Posts tagged Lorette Lyttle

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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Lorette’s Kindle story…

Dec06
2011 Leave a Comment alicia Written by alicia

Hey!

On Thursday, Dec 8th our friend, Ty Cohen shared with us the secret of how he is making  more than $20,000 a month online with the Amazon Kindle.

First of all, he called us and told us what he was doing and, and I have to admit, I was skeptical at first… So, I attended one of his live webinars where he was sharing his strategies so that I could test it out myself. And that is exactly what I did…

I sat through the 90 minute webinar, did exactly what he taught, and made 3 sales within 3 days!

Now, thats nothing to brag about, but I literally didn’t spend much time on it and didn’t even follow all of his suggestions…I just wanted to get the stuff up there (don’t follow my example haha).

But, even with my lack-luster attemptI made sales.  So, I attempted to try it again (this time paying more attention), but the books I put up got taken down by Amazon!! Erghh!!! As you can image, I contacted Ty and said ”Whats going on…” He then said you need to get my course, there are certain guidelines, tips, tricks and more that will help you fully understand how the program works…

So, I got the course and went through it, followed the instructions, put up another book and made 2 sales in 2 days…whoohoo!

Now, I plan on taking it to the next level and following Ty’s instructions to start making $20,000 a month with the Amazon Kindle as well!

If you want to learn how to do this also, watch the replay of the webinar where Ty will share with you (the same info he shared with me) on how to really cash in on Amazon Kindle
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Lorette Lyttle

“The Lyttle Sisters”

 

 

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WordPress Wednesday –> Build A Site for 3 Bucks

Oct26
2011 1 Comment Lorette Written by Lorette

We recently did a Live webinar walking people through, in 5 easy steps, how to set up your first WordPress Website…for only $3!

If you missed it, check out the replay link below!

Build A Site For 3 Bucks

Description: In 60 minutes you will learn everything you need to set up your first WordPress website. Our training is easy to follow, we cover the entire process so that after the webinar we guarantee that you can set up a wordpress site by yourself!

(Ideal for newbies or anyone wanting to understand WordPress)

Webinar Replay: http://www.buildasitefor3bucks.com/webinar

Read what people are saying about this webinar….

  • “I love you guys. You are honest and sincere. I’d do business with you at the drop of a hat. You are valuable help in this marketing world. Give me more. I’m hooked.” – Vernial Batts
  • “You ladies are simply AWESOME! This webinar was very helpful.  It took me 2 weeks to hash through all the steps to create my website. You guys did it within 1 hour. I’m impressed. Thanks for being real!!” – Eartha Dingle
  • “Thanks girls you are great- woo hoo from australia!This 1 hour webinar clarified what I struggled in a weekend seminar. Do you have more courses?” – Nick Elflett
  • “Great webinar…easy to listen to and learn at the same time! Thanks Alicia and Lorette” – Arley Owens
  • “This was a great webinar I have been trying to figure it out for at least a year now. Thanks” – Aerica Karriem
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We are off to Singapore!

Oct24
2011 4 Comments alicia Written by alicia

Yes, today Lorette and I are off to Singapore to speak at SMART.  We were invited to speak by Success Resources.  We are very excited to travel to Asia!  After this event in Singapore – we will head to Malaysia for an event the following weekend.

If you are in Singapore or Malaysia, please make sure you join us at the events!  You can check out our speaking schedule and get the links to the events on the speaking page of this blog:   http://www.alicialyttle.com/speaking

Although I’ve been to Asia more times than I can count, and I’ve taught at workshops there, this will be my first opportunity to speak on the main stage! Lorette and I are really looking forward to delivering our presentation in Asia!

Thank you Success Resources for inviting us.

We will post updates soon.

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WordPress Wednesdays –>Creating Custom Headers

Oct19
2011 2 Comments Lorette Written by Lorette

Have you found a great blog theme that you LOVE but you want to get a custom header created? Maybe the header is a plain color and you want to add your picture or some graphics to it?

The blog theme on this site (www.alicialyttle.com), for example is a free theme with a custom header.

Follow the quick, easy (and low cost – only $5) tips below to get a custom blog header created for your site.

1. Find a theme you like (do some searching in Google) – Type this into Google:

free (put what your are looking for) wordpress theme.

Example: free golf wordpress theme

Download and save the theme to your computer.

2. Go to www.fiverr.com

3. Type in “Blog Header” into the search box or “WordPress Header”

4. You will get a bunch of search results, click on “Rating” to sort your results by the best rated designers

5. Look through the results and pick the best one for the job! Here are two sellers that have great feedback…

6. Now depending on your theme, some themes have an area under “Appearance” in the left navigation of your WordPress site that says “Header Images” and you can upload your new header there. Some themes have specific areas within their theme settings where you can upload your header. Some other themes on the other hand may be a bit confusing, if you are unsure, just hire someone to do it for you (on www.fiverr.com of course)

Just type in “Install blog header” into the search box and find someone that can do this. Here is one that I found with great feedback.

The best part about using Fiverr for your header design, is that the cost is so low you can get a few made by different people and pick the one you like best!

Have fun!

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WordPress Wednesdays –> Generating Content For Your Blog

Oct12
2011 1 Comment Lorette Written by Lorette

YES!! You finally have your blog up and running, great theme, great ideas, you’ve written a bunch of blog posts….but then you get writers block and can’t think of anything to write about.

Does this ever happen to you?

Well,  you are not alone. But, unfortunately, as they say “Conent is King”, so where do you get it from?

Here are my Top 4 Tips For Generating Content For Your Blog

1. Guest Bloggers

First of all, I am a guest blogger on THIS blog, so this example is one of my favorites. There are many people out there with great content that need a place to share it and get extra exposure. To find guest bloggers, simply send out an email to your list or post on Facebook that you are looking for a guest blogger on a specific topic and for them to send you some of their writing samples.

This is a win-win for both parties because it gives you extra content for your blog and it gives your guest blogger extra exposure. If the guest blogger has a website, you can allow them to refer back to their website at the end of each post.

2. Wiki-How Articles

To get some “How to Articles” to add to your blog, go to www.wikihow.com

In the search box on the top, enter in your key word. For this example, I used “flat tire” (which can be used if you have a blog about automotive repair, cars or something related)

When you click search, you will see a list of result of different articles. Pick the article that you like the best.

Once you choose the article, scroll all the way to the bottom and you will see a link that says “Embed into your blog”.

After you click the link, it will take you to a page with a bunch of HTML code, just paste that into your blog post in the HTML tab section.

When you post the article you can make any changes to it that you want, but you must keep the last line of the post giving credit to the wikihow website.

3. WP Robot

This is a plugin that can autopost to your blog. It depends on what your blog is about and what the focus is, but this plugin can autopost content based on keywords that you set.

You can set the autposting at whatever interval you want, by hour, by day etc. It can post content from Amazon, Yahoo answers, YouTube, Article Base, Flickr, Yahoo News, Twitter, PR Web, Yelp, Linkshare and more!

This is a great tool to automate your blog posting as well as brining extra traffic to your blog. We’ve personally used it to autopost Amazon, YouTube and Yahoo Answers.

To learn more about this plugin visit – www.wprobotplugin.com

4. Top News Sites

If you are looking for inspiration on blog topics, see whats happening in the news and write stories around those topics. For example, if you are in the Heath Niche and there is a new diet trend that is in the news, write a blog article about it.

Some places to check out for news stories:

I hope these tips help you keep your blog full of new, fresh content. Happy writing!

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It’s True: You Really Can Cash in on Your Voice And Here’s How…

Sep09
2011 11 Comments alicia Written by alicia

We are back again with another issue of ‘Turning Your Knowledge Into Profits’ ...

Here’s How To Cash In On Your Voice In Your Spare Time – And Have Fun Doing It!

Do you know you have a great voice and wish you could monetize it? Are you already in radio or news broadcasting and you would like to use your credibility to make more money with that amazing voice you have?

This post is dedicated to a news reporter who connected with me recently.  He wanted to know abut other ways that he could monetize his voice and broadcasting experience.  He contacted me shortly after I had just helped a student of mine find a voice-over person to do some of his radio commercials.  And I helped another student to find a voice over talent to record a promotional video for his website. Anyway, I wanted to give this newcaster some great resources, and I know there are a lot of you out there that could benefit from this as well.

My first experience in making money with my voice was when I was in high school.  I did a radio commercial for a flea market called the 45th street flea market in West Palm Beach, Florida.  My lyttle sister Lorette has never let me live that one down and still refers to me as the voice of the flea market!

Now, I have no problem speaking, doing interviews, commercials, but there are many people out there who are not confident speakers, or who just feel that they don’t have a voice, tone or just the desire to use their voice for promotions, products, etc.  So, they look to hire voice talent to do the job for them!

So keep reading if:

You are interested in using your voice to make money


You are interested in hiring voice talent to do promotions, or record products for you

There is a market for everything and for those gifted with rich, resonating voices, careers in radio broadcast,  and news reporting can monetize their voice!  Talented voice over artists have many possible venues for finding work, from short term gigs like those done on Fiverr, to longer projects like work offered on Elance, Guru and Odesk.  Here’s a little breakdown of the type of work your dreamy, dulcet tones could land.

www.fiverr.com – These micro-job sites allow sellers to offer small jobs for $5.  Can you do a great impersonation of Borak, sing happy birthday like Sinatra, or do a perfect Charlie Brown voice?  What about voice-over work for a commercial, promotion, etc.  Offer a short project and earn a little extra cash.  Of course when you grab a client here they can become a long term client for other jobs.   Here a great example:


www.voices.com/find/jobs – Sign up for free, create your online profile, and submit your audition online.  All the work is done online, and you can request payment via paypal or by check.  A streamlined process makes it easy to get work, find new jobs, and stay in touch with your favorite companies.


www.elance.com – a site where employers look for people to fill their micro-job needs, like a reverse from Fiverr, the employers draft the job and list the budget for the job, and potential candidates bid on the opening.
www.Odesk.com – Odesk is a popular site, similar to elance.com and guru.com, but where most providers perform their services at an hourly rate.   This is another great site to have yourself available as voice talent!

Check with local advertising agencies and radio stations– often times these businesses are in need of fresh voices to use in their advertising, the more vocal variety these agencies have to promote, the greater their client list is.  More variety always attracts more business.

Smart Supply and MessageBroadcast – hire vocal actors to do voice-over work, they are voice marketing companies, so their focus is on voice-over, often for Fortune 500 companies.

Contact publishing houses – many books are available in audio format and they need people with the right timbre to record their books.  If you are bi-lingual, there is a huge demand for audio books in Spanish.

Recording studios – they often are contacted by marketing companies for demos of voice over artists, this is a quick way marketers can vet the good from the bad and keep their search for the right voice quick and affordable.

There are many opportunities to use your voice to make a living.  The more versatile you are, the more work you’ll be able to get, so see if you are able to do a realistic accent or if you can develop a certain tone.  Always know that the voice may get you there, but practice on delivery.  Many advertising spots have a certain number of seconds for a message to be delivered – make sure you can hit the timing mark clearly and effortlessly.

Now I’ll end this post with a Youtube video from a fiverr voice over superstar!  Watch Mese’s video:

Now go out and make some money with that voice! And as always – talk to me.. if you have any questions or comments please post them below!

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WordPress Wednesday –> Keeping Your Old Blog Posts Alive

Sep07
2011 7 Comments Lorette Written by Lorette

You work hard and write a awesome WordPress post. You send it out to your Facebook fans, maybe send out a Twitter alert, send out an email, people like it and comment on it…but then after awhile it fades away.

How do you keep the traffic comming back to your old posts ?

Here are two plugins that can help.

1. Yet Another Related Post Plugin

This plugin presents the reader of your new blog post with other older posts that are related to your new post. It uses a fancy algorithm that takes into consideration, post title, description, tags, content and categories and calculates a “match score” for your posts.

Therefore, after someone is finished reading your post, then are now presented with related posts. Since they were reading the new post, they are more than likely interested in something related.

2. Tweet Old Posts

If you have a Twitter account, this is a great plugin for you. Tweet Old Posts is a plugin designed to randomly pick your older posts based on the interval specified by you.

You enter in your Twitter account details, then set how often you want your old posts tweeted. You can exclude certain categories as well as add additional text to each tweet. This plugin automates the entire process and does a GREAT job of keeping your old posts “alive”!

Sceenshot below of some of the settings that can be edited to your specific needs.

Thanks Devon at renegadesuccess.com for suggesting this plugin!

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Be more productive with e.ggtimer

Sep06
2011 3 Comments alicia Written by alicia

For Christmas many many years ago, my friend Alex Mandossian sent us a timer as a gift.  In the card he sent along with it he said one of the most useful tools he has is a timer.  He went on to explain how chunking your time and setting a timer becomes a great productivity tool.

I’ve used a timer ever since, and in today’s Tuesday’s Tips & Tools we are featuring a free timer that runs on your computer.  You can find it at e.ggtimer.com This tool is a very simple timer that allows you to chunk your time just by typing the amount of minutes or hours you would like in the box on their page:

productivity, time management

So, how have I used this tool?

I like to organize my time so that I don’t spend all day on one task.  For example, if I am checking email, I will set the timer to 15 minutes, and I will just spend 15 focused minutes on email.  Then I’ll reset the timer for 45 minutes to work on my next blog post.

In addition to using this countdown timer, I will write a list of the tasks I would like to accomplish.  Then i will write down a time that I would like to allocate to that task, next to each task.  I will then plug each one into the e.ggtimer.com to keep myself accountable and on time, and I will then cross off that task and time time I spent on it, and move to the next one.

I am guilty of being a serial multitasker!  I multitask like crazy…. and we’ve all heard that multi-tasking can be very inefficient.  Using a timer helps me to avoid multitasking and allows me to focus on one task at a time for a specific amount of time.

Enjoy this free countdown timer and let me know how you are using it in your life!

 

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WordPress Wednesdays –> How To Hide Your Posts

Aug31
2011 3 Comments Lorette Written by Lorette
WordPress is a great tool for publishing content for the world to see. But what if you want to publish a post and/or page and keep it private, maybe only for friends or family to see?
Or maybe just a specific user group, like coaching clients, or team members? Well, I am gong to show you how to protect your posts and/or page with the use of a passwords or by setting user roles.

First of all, when you write your post and/or page, most people immediately push the blue “Publish” button and then they are done. But there is also an option called “Visibility”. This is by default, set to “Public”. The “Visibility” option is available for both posts and pages.

Click on “Edit” to see your options.
The easiest way to make your posts and/or pages private is to choose the “Password Protected” option.
When you choose that option, you simply enter in a password and share that password with whoever you want to have access to that page.
 The screen shot below is what it would look like for a post and similar for a page.

The other option which is called “Private” makes the post/page only available to other admins or editors of the site.

This is a great function if you are working with others on the post and it needs to be reviewed by other admins or Editors before it is published.

You can add an “Editor” to your site by going to “Users” on your left navigation and choose “Add New”, then add a new user with “Editor” status.

These are quick and easy ways to protect your content. There are more advanced ways to protect your content by using membership site plugins, which we will conver in another post.

 

But, if you are interested to learn more about membership site plugins for wordpress, we use and recommend WPWishlist.

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