Thank you for asking.

The Future is at Stake.

My name is Bill Austin and this is my response to the most frequently asked question I hear.  I am quite well connected on various social media and social networking sites and more people connect to me every day.  New LinkedIn and Twitter connections often ask me “How Can I Help?”

As more and more people from twitter.com ask how they can help, I find it very difficult to fit a response into 140 characters.  This post has been created to make the response easier to manage within that character limit.

When I first started networking I would respond to each person with a non specific answer indicating that I was fine and would let them know if I needed any help. Later I began to reply with a specific answer that let people know precisely what I need and what I am passionate about.  Over the years, about one out of 10 people actually did any of the things that I list in the response.  To that 10 percent, I say “a fond and hearty Thank You.”  To the other 9 people I say, “Please read on and see how easy it is to help save the future.”

Thank you for connecting.

My primary goals these days involve survival through the current slump and positioning for explosive growth as the mental state of the nation begins to recover.  My passion in work is helping people grow their business.  My passion in life is helping grow the next generation of brilliant people who will continue to move the world forward.  Our company does a lot of volunteer work in the areas of Education, Health, Human Services, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and when my core team is too busy with lower order needs, we can’t help as much in those areas.

I am mostly working right now on building awareness of what my team can do to help people grow their businesses.  Once the business gets back to where it was before our real estate and mortgage clients vanished, I can get back to doing more of the charitable and philanthropic work that makes our communities better.

What we need primarily is more people having knowledge about what we do and more links to various articles on our website that communicate that information.

Here are some of our articles about Internet Marketing.  If you find any of these interesting, we would appreciate a blog post or link to those you find compelling and of value to your contacts and clients.

Does your Website Need Professional Help

Internet Marketing and all of its most important elements can be completely summed up in ten letters.

Small Business Internet Marketing Services

EBay Affiliate Success

Business Blogging

Bill Austin
(480) 998-0246

Some of the organizations we support and participate in include:

Community Information & Referral
Write to Congress and ask them to support national funding of 211 call centers.
Find your local 211 call center and offer to help.

The Maricopa County Fair Association

Scottsdale Job Network

American Legion Post 911

Metropolitan Youth Symphony

Starshine Academy

Arizona Technology Council

Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force

The American Diabetes Association’s Rip’s BAD Ride

Arizona-American Indian Science and Engineering Fair

Central Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CARSEF)

Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Arizona Science Olympiad

Arizona Technology Council Workforce Development Committee

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Your professional responsibility is to serve your clients.

How about growing your practice?

If you spent all your time on marketing, networking, referrals and developing qualified prospects, you’d have little time to meet client needs.

Chances are that you probably spend a good deal of your time using ineffective methods trying to find clients.

Does your law firm website generate all the leads, clients and billable hours that your partners and associates can handle? Marketing of service professionals is quite different than marketing a product. Services are largely intangible and the consumer cannot touch, taste, feel, test drive or observe them in action. Evaluation of the services attorneys provide tends to happen only after the service has been performed.

Referrals, while generally reported as an attorney’s top source of business, rely on a third party to provide prospects with information that can be of little relevance to your knowledge and expertise.

Networking groups are time-consuming and require constant attention.

Marketing must be a major priority for your business, but marketing must not be a major priority for you.

Concentrate on what makes you money.

Be a Lawyer, not an Internet Marketing Expert. You bill substantially more on an hourly basis than the most effective and competent legal firm marketing consultants around.

Stop wasting your valuable time!

Traditional marketing methods no longer work and reliance on a single source of new clients can be disastrous.

Let us help you generate leads, in-bound calls, appointments and other sources of effective relevant clients that can grow your business and build your practice on a continuous and consistent basis.

Whether your law office specializes in criminal law, dui, tax, family law, labor law, business law, employment law, bankruptcy law, real estate law, or any other multitude of other areas of focus, there are legal marketing strategies available to grow your practice.

A multi-media, multi-pronged marketing effort is required these days in order to break through the “Media Attention Deficit Disorder” that plagues marketing efforts in all industries today.

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During a recent Internet Marketing presentation, I was asked the following question:

How do you determine if your website needs professional help?

The determination that a particular company website marketing team is not doing well on their own and needs to hire professional Internet Marketing help is fairly easy. Convincing the company to actually take the action needed to get the help hired is much more difficult.To determine if your company is doing a dismal job of online marketing, perform the following searches:

1. Search for the company name on all three major search engines. (Google, Yahoo and MSN are the only search engines that provide any meaningful level of traffic.)

• Is the company website ranked #1 on all three search engines?
• Are there any negative references (reputation management problems) in the first 30 results?

2. Search for the name of the company principals on all three major search engines.

• Are positive references to the company principals listed #1 on all three major search engines?
• Are there any negative references in the first 30 results?

3. Search for the company’s main products and services and industries on all three major search engines.

• Are they listed on the first page (top 10) of results ?
• Are there any negative references to the company in the first 30 results for those search terms?

A recent Wall Street Journal article notes the importance to many people of their name Googling well. The same applies to a company name. Although that article primarily dealt with people’s personal names rather than business names, within that article there were a couple of relevant quotes.

The author of the Wall Street Journal article stated that Professional networking site LinkedIn Corp. says its members profile pages often turn up high in Google search results when the users opt to make the pages accessible to the public. This example of the LinkedIn.com Profile of Bill Austin bears this out since it currently ranks #8 on Google for Bill Austin and #3 on Yahoo for Bill Austin.

The other relevant quotation in the article comes from Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer, who was quoted as saying “Any time you can distinguish yourself with a distinctive name or a distinctive characteristic that sticks out in people’s minds, that’s going to be the best solution.” This applies to company names and branding just as it applies to your own name.

Another excellent example of name branding comes from a local Scottsdale Arizona business called Go Daddy Group where CEO and Owner Bob Parsons has cornered the market on his name on Google, Yahoo and MSN with his “Hot Points” Blog and a lot of high powered Public Relations and Marketing.

If your company website, company principals and company products and services are not listed high in the search results common search terms that an ordinary person would use to find and/or research your company, then you do need professional help to move your website from relative obscurity to the prominence it deserves in terms of search engine rankings. Hiring Professional Internet Marketing help could be the most important product or service you ever purchase.

Whether your online reputation is suffering from the impact of negative articles and reviews or is suffering from irrelevant website traffic due to use of last century’s technology in your web site design, structure and environment or lack of attention by your marketing or IT staff, a professional Internet Marketing Firm can cut through the political chaff strangling your company and fix your small business online presence.

Our goal is to educate clients on the importance of clean results for Internet searches for their company names, principals, products and services. With the advent of the Internet, more and more individuals and companies are relying on information contained in search results as part of their due diligence in researching companies before they consider doing business with them. Negative results impact sales. Positive results bring the potential for more business. AZhttp has the expertise to bring positive results to the forefront for searches for the company name, principals, products and services while causing negative search results to more to obscurity in the search results over time.

Successfully marketing and branding companies for their niche market can be an expensive proposition. Small businesses spend thousands of dollars annually in advertising, marketing and Information Technology (IT) and large businesses spend millions of dollars each month on those activities. Internet Marketing can level the playing field.

AZhttp’s premier Small Medium Enterprise product, Mega Tune Up, provides businesses with a low-cost solution to learn the steps they need to take to effectively market their website should they want to market their company, products and services internally. Stellar Tune Up trains your staff how to use state of the art search engine marketing principles and web 2.0 technology to market the business website internally. For companies with no internal marketing and IT staff, AZhttp, Inc. can serve in the capacity of these departments and work remotely to brand, market and grow businesses online.

Call us today at (480) 998-0246 for details or contact us by EMail.

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Biotechnology companies have a unique opportunity to promote their products and services and to increase brand awareness by utilizing the services available from AZhttp, Inc.  Whether you are a bio or pharma marketing executive looking for the best way to get your Biotech News message out to the public, investors and researchers, a venture capital manager looking for the next big thing to invest in, or a city, county or state economic development department official trying to create interest and buzz around your latest biotechnology development efforts and initiatives, we can tailor a program to fit your needs and to get the word out to the people who need to know.

Your goals may include:

• Promote biotechnology growth in a state or region.
• Identify and influence technical researchers to consider your company or region as a positive career move.
• Promote a particular product.
• Promote awareness of your company.
• Promote awareness of the industry as a whole
• Help improve the Biotech Workforce of a region or state.
• Raise awareness of biotechnology related opportunities among High School and college students.
• Raise awareness of biotechnology related opportunities among the transitional workforce.

We take a particular interest in promoting Arizona Biotech companies and initiatives such as the Translational Genomics Consortium (TGEN) but we have done work for companies all over the world and are always willing to review requirements and see how we can help.

Call us now at (480) 998-0246 or send an e-mail  for more information or to discuss your needs.

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Internet Marketing and all of its most important elements can be completely summed up in ten letters.

3 L’s
5 C’s
T and A ( or T & A )

The 3 L’s of Internet Marketing

In the real estate business there are three things that everyone knows are the most important three things needed to ensure success in real estate investing.

These three things are known as “The Three L’s” and are as follows:

1. Location
2. Location
3. Location

We all know that there is more involved with real estate success than simply location but if you don’t have a good location, all the rest will not matter.

Internet Marketing has a similar list of three L’s that are just as important to your online success as the 3 L’s of Real Estate are to success in real estate. The three L’s of Internet Marketing are:

1. Links
2. Links
3. Links

Links from other web sites pointing to your site are one of the most important factors in good search engine rankings. Appropriate, natural links from relevant sites within the same topic area as your site will build the value of your site in the eyes of search engines as well as sending interested visitors from the site linking to yours.

Just as in real estate, the three L’s are not all that you need but if you do not have good incoming links from valuable sites, nothing else you do will fix that problem.

The 5 C’s of Internet Marketing

The State Seal of the State of Arizona depicts the 5 C’s that were the backbone of the Arizona Economy back around 1912 when Arizona became a State and for decades later.

The five C’s were what made Arizona towns and communities grow.

School children in Arizona were taught that the five C’s: Copper, Cattle, Cotton, Citrus and Climate were the driving force behind Arizona’s economy.

Likewise, on the Internet there are 5 C’s that are the driving force behind the Internet economy. These 5 C’s define the most critical component of Internet Marketing and the most important factor in creating value and building community, wealth and power in the Internet economy.

Rather than being five distinct items, as is the case with Arizona’s five C’s, the five C’s of the Internet Economy is a simple phrase that completely defines the most important element of Internet Marketing and your key to success in building up your status on the Internet.

The 5 C’s of Internet Marketing are:

Continuous
Creation (of)
Clear
Compelling
Content

Or in active voice:

Continuously
Create
Clear
Compelling
Content

Each word is important.

Continuous means that you must be doing this all the time. You can no longer build a site, throw it out there and expect it to be well regarded and able to rank well on the search engines. Search engines like fresh material that has been updated recently so if you are not putting material on your site on a regular basis, you will not be achieving the true potential of your site.

Creation means that the material you put up on the Internet must be new and unique. It cannot simply be a copy of someone else’s material. It must be new enough that the search engines will not find dozens, hundreds or millions of copies of the same item while they are visiting other sites.

Clear means that the material needs to be well written, easy to understand, grammatically correct, spelled properly, translated by experts if necessary, and as concise and to-the-point as possible.

Compelling means that your material must be important enough, useful enough and understandable enough that people decide that they want to read it or see it, want to read or see all of it, and pass it on to others to read or see. Explosively successful viral marketing comes about as a result of compelling material, as visitors share it with friends, relatives, business associates, etc.

Content means that the material must have substance … a concept similar to the concepts of “mass” and “volume” used in physics. Words are content, text is content, some other kinds of media such as video, audio, and pictures are considered content by some people and will become more like content in the future but keep in mind the famous quote that sums up what is and is not loved by search engines.

“A picture is not worth 1000 words on the Internet.  The information is in the text.” – Bill Austin

If you create clear compelling content on a continuous basis and you build an environment that makes it easy for people to link to your site and share your site with others, you will find that The 3 L’s of Internet Marketing begin to build and as that happens you will quickly find that the third important element of Internet Marketing begins to build and create the conditions that catapult your site to the top of the search engines.

T & A of Internet Marketing

Everybody laughs.

It is an almost universal reaction when I stand in front of a large crowd and declare that T and A are the most important elements in Internet Marketing. I didn’t understand what was so funny about that until I went to Google and entered the search term:

define:”T & A”

Although I guess that “a Tonsillectomy and an Adenoidectomy performed at the same time” might be amusing to some, I still don’t find that particularly funny.  Am I missing something?

In the context of Internet Marketing, the term T & A stands for the absolute most important factors in online success, search engine rankings, and converting traffic to results (sales, revenues, profits, brand awareness, etc.).

T and A in the Internet context are Trust and Authority.

In the real world, people want to do business with well-known, knowledgeable (authoritative) and trustworthy people. On the Internet, search engines want to provide results that are useful and worthwhile to searchers and they have injected the elements of trust and authority into that goal. The major search engines seek to generate an estimate of the trustworthiness and authoritativeness of particular pages and web sites.

Trust and Authority can be derived from a number of factors.

Trust can be derived from elements of site design, site structure, site content, age of the domain, Top-level Domain (TLD) of the domain, and from the existence or creation of relevant links from trustworthy sites.

Authority can be derived from the existence or creation of large volumes of authoritative content as well as from the existence or creation of relevant links from authoritative sites.

Both authority and trust can be influenced by the age of links, the age of content, the quantity of links, the quantity of content, the relevance of links, the relevance of content, the context of links, the context of content, the diversity of links and the diversity of content.  It is all about links and content driving trust and authority.

The three L’s of Internet Marketing and the Five C’s of Internet Marketing serve to drive trust and authority and trust and authority influence the major search engines’ ranking algorithms and the results that they serve to the searching public.

Reputation management should be a major part of your marketing efforts.

Both online and offline – your reputation is the key to leads, referrals, sales and profits. Generating real world trust and authority and online trust and authority for your name, your company, and your brands, will go a long way toward making every other part of running your business fall into place.

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The following story was displayed on the eBay Affiliate site for over three years but has been removed due to a site re-design.

Learn from successful eBay affiliates and read how these businesses have become eBay Affiliate Program leaders!

Bill Austin & Kathee Austin (Business Model: Natural Search)

Bill Austin & Kathee Austin won a Hawaiian vacation for their rapid growth and great success on the eBay Affiliate Program. eBay ran a Hawaiian contest in 2003 that rewarded top affiliates in three different categories – Bill and Kathee’s reward was, as they described, “a trip of a lifetime!”

Bill Austin and Kathee Austin had a “fabulous vacation” that was well deserved. Their integrated marketing services company is highly successful in growing traffic to their web sites and increasing eBay registrations and bids during the contest period.

Using Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization techniques, they were able to increase website traffic by several hundred thousand impressions per day.Having already achieved great success with the eBay Affiliate Program, Bill and Kathee excitedly explain, “We’re looking forward to meeting future challenges through eBay’s affiliate programs. Thanks again, eBay!”

Screen Shot of the Original Story on the eBay site:

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