Outsource everything?

It's funny how outsourcing is creeping into the home business industry. I guess it's been around for as long as we've been outsourcing factory labor offshore. You can outsource just about everything you need to keep up with SEO and search marketing for your online product/service. Stuff like blogs, article, press releases, even the whole ball of SEO wax. I received a call from one of these SEO outsourcing companies the other night and after listening to their sales pitch and going thru some real examples on google search results I asked the question, how much? $6k for 6 months they said. So am I really saving $6k/6months if I do it all myself? Well, we'll see . . .

Leverage by outsourcing

Hi folks, I'm back from a little hiatus from the blog. Not that it really matters because I'm fairly confident that I'm the only one reading this blog. Anyway things are getting interesting around the internet marketing environment I'm exposed to. There are some awesome ways teams are providing leverage for their members by way of outsourcing certain aspects of the sales process such as outsourcing the closing of sales to call centers set up specifically for the business. This is great for those who already get tons of calls and leads, so it only makes sense that I wait until I'm in that catagory before signing up for the extra "leverage" ;-)

The sales pitch for the sales call center was quite impressive, albeit brief, and I wonder if members that aren't getting many leads or calls jumped on it because it sounded so promising on the webinar. I mean 20-30% closing percentage, no brainer right?

Well I guess I just need to stay the course and continue to work towards getting organic traffic, of break down and invest in advertising or leads with funds I don't have yet so I can be like the big dogs who actually get so many calls they need something like a call center for leverage ;-)

Ok, my disclaimer (or explanation), to any readers interpreted my puns in a negative way or took it way too seriously, I am in no way, shape, or form, discrediting or debasing the great leverage a sales closing center offers members. I think it's great and will definitely jump on the leverage wagon as soon as it makes sense to take the next step and for me that means getting too many calls or leads or opt-ins, a great problem I'm anxiously anticipating.

Weekend of damage control

I’ve been scrambling over the weekend to do some damage control on what I call a typical rookie mistake. You see I had front page search engine ranking for keywords with the first video posted on YouTube. I thought it was easy to do so I decided to tweak on the video. If you are marketing anything online and want to try YouTube then here’s lesson number one for novice YouTubers (yes, that’s me) using the platform as a free form of advertising. If you ever get on coveted page one (or even pg 2) of organic natural search engine results then NEVER EVER replace or remove the YouTube video that got you there. If you want to continue the prime position of first page search results then avoid any temptations to do this, period. Organic natural page one ranking is coveted and has the best potential to drive traffic to your site because people tend to be more interested on first page results, duh. Long story short, I thought I was merely replacing upon removing the video and boy was I wrong (and dumb/stupid/ignorant/unaware/naïve/etc/etc/etc, I conjured up at least 50 more adjectives over the weekend). BUT, as Confucius once said, “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.” So I got busy with 2 more YouTube videos, 2 Squidoo lenses, one paid press release with WebWire ($19), and a free press release with IdeaMarketers. I also tweaked on keywords a bit, removing excess baggage and replacing with just 3 targeted keywords. At the time of this writing, Monday afternoon, I’m happy to report that I’m back on page 2 search results (top of the page), which is a vast improvement from being on page nowhere. There’s a couple other interesting things discovered over the weekend that I’ll save for another blog.

Oh yea, I am changing the titles and format a bit since this is becoming more freestyle and spontaneous than previous posts where I was a bit obsessed with what readers thought of my writings. Well I’m over it now, who cares? Besides, no one is reading my stuff and for all I know it just makes good food for search engine spiders, bots and crawlers, so they say . . .

Cheers,
New Netpreneur

Squidoo and WebWire

Hi folks, in the last couple days I’ve posted another press release and a squidoo lens. These are excellent outlets for promoting your website and the search engines like it too. Remember to keep your keywords targeted and relevent by using them in titles and context of your press releases and lenses.

Sincerely,
New Netpreneur
Email: Global.Wealth.Funnel@gmail.com
Web: www.Global-Wealth-Funnel.com

Organic search engine results with YouTube

YouTube, now this stuff really works for getting you up there in rankings on organic search engine results. I can attest to it now that I see my ranking in youtube. Amazing how this stuff really works! But it didn’t come easy. I absolutely struggled getting my first YouTube video online and eventually to my website. I did so many retakes I had to recharge the battery on my video camera at least three times because it went totally flat, no juice! And I lost my voice to boot! I shot the video outside on my deck which made for some unique challenges like my neighbor blowing leaves in his backyard with his super loud blower, school buses dropping off kids, including my own, and bugs flying up my nose, albeit good source of protein it was somewhat distracting. Now one good thing about shooting the video outside was the nice ambient sound of birds singing in the backyard. Here’s a good hint for a newbie shooting your first video. Don’t do like I did and try to read or memorize a script. It sucks! I mean, unless you are a trained professional actor/actress or reporter it comes across like you’re reading a hand written medieval manuscript aloud, you get the picture. If you have to write anything down to help you make the video just make it bullet points and then try to speak passionately about the bullet points without coming across with too much hype in your delivery. Easier said than done, I know. If you see my video it’s, well . . . you know what they say . . . you are your own worst critic. Needless to say I’m definitely shooting another video to replace what I have up now on my website, just as soon as the battery is fully charged.

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Stay tuned for part 9 tomorrow.

Sincerely,
New Netpreneur
Email: Global.Wealth.Funnel@gmail.com
Web: http://www.global-wealth-funnel.com/

Webhosting and WYSIWYG html editor

For anyone trying to get a website up and experience challenges (feel dumb), like me, to design, edit and publish your site to your webhost then I highly recommend trying BlueVoda Website Builder. It’s an easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) html editor and it’s free! You can even get a free domain name if you use VodaHost web hosting service. They offer very reasonable prices too, go ahead and shop around for web hosting prices to compare. Now I was first introduced to BlueVoda by my friend Sara Johnson. I wanted to see how far I could get on my own without asking for her help. When I first opened BlueVoda program I thought it would be easy to set up a basic webpage and get off to a quick start with my internet business. In fact I thought I could impress her with my techie skills so I set out to create a basic webpage by myself and gave it a wholehearted attempt. Well the first thing I discovered is how much I didn't know about website design and BlueVoda. So I racked my brain and spent a bit of time, actually LOTS of time, trying to figure out BlueVoda basics. Well I'm not much for reinventing anything so I reached out to Sara who coached me thru BlueVoda 101 and showed me how to get started. It literally took just one coaching session with Sara to get me on the right track. I'm having lots of fun now applying what Sara taught me about BlueVoda and website design. In fact I use BlueVoda everyday adding links and images and just tweaking here and there to make it just right. I even added my first YouTube html link and it was easy thanks to Sara! I would highly recommend Sara for anyone new to BlueVoda and website design. She explains things clearly in layman terms and is a joy to work with. Thanks Sara!

If you want to contact Sara you can reach her at sjjohnson@sympatico.ca, and tell her I said hello ;-)

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Tune in for part 8 tomorrow.

Sincerely,
New Netpreneur
Email: Global.Wealth.Funnel@gmail.com
Web: http://www.global-wealth-funnel.com/

Mini website in 30 minutes - live on webinar!

I attended another webinar for one of the GRN teams members and guests, thee really got deep into some html training and within 30 minutes created a personal branded website with a free template from www.coffeecup.com, complete with YouTube video, Aweber java script for his auto-responder, and basically a few keystrokes from rock-n-rollin some cash into his already deep pockets. It was pretty impressive stuff for a newbie like me, and inspiring too. I think even I can do this now. It’s beginning to sink in now and I’m really starting to understand Internet marketing.

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Stay tuned for part 7 tomorrow.

Sincerely,
New Netpreneur
Email: Global.Wealth.Funnel@gmail.com
Web: www.Global-Wealth-Funnel.com