{"id":453,"date":"2009-01-11T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2009-01-11T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T14:55:52","slug":"look-for-questions-not-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Look for questions, not answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asking the right questions, is more important than having all the answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Knowing <i>how<\/i> to to get higher rankings in a Google search isn&#8217;t as important as asking, will it make any difference? It&#8217;s likely your time &amp; effort would be better invested in creating effective ways to interact with your current customers, than spending your time looking for adhoc new ones via Google. If you build a rapport &amp; trust with customers your already have, they will recommend you and talk about your products &amp; services to their peers, which is far more powerful &amp; effective than a high ranking in Google, will ever be.<\/p>\n<p>Having answers is great, just make sure they&#8217;re answering the <i>right<\/i> questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking the right questions, is more important than having all the answers. Knowing how to to get higher rankings in a Google search isn&#8217;t as important as asking, will it make any difference? It&#8217;s likely your time &amp; effort would be better invested in creating effective ways to interact with your current customers, than spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[122,15,123,43],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel","category-not-what-you-think","tag-google","tag-networking","tag-question-everything","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}