Posted on 4th July, 2011 | | 7 Comments

  Facebook post today that I wanted to share.

Congratulations to  The Social Networking Academy!

After taking my head out of the BBQ today, I’ve noticed that we now have over 7000+ fans. We now have almost 20,000 fans when you include our sister page, Free Fan Page Templates.

 Welcome all new fans!!! -Rhett

Fill in the form on the right to get 22 F.ree Videos on Facebook.

or go here  http://bit.ly/fbsocialnetworkingacademy 

Posted on 15th June, 2011 | | No Comment

UpDate - Now up to … every Wednesday

SNAtv – Episode 7 The One with – The Advertising Frenzy  – Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter new interface – or switch to old way button – see birdy on right.

Free download how to use Twitter – (for members of course)

Cool Tool

Work for 25 mins and then take a break. Focus booster ap tells you nicely when time is up. I really like it! wwwfocusboosterap.com

Tip of the week – What are your goals for your business?  What is your overall objective. Take time out every week  ( an hour) and have a review – what went wrong, what are my priorities for my business. I have a business meeting for my offline business, now I will do the same with my online businesses.

Social Media Academy  The One about Apple and Twitter

• Jo Barnes has some updates:
  Twitter has a like button?
  Seems Apple had a falling out with fb.
  Now sweet on Twitter.

Jo talks about this on her SNA tv show this week.
Like to get your own Twitter like button?

http://twitter.com/followbutton

Follow @KathieMac

And lots more tips.

Join this membership

 (See the form on the right) for lots of info directly to your email about the SOCIAL NETWORK ACADEMY!

Posted on 18th May, 2011 | | 2 Comments

An update from Jo Barnes

I have just released the third Episode of SNA TV!

It’s the one with Lady Gaga!

• Not going to be using WordPress any longer
• Tools and Tips
• Google news

All from Jo’s back garden

Really interesting Jo!

Social Power!
 
Our weekly newsletter is chock a block full of GREAT information,
helping you to build a FANTASTIC online business using the POWER
of Social Media.
 
Each issue will contain some Marketing tips from me and some
Technical tips from Jared, so you get the best of both worlds!

More value added.  Join this membership!
Jo Barnes the owner and director of the Social Network Academy has added yet more value to her business of teaching marketing to new people on the net. Jo’s on TV!

For her first broadcast she gives three tips on what is new with social marketing and facebook. Good ones!  She also offers up a interview with none other than Frank Kern himself that she did at a conference with him. He was his usual wonderful self. My son thought he was cool, and so by association so was Mom! He’s over 20yrs old, so thats saying something!

I just shared  it on my facebook profile page. You can see the whole thing there. Go to the right and look for my little head, lol, and you will see the link to my fb page – when you click  “the recommened button.”

Learn how to take your online or offline business to internet success with The Social Networking Academy. You can try the fantastic trial membership that teaches everything you need to know for just $4.95 so why not join our over members.

 To learn more 

   

Posted on 15th May, 2011 | | No Comment

Do you know the REAL reason why your website isn’t getting
enough traffic? It is because you need a critical piece of the
Traffic Generation puzzel. It has been kept from you… but
I can supply you with that magic traffic knowledge.

The one compenent that is essential to the success of your
online website, or marketing campaign, regardless of the niche
you are in? Targeted and consistent traffic. More site visits
mean more sales, more leads and more chances for people to
promote your site and your services.

I’ve been in the internet marketing business for some time now,
and I’ve always been on the lookout for resources that can help
me boost my traffic generation efforts significantly. I’ve bought
dozens of guidebooks that boast unbeatable strategies that
guarantee a flood of high converting traffic to my websites, but
does it actually happen? Not really. So how do you get traffic to
your sites? I am willing to share my knowledge with you.

One of the best ways to learn about traffic generation is to
observe those who do it successfully. When it comes to Internet
Marketing, there is a lot of material out there that is basically
rehashed ebooks that go on about the same old things. What I
will show you is the best information I have found on the subject
of getting Traffic to your website, for free a lot of the time and
information I have paid my hard earned money for and
recommend highly.

If you want customers you have to have traffic. Simple as that.
Getting that traffic is not an easy one time process, you need
to create various types of traffic to your sales pages or website.
You that a method of ways. Don’t put all your eggs in the same
basket, so to speak. One method will dry up or be better than
another at any given time.

Basic Ways of Getting Traffic are:

1.Create keyword-rich original content for your site.
2.Write articles and submit them to article directories
3.Get listed in as many directories and search engines as possible
4.Develop quality linkbacks through link exchanges, (not link farms)
5.Create an AdWords account to promote your site.
6.Join & participate in multiple forums, create signature posts.
7.Give away something of value free on your site.
8.Join and surf traffic exchanges. Advertise in Ezines.
9.Post quality comments on blogs and forums
10.Create social media accounts and profiles with your link.

You can get my RSS feed top right as I will be posting more about getting Traffic soon. You can also sign up for my newsletter.

Posted on 14th May, 2011 | | No Comment

More ways to get Traffic for your sites – see earlier post for more.

Article WritingSimple as 1-2-3

FIRST: It means this … article marketing works! Period. Do it
right and it works. Use junk articles and it will never work no
matter how hard you try.

SECOND: You have to learn how to do article marketing the
right way and get started today. Why? Because article marketing
works and it is FREE to do!

If you do not know how to do this I will teach you how!

Members of my Directory of Ezines or Article Marketing Live
sites learn what I know and I work with them personally!

If you want to learn article marketing the right way, and want
your articles to get this type of coverage, use one of the links
below to learn more. Let’s work together and create real
results for YOU!

Charlie PageDirector of The Directory of Ezines. I am also a member of
the D.O.E. A life-time member. Excellent membership!

Here is another great site for traffic – “Free Traffic Wiz”
Video is great! Enjoy!
http://bit.ly/EasyTrafficw

Posted on 2nd May, 2011 | | No Comment

Sounds rather special. An Academy turns out the best of the best.

The Social Networking Academy will indeed be graduating the best social networkers online. I am signed up as a original member for the 2 year course. So what is social networking?

 A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.    -Wikipedia

I have been online for many many years now and taken quite a few courses in that time. Some were ok, some were bad and some very expensive indeed. I was so jaded that when I heard  of a new comer named Jo Barnes I thought oh yeah here we go again. But to my delight she was different. As she came from under the wing of Chris Farrell, a very well known and respected marketer from England who I was very familar  with as I had been a member of this training  membership some time back.

I had a go at her first free marketing items and was very happy with her level of committment to her fans on her fan page. After really getting to know her, she helped me out with a problem I was having I decided to join as a founding member with a great deal she had for a 2 year course.

She has a co-founder that is very helpful, Jared is his name. He is the technical side and is very creative, doing iframes for our facebook pages.

This video is from another in our community. You will find her iframe welcome page on the facebook site as well.

If you go to the url below you will learn much more about all that Jo offers and you can  learn how to take your online or offline business to internet success with The Social Networking Academy.
You can try the fantastic  trial membership that shows you  everything you need to know about social networking for just $4.95  

Check out my affiliate link to learn more now!

http://bit.ly/fbsocialnetworkingacademy

Posted on 24th April, 2011 | | No Comment

I Love Traffic
Oh – and please let me add… I suspect you do too!

…Chris WILL be generating traffic himself – with his membership site – using the exact strategies that he is teaching.

That’s Chris Farrell, if you’re not familiar with him. He is very very popular with the marketing crowd online. I personally just adore him… maybe it’s that wonderful english accent, or his rather nice looks. lol Really it is his very generous nature and his online smarts in the field of marketing that appeal to me. I have been a member of his membership site in the past and whole heartedly recommend him to people interested in making money online.

So together you will be able to see how the traffic strategies work (or not, as the case may be!) — but I’m confident you will build a nice list during the few weeks it takes to complete this 20 module course. Which is the entire aim of this traffic course, of course!

Chris will be releasing daily modules (every 24 hrs) – just like he did for 21 Days To Success. Another of his many courses. See his membership site, many courses are f.ree.

Traffic Generation

The backbone of any successful business online is Traffic!

Chris Farrell has launched his New Traffic Course over at his Membership Site. I have had a peek inside as I am a member, and here are a few tidbits of info…

•Do you use email that you send daily to help grow your business?
•Do you use Traffic Strategies with a Traffic Mind Map?
He answers these and many other questions…

Here is a peek at some of whats going to be on the  20 module course.

Article Marketing
Short articles – how to write them and what to do with them after
you write them. I am the most interested in this part. I write
articles and submitted them to Ezine articles, I am also a member there.

Forum Marketing
Forum marketing helped Chris build his business with 3000 sign ups
in 5 mths. Sounds like a fun technique.

Classified Ads
Very popular for many years. I used this type of advertising for other
businesses I was involved in with having to do with sales.

Joint Ventures
Any sort of joint venture is possible. I joined a focus training group
that I still keep in contact with some of the members. Promoting
there businesses and they in turn promote some of mine.

Online Giveaways
Another free traffic generation technique. Chris received 250 opt
ins in one day with this technique.

Email Signature Files
Can use this one today. Every email you send out is an opportunity
to tell that person about your business.

Search Engine Optimization
or SEO. This is a collection of techniques that are used to make
your site as relevant as possible. This has to do with keywords
and keyword research. I am very interested in this technique.

Video Marketing
Explosive growth lately with this one. A great way to build a solid
relationship with your clients. Such as what Chris is doing here with his videos. I really like his videos that he did about this traffic course. He made them very personable with his little dogs and talking about the  bad weather in Beverly Hills, in the canyon where he lives. Very cool!

Other Traffic Techniques
How about Social Marketing with Stumbleupon, Facebook, Squidoo or
Twitter? I use all of those and more. 2 Facebooks, 2 Twitter accounts.

This course, I Love Traffic is Free to Members of Chris Farrels site, so I would advise that you join right away. Very afforable, $4.95 you can join and then upgrade as you like.

Find out more about Chris Farrell’s membership site – just watch the video!

Please feel free to share this video with friends using the share button.

Posted on 25th March, 2011 | Tags : WordPress, wordpress theme | 1 Comment

Authority Pro Review

Converting your traffic into sales is the basis of Affiliate Marketing.
Website visitors must be convinced to buy your product or to leave
their email address. Does your landing page get their attention?

If you want your affiliate marketing  business to take off flying you need to
be able to create the best landing page possible. You do this by testing various campaigns to find the most profitable ones. Authority Pro WordPress Theme quickly gives top quality optimized landing pages that you can use to promote your business products.

Of course it does take a certain amount of experience to know how to build a web page that get tremendous results.  Bryan McConnahea & Alex Goad top marketers launched Authority Pro last year, 2010.  Top of Google still for the keyword “Authority Pro”

WordPress

What started out as a great platform for blog owners  and has become a highly touted content management system. Referring to WordPress, it’s a zero cost resource that can make just about anyone into an efficient on-line writer.

WordPress makes it simple to create websites. It makes it easy to add or revise website content. It’s search engine oriented, extremely backed and is flexible enough to address virtually any sort of undertaking. As a result, its level of popularity is growing with a fast speed. It offers a number of themes, providing its users the choice to build sites with an limitless number of looks and properties.

Getting Even More from WordPress

One can find numerous WordPress themes that replicate the design and sense of static web sites. They can be an appropriate solution for some functions. Even so, these kinds of themes will not possess the versatility needed to tackle many web marketing needs. They might also lack the looks you may be expecting from a high quality site.

That leaves internet marketers who’d love to take advantage of the capability of WordPress with only a few options. Either they can become expert theme developers or they can benefit from a powerful theme development engine to generate the type of web sites they require to obtain the most desirable results. Thats a lot of work!

Mastering the nuances of WordPress and coding fails to inspire a good number of marketers. They’re more excited about quickly producing and implementing lucrative ventures. They’re not really enthusiastic about the idea of turning into designers or coders. Only those who already have a great deal of expertise in these areas will be interested in generating customized themes for plans.

A theme engine is more efficient. A theme engine is a exceptionally easy to customize WordPress theme that may be modified to serve a variety of unique tasks. A marketer can use a good engine to create themes with various webpage layouts and styles, making use of necessary resources.

If you have ever tried to build a website with wordpress before you will have found it frustrating to search for the perfect theme and then to spend more time looking for great plugins to customise the look of your blog. I know I have spent hours and hours doing just this, and I have over 10 blogs! I can not wait to get all my blogs on these powerful features. It even has the feature that  offers you a different product as you are leaving, “wait before you go  click the offer button – you’ve seen it before the little silver cancel or stay button. I always wondered how to do that, now I know.

Even some of the more adaptable premium themes can’t perform the job. A good theme engine, on the other hand, can make it easy to build a powerful squeeze page, a attractive sales page, good looking supporting pages, sign up forms and almost everything else needed to transform a raw idea into a money maker. The proper theme engine makes it easy to utilize sign up forms, video, audio tracks and other internet marketing components, too.

The Ideal WordPress Theme

The very best WordPress theme is much more than one theme. It’s a tool that can make it possible for you to produce the website pages you must have to realize success. A fantastic theme engine will deliver customizability, good quality design components, versatility, complete compatibility with crucial tools, and remarkable ease of use.

The WordPress Authority Pro engine, for instance, manages to rate well on all of these fronts. It makes it achievable for entrepreneurs to develop site designs by dragging and dropping personalized components. It comes with collection of potent customized widgets, works well with just about all of the most well-known IM resources and preserves the simplicity new WordPress users need.

Some features of Authority Pro:

• star ratings
• pop over exit
• seo optimized
• h 1one headers
• product reviews
• split testing ready
• 11 custom widgets
• 25 – 30 features
• seo elements built in
• full feaured blog layout
• 7 differnet types of media
• click cancel – a different offer
• title exact product reviewing
• tips walk you thru every step
• closed affiliate links stay on page
•  your never left wondering what to do
• all social media adds credibilty to page
• opt-in forms, landing or squeeze pages
• air tight conversion machine with no leakage
• naviagation links removed by custom widget -
• no distractions, no comments, add exit script pop up
• no comments boxes -  you can remove it with one click
• sales page – big red headline – sales post headlines box
• can create your own pop up with different authority link to squeeze page / landing page
• flexabilty and power of AuthorPro can remove entire right side bar with one click – full width

To clear up any confusion about what Authority Pro actally does
with its great technology => watch the Authority Pro Demo Video
to get the feel for the power it can unleash on a normal wordpress
blog.  =>http://bit.ly/AuthorityProBlogs

 (Link takes you to the video /some time to load. Bookmark this site first.)

Posted on 1st February, 2011 | | 1 Comment

 Two new sites you should start using today!

Put your wallet away,  neither requires any outlay…
Two things we always need are more ways for people to
find our sites and a bigger targeted audience – and
both of these sites help you with both issues!

 The first one is like Tweet Traffic Rush except it
shows your links instead of your tweets, while the
second is a new social media site like Facebook but
designed for those of us in the IM world…

With Adzly, you can create your own ads and have
them displayed on potentially thousands of other
websites completely for FREE!

Adzly is totally changing the way people advertise
and once you see what they are doing, you will
understand what I am talking about.

See it for yourself here …

IMfaceplate

The adzly ad network rewards you for just displaying ads, it means that you are truly benefitting off all the traffic you get to your faceplate, your articles, and all the pages that your referrals visit while interacting on IM faceplate!

From the IMfaceplate forum

What do you love about IM?

It’s very different than other sites. You can go to some one face and leave a comment and see what groups they’re in and check out what articles they’ve written and what business they’re in. You can even see what videos they have on youtube.

They have a lot of features and are adding many more all the time. I’m looking forward to making lots of friends and getting to know everyone here very well.

I like the people here too everyone is so friendly and the atmophere is great for marketers. I love the articles and they way they show up in Google for your keywords. So you really do not have to promote to members here and they will read your articles if they are truly interested. Most of your clicks will come from the search engines which is how it should be. With IMFaceplate if you build it they will come! I am sending my marketing efforts to my article links with a url shortner. I think it will be better than Facebook for marketing and will grow just as big.

Get hooked up with both today and take a few
minutes to check each of them out so you know how
to use them to bring you more biz…

See you there…
PS – Neither will cost you a cent, but each could
put a few extra bucks in your pocket each month from
the increased exposure – bump up your visibility by
using these both, start today!

Posted on 25th November, 2010 | Tags : blog marketing, blogging, internet marketing | 3 Comments

If you want to make money blogging,  you must be passionate about what your doing. 

Don’t think for a second that it’s misplaced sentimentality either! Why would your feelings make a difference? If the numbers look good, you have a moneymaking  niche on your hands, right?

Not quite!

Again and again we’ve noticed that marketers who really care about their niches make more money than those who don’t. There are some strong justifications for choosing a niche you love. Let’s examine a handful of them.

Initially, those who love a niche are more likely to create quality content for their blogs. If you know and care about a topic, you’re less likely to produce factually inaccurate material. You’re also more likely to supply content that connects with the audience. When you’re passionate, you’re simply a better all-around blogger and you’ll be better able to make money online.

Second, you’re much less likely to abandon a project if you care about the subject area. Motivation is a big part of successful blogging and those who work with their passions tend to find that motivation at a level others don’t. Blogging isn’t a one-off way to make money. Success relies on updates and ongoing attention. The failure to choose a niche that excites you can lead to project abandonment.

Third, making money in a niche you love opens doors to other opportunities. If you’re working with your passions, you’re more likely to find ways to expand your operation in profitable directions. If you’re not really interested in widgets, you’re not going to discover some great ways to maximize the value of your widget blog. You won’t find hot-button issues around which to center your content. You’ll miss opportunities. If you’re actually passionate about your niche, you’ll naturally discover new ideas and ways to improve your blogging business.

Finally, it’s fun. It’s just more enjoyable to work with your passions. We all want to learn how to make money online. That doesn’t mean we always need to think purely in terms of money, though. Why shouldn’t we strive to make money and to have fun at the same time?

Remember to consider your feelings when you choose niches for blogging projects. Go beyond simply getting rid of options that are patently unappealing. Actively search out ideas that match your personal passions. Keeping your passions in mind is one of the best things you can do for your business. One of my passions is Weddings and I have several blogs in that niche. It’s a great subject with great interest.