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Ever dreamed of working from home?  Managing your own schedule and having the flexibility to care for the kids while still earning money?

Starting an internet business can seem daunting.

Besides the mysterious techie stuff, how do you know what to do?  What are the options?

The best way to start a profitable internet business is with a good guide.

I have just completed a Squidoo lens (a type of article) which gives a broad overview of the process of building an internet business.   This would be a great place to start your investigation of the possibilities.

If you want more information, there are many sources I can recommend.  But it is always easiest to give a recommendation, if I know specifically your needs and goals.  Contact me through the comment form, and we can schedule a free 30 minute consultation about what your business goals are, and how best to go about meeting them.

In our consultation, we will discuss:

• What your income goals are
• How much time you have available for your business
• What your interests are
• What your skill level is
• What parts of internet business would you enjoy the most

By the end of the call, I will help you formulate a plan to begin your internet business–a plan that is tailored to you.  If you love writing, maybe you need to blog.  If you love chatting on the phone, maybe your business model will involve a lot of customer consultations.  Do you spend a lot of time online clicking around?  Maybe you’re good for social media.  Got money but no time?  Try PPC.

There are many,  many business models online and they are not one size fits all.  But when you begin, you don’t know where to start.

In my free 30 minute consultation, I will help you make a plan which points you in the direction that fits you best.

The best way to start a profitable internet business is to not do it alone.

Your Two Step Plan to Start an Internet Business:

1. Read How To Start an Internet Business Profitably
2. Contact me to schedule your free 30 minute consultation.

Finding an online copywriting course is not hard.  Everywhere you look, some new internet guru tells you the best way to write, what to say and how to say it.

But the best copywriting course is not just a lesson in writing, it’s a complete package showing you when, where and how to use the writing in your complete business model.

For example, let’s look at lead capture pages.

Every online business should have lead capture pages.  These are the pages that people enter their email address and give you permission to send them emails.  Usually people give their email in exchange for something, a free report, a video, or some piece of information.

Lead capture pages are some of the trickiest copywriting because you don’t yet have a relationship with your reader.  This is the stage when you have just met them and want to ask them on a date.  Is a simple afternoon coffee the best, or do you go to dinner?  Too pushy and you loose them and to weak and you’ve never caught their interest.

Any online copywriting course will tell you how to write the lead capture page, but what do you do with it then?  How do you drive traffic to it?  What do you do after you have the emails? If you got a “yes” to your date, then what do you do?

The most complete online copywriting course I know is a complete online business course–Renegade Professional.  This membership site includes information from niche research all the way to customer retention.  You get the information through dozens of tutorials which give click by click instruction on how to build an online business.


Watch this free sample of the first video in “Creating your Own Lead Capture Pages” (this is the first of 4 videos in this series).  This 50 minute tutorial on “Creating Lead Capture Pages” covers introducing what lead capture pages are, the elements of the page, options on setting them up (free and paid) and finally, creating the free give always that accompany the pages.

This video is just one small example of what you will find in Renegade Professional.

Are there online copywriting courses which are more specific to just copywriting than Renegade Professional?  Of course.  But if you need to build your copywriting skills in the context of your whole business, I highly recommend Renegade Professional as the place to start.

Are you prepared for the coming depression?

Robert Kiyosaki’s new book “Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money” will be released in September.  In this interview, he asks us whether you are prepared for both types of depressions.

What?  Two types of depressions?

If you listen or view the news, I’m sure you are as overwhelmed with the news about the economy as I am.  Every day I hear more friends loosing their jobs or getting their hours reduced.  Every day I hear of businesses going under and loved ones having their homes foreclosed.

The economic forecasts are confusing and daunting.

How can we protect ourselves from the ever shifting economy?

Robert Kiyosaki has always recommended being a business owner or investor as a way to control your financial future.  When I started out with “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” many years ago, I completely agreed.

But when I started my business, I soon found out that it was much harder than I thought.  I had great products.  I had lots of enthusiasm.  I even said all the affirmations.

But I had no sales.

My education in business has been long and slow but I have finally found the mentors who help me get on track.

Renegade Professional is the most thorough, the most complete system of step-by-step training I have found.  There are dozens and dozens of click-by-click tutorials of how to use the internet to build your business (and more added every week).

Before I joined Renegade Professional, I had been fooling around, tying to get traffic to my websites and get that traffic to convert to sales for years.  Renegade Professional is a one stop shop which showed me how to put it all together.

For example, through Renegade Professional, I learned how to twitter.  Now twittering is not that hard, but how do you use it to drive traffic to your business?  And once you get new people to your site, what do you do with them?  What are the twitter rules of etiquette?  How can you get like-minded twitterers in one “room” to tweet together?

All of this became clear when I joined Renegade Professional and had one aha moment after another.

Before I knew it, I had traffic to all my websites from twitter.

Renegade Professional pulled it all together for me.  Years of study about internet business had taught me many techniques and skills, but forming them into a cohesive business plan had eluded me.  With Renegade Professional, I not only learned new skills, but learned how to use them to make money.

Join Renegade Professional to get your internet business flying.

So How Do you Get all That Free Traffic Anyway?

Free Web Traffic?  Ya, sure.

If you have been writing for internet for any amount of time, you hear how by properly writing your content, the search engines magnanimously send you lots of free traffic.  And often you write and you write and you write, but you still have not seen any of that miraculous traffic.

Writing for the internet is different than 8th grade English class writing.  As a writer, I’ve had to unlearn many habits, learn new ones, and accustom myself to writing in a style which feels, well…  not writerly.

You can get free traffic through properly written internet content but you must learn how to write properly for the internet.

I have just written a hub page with some step by step instructions for the basics of internet writing:  A Step by Step Guide to Free, Targeted Web Traffic.

Writing internet content to get free web traffic is not hard but until you unlock the secrets, it can seem impossible.  That’s why I highly recommend a membership at Renegade Professional.

At Renegade Professional, you will get in-depth, click by click training on all aspects of internet writing–and many other ways to get free internet traffic as well.

Some of the videos you’ll find:

• Writing with Pull–how to write so that your readers think you’re talking to them.
• Keyword Research
• How to write a title
• How to construct an article
• Content sharing
• Article marketing
• Bookmarking (what to do once you’ve written that content)
• And much, much more…

Renegade Professional covers not only content creation, but many other techniques used to build your online videos.  It has dozens and dozens of videos (I think you could spend weeks full time just trying to listen to them all).

If every time someone asks you, “So how’s your website going?” you’re embarrassed to reply, now is the time to improve your business skills.  Get your membership to Renegade Professional today.

PS. Here’s a tip I’ll share with you:  if you’re not quite ready to jump into Renegade Professional, there is a free “sister” site which has lots (and I mean lots) of information about Attraction Marketing and building your online business.  Renegade University is free, and uses more articles than videos.  It has the same, beefy content, but doesn’t quite have the same breadth.  If you need more free traffic and can’t figure out how to get it, give Renegade University a try.

Twitter is big.

The numbers are growing quickly and it seems like everyone has followers in the hundreds or thousands.

How did they get there?  How do you build your following when you may not even know anyone who twitters?

If you’re lucky enough to already have a client list that follows you on your website, then you’re golden.  Make a few posts about your new twitter account, and they’ll follow you.  Often the rich or famous can build a following quickly just by announcing it.  And often, they can be quite choosy about who they follow–only picking their dearest friends.

But if you’re like many people starting out and you are using twitter to build that following, you’ll need a different strategy.  You’ll need the “if I follow you, then you’ll follow me” plan.

I’ll Follow You and Hopefully You’ll Follow Me

To build your Twitter following, you’ll have to make the first move and join in some conversations with people you don’t know.  It’s a bit like being at a party, and standing in a circle of close friends listening in.  You smile at the right places and try to find an opening where you can contribute to the conversation.

Start by searching for the topic of your business at search.twitter.com For my site www.stress-free-mama.com I might start with “stress”, or “mothering” or the topic of a particular page.   This will find conversations people are having about that topic.

When you find results, click on the profile of the people tweeting, and see if they seem like someone you would like to know.

When I choose who to follow, I try to pick people that I may want to start a conversation with at a party.  For my stress site, I’d pick women, mothers, working mothers, or people juggling lots of activities.

When you find someone you want to follow, follow them. After following them, click on their followers in their profile.  You will have a group of people who are interested in the same person who interest you.  This will build your following in a more directed way.

For example, to build for www.compostheaven.com, I pick people interested in gardening conversations.  When I find a person with a big following who specializes in gardening, I usually check out their followers.

Make it your goal to follow 25 new people every night for 2 weeks.  At the end, you will be following 350 people.

Now the magic of twitter begins.

Many of those 350 people will follow you back.  And when they do, their followers will start to check you out.

Start tweeting right away.  If you are making good, friendly, business-like tweets during that time, both promoting yourself and providing helpful content, you will also get attention.  It feels funny to tweet to no one, but it’s good practice and when people click on your profile later, they will see what you have to offer.

Once people start following you, once a week check on your new followers.

Use the same criteria to choose if you want to follow back–are these people who are related to your business niche and who you would want to meet at a party?  If they are, follow them back.  If not, don’t.  There is no rule that says you must follow back, and you want to build a focused pool of followers for your business.

Local Businesses

If your business is a local one, try using Twitteraholic.com to find people in your city.

Twitteraholic.com gives your ranking on twitter.  Look up your twitter ranking, and when you find it, there is a link that compares you to others in your city.  Follow the people in your city and they may follow you back.

Who’s Really Moving and Shaking?

If your niche is looking for people who already have businesses, you may want to see if your followers are active with their business.  Sometimes a person’s website can show how developed their marketing plan is.

All twitter profiles have a website link.  I always click on that link to see who is doing what.

I use Firefox, and I have installed a handy extension which tells me the page rank and Alexa ranking of every page I visit.  Download SearchStatus for free, and you will get a tiny bar on the bottom of your browser with the page rank information.  I check this to quickly asses if a website is new or developed.  It’s not a fool-proof assesment, but it gives you an idea of what the person is doing.

Helping Your Business Friends and Associates

Not everyone uses Twitter for business, so when you know someone is building their business niche, help them out.  If you have a downline, let them know that you will always follow them.  This makes your followers available to them.

If you are reading this, send me a Direct Message and I’ll be sure to follow you.  We can all help each other get started.

Tweeting is big and using it for your marketing has huge potential.  Getting started is easy.  Go follow some people and start tweeting.

If you have wondered how to join the “Work from Home Moms” club, and thought that you could never do it, Lori Ramsey will inspire you.

Lori Ramsey is a successful work at home mom who raises 6 kids while building her internet business.  She makes a full time income by developing and managing 4 websites, including www.stages-of-pregnancy.com.

On April 17, 2009 I had the opportunity to interview Lori and find out how she does it.  This interview, takes you through Lori’s story–from learning to open an email to eventually creating an income that exceeds her husband’s.  And she tells her story as a chronology of having babies.

Find out how Lori:

• Started with a retail business site and why that was stressful for her.
• How SBI changed Lori’s business and gave her back her dining room table.
• Challenges to being a WAHM.
• How Lori uses “mother time” writes an article in 10 minutes or less.
• How long it took for Lori’s business to take off (less than you think)?
• Lori’s biggest challenge to running her business and what every mom-preneur should know to master it.

Lori’s story is an inspiration to every woman who has dreamed of working from home and caring for her children.

To learn more about Lori Ramsey, please read Work From Home Moms.

Many moms (or is it every mom?) dream of working at home while caring for her kids.  But how do you get started?  Internet business classes are the stepping stone to that dream, but how do you find them?

My favorite website building classes, Site Build It, or “SBI”, not only teach about building your business, they show.

As you work, you actually build your business.  Less theory and more practicality.

You learn by doing and at the end of the class, you have a business, not just a certificate.

Now SBI has a new way to learn: e-learning classes.

You get all the convenience of learning at home, on your own, but with a structure that focuses you.

I started my SBI websites on my own.  It has been a great journey, but it has had a long, slow learning curve.   As a beginner, it was easy to get off track or muddled from all the possibilities.

When I started my websites, e-learning classes at SBI did not exist.  If I had it to over again, I would have started with e-learning.

I like the fact that you have an real, experienced instructor to take your through the process.  As much as the e-world offers flexibility and convenience to the WAHM, there is nothing better than working with a real person.

If you are thinking about starting an internet business, check out my Squidoo lends; Internet Business Classes for tips about deciding if its right for you.

And to learn more about this great e-learning program, read about SBI’s New E-learing Classes.