Words of Wisdom

Everyone needs some inspiration from time to time, especially when trying to build a business, run a a home, work a second job, etc!

There is nothing quite like stumbling upon a short passage of text that immediately inspires, delights or comforts you. If the words also contain a powerful insight that can be applied to your current life experience, like a glimpse of a possible solution to a problem, or the courage to take action – that little quotation can become a powerful force for change.

I have a gift for you today. No strings attached. Just read and enjoy.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD WORDS OF WISDOM

(I would love to have some comments posted here on my blog but I won’t twist your arm!)

Enjoy!
Sherry Lynn

Looking for People to Join My Team

I am currently looking for a few good women to join my team.

I need a Social Media Manager, a MailChimp Expert and a Partner for a new project.

Social Media Manager – to offer my clients help with their social media. I am looking for someone to create, market and perform the services for my clients as well as new ones!

Mailchimp Expert – to do approx 5 newsletters per month for my clients

Partner for a new project – I cannot reveal too many details but it is a directory. Profits will be split 50/50 and part will go to charity.

If interested in any of these please book a time to chat here: http://www.doodle.com/sherrylynn

Where has the Love Gone to Online?

Just wondering what you readers think about what is happening out there on the www?

Where’s the Love??

Used to be that you would post and people would Like and then comment, answer your PM’s and get involved in discussions on Fecebook. I know we are busy but think about how you feel when you post something and people comment. Does it make you feel loved? I bet it does.
Used to be that you would post on your blog and people would comment – rarely happens anymore.
Used to be that you would send a newsletter and someone would say Great Job! Loved the article!
Used to be that people would actually answer emails. I notice lately that unless something is in it for them people do not respond.
Used to be that people would take the time to do a favour that you ask of them.

Wondering your thought on this. Are you experiencing this?
What do you think we can do about it?

Would you like to join me in a Social Media Show the Love Challenge? I have started a group to pump up the volume and get back to showing the Love online! There will be challenges with prizes!!

This is a place to connect and share ideas, others posts and events, great blogposts and best of all, a place to feel loved!

Join me here!

Looking forward to helping you make Social Media work for you!
Sherry Lynn

Join the Gratitude Wave!

Are you grateful for a special woman in your life that has made a difference for you or your business?

Someone who has:

Inspired You
Supported You
Praised You
Referred You
Helped You in a Time of Need
Done Something for you Expecting Nothing in Return
Is Just Always there for You

Have You Told Her or Shown her the effect this has had in your life?

If not the time to now!

I am starting a Gratitude Wave!

This is how it works:

Tell the women in your life who have made a difference by posting the copy below on her Facebook page, sending a card, email or any other creative way you can think of but make sure you keep it going by using the copy below in it’s entirety.

Let’s Keep the Gratitude Goin’
Sherry Lynn

Copy to send:
_______________________________________________________

I am riding the Gratitude Wave and I am Grateful for You!
(You can add details if you like or keep it short and sweet!)

Keep the wave going and send this a special woman who has made a difference for you!

Your Name

________________________________________________________End of Copy

Action Achieves Your Goals & Dreams

ACTION:

http://www.dictionary.com simply defines the word as something done or performed.

It is empowering to think and talk about dreams and goals but to achieve them we must build our dreams on the solid ground of action rather than the shifting sands of talk and thought.

The Italians have a way with words. Garibaldi, the great Italian soldier and patriot said: “Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.”

Talk is easy. Planning is easy. Making promises is easy. Taking Action is not.

Have you ever been to a seminar where a great dream is promoted. Every one leaves charged up and ready to achieve their dream but unless they take action immediately the dream will soon die.

The same goes when it come to your marketing. You can plan all you want but if you do not take action your marketing plan will not be the dreams of a thriving business will soon die!

My coaching which I have deemed “Marketing Action Coaching” creates action, not just talk and thought. When you finish a session we have acted upon what you have learned.

If you would like to experience the power of my style of coaching I urge you to book a complimentary session!

Now don’t just dream it, do it!
Sherry Lynn

Healthy You – Healthy Business!

Growing a successful business is a tough job and it is easy to get rundown especially for a woman who is usually wearing several hats (if you are not I admire you). If you are not healthy you simply cannot grow a successful business!

Here are some tips to streamline some of your marketing and business tasks:

Have a good scheduling system in place. If your clients book appointments put it on autopilot!
Outsource when it makes sense. If you are spending 5 hours doing your newsletter and can pay someone to do it for you at a reasonable rate you might as well outsource and spend time doing what you do best or take a bath!
Don’t be scattered. Everything you do should be design to appeal to your target market. Not sure of whom your target market is? Stop everything and clearly define them before you go any further. A coach can help you with a simple exercise to accomplish this.
Plan your “Marketing Day”. Take a day a week and make a plan to accomplish all your marketing a business tasks during that time period. You will get much more done then if you were to do a bit here and there throughout the week.
Choose your social media sites wisely. If you join too many sites you will not have time to be active enough on each to build quality relationships which is what makes networking online work!
Make sure you have an opt-in list that maintains itself such as AWeber, Constant Contact or MailChimp. Trying to maintain your email list yourself is a recipe for disaster! I have some horror stories I can share if you like!
Go virtual where you can. Sometimes part of your business can be done online, teleconference or webinars saving you time to…relax maybe???
Network wisely. Choose 2 groups that you commit to so that you can do the crucial things that make networking magical like followup and relationship building.
Hire a marketing coach to keep you on track. It is so easy to let your marketing slip when you are crazy-busy but if you wait until you are not busy to do some marketing you may find yourself without clients until the momentum builds from it.

Remember, if you want a healthy business you need to have a healthy you so please take time out for you! Promise??

Are You Protecting Your Online Content?

Plagiarism is a massive problem on the internet today. It is very easy for someone to copy a webpage’s online content and claim it as their own.

Google is getting better at detecting who the authors of newly created content are and checks content for originality while ranking. It used to be easier for blogs and websites to hide plagiarized content but now it has become harder because of Google Panda which was release in 2011.

There are ways you can protect your content and I urge you to put something in place before you find your hard work with someone else’s name on it!

The easiest is to put a DMCA Badge on your site.

Put their protection badge on your site and if someone steals your content they do the takedown for free. You can sign up here. There is also a $10 a month plan which I use as it creates a certificate that outlines the details and ramifications to the thief wanna be! You can see what it looks like if you click on the DMCA Logo below this post!

Don’t forget Your Images!
A way to protect your images is to watermark them. This doesn’t completely stop people from stealing them but it helps! This can be done in editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop, etc.

DMCA now has Watermarking free so that is a bonus! Check out this image of my husband on our Stud Jac! (I bet ya can’t steal it either)

DMCA also lets you protect the images on your HTML website.
Want to see it in action? Go to my website and try to right click to save one of my images. Interesting eh?

What about WordPress blogs?
If you have a wordpress blog I have found a couple of great ways you can protect your wares!

1 – The DMCA Protection plugin for WordPress lets you install protection badges on your site in order to deter content thieves and protect your content on pages and/or posts. Check below this post! You also get this when you sign up!

2 – Another great plugin that protect the content on your website and for most browsers also disables text copy and image copy. Check it out by right clicking any image on my blog and trying to copy and paste text! Very Cool!

If you are familiar with adding plugins to your wordpress site you can download the plugin here.

If this overwhelms you my team and I can do it for you for a very reasonable feet! Book in to have this done now cause word is spreading about how awesome this service is!!

Here’s to protecting your stuff!
Sherry Lynn

How To Dramatically Increase Your Blog Traffic Really Really Fast!

1. Blog Often

I am sharing this post I received this am from Celene http://www.thehappypreneur.com

Take every spare moment to write. Posts don’t have
to be long ones as long as they add value. Something

I used to do was keep several posts scheduled 1 or 2 a
week ahead and fill in in-between with “what’s happening
now” type of posts to keep my audience engaged regularly.
Recently I slacked off from that and just wrote fresh stuff
several times a week. I’m definitely going back to having
some per-written stuff on hand to post

I don’t use PLR on my blog, but some re-written PLR is
handy to have on hand and I might rethink that, just in
case of emergency. (PLR means Private Label Rights – articles that you buy and have the rights to edit and claim yourself as author – a great start to get your ideas flowing. I always suggest that you change things to be in a style that you would write in)

2. Guest Blog

Guest blogging is a great way to increase readership.
Think about who you know with good blog traffic that will
publish your guest blog post on their blog? Start asking
around. Write a good post with lots of value to THEIR
audience. Write it for them. Specifically for their readers.
Then offer to publish a guest post from them as well. A
trade off works doubly as well, because you get new readers
coming and going so to speak.

3. Share Your Blog Posts With Your List

Depending on your writing style you can do this a variety of
ways in your autoresponder…

You could simply copy and paste your post into your
auto responder and email it to your list in it’s entirety
with a link back to comment
Use a template (aWeber offers a big variety too choose
from) that’s set up for you to write your email message
then include an excerpt and image from your post with a
read more… tag.
Set up Blogcasts that automatically send out excerpts of
your recent posts to your list. Again aWeber makes this
easy to do. (my note – Mailchimp is free and what I set my clients up with)

My challenge for you today: Write a blogpost and share it then come back here and comment and share yours!

Do You Love Your Clients??

Since February is the month of Love, I want to ask you one simple but important question:

Do You Love Your Clients?

Sometimes when marketing our business we are so busy trying to get new clients we forget to Show the Love to our existing clients.

Here are some simple ways to show you care:

Send a card after an accomplishment or purchase.
Remember their special dates. Send something special on their Birthday.
Call them to see how they liked your product or service and ask if they have any questions.
Reward them for referring someone.
Hold a spacial clients only lunch or event.
Offer client only discounts or bonuses.
Give way knowledge for free.
Recognize/feature top clients on your blog/newsletter/website.
Tweet your thanks.
Give way free MP3′s.
Have a raffle for clients.
Put something special inside their package.
Offer a Buy One Get One for a Friend or Bring a Friend Free promotion.
Host a movie Night or give Movie Tickets as a Thank You.
Donate a percentage of their purchases to a charity of their choice.
Offer your location of suitable for meeting and events to charities and community groups.
Advertise not for profits on your bags or insert a flyer for them in packages, on your newsletters, blog or website.

Are there anyways you Show the Love that you would like to share? Comment below!

Are you Faceless Online?

Do you look like this online on any of your profiles?

If so, you are missing out on creating quality connection and business!

Would you want to deal with someone who is faceless? When people can see your smiling face they can connect and feel better that they are dealing with a real person who means business! One who has take the time to make sure they are professionally presented.

Wouldn’t you rather look like this:

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

If you do not have your Gravator yet go to www.gravatar.com and sign up. It is easy it’s free and you will not be faceless anymore!!

If you want to test it out post a comment here when you are done.

Looking forward to seeing your face online!
Sherry Lynn

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