A Couple Things To Think About Over The Weekend

1. What is the one thing you want people to do first when they come to your website? 2. Can someone tell what that one thing is within 5 seconds of hitting your site? 3. If not, what can you do to make it so? Love to hear your thoughts in the comments. :) … [Read more...]

Take Advantage of Easy Monetization (Real Life Example)

By the time I post this it will be tomorrow, but today... Sunday... my family went to Tulsa for the week. My first impulse was to sit down and cry (which I did for a little bit ~ I can't believe my baby is gone for a week! ~ oh yeah, and my husband too!) THEN... after a little wallowing I started remembering what my life was like a little over 4 years ago, when I had no one to answer to, no noses to wipe, no one asking a millions questions every minute of my life. I realized my road bike will … [Read more...]

Who Are You Talking To? Do You Know?

When creating a community based business it's vital to know who you're "talking to". I haven't talked about this much because while I knew it was important I have had a really hard time actually doing it.  That is until last week when I had a huge AHA moment thanks to Catherine Caine over at Be Awesome Online. (if you're not reading her you really should check her out. You'll know right away if your one of her "right people") :) If you are still trying to talk to everyone, because you don't … [Read more...]

A Little Customer Service Goes a Long Way

I have learned HUGE lessons this week. Let me give you a little background, and then we'll talk about how it can affect you, and your business, no matter what stage you're in. Monday KISS Club Launch: On Monday I launched the KISS Club as many of you know.  We tested the process, it all worked. The membership plugin I was using came up with a last minute upgrade due to the new wp version. We upgraded ~ and there were some big glitches, even before we opened the KISS Club doors. If you … [Read more...]

The Sales Funnel Simplified

When people start talking about "sales funnels" and moving people through their "offers" my eyes start to glaze over and I start hearing my favorite songs in my head. My foot starts tapping and my mind is elsewhere and then the person says... "Understand?" and I have no frickin' clue what they just said. That's my reaction to "sales funnel" As long as I've been in this business of course I've realized just how important a "sales funnel" is, but I still can't barely say the words out loud. … [Read more...]

5 Easy Ways to Link for Trackbacks

1. Differing Opinions: In any niche there is always going to be a difference of opinions on one topic or another ~ do nofollow links really count, do ride on toys really have benefits, should you use pop boxes in your garden, should a school lunch have 3 carbs in it? Anything you talk about you're going to find differing opinions. Use that to your advantage. Write a post on the subject, give your opinion on the topic, and then find other posts that have different opinions than you. Link to … [Read more...]

How to Trackback and Why You Should

You may not be asking how to trackback and that may be because you don't know the potential in using trackbacks... yet. However, this week we're going to be focusing on trackbacks. What they are, how you get them and why you would even want to think about them! What is a trackback? Trackbacks and pingbacks, from what I can tell, are about the same thing. It's wordpress software's way of notifying another site that you mentioned them over at your site. Each time you link to another site … [Read more...]

Guest Posting ~ What Others are Saying

Guest Posting is the new article marketing. Yeah, it's really that important. Instead of posting an article on a huge directory mixed in with thousands of other articles on your topic and about a million other topics you get to post an article to an eager crowd looking for the information you're offering. Please don't let whatever excuse you're using for not guest posting get in your way. You don't have to start with the biggest blog in your niche. You can start small and move up as you gain … [Read more...]

What You Need to Know Before Writing Your Guest Post

Once you've landed your  guest posting gig there are a few things you'll need to know before you send your post to the blog owner. These little details will make you a great guest poster who is more likely to be invited back again.  You want to make sure you make it as easy as possible for the blog owner ~ since this is suppose to make their life easier. Topic? What topic do they want you to write about? Now I suggest you have a few things in mind you'd like to write about ~ or a couple … [Read more...]

How to Become a Guest Blogger

Last week we talked about submitting your content to high profile sites. This week we're going to discuss one of THE very best ways to get targeted traffic to your site. Become a guest blogger. The benefits of guest blogging are pretty similar to the high profile content sites. You get to put yourself in front of a well established community. You have a blog owner ~ who wants to get traffic to HIS site, so he'll promote your post on his site, which brings traffic to your sites as well. … [Read more...]