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Building Relationships With Colleagues In My Online Community Has Been A Rewarding Experience

November 15, 2010 By: Yvonne A Jones Category: relationship marketing

Featured “Monday Writer” – Jeff Wise

Over the past year I have learned so many new things about internet marketing and I really have to credit it to all of the new relationships I have made.  Whether through social media, attending events or participating in contests and blog challenges, the new relationships have prompted a flood of new and helpful information that is propelling my business to new heights.

It all started when I entered a big internet marketing contest in which the winner would win $10,000 worth of expert internet marketing mentoring.  Because of that contest I started blogging everyday for a particular niche I started, and I received an email from someone whose email list I had been a part of for several years.

This email talked about a blog challenge where you would blog everyday for a month and I joined.  During that blog challenge I met new people whom I would eventually build a business relationship with.  Through these relationships I have learned many new Read the rest of this entry →

Business Communication Tools – Creating a Script that Sells

November 12, 2010 By: Yvonne A Jones Category: Direct Sales

Friday Success Tips

Many people recoil at the word “sales”, and may even say that they do not like sales. Yet, for the majority of people in business you are selling something unconsciously everyday because there is ‘Sales’ in a direct way and there is indirect sales.

If you are a coach, consultant or speaker, you are selling your services and yourself as well, because regardless how well you’re knowledgeable on a topic, people have to feel they resonate with you-with your personality-to want to take time to learn from you.  On the other hand, there are millions of people who overtly sell products and services online and offline.

In any type of sales situation you recognize the importance of communicating effectively so that you capture the attention of your audience of one or many at the outset, and be able to close the sale at the end of your presentation.

When you create a script or scripts to use as a template, this will be one of the finest business communication tools you can use Read the rest of this entry →

Internet Marketing For Beginners: How to Do Keyword Research

November 10, 2010 By: Yvonne A Jones Category: seo

Keyword research is basically quite easy so that beginners can get a good grasp very quickly.

Like search engines mentioned in my previous post, there are many free keyword research tools, but my tool of choice is Google External Keyword Tool.  There’s no need to attempt to remember the URL.  It’s easier to just go to Google and type in Keyword Tool External and it will usually be the first result.

It makes sense to use the results from Google since Google is the most popular search engine at this time.

To confirm you are a real person you will need to verify the characters shown and from that point you can type in your keyword and being searching.  Note that searching this way will give you limited results. By logging in with your Gmail account or Read the rest of this entry →