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QuantumLinx's Ash Aryal was invited to be part of the BRW's 30th Anniversary photo shoot

As head of consulting for QuantumLinx, and because of our achievements to date (2011 BRW Fast Starter, Deloitte Technology’s 500 fastest growing technology companies in the Asia pacific region, top 5 SEO company in Australia and finalist in the ActionCoach MyBusiness awards for Best Business Growth Strategy), I was lucky enough to be only one of six entrepreneurs and businesses invited to be part of the BRW 30^th edition photo-shoot.

Being in LA at the time, I flew back to Sydney for this opportunity – I love reading the BRW and always have.

It’s nice that the BRW have taken notice of the impact we are having on the Australian business community because there is nothing more we love than helping companies dominate their market in the search engines.

Thank you BRW for the opportunity and we hope to have a continued mutual admiration well into the future.

To Higher Profits,

Ash Aryal

Leadership is an abstract idea.. and can be quite difficult to explain.  I came across this brilliant video explaining the concept in just a few minutes:

Here are the key lessons I took away from this video for business owners:

• While we know that leaders by definition are lone rangers at the start, the success of the whole company, organisation or movement comes down to how well leaders accept and assimilate their first few hires.

• A good leader is focused on the organisation or business they are trying to build, and not just on themselves. This becomes really crucial as the movement or business grows. In fact, how quickly a business grows can depend on it.

• Getting to the tipping point of success is really difficult. However once you are there, momentum can carry you really far.

These are all obvious things, however it never hurts to be reminded of the things that are obvious but useful.

On my post on 23^rd June 2010, titled: SEO Success: Why Some Businesses Do Better Than Others, I wrote down 5 basic success factors i find common to our clients that generate a material amount of extra revenue from our work (an extra $80k+ -$ 1.5M+).  This post is an expansion on the  1^st factor: Responsibility

It’s not surprising that almost all the companies who are successful offline, doing marketing the old school way, absolutely kill it when they come on board with us. The internet has just made things more efficient and effective: – that is, if you know how to harness it.

Those that are successful offline, for the most part have a general idea why they are successful: they understand their target market, their products and services that are responsible for 80% of their profits, and other essential elements of what has worked in the non-internet, old school, longer term way.

They seem to understand that their success is dependent on them, and anyone that is part of their team is assisting them in creating that success, rather than 110% responsible for it.

They know how to put a good team together and recognise good people when they see it (they are good at hiring teams that take 100% responsibility for the results they have been specifically hired to create).

If something doesn’t work, they don’t play the blame game – they find out what the problem is, what needs to be done to fix it, and who will do it.

Essentially, they have the character traits of good leaders. They give credit where it is due and inspire their team (which we are a part of) to go way beyond what they are hired to do because they feel a sense of teamsmanship to succeed.

They are also good listeners, and possess  an enormous amount of common sense – and let this guide their decisions, rather than their own emotions. They hire the right experts and never second guess their judgement – i..e they don’t give make the mistake of giving their surgeon advice on how to operate on them. If they are unsure about anything, they ask, and use their common sense to determine what makes sense and what doesn’t, and how to utilise the information into actionable results.