Content Creation ~ Focus and Action for Online Entrepreneurs

Creating an Editorial Calendar for Your Blog

December 27, 2011 By Jackie Lee 18 Comments

Here it is almost a new year, and I'm sure you have big plans for your blog and your business. As we discussed last week having a strategic business plan going into the new year is always key. This week we're going to take that plan and put it into practice! Because action is where your profits come from. If you're creating an authority type site, whether it's about a niche in general or even product reviews, your content is the foundation of your site. If you're not creating new content, … [Read more...]

Planning a Website Project

November 22, 2011 By Jackie Lee 28 Comments

Back in the day you could easily throw up a 1 page site, target a single keyword, build links and pull in money. That just doesn't work anymore. Google wants more. If you're going to give Google what Google wants, so you can get organic traffic from them you're going to have to have a plan before you start any website project. It doesn't matter if you're creating a site for affiliate marketing, or social media marketing, or even a site to create leads for your network marketing business... … [Read more...]

1 Quick Trick to Overcome Being Camera Shy

October 18, 2011 By Jackie Lee 33 Comments

I've gotten emails, and comments all week that people want to start video marketing, but the biggest problem is they are camera shy... don't like how they look... don't like how they sound. For the don't like how you look/sound I only have one thing to say... get over it. You sound and look totally different to yourself then you do to anyone else. If you want to video market ~ just do it. One thing you can do to get over the look/sound thing though is this... make a video and then edit the … [Read more...]

Your Videos Will Not Convert Without These 4 Things

October 11, 2011 By Jackie Lee 36 Comments

You can quickly create a video and upload it to youtube... but before you do that it's really important to know, in your mind, what you want this video to accomplish. You're not just making videos because they're fun... they're part of your marketing strategy. So... what do you want this video to accomplish? Do you want it to get people to like your fanpage? Do you want it to get people to opt in to your list? Do you want it to let people get a good feel for who you are and what you're … [Read more...]

Hate to Write? Youtube Marketing is the Answer

October 4, 2011 By Jackie Lee 35 Comments

Today I thought I'd tackle yet another of the problems/complaints I hear when it comes to internet marketing. This one I hear a LOT. I can't write. I hate to write. I don't want to write. English isn't my first language, I can't write. This one is pretty hard for me to understand, not only because I love to write, but also because it's not like you have to write an award winning novel to succeed in internet marketing. However, I do understand that many many people get stuck on this … [Read more...]

How PLR Can Solve the Top 3 Internet Marketing Problems

September 30, 2011 By Jackie Lee 24 Comments

As someone who's been in this industry for a long time I hear a lot of complaints (some would call them excuses) as to why people have not succeeded or haven't even taken action on building their business to the next level. There are 3 of these complaints that I hear time and time again. Today I'm going to show you how you can overcome any and all of those complaints with one simple tool. PLR. What is PLR? PLR stands for private label rights. It's basically content someone else has written … [Read more...]

Share Your Vacation In a Way Your Readers Will Love

July 28, 2011 By Jackie Lee 10 Comments

It is that time of year... vacation time. It seems everyone is going on vacation and coming home to blog about it. I do love seeing the pictures, and hearing about your fun times... but I would enjoy it much more if somehow related to the topic of your blog. I do come and read your blog regularly because it's about something I am interested in... so while I love to get to know you, I'd love it even more if I could get something topic related out of it too. Here's some examples: Book … [Read more...]

How Memes are Killing Your Blog and What to Do to Save It

July 7, 2011 By Jackie Lee 18 Comments

First, let's just get this out of the way... memes can be a great way to get traffic. They are fun, and a great way to meet other bloggers and make connections. With that said... Memes can also kill your blog. There is a meme for every day of the week these days... wordless Wednesdays, Meal Plan Mondays, How Pinteresting Wednesdays, Thankful Thursdays... it goes on and on. While memes can be a great way to get traffic they can also fill up your blog and stop you from adding any … [Read more...]

Why Aren’t You Guest Posting?

May 18, 2011 By Jackie Lee 7 Comments

I have had a couple requests to do guest posts on my blogs recently, some of the requests were great, others, not so great. It got me all revved up to write a post about guest posting. :) As I was going through my archives I realized I've already said a lot of what I was going to say today... so I decided to yank a couple posts out of the archives. (no sense repeating my long winded self lol). The Basics on Guest Posting: This post answers the basic questions, what is guest posting, why would … [Read more...]