The World is Changing. Are You?

The World is ever Changing and You Must Keep Up with the Pace!

I am not talking about the weather or global warming here. I am talking about Business!

No matter what business you are running, you surely want to monitor or at least find out what your competitors are doing. Do you know that you can do this with just few clicks on your computer? And the best of part of it is that you will have your competitors daily activities sent to your mail box?

Isn’t that interesting? Ok, I better stop bragging here. The answer is very simple – Google Alerts.

What you have to  do is to go to Google Alerts and key in the keywords of your business. For example, if I am in the Discount Coupon Business, then I will key in  “discount coupon’ in Google Alerts.

Google will capture all activities online in related to ‘discount coupon’ and send all the info or news of ‘discount coupon’ to my mail box. What I have to do is to check my mail box to find out what other people are doing online to promote the ‘discount coupon’ business. The alerts normally come in News, Blogs and Web forms. It is very comprehensive. As you can see from the image above, you can choose to receive the alerts everyday or once a week or as it happens.

Why is this information important to you? Let’s say I am in Discount Coupon Business. With all the Google Alerts I am getting, I know what other people around the world are doing in this business. I know what kind of discount coupons are given out, how they talk the merchants into giving them very good discounts etc. And I also know in what ways the discount coupons are given out, i.e. via sms? online print out? attached in the magazine? Basically you have all the up-to-date info in front of you everyday! You will have the upper hands over your local competitors easily. Imaging the Era without internet….

For those who are interested in Search Engine Optimisation, you will be able to build your banklinks on those websites which are related to your business or keywords.  (**Backlinks are the url (your website url) placed on other people websites that link back to your website.  The more quality backlinks you have, the higher chance your website will rank well in Google Search Result Pages). You can save yourself plenty of times from looking around online for the good websites to build your backlinks.  Google alerts basically tell you which websites are doing the same business and having the same  targeted keywords as yours. If you have your backlinks on those websites, then Google will consider that you are getting ‘votes’ from your peers of the same industry and therefore rank you higher.

So if you want to build your business, either online or offline, go and subscribe to Google Alerts now!

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