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4 Super Steps to Marketing Your Business

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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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Get Ā a marketing strategy for building your email lists, bring more online visitors to your site, through –

  • article marketing,

  • blogging submissions and

  • Social Marketing..

1.Ā  For a list of article directories – be sure to read the Free reportĀ ā€œArticle Writing and Online Credibilityā€.

How does using this information help your site? It will be QUALITY links from pages (other sites) that have good contentĀ  that is related to your subject – that is always beneficial to your marketing strategy.

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Affiliate Marketing Tip: Choosing Your Products

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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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Making money as an affiliate isnā€™t all about the marketing. Itā€™s also about choosing profitable products. Hereā€™s howā€¦

Tip #1: Choose products with proven track records. If youā€™re choosing products on Clickbank.com, then choose those at the top of their categories (i.e., the best sellers) and those with high gravity numbers (between about 75 and 150). In addition, ask the vendor about his conversion and refund rates.

Tip #2: Do NOT choose products based on price alone. Big price plus big commission percentages equals big profits, right?

NOT always. Read more →

Load Up with Private Label Rights (PLR) 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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One of my favorite ways to add quality, topic related content to a blog is with PLR. If you donā€™t know what PLR is, let me fill you in on this wonderful little thing. As a Business Coach and in my Free Email List Building Mini-Course, I talk about this and help understand the valuable uses for you own particular business.

PLR content is created specifically for those who donā€™t have the time, skills or desire to create their own content on a consistent basis. You can find articles, blog posts, reports, recipes, marketing materials, and even web design PLR on the Internet. Someone else writes it and sells it. You buy it and have the ability to use as you see fit – for the most part. Most PLR sites do have rules to what you can and canā€™t do with the PLR once you purchase it, so be sure you review those before buying.

How to Find Ideas to Write About – Creative 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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Starting a blog is easy ā€“ keeping a blog interesting and fresh is a whole other matter.

While many marketers have no trouble beginning a niche blog, the sheer number of abandoned blogs around the ā€˜net speaks to the fact that many marketers donā€™t know what to do to keep a blog going. According to blogging experts, the key to keeping a blog going is to post frequently. This means that youā€™re going to need a ever present stream of content coming into your blog.

You may be intimidated by the thought of having to come up with lots of topic ideas. Finding topics for your blog posts are easy if you use the following ideas.

1. News in your niche
Your blog should be timely and thereā€™s no better way to attract attention on your blog than to tap into some ongoing news. No matter what your niche is you can find news stories and breaking information that will help fuel timely blog posts. Sign up for Google Alerts (itā€™s free) and set up alerts on important words in your niche. This way youā€™ll be able to see the news in your niche and blog about current topics.

2. Comments section
The comments section in your blog can be a great source of writing inspiration. Letā€™s say you have a post on your marketing blog about keyword research. Within the comments section, a few people start asking about how to use keywords in articles for article marketing. Voila! You have your next blog post. Look through your comments section to identify topics that you can write about or questions you can answer in the form of a blog post. Read more →

Five Different ā€œKindsā€ Of Blog Posts

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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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Blog posts come in many different forms and lengths. If you want to keep your blog fresh and interesting, you should post often. Creating different types of blog posts will keep your audience interested. It will also keep you from being bored with your blog. Whether you are blogging to make money directly from the blog or blogging to drive traffic to an affiliate program, you should know about these five kinds of blog posts.

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Article Marketing and Your Target Market – Builds Your Contacts

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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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As you already know, especially is you have signed up for my Building Your Email List Mini-Course
(Sign up at the top right hand corner of my web), people (your Target Market) use different wordsĀ when they search online. These search terms are called keywords.

Keyword Research tools assist in discovering topics that people are currently searching for that are related toĀ your market product or service. You would use these keywords in the articles you write, each day, that areĀ each 250-500 words, relating to the topics your prospective market is searching for. Provide articles that
answer the readersā€™ questions in their searches.

Example: ā€œDog Trainingā€ when entered into Google Suggest
tells me that I should write articles about
ā€œDog Training Secretsā€ or ā€œDog Training New Jerseyā€.

And, of course, we all know that building our list is building our market contacts; rather we are a brick and mortar business, or an online marketer selling our own products and affiliate products.

Key Insight: My Coach, Connie Green, has taught me that the most popular topics, have the most competitionĀ within the search engines–meaning, that you will be fighting against hundreds or thousands of competitors to get the attention of the market to your article. This course, by Connie Green, will help you quickly:
To Write Effective Articles Quickly And Easily To Reach An Unlimited Number Of Highly Qualified Prospects Read more →

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

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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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Basically Affiliate Marketing is:

  • All about referral and re-directing traffic to a marketing website.
  • You will receive a % of the purchase when you refer someone to the website and they make a purchase.
  • Your job is to convince your visitors to go to your affiliateā€™s website and sign up and/or purchase.

In order to receive a referral fee or commission ā€“ you find a product that you want to be an affiliate for then they provide you with your own url ā€“ this is how they will keep track of your commissions. Ex:Ā Ā  As an affiliate link it may read: http://budurl.com/newwealthchallenge (this is my actual affiliate link for Jeneth Blackertā€™s New Wealth Launch) and the website maintains all the information for you. Such how many clicked on your link and/or signed up and made a purchase. Usually they will also help out with marketing ideas and email templates. They will not give out the email and name of that person, however. Read more →

Know that YOU are Your Best Investment

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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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By the way: What are your thoughts on money? Is money coming to you easily? This is a fun learning experience that might help you move forward. by Morgana Rae ā€“ ā€œEven a small shift can haveĀ dramatic, immediate, material resultsā€ (I am not an affiliate with her program ā€“ just thought you would like to listen to her training ā€“ teleclass hosted by Jeneth Blackert.)

Is Money Troubling You? Ā  Read more →

Targeting for Success – Get Into Your Strategy Game and Start Playing with What Your Avatar Wants

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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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Virtually anyone can make money online, but most people won’t.

Why? Because they don’t apply what they know, they arenā€™t persistent, focused, and areĀ unclear.

Anyone who is making money online has done this. And… they periodically evaluate where they are at.
What is it?

You have to know who your target market is and is not. You have to know who you want to do business with and who wants to do business with you. Where is their pain, frustration, and how can you solve this for them.

And you must continually evaluate who your market is and use this to determine your marketing strategy, advertising, branding, articles and …your target marketā€™s motivation, that is to say, ā€œwhy the heck do these people come to you in the first place?ā€ Ā  Read more →

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing

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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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Do you find that when you are “starting” to create your own product to sell online, “finishing” it may never happen?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is —

** You don’t have to create your own products **

If you are like me,when I first started and still when I am busy I find the idea of creating a product to

be an overwhelming and even frightening task. We can all come up with great excuses:

* I don’t have any good ideas!

* I’m not a writer!

* There’s too much competition!

* I don’t know how to set everything up!

* I can’t figure out where to start!

  • It’s too hard!

I’m sure with a few minutes of thinking about it, we could come up with a list of many more delaying tactics.

Many of these delaying tactics are helped with a coach. Helping you through your fear and guiding you with the technology part. Thatā€™s how I started to get through these excuses.

Then, again, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products.

  • You can learn how to promote someone else’s already proven successful offer for a commission.
  • It sounded easy enough ā€“ but, I decided to take a course ā€“ instead of my own trial and error.

Why try to create a product and teach on every topic imaginable in your market? I can earn just as much money by simplyĀ  promoting someone else’s program that I have tried and know works!

…………………….

Discover how you can get cash inĀ the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!

Check out the Affiliate Marketing Webinar