Are You Making These Social Networking Mistakes?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Social-Networking-MistakesHow do you integrate social media and blog content?

Use social sharing buttons on blogs and in each post to increase your blog’s visibility. 

– To increase engagement on your blog posts and social media sites, make it easy for others to share your content on their profiles.

– Integrating social media with your blog is one of the best ways to improve engagement.

 

Knowing how to integrate Social Media with your blog and content marketing can bring fabulous results when you learn how to avoid even just a few Social Networking mistakes.

But first! How does  Social Media Marketing and Networking work for your business?

– Social media is primarily used for content marketing and for building relationships.

– Integrating content marketing and networking is crucial for businesses to establish trust and gain community acceptance. 

  • Marketing goals
    • Are essential to creating a powerful desire for any product or service. With it, potential customers may learn about the existence of your offerings.

The goal of networking is to create “acceptance.” 

  • Networking through content lets you connect with potential customers. Which can help build strong relationships.

This is a great way to expand your network and create valuable business relationships. Pay attention to these essential tactics to propel your business’ expansion and prosperity. 

  • A person or business networks to create a desire for their product or service by presenting information and gaining acceptance.
  • Without a doubt, networking is the key component to thriving in the realm of public relations
  • Networking is a productive marketing strategy that makes forming new connections with potential clients easier and promotes significant exchanges with existing ones.

Networking is the lifeblood of public relations.  Read more

How To Bring Life To Your Content Marketing Strategy

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
Donna Ward
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Online Businesses Have Always Been Centered on Creativity.

Understanding how to communicate and connect creatively with your target market can determine the success or failure of your marketing strategy.

Efforts in niche marketing can be a solid strategy and a valuable tool for your business to focus on to attract client success.

The smaller your ideal audience is, your niche, the more focus you can give to providing meaningful content and messaging to attract and keep their interests.

Check out how to use these seven ideas for connecting with and growing engagement with your niche audience.

I’ve compiled a list of marketing ideas for a niche audience you can utilize now. If one tip seems tricky or does not resonate with your target audience, try the next one! Read more

Ready to Get and ‘Take Action for Success’?

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
Donna Ward
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CYCLEMODELAction does need to be the cornerstone of your business!

Action taking is the PROCESS of building your business and opening up possibilities and taking control of your business…

– Generally the things you need fall into place, once you get started.

So, are you a planner? I’ll see something that I want to take action on and I quickly put together the action steps to take. Of course, there will be some adjustments, but I am moving forward. Read more

Email Lists come in all shapes and sizes

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
Donna Ward
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No cookie cutter ad or email will perform as well as one you’ve written specifically for your own email list.

Let me ask you a quick question: Do I know your list members? Seriously. Do I know them? Do I know what they
want? Do I know what they respond to? Do I know their buying patterns? Do I know what style of writing they
like?

Do I know them?

Of course not.

So, how can I possibly write them the BEST promotional email message? How can I write something that is specifically for them, without knowing them?

Answer is, I can’t.

And yet, that’s how many people approach their lists. They join an affiliate program; grab a pre-written solo mailing from the author of the product and they blast it out to their list. Read more

Getting Participation and Comments on Your Blog

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Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Show the Carrot

Instead of threatening to prevent people from commenting, you may want to consider giving them a positive incentive to comment.

For instance, you could put some lower bound on the number of comments you must receive before you will create another post.
Example:
You might say that you will only post after you have received at least 30 comments from readers.

With this said, it is important that you follow the response to this policy over time. Make sure that readers aren’t simply posting “good work” or “nice post,” but instead are actively participating. Otherwise, this system will not work and you may need to switch to something else. Read more

Home Based Business Strategy Actions

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Home Based Strategies for Success

When you are utilizing strategies with step-by-step action plans, and using systems that are put into place, you are can be your way achieve awesome results.

Something that I found a necessary step, was to determine a set time to work on my ‘to do list’ (that I made out first thing in the AM) and put my calendared tasks on that list for that day (a system). I found it helps to do repetitive tasks at the same time and day. Others find it may work to spend several hours in one day completing large tasks, but set days for this. Don’t forget your repetitive tasks – like article marketing! Determine what works best for you, but make the commitment to be successful!

I can show you EXACTLY what to do, step-by-step, to be successful at getting clients, building your business, and making more income.

When I coach my clients, I use my Strategy Action Step Formula for Growing Your Business.

Since I am a Jeneth Certified Coach – I continue to follow and learn from Jeneth Blackert. I have been taught to ask questions like these.

“Is it time for you to unlock your unique vision and launch something new?

The vision that you are holding under lock and key in your heart…
…and you know you’ve not been fully committed in the past, but you are ready to create a big impact now!

Now is the time. Now is your time.

Now you are ready to truly-honestly-genuinely commit 100% to your vision, but you need help.

As a Jeneth Certified Business Coach – still working with Jeneth –  I am here to help.

Get More Readers, More Comments on Your Blog

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Just Being Witty Will NOT Earn You Money On Your Blog! Get More Readers, More Comments, Make Real Money With Your Blog!

True or False? You need readers, buzz, comments, a great design, AND something of value to offer in order to make money with your blog…

Take your blog to new heights…

TRUE!

The answer to the above question is absolute TRUE! Maybe you’re new at this online business or blogging thing. Maybe you’ve just read your share of blogs and thought it would be fun to play along.

Maybe you want to… Read more

Make Sure Your Email Messages Are Being Delivered

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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Less than 10% of your subscribers might actually be reading your email messages. Scary, but true. Some of that is your subject lines, some is your relationship, but some… is that the spam-bots are blocking your delivery. Not cool.

Let’s face it, with spam filters and other delivery problems, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get your messages through to the very people who have requested them.

So, above everything else, you’ve got to make sure your messages are being delivered. There are a variety of things you can do, but the one thing I want to mention here is simply this: check your spam score before sending out any email to your lists.

I use e-Filtrate and the built in Spam Assassin check at Aweber.com. Both of these allow Read more

Two Ways Writing Articles Puts a Sales Agent To Work for You

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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I have always been impressed by how the Internet Marketing Gurus continue to write articles for online exposure.

And that is why Article Marketing needs to be a part of your marketing strategy.

Many people feel they are just not good at writing and that can hold you up for a long time. But, you will need to change that type of thinking if you are planning on building an online business! As a business coach, I decided I needed to learn how to take advantage of this and get my ‘sales agents’ out there working for me A.S.A.P.

What will writing articles do?

  • Make you a published writer – Wow! I was so excited and my family impressed by that little fact. Of course, it is a big deal for someone like me that always wanted to be a published writer! And, what seems difficult to my family and friends, really is very simple for me, now. Now that my own business coaches convinced me, that is!
  • Writing articles will get the ‘word’ out about you and your business – as an entrepreneur and small business owner or just starting an internet business
  • Reach targeted buyers online, bringing in organic traffic (not paid for traffic)
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The Easiest Way To Find Ideas to Write About and Why You Need to Write Great Email Content

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Social media training and promotion for entrepreneurs, professionals, and business bloggers.
Certified Business Coach, Intuitive Strategist ~ As a Social Media Manager and Coach, I do the work for you and/or train corporations and small businesses how to set up their blog and a Social Media Marketing Plan around their blog/website as their business hub. As a Social Media Marketing Expert, I teach Relationship Marketing and Social Media Mastery, consulting and speaking services for corporate, business owners, and conscious entrepreneurs around the globe!
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