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WEALTH IDEAS LIMITED
In conjunction with
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Focus:
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 Resell right business
 Customised SMS business
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Date: Saturday, 4th December, 2010

Venue: The Redeemed Christian Church of God (seed of David)
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Come and learn the following:
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 How to start your own bulk SMS business
 How to register your business with Corporate Affairs Commission with less than N5,000
 How to set up a blog website (free or paid)
 How to rent your site to google for constant income thru Adsense
 How to open and verify your Paypal account
 Football trading/money making secrets exposed
 How to start your own web hosting business
 How to make money with Facebook
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 How to get US address
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 How to get over 1,000 visitors to your website daily
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Time: 10:00am-3:00pm

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5 Steps to Starting a Successful Google Adwords Campaign

Does working a couple hours a day at home on your computer and making thousands a month sound appealing to you? Well, there are people who are doing just that by using Google Adwords and loving it. They have more time to do the things they really enjoy in life. What they all learned is to work smarter, not harder.

What is Google Adwords? Whenever you conduct a search using google you will see a list of search results. These are displayed for free. In addition, you will see Sponsored Links displayed at the right of the search results and sometimes displayed at the top of the results. These are paid advertisements. The Adword advertisements are pay-per-click which means the person advertising pays google every time someone clicks on their advertisement.

People are using Google Adwords, a Pay-Per-Click program, to market their own website and products. In addition, many people are also using it even if they do not own a website. They use it to promote and market affiliate programs. The benefit to using adwords is that you can get instant traffic to your site.

Following are (5) steps to starting a successful google adwords campaign.

Step 1- Gain Basic Knowledge

Before you attempt to start making money with adwords you first need to educate yourself. You need to understand how adwords and pey-per-clicks work. Google has an informative site that provides demos and guides to learn the basics of how it works on their webpage. There are also numerous ebooks on the topic. However, make sure that the authors are credible, experienced, and professional experts. These experts share a wealth of information, tips and strategies.

Step 2 – Open a Google Adwords Account

After you understand how google works then you are ready to open a google adword account. Google has minimal costs to get started. Google will take you through several steps in setting up your account.

Step 3- Write a Creative Text Ad

You will need to create your ad. The purpose of the ad is to get as many people to click on it as possible. You want to stand out from the rest. Before writing your ad, study your competitor’s ads. Then write several different creative text ads and test each one to see which one has the highest click thru rate.

Step 4- The Keyword List

The keyword list is crucial. The right list can be the difference between success and failure so you will want to build the most efficient and focused keyword list. The more focused your keywords are the more targeted and interested the visitors who click on your ads will be resulting in more purchases. However, the more general your keyword list is the more visitors not interested in what you are selling and this can easily and quickly use up your advertising budget.

Step 5- Setting Your Budget

Google will ask you what is the maximum you would like to spend, on average per day and what is the maximum you are willing to pay each time someone clicks on your ad. Set your maximum budget at an affordable and comfortable level and never spend more than your visitor is worth.

These are the five basic steps to get you starting towards google adword success. As you practice and gain experience with adwords, you will keep improving your campaigns performance. And as you performance improves you will get more targeted visitors that will result in more sales.

About Author:
William James is the owner of http://www.Money-Making-Online.net a site focused on how to make money online resulting in huge google profits. Featuring free tools, resources and useful articles.

How Blogging Markets Your Business

Now that blogging has become so popular among everyone from the novice writer to the most experienced journalist, businesses are starting to take notice. A well-written and frequently updated blog can help market almost any type of business. Blogging can help target readers who are interested in a company’s product or service and businesses can keep track of what their readers are looking for through blogging. In addition, blogging can help link together companies that compliment each other very easily.

There is a lot of talk about blogging. Some feel that blogging is just a passing fad, but others feel it is just the beginning. Some business analysts feel that blogging does not significantly help a business market the company. Many businesses feel that this is not so. Blogging can be a beneficial way to mark a business, build an audience and help link in other companies together.

Blogging can help almost any business expose their readers to their services and products. Sometimes with new products, a blog can create interest in something new. Blogging is helpful because it can talk in depth about the product, and it can also give step-by-step instructions on how a certain product can be used. A reader, who is interested in the product after reading about it on a blog, will be more inclined to research similar products on the Internet. This can lead to a more informed consumer and can save a consumer time when shopping or researching a new product. In turn, a company may save time because customers who have read the blog are already informed about the product. These customers can also read reviews on these products and services, which can be helpful in the buying process.

Another great thing about companies using a blog for their products and services is that a blog enables the company and the customer to communicate effectively. A customer can read the blog and comment on it right away. This provides good feedback to the company and they can know what the customers want. Usually blogs will provide places for readers to leave their comments or send emails to the writer. This is a good marketing tool for businesses. People enjoy communicating about products and services that they have had good or bad experiences with and blogging provided the opportunity to do so.

Blogs can also help market a business because it will be included in search engines. When people enter certain keywords, blogs that contain those words will show up. When blogs are updated frequently, search engines can provide your company with a lot of hits. This can lead to many people looking at the company’s blog who might not otherwise have done so.

When companies use blogs, it also has the ability to create a sensation around a product and influence public opinion. This is an excellent tool for companies to use. Because of the huge popularity of blogging, this can be a more effective tool than some forms of advertising. Readers are more likely to share interesting blogs with their friends and this can help companies get the word out about their product.

Another way blogging can help market a business is that blogs often help a company position itself as a leader in a certain field. This means that those who blog can show their expertise about certain subjects and then updates this information on a regular basis. Blogging can help generate leads and send a positive message about your company without spending a lot of money for advertising. Readers can look at these blogs and know that they are dealing with a quality company.

Companies also use blogs to help network with other companies that compliment their business. This is beneficial because they can easily share their links and readers will see all of the blogs that relate to what they are searching for on the Internet. Link swapping is often used in blogging, especially with businesses.

Blogging is proving to be a beneficial marketing tool for businesses all over the world. While it’s a fairly new way for companies and customers to communicate with each other, blogging provides an immediate and unique form of advertising for the company. Customers are able to read and research products and services through blogging and companies can better understand what their customers want.

4 Keys To Creating Successful Habits

What makes successful people successful?

We would all love to be able to walk down to the local supermarket and pick up a bottle of success. But let’s look past that fantasy and find out one of the most basic reasons why people become successful.

Right now, think of someone that you know personally who is successful. Can you see their face in your mind?

Good.

Now ask yourself this question, “Does this person have a successful routine or set of habits that makes them successful?” I would be shocked if they didn’t.

Sometimes the only difference between being successful and being average is having successful habits. Some examples of successful habits could be getting up earlier, doing thing when they need to be done, being prepared, or effective time management.

So how do you start to build these success habits in your life? Here are 4 tips on creating successful habits.

1. Identify – Find the areas in your life that need changing. Write down these new habits that need to be formed. Don’t become overwhelmed at trying to figure out how you are going to form all of these habits.

2. Pick 2 – Most people sabotage themselves by trying to change everything at once. Instead, pick one major and one minor habit that you want to form. For the next 30-90 days these will be the success habits that you will create.

3. Start small – Now that you have your two success habits, create a daily or weekly routine that is easy to follow. For instance, let’s say that you want to wake up an hour earlier so that you can get more successful things done. Instead of setting your alarm an hour earlier right at the beginning, only set it 2-5 minutes earlier every morning until you reach your goal. This way it would take you 30 days or 12 days respectively to create your success habit.

Remember, the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.

4. Repeat – Once you have created your new habits move on to the next 2 success habits that you want to create. Before you know it you will have created a whole new life full of success filled habits.

Just imagine where you will be in one year if you follow these four keys to creating successful habits. If it takes you only 60 days to create 2 habits, you will have created 12 success habits in just one year!

Steps To A Successful Personal Or Business Life

Success is something of which we all want more.
Most people believe that success is difficult.

Fact: They’re wrong - it’s not!

Success isn’t really that difficult. There is a significant portion of the population here in North America, that actually want and need success to be hard! Why? So they then have a built-in excuse when things don’t go their way! Pretty sad situation, to say the least.

For those of you who are serious about having more, doing more, giving more and being more, success is achievable with some understanding of what to do, some discipline around planning and execution of those plans and belief that you can achieve your desires.

The Truth About Success

The first thing to remember about success is that it is a process – nothing more, nothing less. There is really no magic to it and it’s not reserved only for a select few people. As such, success really has nothing to do with luck, coincidence or fate. It really comes down to understanding the steps in the process and then executing on those steps.

There are basically six key areas to higher achievement. Some people will tell you there are four while others may tell you there are eight. One thing for certain though, is that irrespective of the number of steps the experts talk about, they all originate from the same roots.

From my perspective then, here are the six key steps:

1. Making the decision

2. Clarity - developing the Vision

3. Focus – having a plan

4. Commitment – understanding the price and having the willingness to pay that price

5. Belief – believing in yourself and those around you

6. Taking action – practice Ready, Fire, Aim…

Making the Decision

If success is a process with a number of defined steps, then it is just like any other process. So, what is the first step in any process?

Making a decision to do something – this is the first step. We all know that nothing moves until someone makes a decision. The first action is always in making the decision to proceed. This is a fundamental step, which most people overlook.

So, make the decision to move forward. Commit your decision to paper, just to bring it into focus. Then, go for it!

Clarity

Having clarity of purpose and a clear picture of what you desire, is probably the single most important factor in achievement. Why is Clarity so important?

Without clarity, you send a very garbled message out to the Universe. We know that the Law of Attraction says that we will attract what we focus on, so if we don’t have clarity, we will attract confusion.

Consider the following analogy:

You are going on a cruise, but when the ship sets sail, you discover it has no rudder. What happens? One of 3 things will occur:

1. You will sail along until you collide with an immovable object, after which you will sink to the bottom

2. You will run aground and become hopelessly stuck in the mud

3. You will drift aimlessly until you arrive back at the original dock

Trying to go through life without clarity is similar to sailing a rudder-less ship – no good thing can or will happen!

The sad thing is the majority of people have no clue about what they truly want. They have no clarity. When asked the question, responses will be superficial at best, and at worst, will be what someone else wants for them.

So how do we get clarity? Simply by asking ourselves lots of questions: What do I really want? What does success look like to me? Why do I want a particular thing? How will this achievement change my life? How can I use this success to make a difference for others?

Introspection is the trick. Understand what you want, why you want it and what it will do for you. This is a critical factor, and as such, is probably the most difficult step. For this reason, most people never complete this aspect – then wonder why life is so difficult!

Once you have a clear understanding of what you want, it is critical that you engage in goal setting – specifically setting SMART goals.

SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time Sensitive - S-M-A-R-T. Knowing what you want and setting SMART goals as mileposts on your quest cannot help but give you clarity!

Focus

Focus is having the unwavering attention to complete what you set out to do. There are a million distractions in every facet of our lives. Telephones and e-mail, clients and managers, spouses and kids, TV, newspapers and radio – the distractions are everywhere and endless. Everyone wants a piece of us and the result can be totally overwhelming.

So, how can we stay on course with all the distractions in our lives? Willpower is a good start, but it’s very difficult to stay on track simply through willpower.

The best way is to develop and follow a plan. Start with your goals in mind and then work backwards to develop the plan. What steps are required to get you to the goals? Make the plan as detailed as possible. Try to visualize and then plan for, every possible setback. Commit the plan to paper and then keep it with you at all times. Review it regularly and ensure that every step takes you closer to your Vision and Goals. If the plan doesn’t support the vision then change it!

Along with your plans, you should consider developing an action orientation that will keep you motivated to move forward at all times. This requires a little self-discipline, but is a crucial component to achievement of any kind. Before starting any new activity, ask yourself if that activity will move you closer to your goals. If the answer is no, you may want to reconsider doing it at that time.

I coach my clients to practice the 3 D’s – Defer, Delegate or Delete. Can the particular activity be done later? Defer it! Can it be done by someone else? Delegate it! Does it need to be done at all? If not, consider deleting it! Posing these questions will help to keep you focused on what is truly important!

Commitment

Commitment is something that comes from understanding that everything has its price and then having the willingness to pay that price. This is important because nobody wants to put significant effort into something, only to find out after the fact that the price was too high.

The price is something not necessarily defined as financial. It could be time, effort, sacrifice, money or perhaps, something else. The point is that we must be fully aware of the price and be willing to pay it, if we want to have success.

Belief

This is perhaps the single biggest obstacle that all of us must overcome in order to be successful.

We all carry a lot of baggage, thanks to our upbringing. The majority of people carry with them, an entire series of self-limiting beliefs that will absolutely stop, and hold them back from, success. Things like “I’m not good enough”, “I’m not smart enough”, “I’m not lucky enough”, and the worst, “I’m not worthy” are but a few of the self-limiting beliefs I have encountered. We carry them with us like rocks in a knapsack, and then use them to sabotage our success. So, how twisted is that?!?!

The old expression is absolutely true – whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right!

One of the main areas that I work on with my clients is shedding these non-supportive beliefs and replacing them with beliefs that will help them to accomplish their desires.

It is truly amazing the damage that we, as parents, can inflict on our children. So why do we do it? For the most part, we don’t do it intentionally or with malice. In the majority of cases, the cause is a well-meaning but unskilled or un-thinking parent, who says the wrong thing at the wrong time, and the message sticks – as simple as that!

And it's not just parents that are the cause - teachers, friends, clergy members or anyone else that has influence in a child's life can be a contributor to these self-limiting beliefs!

The bottom line is that we must shed the bad and replace with good beliefs.

Taking Action

“Nothing changes until something moves” – this is the battle cry of author and journalist Robert Ringer. And he is absolutely correct. Not all of the decision-making, clarity, planning, focus and belief in the world, will get you to where you want to be, without taking action!

Action – putting your plans into play – that is what will get you to the destination. Don’t get caught in the paralysis of analysis, or in the conundrum of Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim, Aim…

Get the oars in the water and start rowing. Execution is the single biggest factor in achievement, so the faster and better your execution, the quicker you will get to the goals!

Conclusion

So, there you have it; the six steps that will help you to the fabled land of achievement and success! You now have the opportunity to push ahead and reach your potential. No more excuses - make the commitment to take action TODAY!

Figure out what you want, put a plan together to achieve it, understand the cost, believe in yourself then go and get it!

The Secrets to Turning Any Business Into a Successful Web Business

There are a few secrets that I'd like to share with you. You may have been privy to a few of them before. Actually you may have heard of all 4, but I can promise that you will finish each article with a fresh perspective. I will show you how 4 simple secrets can create a powerhouse web business. This is the first part of the 4 article series.

Before I divulge the vault of successful web business secrets I must warn you of one thing. All the information in the world will not take the place of determination and persistence. A web business is just like an offline business. It takes hard work and resolve to succeed. However working smart is heads and tails better than plain old working. These 4 secrets will turn any smart working, dedicated average Joe or Jane into a successful web business owner.

Web Success Secret #1) Content is king.

Heard that before? I know I have. The thing I never knew was how to use content to my advantage. Content is useless unless it is optimized for the search engines. It must also be optimized for your reader. You have two customers- readers and search engines. You must satisfy both with the same exact content.

Content is king only if you have exact and highly specific keywords placed in correct locations. Unfortunately the hard part is determining what keywords to use. A keyword can be a single word or a phrase. It is the term that web surfers use to search for information. Place yourself in their shoes and try to discover what search terms they use. You must then evaluate the search term. How many people search using that term? How many sites already deliver information on that search term? Simple demand and supply rules. The more demand with the less supply equals more profitability.

You have several options for determining keywords and their profit potential. Search yourself, pay a company to search for you or have your hosting company do a complete keyword search for your niche or web business topic. If your hosting company does not offer this service I recommend you switch to a plan that does. This feature alone can make or break your business' future. If you would like my recommended hosting plan, please contact me.

Without a proper keyword search and analysis you may as well forget about becoming successful with an Internet business. Investing in this one secret is literally the start of planning your website.

Your next action step is to plan your site layout based on the 50-175 high-demand and low-supply keywords. Your site should be structured in three tiers. Tier one is your home page. Tier two is made of all of your main topics and also constitutes your navigation bar buttons. Tier three keywords are sub-topics of tier two pages. Organize your 50-175 keywords into three tiers. Doing this makes it easier for visitors to navigate through your site and it makes it easier for search engine spiders to find all of your pages.

Search engine spiders do not like to fish around for all of your pages and links. This is why many sites offer a “site map”. A site map is one page that contains links to all of the content pages. This is a fine route to take; however most people agree that pages with a lot of links on it are valued less than content pages that casually link to other content pages.

Using three tiers allows you to go from topic to sub-topic to sub-sub-topic all by natural in-content links. For example, tier 1 is the homepage on a fitness site. Tier 2 is a page all about cardio activity and its benefits. A tier three page off of that tier 2 page is about different treadmill routines. Do you see how the site visitor would like this structure? They click on “Cardio” and are given links to more specific pages about cardio topics. Search engine spiders like the three tier structure too. It means they do not have to dig through layers and levels of useless links.

There is even more to content than finding profitable keywords and structuring your site into easy-to-navigate tiers. You must optimize each and every page on your website to perform well and rank high at search engines. Many people devote their working life to optimization secrets. A full length article just on optimizing is possible. Heck, a full length book is possible. My recommendation is to use a hosting company that automatically teaches you how to optimize web pages for the engines. Doing that will cause less headache and frustration and it will keep you focused on building content.

A quick education in optimization: place your specific keyword in the file name, title, description and keyword section of your page. Then sprinkle the keyword throughout the content. Also provide a link using your specific keyword in the link text. If all of this has you spinning your head, I recommend going the hosting company I use. They literally teach you to build a website using blocks. It’s all simple and easier than you think.

There is one last piece to content. It must effectively pre-sell your product or service and position you as the expert in your field. When your website has 50-175 optimized pages for your visitors to read through it will start to position you as the expert. Your site will become known as the place for information about internet marketing.

When visitors find your site through search engines they are seeking information about a problem or question they have. If they land on your site and you try to sell them something right away one thing is sure- they click the back button and find another site that will give them information. This is why pre-selling your product or service is paramount. Give your visitors what they want. Answer their question and in the process let them know about your services and products.

All of the information develops rapport and trust with your site visitor. It positions you as an expert. It keeps your visitor on your site longer since they are actually reading content. Search engines notice this and rank you better. How well your site can keep visitors is known as "stickiness." Your site must attract and keep visitors for as long as possible.

Provide content that pre-sells your products, positions you as the expert and focuses on highly profitable keywords. You cannot go wrong with your web business if you do those things. The secret to content is to satisfy both your visitor and search engines. Lose one or both and you are doomed. As I mentioned earlier, it is best to work smarter and not harder. Your hosting company should be providing most of these services to you free of charge. There are a small few that do this, but it is well worth the investigation. Contact me for further resources and information. http://achieversinternetresources.com. Having a successful web business starts with effective content. Stay tuned for parts 2-4!

Sales Letter Samples - A Way to Write Effective Sales Letters

Sales letter is often regarded as an introductory letter comprising of just one or two pages that is sent to the customer or the potential client by the owner of the business. These letters can serve a wide range of purposes just like keeping people updated and informed about the sales and the new products. But if you want them to be effective, often sales letter samples are recommended. It will not only keep the sales letter flowing logically but in addition to this these letters also ensure that all the requirements of the business are met.

Step 1: Grabbing attention

The first step is to grab the attention of the customer. This can be done by shocking or surprising them. If it has the different introduction part as compared to other communication documents that are received by the customer then there is a great chance for this letter to be read. You can try out some quote of any popular personality that is related to the business. You can also include the detail of the business that had never been disclosed before.

Step 2: Express some need

After you have grabbed the attention the second step is to express the need of the product or service. When you want someone to actually make a sale by reading the sales letter you must make sure that the person finds something in this letter that demonstrates why he should buy that product or service. How can you do this? The simple answer is by demonstrating a need. So a writer should include the strong reasons that appeal the customers to buy that pr5oduct or service.

Step 3: Give a Solution

Now you have to prove that how the client can solve his problem and this can be done easily just by explaining what the business is offering for that problem that fulfills the needs and requirements of the customers. It should also demonstrate that they are providing it better as compared to their competitors and offer some extra beneficial features.

See more sales letter samples.

Great info on Sales Letters, Sale Letter Templates and Copywriting can be located at http://www.salesletters.com

By Lorraine Lee

Four Tips For Smart Marketing Goals

To succeed in marketing, creative entrepreneurs need to create strategies built on goals they can actually accomplish.

Following are four tips to smartly using goals to find marketing success.

1) Don't Start Out With Too Many Goals

Small business owners often fail to achieve their goals because they start out trying to accomplish too much, too quickly. Specific to online marketing, they want a blog, lots of comments on their posts, a vibrant Facebook presence, videos on YouTube -- and 2,000 Twitter followers. All by next week.

Trying to accomplish too much too quickly (especially without adequate funding or manpower) is demoralizing. And certainly not the recipe to follow for success. Effective marketing takes planning, time, and tweaking.

2) Write Down Your Goals

Goals are pesky. If they're just thought about, they invariably don't happen. But write them down, and they suddenly become action items. Especially if linked to deadlines. Have a bunch of goals on your "to do" list that aren't getting done, despite your best efforts?

Make yourself accountable to someone -- your spouse, perhaps -- as you agree to take her to the opera if you fail to meet a deadline. Or jump on Stickk.com. It's an online site that actually charges you greenbacks if you miss a deadline for which you make yourself accountable. (Here's betting your completion rate quickly improves if an organization you can't stand benefits from your lack of completion!)

3) Review Your Goals Daily

To help yourself meet your goals, it's a good idea to look at your goals at the start of each day; to mentally commit to accomplishing them. Doing so will help you to avoid engaging in the "fires" that come up during the day. Take great relish in crossing each goal off as you do it. And by all means, reward yourself. Good job!

4) Take Action Daily

You may not always complete your entire daily "to do" list. Let's face it, life sometimes refuses to stay on the sidelines. If you see that you're getting off track, figure out where you can make the most impact. Or divide your available time into block periods so that you accomplish a small part of each of your target areas. Then be sure to move any unfinished goals forward.

Get to it so your business starts percolating!

Sheri
"The Creatives Marketer"
Creatives Marketing
Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt is the owner of Creatives Marketing, which helps creative entrepreneurs get their online marketing percolating via cutting-edge, proven, and low-cost or FREE! marketing strategies and tools. To receive your FREE Creatives Marketing Kit, visit Creatives Marketing at http://www.CreativesMarketing.com

By Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

25 Mind - Blowing Marketing Strategies That You Can Do NOW!

You're in business to get more business. That's where effective marketing comes in. Many people who run a business, especially solo start-ups and entrepreneurs, may be great at what they do and may even be good at running the business; yet they lack effective marketing skills to get the extra edge they need for growth.

In essence, marketing is the image that a company presents to the public. It relates to behavior and interaction within the marketplace. Therefore, it is essential that the businesses philosophy and values are reflected and reinforced within their marketing efforts.

Here's 25 ideas for you to get going, get more traffic on your site and get more business!

1. Update your website: It won't behoove you to do any marketing if your site is visually unappealing. In a word, a crappy site will reflect on the quality of your business. Fresh content and new graphics will do wonders.

2. Create a Marketing Strategy: If you made a business plan, this second document will be the fuel that drives your business. Have a plan, man!

3. Submit Press Releases: There are plenty of sites that offer free press release submission. But first you need something newsworthy. Think creatively here. No one cares about the miniscule things, but offering the audience worthy advice that is related to your business, or finding something current in the news to tie in with your industry will be more likely to get picked up by major news organizations.

4. Start an Email Marketing Campaign: You hate getting spam, and so do I. So make sure your email campaign offers worthwhile services and engaging content. Make sure you only send your emails to TARGETED and SPECIFIC lists, not everyone.

5. Set up a Blog: A blog is like a "dear diary" for businesses and is a free-for-all to write your opinions, advice or tips relating to your business. It also helps to bump up your searches and creates more traffic to and from your site.

6. Comment on other People's Blogs or Online Forums: For the same reason, you can drive traffic just by leaving a short message and of course, a link back to your site.

7. Join the Social Networking Revolution: So you're busy and don't have time to chat or keep up with the Joneses on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter? Hire a college kid to manage it for you. Some will set it up and manage it for like $100 a week. They can respond to "friends" and market your business. Or make a commitment to log on to at least one of those big sites at least once a day to keep in touch. It works!

8. Create a niche: You're good at everything and offer a multitude of services and products. You may be confusing your customers. Start with your FAVORITE and promote the heck out of it, then you can move on to something else later instead of confusing people by telling them too much all at once.

9. Promote a Fellow Business: By promoting someone else, you are taking emphasis off you. However, one hand washes the other. Find businesses that you can marry with (ie - photographer with DJ, or web designer with writer, or fashion designer with fabric company, etc.). Put links to each other's websites up or propose doing a promotion together to get more business.

10. Show Appreciation to Clients: Instead of only going after new business, don't forget the customers who made you who you are today. Give them a reason to stay with you and always make them happy. Your "oldies" are the "goodies" so you should keep them at the pinnacle of your business priorities.

11. Join HARO mailing list (Help-A-Reporter Out): This really cool list comes to your inbox several times a day, but if you scan through it you will find thousands (29,478 to be exact) of journalists who are looking for people to interview for upcoming stories. They want experts on all sorts of topics, and surely you are an expert on something! It could land you on the radio, in a magazine, newspaper or as a quote in someone's book. http://helpareporter.com/

12. Free Article Submissions: Sites like Ezine, Helium, Article Dashboard, Articles Base and a whole bunch more are places that you can write and submit articles (about anything!) for the world to read. These article directories do two things - they help to optimize your site and increase traffic and they provide an opportunity for you to become an expert on a topic that means something to you. They're also FREE! FREE publicity!

13. Track Your Website: Google Analytics offer a free way for you to see how many visitors are coming and going to and from your site. This will help you to identify how well it is doing and will give you leverage to make improvements to increase search visibility.
14. Get Listed on Industry Directories: What are these? These are sites that you can list your business's service to any relevant database. For example, if you are a contractor and looking for construction jobs, do a Google search for industry relevant databases that cater to your type of work. Find as many as possible and commit to listing your business in at least 2 or 3 per day. You will gradually notice a lot more traffic to your site!

15. Attend Trade Shows: Even if you can't afford a booth, you should attend as many trade shows and conferences as possible. Make sure you bring a lot of business cards and talk to as many people as possible - even if the trade show has nothing to do with what you offer - you may meet valuable relationships and everyone knows someone.

16. Show Your Spirit: Wear a shirt, hat or something everywhere you go that either has your company name on it or your favorite sports team (Go Dolphins!). This is a great conversation starter and almost always gets at least one person to talk to you. Have cards handy!

17. Get Organized and Delegate: One downfall of many businesses is trying to do everything themselves. They are the proverbial "jack of all trades" and the master of none; usually to save money. Hire a designer to do your website, or a writer to write it, or a printer to print the business cards. Your professional appearance is at stake, so even though you want to save money you may actually be hurting your business in the long run if your image looks shoddy.

18. Newsletters: Once a month is enough, any more or less and people won't read them. The first time I ran one, I heard from a client from 3 years ago. The second one, I got two new clients. The third, I had referrals and even more business. You get the idea! Newsletters help you stay in touch. The trick is to offer valuable content, rather than junk that people won't bother reading. The nominal cost of Constant Contact is well worth it!

19. Flirt More: This doesn't mean getting your significant other upset. It means when you are out and about, smile at people and make conversation. Be approachable. Striking up a conversation is a great way to get a plug in for your business!

20. Subscribe to Industry Related Lists: As an example, I get emails from Writer's Digest and many of the business related marketing sites. Staying informed will give you new ideas for marketing development.

21. Direct Mail: No, it's not a dying breed! Direct mail is a great solution for companies who have a product to sell. Rather than sending a brochure that may get thrown away, try the old strategy of handwriting the envelope or joining in on a mailer pack. No time for writing? Hire a teenager with nice penmanship.

22. Create Relationships: Don't just do business... create real relationships and friendships with your customers so they will enjoy using your services time and time again.

23. Make a Unique Selling Proposition: Create your USP to convince your customers you are the top choice in the marketplace. What is a USP? Google it and see!

24. Bump up the SEO: Search engine optimization will help increase your website's visibility online. This is a very complex strategy for many people who are not marketing savvy. You can use the services of a web company or search engine experts, like our friends at Search Wiz.

25. Try an Elevator Pitch: This is a brief summary of your business, which can let your customers know what you do in a one-sentence or one-paragraph synopsis.

Anne Violette is a freelance writer, author and ghostwriter specializing in unique marketing style copywriting. Put the power of creativity behind your business with Awesome Writing that speaks volumes. Visit: http://www.awesomewriter.com/Awesome_Services.html to learn more about the many services of Awesome Writer.

By Anne Violette

Why You Need a Blog and a Blog Manager

Are you a author, speaker or coach who is trying to obtain a web presence as a way to promote your company or business? Then, you are probably at some time or another going to, or maybe you have already ventured into the world of blogging. Blogging though it began as sort of a hobby for many, has turned into a profitable business for others, and also a way to aid you in connecting with your target audience and drawing them into your websites through a new format, the blog.

So, you may already have a blog or you might be an author, speaker or coach, who sees the need for one but you either don't know where to begin or don't have the time it takes to maintain a blog. If either is the case for you, you should consider outsourcing your blog management. Here's why:

Blog Management helps to provide keyword rich content to your company's blog and website. There are many benefits to having a company blog, these include:

Branding - Having a blog gives you a place online to help establish your brand. It can help you to build a reputation with your readers that will give you a positive image and help lead your readers to become your customers.

Fresh Content - Fresh, original content on your blog helps the search engines find you. The more often you can provide fresh content the better off you are.

SEO - Search Engine Rankings are where it's at these days and you can receive higher rankings for your website by using a blog and its content to drive those rankings. We optimize your blog posts with key words that help drive traffic to your site, increasing your search engine rankings.

More Traffic - Above all the blog helps with your traffic as previously mentioned and whether you want higher search engine rankings or just more customers, traffic is the way to receive both. And a blog with fresh content is how to get that traffic.

Alyssa Avant is a freelance speaker, writer and your Creative VA Partner. She loves social media and has much experience using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social networking platforms to network and promote myself and my clients. Get her FREE Report Power Tools Every Business Owner Must Have by signing up at http://creativeVAPartner.com

By Alyssa Avant