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To your success!

Steph

One of the best ways to get free advertising is to simply write articles and give them away. It’s a foreign concept to many in online business, but it’s one of the best ways to get traffic, improve your search engine ranking, and sell more products.

• Why Should You Write Articles?

Newsletter and website owners are desperate for content. As someone who owns websites and publishes several newsletters, I can vouch for this. I regularly search article directories, looking for quality information that will help my readers. And, every article I use from these resources gets published with the author’s information and a link to their site.

• Why Give The Articles Away?

How much would you pay to include your ad in a newsletter or popular website? Anywhere from $5 to $80. Wouldn’t you prefer to have your ad placed for free? It’s easy to see the financial reward. Look at the bottom of this article. Right there, plain as day, you can see a resource box with my website included, so you have proof that this method works.

• How do you write an article?

Take another look at the article that you’re reading right now. It’s short. It’s simple. I’m not a Literary Genius. I’m just being me.

Start by picking something you know about, or a problem that you can solve, and start writing. Just do it!

• What should you include in the Author Bio?

Your Name
Something interesting about you or your website
Your website link – Don’t forget this one!
Special offer – Mention a freebie or special offer if you have one.
Don’t use this area to *sell*. Just get them to your site.

May you have lots and lots of free advertising!

Author Resource – Nicole Dean is published all over the web, under numerous pen names. She welcomes you to visit Easy Article Marketing to get started using article marketing to boost your business today.

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If you are looking to outsource your article marketing submission, please contact Stephanie today!

Breaking into a homebased transcription business isn’t all that difficult, but there are a few things you need to know in order to be a great transcriptionist  working from home.

• First,  you need to know that you will be a business owner and not an employee. You will be the person to create the transcription job, you will need the mindset of a business owner.
• Second, you will need a high typing speed.
• Third, accuracy!

Helpful Skills to be a Transcriptionist:

- Ability to apply common sense. Often times you won’t understand what the dictation is saying and you’ll need to try to put the phrase into context to figure out what the speaker means.

- A keen eye for detail. This will help in proofreading and editing to ensure you turn in the highest quality work.This will help in proofreading and editing to ensure you turn in the highest quality work.

- Strong work ethics. You’ll have to meet deadlines and be extremely reliable.

- Good organizational skills. If you have a lot of clients it’s important to stay organized.

- Good communication skills. For marketing your business and dealing with clients.

- Professionalism and discreetness (often times you’ll be transcribing very sensitive documents which require full confidentiality).

- Basic computer skills and the ability to get around a word processing program

- A good grasp of the English language, good spelling and grammar skills

Grab your
Moms Talk Biz Guide to Starting a Transcription Business – Step-by-step instructions, resources and inside information to start your own transcription business from home.

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. enjoys assisting online business owners with their social media and article marketing business tasks. If you’re looking for a virtual marketing assistant, please contact Stephanie at Buckeye V.A.

5 Quick Tips To Get Website Traffic Fast!

Online, one of the most significant keys to success is getting website traffic.  The more visitors you have, the better your sales and profits.  Presumably you have a niche and you know your keywords, and regularly conduct keyword research to stay on top of what’s popular.  Based on those assumptions here are five quick and easy tips to get website traffic fast!

Tip #1  Make sure you’re actually tagging your keywords.

Do you spend a lot of time optimizing your content and then neglect to tag them on your webpage?  Tags are where search engines look and if there are no tags they’ll pass right by your web pages.  Here’s a quick brief on tags.

There are a number of tag types including,

* Title tags.  Title tags are quite possibly the most important place to situate your keywords.  Here’s what they look like – <title>Primary keyword phrase here. </title>

Your title tag is where you place your primary keyword or keyword phrase.  The sentence will describe your business in less than 90 characters.

* Header Tags.  Header tags are next in order of importance to search engines.  They’re ranked in order of importance and look like this – <h1>Primary and/or Secondary keywords here</h1>

The “1” designates this header as the most important header on the page.

* Meta Tags. Meta tags provide the small descriptive text found underneath the title tag on the search engine results page.  Like title tags these should be kept brief, informative and up to date.

* Alt Tags.  Alt tags are used to provide a text description of a graphic.  Each graphic on your site should have a description and an alt tag.

Tip #2 Add content to your site daily

Content is essential for traffic and a top search engine ranking.  Content is what search engine spiders look for and index – without it there’s nothing to index or rank.  Give visitors and search engines a reason to visit and index your site. Make a commitment to provide daily, optimized content and your traffic will soar.

**If you are struggling to find the time to write quality content for your website and/or blog, check out All Private Label Content for quality PLR content on a variety of topics.

Tip #3 Procure valuable and relevant incoming links

The more websites which link to your webpages the more valuable search engines perceive you to be, though not all links are created equal.  Search engines give more leverage to links from sites which are popular and credible and from sites which are relevant to your website topic.

There are different types of links.

- A direct link looks like a basic website address, for example, www.yourwebsite.com

- A text link occurs when the webpage address is embedded in the text.  Readers simply click on the link and are redirected to a new website page.

- If the link is to an internal web page, for example an article published on a website, rather than the home page, it is called a “deep link.”

You can encourage linking to your website by:

* Adding content to your site.
* Submitting to article directories.
* Publishing press releases.
* Blogging and participating in social networking forums, chat rooms and social networking sites.

Tip #4 Be Social!

Internet marketing is about building a community.  Whether you offer a forum on your website or you participate in social networking sites, social networking is a valuable traffic generating tactic.  Sites like Facebook and Twitter can be powerful tools for generating links and traffic to your site – create a profile and then post comments, links to your site and ideas which generate conversation.

Get involved – many chat rooms and forums are industry specific, find those which cater to your industry, and begin participating.  Speak to and connect with a highly targeted audience.

Tip #5 Advertise for more exposure and traffic

Advertising, when handled strategically, can be used to promote your content and products or services.  PPC advertising is often the tool of choice because you control the advertising budget on a daily basis and have the tools to test and track your advertising efforts.  Once you’ve honed your PPC ads the return on investment can be phenomenal in terms of traffic and purchases.

For maximum results, create a traffic and SEO strategy.  Outline your plan and your goals and then take the necessary action.  Take advantage of these five traffic and search engine tips to boost your business.

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If you are pressed for time and are looking to outsource your Online Business Marketing, contact Stephanie for your f’ree 30 minute Skype consultation.

Article marketing is the act writing and submitting quality content that will educate your target market. When writing your article there are a few tips that you will want to incorporate into your article writing to insure you have success with your article marketing campaign.

You have mere seconds to capture a prospect’s attention. One of the single most powerful tools you have to accomplish this task is your headline. There are several keys to a compelling, and selling, headline and a few tips to help you get the job done.

#1 Tap into Your Prospects’ Emotions

According to psychologists our buying decisions are based first and foremost on our emotions. Use headlines which offer your readers a strong emotional benefit or reaction. Some possible emotions are:

For example, The 20-Minute Step that Will Make You a Business Genius taps into readers’ desires to feel smart and powerful.

Other emotions you can tap into are a desire to feel:

1. Attractive
2. Sexy
3. Assertive
4. Confident
5. Energetic
6. Pampered
7. A sense of belonging
8. In control of their own destiny
9. Wealthy
10. Proud
11. Respected
12. Safe

#2 Make it Active

To compel it’s important to use active language – language that shows movement and commands attention.

For example, “Stop Your Sugar Cravings Today With This Simple Step,” is a fine headline however it doesn’t command action nor does it really tap into any emotions. However, “Conquer Your Sugar Cravings With This Simple Step.” Conquer is an active and emotionally powerful word. Readers receive the benefit of feeling powerful and in control and it commands action.

#3 Let Your Reader Know They’re Important

The word YOU is a very powerful word. It let’s your reader’s feel as if you’re talking to them specifically and interested in solving their problems, issues and helping them achieve their desires. Instead of using I, Me or We in your headlines, use You. Using the headline example above compare the two options
“Conquer Your Sugar Cravings With This Simple Step.
“Conquer Sugar Cravings with Our System”

People want to know what’s in it for them and when they can assess that information in the headline, they’re going to be compelled to continue reading your copy and making a purchase.

Here are three more ideas for powerful headlines:

* Make a promise – Earn $1000 a day
* Make it newsworthy – New program guarantees you’ll earn $1000 a day.
* Ask a question – Do you want to ensure your financial future?

Three Simple Steps to Write Headlines That Sell

So now you have some ideas about what types of headlines sell, how do you begin to write those powerful headlines?

Step One – Get to know your audience intimately. What are their hopes, dreams, desires, and problems? Understanding your audience will help you create an emotional and powerful headline directed specifically at your audience.

Step Two – Determine how your products or services are going to make your prospects’ lives better or solve their problems. For example if you sell fitness equipment and your audience struggles with feeling attractive then you can create a headline that highlights a specific benefit your fitness equipment offers to solve that problem.

Step Three – Write ten to twenty, yes twenty, possible headlines. Not only will this give you practice writing compelling headlines, it’ll help you hone in on that perfect headline. And if you think you have a few winners you can always test them for conversion rates to find out which headline is more effective.

Marketing and copywriting experts consider your headline to be the most import element of any effective marketing piece. Take the time to craft a compelling, and selling, headline and you’ll reap the benefits for years to come.

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Buckeye V.A. is currently booking clients that are looking to save their time and money by outsourcing to an experienced and professional Social Media Manager and Marketing Assistant. Please contact me today to see if my services are good fit for you or your clients.

PS.  If you’re looking for a copywriting course, why not try Copywriting Sweetie Course & Software

I love to sew, that is my hobby and was once a means of income for my family.  There is a local fabric shop that I love to visit whenever  I’m inspired to start sewing a new project or need a creative outlet.

Today I received their newest brochure (snail mail brochure) and they have a list of upcoming classes. The brochure designer did a great job at making the  brochure visibly appealing: simple to read, included some colorful pictures, and organized information, they left out some very important information.

• The upcoming classes to do not have a RSVP date or contact website or phone number
• The store that send the brochure did not include their contact phone number
• The store does not list their website URL
• I can not find them on any social networking website, such as Facebook!

There are all important business information that a business owner should include on any of their mailings.

To your success!

Stephanie Fish, Buckeye VA

P.S. I can create your Facebook Fan Page, Twitter Page and LinkedIn Page

If your website isn’t helping you make more money or grow your clients/customers, then contact me today to get started on your outsourcing tasks!

Hi There! Since you are a busy online women business owner, I’ll keep this post short!

Let me start out by asking you “Are you achieving the goals you set out to accomplish this year?”

If the answer is “Not really”, then you need to know the secret of having a successful online business: Outsource Your Marketing!

The internet has changed everything.  Not just where you work your business, but also the way you network your business. When you run an online business you have to learn how to “work” the “net” (network).

Outsourcing your business marketing  tasks such as:

• Facebook Fan Page (creation and management)
• Ning Forum (setup and alterations)
• Twitter account (setup and management)
• Article Marketing
• Press Release Marketing
• Squidoo Lens creation
• Keyword and Phrase Research

These are just a few of the marketing tasks you do not know how to do, care to do on your own, or perhaps you just don’t have the time to spend doing yourself.

What type of online business owners outsource to Buckeye VA? I’m so glad you asked!

• Authors
• Life Coaches
• Virtual Assistants
• Party Planners
• Website Designers
• Chiropractors

I would love to hear from you! Please contact me, Stephanie, today if you are serious about your business marketing success!

I received David Frey’s ezine today and I had to share it with you(not before I personally contacted David and asked for written permission ).

Plus it goes so well with my new service (you can click here to read more about that!    So here goes!

A lot of people are using Twitter now
days and some people have gone onto
become superstars on Twitter.

Personally, I use Twitter for fun and
enjoyment. I like to connect with people
and it allows me to do that.

After having been on Twitter for over a
year now and watching what other Twitter
superstars do,

I’ve noticed how some of the most
successful Twitter masters are doing it.

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My Top 5 Twitter Superstar Tips
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Here’s my 5 top Twitter Superstar tips
that anyone who wants to win the Twitter
game can do…

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Twitter Tip # 1 – Tweet Often!
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The biggest people on twitter (that
aren’t celebrities) tweet often.

If you want to make a name for yourself
on Twitter then expect to send out 16 -
20 tweets a day.

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Twitter Tip # 2 – Tweet Quotes
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For some reason, people love to retweet
quotes more than any other type of
content.

So gather quotes and tweet’em often. I
actually paid someone to harvest over
1,000 quotes from quote sites to tweet
on Twitter!

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Twitter Tip # 3 – Get a Great Background
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People want to follow those with slick,
attention getting, graphical
backgrounds.

Okay, my background at David_Frey is
pretty darn bland. But my background at
MLMCoachTV is a lot more exciting!

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Twitter Tip # 4 – Tweet Top 10 Lists
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People LOVE Top 10 lists. Don’t ask me
why, they just do.

So just go to Google and type in the
words “Top 10 (word)” and you’ll get a
lot of great results you can tweet.

- “Top 10 Songs”
- “Top 10 Richest People”
- “Top 10 Homes”
- “Top 10 Women”
etc. etc. etc.

You get the idea.

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Twitter Tip # 5 – Automate
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You can’t be tweeting all day so
automate some of your tweets.

I have my quotes being automatically
tweeted to my MLMCoachTV account.

Thers’s a lot of services out there that
will automate your tweets for no cost.

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Here’s How to Become a Twitter Superstar
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Want to become a Twitter Superstar?

Learn from the masters by going here…

http://www.TheTwitterMasters.com

(paste the link into your browser)

Here’s some of what you’ll discover in
the Twitter Masters Interview Series…

1. How to use Twitter to turn your
offline clients into your online
evangelists

2. Learn how a business owner/mother of
4 uses Twitter to strategically drive
more business and subscribers

3. How to build a Twitter name and get
promoted within a week by “Twitter
Celebs”

4 Hands-Off Twitter tools to manage your
time and get business done efficiently

5. Discover his secrets to raising over
$16,000 in under 12 hours for child
hunger, using only Twitter and how you
can apply the tools

and much more…

Go to…

http://www.TheTwitterMasters.com

(paste the link into your browser)

Have a great week!

David

P.S. Last week I took my kids out on a
Daddy/son night and a Daddy/daughter
night. It was soooo much fun. I had a
blast and so did my kids.

Schedule time to make memories with the
people that you love the most in your
life. If you don’t schedule it, it
probably won’t happen!

Today’s the day to Welcome Karri from AlphaWAHM to Buckeye V.A.!

I’m so glad to have you stop by my humble abode I had the opportunity to ask Karri 3 questions via video so please enjoy.

Working from Home: Can you say “Yes! I want to work from home now!”

More and more women are choosing to work from home as a way to blend their professional passion, their desire for wealth AND their role as a mother. Yet the self-help industry advises women to compartmentalize—to strive for “work-life balance” in order to achieve a sense of meaning and order in their lives. This advice leaves the modern work at home mom feeling frustrated, lonely, and confused. Why? And what can you, the work-at-home mom do about it?

Visit back on March 30, 2010 where I get to interview Karri Flatla of Alpha WAHM Click here to view more details

How Do I Make Time for Social Media Marketing?

If you’ve been online for the last year, you know how important social media marketing is for your business growth. You also may know that social media marketing takes time, and who has the time?

What if I told you that there is a way to ‘make more time’ in your business schedule for social media marketing? OK, you can’t really ‘make more time’, the secret to making it feel like you’ve made more time is actually found in ‘outsourcing’, specifically to a Social Media Marketing Assistant.

How do I know when it’s time to outsource?

When you’ve reached a point in your business where you do not have the time to personally market your business via the vast array of social media outlets, then its time for you to find a social media marketer. As a social media marketing assistant, I will help you manage your accounts, still allowing you to personally communicate with your target market. As a business owner, you know how important it is to stay in touch with your followers and fans, while still maintaining a balance in your business.

As a social media manager and publicity assistant, I can be the extra hands and eyes for you and your business social media marketing needs. I welcome you to contact me to set up your free 30 minute SKYPE consultation.

Don’t waste anymore of your precious time trying to balance your business marketing, let an experienced social media manager today!

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. works with serious authors, speakers, life coaches and virtual assistants. Having worked with professional business owners since 2006, Stephanie understands the complex marketing needs of online business owners.