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Building Links With a Staff Xmas Present

There has been much said about building links this year and we thought it would be a good idea to give you a quick and simple technique to help your search engine optimisation process and give your staff a Xmas present. You are a great boss after all!

Solution

Simply ask all your staff who has a blog and ask your staff if they would consider placing a footer link in their blog that is keyword rich to your site. In return every year you will pay for the hosting fees for their blog on their own domain, if they are not hosting on their own domain name offer to pay for the domain name registration as well. This could make a great little Xmas present to your staff every year, but it is best get them something else as well!

Important

You should make it perfectly clear that the ownership of the blog is 100% theirs regardless of the hosting or domain name fees you will pay. Offer to sign a contract stating that you (your business) are not entitled to ownership of the blog or part there of regardless of the fees that are being paid. This may help them be comfortable with the idea.

One Step Further

After you have set up an army of bloggers within your business offer to allocate a set amount of time each week for them to blog during work hours. See some of the possible benefits below of implementing this.

Benefits

You will be cool boss because:

you give your staff time to blog during work, saves them time after work as well.
gives them a break from their everyday task
re stimulates the minds of your employees and generates creativity
employees are happier creating a happier working environment
creativity in employees flows over into the work place increasing productivity and enthusiasm for their job and work place
Customers have a better experience with your employees because they are happier
YOU BUILD KEYWORD RICH LINKS that help your online marketing campaigns.
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If your staff are willing to do this it would be very beneficial to your search rankings.

When adding the keyword links to your employees blogs, change the location of the H1 HTML tags on the blog template and the individual page template to be surrounding the keyword link to the business site in the footer. You will need to change the CSS for the H1 tag so the links blends in and is not RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!

Optional

If you end up with a few bloggers for your cause, it would be a good idea to allocate pages for certain employees to link to.

For example, Blogger Employee 1 links to home page, Blogger Employee 2 links to sub page 1, Blogger Employee 3 links to sub page 2 etc.

Negative Xmas Elf Read This First!

For those of you that don’t think this will work, why not try it out first.

Let us know the results or you could just send us a Xmas present now because we think you will be shocked at the response in the work place and in the search engines.

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Using Wedding Cake Flowers to Add Beauty to the Presentation

Flowers are an integral part of every wedding, right down to the cake itself. Wedding cake flowers can add an extra touch of beauty and grace to the end result. There are many common ways for them to complement the design and flow of your presentation. For starters, having them on the table around the cake really spices up the overall look and feel. Placing a small corsage on the top of it is one popular option, as is spreading some flower petals on top of the cake. Flashier arrangements might spread from the bottom of the cake to its top.

In the past, artificial flowers were the most common choice. Whether sugar flowers meant to be eaten or silk flowers just for decoration, fake flowers were the ones often used. This is because while beautiful, many of them can also be toxic. Fortunately, most florists are keenly aware of which types might present a danger to the guests. Thus, it’s possible to use fresh, real flowers to garnish a wedding cake. Many florists can even provide options where you can actually eat the flowers that will be a perfect match for your cake.

Using edible flowers will often be a more expensive option, however. Since most flowers are commonly grown with pesticides, it can be difficult to find ones that are grown naturally for a good price. If it’s in the budget however, using this option can really add something unique to your reception ceremony. Your guests will love the beauty, and the overall presentation will definitely be enhanced.

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3 Things Great Negotiators Do

First, in the beginning, negotiators always focus on the relationship, realizing that even if they cannot reach agreement in this specific meeting, there will always be future opportunities. They prepare and plan for a positive environment, how will they manage the conflict, who is in the room and how can they show respect to each person in the meeting.

Common ground is a key behavior that great negotiators know can overcome conflicting issues and build trust into the process. People like to deal with others when they feel they have something in common.

Good negotiators seek to create a positive working climate with the other party. “A critical element in any negotiation – and one that frequently causes the most anxiety – is the quality of the working relationship we have with the other party. A good working relationship enables us to handle our differences efficiently.” (Fisher and Ertel, 1995)

A clear agenda needs to be created including date, time, issues to be covered, etc. as well as the names of all negotiators. This agenda should be created in consultation with the other party. (Fuller, 1991) They want to make sure that everyone has a voice in the meeting who wants one.

Effective negotiators take much more time discussing areas of common interest and the attractiveness of reaching agreement than poorer negotiators. (Pruit and Rubin,)

Secondly, great negotiators always know what they want and are willing to ask for it. They use assertive language that shows clarity and purpose. “Here is what we want…”This is what we are looking for…My suggestion is that we do it like this.”

Effective negotiators state a clear opening need and stick to it until they sense the other party clearly understands it.

And thirdly, great negotiators ask more questions. Researchers tell us that they ask three times more questions than ordinary negotiators.

Good negotiators ask “problem-solving questions” to understand the other’s position and underlying needs (Ury, 1991) and look for possible ways to reach agreement. ” There will almost certainly be some shared interests on which it may be possible to build. There will also almost certainly be features of the conflict where we can satisfy some interest of the other side without causing damage to any significant interest of our own.” (Fisher, Kopelman, Schneider, 1994)

After they ask these questions they display by listening and paraphrasing skills to check understanding. Successful negotiators more frequently paraphrase and check for understanding than the average negotiators. They also ask significantly more questions. (Rackham, 1976)

Follow these 3 tips and not only will you be a better negotiator but you will build your reputation as someone who is great to negotiate with, strong, clear and respectful.

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