Anyone with products or memberships to offer can have an affiliate program. In fact, while you are shopping for that perfect cart choice, the ability to have an affiliate program or at least easily attach a plugin is an important part of your decision. Are you one of the naysayers shaking your head because you […]
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Easy Funnel For Your Service Based Business
List building and follow up are areas of business strategy everyone needs to give attention to, yet it seems to often be resisted by service providers. They feel like they either have nothing to say or that people won’t want to hear from them. Cindy Bidar used to feel that way, but she got over […]
Creating Schedules & Boundaries
Laura Petrolina, blogging over at Spin Sucks, has spoken to an issue a lot of us struggle with. Managing our schedules and creating boundaries for how we communicate with others. To quote her: Communications pros across the board are VERY bad at boundaries. VERY bad. Some of it is because that’s the nature of our […]
Advice For Relaxing Into Authenticity
Authenticity in business, it’s a term that gets whipped around like a weapon in some places. Not with Mana Ionescu of Light Span Digital though. I loved her blog post about the topic. To quote Mana: Authenticity is not just about being sincere, real, and honest. It’s about being reliable, dependable, being true to what you […]
Don’t Psych Yourself Out Of Affiliate Marketing
When I was new to Affiliate Marketing, I totally psyched myself out of it. I signed up for a few affiliate programs, I don’t remember which, and I tried to promote them here and there and not surprisingly, I didn’t do well. (Meaning I didn’t make any sales.) I chalked it up to the idea […]
Holiday Fun: Good Eats & Giving Back
My team and I had some impromptu fun reaching out to several Love People + Make Money Community Members over the last few days. Our holiday spontaneity resulted in Good Eats & Giving Back, a sweet little printable with favorite holiday recipes and blurbs about how we all like to give back at the holidays. […]
How to Power Up Your Blog by Being Opinionated
Many blogs today with high readership have one thing in common: Opinionated bloggers! It’s one thing to share news and information. It’s another thing entirely to share opinions. News–even important news–can be fairly dull when repeated across hundreds of blogs. Bold, spoken opinions about that news is engaging. It’s the difference between the six o’ […]
I Don’t Get Fluffed About Unsubscribes
I’ve been list building since 2004 and one thing I know to be true – unsubscribes are part of the process. People discover me, they optin to get something that intrigues them and then they either stay with me or go away. I actually want some people to go away. We all do. Not every […]
Are You Burned Out? A Quick Check!
A topic came up for me just today with a client who wonders if she is burned out. I honestly think, if you’re asking the question, you probably are – at least a little crispy around the edges. I was reminded of this blog post by Derek Halpern over at Social Triggers, he wrote about […]
Three Strategies For Breaking Through A Business Funk
After all these years I love my business more than ever but from what I can see, that isn’t true for everyone. Some of my solopreneur friends seem to get stuck along the way. Maybe technology overwhelms them. Maybe they get mired down by all of the different marketing skills they feel they need to know […]