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High-Tech Clustering
Clustering is an idea that has been transferred from economics to management and business. It is the phenomenon (and the explanation for it) whereby firms from the same industry gather together in close proximity.
Clustering is particularly evident in industries like banking. Banking centres in cities such as London and New York have thrived for centuries. [...]
Introduction of a New Product
When a firm introduces a new product or service into a market where there is little scope for further growth, that product or service will either eat into the share of the market’s existing products or swiftly disappear from sight. If some of the existing products are manufactured by the firm that is introducing the [...]
How to Choose Your Keyword Phrase
You need to think about what sort of phrases people will search on in the search engines to find your site. Luckily there are tools available to help with this, so you don’t have to be a mind reader. The best tool I know of is called Wordtracker and is a huge database full of [...]
Computer Modelling
The use of computer models to simulate different business activities and to assist in decision-making processes is almost as old as ibm itself. Business modelling was a central part of operational research (or), a fad of the 1950s and 1960s.
What Barriers Prevent Firms From Entering the Markets?
The idea that there are barriers preventing firms from entering markets and barriers preventing them from leaving those markets views markets as similar to fields surrounded by gates of differing sizes and complexity. The gates have to be surmounted by firms wishing to enter or leave these markets. To some extent the gates can be [...]
Corporate Leadership
The debate over how companies are best governed is at least as old as companies themselves. That there is no one best way is suggested strongly by the fact that the world’s greatest companies have grown up under a number of very different governance regimes: Toyota and Sony in Japan, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson [...]
How to Choose Your Keyword Phrase
A very important step for you is to decide on the keyword phrase to optimize your home page for. At this stage I highly recommend optimizing your home page for one keyword phrase only. (the phrase will have multiple words). The more phrases you try to optimize for, the less emphasis the search engines will place [...]
Competition and Convergence
Convergence refers to the way in which the requirements to enter different industries become so similar that firms can just as easily take part in one as in another. One of the areas where convergence was evident in the 1990s was banking and insurance. So common was the phenomenon of banks getting into the insurance [...]
Learn How to Optimize Your Website
If you have purchased the SEO Update service with this article then once you have
decided on a keyword phrase please send me an email with the following information:
Your chosen Keyword Phrase
Your website address (URL)
Your Host4Profit Username and Password (you will find this in the welcome
email from Host4Profit).
Analyze the Visitors to Your Site
To see how you compare with your competitors, enter your keywords into Google and
then repeat the above check for some of the competing sites. How many links do you
have compared to them? This will give you an indication of how much work you have to
do to beat them to the top position.
I usually have a [...]
