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Are you just getting started with promoting your blog? In order to start coming up in searches, you’ll need to register your blog with the directories. Don’t waste your time doing this yourself.

“Thank you for offering your Blog Directory Submission Service and following through with such professional care. I am very happy with the results. The time you saved me was worth every penny. Thanks!” ~ Dr. Annette Colby, RD

I have negotiated a really amazing price to offer you for submitting your blog to over 200 blog directories.

This will be done manually to assure the appropriate categories are selected and information is posted correctly. Blog submission to directories can take 10-12 hours depending on how web savvy and fast you are. 

What’s the cost for this?  Only $125 per blog. That’s a really good price. I’m using the VA I use for my own site, blog and article submissions. I can assure you that it is well worth the investment to have someone else do this — and I’ve paid more than that to get it done.

Here’s what you’ll need to provide with your payment:

1. Name of each blog/RSS feed (title) you’re submitting
2. URL of the blog and URL of the RSS feed
   Blog URL:
   RSS Feed:

3. Description (25 words)
4. Primary Keywords for your blog’s niche or subject
5. Possible categories (check all that apply)

__ Art and Culture
__ Business
__ Career
__ Marketing
__ Lifestyle
__ Health
__ Food
__ Personal
__ Technology
__ Travel

6. Author name and email address to receive confirmation messages

(You will also receive this info above in your confirmation email once your payment is made.)

If you are submitting more than one blog, please change the quantity in the payment form. If your time is valuable, this will save you over 10 hours and jump start the traffic to your blog. This is a great deal that I don’t think you’ll find anywhere else.

Finally, Technorati, the largest blog directory in the world, is getting more reliable data about professional blogging. When they release their State of the Blogosphere report each year, there's usually plenty of interesting data on who's blogging and why, but since 70% of blogs are hobby blogs, there's been little data on people using blogs for professional reasons.

This year they engaged a research company to survey 2,900 bloggers and included professionals writing about their industries (not to be confused with people making money from blogs ads, another type of problogger).

Here are the benefits of blogging for your business, that others are reporting:

• 71% have greater visibility in their industry
• 63% said clients purchased products and services
• 56% stated their company was now regarded as a thought leader
• 40% have been asked to speak at conferences

These stats support many of the reasons your small business should have a blog.  A well crafted business blog is the number one key to getting found online.  If you can't get found on the Web, you don't look good, and you will miss leads when prospects do online research.

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Click Blog Action Day October 15, to see how you can help with this very important global issue…

Want to save $100 and learn important work-saving tips to making money online? Forget all the big ticket programs that go for $1000s and more, here's a way to learn quickly, easily, and save money.

I think you should register now because after Friday, October 16, the More Buyer's Mastermind program will cost $197 instead of $97.

12 of the Web's hottest rising stars are sharing their secrets for fast growth in the 2009 More Buyers Mastermind program, sponsored by Dave Navarro, The Launch Coach.

Here are 12 people I've learned a lot from when it comes to making money online and marketing my business. I've been promoting this program because I feel strongly that all 12 of them have important tips to help you grow your own businesses.

Here's the line up:

• Chris Garrett – How to Go From Zero to Authority in Your Niche
• Mark Silver – How To Sell Big Without Selling Out
• Pam Slim – How To Build Your Business When You Have A Day Job
• Laura Roeder – How To Get In The Social Media Fast Lane
• Michael Martine – How To Tightly Focus Your Blog And Bring In More Customers
• Charlie Gilkey – How To Erase The Stress Of Running Your Business
• Naomi Dunford – Emergency Marketing: How To Get Big In A Hurry
• Christine O’Kelly – How To Get Paid What You’re Worth (And Not A Penny Less)
• Clay Collins – How To Discover Instantly Profitable Markets
• Sonia Simone – How To Get Your Audience To Fall In Love With You
• Chris Gullebeau – How to Raise Up A Small Army Of Loyal Fans
• Brian Clark – How To Build A Six-Figure Information Product Platform

That's quite a list of smart people. Okay, click over to More Buyers Mastermind to find out more about it, register and I hope you enjoy the program, it's coming with audio, transcripts, and workbooks to help you learn. Good stuff.

Somehow Dave Navarro's name got onto my Web radar screen, I started hearing people talk about "The Launch Coach," and I thought, what a great idea, for a brand, and for a great service.

Here's someone who specializes in a real need: once you create those great  information products, special reports, ebooks, etc. how the heck do you get them sold?

For that matter, even if you're giving away FREE information, how do you get it into the hands of hundreds, make that thousands, of people? What good is it being brilliant, to write great products, if no one reads them?

From the moment I landed on Dave's site, I was in (marketing) love. Get this, his tag line is, "I get more people to buy what you're selling." What's not to love? Gimme some of that.

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I don't talk about money much, or selling. The other day I got an email from an irate guy swearing at me, calling me a *****, accusing me of having nothing better to do than blogging because I probably had a rich husband. (Photo credit: Shutterstock)

I have a handsome husband, a charming husband, a funny hubby, but … Forget that this emailer must have been drunk, and some kind of ugly misogynist freak, or… who knows what possessed him to use all those four-letter words on me.

So let me be clear. I love blogging but I wouldn't be doing it if people didn't hire me to help them, if it weren't such a powerful marketing tool, and a way for me to make money. (I try to be self-supporting by my own contributions in spite of a talented hubby who does indeed earn a nice consulting fee to his own company.)

The one thing "Mr. F***Off" got right is nobody has time for blogging unless it's worthwhile. What he got wrong, besides his attitude and foul language, is that "90% of blog readers are bloggers." (First of all, what's wrong with that, if some of those bloggers are potential clients?)

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Who’s the Target Visitor you're aiming for when you're writing on your blog?

The "who" of your blog matters more than "what" your blog is all about.

It’s bigger than when or where or how, too. Here's an excerpt of a recent article by Easton Ellsworth of Visionary Blogging: How to Create Blog Content That Rewards Your Business Forever

Knowing why you’re blogging and who you’re blogging for is more fundamental than deciding anything else about your blog, including what to blog about.

When you’re birthing a blog, the why and who are the head and shoulders. After those emerge, the what and how come out quickly.

I've often said this to my clients and beginning bloggers who – with a gush of enthusiasm and passion – just want to start writing on a new blog before doing the preparation work. You've got to know the purpose of your blog AND who you're writing to.

Here's more from Easton:

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Oh man, Tom Pick is a guy who must never sleep. He's got this amazing blog called The WebMarketCentral Blog, and he's made a list of a gazillion best blog posts for business bloggers over the span of 2008. It covers everything from content, traffic, design, search engine optimization, social media, you name it.

If you're a blogger and doing business on the Web, you gotta check this list of best blog posts out. You're sure to find key information that could really make a difference between blogging for fun and blogging for business.

How can you generate more targeted traffic to your blog? What techniques will help you write more compelling posts? Which "rules" should every blogger know and follow?

Find the answers to these questions and others here in WebMarketCentral's final list of the best posts on business blogging from the last year.

Here's what Tom says about my post Content Marketing: How do you write to entertain readers? by Writing On The Web, included on the list of Best Business Blog Posts, part 3:

The remarkable Patsi Krakoff presents eight tips for writing blog posts that stand out by both informing and entertaining readers, such as: telling a story; revealing a mistake you made and the lessons learned; or hardest but most valuable of all, rising above cliches and providing a higher level of current thinking.

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I just got off the phone with Easton Ellsworth. My "new set of glasses" blog improvement program continues this month over on my ContentforCoaches blog site. I continue to be amazed. (Sorry, I can't tell you details until they're unveiled…)

The point I want to make is that none of us can know what we don't know. We can't see what we never noticed before. Forgive me if I come across as gushing, but I have to share what I feel…

Working with Easton is like going to the most expensive fashion designer on TV and getting a style makeover. Only he's not changing the shoes or the belt, or the way you wear your hair. That would cost you money. You'd look better, but you have to pay for it.

No, this is a makeover to your blog, your social media visibility, your information products, your SEO issues…all those things you must do for an online business. Only these changes make YOU money! I like that. Cost of investment in Visionary Blogging program? Can you believe only $47?

Here's what's included:

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