Archive for Teleclasses & Seminars – Page 20

Blog for Fun and Profits – New Teleclass Wednesday October 4

Seems like we’re on the teleclass circuit these days.  Last week we were invited by Kelly O’Neil to speak about blogging as a pre-event for her UpLevel Intensive at which we’ll be presenting in San Jose Oct. 13-15. 

This week we are guests of Jeff Herring and Build Your Ideal Practice.  We’ll be talking about…

How to Blog for Fun, Prospects and Profits
Led by The Blog Squad, Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman
For Build Your Ideal Practice, October 4, 2006, 12:00 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. PT)
FREE! Register here to get call-in details.

Boost Your Business with Blogs: Free TeleClass

Intensivebannerad1 Denise and I have been invited to be guest presenters at Kelly O’Neil’s annual 3-day UpLevel Intensive in October. This is a great 3-day event to learn what you need to know about running a successful business, on and off line. It is not a pitch-a-thon, but information packed with plenty of action-based learning.

To prepare for the event, Kelly is hosting a series of teleseminars featuring each of the speakers.  The Blog Squad will be featured on Wednesday, September 27 and you’re invited to attend.

Boost Your Business with Blogs: How to be Findable on the Web
September 27, 2006, 8:00 p.m. ET

The teleseminar on Wednesday is free, sign up here to get the call-in number:
http://www.uplevelintensive.com

Here’s a message from Kelly about the UpLevel Intensive…

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Blog Publicity – 6 Tips Need to Know BEFORE You Pitch a Blogger

News Flash: You can get huge traffic and sales by getting bloggers to talk about you and your products or books. But there’s a few things you need to know first.

Denise posted about this over on Build a Better Blog, and she created this neat little audio file…

Get 6 tips you need to know BEFORE you pitch bloggers … Get your audio tips here.

If you haven’t registered yet for the teleseminar How to Pitch Bloggers and Get a Publicity Explosion, do so now by visiting www.howtopictchbloggers.com.

How to Pitch Bloggers: Save the Date

How to Get Blog Attention
learn how tonight…

Join The Blog Squad and The Publicity Hound for an important teleseminar:

How to Pitch the Best Bloggers to Create a Publicity Explosion
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. ET

Get the details and register here.

Getting Blogger Relations Right – PR Becomes BR

You know how marketing and Public Relations (PR) work together? You get a little media attention and the world beats a path to your door. One quote or article in the Wall Street Journal can be huge to your business.

Now pay attention to BR – Blogger Relations. Smart marketers are turning to blogs to get the spotlight on their products and people. And apparently there is a whole new science and art to getting "BR" right.

There are quite a few articles online about how to pitch to blogs: http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Resources.PitchingBlogs

And now The Blog Squad and the Publicity Hound Joan Stewart are joining forces to teach a class next week:

How to Pitch the Best Bloggers and Get a Publicity Explosion: Save the date Sept. 20…

Join The Blog Squad and The Publicity Hound for an important teleseminar:

How to Pitch the Best Bloggers to Create a Publicity Explosion
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. ET
Get the details and register here.

(The official announcement will be going out later this week; the first 50 registrants get a free CD of the audio program!)

So how do you know which blogs to contact, and how do you go about wooing bloggers without looking like you are pitching or going for the kiss too soon? Stay tuned…!

WordPress Becoming Popular Blogging Platform

Conversations with Experts presents…

Mdp0_1 WordPress 2.0: The Ultimate Small Business Publishing Platform
Wednesday, September 6, 2006, 8:30 p.m. ET (no charge, registration required)
Guest Expert: Michael Pollock, solostream webstudio

In the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion of what have been called "push button publishing services" – also known as blogs. Because they’re so easy to use, hosted services such as Typepad, Blogger and LiveJournal have been the dominant players in this market. More recently, however, a stand-alone publishing platform named WordPress has been steadily growing in popularity.

Recent estimates suggest there are currently more than 1 million WordPress users across the planet. And a lot of them are small business owners just like you. During this discussion, we’ll talk about some of the reasons why the WordPress user base is growing so quickly. In particular, we’ll talk about:

  • Limitations and drawbacks of hosted services like Typepad and Blogger.
  • What you CAN do with WordPress that you CAN’T do with hosted services.
  • 5 reasons you may want to switch to WordPress.
  • 5 reasons you may not want to switch to WordPress.
  • Questions and concerns addressed.

Michael Pollock is CEO of Solostream. He has more than a decade of small business sales, marketing and management experience in both offline and online environments. After launching his first online business in 1999, a business coaching practice, he taught himself graphic design and web development, as well as copywriting and web marketing.

Register (free):  www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

If you cannot attend the Conversation, you can pre-order the audio program for $4.95.  After the Conversation the price will be $9.95.  Save 50%. Use this link to pre-order now. 

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

The Article Guy Jeff Herring Shows How to Use Your Articles for Marketing

Conversations with Experts presents…

Jeffherring1 Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 8:30 p.m. ET (no charge, registration required)
Guest Expert: Jeff Herring, The Article Guy

How to Market Your Articles for Tons of Prospects, Publicity and Profits

In this Conversation with a master of article marketing you will learn:

• 25 ways to market your articles
• One way to market your articles that NO ONE else teaches
• The best article directories for posting your articles
• How to get your articles massively distributed
• How marketing your articles on the internet is more powerful than having a newspaper column
• 7 secrets Jeff uses everyday, on how to post your articles so you could not stop the traffic to your web sites even if you wanted to, and beat the pants off the competition

Register:  http://www.ConversationsWithExperts.com 

If you cannot attend the Conversation, you can pre-order the audio program for only $4.95.  The audio will be $9.95 after the Conversation.  Save 50% and pre-order now.  http://snipurl.com/Herring_Preorder

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

The Blog to Email Connection: We [Heart] Feedblitz

If you get uncomfortable whenever someone mentions "RSS Feeds," you’re not alone. Only 9-12% of online users understands how blog, website and newsletter information can be delivered using RSS technology.

Phil_hollows_small Never fear, Feedblitz is here! As long as Phil Hollows is around, you can rest easy. Phil is CEO and founder of Feedblitz, a service that automatically delivers your blog (or other web info) to subscribers’ inboxes.

He recently shared his knowledge and innovative ideas with our listeners on our weekly teleseminar Conversations with Experts. If you missed the interview, you can grab a copy of the audio file here. Denise posted about the interview over on Build a Better Blog.

Phil explains that not only is his Feedblitz service a great way to keep readers coming back to your blog, it can be used to deliver your ezines. Just create your ezine on a blogging platform, and then use Feedblitz to broadcast it in email form. Of course. How elegantly simple. Did I mention it is free? The company also provides excellent customer service, even for users at the free service level, unheard of with many Internet companies.

Feedblitz announced early today that in the month of August their active circulation grew a whopping 17.5%, from 700,000 to 822,000. Congratulations, but this is only a fraction of how big Feedblitz will become.

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Feedblitz!

From Blog to Email Marketing

If you’re a blogger or thinking about starting a blog, you definitely should attend this Conversation with Expert Phil Hollows to learn how you can use your blog for email marketing.

Conversations with Experts presents…

Philhollows_1 Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 8:30 p.m. ET (no charge, registration required)
Guest Expert: Phil Hollows, Feedblitz.com

Back to the Future: Growing your audience and simplifying your email marketing with blogs

Blogs are the Internet’s fastest growing sector. Coupled with a new technology called RSS, blogs can recharge and reinvigorate your email marketing and much more. The discussion will cover topics such as how to:

=> Build closer relationships with prospects and customers using blogs and email.
=> More easily differentiate yourself from your competitors.
=> Take the pain out of creating and managing your email marketing, newsletters and ezines.

Whether you have an existing in-house list or are starting out from scratch, Phil will have tips and techniques for improving your list’s quality, tracking metrics and increasing its value to you – simply.

Register:  http://www.ConversationsWithExperts.com 

If you cannot attend the Conversation, you can pre-order the audio program for only $4.95.  The audio will be $9.95 after the Conversation.  Save 50% and pre-order now.  http://snipurl.com/Hollows_Preorder

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

Goals: Committed, or Just Kinda Interested?

Conversations with Experts presents…

Sylvaleduc_1 Are You Committed to Achieving Your Goals or Just Kinda’ Interested?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 8:30 p.m. ET (no charge, registration required)
Guest Expert: Sylva Leduc, Leadership Coach

How often have you heard someone lament they aren’t achieving the goals they set for themselves? People can have great ideas, yet lack the process, structure and commitment to achieve their goals.  So they don’t stick to their plan.

Syl Leduc calls it "pin-the-tail on the donkey goal setting," an ineffective hit-or-miss approach to success.   

Is this you?  It may be that you convinced yourself you’re committed to your goals when you’re only kinda’ interested in success. 

Okay, so is there a better way?  Absolutely!  Join us as we talk with Syl about getting the results you want, year after year.

Syl Leduc, MEd, MPEC is a Leadership Specialist and Business Coach. She’s a self proclaimed "techno geek" who founded (now former president of) a software company, called Client Compass.  Syl is committed to making every year the Best Year Yet for herself and her clients. At www.DesktopGoals.com  you can attend a free online goal planning workshop (use the "secret" password). Visit her blog www.WindowSyl.com  and learn what name you should never, ever call her.

Register:  www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.