Blogging and Beyond

Use Facebook to Grow Your Business

Facebook expert Mari Smith had this to say about Facebook when we asked her the #1 reason why a business person should be on Facebook:

Your prospective paying clients are already on Facebook; they’re easily and instantly accessible, they’re volunteering huge amounts of personal information, and they’re looking for your services. Why let them go to your competition?

Join us on Monday, March 10 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time for a 60 minute teleseminar on how to use Facebook to strategically build your business.

Details and registration here.

Related post:
Facebook: 10 Reasons to Use It for Business

Audio - 7 Social Media Tools

The audio replay from the conversation we had with Leesa Barnes on 7 Social Media Tools is posted on Biz Tips Blog. This was a preview call for the Social Media TeleSummit that begins next week, on February 20.

7 Social Media Tools for Business: Interview with The Blog Squad

On Wednesday, we join Leesa Barnes, conference organizer extraordinaire, for a conversation about 7 Social Media Tools.  This is a free event and precedes the Social Media Telesummit that opens on February 20. The 9 day extravaganza features two dozen experts (yes, that includes The Blog Squad!) helping you understand and use the myriad social media tools available to businesses.

Back to our conversation with Leesa.  We're going to spend 30 minutes talking about how these tools can be used in business:

1. Microblogging - Twitter, Pownce & Jaiku
2. Blogging - Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad
3. Podcasting - live using BlogTalkRadio or Talkshoe, recorded using Podango or Wordpress
4. Social networking - Ryze, LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook
5. Social bookmarking - StumpleUpon, Digg, del.icio.us
6. Photo sharing - Flickr, Bubbleshare
7. Video sharing - Blip.tv, YouTube, Revver

The call is free, but you do have to register.  The conversation is at 8:00 pm Eastern Time (5 p.m. Pacific) on Wednesday, January 30.

Learn How to Avoid Business Blog Failure

Free Teleclass: How You Can Prevent Business Blog Failure
Mike Jay interviews The Blog Squad
January 24, 2008 at 3 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. PT)
Dial-in: 218-486-1300 PIN 792414#
No registration required.

In this conversation Mike Jay, Founder of Leadership University, asks The Blog Squad to reveal why they claim blogs are the best darn business marketing tool on the planet. There's a lot to love about blogging: it's fun, inexpensive, and satisfying to see your thoughts and words published on the Web.

But if you aren't seeing tangible results for your business, you could be on the verge blog failure.

In this info-packed interview you will learn:

• Why every business needs a blog
• What every professional must do BEFORE starting a business blog
• 3 things to do if you're new to blogging
• 5 reasons a business blog fails
• 4 key elements essential to business blogging success

This is a preview call to their teleseminar program in February:

Better Business Blogging: Boost Your Blog for Better Results
Presented by The Blog Squad: Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman
Tuesdays: February 5, 12, 19, and 26
5 p.m. ET - 70 minutes
More info about this program to take your blog to new heights >>>

Create a Wow: Free Virtual Conference Starts on Tuesday

Are you struggling to make a splash online? Need some fresh ideas or expert advice? If so, you won't want to miss the Create A WOW Virtual Conference at www.CreateAWOW.com. Patsi and I are presenters at the conference and hope you’ll listen to our class about blogging as a marketing tool.

The free virtual conference will be held online from January 8 - 11, 2008 and will be a collection of audios and videos  you can listen/view at your convenience. Each presentation is about 20 minutes so you get lots of actionable-value in bite-size chunks.

We're honored to be included alongside this highly talented group of professionals who will be sharing their knowledge and expertise with you -- giving you tons of quality information for creating your own WOW online. There's no charge for this online event which includes the following classes:

How to Get The Most out of the Create a Wow Conference - Learn how to implement what you learn!
Presented by Rory Cohen, President

Free Audio Replay: Internet Marketing Traps

Did you miss the free teleseminar we presented a couple of weeks ago? Along with Kathleen Gage, the Streets Smarts Marketer, we hosted a free class on 5 Internet Marketing Traps That Can Derail Your Business.  If you missed it, you can listen to the replay here.

Law of Action: Attract Clients and Build a Money-Making Business with the 'Net

Law of Action for Massive Business Attraction
A Four Week Mentoring Course
Featuring The Blog Squad™ and The Street Smarts Marketer™

Attention Authors, Speakers, Coaches, Consultants and Entrepreneurs

Make 2008 your best year yet! Join Internet marketing experts Patsi Krakoff, Denise Wakeman and Kathleen Gage for a 4-week fast-track mentoring course! Arm yourself with the tools to take your business to the next level starting right now!

Begins Monday, January 7, 2008

Save $100 when you register by January 3, 2008.

http://www.actandattract.com/

Here's what you will learn:

Session 1
Prepare for Success: A Clear and Solid Foundation for a Money-Making Marketing Machine

Session 2
Develop Money-Making, Get-You-Noticed, Credibility-Building, Knock-Your-Socks-Off Products!

Session 3
Gaining Visibility & Credibility that Creates Celebrity Status and Market Position

Session 4
The Psychology of Success and How to Avoid the 3 Biggest Obstacles that Stop You
http://www.actandattract.com/

POLL: What Are Your Internet Marketing Traps?

We've got a new poll on BizTipsBlog...Internet Marketing Traps: What are yours?

Please help us help you and let us know where you get stuck when it comes to marketing your business on the Web.  Take the poll, then, register for our free teleseminar...

Discover the 5 Internet Marketing Traps That Can Derail Your Business.

Have you tried to make money on the Internet and failed?
Do you wonder if anyone is "really" making money with the Internet?
Are you ready to learn what it takes once and for all?

Make 2008 the Year You Make A Lot of Money on the Internet

If you've been around the Internet for any period of time you have likely heard all the BS about how you can get rich quick. The fact is, you can make money and lots of it, but you have to know what you are doing.

On December 17th at 6 p.m. EST you are invited to join The Blog Squad™
and Kathleen Gage, The Street Smarts Marketer™ for a FREE teleseminar.

Discover the 5 Internet Marketing Traps That Can Derail Your Business...

...and stop you from making money on the Internet.

Learn from three women who have been there, done that and now make tons of money...

...for the first time ever you will learn from three of the most recognized Internet Marketing Experts in their field as they join together to bring you this amazing session.

Best of all...it's FREE

Seating is very limited. Register today.

http://www.blogsquadteleseminars.com/5traps/

TeleSeminar: How are your info products selling?

You know it and I know it. Just because you have a great idea and work hard, doesn't mean your stuff is going to sell like hot cakes.

Packaging is Everything!
The Right Words Can Sell Your Book or Product in 15 Seconds or Less

Over and over, we've seen professionals finish a book, an ebook, or launch a teleseminar program, and then sit and wait...and wait. The orders don't come flooding in.

For a few people, however, their product flies off the virtual shelves! Do you know what the
secret force is behind the sales successes? 

The real difference is what Malcolm Gladwell described in his book Blink.

People make up their minds in 15 seconds or less!