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I believe there are two essential strategies in business.

1: Never reveal all you know.

2: Joking apart, sometimes business owners get caught up in business development and business growth and end up not being able to see the wood for the trees.

Many directors only ever consider conventional academic business training from leading consultancy agencies. However sometimes we are presented with excellent free business case studies, which identify fantastic business growth strategies that are never considered in conventional business universities.

One such business study falls under the auspice of brand building and brand awareness. Business experts recognize it as self promotion and free advertising.

Business Consultant Provides Insider Business Advice Tips To Fast Track Your Business Growth # 1 Self Promotion Free Advertising

If you want to know how to run business or how to achieve growth in business then it’s wise to consider alternatives to a conventional business support service or business management training offered by a business consultant or business experts.

To fast track your business growth the best insider business advice is to study celebrities like Katie Price AKA Jordan a master of the consultancy favored art of self promotion & free advertising.

Many business owners fail to realize the relevance or importance of self promotion free advertising for achieving the exponential growth of business.

And yet some of the great heavyweight business entrepreneurs gain maximum publicity which in turn raises their business brand recognition which ultimately leads to increased sales.

One only has to look at the likes of Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Paris Hilton, Madonna and the current UK phenomenon of Katie Price AKA Jordan the model and highly successful business woman.

As a very successful model Katie Price participated in a UK TV reality program called, ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here,’ which was filmed in an Australian jungle six years ago.

Although she was never known as a shrinking violet, she ruthlessly grabbed every opportunity for her business self promotion.

It worked out fantastically for her. She fell in love with one of her jungle camp mates and married him. The press fell in love with this celebrity couple and they graced front page media publications throughout the six year period they remained married.

Six years later the divorce caused a split in the public’s perception of the couple, and it was played out in the media and TV stations the world over. Irrespective of how rich you are you could just not buy this amount of business and self promotion advertising.

Following her divorce,her husband seemed to be gaining the upper hand as the darling of the UK media, Katie Price pulled another fantastic ace from up her sleeve and entered this years, ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here,’ TV Show.

Massive ratings ensured she received unbelievable opportunities for business and self promotion which as mentioned turns into business growth.

This intelligent and business savvy business woman knows how to run business and she will go down in business circles as the master of self promotion and free advertising. And rightly so, she has taken her knocks and always comes out fighting.

Business experts understand precisely what she is doing and how this translates into growth in business. Sadly you just don’t get this type of insider business advice on many of the business management training programs.

The business consultant or management consultancy agency tasked with providing her business support service can only be overjoyed at the ease with which she turbo charges her business growth.

Her business demeanor proves the phrase, ‘it’s not how many times you get knocked down, it’s how many times you get up again’ to be valid.

If you think you could never personally utilize self promotion free advertising as part of your business growth strategy, then think again. Most of us have already done it to a certain extent, but many of us have forgotten, or not even realized we have done it.

Think back to your school days when your teacher asked you a question and you raised your hand to answer. This was a form of self promotion and you were prepared to advertise to your audience that you knew the answer.

Every individual business consultant refers to this as shameless self promotion, which is extremely valuable to the growth of business.

The opposite of shameless self promotion, is called shameful self promotion. This is when high profile or celebrity individuals cross the line in search of free media advertising coverage.

A perfect example of this was in November 2009 when Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Conservative Party leader both instructed their personal photographers to take a photograph of them individually posing in front of the mass of crosses symbolizing the deaths of our UK armed service personnel.

When rumbled, both had to issue a hasty apology.

Good, bad or indifferent, this self promotion worked as both of these individuals were splashed across front pages of International press & TV publications. If nothing else business experts concur there is no such thing as bad free business advertising.

Insider business advice suggests that there are two forms of self promotion, covert and overt. Overt self promotion is utilized by business owners like Katie Price Jordan.

In order to achieve growth in business she is very determined to identify the best business opportunities which will grant her maximum publicity. She is totally unafraid to appear in question and answer TV programs where the TV presenter asks her very personal questions.

If anyone really knows how to run business then its Katie Price.

Perhaps when she gets older and decides to slow down, she might move into business consultancy offering business support service and business management training because this business woman has a PHd in business development skills achieved at the ‘University of Hard Knocks.’

Before you consider self promotion as a means of gaining free media advertising then you should spend a little time researching who else utilities this

insider business advice

Politicians are the industry leaders in this field. Think back to Tony Blair, Margret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and George Bush. Every single one of these politicians mastered the art of self promotion.

Many celebrities utilize self promotion to sell tickets to their performances.

Business entrepreneurs like Alan Sugar, Duncan Banatyne, Peter Jones, James Caan and Debra Meadon frequently utilize self promotion to raise their business brand awareness to fuel their business growth.

Business experts advise caution when business owners consider adopting self promotion strategies into their growth in business strategic plan.

There is a fine line between mastering self promotion and getting it completely wrong, which ultimately translates into halting the growth of business.

Usually it is the overt style that comes across as being dignified and shameless. Frequently the overt style which often, but not always appears to be undignified.

To sell yourself as dignified self promotion you have to ensure you can deliver what you are saying you can deliver. If you can’t, then people will know you have no real credibility and no real understanding of how to run business.

Every consultancy agency offering you a business support service and/or business management training should strive to ensure you don’t fall into this lack of business credibility trap, because every business consultant knows that it very difficult, and sometimes impossible to recover from a mistake like this.

A simple slip of the tongue can sometimes have a devastating effect on your business. No one knows this more that Gerald Ratner who was the high flying owner of the UK chain of jewelers known as Ratner’s.

He simply joked about some of the jewelery he sold as being crap at a dinner function. Sadly his self promotion backfired when the press and media widely reported his comments. His jewelery business folded soon after and he has never really recovered his high profile business entrepreneur status since.

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Dr. Mark D. Yates The International Business Guru & Growth Consultant grows businesses fast delivering exponential growth, increased turnover & profit margins. He delivers business support to small, medium & large businesses in 42 countries. To claim his FREE business case files visit his web site at http://www.markdyates.bcoss.org or e-mail him at drmarkdyates@aol.com

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Owning Page 1 of Google for Your Name

Have you ever Google your own name?

How many of the listings on page 1 are about you?

How many are about some other jack ass that just happens to be lucky enough with the exact same name as you?

If a potential client or customers is researching you, the first place they will go to (in most cases) is Google. Of course, your website should be there, but what are some other easy ways to own the 1st page with more content about you?

It’s actually not terribly hard, and it doesn’t require a whole lot of work.

Just create profiles on these social media sites, and be somewhat active, and you will rocket to the top within weeks or even days if your name isn’t too competitive.

Amazon.com – since we all know “poor people have big televisions and rich people have big TV’s” …all of us should have a large collection of books. If you read, why aren’t you ordering all your books Amazon.

Amazon lets you to make a profile that includes all your relevant info…and lets you review books (and anything else they sell…which is just about everything). Each review links back to your profile and once you get enough links you will start to see it pop up in the search results.

Naymz.com – this is probably the only site on the list you haven’t heard of, and I don’t really use it at all…but it’s on the first page of the search engines for my name. All I did on Naymz was set up an account when a friend sent me an invitation, and then sent invites to my contact list. That was it.

I’ve gone in maybe 5 times in the last 2 years to manage invite requests. Don’t expect to make a lot of valuable connections here, this is just super easy to get set up and see fast results.

Facebook.com – if you aren’t highly involved with Facebook already you’re a big marketing chance. Get your account set up, then, just like with LinkedIn, upload your contact/client/prospect list. However, don’t add more than 500 connections in one day. Once you have enough friends you can set up a vanity url. Then, choose a variation of your name (i.e. facebook.com/brian.horn). If you build a decent sized Friends list, you should see it at the top of the search engines.

Twitter.com – not to beat a dead horse, but Twitter is a must for entrepreneurs.

Side note: I just got back from speaking engagement at a Social Media Summit in Las Vegas very early this morning (this blog post is actually being typed 30,000 feet in the air somewhere over Utah), and had a chance to meet Tony Hseish, who is the CEO of Zappos.com. Very cool guy who is extremely active on Twitter.

You need to be interacting with your clients and potential clients in this new media or another person will, but if you need an another excuse, its quite easy to get your Twitter page to rank of the search engine also. Like the others I mentioned, just create a vanity url with your name, and start getting as many connections as possible.

LinkedIn.com – LinkedIn is more of a tool for people in the corporate world, and I reeally don’t us it at all. But you can still get it to rank on page 1 of Google. Use a vanity url with your name or company name (whatever you are trying to rank for). Fill it out completely and try to get a few recommendations. You can upload your email list and quickly find out which ones are active menbers.

You can also upload your client email addresses, or even your prospect list (I highly recommend connecting with everyone…especially now that Linked In can automatically receive your Twitter updates…you don’t even have to login to LinkedIn to keep fresh content.

Very cool update that came out a few days ago. All your contacts within LinkedIn will link back to your profile. The more links back to it, the better. Get enough and your profile will start to rank.

Summary

So there you have it…5 social media sites that allow you to create profile that can rank on page 1 of Google for your name.

I didn’t spend any time trying to make this happen for myself, it was just a pleasant side result of being active in other social media/social networking sites. Although I have been able to replicate it for some of my clients.

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Brian Horn, of HornDog Search Marketing, is recognized by many as the “Glazer-Kennedy Secret Weapon” because of his role in helping not only Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer with search engine optimization and social media, but also many of the top Information Marketers in the world. He recently released product that walks you through the process of ranking a website on page 1 of Google (http://www.beonpage1ofgoogle.com )

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