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How to Start a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog or Website

So many people just don’t know where to even go or what to do to get started blogging with WordPress. I decided to share exactly step by step what you can do to be up and running with your own WordPress blog (or website). Note this is different than a free WordPress.com blog – with [...]

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The Marketing Section of Facebook Business Pages’ Editor

The Marketing tab inside the back end editing area of your Facebook Page allows you a variety of ways of spreading the word about your Business Page. When you are starting a new Page it looks like this after you click the Edit Page button: If you have an established Page it gives you a [...]

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Finding Your Way Around the New Facebook Fan Page Layout

Facebook has changed the general layout and functionality of their business Pages. This 15 minute video tutorial shows you around the new features so you’ll be able to access them easily. Features include photo strip across the top, navigation links down the left sidebar, the two wall filters – your business or most recent posts, [...]

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Online Tools for Scheduling

Sometimes you may have an occasion to schedule a meeting, one on one appointment or a group gathering with someone else. Those of you in direct sales also deal with this when booking home parties or business opportunity appointments. No matter what type of business you are in, rather than trying to catch all participants [...]

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Starting a Facebook Group

Do you have an inner circle you’d like to have threaded conversations with as a Group? The newest version of Facebook Groups might be just what you need. They are designed for Groups of already-connected Friends to discuss and collaborate from within Facebook. These are different than the old Groups and Fan Pages as they [...]

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The New ROI – Return on Interaction

Measuring your Return on Investment in business is a standard practice for any business owner or entrepreneur who wants to become and stay profitable. Knowing the specific monetary results that come from your investments of time and money guides your business decisions. When it comes to online social networking, however, there are gray areas that [...]

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Social Media and Sales Telesummit

Announcing… TOP TRAINERS reveal their Social Media & Sales Secrets for Making Connections, Increasing Your Exposure and Getting Paid! Networking is a form of interactive communication with the goal of creating a connection. Social Media means taking that networking online with unlimited possibilities to reach a wide audience. Sales are about connecting with your clients… [...]

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How to Disconnect Facebook Apps

One of the most common complaints people have about Facebook is its lack of privacy. It’s one thing to knowingly share personal details with people you “friend” who you hopefully know “in real life” but it seems that Facebook is frequently changing the way it handles your information, so much that there’s a general distrust [...]

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Use Twellow to Find Twitter Tweeple to Follow, Tweet, and Retweet!

How’s that for Twitter language!? I am so excited today to share a guest post by Publicity Hound’s Joan Stewart. If you’ve been to any of my general online presence classes or my Twitter class you’ve heard me recommend using Twellow as a way to find like-minded people to follow (and get followed back) who [...]

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Patrick Schwerdtfeger

My mentor, colleague and friend Patrick Schwerdtfeger is turning 40 today and has this video message for all entrepreneurs out there. Do you sometimes feel alone in your struggles? Does it seem like success is taking too long? Patrick talks about building that seemingly overwhelming 10 story building one brick at a time and counting [...]

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Tips Tricks and Resources for Building an Online Presence – Vol. 3

This 3rd in my series of collections of tips tricks and resources for building an online presence features items that were posted to my Facebook Fan Page in October 2010. Enjoy! – Some ideas for adding a Contact Form to your Fan Page. I use response-o-matic which isn’t listed here but I’ll have to check [...]

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Take a Tour of the Back End of Your Facebook Fan Page

If you’re new to creating and editing Facebook Fan Pages, it is important to know how to access the ‘back end’ so that you can edit various areas of your Fan Page. This 4 minute video shows you the Edit Page area where you can manage permissions, edit your basic info, access badges and like [...]

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More HTML and FBML for Facebook Fan Pages

Warning – Intermediate to advanced! If you’re not there yet, move along! hehe Wow – I sure have gotten a lot of comments, tweets and sharing of my Basic HTML Code for your Static FBML Pages on Facebook post! When I wrote that post I had no idea how popular it would become. It followed [...]

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Where are my links on my new Facebook profile?

  If you have gotten the new Facebook Profile you will see one major item is missing – the Links tab! This used to be a place where someone could visit their friend’s wall and see items they have posted whether it was an article, a youtube video or a blog post. There are no [...]

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Tips, Tools and Resources for Building an Online Presence – Vol. 2

Hi everyone! I post so many tips and tools and resources for building an online presence for your business over on my Facebook Fan Page that I thought it would be handy to collect them and repost for anyone who may have missed them. When you see a blog post from me with this title: [...]

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People Before Things in Online Marketing

As we enter a new year in both technology and online marketing, I see a trend of “people before things” emerging. The techniques that worked yesterday – flashy websites with big bold graphics, squeeze pages that read like infomercials, and repetitive messaging to get noticed – will not be effective any longer. A focus on [...]

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Free Direct Sales Teleseminar Series

Hi everyone – This message today is specifically for my readers who are direct sellers, party plan reps, and network marketers, although I am convinced that anyone in business can benefit from the information in this upcoming teleseminar I will be participating in, so read on… If you’re like me, you’ve spent a lot of [...]

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Questions are the Answer to Blog Post Ideas

Have you ever been stuck when coming up with a topic idea to blog about? Or maybe you need to create some content for a web page but can only think of a few sentences to describe a product? I’ve been using a handy tool that helps get my creative writing juices flowing in a [...]

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The Buzz on Social Media – Good or Bad? By Shari Hudspeth

Hi everyone! The following is a guest post by DSWA colleague and Direct Selling Power Book co-author Shari Hudspeth. Let us know what you think in this comments! Karen – The Buzz On Social Media…Good or Bad? By Shari Hudspeth, Direct Sales Speaker, Trainer and Coach I’ve been talking about the pitfalls of social media [...]

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Using Meetup for your Business to Be Found in the Search Engines

Meetup.com is a way to get extra local and online exposure, as well as being very highly indexed by search engines. I’ve been getting a lot of links for my Direct Selling Power book thanks to my Direct Selling Power Club Meetup! Check out this 2.5 min screencast & I’ll show you!

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