We’re having a veteran Microsoft expert on our Wednesday evening Conversation with Experts call  Feb. 22, 8:30 p.m. Rick Raddatz speaks some important truths about poor performing web sites.

Hate to admit it, but most consultants have a website that does a poor job of collecting email addresses of potential clients – a first step in leveraging the Internet to build your biz.

Rick Raddatz, Marketing Makeover Generator

An End to Embarrassing, Underperforming Websites: Let’s face it: The vast majority of websites out there an embarrassment to their owners — and I’m not talking about how the website looks. I’m talking about how much (or little) your website contributes to your bottom line.

It’s time to give your website an "Extreme Marketing Makeover". Join us as we interview Marketing Consultant Rick Raddatz, a 12-year veteran of Microsoft, to discover his secrets to high performing websites, and to learn how Rick used the internet leads he collected to sell over $200,000 worth of services in a single hour — twice.

To register, go here: www.conversationswithexperts.com. Costs you not a penny, it’s priceless.

Conversations with Experts is brought to you by The Blog Squad, Patsi and Denise, and features weekly experts who will help you build your biz both off and online. Sponsored by www.buildabetterblog.com.

Next Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 8:30 p.m. ET, our guest expert on Conversations with Experts teleseminar is Mari Smith, Email Th@t Sizzles!

Make Your Emails Sizzle! How to Write Professional Emails that Get Opened, Get Read and Make People Take ACTION!

With the overwhelming amount of email landing in our Inboxes daily, how do you make your message stand out? Even with loyal opted-in subscribers, are your emails getting the results you want?

Mari Smith, author of “Email Th@t Sizzles,” will show you how to create attention-grabbing copy with the right layout and formatting that ensure your emails get opened, get read and make people take action

On this dynamic call, you’ll learn:

• The best subject lines to get your emails opened
• Power words to include and spam-trigger words to avoid
• The do’s & don’ts of writing more effective sales copy
• Quick formatting tricks that make your emails stand out
• HTML vs. plain text – which is best?
• A simple template to create sizzling signature files
• How to choose the best automated email program for you

Register: 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% and use this link to order now:

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

Phil Dunn, 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing

Conversations with Experts
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 8:30 p.m. ET

How to Build an eBay Business that Generates Repeat Sales and Loyal Customers

In recent years, eBay competition has become fierce. Tens of thousands of new sellers have entered the eBay marketplace, including large-scale retailers with the edge of professional marketing expertise and power-house corporate experience. 

The eBay market has also been flooded with small-time sellers, who sell at low margins for little profit and make it difficult for other sellers to compete with their prices. To succeed, you need to pay attention to how you "market" your products.

In this discussion you’ll learn how to:

1. Understand buyers and position your products for faster, higher margin sales
2. Present products more persuasively (in visual and in written form)
3. Create urgency and sweeten the deal
4. Differentiate your business from competitors
5. Cultivate loyal customers and build positive feedback
6. Discover what makes buyers choose one item over an identical one
7. Learn why customers come back to trusted sellers time and again

Register: 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% and use this link to order now.

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: www.BuildaBetterBlogSystem.com

Molly Gordon: Name Your Niche

This week’s Conversations with Experts teleseminar is really special. We’ve invited our mentor, Tom Antion to come speak with our group of professionals. If you’ve never heard Tom speak, and aren’t familiar with his work, don’t miss this call at 8:30 p.m. ET.

Denise and I attend a lot of seminars, both on and off line, and we’ve heard many of the Internet marketing experts. They are all pretty good, but Tom is really special. He’s got a great sense of humor, cuts through all the hype and tells it like it is.

So we hired him for a year long mentorship program. We wouldn’t spend that kind of big bucks on anybody not worth their salt. Here’s the skinny:

Tom Antion, Antion & Associates

Wake ‘em Up: How Any Professional can Use Public Speaking to Skyrocket Their Career . . . and make a ton of money too.

Being able to stand up in front of a crowd and WOW! them can make you more money than you could ever imagine. WOWING a crowd doesn’t mean you are juggling ten bowling balls or doing a fire eating and sword swallowing act. It means giving the audience members great information that will help them and delivering it with an appropriate amount of humor and involvement.

The master at not only doing this, but teaching it as well is our guest on this week’s call, Tom Antion. Tom will be sharing the secrets, tips and techniques used by top level professional speakers who must “knock ‘em dead” every time they speak.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by The Blog Squad and the Build a Better Blog System.

The calls are free, but you must register here.

Here’s a good idea for generating ongoing income: license your knowledge. What information do you have that could help other people earn money?

This weeks Conversation with Experts features two enterprising ladies, Suzanne Falter-Barns and Milana Leshinsky. Here’s the scoop:

Licensing for Profits: Conversation with Milana Leshinsky & Suzanne Falter-Barns

…and other savvy professionals should too!

How would you like to start 2006 with a team of professional coaches earning six to seven figure incomes, who are ready to "spill the beans" and turn you into a thriving coaching business owner?

Association of Coaching & Consulting Professionals (ACCPOW) is hosting their 2nd Annual Coaching Tele-Summit, which you can attend right from your home by telephone.

Last year, over 175 people attended the tele-summit from 17 countries around the world. Some woke up at 3 AM just to be a part of this live event, while others stayed on the line overtime just to get a chance to pick the experts’ brains!

The tele-summit kicks off on January 18, 2006 at 1pm EST and lasts 8 days.

It starts out with three exciting panel discussions:

• January 18 – Practice Building Panel Discussion
• January 19 – Practice Management Panel Discussion
• January 20 – Passive Revenue Panel Discussion

Following the initial panel discussions there will be five days of over a dozen coaching experts presenting their training sessions live. Here is who’ll be there to train you:

– "Setting up and Managing a Successful Coaching Practice," with Marcia Bench

– "Creating Client-Capturing Web Sites," with Kendall Summerhawk

– "Group Coaching Revenue Model," with Ginger Cockerham

– "Attracting High Paying Coaching Clients," with Terri Levine

– "Organizing and Hosting a Highly Successful Local Coaching Event," with Janice Copeland

– "Creating a ‘Million-Dollar’ Coaching Gym," with Chris Barrow

– "Building a Highly Targeted High Response Coaching Database," with Joel Christopher

– "Measuring What Matters: The 5 Key Metrics to Track, Watch and Cultivate, to Take Your Multiple Streams Business to 6 and 7 Figures," with Andrea Lee

– "Growing Your Coaching Business Fast With Strategic Alliances," with Christian Mickelsen

– "Getting Clients for Life: The New Model of Coaching That Makes You More Money and Provides More Value," with Marcia Bench

– "Setting Up Your Own Membership Based Coaching Program In 2 Weeks Or Less," with Christian Mickelsen

– "First 90-Day Marketing Plan," with Ramon Williamson

…and a couple more surprise coaches!

The entire event will be recorded and CDs will be sent to the tele-summit participants.

ACCPOW was founded and is run by Milana Leshinsky, one of the leading coaching entrepreneurs today, and the #1 provider of business tools for coaches.

Space is limited to only 197 coaches.

For details please visit this link here.

Hope you’ll be there! About the only thing missing in this teleseminar series is expertise on newsletters and blogs, but then you probably get enough about those tools from us!

Jill Lublin Speaks about Publicity