Business Coaching Blog - Doug Holt

What Get’s Measured Gets Done – Especially in Search Engine Marketing

When looking at how well your website is doing in the search engines, there are many factors to take into consideration. Without a doubt, one tool all business owners and search engine marketers should be using is Google’s own metric tools. Google will track the impressions, clicks, average position, and the click through rate. But what does that mean? Here’s what Google has to say: SEO Metrics The Search Engine Optimization reports in Analytics use…

SEO Proposals

Sorting through SEO proposals can be about as fun as going to the dentist. OK, that’s a low blow. The dentist isn’t that bad. Here are four key points to look at when picking a company to help you out with your Internet marketing: Set-up Fee. The set-up fee makes sense for some applications. Set up for quality SEO can take time, but when I read contracts that businesses sign I’m amazed at how much is being charged for basic…

Creating Search Engine Friendly Articles

When you’re writing an article, blog post, or informative item for the Internet, chances are you want it to be found. Unless this is a sales specific page, you want to make sure your title is search engine friendly. People don’t search for clever, alternative phrases on the Internet. When people search for things like “fish tanks in Denver” or “best brunch in Orange County”, they’re not searching for “Something’s fishy in the Mile High” or “Crab cakes and crepes…

5 Ways to Good Search Engine Optimization – SEO

Content Freshness It’s no mystery – search engines such as Google and Bing LOVE fresh content. This is one reason blogs have become so popular with larger businesses. They are easy to update and to update frequently. You don’t have to write the next Iliad, but you do want your content to be readable. That is to say, you don’t want to just write content for search engines, but you want to write them to be read. Sure, it’s wise…

Failure

Risk is the spice that gives the bowl of life you’re sucking down at dinner some actual flavor. Everyone likes to talk about success, but let’s face it, we all fail. If you aren’t failing, you aren’t taking risks, and if you’re not taking risks, you’re not truly trying. “Fail” – it’s the four letter word that most people avoid as they grow up. You don’t want to fail a test in school, or fail to make the team, or…

Q and A with Strength Coach Doug Holt

Is it better to train your abs at the beginning or the end of a workout? I always recommend that you train your abdominals at the end of a workout. Why? Your abdominals both protect your spine and stabilize your rib cage. They are also the powerhouse of the body. If they are functioning properly, your energy, or strength, should be transferred through your abdominals to your limbs. By not fatiguing these muscles, it will allow you to exercise the…

Happy New Year!

New Year’s Resolutions are plentiful – 70% of us make them. Here are some good ways to keep your resolutions. Join a contest: A contest could be just what the doctor ordered. Contests such as Conditioning Specialists’ Biggest Winner Challenge incentivize its contestants to stick to a program by offering prizes to its participants and the potential of a hefty cash prize. These types of contests also offer accountability to the participants whom enter – one of the top reasons…

Leading for Loyalty

How do you keep good people once you’ve worked so hard to find and train them? Well, that’s a question that seems to perplex many top level executives and business owners. Turnover rates at companies are at an all-time high. Here are a few things you can do to make sure that doesn’t happen to you and your company: Use the Golden Rule. Yes, we’ve all been told the Golden Rule when we were kids, but the reason it’s a…

Fighting SPAM on your website

As a business owner, it’s important to get feedback from your clients and customers. Many of us have websites and forums that allow users, registered or not, to place comments and share ideas. Sadly, this is also where spammers lurk. These gnats of the Internet can clog your website, slow down your speed, lower your SEO ranking, and just plain bother people. Here are a few tips to make spam harder to reach your site and thus cause a majority…

7 Tips to a Leaner You

Start with small steps. A pound of body fat consists of approximately 3500 calories. A small deficit of 250 calories a day will cause you to lose a pound of body fat over two weeks. Changing the milk in your mocha from whole to nonfat will save you 100 calories alone. Don’t forget the weights. Weight training is the best way to reduce body fat and keep it off. Although putting on muscle increases your weight, the work put in…

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