Archive for the 'Market Your Expertise' Category

Social Networking – Register Now!

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
 

Online social networking is very hot right now, so join us for MarketingSalad.com Social Networking event on April 1st and 2nd. During this event you will be able to network with your potential customers and other solopreneurs and learn how to use social networking to promote your business.

Many participants reported creating business connections and getting clients during our past events, and this one is no exception! I am committed to helping 100 business owners to use social networking to market their business!

You can learn more and register for the social networking event at https://www.marketingsalad.com/networking.html

Biana Babinsky

Ready To Create An Ebook?

Friday, March 7th, 2008
 

The price of How To Make Thousands Of Dollars With E-books Teleseminars Series is going up
tonight at 11pm Eastern (NY) Time. Register before the price goes up at

https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zebookt

Spring is here! Spring is the time to start something new and now is a great time to create a new e-book for your business. Join me for How To Make Thousands Of Dollars With E-books Teleseminars Series to discover how to create an effective e-book and make thousands of dollars with it.

Here are just a few of the things that you will learn:

Why an e-book is the easiest information product to develop

– How to find the most profitable e-book topics

How to decide on the best e-book format and use it as a selling point

– Advice about making money with your e-book

How to avoid all the mistakes that many first time e-book authors make

The price of the Teleseminar Series is going up today, March 7th at 11pm Eastern (NY) Time. Learn more about the Teleseminar Series and register at

https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/zebookt

Making Money By Publishing Ebooks

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
 

Are you a coach, who is thinking about publishing your own ebooks? It is much easier to publish an ebook than to publish a book, so many people choose to use this publishing route.

Here are three things to pay attention to if you want to publish and sell your ebook online:

Does your target market need your ebook? If you want to sell many copies of your ebook, there has to be a need. Also, your target market has to want and be able to afford your ebook.

Before you go ahead and publish your ebook, you need to evaluate the demand for your materials.

Build a big list of people in your target market who need your ebook. Many people won’t buy your ebook the first time they hear about it. Therefore, you need a mechanism to continue to reach out to them and sell to them long after they leave your web site.

Make sure that they subscribe to your newsletter, so that you can continue marketing and selling your ebook to them long time after they leave your web site.

Market, market, market. Did I mention market? In order to get sales, you need to constantly market your ebook.

There are more ebook publishing and marketing tips and secrets in the FREE E-books Tutorial

Are Soups Similar To Articles?

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
 

In the winter it looks like soup is everywhere! I have been reading magazine articles on how to cook soup. I keep seeing lots of soup commercials. Many restaurants are offering hearty soups on their winter menus.

While I like soup just fine, it’s not my favorite food. I do like soups in the winter; they do make you feel warmer, but the reason I am not that crazy about soups is because the majority of soups I have had are just blah. They are fine, but nothing special.

But every once in a while I come across very tasty soups, soups whose taste makes them much more memorable. After I eat them, I remember these soups for a while. And if someone I know made that particular soup, you can be sure that I had asked for a recipe.

What if the articles that you write are just like these two types of soups? You do not want your article to be fine but forgettable like the first type of soup. You want it to be like the second type of soup. You want those who have read your article to remember it and to ask for
more of your products and services.

Tomorrow I will be teaching How To Create Article Resource Boxes That Get You More Attention And More Clients Teleseminar. During this teleseminar you will learn how to get more leads and clients from your articles by creating effective and memorable resource boxes. I will also show you examples of Resource Boxes that have brought results.

The teleseminar is only for members of my online marketing mentoring program, MarketingSalad.com. Find out how to become a member and attend the teleseminar at

https://www.marketingsalad.com/articles.html

Biana Babinsky

Reach Many Coaching Clients At Once

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
 

As you know, getting leads for your coaching business is a great marketing technique. I recommend taking at least one action every day that will bring more leads to your coaching business.

Speaking to your potential coaching clients one-on-one is a good way to market yourself and gain leads for your bsuiness. Remember, though, not everyone you speak with is going to be a lead or vecome your clients. Therefore, you will need to speak with many people in order to get a few leads and clients for your coaching business. If you are speaking with all of them one-on-one, it is going to take a while to speak with enough people to just get 10-20 leads for your business.

So how do you spend less time and still lots of coaching leads? You do that by speaking with more than one person at a time. That way you can spend the same amount of time that you do now, but get more prospects.

There are many ways for you to teach your potential coaching clients:

– You can reach more people at once by doing speeches and presentations to groups frequented by your potential clients.

– You can reach more people by having and effective web site and publishing your own newsletter. Get many people to come to your web site, then have them subscribe to your newsletter.

– You can get your web site listed in search engines and get leads from search engines

The point of all of these examples is that you need to reach many of your coaching clients at once. That way you are going to be able to get lots of coaching leads and many coaching clients.

Want to learn how to reach many potential coaching clients at once? Join my online business coaching program at https://www.MarketingSalad.com to learn how to reach your potential coaching clients.

Biana Babinsky

How To Promote Your Virtual Assistance Business

Friday, February 8th, 2008
 

Are you a virtual assistant? Do you want to get more clients for your virtual assistance business? I have helped many VAs promote their business online and get clients and here is what I recommend:

Define a target market for your business. Be extremely clear on who your target market is, and how you help it.

Create an effective marketing message for your business. You want your target market to hear your message and say to themselves: “This is exactly who I want to work with!”

Create a web site that attracts your target market to your business.

Use marketing techniques to bring your target market to your web site. There are many online marketing techniques you can use – search engine optimization, networking, article marketing, blogging. Just make sure that the people you bring to your web site are in your target market.

I have created a free special report, “Top Strategies To Get Clients Online” that will give you some ideas about using the Internet to get clients for your virtual assistant business. You can get the report at https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/free_report.html.

Biana Babinsky

Link Directly To Your Product

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
 

Recently someone asked me what I think is the most annoying thing that people do online and that prevents them from getting more sales.

This was an interesting question, and here is my take on it.

One of the most annoying thing that happens to me online is when people don’t link directly to the product they are talking about in their message. Some time ago I was reading someone’s newsletter, and there was an ad for an e-book for coaches. It sounded interesting, so I clicked on the link, only to be taken to the main page on the newsletter publisher’s web site.

The main page did not have any information about the e-book. After clicking on a few links, and not finding any e-book information, I got discouraged and left the web site. The newsletter publisher lost a customer.

This newsletter publisher lost many customers who wanted to learn about the e-book, but were taken to the main page of the web site instead.

Remember, linking directly to the product you are marketing can dramatically increase your sales. This is just one of the tips I have discussed on the Article Marketing for Profits Audio Recording that you can get at https://www.marketingsalad.com/article_marketing.html

Biana Babinsky

Lasagna And Other Recipes

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
 

When I cook, I like to be creative. There are times when I take a recipe and make many modifications to it – use different spices, substitute ingredients, etc. However, I follow one rule in my cooking – when I receive a recipe from a trusted source, I try it exactly the way it is written the first time. I use the exact amounts, as well as the same techniques and methods described in the recipe. If I like the resulting dish, I continue using the same recipe. If I do not like the result, I make changes to the recipe the next time I make the same dish.

A few weeks ago I tried a spinach lasagna recipe from a trusted source. I followed the recipe exactly and it came out perfectly – a nice blend of noodles, cheeses and spinach. It was flavorful and there were just the right amounts of sauce and cheeses. Given how much everyone liked it, I am going to make it again and I will not make any changes to the recipe.

I recommend that you use the same approach when you implement a new marketing technique for your business. Get a recipe for applying the technique from a trusted source and try doing exactly what the recipe says the first time you are working with it. As you learn the technique, you will see where you can modify it for yourself for best results.

Need a recipe for growing your list fast? Get the Grow Your List Home Study Guide at https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/znews

Biana Babinsky

Use Web 2.0 And Online Networking To Promote A Coaching Business

Thursday, January 17th, 2008
 

Is web 2.0 a good technique to promote your coaching business online? With so many online networking sites and blogs out there, how can you find time to participate and still have enough time left for your business and your coaching clients?

I find it to be a great tool to promote a business, BUT I also find that it can take up a lot of your time if you are not careful about organizing your time. I have had clients who have spent 4-5 hours a day, every day on social networks, but could not show enough results to justify this much time spent.

Here is what I recommend that you do to maximize your web 2.0 results:

Define your goals for networking online ahead of time. Your goals should always be building your list, increasing awareness for your expertise and getting more clients.

Only network in groups that can help you reach your goals. This means that you should only network in groups where your target market networks. If you network in groups that are fun and social, but don’t consist of your target market, you will have fun, but will not get clients.

Pick a few networking forums/groups/web sites and use them for a while. There are thousands of networking forums/groups/web sites available for you to network in. There is no way to participate in all of them.

Pick a few that are the most appropriate for your business and spend some time networking in them.

I don’t recommend jumping between groups all the time, as your goal is to become known in a group and be considered an expert. Every time you join a new group, you will need to spend time on establishing your expertise from the very beginning.

Evaluate your results on a regular basis. Every month take a look at what you have accomplished by networking online and evaluate them. If after a while you are not getting results you want, you should re-evaluate how you network, where you network and what you do while networking.

Members of my online mentoring program, MarketingSalad.com learn how to use online networking to get clients. Join us now at www.MarketingSalad.com and discover how to use online networking effectively!

Biana Babinsky

Grow Your List By Using Pay Per Click Search Engines

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
 

Can you get more newsletter subscribers by using pay per click search engines?

Pay per click advertising can help you build your list, but it can also help you spend a lot of money fast :)

If you are just starting with a pay per click campaign, here is what I recommend:

Learn about pay per click advertising and how it works before actually starting to use it. If you are not sure what you are doing, it gets expensive really fast. So learn before you jump in with your money.

Spend time on finding good keywords that your target customers would use searching for what you have to offer. Good keywords are key to reaching your target market and
getting them on your list.

Write effective ads. If your ad doesn’t speak to your target customers they will not click on your ad and you will not get them on your list.

Test! Compare different keywords, different ads and see which ones produce the best results for you.

Also, I would not rely just on pay per click to get subscribers. There are lots of other techniques that do not cost anything to apply, such as article marketing, search engine optimization, blogging and more. I recommend using pay per click as one of your list building techniques, but definitely not as the only one.

I will be discussing how to use pay per click advertising during the Grow Your List Teleseminar Series. There is just one more seat left, so register now at https://www.avocadoconsulting.com/rlinks/znews

Biana Babinsky