Getting started with Google + Business Pages

Jan21
2012 10 Comments alicia Written by alicia

Recently Lorette & I did a webinar for our students teaching them how to get started with Google + Business Pages.  The presentation was called: Google + Business Pages ; Creating a page brings you closer to your customers, fans, and followers on Google+.

Everyone was able to get set up quickly and we have the slides available or you to view.

You can view them online at slideshare by clicking on the images below:

We also made a very useful checklist to have handy when you are getting your Google + Business Pages set up.

Remember to … Add us in your circles by Clicking HERE.

So, view the documents on slideshare, and if you would like me to send you these slides to share with your students, in your membership site, etc. please let me know by posting a COMMENT on this post.  I will send you the checklist in a format you can edit, and the powerpoint so that you can add it as well.

Looking forward to our comments!

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TGIF! Thank Goodness It’s Free – Join.me

Jan20
2012 Leave a Comment Lorette Written by Lorette

More and more people are having online meetings these days then ever before. If you are looking for a quick and FREE way to have an online meeting, check out this great resource http://www.join.me

Follow the steps below to get started….

1. Go to http://www.join.me – and click on “Share”, this will install the application on your computer and will go into your Program files.

Online webinar service

Join.me has great features, the expanded list is below. The two features that I think are the biggest benefits of using this service are:

1. You get a free conference line – phone number and a call in code

2. Ability to invite up to 250 participants

online webinar service

2. Once the application is downloaded, it will be installed in your Start menu on your computer. Click on the icon to launch the application.

3. Once you click on the icon to launch the application, you will see the control panel at the top of your screen.

To invite others to join your meeting, simply provide them with the url that shows up in the control panel (in this example, join.me/474-432-577). You now have some cool features that come along with it, like a conference call number, ability to chat, turn screen share on and off and see a list of participants.

(The control sharing option is if you upgrade to the Pro version. )

Online Webinar Service

How can you use this tool in your business?

  • Meeting with a client (especially those that are not tech savy, there are very little steps involved)
  • Need a quick conference call number for a meeting
  • Meeting with team members to review a project

How is this better than screen sharing in Skype?

Someone asked me the benefit of using this over doing a screen sharing session in Skype. The answer is the volume of people that can be added to this meeting. Skype is great to do a screen share with one person, but it can only be used for group screen sharing if you have a Mac.

If you are looking to do a webinar or host an online meeting for FREE, visit http://www.join.me

Note: The only thing that it does not have (that I wish it did), is the ability to record the webinar.

 

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WordPress Wednesdays –> Building Custom WordPress Menus

Jan18
2012 Leave a Comment Lorette Written by Lorette

This tutorial is going to walk you through how to add a custom menu to the top of your blog/website. Now, keep in mind, this may vary depending on what theme you are using, but this is the generic way to do it and works with almost any theme.

Here are the steps.

1 – Login to your wordpress dashboard and click on “Appearance” then “Menus”

2. You will see a screen like this. First, create a name for your menu and click “Save Menu”

Custom WordPress Menus3. The next step is to choose the pages that you want to appear in your menu. In the bottom left, there will be a list of all the pages that are on your site. Just check the box next to the pages that you want to show up.

Wordpress Custom Menus

4. When you choose the pages, they will show up in your menu area. Each one represents a page that will show up in your menu/navigation.

Wordpress Custom Menus

5. If you would like to create drop down lists, simple click and drag the pages as seen below, then click “save menu”.Wordpress Custom Menu

6. In order for the menu to show up, on the left hand side of the Menu screen, it will ask you what menu do you want to show, choose the name of the menu you just created from the drop down box and click “Save”.

This is what your final menu/navigation would look like.

Wordpress Custom Menu

Have Fun!

Lorette

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TGIF! Thank Goodness it’s a Free Autoresponder!

Jan06
2012 5 Comments alicia Written by alicia

Autoresponders… gotta love ‘em!  Now, you know you need to have an autoresponder service but if you are just getting started with your online business you are probably on a tight budget and every penny counts right!?  Well, icontact autoresponder service has a free version that you can use for up to 100 customers in your database.  Once you go beyond 100 you will have to upgrade, but if your list is beyond 100, then you should be making some cash form that list and it’ll start paying for itself!

Now the thing I love about icontact is that they also allow you to import your database.  So lets say that you are keeping your list of clients in an excel file (ouch!), and you are now ready to embrace automation and put them into an autoresponder account.  You are going to have a really hard time importing them into any autoresponder service, except with icontact!  So, if you have a list and need to import them into an autoreponder, this is the solution for you.

Ok, so you want to get right to it and get started right!  Well signing up is easy.

Step 1: go to www.icontactautoresponder.com This will get you right to the free edition!

icontact.com autoresponder free edition

Step 2: Fill in the information and you’re in!  They don’t ask you for a credit card, so sign up is easy and simple.

Step 3: Once you have signed up – click on resources and watch the tutorial videos. You will have all the information you need to get started by watching their tutorial videos, so please take the time to watch them!

Ok, that’s it – start building your list and working on your autoresponder!

 

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One million sales a week! Jump on the bandwagon…

Jan05
2012 5 Comments alicia Written by alicia

Turning Your Knowledge Into Profits With the Amazon Kindle!

Happy New Year!

We are so excited for 2012, and really looking forward to doing some exciting new things with what we’ve learned in 2011!  I love looking at numbers and the number that we are going to talk about in this post is 4 million!

Did you know that Amazon Sold 4 million Kindles this holiday season!  4 million!   They said that they sold 1 million Kindles a week in December of 2011.  It was the best selling product on Amazon, but not just Amazon.com, it was also the best seller on Amazon in the U.K., Denmark,Spain and Italy!

With record Kindle sales, it’s important to jump on learning how to cash in on the Kindle now. Don’t wait another day..

Here are some great articles for you to read on the Kindle craze:

Forbes.com :  Who Wants To Be A Kindle Millionaire?

Amazon.com: Lee Child and Suzanne Collins join the Kindle “One Million Books Sold” Club

Amazon Announces: More Kindle Books Sold Than Books in Print

Here are some Do’s and Don’t when it comes to Kindle Publishing

Do’s

  • Think about Keywords first (are people looking for this)
  • Create a keyword rich title and table of contents
  • Use PLR as inspiration for you e-book, don’t publish PLR as is.
  • Be open to outsourcing the writing of your book (guru.com, elance.com)
  • Hire an editor and proofreader (fiverr.com, guru.com, elance.com, odesk.com)
  • Get a great ebook cover (fiverr.com, 99designs.com, elance.com, odesk.com)

 

Don’t's

  • Use PLR without massively re-writing it.
  • Start writing before researching (will people buy it!)
  • Don’t look at this as a ‘get rich quick deal’ , if you are going to put books on the kindle, put up quality and invest the time and resources to make a great product that you are proud of.

Learn more: One of the best online classes we’ve held was Ty Cohen’s webinar on the how to profit with the Amazon Kindle.

If you missed our class on the Kindle, you can watch the replay here: http://30dayprofits.com/replay/alicia-lorette-lyttle
and make 2012 rock with your Kindle ebooks!

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WordPress Wednesday –> Understanding Your WordPress Settings

Jan04
2012 1 Comment Lorette Written by Lorette
Every WordPress Dashboard has a variety of configuration options to help set up your site to your specific requirements. In this post we are going to review, the “Settings” area in your Dashboard.
I am going to go highlight the settings that you should pay close attention to…

1. General – This is where you would update your sites title and description (make sure it is keyword rich). You would also update the date and time to display on your site.

2 – Writing – Customizing the way your posts are written (recommended to leave all the information as default)
3 – Reading – This area is where you can choose how your website is “read”. You can choose to either show your blog posts on the front page of yours site or even choose a static page for your front  page.
You can also choose how many posts are displayed at one time – for example if you only want to show 5 posts on the front page, simply change the default number to five, and how to adjust RSS syndication feed features to determine how the information from your site is sent to a reader’s web browser or other applications.
Wordpress reading settings
4 – Discussion – In this setting you can control how people interact on your blog. For example, are comments autoposted or approval needed.
wordpress discussion settings

5 – Media – This area is where you can specify the maximum dimensions to use when inserting an image into a post (leave these as default)

6 – Privacy – Choose whether you want your site to be indexed by search engines—like Google, Bing, or Yahoo, or only to your specific visitors, of course you would want to choose the first option to get maximum exposure to your site.
wordpress privacy settings

7 – Permalinks – Create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives.

Please read a previous post on how to correctly set up your Permalink settings.
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Enjoy!
Lorette
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WordPress Wednesday –> Adding Your Gravatar

Dec28
2011 Leave a Comment Lorette Written by Lorette

This is not necessarily a WordPress tip…but, it’s a good tip to know that relates to blogs :-)

Have you ever wondered how people comment on blogs and have their picture show up next to the comments?

Those pictures are called Gravatars. Why would you even want to use one?

If you frequently post on blogs and leave comments (which you should to bring backlinks to your website), it is a good idea to have a Gravitar so that people and the blog owner begin to recognize you and it will help build relationships…and relationships is what its is all about these days.

This goes along with the whole social media craze, of networking and relationship building, and this will only help with your relationship building.

So this is how to create a Gravatar that will travel along with your email address everywhere you post something online with that email address.

Here is exactly how to to do….

1. Go to www.gravatar.com and click on “Get Your Gravatar Today”

Gravatar

2. Enter the email address that you want associated to your new Gravator

Gravatar Images

3. Next, click on the bottom where it says “Add one by clicking here” to upload an image

gravator images

4. Upload a picture. If the picture is too big it will automatically crop the picture and then you can choose which picture you want to associate to your email (if you uploaded more than one).

5. Now, go test your Gravatar! Go through the steps above, then post a comment on this post below to test it out!

You can see my sample post below (responding to a post on a blog on if it is a good idea to put a picture on a business card), so when entering my email address, it automatically associates my picture and posts it when my comment is posted.

Have fun!

Lorette

 

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Merry Christmas!

Dec24
2011 Leave a Comment alicia Written by alicia

Lorette and I just want to take a quick minute to wish everyone a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Happy new year!

Here’s a video we commissioned just for you …

… and of course now I reveal where we got this done..
and you already know the answer www.fiverr.com!

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WordPress Wednesdays –> Adding Videos To Your WordPress Sidebar

Dec14
2011 2 Comments Lorette Written by Lorette

We all know how powerful videos are today. Not only can they be educational but they can also be very entertaining, and a great marketing tool.

If you have a video that you would like to showcase on the sidebars of your WordPress website, check out the tips below and cool plugin to help you along the way.

There are a few ways to do this, but this one is the easiest…

Follow these steps…

1. Login to your WordPress Dashboard

2. Click on “Plugins” -> “Add New” and search for the plugin called “Video Sidebar Widget”

Wordpress Video Widget3. The first results in the search is the plugin you need called – “Video Sidebar Widget”, click Install then Activate the plugin

4. Now to set up your widget, go to “Appearance”, then “Widgets” and you will see the installed widget, click on Add or drag it to the sidebar that you want to add the widget on.

YouTube Sidebar Widget

5. Next, find the YouTube video that you want to add and get the Video Id. This can be found in the URL of the actual video.

YouTube Video Widget

6. Now that you have this information, you can start to create your video sidebar widget.  Create a title, choose YouTube from the drop down, and put in the video ID. For the width and height, this will vary for different blogs, leave it blank to start, then you can adjust the size. You can choose to have text under the video as well as if you want to video to autostart when someone visits your site.

video sidebar widget7. After you fill out the details, click “Save Widget” and go look at your website. The image below is what my widget looks like to start. So, now I need to go back and edit the size and I would like to make the link under it “clickable”

video widget wordpress

8. Go back to the Widget area and click on “Edit” for the widget. The changes I made:

Width: 290   Height: 280

For the video caption box, I added code to make it clickable and centered: (use this code and replace the url and the title with your website)

<center><a href=”http://www.mygoldenrolodex.info”>My Golden Rolodex </a></center>

The image below is the end result!

Enjoy adding videos to your WordPress Sidebars!

Lorette :-)

 

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Make money with Twitter – Corina X shows us how..

Dec12
2011 1 Comment alicia Written by alicia

A few years ago I released a course called“Twitter Money Tree.”  It was a course with 22 videos in it showing you how to get started on Twitter and how to monetize it.
I’ve taken the course offline now, and honestlyI didn’t stay on top of  Twitter marketing like I should have. I got distracted by the sexy appeal of Facebook! (I think a lot of us did)

Then, I met Corina X.  A couple of months ago, Lorette and I were in London speaking at the World Internet Summit and met the Twitter Monetization Queen in person: Corina X.   We spent some time with herlearning how she is using Twitter to make some decent money each and every week with her system.

Her system seemed straight forward, easy to follow andvery appealing for the person who was willing to set up a simple system and put her strategies to use.
Corina X has a lot of strategies under her belt, so I took just one of her strategies; I timed myself and applied them. The result: It took me 3 minutes and 22 seconds to apply one strategies and now I can get paid $71.79 every time I send out a tweet! Sweet!  Considering I’ve sent out over 727 Tweets… I’d like to get paid to send out the next  one!

So Lorette and I asked Corina X if she would allow us to interview her so that we can learn more about her strategies!  She agreed and we would like to invite YOU to listen in on this interview.
Join us!

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Who Else Wants To Make $700 A Week Thanks To Twitter?
Register: http://mygoldenrolodex.com/twitter.html

Date: Dec. 14th, 2011

Time: 9pm Est

9:00 PM Wed. EST (New York, Florida, Jamaica…)

8:00 PM Wed. CST (Texas, Chicago…)

7:00 PM Wed. MST (Denver…)

6:00 PM Wed. PST (Los Angeles, Las Vegas…)

2:00 AM Thurs. BST (London..)

10:00 AM Thurs. SGT (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur…)

12:00 NOON Thurs. (Brisbane…)1:00 PM Thurs. (Sydney … )
Check other time zones: http://timeanddate.com/

 

 

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See you there!

~ Alicia

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