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Blogging and Beyond: Automate Your Business

Blogging and Beyond with The Blog Squad, Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D., and Denise Wakeman
With Guest Expert: Christina Hills, aka The Shopping Cart Queen 

How to Automate Your Business with the World's Best "Cart"
August 30, 2007, 3:00 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET)

Ever wondered how the online super gurus manage everything they do? They all use an automated database management and e-commerce system rolled into one. The Blog Squad interviews shopping cart "Queen," Christina Hills on how to get your business systems automated. "The Cart" can manage your leads, list building, autoresponders, email broadcasting, affiliate program, AND handle purchases and follow-up marketing.

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Shopping Cart Systems (3 part article)

Blogging and Branding: A Secret Weapon

Do these marketing problems sound familiar to you?

• Not enough people know what you do
• Not enough people have heard of your business
• Not enough people are moved by your message
• Not enough people can find you

Join The Blog Squad and branding guru Ruth Klein for the first ever teleseminar on Branding AND Blogging: what many experts consider to be the new 'success secret' of smart professionals and entrepreneurs with online businesses. 

There is no charge to attend.

Branding and blogging may be two missing pieces to your marketing puzzle that can ramp up your marketing and blow the lid off your business.

We know from first-hand experience: when we branded our company and used our blogs for business, we grew, and grew... and then grew some more!

Not sure how the two tie-in? Join us next Wednesday, August 29 for a complimentary teleseminar:

Branding & Blogging: The new 'success secret' of today's smart professionals

A complimentary teleseminar brought to you by The Blog Squad and Branding Guru Ruth Klein

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT)
No charge!

Register here. You'll get the dial-in number and information about how to listen live online via simulcast, if you prefer.

Register now to reserve your place.

Blog on!

Denise and Patsi
The Blog Squad

Mobile Feeds for Your Blog

You can now subscribe to this blog with a mobile feed if you use a cell phone or other mobile device to access the web. Use the button in upper left sidebar or at the bottom of this post.

Earlier today I discovered FeedM8 and have added a mobile feed to this blog. You can read more about FeedM8 and why it's a good idea to add a mobile feed to your blog, at Build A Better Blog.

Blogs as Stores: A Comprehensive Overview of Ecommerce Solutions for Bloggers

This is the most comprehensive overview I've ever seen of how to monetize one's blog. Some of the solutions require HTML knowledge, and there are many that are relatively simple for TypePad bloggers to integrate on their blog.  Here's what's covered and I urge you to read the complete post if you are looking for more ways to sell your products and services.

1. The Concept: Why blogstores make sense.
2. The Ideal Blog Store: What I'd like to be able to do in TypePad.
3. Current eCommerce Solutions for TypePad: What works, and how well.
4. Blog/Commerce Hybrids Off TypePad: What's being done with Blog/Store Hybrids on other platforms.

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The Great Internet Marketing Challenge

The Blog Squad™ just gave birth to a 12-page white paper, our very first little darling! It was a long incubation period but we're both doing fine now.

And we want you to celebrate with us by giving it to you and your friends at no charge. Yes - we think this little offspring is so adorable that we've had it electronically cloned and available to anybody who wants it.

I'm just kidding of course. The real reason we want you to read our White Paper is because it addresses some disturbing problems that many small businesses face when they take their business online and try to get found by the clients who need them.

Our mission is to help you avoid costly marketing mistakes and this paper will tell you about them.

Here's how you can get the white paper (no charge):