SEO, Social Marketing, Online Niche Business – Denise Sanger

I’ve been reading this book – “The 4 Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferris over the weekend.   It’s so interesting that I thought I’d journal about my experience as I try very, very hard to cut back my work hours.   One thing that was pointed out immediately by reading the book is that I’m addicted to email.  Yep – you heard it here first – I’m an email addict!

As soon as I wake up in the morning after feeding the dogs and the horses, I’m in my office pulling my emails.  But it doesn’t stop there.  I have 3 different email accounts that I  pull emails from.  I have my wholesale business – www.usapooltoy.com, my retail business www.newcooltoysonline.com and my consulting business from my E-commerce Internet Business Course.

Do you think I can just stop after I pull the emails from all three accounts first thing in the morning?  If you said no, you’re right.  I am constantly checking my emails all day long into the evening when I finally turn my computer off.   I pull my emails from morning until evening, 7 days a week.

Reading this book has got me thinking that if I can follow the author’s recommendation and only pull my emails at 11 a.m and 4 p.m. imagine what I could accomplish in a day.  So starting today, I am doing a modified 3 times per day pulling of emails because I had forgotten my plan and already pulled my emails by 6:00 this morning LOL!

I’ve already found out that by closing my emails I had time to write this blog update.  Imagine what I can get done the rest of the day if I stick to the plan.  I WILL CONQUER THE WORLD!   Or at least finish writing the niche ecommerce business course I’ve been working on.

Are you like me?  Too many things going on and not focusing on one thing at a time? If so, join me on this journey toward the 4 Hour Work Week.  Could be fun, right?

Until next time.

Denise

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I just returned from the Surf Show trade show in Orlando and had a great time.  The best things about traveling to trade shows besides meeting existing and new customers  are visiting new cities, eating at restaurants you’ve not visited before and just getting away from your day to day schedule.  Before I left for this trip, I scheduled all of my article launches with Ezine Articles, Submit Your Article, Hub Pages, and Squidoo so that my article marketing program continued as if I were in the office.

Many people wonder how writing articles will help them in the promotion of their website and this is probably one of the most asked questions I hear.  Articles are WONDERFUL for incoming links to your website.

A few tips to help you with articles:

1.  When writing articles, take a few moments to think about your title.  By incorporating your keywords into the title of your article, you can rank quickly in the search engines for these terms.

2.  If you’re looking for incoming links, start with the long-tail keywords then work up to your main keywords.   It’s easier to rank for the long-tail keywords than the more competitive keywords – plus, the long tail keywords generally convert better because these words match the search query that your customers are using.

3.  The best places to place articles are Ezinearticles.com, I-Snare, Squidoo, and Hub Pages.  These are the BEST places for getting links to your website.

Bottom line, article marketing provides an incredible boost to your website marketing program. Schedule time into your week to publish articles at least to Ezine and you’ll see positive results in your website.

Until next time!

Denise

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The biggest difference between brick and mortar stores and Ecommerce stores is that the consumer can pick up and hold a product in the brick and mortar store.  But with coupons, free shipping, and better prices, many consumers still turn to Ecommerce stores for their purchases.  Make it easier for your customers to buy from you by showing videos of your products for sale.

I own 2 toy sites – one retail and one wholesale in the toy industry.  The cool thing about the internet is that you can use video as part of your product description to literally SHOW people how the toy will work.  Below is a video of a new pool toy introduced this year which is an underwater boomerang.  I sell it as both the distributor under USAPoolToy.com and as a retailer under NewCoolToysOnline.com.  I hope this little 1.5 minute video puts ideas in your mind of how you can use video to sell your products on your website!

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Often when I begin my day in my home office, I remember rushing around in the morning to get my girls off to daycare then later school then sitting in traffic trying to get to work.  Not a very pleasant memory!  This is one of the main reasons why I love working from home – my commute is now less than 1 minute.

Another reason is flexibility.  My younger daughter is now a senior in high school and of course we had to get her senior pictures.  The company scheduled her appointment at 1:45 p.m.  If I still held a “J-O-B” I would have had to take the afternoon off to make sure we got to her appointment on time.   Over the past several years I have been one of the lucky moms that could go on field trips with my girls and some of these field trips were amazing!  If I were still working in an office, I would have missed the trip with my older daughter where we went snorkling over a reef in the Florida Keys and many other field trips.  Flexibility is truly the answer to having balance in your life.

Now that I’ve realized how lucky I truly am, my goal is to help other stay at home moms be able to have the same experiences that I have.  Bookmark this site for more tips and ideas for starting your home based business and my internet business course.  Sometimes it is just a matter of finding the right niche product to get you started!

Questions?  Please email me – I’m here to help.

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