Take Action! ~ Focus and Action for Online Entrepreneurs

Tips to Stay Motivated and Enthusiastic About Your Business

February 28, 2012 By Jackie Lee 7 Comments

When you're hammering along trying to build an online business it can be tough, and at times it can be demoralizing. You spend hours and hours working ~ or what feels like working ~ only to find you've been spinning your wheels and you've yet to earn a dime. First of all... don't give up! You CAN do it, and being motivated and enthusiastic is an important part of being able to stick with it long enough to have success. Have I ever told you my first 30 some-odd lenses at Squidoo didn't make … [Read more...]

The Big Red Sign of Death… Unless

February 21, 2012 By Jackie Lee 8 Comments

Today I went to a site to sign up as an affiliate for a new product they're offering, and saw the huge red sign of death when I attempted to go to the site. Now it's not really the sign of death, well, it could be. It reminded me of last year when I went to one of MY sites and saw the very same image. I was FREAKING out!! At the time I was using the basic wp-backup plugin for backups. While I got these lovely notices every week that my site was backed up, I had NO IDEA what to do with the … [Read more...]

10 Tips to Drive Traffic and Build Your Brand with Pinterest

February 17, 2012 By Jackie Lee 17 Comments

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...]

How to Increase Your Income Exponentially

February 1, 2012 By Jackie Lee 12 Comments

All these years I've sat behind my computer screen... all by myself... feeling like I had to do it ALL myself. I felt like I had to figure it out all myself, and just muscle my way through everything until I got it right. Well... that's partially my personality, and it's partially because there weren't many people out there to follow when I first got started online. That is no longer the case... at all. You may know I recently switched up my business model. The biggest thing I had to … [Read more...]

Building Your Brand and Network Using Twitter Chats

January 24, 2012 By Jackie Lee 8 Comments

We've been talking social media all month and I've managed to write every post about Facebook. :) I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day. I was saying to me Facebook is the more serious, business site and Twitter was the fun, cocktail party kind of site. When I say that I mean I feel uncomfortable posting something about watching the Bachelor, or Grey's Anatomy on Facebook, and yet I can have an hour long conversation about it, back and forth with a bunch of people on … [Read more...]

6 Quick Tips to Drive Traffic From Facebook

January 17, 2012 By Jackie Lee 17 Comments

Let's start this off with this... it is a process, not a one time event. Facebook traffic will take some consistent effort on your part ~ but it can happen in just a few minutes a day. Here's the steps to take if you're going to consistently use Facebook to drive traffic back to your site. 1. Set up a fanpage. Yes, you're going to want to set up a fanpage, because if you're going to be talking "business" you don't necessarily want it cluttering up your profile page. You also want to … [Read more...]

What’s Really Important?

January 3, 2012 By Jackie Lee 40 Comments

This was going to be a post about social media. That was the plan for today. However, sometimes life has a way of handing you things that get you thinking and doing social media the "right" way seems just a little less important (but I will write that post don't worry). Anyway... yesterday a friend of our passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. She was quite young and it got me thinking. It's so easy to get all wound up and wrapped up in the computer, in the online world, in how to … [Read more...]

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...]

Creating a Strategic Business Plan for the New Year

December 20, 2011 By Jackie Lee 22 Comments

It's that time of year again... the time where I start creating a strategic business plan for the upcoming year. I do it every year... in fact, it's one of my favorite things to do. It's also one of the most crucial pieces of the puzzle going in to a new year. I've created these business plans a little differently each year I've done business, some years have worked better than others. The one element that's always stayed the same is looking back over the past year to see what worked, and … [Read more...]