Get More Business Show: Join the Local / Social Network Scene

Internet Marketing is not just for national companies. Social media is for the dry cleaner to the auto mechanic. Today, looking up a telephone number or address of a local business in the yellow pages is nearly obsolete. Marketing done based on brand image alone is being outpaced by marketing done with a brand associated with a company personality. No, I’m not talking celebrity, I’m talking about the heart and soul of a business that comes from people making connection with people. (Stream live or listen archived Get More Business Show)

If you are a small business owner and you don’t understand Internet Marketing or social media, today’s show would be a great place to start your journey. Or, maybe you’ve being using tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, or MySpace - now it’s time to step into engaging the social network of your local community with the technology & tools of Internet marketing. The possibilities of viral marketing, or word of mouth marketing are exponentially more effective when connections are made with the speed that’s only achieveable on the Internet.

If you know someone who owns a local brick and mortar business, call them and have them tune into the Get More Business Show.

From Coast to Coast, lean back in your chair and listen. The social media movement is a powerful force in this country. I’m sending a special shout out to my East Coach friends of Get More Business Show to drop in and listen. C’mon sit down, have some lunch (it’s on at noon eastern) and listen as Michael Librizi from Long Island and the NYC area joins me on the Get More Business Show.

Librizzi founded and launched Briz.com in March of 2008. Passionate about small business, entrepreneurship, and emerging technologies. Formally worked at Morgan Stanley in the foreign exchange markets. BS in Finance, Entrepreneurship, and IT from Syracuse University.

Mike Liprizzi’s mission is to give small business owners the best community to create opportunity. I am impressed by the passion that comes through on his company about page. I can’t wait to have him on my show to hear his vision for how Briz fits the bill for social media and networking for local business.

Briz.com was founded on the principle of empowerment for small business. It’s about our home towns, our neighbors, and our favorite businesses that can succeed when technology is focused solely on their needs.

The mission at Briz.com, above all, is to give small business owners the best community to create opportunity. By leveraging each other’s specialties and knowledge, over a platform that supports communication and deal making, small business owners have the potential to create powerful community relationships and economic impacts that can better our society.

When small businesses join together they can achieve great things. Collectively, small business makes up more than 50% of the private, nonfarm United States Gross Domestic Product and more than 99% of all of the United States employers, a powerful force. This is the vision of Briz.com, to give local small businesses the platform to propel them into the next century by allowing them to ban together and become collectively powerful.

Briz.com was officially founded during September of 2007. Though almost a year in planning till it’s founding, the mission has never changed and it’s innovation and development continue to grow. It’s the spirit of small business entrepreneurs that have shaped and defined culture of America.
This is for them.

Briz.com is the community and platform for business.

Show Time! Every Friday 9 am Pacific / 12 Noon Eastern - Stream live or listen archived Get More Business Show.

Get More Business Podcast for Friday, May 9th - CorePage

Join me this Friday, May 9th as I interview David Peltz, creator of CorePage.

Listen in for a SHOW SPECIAL - by listening in Live or Archived you will hear a “secret code” that will entitle you as my listner to a special free offer - no purchase necessary.

CorePage is designed to help people, especially those in sales, to quickly and easily present their content to prospects and customers in a professional manner, and track whether or not it has been viewed.

CorePage allows you to instantly create branded, custom web pages specifically for individuals, that are filled with links to… anything online. This is a whole new way to professionally present yourself to prospects and customers.

Finally, you’ll know whether or not they’re clicking to see your matierials. With CorePage, you’ll know who, what and when.

Though initially conceived as tool for the presentation of portfolio materials for those in advertising and other creative fields, the reality today is that people in many industries have sales literature, animated demos, videos, photos, documents and more that are either currently stored on line, or can be.

This is a pretty amazing tool. There is a free account with up to 5 pages. Listen to the show to discover how it would be useful for your business. (the “secret code” will get you double the free pages).

SEO Book & Tool - Search Engine Optimization Book

Today on Get More Business we will be reviewing Aaron Wall’s SEO Training Program and Tools.
Listen to the review of Aaron Wall’s SEO Training / Book / Tool site.

If you’re following along at Aaron’s site while listening to the call you will want to click on this link to see what I’m describing. While you’re there get the free account and get the basics of SEO for your website.

This tool / training is MUST HAVE if you’re serious about generating an income/meaningful traffic from your website, your blog, or any Internet presence. If you’ve got a charitable cause you’re promoting on the Internet - you need this training!

Blogging Business Strategy

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Blogging is really quite a phenomenon. Anybody can be “published” internationally on the Internet with a blog - but that doesn’t guarantee you readers. What is the strategy that successful bloggers use to make money online?

Today on Get More Business Podcast we’ll be discussing a strategy that many Internet Marketers use when developing an income producing blog.

Here’s a list of some of the basic steps to get started:

Research - Before you do anything at all you need to do some research on whether or not people are shopping for what you want to offer. Terry Dean has a great report that is available for only $10 that will describe a method and several sources for researching and choosing slam dunk markets.

Secure a domain name and hosting - The host that I trust for my domain registration and reliable hosting is a company called My Small Business Website. Their prices are reasonable - less than $10 to register a domain and just under $4 a month to host - that’s less than a Mocha Frappechino from Starbucks! Their customer service is friendly and available 24/7. I almost never talk to customer service or tech support - only because I almost never have a problem! The website hosting package includes a free WordPress Blog that can be installed for you - you just need to customize and fill it with content!

Create a 30 Day Plan for creating content and promoting your blog. This is not my idea. I subscribe to Terry Dean’s Monthly Mentor Club. This monthly printed publication is a wealth of information. It’s the best $20 I spend each month.

Following are practices that you will need to do repeatedly to create an income producing blog:

• Research Long Tail Keywords for your market - this is important to get found on the Internet.
• Post comments on complimentary blogs and forums
• Write relevant blog posts - write ahead for the whole week!
• Turn your blog posts in to Articles and submit to other publishers and bloggers
• Submit your best posts to Blog Carnivals
• Write and Submit Press Releases
• Interview guests to create products and or blog posts
• Create and upload video

Your success will be in consistency. Don’t abandon Your blog! We’ll talk more about this on the show!

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Click to listen to today’s show in talkshoe player or download mp3 - I give TONS of information that you can begin using immediately to create a blogging business strategy.

For a more structured training I recommend that you participate in Anik Singal and Rosalind Gardner’s Blog Classroom. Read here for more resources.