The Muse Who Helps Move Your Small Business Forward
You wouldn’t start a road trip across the country without a map. Or, you probably shouldn’t unless you don’t care where you end up. So even if you’re a care-free, by the seat of your pants type of woman, a business is best run with at least some basic goals in mind.
Where are you at in your business today? How much time do you spend working? How much profit are you generating?
Where would you like to be in your business? In 1 year? In 5 years? Long term?
Did you get your alerts setup so you know when people are talking about you online? If not, check out yesterday’s post on how to do that easily. All set now? Good!
Now that you’ve got it, what can you do with this information?
1. Build your media/news page. Create a media page and watch for links to reviews or news sites that mention your business or quote you, then add the link and mention to your page.
2. Build your testimonials or product reviews page. When you receive notice of a nice review, send a request to the author and find out if they’ll grant permission for you to reprint it on your own website. [Read more...]
Are you monitoring what’s said about you or your business online? You should be! Tracking mentions of your name, website, or business name online allows you to find great feedback, make connections, and fix problems before they get out of control.
Customers will often share reviews (good or bad) on social sites, their blogs, or elsewhere online — but they don’t tell you directly. With alerts setup, you can be notified and thank customers for good reviews, take quick action to resolve any sticky situations, and even find potential joint venture partners or affiliates and sites to guest blog or publish articles at.
Best of all, it takes only a few minutes to put the systems in place to monitor what’s being said online. Here are 7 free services that can help by searching the web for your terms and sending you an email alert when they find a mention:
With so much information at our fingertips, it’s easy to fall into the trap of seeking out more and more information but not taking action on it.
This one catches me all the time. It always feels like there’s more to learn. And there is. But just because I don’t know every little thing about a topic or task doesn’t mean I can’t get moving on whatever it is. Sometimes you’ve got to just go for it, then fix whatever needs fixing as you go along.
Did you find a few minutes to listen to my interview with Shauna Harper, Abundance Coach? If not, better go quick – it’s only up for another 12 hours or so! Click here to listen in.
You’ll also find this PDF download helpful – it goes along with the four steps we discussed in the interview and provides links to more in depth info on each. Click here to download.
Feeling anxious about how to keep your small business afloat and supporting you during this tough economy? Join me this Monday at 1pm Eastern as I interview Shauna Harper, Your Abundance Business Coach, on The Personal Economy of Abundance. Learn how you can do what you love and make money doing it despite today’s economic times!
There’s no opt-in required but if you’d like an email reminder of this call, just sign up for my free ezine on the top right corner of this page (and get some great freebies to download, too!).
On this call she’ll be sharing answers to these questions:
Just found out I was chosen as this month’s Applause Award winner at WAHM-Articles.com
The Applause Award was created in 2009 to recognize the significant contributions our wonderful authors make to the members of the online work-at-home-mom (WAHM) community. (more details here)
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