Relationship Marketing – The Stuff Success Is Made Of

Being self employed, working from home, making your own schedule and doing what you love are wonderful things. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of. We all want to be able to make as much money as we want, to have the income to be able to generously provide for our families, give back to the world, to be the captain of our own destiny. To leave the world a better place than we found it.

Internet success doesn’t just happen.  It takes lots of time and hard work.  Dedication. Perseverance. You have to believe it’s gonna happen. You have to decide that no matter what it takes, you will not give up.  It can be pretty lonely sometimes.  No one else has a clue what you are doing.  They think you are playing around on Facebook all day and that you should just go out and get a real J-O-B. They wonder how long this phase is gonna last and you come to your senses. They just don’t get it. You can unwittingly allow yourself to become very isolated, hiding behind your computer screen. Alone. [Read more...]

Make Social Media Your Slave

By Guest Contributor, Sandy Krakowski

Sometimes you hear something online that is so out there- so ridiculous- so stupid actually that you wonder if the person who said it was joking. But if you’re like me, I begin asking all the right questions to lead me to where I need to be in my business when this kind of thing arises.

A few months ago I heard a very popular business person say these words, “What the heck are you spending all that time on Facebook for? Go build your business.”

Made me laugh actually. Because you see last year I started a little test with some marketing through Social Media. It earned me a nice 6-figure income over 12 months. Then we kicked it up a notch and began to compound our efforts. This year alone, in under 7 months, that amount has doubled. [Read more...]

From Offline To Online – How To Create Income By Helping Local Businesses

Taking small local businesses from offline to online is one way to create income and build your online business.

It’s hard to believe there are still so many small brick and mortar businesses that don’t have websites.

Obviously, they either don’t understand the value of taking their offline business online or they think it’s going to be too hard and technical for them. It’s up to you to show them why they need a blog or website and alleviate their fears.  With WordPress, that’s easy to do. Let’s talk about some of the reasons your potential offline to online clients should hire you to build their WordPress blogs and websites. [Read more...]

Comment Marketing: What You’ve Been Doing All Along Now Has A Name!

By Guest Contributor, Juliet McEwen Johnson

One of the best traffic sources is to comment on someone else’s blog, when that blog is on a relevant, related topic. It may sound counter-intuitive to raise up our competition but oddly enough it makes us look more authoritative when we do. There are several advantages to being strategic when commenting on blogs, news posts and in forums, so much so that this is now a formal kind of marketing – Comment Marketing. Here’s what it involves:

The Goal Of Comment Marketing

When done correctly, commenting will introduce you to people already looking for the information you are an expert in already. When you comment wisely, adding to the conversation in progress, you plant the seed that someone can trust you. You also begin to build your like-ability quotient. This is always the ultimate goal with social networking – to build “know, like and trust” connections in your desired marketplace. [Read more...]

Use LinkedIn Groups To Drive Targeted Traffic To Your Blog [Lots and Lots of Traffic!]

 Use LinkedIn Groups to drive targeted traffic to your blog or website.

It works like magic and you will see results in just a very short time!

I can say this with assurance because LinkedIn became the # 1 source of traffic to my blog in less than 2 weeks. It now drives double the traffic than any other source. In fact LinkedIn is now driving more targeted traffic to my blog than Facebook and Twitter combined! 

Up until recently, I did little to nothing on LinkedIn. 

Wow, what a dunce! Because LinkedIn seemed to stuffy and “corporate like” I chose to blow it off instead of testing it out as a good marketer should. You can bet your sweet bippie that won’t happen again. When I think about all of the prospective clients I’ve ignored… Well, if I could kick myself in the butt, I would [Read more...]

How to Write Articles That Represent You Well and Will Help You to Build an Online Empire

By Guest Contributor, Connie Ragen Green

Learning how to write articles will make it easier for you to drive traffic to your website and blog, and also to be able to create lengthier writing such as short reports and even eBooks. Doing business on the internet is all about writing, so it is best if you learn how to craft an article that is going to be read by as many people as possible. [Read more...]

If I Hadn’t Made These 3 Mistakes When I Started My Online Business (I’d Probably Be Rolling In Money Now)

When I first started my online business, I was clueless

Silly me…

I had 25 years of business management and marketing under my belt and thought this was gonna be a walk in the park. I mean, I’ve run businesses with 50+ employees. Surely conquering the world behind a computer screen in my jammies would be a piece of cake, right?  Wrong!

I think that’s what most of us think when we start an internet business.  How hard can it be, right? After all, we’ve seen so much about average people finding overnight internet success on autopilot, while they slept.  If they can do it, so can we. [Read more...]

Use Social Media Sites For Their Original Purpose And You Will See Excellent Results

By Guest Contributor, Juliet McEwen Johnson

Whatever nefarious intention Mark Zuckerberg had when he originated Facebook, the social media site works best as a “book” that links a name to a face. Twitter arrived with a 140 character minimum to get the word out quickly and for short, efficient exchanges with other key people in your sphere. Google wants a social network to get to you know better such that their search returns fit you perfectly. Pinterest enables a filing system for inspirational, lushly colored imagery for dream-boarding, reference and future use. And then we have LinkedIn. The oldest member of today’s top 5 social media networks in the US. [Read more...]

How to Use Keywords to Help Prospects Easily Find You Online

By Guest Contributor, Connie Ragen Green

Keyword research is crucial to marketing your eBook on the internet. In fact, the online world revolves around using the exact words and phrases that people use to search for your niche topic, so learning how to use these keywords to your advantage is a valuable use of your time. I will explain more of how you can get started in this area today. [Read more...]

Go Viral – Blog Posts Gone Wild!

Ever wonder how some bloggers get their posts to go viral?

Ready to take a walk on the wild side and see how they do it?

OK, first they do these 3 important things…

Use an incredible, attention grabbing headline. How do you know if it’s going to grab your readers attention? Test it on social media. Tweet and post your headline and see what kind of reaction it gets. If it gets a good response, you’ve got a winner!  A little trick I use is to peruse the magazine rack in your grocery store or Walmart and jot down headlines, then [Read more...]