Tag: internet marketing
I am going to tell you all the absolute truth about how I started out online and how difficult it was for me to learn all there was to learn and how confused I was. I was looking for some information online to help me start my coaching business and I found very little but I did find some and what I found helped me a great deal.
I want to tell you this so you will consider joining me for 12 weeks as we work our way through Dr. Jeanette Cates' "Online Success Incubator". I will be guiding and coaching you through each module for FREE! The way I will get paid is from the commission I make as an affiliate for Jeanette. The classes begin 7/19 at 8p ET.
I don't remember who's list it was but I signed up in someone's opt-in box and began to observe the process of online marketing and soon found myself as interested in the online marketing process as I was the information that I was getting. The next thing I knew I could not get enough of this whole idea of being able to market my coaching business to people all over the world! WOW! Imagine the possibilities…if I only knew more about this whole online marketing thing. I was bit by the online bug and I was off to find out as much as I could about this new form of marketing.
I spent months reading all the free material anyone offered. Soon I found myself on dozens of peoples lists and my mail box was flooded with more than I could possibly read. I would listen to free audio mp3's while I was exercising just soaking up every bit of information I could get. Only one problem with this idea….everyone said something slightly different so I could not determine who was correct. Soon I became confused and overwhelmed. In fact, I almost just gave up.
Then I came across Dr. Jeanette Cates and her "Online Success Incubator". It was amazing! She had tons of information, videos, how to's, PDF, audios on every topic you could ever want to know about. I found the gold mine of Internet marketing information but there was so much there!
I noticed that Jeanette lived in Austin…in fact she lived very close to me and I decided I was going to meet her. Long story short after practically stalking her she granted me a lunch meeting and we hit it off very well. I volunteered to do anything to help her in her business if she would just give me a little direction as I got started on the Internet.
Well, she took me up on my offer and suggested that I catalogue her videos in the Incubator for her….little did I know that there were over 300 videos. The result was that I had to make my way through the video content in the Incubator and boy did I learn a lot. I also become friends with this wonderful and brilliant woman.
Please consider joining me for this 12 week learning experience that will change your business completely! I will guide you each week on a webinar and you will have email access to me as well. http://www.jeanettecatesincubator.com
July 12, 2010
Suzan Schmitt "12 Weeks to Online Success Incubator" preview 7/12 at 8p ET.
Please be sure to register so you will get the link for the teleclass at
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Here are the topics we will touch on…
First website/blog set up
Affiliate Marketing
Opt-in Page
Free Traffic
Article Marketing
Pay Per Click Basics
Resale Products
PLR Products
Your first product
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July 12, 2010
Creating and marketing information product is the secret to creating passive income and helping a far greater number of people. You can become a know expert in your niche who is helping clients all over the world when you have the ability to share information products.
Continue June 15, 2010
Your goal as a coach is to motivate your clients to take the actions necessary to create the change they desire. There are many tools like scarcity, stories, and benefits that work well to increase motivation.
Continue October 29, 2009
Know what problems you target coaching niche faces and address those problems. Do the research to know the major problems and the smaller problems that stem from each major problem.
Continue October 27, 2009
Learn how to market your coaching business by giving to others. You can share your coaching with others so they can experience the value of coaching. Learn 4 easy ways to attract coaching client by sharing yourself and your coaching.
Continue October 3, 2009
The way to get top Google ranking and beat your competition is through good keyword research. You will rise above the competition and get more qualified clients when you take the time to do your keyword research and utilize it.
Continue September 18, 2009
Yeah a shopping cart, that's what I need to build my list!
Yikes! This shopping cart thing is easy to sign up for but that is all that is easy about it! All I can say is holy crap this makes little or no sense and I'm not sure I will ever be able to learn this and there is so much to learn. All I can do is start the tutorials but I'm not sure if this is stuff is over my head. Well, I will give it a try and see what happens. If worse comes to worse, I will hire one of the tech people they say they have for $40 an hour. At least they can get me started. This stuff isn't cheap either so I better get to work getting more clients.
Networking around town
So, I joined BNI and have been going to those meetings and they have been Ok but not super great. I think I need to find other networking groups to go to as well. It seems that I do better networking for speaking opportunities that networking for referrals. Each time I am able to do a workshop, I pick up a client or two so I think I will go with it. I have had great luck speaking at groups that are into new ways of thinking about spirituality. The local Unity church has been a great place to meet people that I enjoy and to lead workshops. I have also found that women are more open to Life Coaching than men. No, that is not exactly correct…women are more open to
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October 29, 2008
I want my website to work for me
I am thinking that I should be getting clients from my website rather than just having it tell people about me. I was looking around on the Internet for information and found some sites where there were people selling what I was looking for. I also noticed that they gave away some "test" information or products that I could get for FREE. This made me feel like I could "test drive" their information products and get to know how they thought before I invested the rather large sums they were asking for.
I realized that I could modify this idea for my coaching website. Many people still don't know exactly what coaching is or what it can do for them. Sure they can read about me and my background on my website but is there a way I can offer them something that speaks to them and helps them in some way? Can I use my website to collect contact information of the people that express some interest in coaching and give them something of value at the same time?
Give, Give, and then Give Some More!
This idea of giving something of value in exchange for contact information and the opportunity to build a relationship made a great deal of sense to me. Great! Another good idea that is going to make me have to figure out what to do next. Now, I have to figure out what I can give away that is of value to people who visit my website. I know, I will write about what I know best. I will give them a free report on how to bring balance back into their lives. Great, problem solved…only…
How am I Going to Deliver that Information and Collect that Contact Information?
Well, I guess I better figure out how the other guys do it. After lengthy investigation I find that they use a tool called a shopping cart. Conveniently available from the same place I got my merchant account from. Easy, I will get one! According to the website, I can use this shopping cart to keep track of my contacts, make sales, send out broadcasts emails, newsletters, and these things called auto-responders. Sounds awesome, sign me up! I'll just watch a few tutorials and have this thing down in a day or two…no problem!
What I Learned
1) My website can and should serve me and others.
2) Marketing on my website can mean giving away things that are helpful and of value to others.
3) I need to be able to collect contact information from people who visit my website so that I can create relationships with the.
4) I need to be a giver to establish trust and a relationship on the Internet.
5) A shopping cart is the best way to manage products, contacts, and deliver information to my customers.
October 24, 2008
