Videos, Lunch with the Girls & more Videos

Well what another great week in beautiful Sydney, Australia.

The weather has been fantastic and I have been really busy creating articles and videos as part of my SEO for my website.

Those who follow what I am doing each week will be able to learn what is involved in promoting a new website and learn from my weekly video tips as I go and implement the same strategies into their own business.
And don't worry if you have not got started yet, that's okay I am doing a video series purely for 'newbies' right from scratch!

Firstly, and most importantly lunch with the girls. One of the benefits of owning your own online business is taking time out to 'enjoy life' whenever you feel like it. As you can see we had a bit a fun with the camera. It was such a fabulous afternoon.


I must admit I am a bit of a workaholic when it comes to my online business probably because Hunter has not started school yet and I only get 3 days to work on my business.


But this week the girls twisted my arm and invited me to do lunch so I thought 'why not'.


Well Ingrid, a friend of mine who lives in a beautiful home overlooking the water, spoilt us rotten. We had prawns, scallops, salmon frittatas, gourmet pizza and beautiful champagne to top it off. Wow did I feel like royalty.


So my first tip this week is make sure you enjoy the 'lifestyle choices' that owning an online business affords you. Stop and smell the roses when you get the chance because that is what it is all about.

Back To Work...

But then it was back to work. Now that I have launched my online business it is all about marketing and SEO. There is no point having an online business if noone knows you exist so it is time to get out there and promote yourself.

Below is a list of what I have been doing this week:

Article Directories

• I wrote and uploaded two more articles at www.ezinearticles.com and 5-6 other high ranking article hosting websites
• Those ezinearticle editors are tough cookies and it took me 3 goes to get my article through all the hoops but I got there in the end
• I will be doing a video purely on the tips for getting your articles accepted first time to save you any grief.
• Each week I will be setting aside time to upload 2-3 articles because that is the key to getting links back to your website - how.....because that is where people go to get information for their own websites - article directories. If they find one of your articles and want to promote it they leave all your details in tact, send it out to their readers as part of their ecourse, put it in an ebook or use it as content for the website or blog. All this starts creating links back to your website. The more links, the higher your ranking and the more traffic you get....and it is all FREE - time consuming....but FREE.
• There are lots of different article strategies for those people who don't like to write your own eg Private Label articles are the 'in thing' at the moment where you can get the rights to other people's articles, tweak them and then publish them as your own.
• I am not a big fan of this becuase too many people get the same article and google is aslo not a big fan of it...so don't believe everything you read out their about getting thousands of articles by using this method.
• Does it work, yes, does it save time, heaps if you know what you are doing, but it can also cause you grief if you don't change it enough to not be picked up for 'duplication of content' by google and the article directories.
• If you don't like writing your own articles, and you have a bit of spare cash, there are plenty of people on www.elance.com who will write articles for you and even do the research on the topic if you like. Some will even upload it to all of the article directories for you.
• Here is one of my articles that got accepted this week - 10 Truths About What It Is Really Like Making Money On Internet

Videos:

• Yes creating your own videos...don't panic if you think editing and filming your own videos is hard don't worry www.elance.com is good for that too or there are probably lots of people who can do it for you locally
• Me, I have been creating my own videos and editing them for a couple of years now so I do it myself.
• Do I get use to seeing myself online without cringing....nope. But then I realise it is not about what I look or sound like, it is about the quality of the information I am providing,
• Plus, and more importantly, google loves videos. You will find that the search engines will start being more populated by video tutorials and infomercials than ebooks over the next 12 months...so watch this space and make sure you do not get left behind.
• Click on links below to check out my latest video tips

1. How to set goals for your online business
2. The different ways to make money online

• Video tutorials are a great way to learn. You get to build a relationship with the actual person you a learning from and watch how they actually do things.
• I am in the middle of creating my own video tutorial series to show you how to do each step of building my own business to help YOU get started quickly and easily in your own online business including:

1. Creating a squidoo page
2. Uploading a video
3. Creating a blog
4. Creating a free website using blinkweb
5. Creating an ebook
6. Camtasia videos
7. Audios
8. Researching and finding a niche plus so much more.

Surveys:

It is very important when researching a niche and building your own products to find out what it is that your target audience really wants from you. Don't second guess, you can waste a lot of time and money by thinking you know what your customers want when if you had asked them they would have told you.

Today I have spent my time creating a video asking people on my home page to tell me what they want to learn from my video tutorials. A great way to get people to participate in your survey is to give away a free gift.

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If anyone is interested in getting my new book "How to build an internet business" then please visit my website as this is my FREE GIFT for those who complete the survey...note it will only be up for a couple of days so don't miss out.

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Well that is it for me this week. Next week I will tell you what I am going to do with the responses from my survey and how that will help me build my products for my website.

Have a fantasic weekend.

To Your Success

Pammieb.
http://www.pammieb.com

Had such a great day had to tell you about it

Well I know I only wrote my first post yesterday whilst setting up my blog but it looked a little bit lonely sitting up there all by itself and I had such a great day I thought I would update you on what I have been doing today.

Well as I said yesterday, getting yourself out there is all part of starting an online business. Trust me when it comes to all this 'Web 2.0' stuff I am definitely way behind the ball game but you know what I do, I just copy what everyone esle is doing.
I must tell you...if you are looking to do a really simple free video course I highly recommend doing Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge. The information in there is really great for learning everything you need to know for getting started online.

Just when you think you are just getting the hang of one strategy along comes another which I think is why people find this industry so daunting.
My tip is...stick to the basics, get your foundations right first and then worry about all the 'fancy' strategies later. Don't get bogged down with all the hype.
So why am I pretty excited today.

Well I am not sure if you know but there is a new forum that is launching on the 28th October called Online Divas where women all around Australia are supporting other women who want to learn how to start their own online business.

I am one of the Online Divas and I am really excited about helping people learn how to do what I do. But what is really exciting is that people are already coming to visit my website to find out more about me and my coaching programs.

So the key tip today is try and join as many external and online forums and networking opportunities as you can. It is really important when you are starting an online business to get yourself out there otherwise no one will ever find you amongst all the trillions of other websites on the world wide web.

So if you get a chance, go and check me out on Online Divas home page and you can find out more about what Australian Women are doing to create the lifestyle choices that are right for them online.

Now you have to remember that the Online Divas are just launching so like most new businesses they are having to promote their website. Which is another reason why I am telling you to go and visit. Every website that is within the niche that you are looking to target is a learning tool for you.

That is right...the gurus are forever studying what other people are doing who are getting

• great publicity


• high search engine ranking


• a lot of traffic


• and a lot of conversions

They use these websites as a way to get ideas and strategies for improving the performance of their own websites.

So today I noticed that the Online Divas had signed themselves up to all the most popular 'social websites' as it is a great way to get 'online realestate' links back to your website plus network with likeminded people. (You never know when there is a joint venture opportunity lurking in the wings of the people you meet online). I have met some amazing people from around the world who have helped me to build my business purely because they want to help you succeed.

Anyway, I joined the same social websites, created my profile of who I am, what I do and linked back to my blog and my website and what is even better these social networks link up to each other.

Most people think...how do I ever keep up chatting on all these social networks...well these guys have thought of everything. You are pretty much able to link them to each other so that when I write an article on this blog it actually feeds to all the other social networks that I belong to and keeps them updated on what I am doing. That is fantastic.

So quick overview of what I have done so far

1. Set myself targets and goals that I want to achieve in the next 12 mths


2. Split those targets into monthly targets, weekly and daily targets


3. Went and did my market research using the market samurai tool to find my two keyword for the home page of my website and the other keywords for the remaining sub pages of my website


4. Wrote an ebook to sell as a product online


5. Created a blueprint of my business including all the affiliate products and backend products that I am going to sell from my website


6. Creating and opt-in page to be able to capture names of visitors who come to my website so that I can market to them ongoing over a period of time


7. Joined the Online Divas to help promote my business and also teach other women how to get started in their own online business


8. Created my first 'how to' tutorial and posted it on You Tube as another way to market my new business - I will be posting lots more


9. Started creating an audio version of my ebook so that people can purchase the audio as well as the download - (makes 2 products to sell online)


10. Created a Squidoo Page to also drive traffic to my new website


11. Then yesterday I created this blog....phew I have been busy

Now don't get overwhelmed by this list. Remember this is not my first website, I have built quite a few over the last 3 years so I can now do all this stuff very quickly. What I am showing you is some of the traffic generating tips to getting people to find you on the web and get your website crawled by the search engines.

I heard it can take up to 6 weeks and sometimes longer to get a new site found by google...but when you download Brad Callen's free ebooks from my website he will tell you how to get found in just a couple of days. I was a bit sceptical but I gave it a go with this new website and he was right. Google found me within 3 days, crawled my website and I was on the directory straight away.

This one tip saved me so much time and effort and lost revenue. I have been live for only 10 days I have already made my first sale and I am starting to build traffic to my website. So I am telling you these strategies work which is why I am sharing them with you today.

Well I can hear you saying 'that is great Pam, now how do I do it' and fair enough too there is nothing worse then someone ranting away when all you want to know is how you can learn how to do it too. Well very soon I am going to video it all for you. That is right...you will not have to go to

1. thousands of different websites


2. read hundereds of different ebooks


3. subscribe to tons of newsletters and ecourses

Nope I am going to provide it all for you in the one spot and best of all it is going to be "IN PLAIN ENGLISH". NO techno blah blah blah. Just click here, sign up there, copy this, paste that and tadaaaa...bingo you are on your way all on video so you can actually watch me step by step show you how to do it. How does that sound to you?

So give me a couple more weeks as next week is the Online Diva launch so I am busy getting ready for that but once that is over you are all going to have my undivided attention so that 2009 can be your year to become an entrepreneur.

That's it from me. It is Friday night, my beautiful boy has gone to sleep..my husband is watching the football and I am going to have a well deserved glass of wine.

Have a fabulous weekend.

To Your Success

Pammieb
http://www.makingmoneyoninternetbasics.com/