Alphonso Whitfield's blog

Surviving a downturn is difficult and there are no silver bullets to increase or maintain your current level of revenues. However, there are ways to alleviate the pain of declining sales.

1. Communicate with your customers large and small on the phone or better yet, face to face. This also means listening and learning about their business as much, or more so than talking to them about yours.

2. In a slow economy, everyone on staff must increase their sales effort relative to their function in the organization.

For my first trick as a blogger, I will follow my other bloggers over the intellectual cliff and prognosticate about the future of our industry! On second thought let ‘s just focus on how Resellers can survive the Recession of 2009 and then try to tackle items higher up on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs some other day. I plan to explore each of the following topics in detail, in future blogs but for our first time together; here are what I believe to be five keys to surviving the Recession of 2009:

1. Take care of those that brought you to the dance.

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I would like to thank Jordan and everyone at Host Review for giving me the opportunity to blog about topics facing the web hosting and search engine industries. I hope that my blog will provide useful information and a different perspective, while, and on occasion engage other members in thoughtful yet provocative discussions about topics of common interest. Look for my debut next week here at HostReview.com.