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In the past I have had staff that have worked for me under the role of internet sales consulting to contact clients for SEO or online marketing and other website development projects. These staff have worked for me at the office on a regular salary and benefits.

After some time they prove to be trustworthy so you tell them how to do certain things other then their main role perhaps on the technical side that they were not aware of. Perhaps on SEO, Online marketing and whatever else you need done because you are just simply overloaded and have no choice but to pass on some work to others.

You know telling them how to build links and where to build them is one thing and then the funny thing is perhaps I would call it the stupid thing is they bluntly think they know SEO. What they don’t realise is there is so much more to know about SEO. How to get inside sites and tweak them, knowing html, knowing internal link structures, sitemaps using xml, broken links, validation which is only 10% of SEO, the other 90% is off-page techniques which is the biggest thing then constant learning as Google and other search engines change their rules and algorithm structure all the time, it takes time and effort to be updated with all this information.

But you know what after knowing all this you can still have enough knowledge to do SEO for yourself don’t get me wrong atleast after some months or years. But setting up a business is another story. After 3 months in total, 2 months doing invoicing and contacting clients and perhaps 1 month on some basic things I got them to help me with on the technical side, they think they already know everything and want to start up their own SEO company .

Remember this folks there is only one You, so this they can not take away from you. You are the one that puts all the blood sweat and tears and takes action. What I can’t stand is leachers, people who leach off you and want to be your best mate for information you can give them.

See there is a difference when you give someone tools or tips for them to then take that and find ways of doing it themselves then someone taking your whole business model which is a sneaky way. I will not give the name of the staff that was working for me that did this because I believe they already know who they are once they read this post. It is purely enough guilt in itself. Now I’m a believer in karma and I know also for a fact that these people do not last long.

Now what was even more upsetting is these staff I trusted were building up their own clients list during time that I was paying them during working hours. This is wrong. You don’t knock food out from the hand that is feeding you folks.

Running a full business with an office and setting up a company and handling tax, with office equipment with staff and having an accounting department and legal attorney, is all things you need to have prepared when going into business. If on the other hand they go into freelancing well that is another story. The freelancers rarely get taken seriously unless they are promoting them self on a well known platforms such as oDesk.

But the bottom line is if you work for a company and if you think you know how to do what they do then good luck, and I also say this whatever you do is fine, but never use unethical ways to get where you want including taking clients, and working on your own projects in their time. It is not good karma and if you work for bigger companies they can sue you and big time.

Perhaps we were too nice on that occasion!