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Want a Content Marketing Machine?

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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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content marketingBuilding your blog into a success story for you means that you need it to be a content marketing machine and develop a strategy for your unique message.

So what’s your game plan? Read more →

Promote Your Blog to The Most Qualified Audience

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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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promote-your-blogIt’s no surprise that the Internet and your blogging power has shifted to your audience and new ways to promote your blog!

Being smart about branding means more than accepting that.

It means that you’ll be focusing your promotional energies on producing content your community bookmarks, downloads and shares.

Planning (it’ll be your creation) and implementing (putting it into action) a content marketing plan means:

  • Stronger audience connection with your brand when they understand that you are genuinely trying to help them instead of just pushing your product
  • You’ll get a well-earned reputation as a thought leader in your field.
  • You want and will see increased traffic to your site through higher SEO rankings, inbound links and social shares.
  • Educated and inspired repeat readers that may turn into clients, who become brand ambassadors.
  • More opportunities to engage with your prospects working at helping them educate themselves about their buying decisions.

The goal of YOUR content marketing is to promote your blog and turn your ideal prospects into clients. Building a more loyal and meaningful relationship with your existing clients and readers on your blog.

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Do You Understand Your Online Marketing?

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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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As a small business person, or a blogger, you are your own Marketing Manager!

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That means you need to understand your online marketing strategies.

As your own Marketing Manager, one of your jobs is getting high-quality leads onto your list so that you can share more fabulous information about what you offer.

But how can you do that if you don’t know your answers to:

★ What keywords to use for your content marketing? ★

By now we all know how to enter the words for things we are searching for online. These are the keywords that the search engines like Google, Bing, and even the Social Media sites use to find what you are looking for online.

Keyword research and strategies are about finding out the words that your target audience types in to look for what you have to offer. Read more →

Be Persuasive With Your Content Marketing

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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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persuasive-with-your-content-marketingYour goal with your content marketing is persuasion.

How can you be persuasive with your content marketing?

==> Being cautious and fearful or pushy and unpleasant are not the ways for today’s business to be persuasive with any kind of marketing!

Finding your own path of connecting, engaging, with assertive and conversational sales language is your goal.

Whew!  So… Content marketing is engaging your prospects.

There are ways to help you be persuasive with your content marketing.

What’s that, you say?

How do you find more of the clients you love to work with being persuasive with your content marketing?

–          You are growing your business and your brand.

o   You’re the one responsible for revenue, the income that keeps your business moving forward.

–          The success or failure of your business depends on quality and quantity of the leads you bring in when you are persuasive with your content marketing. Read more →

Got Trust?

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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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Got Trust in businessPeople do business with people they like and trust, so how can you inspire trust?

You’ve heard it before…At the heart of all sales transactions is trust. The greater the trust is, the more likely the sale.

This means there is a strong need for you to build confidence with your buyers.

  • A lot of your relationships can be and are being built through the Internet.

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Are You Great At Lead Nurturing?

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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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Are you great at nurturing your leadsLead Nurturing

That’s how you get your cold prospects turned into warm, ready to buy, and refer you prospects.

Nurturing and managing your leads is a process for building relationships with your ideal prospects with the goal of earning their business when they are ready.

Your online business prospect system, in simple form, is something like this: Read more →

Emails as a Marketing Solution?

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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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Emails as a marketing solutionWe market to attract interest, build desire for, and generate sales.

That includes email marketing as a must.

Which can be an extremely powerful and effective marketing technique for building prospect and client relationships based on value and trust.

–         Email marketing is really the foundation of your blog and information marketing. Read more →

5 Creative Ways to Repurpose Your Content

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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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creativeWe all send out…Newsletters or Emails to Subscribers on our list.

This is investing what sometimes feels like a lot of time and energy. As we write a compelling newsletter or email that we hope is helpful and is read.

When we send emails to our subscribers or send out our regular newsletter do we need to stop at that?

Have you heard of re-purposing? Why not recycle those older newsletters and emails?

5 smart and creative ways to repurpose your own content… Read more →

5 Secrets of Infomarketing

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Social Media Manager, Blog Consultant and Trainer at Ask Coach Donna
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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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info marketingFrom the moment you begin researching ways to make money online, you hear infomarketing, over and over again.

One of the hottest ways to make money online is through the power of content marketing through your blogging, Social Media, and article marketing.

You need great, informative, content.

But, first, you need to know why content so important on the Internet and especially your blog and article marketing.

Why is Content Crucial? Read more →

The Thing That Is Stopping You From Making Money

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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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Fear!

Are you reading these headlines: Warning: The recent (02/25/11) google algorithm change could spell disaster for you and your business depending on your internet marketing model.

Well – Even though I have focused a lot of my efforts in the “article marketing” field, I’m not in any kind of panic BECAUSE Read more →