Business Success | My Business Week
What have I done this week to move my personal business and success forward? Well, I’m ashamed to say it’s more like a month since I wrote this ezine…I know, forgive me readers, I have sinned.
It’s just been too hectic.
I’ve been to the Brittany Lynch adwords seminar – mindblowing.
I’ve had blog issues – latest WP3.0 upgrade wiped my admin login and I coudn’t get into my own blog for a week and every new Lunar level member’s name went on my blog and forum as ME!! Windows upgrades meant Camtasia stopped working / recording with powerpoint just as I was editing my The Business Success Factory webinars….it’s been utter hell!
The only person who kept me sane is Steve Watson, and I’ve upgraded from his £47 a month “security & maintenance” package to his £100 a month “security, maintenance & other little jobs” package – gotta be worth the peace of mind surely? Check him out at http://SteveWatsonOnline.com – but I’ve got to have words about that gloomy pic he’s put on my testimonial!
I actually thought my brain was going to explode yesterday what with client webinars, techie malfunctions and a constant stream of emails from clients and other people wanting me to do things.
So the first thing I’ve done is hire an OBM – an online business manager. The first thing she’s going to do is set up a project management system, then interview and find me a full time VA who will start by adding daily blog posts to all my blogs, something that’s slipped horribly, and field my email – I get way too much of it even though I’ve been on an unsubscribe binge.
My new forum is in…..after much encouragement from my sister Sarah, who likes forums a lot. However, with both forums and private email groups, you need a load of traffic and users to make them fly. I’ve diligently posted an entry into each topic so that everyone can see what goes where, and I’m hoping that people will realise the advantage of getting links from my site to theirs, by registering, creating a signature and posting, soon.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying the fact that you can add every new blog post to the forum as a new topic, and the comments are interactive too (although I’ve not figured out how yet!)
The £1 / $1.60 trial of Lunar Level Internet Marketing Mentoring Membership, for 30 days, seems to be working out. Folks are a bit slow to get their Quickstart Questionnaire in, and book their 1:2:1 phone call with me but I’m enjoying them immensely. If I were joining something like this, I’d be in there for my mentoring like the proverbial rat up a drain pipe but perhaps completing the 4-5 questions on the QS Questionnaire is foxing people?
I’ve reminded them all once, which threw up a few techie problems, for a few folks, which I’ve fixed (largely username/password related). But I’ll remind them every week till they interact with me and get their moneys worth. LOL
Talking of passwords, as I wrote this I was impatiently waiting for my username and password for Local Business Money Machine, a new home study course in the very HOT market of teaching people how to market their internet marketing skills to local businesses who are FINALLY beginning to wake up to the need for internet marketing, now traditional advertising simply does not work anymore.
I’ve set up http://BusinessSuccessFactory.co.uk to offer internet marketing services to businesses who want internet marekting but who don’t want to do it for themselves.
My first client proposals are for a garden design company, a lighting company (we are focusing on chandeliers) and a print & design company.
I’m using networking, direct email, SEO, Twitter & Facebook & Google Adwords to drive traffic to the site. Exactly what I would do for a client actually.
What makes me laugh, when you go to these networking events, is how many people are offering web design services but who don’t have a CLUE about internet marketing. Heart breaking to pay for a shiny new websites and then find out it doesn’t even have metatags in the source code.
Pah!
Anyway, I digress. The Kevin Wilke course is BRILLIANT and really gives you everthing you need to get started and they place great emphasis on getting your first customer – because of course, till you have your first customer, you don’t have a business. So that’s what I’m focusing on.
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