Many new online business owners wonder how to get more subscribers to their newsletter. Simply putting a form on your website that says “enter your email address and sign up for my newsletter” will not get you a huge number of subscribers. In today’s world people are hesitant to just give away their email address. The prime way to get a website visitor’s email address is to offer a free giveaway – such an eBook. However, you don’t need to stop with just writing free content for your readers and waiting for them to connect with you when you send them out your newsletter. Another great benefit to giving away your eBook is that people assume that once you have written a book you are an expert and a leader in your field. Also, once your reader has your book in their hand, there are other items it can include to get them to sign up for your programs and keep returning to your website.
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6 Ways To Make Your Free Giveaway A Success
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Which Social Media sites do you need to join?
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, GooglePlus, Instagram – there are so MANY social media sites out there!
However, which site should your business be on? Where should you spend the most of your time and resources? If you hire a virtual assistant specializing in social media, where do you want them to focus?
The answer depends on the type of business you operate.
If you are a speaker – then you want to demonstrate your speaking skills. YouTube is where you belong first and foremost. You want potential clients to be able to see you demonstrating your speaking skills in your videos on your YouTube channel. You YouTube videos should also be embedded on your WordPress website so visitors can see you speaking directly on your website.
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Web 2.0 For Business
Is Social Media a good investment for your business? Should your business be active in web 2.0 for business.
While this idea started as purely social, it has turned into something that businesses are embracing as well. Each time the internet changes, businesses need to change, too or else they won’t get the sales they want.
Facebook and Web 2.0 for Business
Now, in order to find success with sites like Facebook, a business needs to think about the very elements that make the site special and unique. The site is a place for people to socialize and participate in communities. If the business wants to sell their product or service, they need to build a community around it.
For example,
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The Viral Nature Of Facebook And Measuring Your Success
As a virtual assistant and social media assistant, I can tell you, the fact that Facebook is so focused on their community makes it a very powerful marketing tool, if you use the site correctly. The idea of the viral nature of Facebook is that you want to help encourage people to recommend your profile, product, service, application, and content to others.
In order to achieve success on Facebook, this viral nature needs to exist. And, it will naturally if you create things that others find interesting, helpful, or just plain neat.
Are you unsure of how to take advantage of the viral nature of the site? As a virtual assistant and social media specialist I can tell you your number one goal is to make sure that all of your content somehow relates to the product or service you’re trying to promote on the site.
Here are some tips from your virtual assistant and social media specialist.
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More About WordPress And Plugins
WordPress and plugins are a great combo together. WordPress is a pretty good facility in its own right, but adding on the usefulness of plugins can and does increase the power of the WordPress tool. Although, it must be noted that WordPress.com takes the security of its site so seriously that it does not allow plugins on its WordPress.com website itself.
WordPress.org vs. WordPress.com
The differentiation is that plugins are permitted on the sites which accept the WordPress.org software; and, there is a huge difference.
Confusing it may be, but WordPress.com is not WordPress.org and plugins are not allowed on the former but they are allowed on the latter. That is the first of the differences.
Now, there is open source software issued for bloggers which needs to be downloaded onto your own PC. This software is provided by WordPress.org and this is a software program, pure and simple.
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