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In business, as well as in life, we all face many challenges. Some harder than others.

My biggest challenge lately has been making time to work on my own business.

I have learned in the last few months that when you charge an hourly wage, people (clients) don’t seem to value your expertise and experience as much.

As a result of that lesson, I am working on putting together ‘packages’ for our clients. I believe the result will be beneficial not only to us but for our clients as well.

What is your biggest challenge right now? Can we help?

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We have a really great FREE course which walks you through everything you need to know about building a website with WordPress.

Check it out here!!

BUT we also now have a kind of support group for anyone taking the course.

It will be a FREE FB group where you can ask any techy questions you might have. You can also ask us any questions you have about online marketing.

If this is something that is of interest to you, send us a brief message here with your Facebook email and we will add you to the group!

One of the biggest mistakes people make when working online is trying to go it alone.

You don’t know what you don’t know. This is where we can help.

Stop struggling and spending hours researching things you need to do.

Sign up for our FREE course and FB group now and get your questions answered!

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Robert Albert Bloch said,

“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”

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Namecheap – For buying a domain name
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Sincerely,

Angela and Kathy

Are you struggling in your business? Have trouble with all the ‘techy’ stuff you need to do?

We have a really great FREE course which walks you through everything you need to know about building a website with WordPress.

Check it out here!!

BUT we have recently decided we want to start a kind of support group for anyone taking the course.

It will be a FREE FB group where you can ask any techy questions you might have. You can also ask us any questions you have about online marketing.

If this is something that is of interest to you, send us a brief message here with your Facebook email and we will add you to the group!

If you send us your email we will add you to the group and.

Last week I issued a challenge – to myself as well! Did you take a whole day off this past week?

I have to confess, I did not. I did take most of Saturday off but ended up doing a little work before bed.

So this week I will try again! lol

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Helen Keller said,

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

Useful Tools

Siteground – Excellent for hosting.
Active Campaign – Our recommended autoresponder
Namecheap – For buying a domain name
Udimi – Safe place to buy solo ads

Sincerely,

Angela and Kathy

Are you struggling to make money in your business? Or feel you have reached a plateau?

Have you considered attending a local live event?

You don’t have to fly across the country like I did. There are many local events in your are that you are probably not aware of.

Visit Meetup.com and see what’s available in your area.

We’re thinking about having a virtual meetup of our own. We would like to know if this would interest you.

Would you be interested in a virtual casual meeting where you could ask us any question about WordPress, SEO, online biz, or any tech question you have been struggling with?

Let us know! Just leave a comment below and tell us what you want to know more about.

I don’t know if you’ve heard of Facebook Chat Bots – maybe you’ve been living under a rock for the past year.

Some debate that it is too impersonal but let me tell you why Chat Bots can be a massive asset to your business.

If you have a Facebook Business page then you know you are able to receive messages from Facebook users who visit your page.

BUT do you also know that Facebook rates you on your response time and makes that visible to people who visit your page?

So you can use a Facebook Chat Bot to reply automatically to messages and increase your response rate!

But that’s not all you can do with them!

I think I’m finally recovered from my multiple trips last month.

I didn’t realize just how tiring it can be!

Now that I feel a bit more like myself, I wanted to start sharing with you a few things I learned at ICON17.

Anyone who tells you backlinks aren’t necessary is someone you probably shouldn’t listen to.

Backlinks one website mentioning another website and linking to it. It is not merely referencing the website or it’s web address. It has to be a clickable link using an href attribute within the code. It is the difference between https://thathelpfulchick.com and That Helpful Chick.

Even though the first example displays a URL, the search engines do not register this as a backlink. They are usually visually seen with an underline and a different color to the text.

Google actually likes backlinks and relies upon them. The whole idea behind them is that they help to tell Google what is good and useful out there.

Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they visit.

Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country. There are many ways to monitor this traffic.

Check out these articles to find out more info on how you should be tracking your traffic and what to do with the data you find.

Google Analytics Explained

Increase Website Traffic

Social Proof

“Think of it as building the foundation for massively scalable word-of-mouth.”

Learn the 5 Types of Social Proof

Ever walked past a restaurant with a long line outside, and joined the line because you figured that the food was probably pretty good? If everyone is buying it, it can’t possibly be all bad, right?

1. Over 70% of Americans say they look at product reviews before making a purchase.
2. Nearly 63% of consumers indicate they are more likely to purchase from a site if it has product ratings and reviews.

When you go on Amazon in search of something, do you look at the product reviews before deciding on what to buy?

This was a quick overview of just a few things I picked up at ICON17.

I will go into more details in future emails.

Hope you are having a fantastic week and I’ll talk to soon!

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Leo Buscaglia said,

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Useful Tools

Siteground – Excellent for hosting.
Active Campaign – Our recommended autoresponder
Namecheap – For buying a domain name
Udimi – Safe place to buy solo ads

Sincerely,

Angela and Kathy