Try Marketing

Writing by Nick Stamoulis

I’m amazed at how many people get so fixated on seeking high search engine optimization Google rankings that they completely forget about Yahoo!, MSN Live, or Ask.com. Or even one of the thousands of other smaller search engines.

I’ve seen healthy traffic come from places like Dogpile or some obscure search engine that I’d never heard of and didn’t exist (and have often wondered how I got listed there in the first place).

Don’t get me wrong, Google will likely be your main source of traffic (if you do your SEO right). But there’s no rational reason to not attempt to get listed and ranked everywhere you can. You can still pick up a good 20% increase in search traffic just by having moderate to high rankings in the next three highest traffic search engines - Yahoo!, MSN Live, and Ask.com.

Search engine marketing and optimization is not an exact science. You can target one search engine and still find yourself listed higher in another. Be vigilant about checking your rankings in all the search engines and if you don’t see your website listed in a certain search engine after awhile

Take some time to submit your site to that search engine or find out what it takes to get crawled by its robots. Don’t get so fixated on Google that you forget everything else.

Here are some interesting statistics:

44% of all sales people quit trying after the first call

24% quit after the second call

14% quit after the third call

12% quit trying to sell their prospect after the fourth call

This means that 94% of all salespeople quit after the fourth call.  But 60% of all sales are made after the fourth call. This statistic shows that 94% of all sales people don’t give themselves a chance at 60% of the prospective buyers.
You have to have tenacity, to be successful, you have to ask, ask, ask, and ask.

ASK AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN!