The Power of Article Submission Services

Article marketing is a powerful way to enhance your online exposure, grow your mailing list, increase your traffic and raise your sales.  However it only works if it is followed consistently and has an effective strategy behind it.  In this episode, I discuss article submission services, and their importance in your internet business strategy planning.  Listen in as I answer the following questions:

Question 1:    What is an Article Submission Service
Question 2:    What kind of Article Submission Services are available
Question 3:    What is the advantages and disadvantages of each type of service?
Question 4:    What can an article submission services do for you?
Question 5:    What should you look for in an article submission service?
Question 6:    How else can you enhance your article submissions?
Question 7:    What can these services cost?
Question 8:    Whats most important?
Question 9:    What is the difference between Blogging and Article writing?
Question 10:    When is an Article Submission Service not a good idea for your buisenss
Question 11:    How does article writing circumvent advertising spending?
Question 12:    What is the difference between Blogging and Article writing?

One of the article submission services mentioned was:

Submit your articles

Announcement:

New workshop on how to create a website in WordPress October 28th.

Register for the wordpress tutorial workshop .

Social Media and Social Networking Tips

In this show, we went over social media and social networking.  The main focus was about some of the different social networking tips that can help integrate your website better with the different social networking sites that are out there. We discussed some things that you should focus on when you are using Facebook and some of the other major social networking sites. The questions that were covered include:

Question 1:    What is Social Media Networking
Question 2:    Why is it Popular?
Question 3:    What should you put in your social networking profile
Question 4:    What shouldn’t you put in your social networking profile
Question 5:    Is Social Networking a good marketing medium?
Question 6:    How to Use social networking sites to promote your blog and business

On this weeks show, we had Nima M. interviewing me and asking me the questions while I answered them.  It was a good show and Nima had some great imput of his own as well.  Listen in and get some great tips on Social Networking.

The Benefits of Having a Successful Ecommerce Website

In this show, we discuss the importance of having an ecommerce web site and just what is needed to successfully be able to sell your products and services on the Internet.  We discuss the answers to the following questions:

Question 1:    What does Ecommercre Mean
Question 2:    What are some of the benefits of having an ecommerce webisite
Question 3:    What do you need to have a successful ecommerce website
Question 4:    What should you look out for as online business owner

One thing that is important to understand is that if you want to make an income from your web presence, you have to look at your web property like you do your physical storefront.  It is a business, and not a hobby.  That is when you will begin to see more success with your online presence.  There weren’t many questions but they were gone into in a greater detail.

Listen in to the show.

How to repurpose your web content

This show covered how you can take an article and then get valuable use out of it by creating a number of different types of web content offerings from it.  For example, an article can turn into a blog posting, a podcast, a video, an ebook (several articles) and even a webinar or teleseminar.  Understanding the progression of how you can re-purpose your content can really open things up for your online presence.

In addition to discussing the content repurpose process, I also gave answers to the following:

Question 1:    What is Web Content
Question 2:    What does it mean to repurpose it
Question 3:    What are some of the different ways to repurpose it
Question 4:    What is a good repurposing strategy
Question 5:    How do you deal with the reality B that there has been so much crap being sold on the Internet that now most people percive that everything is crap?
Question 6:    How do we find out what people want to hear and how they want to hear it vs the experts deciding on what they think their customers want to hear and how they want to hear it?
Question 7:    would you need a team to do all this b because no one person can do all this

Listen in for more.

If you want to learn how to sell your content in the form of an ebook or DVD, and don’t have ecommerce on your web site, you can learn now what is required to take online payments ->  Ecommerce Training

Tools You Need to Hold a Money Making Teleseminar

This show will be about what kinds of tools you need to hold a teleseminar that will generate revenue for you. Why you would need to hold a teleseminar and what kinds of benefits that holding regular the importance of holding a teleseminars will give your business.  In this episode, I covered the following questions:

Question 1:    What is a teleseminar?
Question 2:    Why would a business want to have one?
Question 3:    What are minimum of the tools that are needed for a teleseminar?
Question 4:    What tools/services do you need for a money making teleseminar?
Question 5:    How can you re-purpose, make money with your teleseminar?
Question 6:    What are some of the different services out there?
Question 7:    how do you price your teleseminar?

Here is  a list of teleseminar services and resources:

Radio Show Announcements

There is also a webinar class planned for September 17th on How to Get Your Website to Sell Products and Services,

Click the play button to listen to the radio show.

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3 Advantages to Having an Ecommerce Business

1) Low Overhead

Running an online store requires much less monetary cost to maintain and operate than running a traditional brick and mortar storefront. The costs for an online presence include a shopping cart, merchant account, gateway, hosting, web hosting, domain name and secure certificate. A traditional brick and mortar storefront has to deal with rent, utilities, cleaning and maintenance costs, employees, merchant account and card reader at a minimum. Having a business online is better because the overhead is much lower than the offline counterpart.

2) Convenience

Having an online presence is much more convenient than having a physical storefront. Running your online business can be done from the convenience of your own home, on the beach, at the ski slopes, or in any remote office. All that is required is a computer and an Internet connection. It is also convenient because your online storefront is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It doesn’t require you be online because sales of products and services will occur without any human intervention.

A physical storefront requires that someone be in the store in order for business to take place. If no one is in the store to run the cash register, open the doors and serve the customers, then no business can happen. The business owner has to make sure either someone else or them self is available to manage the store.

3) Larger Market Base

An online business gives the business owner a much greater reach to their target market. Anyone from anywhere in the world can purchase your products and services directly from your web site. For physical products, an online merchant would want to have a […]

Making Your Blog Interesting

In this radio episode, we discuss how to make your blog interesting.  having a blog is one thing, but having a blog that people talk about and are willing to come back to is another thing all together.  So what does it take to make your blog interesting and a gathering spot around the web?  Content, Content, Content is king!  On this show,  Answer the following questions.

Question 1:    What can blogs be used for
Question 2:    What kinds of content can be added to a blog and How
Question 3:    What can be done to make a blog interesting
Question 4:    can you have too many bells and whistles?
Question 5:    What do you recommend regarding multiple Blogs and duplicate content

Announcements:  WordPress Tutorial Training Webinar for Maximum Blog Effectiveness  August 30th

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Free WordPress eCommerce Plugins

Here are some free WordPress eCommerce Plugins.

These plugins are available for free and can be found at the Plugin repository on WordPress.org.

Ecommerce plugins come in both free and paid versions. The jury is still out on whether or not the paid plugins are better. The best way to understand which solution is best for the blog owner is do a feature/product comparison table and determine which plugin best fits those needs.

Some free ecommerce plugins:

Yak Shopping Cart – This plugin provides simple ecommerce capability to the blogging platform. Some of the features of this plugin include the ability to create products from posts or pages, configurable shipping, checkout widget, downloadable products multiple payment options, and ability to set promotions, among other features.

eShop – eShop offers customizable checkout, product options, downloadable products, multiple payment gateways, shipping options, automatic emails for purchasing and it’s compatible with WP affiliate for affiliate marketing. You are even given some inventory control as well.

Are Paypal – This plugin is more of a paid content type of plugin. Users of this plugin would use it to manage the payments of paid content on their blog. This plugin allows for subscription payments, bonus add-ons as well as standard one time access payments. What is nice is that google can search the hidden content so it can be indexed in the search engines.

More on Ecommerce shopping cart plugins:

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How to Get More Exposure For Your Blog

In this radio episode, I discussed what you can do to get more traffic to your blog and how to get more exposure for your blog.  In this broadcast, I answered the following questions:

Question 1:    Is having a blog a good strategy for your online presence?
Question 2:    What are some of the different blogging solutions out there?
Question 3:    What are the plusses and minuses of each solution?
Question 4:    How can one personalize a blog?
Question 5:    What are some free ways to get traffic to my blog?
Question 6:    What are some paid ways to get traffic to my blog?
Question 7:    Is there a difference between getting traffic and getting my blog noticed?
Question 8:    What is an authority blog?

Also, as some announcements were made during the show and they include a wordpress webinar class on August 30th.  This webinar will go over the basic settings that are needed to make yoru blog more ecommerce enabled.  go here for more info on the wordpress blog tutorial.

You Can’t Have A Successful Web Business If You Don’t Take Action

In this episode, Dianne Dandeneau of DianneDandeneau.com discusses the one big thing that keeps people and business owners from being successful, and that is taking action.  There was a great discussion on what taking action means and some of the things that come up that get in the way of people taking action.

In this episode, we give powerful answers the following questions:

Question 1:    What does taking action mean to you?
Question 2:    How do we get to the Action Stage?
Question 3:    What is the most important thing to do to prepare to take action?
Question 4:    How does this relate to your Web business or just business in general?
Question 5:    How do you help people take action?
Question 6:    What keeps people from taking action
Question 7:    how many people leave out knowing clearly who they really are first before they do anything?

She is also now registering people for my Coaching for Awakened Leadership Course, which is distance learning on Tuesday Mornings from 9:00 – 10:30 via conference call.   You can go to her website at dianedandeneau.com to register.

B’s Byte was ‘How to make my blog more interesting and stand out’.

Some of the answers I shared (in greater detail of course) included:

  • Show your unique personality,
  • encourage feedback and interaction.
  • Drive traffic to blog through conversation on other forums

Also, don’t forget the WordPress Training Webinar that I am doing on the 20th.

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