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A Home-made Video Gone Viral, Getting Over 56 Millions Views.

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The boy in this video within a short period of time has become an internet sensation with his after-seeing-the-dentist reactions and has since been interviewed on CNN and the video has appeared on the list of top 50 internet videos on Times magazine.

This is the phenomenon of the vast acceptance of a message that is not trying to sell something, not trying to show that someone is an ‘expert’ etc.

This is just pure family fun.

So, as good students of marketing, what can we learn from this?

What kind of messages are you putting out in your marketing?

Are your current messages saying things like “Dr XYZ has 10 years of experience” or “We have state-of-the-art equipment” etc?
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The Futility of Spending Money and Time On Your Single Web Site

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

As I have consulted business owners on the subject of being found on the internet, I have found that there are many false hopes connected to having one’s nice corporate web site being picked up by Google or Yahoo under different keywords.

Those hopes of being found easily on Google under all kinds of keywords will never come true because your single web site is just NOT enough for Google, Yahoo and Bing to only feature your keywords and to display your one web site, and not considering your competitors’.

Plus Google will never ‘favor’ a site versus another. They have a strict criteria to decide which web sites get featured in the 10 spots of the 1st page and these 10 positions can change from day to day, as one web site might meet their criteria more than other sites and thus climb to the 1st page whereas another site might lose its position from the first 10 spots.

In conclusion, your single stand alone web site will never get you all the traffic you could get.

Even Microsoft’s main site does not come up under all software related keywords. If you Google “Office Software”, Microsoft’s web site does come up on the 1st page (among plenty of other competitors as well).

But type in “word processing software” and Microsoft’s site disappears from the 1st page.

It is already quite an accomplishment to many web site owners to appear on the 1st page of Google under their profession, such as a dentist in XYZ city showing up on the 1st page when someone types in “XYZ City Dentist”.

But how about if you could also appear when someone types in “XYZ City Teeth Whitening” or “XYZ City Dental Implants” ?

That would just mean inquires – by the truckload!!

Most local business owners draw from a 4-6 miles radius in terms of business area. Let’s say you draw from 6 different cities including your own.

But despite your best effort, you can only appear on the 1st page of Google under your own current city name with your profession.

Does that mean you are only getting 1/6 of your potential leads? Unfortunately yes!

For eg, a dentist in West Los Angeles may appear on the 1st page of Google when someone types “West Los Angeles Dentist”.

But when someone types in other city keywords like “Los Angeles Dentist” or “Beverly Hills Dentist” (say he also draws from Beverly Hills) his ONE web site will have a hard time coming up also on the 1st page.

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This dentist may win with 1 keyword “West Los Angeles Dentist” but he could not dominate Google or Yahoo with other city keywords.

The above impasse has frustrated many business owners and after spending quite some time and money already on search engine optimization and ‘redesigning’ and ‘re-developing’ their single web site, most people give up doing more on the internet.

Is there a more direct way to show up on the 1st page of Google without advertising and without spending more time to ‘revamp’ your current site?

Yes, there is. There are actually 2 ways.

One would be to have other large web sites that have traffic carry your messages, your web link and your videos in large quantities (thousands) so that Google will showcase you.

The second way would be to have more than 1 web site – the more the merrier. We suggest at least 25.

Before you start to feel apathetic about the amount of work that is needed to get all the strategies set up, talk to us about how to automate some of the processes and also how to have professional companies doing some of the work for you

http://unadvertise.com/newpatientsmarketing/?page_id=241

The more you educate yourself, the more you can dominate the internet game and leave your competitors in the dust!

Helmut Flasch

How to Improve Visbility on Google

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

One of the common questions my staff and I got asked frequently regarding appearing on top rankings in Google is this: “How do I make myself visible through Google?” or “Why is my competitor’s site on the 1st page and mine is not?”

If you do not know the rules of the search engine game, you will always wonder why your site is not coming up on the 1st page of Google under ALL keywords and at the end, after spending lots of money and time on it with little returns, you might simply just tell yourself that there are NO patients/customers that you could get from the internet.

I just spoke with one of my newer clients, a dentist in Los Angeles, who has played the search engine game for about 10 years now ( even before he became our client).

He is getting 20 new patients from the internet every month! He is getting those results because he knows about the good and bad practices of internet strategies and have gone through them in the last 10 years.

He signed up with our service because he would still like to get even more!

For doctors and business men out there who want to see more patients coming in from the internet, don’t ignore the rules.

Roll up your sleeve and learn about the rules of the game — you will have a higher chance of winning!

Thankfully, many technologies exist to cut down the amount of work you need to do.

Here is a video from Matt Cutts, an engineer from Google on a few criteria which would help Google to position you well:

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The 25-Web-Sites Strategy

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The 25-Web-Sites Strategy

Is the Equivalent of the Type of
Amplifier Rock Stars are Using to be Heard

and YOU DO WANT TO BE HEARD – Don’t You?

The principle is simple:

Get one lottery ticket and you have one chance to win.

Get 25 lottery tickets and you have 25 times the chance of winning.

Many of you are constantly trying to get 1 or 2 of your web sites to be on the first page of Google and other search engines. Why not have at least 25 sites, and have each one of them come up under different keywords combinations?

And it gets better.

Because if you get 25 web sites instead of one then you not only increase your chance of the grand prize by 25 times but you will have a synergistic and tactical approach to dominating the internet game when it comes to general exposure on the internet.

As the above sentence might indicate there is more – much more — to the fact of having a 25 sites exposure.

Let me point out some of the most important points in the
“getting actual and real business from the web”

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Becoming A Hands-Free Business Owner – The Way Out Of Being Overworked and Underpaid

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Though most of us love what we do in our profession, and many people do put in 60 to 70 hours a week working hard at our profession, most of us would also not mind enjoying the freedom to take off whenever we like to pursue other interests in life.

Small businesses stay small because the small business owner thinks that his or her presence is constantly needed to produce business income.

He or she is right to a high degree. After all, the business owner is usually also the more competent sales person, the producer, the smoother customer service person, the stricter quality control person, etc.

Well, ‘someone’ needs to do the dirty work of making money and so many business owners decide that they shall slave, — I mean, work —  hard for the business until they retire.

Below are two videos which I have made on why some people feel that they are overworked and underpaid.

Watch the videos if you also would like more free time and to make more money without spending more hours at your work! :)

If you need help with this strategy, drop a comment. I will be glad to steer you in the direction you wish to go to.

Helmut Flasch

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