Well another year has come and gone and 2009 is the year of online success!! We have many great things planned for 2009 for our readers, clients, contractors and mentors!
I have been working on preparing for my new year’s resolutions for many months now and today is the first day to make it happen. I am already off to a great start!
One of my resolutions was to set up a ezine on my website. Guess what? I did it! Today is the first day to my awesome ezine that will be resourceful for everyone. Great information, tips and offers coming ahead so go my sidebar and sign up now!
So here is a small list of my resolutions:
Email Marketing: Ezine - Done
Adding our newly developed Educational products to our website
Set up an affiliate program
Add contests to our blog for our awesome readers!
Develop Educational Videos for our website and the web A.K.A. Video Marketing
Add more contractors to VBSOnDemand
Add more services to our never ending service list!
Teleseminars and Webinars
and there is much more but I will take one step at a time
I welcome 2009 which I call the year of virtual prosperity and success!
Now tell us what is your new year’s resolution for this year?
Don’t forget to sign up for my ezine. I promise you won’t regret it!
Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas from Serena Carcasole and the VBSOnDemand team. May your holidays be safe, joyous and full of love and happiness.
Don’t forget about my birthday sale that ends on December 31st 2008 at 11:59pm take advantage of it while you can! The discount has been further reduced to 40% off. 1 hour Internet Marketing Consultation for only $30. 5 spaces only available.
I would like to share one of my favourite Christmas song with everyone.
Today is my birthday and I am in a celebrating mood. I am happy to announce that I have a great birthday sale promotion. The sale will be on until December 31st 11:59pm. All consulting/coaching services will be discounted at 25% off 40% off for the month of January however contract and invoice must be signed before December 31st 11:59pm to lock in your rates. Only 5 spots available. This is a great deal for online businesses, virtual assistants, small businesses etc. Start the year knowing all there is to know about starting a business and internet marketing.
Contact me now to reach high levels of success for 2009!
If you’ve been utilizing internet marketing for any length of time, you probably know by now that the best way to get a potential client’s attention is to give them valuable information that is in no way a sales pitch. Yep, that’s right. The best way to sell is to not sell.
Social media expert Chris Brogan stumbled across a vivid example of the above statement the other day. As he was Googling local gyms, he found one he liked and was able to contact them when he saw an option to write a review of his choice. So he wrote a review, clicked submit, and up popped his comments, right there for all to see. Next to his review was a link to his Google profile, also readily accessible to anyone who cared to check it out. To read Brogan’s full post, click here: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/get-your-google-profile-tidied-up/.
You probably don’t have time to go around writing reviews on everything under the sun, and quite frankly, some people won’t care enough to click through to your site. If you’re a florist reviewing a healthcare product, for example, you likely won’t get many results. After all, most people who are looking for healthcare products want information about healthcare, not flowers. Which is why, if you want to use this free advertising method, you should be selective about what you review. If you’re a bookkeeper who targets small business owners, maybe you should try Googling the latest and greatest bookkeeping products, including books and software that you’re familiar with. Write your own review, giving your expert stance on the ins and outs of that particular product, and a potential client just might think, “Hey, this person really knows their stuff. What’s this? They offer bookkeeping services? Hmm, I never thought about outsourcing my bookkeeping before. Maybe I should check them out…” They visit your website, fall deeply in love with the idea of having you take over their bookkeeping, and form a long-term business relationship with you. Okay, so that’s the fairytale version, but it could happen!
The point is that there are many options available to get your name out there without spending a dime, and you’d be wise to take advantage of as many as possible.
I found a great interview online at Scobleizer with Matt Mullenweg the founder of Wordpress and Automattic on the future of wordpress. They have a new version being released 2.7. Check it out below:
By now, you’ve heard about the powers of article marketing to grow your business and have decided to jump on board. You’ve poured hours into researching and writing your article and feel pretty good about the end result. And it might very well be a great article. Unfortunately, the best article in the world won’t get noticed by many if the article title isn’t catching your target market’s attention.
How do you write a killer article title? There are a few methods:
To start with, brainstorm ideas using two or three keywords from the article. Write everything down, even the ones you’re not thrilled with. Sometimes the act of writing alone will get your juices flowing, and you never know; maybe it’ll help bring out the perfect title for your masterpiece.
Be as specific as possible. Now that you have a few choices, narrow them down to those that are most specific. Remember, you’re competing with thousands of other articles covering similar topics, so you have to make your article stand out and get noticed. If your article is sharing copywriting tips, for example, “The Art of Copywriting” isn’t nearly as intriguing as “The Top 10 Copywriting Tips to Grow Your Business.” The first title is way too general and can seem a bit overwhelming to the reader, who is likely looking for specific answers to specific problems.
Immediately send an intriguing question to the reader’s mind. In the example above about top ten copywriting tips, the reader might wonder if they should try using copywriting to grow their own business. Maybe they’ve never thought about trying it before and are desperate to find something new to drive traffic to their websites and help increase their sales. So they read your article, like what you have to say, and decide to click to your website, where they purchase a copy of your eBook containing further do-it-yourself copywriting information. See, that hour you spent brainstorming an amazing title is paying off already!
These are just a few tips to get you started. For more information, please visit my website and check out my article called, “Writing Article Titles That Get Noticed.”
I will be participating in Ladypalooza hosted by Ladies Who Launch, as the leader of the Marketing Your Business Online table. Ladypalooza caters to women business owners, and women wanting to start up their own businesses. The event runs from 12pm-4pm on Sunday, December 7th at the National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis Street, in Toronto. I will be speaking about How To Market Your Business Online such as blogging for your business, marketing tips to maximize your online presence, article marketing, pr, networking, web 2.0, SEO and more. Giving women the inside scoop on how to grow their businesses using Web 2.0 techniques, is only the beginning. The forum is set up for you to join in the discussions, and ask your questions as they come up. This type of set up allows everyone in attendance to get one on one attention, while giving everyone at the table the chance to benefit from the topics in discussion.
Shop from 20+ boutiques and vendors and support other women-owned businesses. They are anticipating approximately 200 guests in attendance and the cost of general admission is $10 for two tickets so as to encourage attendees to bring a friend. Click here for tickets to the event.
Do you want to hear my answer to why Internet Marketing is so popular? It’s simple, really - 250 million. You’re probably thinking - what the heck?! Ok, ok, let me explain - 250 million is approximately the number of Internet users in North America, according to Word Internet Usage Statistics website [http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm]. But really, it gets better and my answer now is 750 million. Because you know, the average time spent on browsing Internet each day is 3 hours per person.
How is this time spent? Since you are one of these users, you already know or at least guess the answer. Moving beyond guess-work, research shows [http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3455061] that people mostly spend time communicating, gaming, shopping, and simply surfing. Surfing takes up as much as 15% of time spent on Internet or roughly 27 minutes per person per day. 27 minutes of “just browsing” might not sound like much, but it sure beats the amount of time people spend exposed to newspaper ads or TV commercials on any given day. Read the rest of this entry…
A blogsite is a hybrid between a website and a blog and combines elements of both. At its core, it is a blog - a place for entrepreneurs to regularly post text, photos, audio and video entries related to their companies, services and products. In addition to the main blog page, a blogsite also features pages with static content typically found on business websites. This includes Home page, About Us page, Contact page, Products or Services page, e-commerce-equipped pages, and many other options.
Blogsite saves money
The only people that make money creating and maintaining websites are web designers. Most business owners lack both time and expertise to build even a simple website. So they go out and hire a web designer. As most entrepreneurs know, a website is a work in progress. There’s always something that needs tweaking, changing, updating, etc. Read the rest of this entry…
Today I attended a fabulous event for all ladies that are: looking to launch their buisness, have just launched a new business and/or who have successfully launched and prospered their business. It was terrific. So many great opportunites networking with woman business owners and owners to be.
