How to Market Your Small Business on the Web »

Jayne will be speaking at this event:

Title: How to Market Your Small Business on the Web

Location:
Wayne County Community College, Downtown Campus
1001 W Fort St
Detroit, MI 48226

For More Information: Click here
Description: On January 8th, Thursday Come set you New Year Goals with three top internet marketers at Wayne County Community College Downtown Campus.

The following is panel of experts and topics:

“The Four Secrets to Getting a Flood of New Business on the Web.” by Jayne Burch

MarketingMonsoon.com creates Rainmaker(TM) Web Marketing Systems for small businesses. Jayne Burch, founder of  www.MarketingMonsoon.com says,

“We don’t just build web sites. A web site is just the beginning. It should be part of your overall marketing strategy and plan.”

Burch is a professional business coach, real estate investor and internet marketer. She is continually researching, teaching and applying the latest in internet marketing technology so that small business owners can succeed even in downtimes.

Learn How to Buy and Sell on EBay by Shant’e Moseley, Power Seller

Shant’e Moseley is an EBay Power Seller based in the Metro Detroit area. She has been an eBay success since 2004. She is also certified in Microsoft word, sold a variety of items on Craigslist, and Amazon.com among others.

In her current role Miss Moseley has sold more than a hundred thousand dollars worth of goods annually and well over ten thousand dollars monthly. She has sold a wide range of items on eBay including electronics, Dyson vacuum cleaners, Apple iPods, iphones, plasma televisions and much, much, more. She also coaches other to achieve the same success of becoming an eBay power seller.

Shant’e is not a stranger to solving complicated eBay policy questions and dispenses great eBay advice. She has being a successful EBay entrepreneur for the past four years.

Learn how to Market on the internet by writing Ebooks, and running Membership Web Sites by Bro. Bedford

Bro. Bedford is founder of How to be a Black Entrepreneur and president of G.B.I. Group LLC private investment firm. He is the author of several e-books, The Fall of the Dollar: Are Black People Prepared for the Coming Economic Collapse and How to be Entrepreneur in the Information age.

All of these speakers will be setting up workshops for more information. Come with your questions and have fun networking.

Date: 1-08-2009
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 9:00 PM

Get Your Own Email Address for a More Professional Image »

I attended my local Real Estate Investors Club last night. It’s interesting how often I end up talking about how to use the internet with real estate investors. The most successful Real Estate investors now and in the future will be marketing and connecting on the internet. Here’s a question I was asked:

How can I get an email address with my company name?

You first have to buy your company name as a Domain address (URL). There are a couple ways or places to do that.

1) Find a Registrar you like and buy your name (if it’s available) Register your company as a URL (domain name) and use the registering site’s free email and Voila! you have an email address with your company name. Domains cost on average about $10 a year. The best, cheapest place I’ve found that I buy all my domains from is Netfirms.com

A domain name without a web site hosted on it is pretty ugly and not great image for your company. Having even a simple web site on your domain is better than visitors landing on “under construction.” In the real estate world it’s like buying land with nothing on it. Build a web site and add to the value of your address. You are literally creating virtual real estate.

Your registrar also offers web site hosting and web site do it yourself web site builders.

2) Plan ahead, buy your web site hosting and domain together. You don’t have to host your web site with the registering company. I generally buy my domains cheap from Netfirms and then buy hosting on Bluehost.com because I get a lot of space for multiple web sites and because I pay by the year it’s only about $7.95 a month for hosting. You will need to buy your first domain directly from Bluehost if you host with them. It costs a few bucks more than Netfirms.com but you will be able to have more domains hosted with them for free. Other companies will charge you a monthly hosting fee for each domain/site. You can also set up multiple email addresses for free.

Having your own email address is a must if you are serious about business. If you are still using a yahoo.com or hotmail.com or att.com email address, get your own email addres and you will project a much more professional image. Do it now! Register your name and your company name as URL’s.

Learn to Make Money Online? Yes! With the 30 Day Challenge »

Just a quick note to share a very cool resource with you because I know you to be someone interested in internet marketing, making money online and/or creating streams of passive income.

I would like to introduce The Thirty Day Challenge. The “30DC” is free training for anyone from absolute internet beginners to experienced internet marketers on strategies for making money with the internet. The Challenge is about following the instructions and strategies of the founders to make just $1 from your own product online. “One measly dollar!” you say? Here’s the beauty of it, if learn to make just $1, you have learned a process that can be applied to make a lot more.

The actual Challenge starts August 1 and continues through Aug 31. Day lessons, videos, support and teams help you to understand and master everything you need to be a success - and it’s all f.ree. I started working through last years challenge (available through out the year) last February and found it extremely helpful. I am looking forward to doing this year’s challenge in real time.

To help you even more there is a Pre-season series of tutorials about the internet tools that will be used in Challenge. The Pre-season is worth a bunch all by itself! Learn to use all of the cutting edge tools that the most successful internet marketers use: The Flock browser, Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, video and more. The other cool thing is you can go at your own pace. Be sure to join a team. I’ve made global friendships since starting the Challenge earlier this year!

I hope you will join me in the Thirty Day Challenge. Just go here to learn more and to register…

http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com/challenge/15650

If I was mistaken and this isn’t your thing, please forward this post to someone you think might be interested. If you ARE planning to join forward this post too. It’s fun and possibly very lucrative!

Would You Like to Learn How to Use an Autoresponder? »

What’s an autoresponder for you say? Finding big lists of like minded people and keeping in touch with them, that’s what! I mentioned in my last post, Internet Marketing Made Easy, that I’ve been asked to teach a few people about autoresponders. I was even asked to step in and teach a couple of classes at a Community College last month on the subject. I’ve been told I have some talent for teaching this material. (who knew?) Over the last few weeks I’ve been getting more and more requests for another class.
Mark Maupin, Mr Lease Option, and co-founder of the Internet Marketing Made Easy seminar in Detroit, Michigan encouraged me to get it down in video. I can reach more people that way! Many of the ones who have been asking are in the real estate profession as well. Finding and maintaining a list of buyers and sellers is extremely important.

If you are new to using the internet to promote your business and would like to learn how to build a list of prospects, automatically, I will give you the new video program I am creating that shows you step-by-step how to do it. All I ask is you tell me what you most want to know about autoresponders, building lists online and opt-in forms and so on. No question is too dumb! As soon as it’s ready, I’ll send you the download link and you can have it for free. I want to be sure that I get it right, so your input is very important. It’ll just take a moment… Please tell me your three most pressing questions about using autoresponders and building your lists.

Internet Marketing Made Easy »

This is the first post in almost a year since I jumped into the fire of internet marketing. There is so much to learn and so many wonderful and interesting ways to make money online. I had no idea when I started. Since last summer I have attended the Internet Marketing Made Easy Conference in Detroit (modeled after “The Big Seminar” two times to hear some of the best and most successful internet marketers around. I learned many of the basics and also learned how much more there is to learn.

The biggest realization is that internet marketing is far from easy. It’s not a “get rich quick” plan. It takes dedication and persistence just like any other career. The rewards, however, can be staggering. I was inspired by the parade of 20-30 somethings who found there way to making 7 figure incomes from their dorm rooms or their kitchen tables.

Last July was my first big live event on internet marketing. I highly recommend attending one of these events if you are serious about internet marketing. I heard from professionals like Matt Bacak, Eric Graham, Greg Cesar and Anik Sengal on how to get started making money quickly on the internet.

One of the most important topics covered was how to find customers online. Marketing is so different online. Instead of creating or choosing a product and throwing up a web site to sell it, successful marketers find and create markets first by discovering what people already want. The key skill here is to create a “system” to build a list of potential customers, find out what they want and get it to them. Bacak, calls that market creation. How hard is to to sell to someone who is hungry for what you have to offer?

One system that has worked well for many is to offer valuable, quality content (information) around a niche, usually on a very simple web site and invite visitors to “subscribe” to receive more information on a regular basis. This is the way visitors are turned into leads and prospects. This is a time proven method of building a list of people with interest in your product or services. Chances are that you have already found places like this on the web that you wanted to have more of what was offered and gave your email address in return for information.

For internet marketing newbies, the concepts and techniques involved in setting up a system like that is overwhelming! Getting the web site (even a simple one) and the software required to collect email addresses into a list is quite technical and daunting to most. Anyone that wants to succeed in business in the next 5 years is going to need to understand how to use this system.

I’ve spent the last 8 months learning how to apply this system to my various businesses. I’ve learned how to create all types of web sites, use autoresponders and many ways to deliver traffic to those sites. A couple of months ago I was invited by the one of the founders of the “Internet Marketing Made Easy” seminar to teach a class in using autoresponders and generating customer lists. Since then I attended the “Internet Marketing Made Easy 2008″ seminar March 28-30 and was asked by numerous people if I would be teaching that class again soon?

I’ve decided that instead I will be creating a series of video tutorials that will walk people through the material step-by-step. Stay tuned for an announcement on how you can get those tutorials for free. Internet marketing may not ever be exactly easy, but I intend to help make the path to success a little clearer.

Design Dashboard- the Best Place to Start »

Four years ago, when I put up my first web site to market coaching (applying my new business knowledge along with my counseling skills), I  signed up for a hosting service with a site builder program available as part of the package. I wanted to have a web site quickly and I didn’t want to have to learn how to program HTML. The site builder worked and I still have that site today. As I became more aware of internet marketing sites I wanted more control over the design and function of the sites I was creating.

I’m an amateur at web design, really. I took a Front Page class five years ago but never really got to use it. I finally got my own copy of FrontPage last year and quickly become completely frustrated trying to create something that was close to what I envisioned. I started looking for templates on the internet that could be plugged in to FrontPage. Did I mention that I’ve been trying to do all of this on a shoestring budget? The templates were not up to my standards and design sensibilities. Hiring a professional seemed out of reach for me financially. I tried other HTML editor programs, like NetObjects Fusion, but I was just as frustrated trying to get what I wanted. Then I discovered the Design Dashboard, created by Marlon Sanders, an internet marketing wiz. Click here to read more »

Everybody Markets (Some of Us Better Than Others) »

Marketing is a life skill they don’t teach you in school. I now call myself an internet marketer since I realized that, in reality, every interest I have will likely end up being shared on the internet, sooner or later. The Web Life, as defined by Frank Feather, futurist and author, is becoming a reality (Get a Web Life!).

Why marketing? Marketing, defined as offering goods, services and information for sale, isn’t just on the internet and it isn’t just done by business people. We are all marketing all the time. Every time you attempt to communicate an idea or try to influence another person you are selling, selling an idea, selling your time (ie a job) or offering a personal creation. Marketing isn’t always about money (money is great, of course). Marketing is about persuading someone to take action- sometimes the desired action is buying what you are offering. Sometimes the desired action is a phone call or merely an acknowledgement. Artists know the fine edge of this sword very well. We make art (music, poetry…) because it is who we are. The presentation of our work to others for acceptance, accolades and for sale, is marketing.
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How to Leave Your Day Job »

I’ve always had an entrepreneurial streak in me. At age 11 I started looking at ways I could turn my interests and abilities into cash. I liked cats and dogs, so I became the neighborhood pet sitter. Now, some years later creating income from what I love to do is still enjoy. I have never been one to be satisfied with just a job.

Back then I didn’t have the advantage of a mentor to take my business to a higher level. I made a few buck to sock away for college, but nothing substantial. As soon as I could drive I got a job. I’ve been in the world of work every since.

I created this Web Biz Diva site to pass along everything I’m learning about creating massive, passive income. Financial freedom is the goal and doing business can be great fun. This site is dedicated to the hard working artists, poets, actors, musicians and everyone else who has a passion they are not following full-time because they have to work a job.

I love the internet and the possibilities for making money, for self-expression and for communication. The internet is a powerful tool and force in the world for good. With the internet, written words, still and moving images, sound can easily be shared. It has become the new gallery, the new screening room and the new broadcast medium. It’s also the new market place. The internet is leveling the playing field for artists and for would be entrepreneurs. Web Business and Artist go together. Singing is what I love to do, what I’ve given up over the years of having to go to work every day. Web Biz is my route to singing again. And it’s great fun. Web Biz Diva.