Focus and Action for Online Entrepreneurs
creating growth and momentum for online entrepreneurs
Pinterest is all the rage, lots of fun, and I bet you're thinking I just can't handle ANOTHER social networking site!! I'm here to tell you, you better find a way! There is some serious magic in Pinterest. In case you're not familiar with it yet... and I have at least a couple people a day ask me what it is... so I know some of you probably aren't... Pinterest is a digital online "bulletin board" ~ well actually it's really just a "bookmarking site"... however, what makes this … [Read more...]
We've been talking about connecting with other bloggers to form friendships, relationships and connections. This is a great way to do it ~ with a collaborative ebook. Now I didn't think this up myself... no, during my interview with Mandi from Life Your Way, she mentioned she's been using this strategy to create connections and drive more traffic. You see, Mandi is a little introverted, and just doesn't really heart twitter. She said she'd much prefer to use this technique than try to get out … [Read more...]
One of the hardest things about twitter can be finding time or a way to provide great content and really connect with people. What happens a lot of times is people end up just automating their blog posts to go to twitter and that's it. :( That's a bummer. So here's a few ways I manage to provide great content and create conversations and connections with my twitter friends. 1. Read blogs. Yep, I know everyone tells you to stop reading blogs but if you're wanting to connect with people … [Read more...]
Today I'm doing a comparison. 2 blogs. 1 target market. 2 Very different traffic strategies. The first blog is a very niche related, product focused blog. The other is a more information related site, with plenty of products to be sold as well. Site one: Toddler Ride On Toys As you can see it is very specific and details a lot of excellent information on ride on toys. Very specific, and very keyword rich. Tina's best bet for getting traffic to this site is to go for search … [Read more...]
We talked recently about how to get more people on your bus. I've really been giving this a lot of thought for a couple reasons. 1. There are SO many ways to get traffic. 2. I've set up a challenge for myself and had to decide (really decide) what I was going to do. As you know the most important thing for your bus tour is to get people on the bus. If you've got nobody on the bus there's no people to buy your products and services. I am really good about building relationships with … [Read more...]
Last time we talked about using forums to build community. Today we're going to talk about how to use ning communities. They are similar to forums, but have some big differences that if taken advantage of can really explode your reach. What is a Ning community? Ning is a huge site that allows people to start their own community without having to do any of the background stuff, like hosting, and programming, and all that stuff. The rules are changing, but anyone used to be able to create … [Read more...]
We've been talking for the last couple months about getting traffic to your site. It's more than that though, we're talking about building a community, building a "tribe" if you will, of raving fans who love your site, love you and look forward to your new blog posts and want to come hang out with you on your site. We've learned that creating this type of site rests heavily on creating relationships. Building backlinks is important ~ it helps with Google ranking so you get free traffic from … [Read more...]
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Social media gives me the opportunity to get to know you better, as well as giving me the opportunity to share more of me than just the "internet marketing" side. I share multiple facets of me, and my life on social media, so if you choose to connect with me don't expect it to be 100% internet marketing... because it's not. :)