Your Partner In Success Welcomes Rosalind Gardner

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Jul 15, 2010 in Your Partner In Success | 0 comments

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Are you ready to learn about affiliate marketing?

This week I chat with one of my absolute favorite online entrepreneurs, Rosalind Gardner. Her book “The Super Affiliate Handbook; How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People’s Stuff Online” is one the staples in my entrepreneurial library.

Using a step-by-step plan to help you build you online business, this book answers all the questions you may have about affiliate marketing and many more that you didn’t know you needed answers to. Not only is this book one that I consider an important addition to any small business owners library, the Super Affiliate Handbook is stocked in libraries and used in University and College ecommerce courses. For more information click here.

Do you want to know….

• How you can use your web site, blog, or email list to “presell” visitors into affiliate purchases?
• The strategies that lead to high conversion rates?
• Why it’s critical to pick affiliate products you believe in personally?
• How to write product reviews that convert into sales?
• How to use affiliate offers to solve your customers problems and make money doing it?
• What Rosalind’s #1 success tip for anyone considering information marketing or for those already involved in information or affiliate marketing?
• What Rosalind feels is the biggest challenge or pitfall that she feels holds individuals back from success in Information Marketing?
• Marketing your own products on ClickBank

Why would affiliate marketing be something that you should add to your business building activities?

The profit potential of the Net is growing at an amazing rate. And the list of people who can benefit from becoming involved in cyber commerce is getting longer every minute. For example, over one million retirees have returned to work in recent years after sustaining huge losses in their retirement savings portfolios.

Rather than working at the local laundromat, many have chosen to make MORE money and work at HOME as affiliate marketers.

An affiliate marketing business is perfect for anyone in the scenarios listed below.

Are you…

• An at-home parent with young children?
• An at home caregiver?
• Physically challenged?
• Unemployed?
• A victim of downsizing and at an age when finding new employment will be difficult?
• A Retiree looking for a stimulating activity and/or need extra cash?
• A Student who needs cash and flexible hours?
• A Graduate who lacks job experience?
• An Individual who needs extra cash, but can’t take a second away-from-home job?
• Someone with a real-time business who needs extra cash?
• Someone with skills or hobbies that can be turned into an online service or business?
• Individuals who are ‘stuck’ in their current jobs or businesses?
• Someone who needs a challenge?
• A person who wants an intellectual challenge?
• Someone with expensive habits?
• Someone who could use some extra cash
• Someone with a job who wants to earn extra for retirement?
• A person who wants to make a risk-free career change?
• Someone with a large expense to save for: e.g. college for the kids?
• Those who need more flexible working hours?
• Someone who is ready to fire their boss?
• A person who feels ‘stuck’ in the 9 to 5 rut?
• Someone who wants to stop commuting to work?
• Someone who wants to work at home?
• A person who feels discriminated against in traditional jobs?
• Someone who lives in a remote area where employment opportunities are limited?
• Someone who WANTS to live in a remote area and still have an income?

Learn from a master of affiliate marketing and dial in on Friday, July 16^th to listen to Rosalind Gardner live. She will even stick around for Q&A if you need. If you have any questions you would like to ask Rosalind, or to speak with us live please join us in the chat room or on the phone.

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, July 16, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

We look forward to “seeing” you!

Denise Griffitts

Free Resource – Build a Personal Mission Statement

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Jul 8, 2010 in Entrepreneurism, Internet Mastery | 0 comments

Weekly Recommended Resources

A mission statement is only a paragraph long, but it has specific, measurable outcomes and a deadline for accomplishing that outcome.  Your personal mission statement should  guide your actions, spell out your overall goals, provide a sense of direction, and guide decision-making for your daily life.

Nightingale Conat’s free Mission Statement Builder helps you clarify what you want out of life in as little as 5 minutes.

Another great resource is Franklin Covey’s Mission Statement Builder. After you create your personal mission statement, you will want to refer to it often. When you are finished, they can send a copy to your email address.

Your Partner In Success Welcomes Tom Buford

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Jul 7, 2010 in Your Partner In Success | 0 comments

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

This week I welcome to the show fee-setting expert Tom Buford.

Do you ever feel like you… 

• Get nervous when you discuss your fees because you feel unprepared and self-conscious?
• Are frustrated by the number of hours you have to work because you’re trading time for money?
• Have been undercharging for the amazing results you know you deliver but are unsure what to do about it?
• Are hungry to raise your rates, but you’re nervous about the reaction you will get from your clients?
• Are completely OVERWHELMED?

Every day, service professionals are leaving hundreds and even thousands of dollars on the table by undercharging for their valuable products and services.  Tom Buford, founder of ChargeWhatYouDeserve.com is a fee-setting and marketing strategist and he’ll be revealing common mistakes that service professionals make when setting prices and fees and how they can instantly overcome them.

Whether you’re just starting your business or you’re a seasoned veteran, Tom’s advice can help you add thousands of dollars to your pocket.

Imagine what it would feel like to…

• Double your current fees and know that you can get it
• Have complete confidence when telling prospects what you charge
• Be a sought after EXPERT in your field

Get on the fast track to charge what you deserve and dial in on Friday, July 9^th to listen to Tom Buford live.  He will even stick around for Q&A if you need. If you have any questions you would like to ask Tom, or to speak with us live please join us in the chat room or on the phone.

We look forward to “seeing” you!

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

When: Friday, July 9, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

How to Create a Whitelist Instruction Page

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Jul 3, 2010 in Internet Mastery, Virtual Assistance Industry | 0 comments

Weekly Recommended Resource

Did you know that a recent whitelist study showed that only 22 percent of all email newsletters give specific instructions to recipients to whitelist their newsletter?

I came across this nifty free tool by Chris Lang that will create a detailed set of email whitelist instructions for all major ISPs, mobile devices and spam filters. None of your information is recorded or stored, it only creates a web landing page for you as you can see by the image below.

Once you have created your page, simply “View source” and copy the code to your html editor. Voila!

Google Voice Phone Management Service

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Jul 1, 2010 in Internet Mastery | 1 comment

Google Voice is now available to subscribers in the United States after being in beta mode (with over a million subscribers) since 2007 after Google purchased a company called Grand Central.

As with all new product launches there are good and bad points, ranging from really great to oh no! However Google Voice is a free service and when combined with other free tools available from Google can provide the synergy to make a unified communication solution available to small home-based companies. As the system in its present form does not support ported numbers, users are required to use a new Google Voice phone number which can be a non-starter for businesses with a widely known or published phone number.

To recap:

• You get your own free phone number.
• You can provide customized phone messages depending on who is calling.
• You can have your Google voice number forward to any number you want.
• Voice mail messages can be transcribed to email and emailed to you. However, it should be noted that the inaccuracies are so extensive some companies may decide not to rely upon this feature in its present state.

The following information was pulled from Google’s website:

The first thing you’ll need to decide is whether you’d like to use the full version of Google Voice with a brand new phone number, or add some Google Voice features (like voicemail) to your existing mobile phone number.

The basic differences between these options are:

Google Voice with a Google number

• Use one number to manage all your phones; your Google Voice number is tied to you, not to a particular device or location.
• Voicemail like email: Save voicemail messages for as long as you’d like, star important ones, and search through them
• Voicemail transcription: Voicemail messages will be automatically transcribed to text and sent to you via email and/or SMS.
• Customize your callers’ experience (custom voicemail greetings, decide which of your phones ring based on who’s calling, send some callers straight to voicemail, etc.)
• Define which phones ring, based on who’s calling, and even ListenIn^TM on voicemail before answering the call. We use smart technology to route your calls. So, if you’re already on a Google Voice call, we’ll recognize it and use call waiting to reach you on the phone you’re on.
• Works with mobile phones, desk phones, and work phones. There’s nothing to download, upload, or install, and you don’t have to make or take calls using a computer.
• International calling: Make low priced international calls from the web or from your phone.

Google Voice with your non-Google phone number:  

With this option you won’t get some features (i.e. call forwarding, screening, and call recording), but you’ll still get plenty of others, including:

• Voicemail like email: Save voicemail messages for as long as you’d like, star important ones, and search through them
• Voicemail transcription: Voicemail messages will be automatically transcribed to text and sent to you via email and/or SMS.
• Custom voicemail greetings: Customize your voicemail greeting based on who is calling.
• International calling: Make low priced international calls from the web or from your phone.

For a complete list of the features with each option, click here. You can also check out a video about Google Voice’s You Tube channel for explanatory videos.

Please be sure to drop back by here and let us know how Google Voice works for you.