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Pamela of The Big Brand System is giving away 3 free courses.

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Online Web Strategy: Build and Grow an Awesome Website!

Michelle here stopping in to share with you another great resource I came across:

Awesome Fear Wrangling

What is it exactly? 

Hot off the presses, Awesome Fear Wrangling teaches you how websites work.  It offers a collection of ebook and interviews from leaders in the industry to teach you a web strategy for your very own online success.

This resource also provides consulting and Do It Yourself E-courses to help you buiild and grow an awesome website!

If fear is holding you back from builing the Online Empire you desire to have, check this resource out here.

Creating Compelling Content for Search Engines

I know it has been a while since I posted but as I said in my last post, I will not waste your time or mine posting useless information here. Soooo the fact that I am writing today, means I have something GOOD to share.  It's all about SEO Copywriting and creating content that the search engines just love.  I am not the author but again, I am just sharing.

Brian Clark, founder of Copyblogger has written a 28 page report which he is graciously offering for free.  The report provides a step by strep strategy to get people to link to your website, causing you to rank well in the search engines.  That's great for us small business owners trying to get our websites noticed right?

I've been a follower of Copyblogger for some time now and they offer nothing but the greatest information on SEO, copywriting and other stuff on how to run your online business.  Get your instant download to How to Create Compelling Content That Ranks Well With Search Engines today.

Help Me Get On The Home Page!

Hi There-

I'll get right to the point. I'm trying to get featured as the #1 Blogger on the Bizymoms home page for Yonkers or NY.

All I have to do to be featured is get as many of my widgets published on other sites as possible.  So, if you don't mind please copy the widget below and add to your blog or website.  I really appreciate it.


Thank You In Advance!  Here is the widget:

Michelle'is a featured blogger in Yonkers moms& New york Click Here To view more

Need Some Motivation?

The sole purpose of this blog is to share information, ideas and experiences.  Hence, the reason I don't post several times a week and not real often.  When I write a post here, I want it to be something YOU actually get some use out of.  If I include an affiliate link, you get use from that too.  Now without further ado.......

Working 9-5

Do you work 9-5?  Is your time cut short promoting your business due to your day job?  Are you having difficulty balancing your day job's responsibilities and your home business?

I feel your pain.  Balancing having a day job and a home business can be daunting.  There are however, things you can do to keep your sanity.  I've been working on some strategies that I think can help.

Check out this article I recently wrote on How to Balance Having a Home Business and Day Job 

Also, come back here and share your strategies for balance.

Copywriting and the Benefits

One of the big deals in the world of internet marketing and running a successful website is getting folks to buy what you are selling.  Many approach the marketing process by offering fancy pictures and listing the features.

While offering good quality photos that represent your products are indeed important, how you market with the written word is just as important.  It doesn't matter if it's your written advertisement, your blog post or your website.  What people read is what stirs them to action.

For me, I've discovered that while I can sometimes be a little comic in my writing as well as keeping it "conversational", I don't know that I'm all that good at copywriting in general. Therefore, I realized that what I don't do well, it's best to pay someone else that does do it well to do it.  (A lot of do's I almost got myself confused).