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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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Tips, Tools and Resources for Building an Online Presence – Vol. 1

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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Blogging Every Day – V7N.com 30 Day Blogging Challenge

Today is the start of something really fun that I am participating in that will also benefit you! I have joined the V7 Network’s 30 Day Blogging Challenge. This means that those of us participating will be posting something new to our blogs every day for 30 days, in order to get back into the [...]

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Happy New Year!

A friend and fellow Direct Selling Women’s Alliance member Robin Blanc Mascari once shared this list with the Leadership Retreat attendees and I just loved it. I use it every year. Print out the questions and fill in your answers, or pick a question and journal about it. How about discussing the questions with your [...]

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Ways I Can Help with Your Online Presence

Hi everyone! I see a lot of frustration out there with various technology, social media platforms, and computer programs. I know there is a big learning curve on a lot of these things as I go through that too! The difference is I love it and for most of you, it is a ‘have to’ [...]

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Facebook Friends Lists

Organizing your Facebook friends into Friend Lists can help you manage your time and ensure your message gets delivered to a targeted group of people when posting from your personal profile, when sharing from fan pages to your personal friends, or when inviting people to events. Enjoy these 3 short videos showing you how to [...]

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Take My Survey – Help Me to Help You

Can you help me out by filling out this survey? You’ll be entered to win an hour of training with me! Thanks in advance! Karen Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool.

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How to Proliferate Your Blog Posts and Articles

Once you have written an article for your business, you can take that article and proliferate – or spread – it across other channels to build your online presence. Following is the procedure I use when I have an article I would like to spread the word about. 1. Post the article to your own [...]

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Maximize Your LinkedIn Presence

Get the most out of your LinkedIn presence online using the following pointers. To edit your Profile go to Profile – Edit Profile – and you will see next to each section there is a tiny “edit” link – use that to make adjustments instead of keeping things as the defaults. There are many opportunities [...]

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Stop Annoying People on Facebook

I’ve gotten great reviews of my Facebook Do’s and Don’ts report that you can get when you subscribe to my newsletter. Since writing that though I’ve noticed even more “bad behavior” on Facebook! A lot of it coming from so-called Social Media consultants. I decided to poll people on my Twitter and Fan Page to [...]

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How to Easily Add an Email Signup Opt In Tab to Facebook Fan Pages

Having a Facebook Fan Page for your business is great. You are able to share useful information, engage with your audience of customers and prospects, market your product and services now and then, and create a buzz about your business. Facebook does not have a built-in way to collect the contact information of your fans, [...]

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How Much Can You Write in the “Write Something About Yourself” Box on Facebook?

Every Facebook Fan Page and personal Profile has a box on the left sidebar that when you first start the page says “Write something about ______.” Click in that box and you are able to type words. It’s been a mystery as to how many characters are allowed in that space, so today I decided [...]

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Social Biz World Conference – Fall 2010

Hi everyone! I will be speaking at this upcoming Sonoma County event on October 22nd along with some other great speakers! My sessions will be: Fabulous Facebook Fan Pages, and Social Media Sanity – How to Manage Your Presence in 30 Minutes A Day. I hope you’ll join us! If you’re thinking about it, register [...]

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Imee Birkett, Lifestyle Coach with Isagenix – Novato, CA

Hi everyone! As part of my Mind in Business class from Productive Learning and Leisure, I had the privilege of interviewing several local Sonoma and Marin County small businesses to share with you here! Today I am featuring Imee Birkett. Imee specializes in helping men and women slim down and look great without dieting or [...]

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Marketing a Self Published Book Online

Today my daughter and I attended the Sonoma County Book Festival and had a lot of fun. Since I am an author in 2 books, and she has published her own book of poetry and wants to publish more books, we attended a few sessions about book publishing. I was not surprised to hear several [...]

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How to Remove or Ban Fans from your Facebook Fan Page

Did you ever have the need to eliminate someone from your Facebook Fan Page? Maybe one of your Facebook Fans is constantly promoting their business or application or contest on your Fan Page and after asking them nicely you just want to get rid of them? Or maybe you have an ex you’re trying to [...]

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Running a Contest on Facebook

Hello everyone! I wanted to make sure everyone was aware that in many cases it is against Facebook policy to run a contest on your Facebook page. It used to be allowed but recently Facebook has made their rules more strict. Contests are fun and can encourage people to “like” your Fan Page but don’t [...]

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