What can eBooks really do for our practice?

April 27, 2009 by The Passion Diva  
Filed under Marketing, Tips

eBooks are one of those multifaceted products that can add enormous value for your clients.

But they can also add to your practice, there are several different ways to leverage your ebooks to create more targeted emailing and direct mailing lists and to gain expert credibility in your target market.

1. Email List – People love to get free stuff, they visit your website and in exchange for their contact information they receive a gift. Make sure that they gift you have chosen really speaks to your passion, so that prospective clients can learn about the real you.

2. Direct Mail List – Publish your ebook on a CD and offer to send it to the prospect for only the cost of shipping. Again really show your passion in the ebook that you choose for this, I would take the opportunity to add in a few bonuses items as well since CD’s have the space. Include in the direct mail package any flyers or specials that you have coming up as well.

3. Give away your ebook to 5-10 people in exchange for a review or testimonial about the ebook. This is a great way to test the ebook and see how well it will be received by your prospects.

4. Offer your ebook as a bonus, whether it is part of a package you have put together or part of a package that someone else has put together it is sure to be a big hit.

I hope that you are getting the idea that the more you get your ebook out there, the more opportunities you have to connect to prospects and start creating relationships with them.

Dream Big. Think Small.

April 20, 2009 by The Passion Diva  
Filed under Motivation, Tips

You see, I’ve studied hundreds of successful people. I’ve read their biographies.

One thing I’ve always seen whether it’s a Hollywood actor or business person.

There’s always incremental growth before breakout, exponential growth.

Maybe there are a few exceptions, though for the most part this is true.

So what that means is you go from $300 a month, to $500, to $900… and on to $3,000, $5,000, etc….then you get an exponential jump from say $7,000 one month to $17,000 the next (and you never look back).

I believe in MOMENTUM. I want to help you get there.

I believe in CELEBRATING small victories. I want to celebrate your victories with you.

If you’ve had challenges getting good results in your life, getting momentum going, don’t ‘think bigger’, THINK SMALLER and watch what happens.

Dream Big. Think Small.

Improve Usability of Your Website

February 20, 2009 by The Passion Diva  
Filed under Marketing, Tips

No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to reach the content of your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally.

The first method is to make sure the typography of your content is suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text.

Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want on your site. If you have thousands of articles on your site and a certain visitor wants to find one single article from that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to enable visitors to do that without hassle. Be it an SQL-driven database search engine or just a glossary or index of articles that you have, providing such a feature will make sure your visitors can use your site with ease.

Ensure that your site loads fast if you do not want to lose visitors. Most internet users will leave a website if it doesn’t load completely within 15 seconds, so make sure the crème de la crème of your website is delivered to the visitors as soon as possible to retain their attention.

Last of all, test each and every link on your site before it goes online. There is nothing more effective in tarnishing your professional image than broken links, so be very careful about that.

Co-Author Profile Pages

November 11, 2008 by The Passion Diva  
Filed under Action of the Week

Working a few new things

  • Profile pages for all co-authors
  • Interviews with all co-authors
  • Book Videos

New blog posts will be centered around the actual selling process of your books. That should be very exciting!

I will be emailing the different groups shortly with a profile form, I appreciate all your assistance!

Viral Marketing 101 – Not Using It Could Kill Your Business!

November 10, 2008 by The Passion Diva  
Filed under Marketing, Tips

Creativity.

This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spywares.

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