Google Webmaster Tools – Free Novice Friendly SEO Tool

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Jun 5, 2012 in Internet Mastery, Web Development | 3 comments

Google Webmaster Tools

How to Create & Profit from Your Facebook Fan Page

Posted by Denise Griffitts on May 22, 2012 in Internet Marketing, Internet Mastery | 0 comments

Why Does Your Business Need a Facebook Fan Page?

A Facebook fan page is more than just another way to connect with prospects and customers online. Your Facebook fan page can:

• Drive more traffic to your website.
• Help build your email list.
• Sell more products/services.
• Announce special offers and promotions.
• Announce events.
• Share news.
• Provide value to your prospects and customers.
• Share photos and videos.
• Get feedback from clients and prospects.
• Improve your relationships with your prospects and customers.
• Improve Search Engine Optimization because it is open to the search engines, unlike your personal profile.

Additionally:

• You can communicate directly with your “fans”.
• When a person joins your fan page, it’s published in their News feed – this gives a viral quality to your fan page.
• You have access to more than 500 million active users who log onto Facebook regularly and spend an average of 55 minutes per day on the site.
• Facebook is now the 2nd most visited site in the world after Google
• And Facebook fan (business) pages are free!

Plain and simple, Facebook offers a huge potential to profit and grow your business. This post assumes that you already have a Facebook account. If you do not, you’ll need to register – it’s free and quite simple to build. But with the recent advent of the new Facebook Timeline covers, you will want to create one that competently and professionally conveys to your visitor your value proposition because it is the very first them they will see. And it doesn’t have to be a scary or expensive thing to do. For instance you can have custom FB graphics created for $27 that will enhance your branding (Website, Twitter, YouTube, etc.)

If you have yet to brand yourself online you can have it done professionally for $118 – $188!

Head on over to LogoNerds.com and take a look at their FB graphic package.

For $27 you can have them customize one cover image 851×315 and your logo will be correctly sized to fit the square graphic section in the timeline page to 180×180.

While you are there, be sure to look at their logo packages which range from $27 to $97. Twitter backgrounds cost $47.

And if you still need a great WordPress header design for your website/blog, they do a great job of these for $17.

You can also find other services for online and print collateral at very affordable prices.

Larry Winget’s Advice To 2012 Graduates

Posted by Denise Griffitts on May 17, 2012 in Internet Mastery | 1 comment

Published May 15, 2012 | Fox & Friends | Larry Winget

Click here or on image to watch video. For PDF click here.

Congratulations on earning your degree. But the truth is that the degree alone isn’t going to be enough to assure your success in the real world.

In the real world employers don’t care much about your degree, your happiness, your income or really much of anything that has to do with you. They care about what you can do for them. And from this point on, that’s how you have to think. Businesses exist to be profitable. It is your job to help make them profitable. If you know how to do that, how to be worth more than you cost, then you have value in the workplace. If you don’t know how to be worth more than you cost, then employers will pass you over and find someone else.

Look at what it really takes to be successful in the real world.

You have to take RESPONSIBILITY. Your life, your results, your success, happiness, health and prosperity are up to you. When it turns out well, you get the credit and when it doesn’t work out the way you wanted it to, you get the blame. It isn’t up to anyone else to make sure you are successful, it’s always up to you, so be responsible.

RESPECT OTHERS. Respect your employer enough to be on time and give them your personal best every day because that is what they are paying for. Respect your boss, even when you think he is an idiot because he is still your boss and deserves your respect. Respect your coworkers so they will respect you and your customers because they pay you.

CLEAR PRIORITIES. Your time, your energy and your money will always go to what is important to you. If looking cute is important to you then you will spend all of your money at the mall. If being financially secure is important to you then you will make sure that you save, invest and live on less than you earn.

It’s about WORK AND EXCELLENCE. Regardless of what others may tell you, it’s not about your passion — as I know people who are passionately incompetent. It’s not loving what you do or being happy every day. You aren’t paid to be happy on the job, you are paid to do your job. Success always comes down to hard work and excellence. And it takes both. Hard work alone won’t cut it. I know people who work really hard yet aren’t any good at what they do so it doesn’t matter. And I know people who are excellent at what they do but they don’t work hard enough at it to make any difference.

So work hard and be excellent at what you do. And remember, if any one can do it then anyone can do it.

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Larry Winget

The New York Times/Wall Street Journal best selling author and internationally known speaker. Larry is considered a self-help/business/financial guru to hundreds of thousands of people!

A Year of Success

People aren’t as successful as they want to be, rich as they could be or happy as they think they should be. That’s the truth. That’s why Larry Winget teamed up with 3 of the world’s leading success experts to create this new program, A Year Of Success.

People get hooked into systems that are too complicated, don’t work, over-promise and under-deliver and that flat out cost too much darn money. That’s why he is so proud of A Year Of Success. If you aren’t a part of this yet, you should be. If I wasn’t in it, I would not be recommendng it to you. And that is the truth.

The response to this program has already been terrific. People are loving the mix of success experts and the value and very reasonable investment.

PLEASE – just do this: go to A Year of Success.

Watch Larry talk about the program – it will only take a minute. If you are intrigued, then look through the rest of the site, watch some of the other videos and make your decision. At $2.82 per week, you won’t be taken advantage of financially. But you will get 52 video lessons along with an action plan for each one that will allow you create a better year this year than you had last year. Along the way, you will get 4 bonuses that I know you will really enjoy. No upsells, no tricks; just simple, actionable ideas that you can implement to make a real difference in your life.

Free WordPress Theme for Business or Portfolio

Posted by Denise Griffitts on May 1, 2012 in Web Development | 0 comments

As a web developer I rarely, if ever, use any of the free WordPress themes that abound, but the Adapt theme by WP Explorer caught my attention recently. And in case you are not yet aware of WP Explorer it is a great place to find free and premium WordPress themes.

The Adapt theme caught my eye because it was crafted to work for sites where the focus of your work and recent news is the primary purpose. Additionally, it is 100 percent GPL (General Public License) and free. In short, it looks to me like a great theme for people who need to get a website up quickly and don’t have a big budget to work with. It is very minimal and very easy to setup. It comes with built-in post types for your portfolio, homepage highlights and homepage slider, so adding your content is a breeze. There are page templates for your blog, filterable portfolio, full-width pages and even a landing page template.

The Adapt theme also features:

• Fully responsive layout
• Homepage slider with unlimited heights. (Love this!)
• Portfolio slider
• Filterable portfolio template (This makes it a great choice for freelancers who need a quick way to showcase a portfolio. Adapt’s filterable portfolio page template allows you to easily sort and display portfolio items by category.)
• Full-width and landing page templates
•  Blog page template
• Threaded comments
• Widgetized sidebar and footer.

Is 2012 Your Year of Success?

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Apr 26, 2012 in Entrepreneurism | 0 comments

Let’s face it. People are not as successful as they want to be, as rich as they think they could and should be, or even as happy as they want to be. And that is the truth. And when you couple these very normal and natural thoughts with persistent economical / political low-level dread, there is some real room for mental and emotional improvement just to survive the evening news!

You already know that I do not bombard you with a ton of “buy now” stuff and I only recommend products that I actually use and benefit from myself. What I want to share with you today is A Year of Success.

If you connect with me on Facebook. LinkedIn or Twitter, you already know that Larry Winget and Bob Burg are friends of mine, and people who I have a VERY high professional and personal opinion of. Larry Winget is known as “The Pitbull of Personal Development” and is a 5 time New York Times / Wall Street Journal bestselling author and somebody you see on TV a lot. Larry is a regular contributor on Cavuto, Fox News, and other news networks. Bob Burg is one of my favorite authors and if you haven’t already done so, you really should read the Go Giver or Go-Giver’s Sell More and his latest book, It’s Not About You: A Little Story About What Matters Most In Business.

Larry and Bob have partnered with Chief Fascination Officer of Fascinate, Inc., Sally Hogshead and leadership development speaker & consultant Mark Sanborn. Mark is the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea lab for leadership development. Leadershipgurus.net lists Mark as one of the top 30 leadership experts in the world. Mark is the author of You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader which speaks to leaders at every level, both those with and without titles. The book focuses on six things that all leaders do to make a positive difference. If you want to learn how to lead, or you are a leader looking for ways to lead better or teach others to lead, this book is for you.

Fascination is an intense emotional focus. When customers are fascinated by you and your message, they’re more likely to trust, believe, and respect you. As the only keynote speaker and author on this topic, Sally Hogshead has developed a scientifically-based system of influence, based on the brain’s hardwired patterns. For any goal that requires strong communication— from selling insurance to motivating top talent— the Fascinate system outlines the shortcut to persuasion. Sally has taught over 100,000 people how to use their natural strengths to become more persuasive.

I tell you all of this so you know who will be working with you and what they collectively bring to the table. In fact, the four of them have reached over a million people with their messages, all over the globe. In A Year of Success, they will teach you, challenge you, provoke you, (Larry!) and push you outside your comfort zone to the point that you gain with bigger, faster, and smarter results, no matter what you are doing.