Just bought another 20k words last month. buying @ 10-15k/mo ongoing now. I asked for two articles last month on some pretty unique content both @ 4k words each and the quality was as good as a top tier management consulting firm blog post.
Second order - 20K words - Provided Taylor's team @30 relevant articles across my niche. They delivered the articles with zero direction needed. Ordered on Saturday morning, delivered on Tuesday morning. Net-easy experience. TextBoss killed it.
Ordered 5x600 words. Taylor responded via Skype within an hour. I provided 3 sentences of vague direction to Taylor with links to content for copy rewrites.
Their copy was 100% unique and turned around next business day. The quality and level of content exceeded expectations. The author firmly...
Actually, this is almost identical a model I run as well. 90% of my clients barely use the Internet as they have an administrative staff that does that. I take a lot of offline businesses and put them online. I never talk to my clients about links, all they care about is more clients, more...
You are so right on this one
Other aspects of this are:
Not knowing what talent to look for - you think you need x but you really need y - e.g. I need a guy who can do estimates vs really needing a guy who has experience estimating and as a business development manager (note I did not say...
And here's another one to add to your list. PICK UP THE PHONE!!
This includes not hiding behind email, voicemail and all of that ridiculousness. I've had clients who do not answer the phone in the office, do not answer their vm or cell phones, do not call people back etc etc.
On top of this is...
I have worked with leadership at companies that try to make business rules for business rules that are not even in place yet and/or still be worked on 6-12 mos out!
Even worse is doing something by the book that has been done that way for years, the person who made the rules did so to eliminate...
My background ranges from my first sales job @ 19 working in a boiler room telemarking agency in 1989 slamming people in San Fran Chinatown barely speaking english from one long distance carrier to Sprint, selling Japanese new and used cars in the early 90's in a small midwest town between a...
@ Ccarter, I'm all in for one of these slots.
I am relaunching/branding a new arm of my business and have a new site, ready to go with zero traffic, zero SEO etc.
Please let me know next steps. Thank you.
wait another week and if it doesn't pop back, point it at another site on page 100 and see if it moves it up. Then you know if it is the 301 or your site with the issue. :)
All depends on the age and authority of the site you point it at.
I have seen cases where people try to neg a 10 year old domain with strong government backlinks using 3mil backlinks in a month. Site still standing strong 6 mos later.
Other new sites get tanked overnight.