Four Reasons why Every Life Coach, Speaker & Author Should be Blogging!

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How do you engage your marketplace, your prospects and customers in conversation with YOU? Is your social networking, blogging, audio, video about delivering information or about engaging in a two way conversation?

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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 Resources

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Make some time to listen to the Get More Business Podcast where I share Blogging as a Business Strategy. Most of the information I have learned from Terry Dean’s Monthly Mentor Club.

Leave me a comment if you find this info helpful!

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!

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

Blogging for Business

I’ve been a small business owner for a long time, over 23 years. I’ve been on the Internet with one of my businesses (GiveAways Plus  or The Small Business Guru ) since 1999. I’ve been ahead of many of my competition in the Ad Specialty Industry using the Internet to build my business. But along came blogs,  RSS feeds and pod casting and I feel like I got lost in the rush of technology. Initially I grasped the power of blogging a few years ago but I just couldn’t put my hands on good information to get me started on what to do to get started. I couldn’t figure out how to customize the design and make it look and feel the way I wanted the blog to represent me.

Finally, someone who I respect has made a very easy to understand tool that I can use to get me started and on track with this vital tool for my business. I have to give credit for making every step so easy to understand with step by step instructions to follow. John Jantsch, of Duct Tape Marketing, has written a super easy to follow step by step guide to getting started with blogging your business. His digital publication, Blog Lightning , describes such a thorough process for getting started you could actually get your blog started and promoted all in one day.

Being a mom of three children and a small business owner with lots of deadlines and responsibility,  It took me about two days to get my blog set up, designed and promoted. Now all that’s left is posting.

In future posts I will cover how blogging can be used for different types of businesses for Lead Generation for small business owners.

I am preparing for a Teleseminar on Blogging for Small Business Promotion. I’d like to hear from you on the subject. In fact, I am gathering questions for this event so that I can prepare comprehensive content that covers the most relevant topics that you want answers to. Please  submit questions here.  Listen in, I may use your question.

Blog Lightning - A step-by-step roadmap that guides small business owners and independent professionals through the process of creating a blog and RSS feed to marketing their business.