Archive for Home based business

Working From Home During Christmas Holidays In California!

Hello To All The Work From Home Women,

How are you doing working from home during this Christmas holiday season?  Are you taking time to enjoy this time with your family, friends or for yourself?  Don’t forget to celebrate and create memories during this time along with continuing to work your business!

While going to parties and gathering with family and friends don’t forget to casually mention your industry in some manner.  You never know who is looking for a health program,  needing dental care, looking to purchase jewelry, seeking to find a home based business, etc.  I think you realize what I am getting at!

So, have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the celebrating along with building a great business!

Beverly Blankenship

http://health-discount-cards-sacramento.com

Comments (6) »

Happy Thanksgiving To All Women In Business!

Happy Thanksgiving to all those who follow this blog and to anyone who will find this in the search engines today!!

It is hard to believe that we are now in the holidays of 2011!  For all the work from home moms and other business women as well as those who have a brick and mortar business, I hope this has been a very profitable year for you!  I would encourage you to review some of the posts here that can help you move your business forward in 2012!  Please make comments because we  all can help each other become more successful!

Have a wonderful feast and a great Black Friday 2011!

Beverly Blankenship

http://health-discount-cards-sacramento.com

 

Leave a comment »

Repurposing Social Media Content

Hello Business Women,

Certainly hope your home based business or brick and mortar business is showing good profits during the month of August.  Which ever business type you have it is very important to stay abreast of social media marketing!

I was reading a post by Hilary Brooks, “Repurposing Content: It Works For Social Media Too!”  She shares great information on repurposing content.  Below is an excerpt from her post:

______________________________________________________________________

As women in business, we are always “on”… and with social media it’s no different. Between LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, the newcomer Google+, and our blogs, we are sharing massive amounts of information on a regular basis.

But how do we make it work for us even more? Repurpose it.

http://www.womenonbusiness.com/repurposing-content-it-works-for-social-media-too

________________________________________________________________________

Be sure to visit Hilary’s blog and make a comment!

Hope this will be a benefit to each of you business ladies!

Until next post,

Beverly Blankenship

Visit the site below and print a FREE Rx card to help you save money on your medicines as well as your pets!!

http://www.freenationalrxcard.net/dentalandhealth

Comments (2) »

How Successful Thinkers Can Help You Build Your Home Based Business!

Hello Business Women,

How are you on this first day of June 2011?  Do you have some new networking ideas to start the month off with?  How about different networking groups in your area that are established or maybe just step out and start a like minded group!  I am an ambassador with Successful Thinkers Meet Up Group.  There are approximately 200 groups nationwide and more starting up.  I am going to share some information from Successful Thinkers website below.

http://mySuccessfulThinkers.com/bizladyca

Successful Thinkers was founded by Jim Bellacera for networkers to have a place to network without having to pay fees!!!  What a concept!!!

High-Tech meets High-Touch
Successful Thinkers is a new, dynamic concept for individuals who want to be successful in every aspect of their livesWhat makes Successful Thinkers truly unique is that it incorporates the best of technology; Internet, multi-media and the like with the best of personal, face-to-face interaction.
Business Man
This high-tech, high-touch scenario enables members to fully experience and implement a well-rounded approach to promoting themselves and their business utilizing cutting-edge technology trends and time-tested relationship building techniques.  More importantly, this high-tech, high-touch approach creates an interactive environment where members can experience success for themselves “in the field” rather than just learning about it.
If you don’t have a chapter in your area, visit the website above, become an online member, ambassador and start a group!  Pay it forward and build your business by helping others!
If I can be of help in you getting a chapter started please contact me by visiting http://www.formerbrokemom.com
Have a great month of success,
Beverly Blankenship

Comments (7) »

Which Internet Marketing Strategies That Won’t Cost Much!

Hello Business Ladies,

I wanted to write a short post on internet marketing strategies that won’t deplete your bank account!!!  Some of the information you may be familiar with or not but I hope it will be helpful!
Your new business will benefit a lot from various Internet marketing methods. But you don’t have to spend millions of dollars just to get some decent exposure for your company. There are ways to make your business be seen and felt without doing overkill with your advertisement expenses.

Make use of your online power – through Internet marketing. Here are simple methods that you may employ to boost the visibility of your business without shelling out more than what you can afford. However, these techniques need patience and some footwork to produce agreeable results.

Firstly, you need a website before you can make use of these low cost Internet marketing strategies. So go create one or hire a web developer. It will display your products and services. This will be used in employing the following Internet marketing techniques.

1. Affiliate Marketing

This is the process of recruiting a network of smaller websites known as affiliates to drive targeted traffic to a website. Ad copy and links will be provided by the advertisers. You will have to pay a certain percentage of the sales profit to your affiliates.

2. Links

One of your goals should be to attain a good ranking with search engines. One way to do it is through link building. This could be done through trading links to other businesses that are related with yours.

3. Newsletters

Sending out newsletters to your subscribers (those who signed up for your newsletters) will help greatly in establishing a good working relationship with your customers or prospective customers. It has to be short, sweet, consistent and written for a general audience.

4. E-mail Marketing

As one of the best cost-effective Internet marketing tools, it stays as a very important method of keeping your customers aware of your products and services. Just make sure to avoid spamming or soon enough you will have to close down you business due to complaints.

5. Articles

If you put quality content in the form of articles in your website along with your products and services, search engines will have to index your website. Getting you website indexed by popular search engines means more traffic for you.

6. Forums

Expand your Internet network is through joining forums that mainly discusses stuff regarding or related to your products and services. Actively posting responses or answers and asking relevant information will build your reputation as that forum’s member and boost your company’s visibility through your signature files. These signature files are those that go with your every post. Links to your website could be included in this signature.

Visit my website below and request the FREE ebook that can help you build your online business presence.

Have a great week,

Beverly Blankenship

http://www.formerbrokemom.com

Leave a comment »

How To Advertise Free Online

Good Morning Women In Business!

Trusting you had a great weekend and ready to learn how to advertise for free online!

We have been learning how to market online with blogs, articles, and different social media sites to grow your home based business.  So, today I want to share how to advertise for free and give you a few online advertising sites.

You can do a search online for “Free Advertising Sites” and post your item or business opportunity.  It would be good to go to http://www.alexa.com and see how the advertising site is rated and if it would be worth your time to use that site.  When you post the ad be sure to stumble it at  http://www.stumbleupon.com to send it across the internet.

Watch this video with Dale Calvert on learning to write ad copy for the ads you want to post!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRO9RpEVpuY&feature=related

http://www.slideshare.net/dalecalvert

Here are a few sites to get you started:

http://www.craigslist.org

http://www.adlandpro.com

http://www.kijiji.com

http://www.backpage.com

http://www.oodle.com

http://www.adpost.com

http://www.inetgiant.com

http://www.epage.com

http://www.salespider.com

Be sure to use your keywords in the ad title as well in the ad.  Also, renew the ad when it expires because the more your information is seen the more exposure you are getting!

Hoping this will help grow your business.  Be sure to visit my website and get the free ebook!

Have a great week,

Beverly Blankenship

http://www.momssuccessfulbiz.com

Comments (2) »

Why Blog And How!

Hi,

Hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of April and getting into business activity with Spring!

Wanted to publish some information on blogging especially for people who may not know how yet or just need some help in getting started.

Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.

However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything but just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.

With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.

Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.

Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.

Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.

Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life.

From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.

So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.

Here’s how:

1. Consider your audience

Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.

After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard” (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.

2. Pictures speaks a thousand words

To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.

3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs

Even if you are free to write anything you want to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.

After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.

4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs

In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.

Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.

5. Make it interactive

As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. You can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.

You can even place an area for comments or for some feed backs. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.

Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.
Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it.

As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.

Be sure to visit: http://www.momssuccessfulbiz.com and request the free ebook on Social Media Marketing

Comments (2) »

Local Marketing Ideas!

Hi Everyone,

We are all looking for ways to promote our businesses in the present economy.  I found this article and wanted to share it!

Actually, my friend Sheri Carpenter wrote it and published it on her site:

http://miraclemomas.com

Sheri has a lot to offer, so visit her site above!

Fillers? What Exactly Are They?

I do a ton of offline marketing and one of the best ways I have found to market my business is by getting myself into different packages that go out in the form of a filler.
I take time every weekend to pass out Share Packs (formally called business packs) to over 100 residents and businesses in my area. All to often when I reach out to other business and tell them I am looking for fillers for my packs they reply with “What is a filler?” This to me is really surprising. So I am here to explain what a filler is and some different ways to get your fillers seen.
A filler can really be a number of different things. Typically they are business cards with something attached to them. The best way to do this is to get some small cello or organza bags where you can put a sample and business card inside or put the sample inside and attach the card to the outside. All to often when I ask for fillers I get an envelope filled with nothing but business cards. Now while promoting your business card for you is all well and good, typically people don’t have a reason to look at just a business card.
When thinking about putting fillers into bags that people pass out or even just packages that you are sending out you really want someone to look at what you put in that bag right? Well for me, if I get just a bag full of business cards, chances are i am not going to look at them , at least not right away. They will end up in a drawer somewhere or on the desk or counter and then eventually be thrown away because I had no real reason to look at them if I didn’t ask for them. So you really want to put some thought and creativity into your fillers that you send out.
Fillers can be pretty simple and don’t have to cost you a bundle. Typically when someone is looking for fillers they require a minimum of 25. So that isn’t really anything that is going to break your bank. You can use your business card with a sample attached if your company or you offer samples. You can use a business card with a piece of candy attached. There are also a million other things you can attach to them. But no matter what you send out always make sure you have your business card attached to it.
Here are some examples of things to attach to business cards for nice fillers. Most of these you can get at the everything is a dollar store or any dollar store, hobby lobby, walmart or even from other work at home people.
You can attach any of the following:
Candy
Samples
Pens or Pencils
Nail files
Magnets
Gift Certificates
Stickers
Chap Stick or small lip gloss
Small note pads
Tea lights or another small candle
Small toys for their children
Balloons
Small picture frames
Key Chains
And there are so many more options if you just look in different stores for little trinkets. You can also make them holiday themed and such. What ever you do make sure that what you are attaching is either a neutral item that can go with anything or something that can relate to your business.
Having different things attached to your business card makes all the difference. It gives people a reason to look at your card. I mean think about it if you have a soap business and you attach a small chunk of soap or a packet or container of liquid soap, they really might like it and look to call you to order more.
So that is basically it. That is what fillers are. The more creative you get the more your fillers will stand out. Now where can you send them you might ask? Well there are many different places you just have to know where to look. My favorite place to send mine to is The Sample Shoppe. They require a minimum of 25 and you must have a sample with your card to submit to them. And I also take them and put them in my packs I pass out on the weekends and in every package I mail out. You can email me to find out how to send to me.
I hope this has helped to fill some people in and give you some ideas. Don’t forget to stop by and check out how you can get into our printed newsletter that goes out every weekend too!!
Visit my site for a free ebook on social media.
http://www.formerbrokemom.com
Have a good day,
Beverly Blankenship

Leave a comment »

Simplicity and Duplicity in Networking MLM

Hello To All My Women Biz Friends,

Are you enjoying working your MLM business in this new month of March?  I wanted to post some basics of network marketing today because there may be those who don’t realize some of this information!

After reading the post visit the website and request the free ebook to help you in building your business.

____________________________________________________________________
Ask some of the more successful MLM marketers and they will tell you that the key factor in networking MLM is simplicity.

Networking MLM is a very simple business. But keeping it simple does not mean that hard work is not involved. One of the common mistakes is that people try to make it complicated.

Even if a complex system achieved great results for you, others will find it difficult to copy. In networking MLM, personal success is not your greatest asset.

Your greatest asset is having a system that guarantees the success of everyone using it. The success of others, and your success, is dependant upon their ability to do the same things you do. Keep the least experienced of those in your network in mind when you set up a system of doing things for your organization to follow.

Everything you do must be simple enough so that everyone can quickly duplicate your efforts and achieve the same phenomenal results as you.

In MLM networking, you should not do things that require special skills, resources which are available only to you or to a limited number of people. Open up your business to a much larger pool of people who can become successful.
You need to build your network as quickly as possible. You can only meet with a few people each day and can personally close even fewer sales.

But using an MLM networking strategy, you can help others quickly learn to do the same simple things as you. When they do, they multiply your efforts.

Go for the same phenomenal results. This is quality duplication. Each person in your MLM networking, from top to bottom, must be able to exactly duplicate what you are doing and be able to teach others to do exactly the same thing. How large a sales team you can build depends on how well it is duplicated.

To ensure duplication, you need a system or processes that anybody and everybody can follow and teach. You cannot duplicate a person but you can duplicate a system.

In building a successful and long-term network, the MLM networking system must rule. Remember a system is only as good as it is duplicated.

The more complex a system, the less likely quality duplication will be achieved. To make sure you duplicate well, follow the System you are provided with religiously. There is no perfect system and your time is better spent perfecting your ability to duplicate it rather than perfecting a system.

Take this example. Ray Krocs, the founder of MacDonald’s cannot be duplicated but the MacDonald’s franchise system can be and is, to almost 100% perfection in  outlets worldwide.

Keeping it simple. To ensure you do things that your distributor can learn from and duplicate.

Is what I am doing easily duplicable?
Is it simple enough to be duplicated? Keep asking yourself this same questions and if you answer “yes” at least 75 % of the time, you are on the right track.

The most successful people in MLM networking business understand that everything must be kept simple in order to grow your business. Show others how simple it is to do what you do. They need to see you do it, and then believe it is simple enough for them to quickly duplicate to achieve the same good results in your MLM networking.

http://www.momssuccessfulbiz.com

Comments (2) »

How To Find Free Article Writing Information!

Hi Ladies,

As you know, I enjoy helping you to find ways to succeed in your home based business by marketing online and offline.  One of the ways you can market online is by writing articles and publishing them in Free article directories online!  I have been asked by different business owners how do you write articles, publish articles and what is PLR articles.  Well, the easiest way to do articles I think is to buy PLR articles and make them your own by changing certain information and creating your personal resource box.

Below you can visit my website and request the free ebook.  In the ebook you will find article writing and information on where to buy PLR articles at very reasonable prices from reputable authors.

http://www.formerbrokemom.com

Have a great time with the ebook and become more successful in your online marketing!

Leave a comment »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

%d bloggers like this: