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Until recently, my chosen career was in concert and special event production.  I spent more than 30 years doing sound, lighting, staging and event management.  It was a great run-I got to see the country and make dozens of great friends.  I saw more than my share of great shows along the way.

So, what did I learn that I consider really valuable today?  I can coil cables, level stages, mix sound for live TV and focus lights from the top of a 20 foot ladder.  Those were all hard-won skills that served me well, but they don’t have a lot of value today.

The most valuable skill, by far, was being able to make decisions.   As a producer of large events and concerts, every day was a string rapid-fire decisions, all focused on the starting time of the show.  There was never a chance to kick around a lot of options or “sleep on it”.  There just wasn’t enough time.

Fortunately, these were not decisions of the life-or-death variety, and if I was able to get two out of every three right, I was usually a hero.  There was never the option of putting off the decision until later.  The show would be today whether I made a decision or not.  Choosing “not to decide” was the same as “choosing to fail“.

I reality, the more decisions I made in a day the more likely I was to get really good results.  Making a couple of decisions before my first cup of coffee always gave me new options that got me closer to an on time show.  That was the goal.

Actually providing good entertainment was the job of the performers and their hands on technicians.  My job was to make enough correct decisions to insure that they got to do their job.

Making lots of decisions can be risky, even painful.  Rarely will it do the sort of damage that is almost guaranteed by making no decision at all.

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There are probably as many theories about how to optimize a web site for search engines as there are web developers who do search engine optimization. Some developers do a really good job of making a web site more “search engine friendly”, but there are thousands of scams clogging up e-mail inboxes which promise to move your site up in the rankings, but which actually do nothing but take your money.

We’ve had pretty good success with gaining Google Page 1 rankings for key words like gaffers tape, mic stands and extension cords. There is nothing better than gaining high search engine rankings for building your web business.

Most recently, we’ve jumped to page 1 for the search term “hoop tape“(tapes used for decorating hula hoops). This on the strength of one of the smallest and least useful sites we have ever published, www.hooptape.com.

Hooptape.com is a total of two small pages which link back to buytape.com. It took about 15 minutes to build and post this site and there is almost nothing there. Why do Google and Yahoo (#1 on on Yahoo today!) rank this site so highly.

While I’m no expert on search engine optimization, I believe that the success of this site’s results in search engines is primarily based on having found a niche. There simply is not that much real competition for the search phrase “hoop tape“, yet this is term most likely to be used by someone who needs tape to decorate a hula hoop.

We’ve had comparable results with the term “Route Setting Tape“, the tape used for setting routes on climbing walls. Route setting tape is simply another name for one inch gaffers tape. Using  a name more specific to our customers needs gives us a real advantage when search engines index our sites.

Need better search results for your web site? Find a niche and Google will find you!

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