How to Use StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a tool that offers you website recommendations based on your preferences and reviews or recommendations from people who have similar interests. It helps you connect with other people who have similar interests, it saves time browsing through search engine results, and it introduces you to sites you may not have otherwise found. Here’s how to use it: Step 1. Head to the website, www.stumbleupon.com and click Join Now. Step 2. They’ll ask for your email, your user name, your birthday, gender, and a few options for you to check or uncheck. Step 3. Choose which web browser you want to add it to. It will be added to your toolbar.... Continue Reading
Common Tweaks for a WordPress Theme
There are an abundance of wonderful WordPress themes yet despite their beauty and functionality, it’s difficult to not want to customize your theme. To make your theme your own, to modify it so it is more appealing to you, your visitors, and so it better represents your brand here are a few things you can do to make small changes to your WordPress Theme. Widgets are far and away the easiest and most common way to customize a blog theme. There are literally thousands of widgets available and they do everything from mark comments as Spam to set your site up for social bookmarking. There are widgets which show a quote of the day, allow people to... Continue Reading
How to Locate the Right Virtual Assistant
There’s no denying the value of a virtual assistant. They can handle the more time consuming tasks involved in running a business and free you up so you can handle the bottom line profit making tasks, the core of your business. The trick, is to find the right virtual assistant. The one who will make your life easier and improve your business. Here’s how: Determine what you need an assistant to do. Do you need them to handle email? Blog posting? Bookkeeping? Define what you need an assistant to do before you set out to find the right one for your business. Each assistant comes with their own portfolio of skills and knowledge. Ask for referrals.... Continue Reading
How Freebies Generate Leads for Websites
It’s human nature. Everyone loves getting something for free. Business owners can use this behavioral truth to increase traffic to their websites and generate qualified leads. Not everyone who visits a website is ready to make a purchase. In many cases, consumers will comparison shop, visiting several times before making a decision. So even if the website is the main portal through which customers place orders, an equally important purpose of the website is to generate leads. Creating an ezine or newsletter is a common “freebie”. Subscribers opt in, which means they provide minimal personal information in order to receive the newsletter.... Continue Reading
Tactics to De-stress
When you start a business, there is a lot to do. The daily administrative tasks need to be done as well as the marketing. Once clients start to roll in, a new set of variables is added to the equation. It is normal to be overwhelmed when you are the chief. The key is knowing how to handle the stress so that you can keep going. Here a few tactics to de-stress… Take some time off. Just because you are working for yourself doesn't mean you should work 24/7. Take breaks often, take days off. Relax. Taking time off doesn't mean going over your to-do list in head. It means leaving the to-do list on the desk. Don't worry, It'll... Continue Reading
Ready to Jumpstart Your Business?
Wouldn’t you like to feel… that marketing your business is the easiest thing you have do today totally comfortable quoting your prices even though you know they are the highest in your industry that talking about what you comes as natural to you as breathing that money is no option because your business is producing all the revenue you need Well, these are just a few of the feelings you’ll develop during the Smart eBusiness Moneymaking & Mindset Mastermind that’s starting this October! The Smart eBusiness Moneymaking & Mindset Mastermind is an exclusive six-month program for a very small group of online entrepreneurs.... Continue Reading
Social Media 101
The way people are using the internet changes on a daily basis. For those who aren’t up to speed with the latest workings and advantages of the internet may feel at a loss. Especially if you have not discovered the workings of social media. Ultimately, you may not realize the importance of using these new methods for running an online business. Social media is, in the most basic sense of things, a shift in the way people share and discover news or informational content. It makes it easy for people to interact with the information they are receiving, instead of simply reading it in a newspaper or magazine. Social media allows people to instantly... Continue Reading
CPR for a Dying List
I’m sure you know people who have tried, and possibly failed, to build an opt-in list. Maybe you are one of these people. Not all is lost, however. You still have a chance to breathe some life into your list, and get it working for you instead of against you. The relationship between you and your opt-in list members must be one of trust. If there is no trust, you will not likely get that person to sign up. If they do they may not stay. Here are a few strategies to build and maintain trust: They must be able to opt-out. Make sure each customer signing up for your newsletter or information knows they have a quick and easy option to bow out when... Continue Reading
Social Media Bookmarking
Social media bookmarking and networking go hand in hand. Social bookmarking enables users to search, share and organize web pages of interest including yours! It’s a tool that enables you to inspire backlinks and devoted followers. The first step is to register with the social bookmarking website of your choice. This permits you to store your bookmarks, create tags and decide what is made public or private. Some sites will even conduct periodic tests to make sure the links bookmarked are still active. Once you’ve started using social bookmarking it’s important to alert everyone, or “ping” your site or blog. This permits search engines... Continue Reading
Tactics to End This Year With A Big Bang
Even though the 4th quarter will be here in a few weeks there’s still time to hit the ball out of the park, if you will. This month’s free webinar delivers tactics that you can implement now to end this year with a big bang. I’ll be completely honest with you about what it truly takes to succeed? I’m about to reveal to you what you are doing wrong and how to do it right I’ll show you how to increase the dollar value of each sale I’ll tell you exactly how to increase the number of referrals you get I’m not going to waste your time with a lot of fluff so come prepared to learn. This webinar is schedule... Continue Reading
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