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Overcoming Secret Blogging Fears: How Will I Find Time to Promote My Blog?

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Are secret fears holding you back from jumping head first into blogging? Don’t let them! Blogging is nothing to be afraid of and it can do amazing things for your online business.  This is part 5 in an 8 part series to help you bust through your blogging fears! Writing blog posts is only part [...]

Who Wants Some Extra Holiday Cash? Try These 5 Fun Ways to Boost Your Sales

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You don’t sell Christmas trees, menorahs, or candy canes.  If you act quick, you can still get in on the holiday season sales and make some extra cash for the holidays! Try one of these fun strategies to boost your sales this holiday season: 1. Offer a Holiday Sale/Discount/Super-Bargain Do you have a product that [...]

Online Business Tool Roundup–What Are Your Favorites?

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Here’s a peek behind the scenes at what I’m using to setup and create my blogging class. Sales Page I created the sales page within WordPress using the Premise plugin from Copyblogger.  I love it because it’s a plugin and not a theme, so I can keep my “pretty” theme for my main site but [...]

Playing Monday Morning Quarterback

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When I shared with my readers, fans, subscribers and all the generally awesome people like you that I’m connected with online that I was launching a new blog, the questions started pouring in. Why a second blog? How can I possibly blog twice a day (once at DailyBloggingIdeas.com, once at MichelleShaeffer.com)? What if I run [...]

6 Things You Need to Check Before You Begin Promoting Your Blog

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Sometimes we get stuck in the constant quest for perfection and never get our content out there because we’re not sure the theme is “perfect” or whatever just isn’t quite right yet… Don’t let that stop you!  Instead, focus on getting it good enough for now and then making improvements as you go. So, instead [...]

Building Connections – 5 Reasons to Send a Card to a Potential Client Or Joint Venture Partner

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Is there someone you’d like to connect with who could become a perfect client for you, or a great joint venture partner? Building your business is all about building relationships. Try sending them an old-fashioned card through the mail. It’s always nice to get an unexpected card in the mail and people tend to save [...]

10 More Things You Can Do in 10 Minutes Each to Move Your Business Forward

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My first post on this topic was pretty popular so I thought I’d give it a second round. Marketing can feel like this huge overwhelming thunderstorm that hangs over our heads when we’re running our own businesses. As if we’ve got TIME to deal with ONE MORE THING! But it doesn’t have to be that [...]