Getting listed on “Google” is not only the most important thing a online or home based business operator can do, it’s the one thing any business must do. The main reason is simple. Google is the grand-daddy of search engines! When you manage to get your site on the first or second page of Google, then everything else will fall into place. Most smaller search engines get their information from Google. Even the bigger ones like Yahoo and MSN to a certain extent, use Google to retrieve listings from. So, if you do manage a listing on Google, you could also be on tons of other search engines that you’ve never even heard of. Now, I call that important!Yeah, But Getting on Can Be Mind-Blowing! How Do You Get Listed on Google?That’s a fact! The only way I know of that’s a sure thing is Pay-Per-Click or PPC for short. But PPC is full of drawbacks, especially for the beginner who is almost always working with a limited budget when they first start their home-based business. You can end up with your ad on page 25 of Google. On page 25, no one sees your ad! The only way to reach page one or two is to pay out the nose for certain key-words and phrases. But, like I said. Most beginners don’t have the money to “test” a ad on the first or second page of Google.There’s Other Ways! Mostly Over-looked Ways!Another way that I prefer is writing good informative content in the form of articles and blogs. I know, you say you can’t write and besides, no one wants to know anything that you might know! Right? Well, you may be totally wrong. Just about everybody knows something or knows how to do something that impresses someone else. For example, let’s say you where trying to sell a eBook on “Craft-Making for Profit”. First, read the eBook yourself and write a article about what you read. You could also go to Google and search the term “make money in crafts”. That would return a zillion results. Now all you need to do is read all the info that’s before you. Just kidding. Really all you need to do is read enough different articles and blogs to educate yourself on “Craft-Making for Profit”. Then write your own article and post it in a article directory, or post a blog. Google scans article directories and blogs looking for content. Once Google picks you up, your article or blog can stay on Google for years. Oh, did I mention. This is all FREE!I Have Another Secret Way I Use to Get Listed on Google!
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What Are The Greatest Changes In Shopping In Your Lifetime
What are the greatest changes in shopping in your lifetime? So asked my 9 year old grandson.
As I thought of the question the local Green Grocer came to mind. Because that is what the greatest change in shopping in my lifetime is.
That was the first place to start with the question of what are the greatest changes in shopping in your lifetime.
Our local green grocer was the most important change in shopping in my lifetime. Beside him was our butcher, a hairdresser and a chemist.
Looking back, we were well catered for as we had quite a few in our suburb. And yes, the greatest changes in shopping in my lifetime were with the small family owned businesses.
Entertainment While Shopping Has Changed
Buying butter was an entertainment in itself.
My sister and I often had to go to a favourite family grocer close by. We were always polite as we asked for a pound or two of butter and other small items.
Out came a big block of wet butter wrapped in grease-proof paper. Brought from the back of the shop, placed on a huge counter top and included two grooved pates.
That was a big change in our shopping in my lifetime… you don’t come across butter bashing nowadays.
Our old friendly Mr. Mahon with the moustache, would cut a square of butter. Lift it to another piece of greaseproof paper with his pates. On it went to the weighing scales, a bit sliced off or added here and there.
Our old grocer would then bash it with gusto, turning it over and over. Upside down and sideways it went, so that it had grooves from the pates, splashes going everywhere, including our faces.
My sister and I thought this was great fun and it always cracked us up. We loved it, as we loved Mahon’s, on the corner, our very favourite grocery shop.
Grocery Shopping
Further afield, we often had to go to another of my mother’s favourite, not so local, green grocer’s. Mr. McKessie, ( spelt phonetically) would take our list, gather the groceries and put them all in a big cardboard box.
And because we were good customers he always delivered them to our house free of charge. But he wasn’t nearly as much fun as old Mr. Mahon. Even so, he was a nice man.
All Things Fresh
So there were very many common services such as home deliveries like:
• Farm eggs
• Fresh vegetables
• Cow’s milk
• Freshly baked bread
• Coal for our open fires
Delivery Services
A man used to come to our house a couple of times a week with farm fresh eggs.
Another used to come every day with fresh vegetables, although my father loved growing his own.
Our milk, topped with beautiful cream, was delivered to our doorstep every single morning.
Unbelievably, come think of it now, our bread came to us in a huge van driven by our “bread-man” named Jerry who became a family friend.
My parents always invited Jerry and his wife to their parties, and there were many during the summer months. Kids and adults all thoroughly enjoyed these times. Alcohol was never included, my parents were teetotallers. Lemonade was a treat, with home made sandwiches and cakes.
The coal-man was another who delivered bags of coal for our open fires. I can still see his sooty face under his tweed cap but I can’t remember his name. We knew them all by name but most of them escape me now.
Mr. Higgins, a service man from the Hoover Company always came to our house to replace our old vacuum cleaner with an updated model.
Our insurance company even sent a man to collect the weekly premium.
People then only paid for their shopping with cash. This in itself has been a huge change in shopping in my lifetime.
In some department stores there was a system whereby the money from the cash registers was transported in a small cylinder on a moving wire track to the central office.
Some Of The Bigger Changes
Some of the bigger changes in shopping were the opening of supermarkets.
• Supermarkets replaced many individual smaller grocery shops. Cash and bank cheques have given way to credit and key cards.
• Internet shopping… the latest trend, but in many minds, doing more harm, to book shops.
• Not many written shopping lists, because mobile phones have taken over.
On a more optimistic note, I hear that book shops are popular again after a decline.
Personal Service Has Most Definitely Changed
So, no one really has to leave home, to purchase almost anything, technology makes it so easy to do online.
And we have a much bigger range of products now, to choose from, and credit cards have given us the greatest ease of payment.
We have longer shopping hours, and weekend shopping. But we have lost the personal service that we oldies had taken for granted and also appreciated.
Because of their frenetic lifestyles, I have heard people say they find shopping very stressful, that is grocery shopping. I’m sure it is when you have to dash home and cook dinner after a days work. I often think there has to be a better, less stressful way.
My mother had the best of both worlds, in the services she had at her disposal. With a full time job looking after 9 people, 7 children plus her and my dad, she was very lucky. Lucky too that she did not have 2 jobs.