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8 Ways to Build Your Mailing List

Perusing the LinkedIn groups I belong to, I stumbled on this question:

"Here's a standard, oft repeated and elementary question, but one I could really use some answers to about now: What are some of the most effective and ethical ways of building one's mailing list for a relatively new coach?"

I've had conversations with two VIP clients about list building in the last couple of days and offered several ideas. Here's the answer I gave on LinkedIn:

What Are You Planning for Your Professional Development in 2011?

I've been reviewing events and programs I am considering for my own professional development in 2011 (mostly working more with my coach and attending mastermind weekends). I realized there were a couple of events that I'm part of that you may want to add to your own professional development calendar. Check out the details in my audio invitation (5:43 min) to you...

[NOTE: I originally recorded a video invitation but the audio quality was terrible and out of sync. Not sure what happened but in the interest of time, decide to do redo it as audio.]

Here are links to the events mentioned in my invitation:

Niche Affiliate Marketing System Workshop (NAMS5 and NAMS6 two for one special deal good until December 31.)

Publish Your Ebook Today with Amazon's Kindle (free webinar replay - if you join Daniel Hall's Real Fast Book program - $7 for a 14 day trial - you'll get a private invitation to join my bonus webinar on how to use a blog to promote and sell more books.)

Stay tuned for info about the outstanding business blogging education event coming up in February. I'll be sending an email with details on December 27. You won't want to miss this if you're ready to take your business blog to new heights.

In the meantime, I invite you to get 7 free tips on how to boost your visibility on the web. The more visible you are to your target market, the more opportunities you'll have to serve them.

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Article Marketing & Online Visibility - The Quickest Path to Hearing “I See You Everywhere”

Article Marketing & Online Visibility - The Quickest Path to Hearing “I See You Everywhere” by guest author, Jeff Herring.

Article Marketing is the perfect vehicle to establish your strong and dominant Online Visibility. This is because for each article you create, you can spread it all over the internet in minutes a day.

What holds many people back from creating strong Online Visibility is the false belief that you have to be found all over the Internet. Here's the really good news: you do not have to be found all over the Internet.

The even better news is you only want to be found all over your niche. And when you combine article marketing and social marketing, you have a strategy that will get you to Online Visibility in a hurry.

3 Steps to Online Visibility

3 Things You Must Know Before You Create Information Products

While I'm on vacation for a few weeks, I'm featuring articles by several of my trusted colleages here and on Build a Better Blog. The series kicks off with a post about creating information products by Kathleen Gage, the Street Smarts Marketer...

3 Things You Must Know Before You Create Information Products

If you've been researching ways to make money online I can bet you've heard about developing information products. Information products that can make you thousands, tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Many people have heard about what to do but they are not quite sure how to identify what is really a money making product.

There is an art and a science to the process.

Information products include (but are not limited to) eBooks, eReports, MP3 files, podcasts and membership programs. Yup! Membership programs.

A Social Media Smorgasbord for Your Professional Development

Deadlines loom this week.

Seems like everything converges at once sometimes. There are so many goodies and opportunities to expand and build your business. Here are a few opportunities that have deadlines this week if you want to save big.

Depending on what you need to learn for your business right now, there's a wide range of opportunities for you. Need to get started with social media? Boost your online visibility? Master Facebook for your business? Build a website or blog? Check out what's coming up this week...

Sunday, September 12
Ellen Britt's Ice Cream Social Media sale ends on Sunday (today). It's a delicious collection of social media training programs by 6 marketing pros including Ellen Britt, Adela Rubio, Jessica Swanson, Christine Gallagher, Susan Preston and me, bundled together for one very low investment. After Sunday, the deal melts away...

(My product "How to Drive Quality Traffic to Your Blog" is included in the bundle.)

Get your treat now!


Tuesday, September 14
This week I'm Jeff Herring's featured expert and am presenting a webinar you don't want to miss. I've only presented this program to private groups up until now.

If you can’t be found on the Web, you don’t exist. It’s as simple as that. To attract traffic, leads, prospects, clients, speaking gigs, media inquiries and more business opportunities, you must be easily found by your target market and that means being visible. In this program you’ll learn the 3 C’s for building a visible presence on the Web and why it’s critical to the success of your business, no matter what kind of business you have.

“I See You Everywhere!” How to Dominate Your Niche & Build Your Business Online

Register here to learn how to boost your visibility on the web!

Christina Hills' popular Website Creation Workshop opens for registration. If you are a do-it-yourselfer and/or want to understand how to build and manage a blogsite on Wordpress, this is THE class for you. Christina only offers it twice a year so get it now and don't put off building your blog any longer.

Christina limits the number of students in the program and it sells out quickly. Check out a sample lesson here to decide if it's the right program for you. http://websitecreationworkshop.com/a/?af=648424&p=freecall

Thursday, September 16

The clock is counting down on discount registration fees for:

Facebook Success Summit - get 50% off your ticket now. Expires 9/16 and the price goes up at midnight.

BlogWorld New Media Expo (the premier event to learn just about everything you need to know about blogging, social media, podcasting, video, etc.) - Registration goes up after 9/16. Get in now and use code TWEET20 to save 20%. I'll be there and hope to meet you there too!

There you have it. Something for every stage of business growth.