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What Does Yoga Have To Do With Digital Marketing?

May 22, 2023· Category :internet marketing· Comments Off

Yoga was invented thousands of years ago in forests and temples of India while Digital Marketing is a recent technology. How the hell could these two be related? I never thought so myself till that one day.

It was early morning 5′o clock and I had literally not slept the night before. Please bear with me while I give you a little background. I was working for a client project for developing their SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Media strategy. They are a sports goods retailer and recently came up with an innovative range of shoes that they want to launch in the market. They were completely B2B till date and had no B2C presence before, starting it from the drawing board now. Their management had set aggressive targets for their online sales but put lot of restrictions to avoid conflicts with their B2B partner network. I had a tough time convincing them on multiple fronts and we were going back and forth for some time.

Our Yoga guru arrived in the hall and we started the warm up. I was half asleep, but did not want to miss my Yoga class. We did the ‘Surya Namaskar’ followed by the ‘Asnas’ of the day. I was dead tired and then came my favorite Asna – the ‘Shavasna’. If you know Yoga, you will be aware that ‘Shavasna’, literally means the Corpse Pose, where you lie on the back with closed eyes and deep breath. The body is completely released and mind fully relaxed. It was during the ‘Shavasna’ that I suddenly started getting a great feeling as if everything was un-tangling from within, as if I was getting answers to all my questions. I am not a saint but that was my moment of ‘nirvana’. It is difficult to describe all of it in words, but I am trying to summarize some of the key points that came to my mind that time:

1. Focus on the core: The only way you get the most out of Yoga is to forget everything else around you and just focus on one thing – your breath. This is the same with Digital Marketing. The only way to get the most out of a digital marketing initiative (whether it is SEO, SEM, SMO, SMM etc.) is to first forget about everything else and focus on the “Content”. While developing content you should not get distracted by any other activities or constraints. It is “Content” which is the heart and core of the entire initiative and needs to be relevant to the audience. The biggest mistake many of us tend to do is to make all strategies first and then start working on the content. In such scenarios, we later on figure out that the content is not in line with our strategy and we ask our team to modify the content rather than changing the strategy. This is the perfect recipe of failure and then we complain that nothing worked at all.

2. Long Term Vision: Yoga never promises quick, short term benefits. Someone wanting to build six pack abs within three months need not to come for a Yoga class. Yoga is always practiced with a vision to have long and healthy life, the way ancient ‘Yogis’ or saints in India lived for hundreds of years with strong physical and mental conditions. Digital marketing, off-late, had been used abusively by many technologists as a means to get quick results without bothering about the long term vision. Any update by Google and such people were running crazy to re-gain their rankings.

3. Inner Strength: Yoga is all about building inner strength – a balance between mind and body. Yoga does not focus much on external muscular built or beautification. Its aim is very simple – keep you fit and strong from within. It might not sound strange to my marketing friends (I am myself from marketing background) that building an external perception without building inner strength does not last long. I have seen organizations who did excellent in marketing but could not handle their cash flows and later yielded to disastrous results.

4. Continuity: You do Yoga for couple of months diligently to the extent that you can become a Yoga trainer yourself. Then due to some reasons you leave doing Yoga regularly. What happens? With time the benefits you got from doing Yoga subsides and after few months you are back in the same situation where you were before. This is the same with any digital marketing initiative be it SEO, SEM, SMO or SMM. E.g. you might have done very with search engine optimization and got yourself into the top of SERP (search engine results page). But if you leave the regular activities for SEO then you might lose that ranking very soon.

Abbreviations used:

SEO – Search Engine Optimization
SEM – Search Engine Marketing
PPC – Pay per Click
SERP – Search Engine Results Page
SMO – Social Media Optimization
SMM – Social Media Marketing
GA – Google Analytics

Homes for Sale – Staging Yours for Success

April 6, 2023· Category :real estate· Comments Off

Homes for sale will sell faster if you hire a stager to help you with the process. It would also be a good idea to post as many photos of your place over the Internet as you can.Article Body:
When it comes to homes for sale, staging can play an integral role in attracting potential buyers. You can hire a professional home stager at a relatively low cost to do as much or as little as you wish in terms of getting your residence ready to show.With the right mindset at work, you will be ready to reap the benefits that come from making a sale. To get into an appropriate headspace, you need to stop thinking about your residence as a home and think of it instead as an investment. It is probably the most expensive investment you will ever make, which means that you want to get the highest return on it as you can.Selling your place will be helped along by the use of photographs. With technology the way it is, the majority of potential buyers are likely to first go online to look for homes for sale. To facilitate this process, take as many photos as you can of your property and post them over the Internet. Take a series of pictures and choose the best of the bunch to post. This is the prospective buyers’ first look at your property and it can sometimes be the deciding factor in whether they want to learn more about your place or whether they decide to pass on it.The photos are meant to impress those looking at them and to generate an emotional connection that will encourage a desire to see the live property. If you skip this step and forego photos, you will be missing out on a great many potential customers for your residence. This will most likely delay the rate at which your property sells.Curb appeal is something the stager you bring in will talk to you about. You may be surprised at how much this aspect means to people when viewing homes for sale. If you have ever walked by or driven by a house and been so repelled by the exterior of it that you did not want to see anymore, you already know a little about the effect that curb appeal has on those looking to purchase a house.To prevent people from running the other way, walk around your residence and make sure that the path around it, as well as the perimeter of your dwelling, are clear and easy to navigate. You do not want garbage or recycling bins to be visible, nor do you want any type of trash to be found there. Remove any toys, bikes, or any other foreign objects that could detract from the appeal of your place on a walkabout.You want your lawn to be properly cut and to be as green and as healthy looking as possible. You also want to ensure that plants, bushes, shrubs, and vines are trimmed and look as good as they possibly can look. Rake fallen leaves, as opposed to just leaving them where they fall. If it is wintertime, make sure your driveway is cleared and that the snow is removed promptly.