Panic Attacks and Anxiety affect different people in different ways, but a common thread runs through them all. An unnamed and unreasonable fear that something terrible's going to happen.
The symptoms can take many forms. The fear of going to a party. In my last article on this subject, I mentioned my dread of having to go to ballroom dancing classes. Before I went to the first one, I'd lie awake at night, sweating, finally falling into a dream-filled sleep around dawn. Then I went to the first session and thoroughly enjoyed it. All those hours of suffering for absolutely nothing.
But my mind didn't learn its lesson, and so many people suffer in the same way. One thing I feel is vital. You must come to the realization that you're not alone. I didn't realize this when I was only 18 years old. I didn't realize this for many years, in fact.
Personally, I really don't know the causes for these attacks. This is something you must discuss with a psychiatric professional and despite all the admittedly excellent advice to be found on the Internet, you shouldn't do anything without first consulting a doctor.
For instance, I take certain medications, but I wouldn't dream of writing about them, of telling what I take. They work very well for me, but for someone else, they might be tantamount to poison.
A good question is; can you help yourself? To a degree, yes. If you're suffering undue stress, confront it and see if there's a way of lessening it. If I feel frightened about, say, travelling somewhere, which is a sure fire way of causing me great anxiety, I sit down with a pen and paper and write down the things that might happen.
We'll crash the car. Have a blowout. Lose our way. Won't be able to find a motel room, etc., etc. Look at all the people on the road. A tiny proportion will have an accident. But why us? The tyres on the car are new, so why should we have a blowout? Motels? Good grief, there are thousands of them. Lose our way? We've driven the journey many times. Why lose our way now? This is what I've found. Confront my fears and while they won't necessarily leave me alone completely, they will be lessened.
To touch on the causes again for a moment, I can't remember a time when I wasn't plagued by these feelings. I wish I could be more helpful here, but of course there are excellent websites that really can help you in this respect.
To sum up, the most important thing is to seek professional help. I can't stress this enough. As I've said before, it isn't your fault that you have these diseases, but it most certainly is your fault to do nothing about them. There are two excellent resources that I list below that I'm indebted to for some of the information in this article that are very well worth your looking at.
I'm indebted to HelpGuide.org and the Anxiety and Panic Resource Site for some of the information in this article
Copyright (c) 2009 Mike Bond
Odds are you have a decent website. Graphically, it is well balanced and maybe even designed by a webmaster or some such skilled webperson. It probably is user friendly, intuitive and does what it's supposed to do; that is, no dead links, all spellchecked, scrubbed text and it all looks good and makes sense.
Most likely your site talks about quality, integrity, customer service and how you offer the best value proposition in the area, region, state, nation and world. You maybe even have an interesting 'About Us' narrative, if there is such a thing. Quite possibly you even state that your goal is to save the world or eliminate poverty in Chiapas and/or the Sudan.
And your search engine footprint likely shows your website is number one or two or maybe both. Good job! This is to be expected since as a savvy web marketer you have search engine optimized or SEO'd your website since it was a baby. Good for you!
After the search engine picks up your site, it picks up all your listings in various directories and databases. Some of these are paid and others are just local or industrial listings...at one point you looked into all the listings and probably signed up for most of them. They are still there; at least some of them. And they are still just listings...
Next come your press releases or maybe that article that appeared in the local newspaper three years ago. But then it gets real thin. By page two you are running out of direct search engine hits and all the 'oddities' come in; other companies with the same name, foreign companies with the same name, odd strings of words that pop up regularly in text files and whatever garbage is left.
This happens because your search engine footprint is shallow. Technically you are allowing the flotsam and jetsam of cyberspace to pack your footprint because you are too lazy to do so yourself. Or forgot. This footprint packing could include material and websites of which you do not approve, yet you allow this junk to fill your search engine footprint.
Business wise, you've got the look but lack the feel. If 'look and feel' determine the viewer or visitor's experience, you are long on specs, data and substance but short on why you are different. And better. And more interesting. You don't have that unique value that causes a viewer to look further, pick up the phone or zap an email requesting more info. In other words, your look and feel doesn't stand out so nothing happens. And of course that's the problem.
Now imagine a different scenario. Your website is good and does what it should, you have a variety of local and regional listings and you even have a few press releases stating your latest company news. But interspersed are a series of articles, blogs and other sources that have third party news and views about your company.
This gives the viewer an impression of what others think of your products and services; a bit of 'feel' to go with that snazzy, professional website 'look' that you have so professionally adapted. It's a bigger and better and more well rounded you...but how to get there?
First, take a good look at your marketing plan and give a realistic assessment of what you need. Remember that what you need and what you want might be two entirely different animals but it's important to focus on what you need first. What you need is the right look and feel that gets your message across in a number of different ways and generates prospect response.
Second, take one or two strong competitive advantages you have and drive those advantages. Several ways you can do this are through media coverage and self promotion. Since increasingly media coverage is an iffy if not spotty proposition, your best bet is self promotion. One good tactic is to use self promotion to attract media coverage.
Your goal should be five or six pages of search engine results that show you have a varied, interesting and penetrating web presence. That means your company name appears on many websites whether linked directly or not. This gives a completely different 'feel' to your company that can make a difference in your first impression and whether your prospect becomes interested enough to respond or can't distinguish your company from all the others in cyberspace.
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