a tool such as
Camtasia (screen capture software) then you also want to
script it. You don’t want to leave any element of your
video to chance. You don’t want any little thing
detracting from accomplishing your goal.
If you practice the script and are very familiar with it,
even if you read it, it will sound natural to many viewers.
Speaking of sound, having high-quality audio is one of
the most important elements of a good video. Having
understandable audio, recorded at the right level is
actually more important than the quality of the picture.
The way to get great sounding audio is to 1) use a quality
microphone, and 2) don’t put the mike too close to your
mouth. You also need to be in a quiet place when you make
the recording.
Those are some technical tips for creating a good video that
will generate lots of traffic and perhaps even go viral.
Let’s look at one other slightly technical issue that you
absolutely must consider. Your video must target the
right keywords. That is, the title and description that
you enter at the video sharing sites must use terms that
your ideal customers are using when searching for your
topic.
It would probably be worthwhile to spend some time using
a tool such as the Google AdWords External Tool to
confirm EXACTLY what terms people are searching on
related to your product or service. You’ll find that
free tool at:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
While researching using the Google External Keyword
Tool, look not only at the number of searches done each
month on a term, but also at the competition. Often you
can get an instant number-1 ranking for less competitive
terms that can still send you a worthwhile amount of
traffic – and these people are buyers actually looking
for very specific brands, etc. Those “long-tail
keywords” are worth their weight in gold when you notice
ones that your competitors haven’t.
In part-2 of this article, we’ll look at formatting and
submitting your videos in a way that runs circles around
your competitors. For now, start jotting down notes for
a few videos that you will make and use in your website
traffic generation efforts.
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Willie Crawford is a website traffic generation expert.
He often distributes content (articles, videos, podcasts,
and press releases) to generate highly targeted website
traffic. To do that efficiently he uses the automated
submission service at http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com
My Favorite Twitter Plugins For WordPress Blogs
Here is an assembled list of Twitter plugins for WordPress Blogs. You may ask why? Well if you are actively blogging to help promote your products and services to your customers it pays to utlize all the best methods of connecting with a targeted audience. Thes tools can help in that effort. Watch for our quick start guide to Titter coming soon that will help you go form zero to Tweet in no time flat.
- TweetSuite - a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts and some widgets.
- Tweet This – A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
- WP Twitip ID – Plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username
- Twitter Badge – Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter.
- The Twitter Updater – a wordpress plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
- TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the web page and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
- Twitter Tools – This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
- Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget – Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.
- Twitter Feed – Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
- Twitt-Twoo – is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
- Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
I hope these Twitter tools will help you integrate Twitter in your wordpress blog and vice versa. Got a question about Twitter? Post it in comments.
Fiscalini Cheese – PTG Studios
Another feature I shot for PTG
PTG Studios is pleased to announce the selection of Fiscalini Cheese – PTG Studios is a TV production company.
Lodi Hero
This feature was shot for ATVI in LA.
Sam H – story about guy who saved a women’s life by pulling her front in front a of train in Lodi, CA
Foxit Software is featured on Business and Beyond
Foxit Software has been featured on Platinum Broadcasting’s innovative and educational television series, Business and Beyond. Foxit Software was showcased in a segment nationally on the Travel Channel and regionally on CNN Headline News and Regional News Network.
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This is a piece I shot for Platinum Broadcasting last year. Nice little start up company making a cool software tool. It works on my phone device so I was happy.
Exploring Into Franchise Opportunities at Franchise it – Learn How to Franchise Your Business the Right Way With Astreem’s Business Consultants
The overwhelming success of a famous local bakery store in Singapore that has expanded in 9 other countries resulted from a single branch that only started 8 years ago. You can find 7-11 stores in almost every corner of the streets locally and internationally, deriving from the fact that it started from a store selling ice blocks. Giant brands did not always start big in their industry. They all started with a good idea through an outlet
Franchise It, organised by business consulting firm, Astreem Corporation was held at NUSS located at Suntec City on 12th of June 2008. This half-day seminar covers Singapore Franchise Opportunities, the fundamentals of franchising for business owners and making use of franchise opportunities. “Franchise It aims to provide business owners with options on their business investments, an overview of franchising and the processes involved in the development of a good business franchise structure and program,” says Hsien Naidu, the Founder and Director of Astreem who leads the team of business consultants, franchise consultants and marketing consultants in the business consulting firm.
Topics covered during the seminar were:
The franchising & franchise opportunities concept Advantages of business franchise Basic steps in developing your business franchise program Test of your business’ “Franchisability” with Astreem franchise consultants Important features of the Franchise Operations Manual The Franchise Agreement Protecting your Intellectual properties Marketing your franchise
The speakers that are involved with this seminar were Astreem’s franchise consultants as well as Astreem legal consultant, Mr Karthi, a Trademark Consultant who has an extensive experience in intellectual properties protection. Attendees of this event are business owners who want to grow their operations via franchise business opportunities, entrepreneurs who want to expand their businesses using other people’s resources and franchisors encountering problems with their current business franchise program.
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Facebook Monitoring by Dr. Mark D. Yates – Business Consultancy
As the business consultant at “Business Consultancy One Stop Shop” frequently asked about Government Big Brother intrusion into our business lives. Those advocating even closer scrutiny and increased surveillance always cite the same reason, i.e. “if you are doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear from increased government intrusion.” Ask any security or business consultant and they will tell you this argument is like a house built from playing cards. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of people who have been illegally incarcerated in various forms of miscarriage of justice cases.
Dr. Mark D. Yates from the business consultancy group www.businessconsultancyonestopshop.com states; Whenever the Government tries to assert its dominance over areas of business beyond their control bad things happen. The fact that many of these sensational projects are actively promoted by self serving politicians who seek nothing other than personal kudos and press coverage.
If we were to look for a perfect example of how a government can ***** up a business sector then one only has to look at the appalling failures in our National Health service. And if we explore government interference a tad further then the entire fiasco surrounding the proposed government introduction of Identify cards for all British residents.
Business Consultancy agencies are advised by Dr. Mark D. Yates that now that businesses are embracing the internet for gaining new business, and for implementing online sales and marketing strategies, the government has expressed an interest in the increasingly popular social networking web sites Facebook and Myspace. Their aim is Facebook monitoring and if successful it will have a detrimental effect on every business consultant and every Business Consultancy agency using social networking web sites.
Dr. Mark D. Yates from Business Consultancy One Stop Shop states. The British public were first alerted to this proposed intrusion when Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker announced earlier this month that the Government was considering acting on social networking sites because they were not covered by the latest proposals from Brussels. He added that the Government’s intercept modernisation programme proposals may be extended to include “the retention of data on Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and all other similar sites”. In plain English this translates to Facebook monitoring.
While acknowledging concerns surrounding rights to privacy Dr. Mark D. Yates feels it is only a matter of time before all online social networking web sites are forced under fear of prosecution to retain details of the individuals and businesses utilising these web sites. They are also likely to have to retain all date about visitors who correspond with these social networking web sites.
Dr. Mark Yates from Business Consultancy One Stop Shop further suggests this latest intrusion of Facebook monitoring fits right in with another government plan to store information about every telephone call, e-mail and internet visit made by anyone in the UK on a central database.
I fully understand the ramifications of collating advance intelligence in regard to combating threats from terrorists and organised crime gangs however it’s a fine line between this and retaining the rights to privacy which should by default follow on from a nation which prides itself on a freedom of speech policy.
As a business consultant for Business Consultancy One Stop Shop I admit to having concerns about the governments plans for Facebook monitoring.
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What a Business Consultant Can Do for You
Hiring a business consultant could be the best move you make to keep your business growing. It does not really matter what the business is because your consultant will be experienced in sound business practices which will help your enterprise to thrive. The starting point for using such a consultancy service should be a full business review, which will look at how you currently operate and whether you are missing any opportunities for development. But that is just the beginning. Your consultant will help you to follow through on the recommendations he makes until they become an integral part of how you do business.
Converting Sales
Whether you are promoting physical products or services, your business will only prosper if you get sales – lots of them. A consultant will be able to provide advice on converting the enquiries and leads you get into confirmed sales. This will be part of an overall sales strategy for increasing sales. Don’t be surprised if this means overhauling your communication. You will need to produce marketing information that gets results, so be prepared to create some new direct mail letters, marketing emails, leaflets and brochures with the consultant’s help.
Competitive Analysis
The business environment is becoming more competitive. Your consultant can help you to stand out from the crowd. If you want to be the market leader in your niche, then the consultant can help you assess the market, research the competition and position yourself in that number one spot. If you need to expand your reach, connect with larger customers and suppliers and network effectively, the right business advice is invaluable. Your consultant can help you to speak to the right people and get the most benefit from networking events such as conferences and exhibitions.
Business Expansion
Don’t limit yourself when it comes to expanding your business. Your company needs an internet presence. Your consultant will help you create a website that not only looks good, but achieves good search engine rankings. This will help potential customers to find you more easily and vastly expand the locations from which those customers come. You can tie this in with a good marketing plan, featuring regular press releases to keep the market informed about your offerings. All of these are included in a good consultancy service.
Converting sales, handling competitive analysis, marketing and helping you to expand are some of the main areas that a consultant covers. Consider hiring one to take your business to the next level.
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Business Consultancy One Stop Shop, From The Art Of Business War By Dr. Mark D. Yates
As a business consultant at www.businessconsultancyonestopshop.com a lot of HR personnel have been contacting me to find out more about our one stop shop approach to business consultancy. The best way to present my response was to write a brief article titled business consultancy one stop shop, for the owners of www.businessconsultancyonestopshop.com
Dr. Mark D. Yates states, I’ve spent a lot of years directly involved in business consultancy and have always felt unhappy that none of the major or even any of the smaller business consultancy agencies offered a true one stop shop approach to a business consultant.
In this age of advanced technology and internet and e-commerce sales rocketing it’s inconceivable that none of the business consultancy agencies have spotted this niche in the market. Many other business sectors have recognised the need for a one stop shop business concept and have filled the gap by providing this online service to people related to their specific industry.
Dr. Mark Yates from “Business Consultancy One Stop Shop explains that we live in an age that only appears to recognise ‘now’. People, especially every professional business consultant I know has an expectation that they ought to be able to find everything they need for their business consultancy business under the one roof, and they want it from the internet and they want it now.
The premise of Business Consultancy one stop shop offered by www.businessconsultancyonestopshop.com is that every business owner, business decision maker, purchasing officer and business consultant can source everything they are ever likely to require in order to source consultancy services and products at extremely competitive prices.
It is based on this premise that the owners of Business Consultancy One Stop Shop” decided to set up the one stop shop concept in a dynamic e-commerce web site.
Dr. Mark D. Yates continues; business consultancy is changing, and make no mistake it has to if it is to survive. Business consultancy has languished in the prehistoric age for far too long. This can be partially attributed to the industry being formed on what’s commonly referred to as, ‘the old school tie brigade.’ For many years business consultancy has been compared to running Freemasonry. It’s no secret that the average of a UK business consultant is 55. Given this age average, it’s safe to say the industry fields many computer technophobes and many of these business consultants are missing out on new business because of their inability to navigate through basic IT skills and e-commerce.
Dr. Mark D. Yates from “Business Consultancy One Stop Shop” further advises that ‘Silver Surfers are the fastest growing demographic for learning how to use a desktop and laptop computer. Interestingly this age group has also been identified as one of the fastest growing sectors for new business start ups.
One thing is sure, whether business consultants embrace the concept of e-commerce for new business or even if they have to be dragged kicking and screaming into IT technology the future of business consultancy lies very firmly in cyber space. The one stop shop is a fantastic starting point for all business owners.
Any business consultant who doesn’t embrace the internet for their business will lose out in a big way.
If you are interested in business or business consultancy and you want to see the future of business to business consultancy then visit www.businessconsultancyonestopshop.com they are running a special offer where you can post your professional business resume on their dynamic web site for just £49.99.
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Small Market Business Consulting – What you Need to Know
Many small businesses spend their short lives, and struggling prozyabayut before they finally go belly activities. Despite the fact that, on average, people tend to support small businesses, and will argue that they prefer to “mom and pop” stores, the fact remains that few can compete with large market chain, which is rapidly spreading across the country . What many may not realize, however, is that the business consulting offers these smaller companies the opportunity to fight back.
“What can the consulting business,” you may ask? Unfortunately, the majority of small businesses not for the fact that the most obvious reasons, poor marketing, poor accessibility, and easy game, unable to keep up with Jones. “Business Consulting offers outsider perspective and professional criticism, just as good writer often relies on the assistance of a qualified editor, a business consultant uses the experience of taking a good idea that great.
Business Consulting covers all aspects of starting from scratch. Of course, you may have a starting capital for your business, but what about the whereabouts? As the name you have chosen for your business? Surprisingly, such as easy as you call your store “in Bet flower shop” or “Bet in Blooms” can have a great impact on your business. Lee, for your store to draw people, and, if they exist, is to leave a lasting impression? How do you intend to compete with larger markets?
Finding consultation will be easy and wise investment, as you decide to open a flower shop, video rental, or to start their own line of clothing. Most people who are not afraid to ask your friends: “What do you think?” And they expect an honest answer. Business Consulting offers what you are looking for; honest opinion, tips, and strategies that will make your business successful.
If you are looking for more resources about business consulting, management consulting or even about consulting we advise you to visit this links.
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Business Consultants – Business Consultancy – Professional Advice is Important
Business consultancy and Business consultants are as varied and dynamic as their client requirements. Business Consultants can be individuals or organisations in the public, private or non-profit sectors and provide professional business consultancy services, skills and in-depth knowledge to solve client problems or meet specific business goals. The expertise of business consultants and business consultancies across many disciplines delivers enhanced economic performance, and in many cases, may have a global impact.
Organizations and companies, big and small, can and should hire services of business consultants for many reasons, including getting external and objective advice, access to the business consultants expertise, or simply as extra one-time temporary assistance during a project, where hiring of permanent and salaried employees is not essential. Due to their exposure to different situations and problems and their relationships with numerous companies and organizations, business consultancies are more aware of an industry’s “Best Practices”.
Many management and business consultants or business consultancy may be selected by a company or organization to fulfill certain business requirements that cannot be successfully undertaken by the company due to lack of time and or resources. The company may have more functional expertise than the business consultant, but the consultant or consultancy can provide a powerful benefit and improve their performance. Business Consultants can also use their independence to manage difficult or political situations on behalf of the company or organization, often using expertise in change management and deep knowledge of human resource. In many cases, business consultants or business consultancies may be hired by a company for their technical expertise or to gain independent and innovative overviews to identify areas of improvement and development.
Business consultants or a Business Consultancy provides services across a variety of industries and industrial sectors, with advice in strategy, programme management, operations, human resources, change management. Business Consultants may work within business consultancy firms that specialize in business consulting or may be a part of larger organizations that provide wider services such as accountancy, auditing, and IT development. Services can range from existing business support and development to skills assessment.
Whether you are an existing company, organization, or small business, or an entrepreneur thinking of starting a business, a business consultant or a business consultancy is an invaluable asset. It’s not difficult to find an individual business consultant or a business consultancy firm, you just have to search online and you will find many business consultancy firms, providing a number of services and offering varied expertise. If you are starting a new business or enterprise and require expert advice with cost as a major factor, then an individual business consultant is what you should be looking for. But an established company or organization can afford to hire a business consultancy firm with multiple advisers. There are many sites and companies online which assist you in finding the right business consultancy at the right price – no obligations.
If you require Business Services or require assistance in finding a Manufacturing Consultant Leeds in your area, please do visit our site. Our service is FREE for business owners and Managers.
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Strategic Business Consulting
Travel marketing is part of strategic business consulting. The travel business today faces a lot of challenges. It is, at the same time, highly lucrative too. In order to come out successful in travel business, you need careful planning of infrastructure and other resources. A proper strategic consulting can help you save significant amount of money and resources and speed up your business processes in a highly secured and professional manner. Travel-consulting firms offer expert advice on matters related to various aspects of travel industry. They provide an end-to-end solution to all problems haunting an organization, especially startups.
Travel Team Consulting is one of the well-known strategic business consulting firms in the U.S., providing services world-wide. Having a team of industry experts to lead the team, the organization offers varied services including: segmentation and modeling analysis, repositioning strategies, brand identity, product development, 360-degree brand audits, consumer insight and advertising tracking studies, and loyalty marketing programs. By utilizing the branding and strategic marketing process, TTC identifies the specific areas of your business that requires more planning. After identifying the area, TTC prepares an analysis and planning to assist with the development and assessment of the process.
Another important part of travel marketing is the repositioning strategies. TTC, with its expertise in brand promotion consultancy services, offers hard-hitting advertising and promotion strategies to travel businesses. TTC also helps businesses improve the process by offering a number of business process outsourcing (BPO) services in many areas such as executive recruiting, IT offshoring, tracking, among others. It can help your business identify the best branding strategy that makes your organization superior to others. Also offered are product development services by which TTC reviews your products and advise you on product improvement. The strategic business consulting is incomplete without a brand audit. TTC conducts a brand evaluation of the changes to verify if any further modifications fit the process and goals.
Travel marketing is an ongoing process. Unless you keep an eye on the movement of your business as well as others, you cannot compete in the industry. Consumers today are not ready to compromise quality. Customer reviews help organizations to understand the pitfalls involved in their products and services. TTC understands the importance of pursuing the reviews from customers. TTC offers the service for startups as well as established businesses. Their strategies suit organizations of all types. To know more about the services offered at TTC, please visit their web site at http://www.travelteamconsulting.com.
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Home Business – Earn Money be a Business Consultant
In today’s world, we find that more and more people know less and less about everything, as there is just too much to know.
So when something new comes along to a business that can be an opportunity or a potential problem, consultants are often called in first.
Be a consultant, and you can start your own business from home in your spare time.
What is a Consultant
Simply, a business consultant is someone who knows a particular business process, or segment, through wide experience and study, better than others in the same field.
A typical consultant is someone is their late 40s or 50 (or older) that has worked for a large company, government organization, or themselves, and then retired from daily operations from that activity,
However, with the extensive knowledge and experience of years of daily work, and a host of colleagues and contacts, the consultant can offer this combination to a client for a fee.
Specializations
Being a consulting is about specializations.
If you think you have an adequate and comprehensive knowledge on any particular business process or commercial specialization, you can become a consultant.
Your knowledge is very valuable to those who are interested in the same subject, have been presented opportunities, and need to pursue some process that ALWAYS INVOLVES A LEARNING CURVE.
Any good manager knows that the learning curve is much more expensive than a consultant, and so, your specialization can be rewarding and commercially beneficial to you and your clients.
Building a Clientele
This is never easy, and advertising will not do what you wish. You need to build up your clientele from contacts and direct approach to those companies and managers that you discover have arrived at an opportunity or situation wherein you can help. Offer you help. It will not go unappreciated.
You will need to have some fact sheet about yourself listing your skills, companies or government agencies you worked for, and special contact categories. You can prepare a PDF email presentation, and although you will not achieve 100% success with this, you can be sure to attract some clients.
One client always brings others, and from your first, you can start building your consulting business.
Professional Terms and Conditions
Before you actually begin your business, you must decide on your professional terms and conditions. You must write them out, and also consult with a local attorney to be sure they are in conformation with you tax and professional laws.
This term sheet must also contain your remuneration policy. Sometimes you will need up-front money, sometimes not.
You must also have a clear policy of “expenses” that you incur on your client’s behalf. They must be pre-approved, and when you issue an invoice, these must not be a surprise to anyone. A good consultant will keep expenses to a minimum, unless ordered to do special tasks that require them, and then with the client’s pre-authorization.
Getting Started
If you follow the advice above, you can easily start your own consulting business. However, good planning in advance is always a prudent and necessary step. You might use the Desyatnikov Method for goal achievement, and this will guide you swiftly to your desired success.
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Business Consultancy – An Overview
Business consultancy, also known as Management consultancy or Strategy consultancy refers to the practice of helping companies improve their performance through the analysis of existing business problems and development of future plans. It involves the identification and implementation of best practices, coaching skills, technology implementation, analytical techniques and strategy development among others.
A consultant also has an advantage of being an outsider, thus seeing things in a completely different light, which might not be possible for the owner or even the top management as a result of being too involved in the business. This different perspective may help a consultant to come up with unique solutions to old problems or even devise a completely different chart for growth. Business consultants usually bring formal frameworks or methodologies to identify problems or suggest more effetive ways of performing business tasks. Business consulting includes management consulting as well as science and technology consulting.
The first management consulting firm was Arthur D. Little founded by an MIT professor of the same name in 1886. Orginally specializing in technical research, it later on went to become a general management consultancy firm. The first pure management and strategy consulting company was McKinsey & Company, founded in Chicago in 1926 by James O. McKinsey. The Boston Consulting Group, founded in 1963, brought a rigorous analytical approach to the study of management and strategy, setting the groundwork for many consulting firms to follow. Accenture and IBM are companies which specialise in technogical consulting and outsourcing.
Management consulting first grew in the US and not in Europe. This was because of cultural factors. As opposed to Europe, in the US it was accepted that the management and the board might not be competent in all circumstances, and thus buying external competency was seen as normal to solve a busines problem. In Europe, however, management is connected with emotional and cultural dimensions, where the manager is expected to be competent at all times. Therefore, seeking and paying for external advice was seen as inappropriate. Also, in those days, the average level of education of the executives was significantly lower in the US as compared to Europe. These two factors made it difficult for consulting to emerge in Europe, and it was only after World War 2, with international trade being led by the USA, that management consulting emerged in Europe.
In 1980s and 1990s the industry had grown by over 20%, with 2004 witnessing a market size of just under $125 billion. Today, large and diversified organizations such as IBM Global Services, Accenture and Bearing Point offer a range of services, including IT consulting in addition to management consulting services. Large management and strategic consulting services such as Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, and Boston Consulting Group offer purely management consulting sevices, but not for any specific industry.
Today, many corporations also have set up their own internal consulting groups, getting employees from either within the corporation or from external firms. Many of these corporations have internal groups of up to 30 full-time consultants. This approach is chosen for its various advantages. For example, the corporation avoids paying the large fees typically asociated with external consulting firms. Also, the corporate information remains private within the organization. Plus, most organizations prefer an internal group because it can work more closely, and constantly monitor the progress of the company. In addition, an internal group, being familiar with the internal workings of the company, can guide and direct projects right from the planning stage through to the implementation stage, which would be too expensive if an external consultant, were to be hired.
Management consulting has led to innovations in the practice of management, linking academia, firms and thought leaders, leading to the use of a variety of tools and techniques to approach business problems. This has certainly led to growth in the industry and to businesses in general.
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Marketing Business Consulting
Once you have set-up your business consulting, you than have to bring a people into the light that you are specialized in the field of consulting business and accordingly you can assist a clients in sorting-out the problems, can educate their organization, can add-on their staff, can function as a catalyst, can produce new business and has a zing to influence the other people as well. Raising the consciousness of the consulting business is termed as a: Marketing Business Consulting. Some of the most efficient ways to market the consulting business are –
Networking — If you are going to put a more contacts, than you will be having the greater chance of getting the clients for your consulting business. And by making yourself visible will make your name to appear on the top of the potential clients. Few tips for the efficient Networking –
Have a crisp elevator pitch as it results in bringing a competent leads that will further result in an improved sales.
Provide some details on your background that relate to why you will boom in this attempt.
Attend events where people in your industry go and where your clients might go; help them in facilitating their organization, write down the articles and have a word on your area of expertise.
Business cards – It is a good way to enlighten the public about your business as it is reasonably-priced. Besides this, during networking or upon the completion of a job, they are easy to dole out at meetings. Provide Billboard, giving out the bottleneck information regarding your business — name of your business, complete address, name of a contact person, complete phone number and an appropriate slogan or description of the business.
Referrals – For your consulting business, a pleased client can be an incredible marketing device. Once you are done with the projects with your clients and they are content with your performance, ensure that you plead for referrals and recommendations.
Cold Calling – When operating a business, selling is an integral part of it. The power structure of an organization is to be researched carefully, when doing the cold calling. Through practice and by harnessing the sales pitch, you have to prepare yourself thoroughly and besides this, you need to make your closing techniques better too. In order to improve your cold calling techniques, go through the books, be present at training and seminars or hire a coach.
Books, Articles and Newsletters — Getting your books, articles and newsletter published can help you immensely in instituting your reputation. To be an author of a book can be very beneficial as you will be fetched with the new clients for your business.
Public Speaking — Public speaking is a brilliant way to show the signs of your expertise to an involved audience. To present your expertise, you might need to drop a line to the organizations and clubs in your area.
Brochures – It can be pricey but it is of an essence for any business for which the potential customer wants the complete information about the qualifications and expertise of the owner and the services and of the products which have been put forward. Further information can be making available in a brochure that would be practical for a classified ad. Brochures can be mailed and distributed at a doorstep or can be given out at a community events and trade shows as well.
Advertising – By giving the advertisement in your most popular newspaper, you can lift-up a number of customers, not taking the area of specialization in a consideration. Newspaper advertising can be of use for a small business. By means of classified ad, loads of people can be getting in a touch. Costs of an ad get fluctuate according to the frequency of a publication and circulation areas.
Yellow Page directories — This sort of advertising is used very extensively. A telephone company advertising staff will facilitate you in devising an ad that will present your business in an efficient manner. Grasp this thing very attentively that directories are published at a varied times of the year.
Direct Mail advertising — By means of postcard, sales letter mailings and brochures, advertising of the Direct mail solicitation can be done. Direct mail can be exercised in distributing the letters, discount coupons, promotional give-away and brochures. It distributes exact information in a specific way to a vivacious crowd. If you are running a mail-order business, than direct mail advertising is perfect for the reason that you can target your advertising.
Promotional gimmicks – Gimmicks is the another way of drawing an attention. For example — t-shirts are use to endorse your product or service, pens festooned with your logo and balloons with your business name.
Commencing in the region of marketing business consulting entails more than an expertise in your field, it comprises — communication skills, several financial intellect and business as well as marketing savvy to succeed. Above all, you need to be courage personified to in order to commence for a business.
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E-Business Consulting- Advantages and Disadvantages
The Internet market can be a complex landscape for the novice entrepreneur. However, in this age of advanced technology, and with the services sector expanding at a phenomenal pace, one can find a consultant for almost all business related requirements, including the increasingly popular e-business of today. E-business consultants take it upon themselves to help you to understand the intricacies of the e-business world, so that you are equipped to develop and implement winning marketing ideas, to make your business venture a success.
There are mainly two forms of e-business consultants available: paid or free e-guides, or e-business consultants, online and books. Both these provide very useful insights about handling various e-business related issues. Let us check out both, beginning with e-business consultants.
E-business Consultants:
They will help you with practically everything, from advising you on your choice of system to providing help with the installation process. The main advantage of these consultants that they reduce your workload. The consultants will share a lot of your burden. All you need to do is specify your requirements, giving the details of your choices and your budget, and the consultant will help you to acquire it.
Good e-business consultants help you to analyze your specifications and then devise a workable technical design accordingly, plus installing all the required software, hardware and network requirements, in addition to identifying the most cost-effective solutions. They also offer training, or arrange for it, and provide on-going support.
The only disadvantage of e-business consultants is the cost. The consulting fee varies anywhere from $25 to $250 per hour, depending upon the experience and the skills of the consultant. They also quote per-project based fixed fee as an alternative option to the hourly rate. Before you choose any of the options, you need to compare both carefully, and make sure that the one you choose is clearly mentioned in the contract you make with them.
E-business guidebooks:
E-business guidebooks are inanimate consultants that help in handling all kinds of issues related to an e-business. Apart from helping entrepreneurs by way of developing a business plan, you can also consult them to design and operate your website, find out how to get the website registered, find a suitable Internet service provider, and what computer equipment would be required for operating a website.
These guides also help budding entrepreneurs to avoid quick-rich schemes on the Internet and posting the privacy policies on the website. They also provide tips of how to market your business in the best possible manner, in order to differentiate your company from that of your competitors, including the various methods of advertising like making use of online communities, chats, blogs and forums, or banner advertising and podcasting.
Some guides also help entrepreneurs to find safe order solutions. They also provide tips on how to use the website to accept purchase requests, and sell software or other downloadable items. This module also includes tips to fight against viruses, and how to protect the website and computers with anti-virus software. However, of course, they can only solve common problems. If unique problems crop up, these guides would be of little help.
Both the consultants have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is up to each entrepreneur which consultant they select. The size of the business can help in making the decision. If the business involves more than 50 PCs, then it is probably a better idea to involve a human consultant, rather than a book, so that a round-the-clock support system is available. And if the business has only two to three PCs, a guidebook can be more cost-effective and informative.
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Business Consulting Even an Idiot Could Understand
Utilizing business consulting services is useful, effective and potentially very accessible. But, with so many consultants, publications and vendors weighing in with their own perspective and opinions, it can be very confusing.
Business consulting refers to the industry and the practice of helping businesses improve their performance, usually through the analysis of business problems and development of plans for improvement. Businesses may choose to invest in business consulting services for a number of reasons, including gaining outside objective advice and recommendations, to gain access to the consultants’ specialized expertise, or simply as temporary help.
Because of their exposure to and relationships with numerous organizations, business consulting agencies are also said to be aware of industry ‘best practices.’ However, transferring practices that have successfully improved one business to another is not always practical or feasible.
Business consulting agencies may also provide managed services, development of coaching skills, IT solutions, technology implementation, strategy development, or application management services. Business consulting agencies generally bring their own patented practices or frameworks to identify problems, and to serve as the basis for recommendations for more effective or efficient ways of performing business tasks.
Many business consulting agencies have expanded in the last few years to provide other services, such as IT solutions, human resource consulting, and other managed services. So-called ’boutique’ consultancies, however, are smaller organizations specializing in one or a few of the above services.
Similar to business consulting, management consulting is becoming more prevalent in non-business related fields as well. As the need for professional, informed and specialized advice grows, other industries such as government and not-for-profit agencies are turning to the same managerial principles that have helped the business sector for years.
One important and recent change in the industry has been the spin-off or separation of the consulting and the accounting units of the large diversified firms. For these firms, which began as accounting firms, business consulting was a new extension to their business. But devastated by a few highly publicized scandals over accounting practices, such as the Enron scandal, accounting firms began splitting from their business consulting units, to more easily focus on and comply with tighter regulatory scrutiny that arose following the scandals.
Business consulting is a fast growing industry, with growth rates surpassing twenty percent in the 1980s and 1990s. As a business service, consulting is highly linked to overall economic conditions. The consulting industry shrank during the 2001-2003 period, but has seen a slowly increasing growth since. In 2007, total global revenues for business consulting are expected to exceed the $300 billion mark.
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Brainstorm Business Ideas With A Business Consultant
A business consultant could help you take your business to the next level. Sometimes company owners are too close to the business to see practical ideas for improvement that are staring them in the face. That’s where business consultants can help. They have experience of a range of businesses and can pick some of the best ideas they have found to help you. If you find it difficult to generate innovative ideas for business growth and promotion, hiring a consultant is a good move. Expect your consultant to spend some time getting to know you and your business and teasing out information about your true goals. For example, you may want to boost profitability in your business, but is your final aim to create a business that you can sell on or to be able to afford business expansion? The strategies the business consultant recommends may vary depending on your answer.
Check Out The Competition
One good way to figure out your next move is to see what your competitors are doing and how you could do it better. When business consultants do a business review, the next logical step is a competitor analysis. This will examine where your competition is and how the market sees them. Expect this analysis to reveal some areas that you could do better with your business strengths. Your consultant will have contacts with people who can help you to gain a competitive advantage and he or she will use those contacts on your behalf. Networking with customers and suppliers can give you valuable insight into what you need to do next to become a market leader.
Don’t Ignore The Web
These days, you can’t afford to ignore the internet. Ideally, your business consultant will help you brainstorm ideas for expanding your web presence. Whether this consists of setting up a sales portal or finding a way to improve your search engine ranking, this is an essential part of promoting your business. A business consultant can help you to make your web strategy part of an overall plan for achieving your business goals. This is a key person when improving your business, so choose your consultant wisely. Look for someone with a strong track record in helping businesses grow, change and succeed, with the references and testimonials to prove it. Then you can be sure that you have discovered the right consultant for both you and your business.
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Business Consultancy
Business Consulting Services deals with efforts in making business professional, cost effective for the business and information technology communities.
Business consultants are admired for their expertise and relied upon in every industry in every country. No doubt in this that they are the highly paid people and their advice is highly valued.
If one wants to become a business consultant he/she can choose to specialize in a variety of areas, including:
communications consulting
e-business consulting
operations consulting
marketing consulting
organizational development consulting
small business consulting
human resources consulting (HR consulting)
strategic planning consulting
technology consulting (IT consulting)
any other areas organizations need professional advice
Consultancy Services are categorized into following processes:-
Optimizing applications and workload – Service where business consultants help their clients in aligning applications to business strategy, prioritize critical work requests and plan internal resources
Improving productivity – Service where clients are helped in designing a process to work more efficiently.
Ensuring effective outsourcing – Service where clients are made to assess outsourcing suitability of applications and infrastructure, design governance structure to manage relationship issues in global outsourcing and manage organizational change involved in an outsourcing initiative.
Business consultants provide the following services mentioned below:-
Consulting Services:-
Consultants are always helpful in trying to find new creative ways to market your business products and services.
Research
They provide qualitative and quantitative research to help people to find the proper solutions for the business.
Planning
They provide business planning in all the areas of business to assure your business success. They create simple business plans as well as complex global change and growth strategies.
Training and Seminars
They provide training in all aspects of business & make largest selection of the most comprehensive business seminars available. They also host business conferences and trade shows to address specific business needs.
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