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Dear {!firstname}: Welcome to the Get Clients Online Ezine by Donna Gunter and OnlineBizU.com
The Best-Laid Plans.....
I wrote last week's article early in the week last week about my participation in Sandra Martini's "Best Fall Ever Program." Unfortunately, despite my best laid plans, the day went to hell in hand basket pretty quickly. Last Wednesday Eric came home from work with heart-attack like symptoms, and so I rushed him to the ER. Fortunately, he had a severe leg infection rather than a heart attack, but we spent all day in the ER before that was determined. He was then admitted to the hospital where he was on a steady diet of IV drip antibiotics. On Saturday he was released and is doing much better, although he still has difficulty walking and is off work for at least two weeks. I'm enjoying the opportunity to actually spend time with him, but it's a sad state of affairs that the only way he can get a day off work is via short-term disability...:)
Needless to say, this unexpected event threw a monkey wrench into my plans, and now I'm trying to find another day to devote to listening to the recordings of the virtual retreat day that I missed. One day, perhaps, I'll actually catch up on everything..LOL
To Your Online Success!
Donna
Donna Gunter, Internet Marketing Coach for Introverts and Online Business Manager
Paid Membership Has Its Advantages!
The teleclasses, downloads, and articles listed below are available to members of OnlineBizU.com as a part of their paid membership. If you're not a member and would like to have immediate access to some great Internet marketing strategies and information, we'd love to have you join us!
New Article: 3 Secrets to Overcoming Your Fear of Self-Promotion
 Learning to promote yourself in your business is a huge stumbling block for many online business owners. Many highly qualified and very smart workers are passed over every day for promotions they deserve because they haven't figured out how to promote themselves within their own company. This fear of self-promotion follows many service business owners into the self-employment world, as well. Here are 3 tips to help you overcome your fear of self-promotion...keep reading
New Biz Automation Tool: Timedriver
 Service business owners often need the ability to schedule appointments online to help them automate their businesses. Many of the systems available require a steep learning curve to get started, are complicated to set up, or don't like you hoped...keep reading
New Biz Download: DOWNLOAD: How To Successfully Market Your Business With A Killer Screencast Video Teleclass with Screencast Expert Lon Naylor audio mp3 and PDF Transcript
 You have probably heard that it's important to make and publish videos to attract and nurture a relationship with your potential clients so that when they ARE ready to buy or hire, YOU are top of mind. Yet many are turned off by the "talking head" videos -- where a business owner is simply speaking into a camera -- and have been seeking a way to create powerful videos to market their business that will deliver valuable information to their target market without having to be a talking head. You'll discover the secrets for making video creation MUCH easier so that your videos WILL work for you! in this 62-minute audio mp3 and 18-page PDF transcript...keep reading
New Teleclass: Wordpress 101: How to Design a Killer Blogsite in Wordpress That Brings You More Traffic, More Clients and More Money with Wordpress Blog Expert, Michelle Hutter
Date: July 20, 2010 at 2 PM Eastern
Have you been thinking about creating a blogsite in Wordpress but are overwhelmed with all of the choices available? How do you know if you're making the "right" decision when you pick your theme, and how can you customize the site for your company's look and feel?
Wordpress offers so many options for blogsite creation as free, open-source software that the average user gets stuck trying to figure it all out. In this program, we'll demystify Wordpress and give you some great tools and resources to help you get started on your blogsite.
In this teleclass, you'll discover:
- important features that make a blogsite different from a regular blog or a traditional website
- the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org -- and when to use each of these
- what is CMS and whether you need to be an HTML expert to use Wordpress
- the best sites to locate free themes and popular, inexpensive paid themes
- easy tips and tricks to customize your theme to make it your ëowní look
- quick ways to add new pages and posts and edit pages
- the top plugins that are essential to every Wordpress site
- how to find and work with a great blogsite designer
- how to deal with Wordpress security issues
If you're thinking about creating a blogsite in Wordpress, you need to be on this call!
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{!firstname}, Pricing Strategies: How Much Do I Charge for My Service? by Donna Gunter, The Internet Marketing for Introverts Coach (TM)
"I'm not sure what to charge my clients" is one of the most common refrains I hear from new online service business owners.. It's a problem that plagues even the veteran business owner as she becomes more aware of her competition and what monetary value her skills hold in the marketplace.
How do you decide how much you're going to charge? Here's the bottom line -- you have to charge enough to be able to sustain yourself in business. Make sure that you're a "true" business owner netting a decent take-home pay each month without depending on savings, another job, or a spouse's income to make ends meet. This rate easily enables you to pay for your overhead and business expenses, ongoing professional training and development, and benefits you had while working for someone else -- things like vacation time, health insurance, life and disability insurance, for starters. And remember, you'll need to factor in what you'll pay in self-employment taxes and state income tax (as applicable) and pay those as scheduled to prevent the tax man from knocking at your door.
Continue reading article and comment on my blog...
Gist
 Ever feel like you have more connections that you can manage? If you count all of your social networking connections, along with your business Rolodex, and others that you email regularly via Gmail or Yahoo mail, the notion of bundling all of these contacts together feels overwhelming, if not impossible.
Then I discovered Gist. Gist helps build stronger relationships by connecting your email inbox to the web to provide business-critical information about the people and companies that matter most to you and your business. While social networks can be an excellent tool to connect with people you might never otherwise meet, getting all that information together in one place has been difficult. Gist helps you unify all of that information in one place in their interface.
When you sign up for a free account, you are invited to import your connections from many platforms, including Outlook, Gmail, IMAP email systems, Linkedin, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, and even CSV imports. Once your import is completed, you can easily find contacts via your search feature at the top of your interface. When looking at a contact, you see a "What's New" box in the left column under their contact details. On the right side, it shows the results of a Google Search for the contact name.
Gist creates a dossier of each contact and gathers a summary of recent activities where your contact is featured or mentioned, including News About Contact, Posts & Tweets from Contact, Emails between you and Contact, and lastly Links and Attachments. This summary windows has a print button in the lower right as well.
If you choose to plug your email into the system, you'll discover many useful pieces of information presented related to email exchanges you've had, as well as calendar items. When I looked at an individual contact, it showed me recent correspondences, and even called out links shared in those emails.
You have the ability to merge duplicates of contacts (very handy!), and I love the fact that when I exported my Outlook contacts to Gist, all of my notes exported as well. Essentially, now I have an online contact database with all the info I need at my fingertips.
Unfortunately, the program doesn't actually sync with your social media profiles. This means if you get more Facebook friends, you need to re-import them. For Linkedin connections you actually have to export from Linkedin, and then import as a CSV file. For Twitter integration, currently it only imports up to 1000 of the people you follow.
Merge all of your connections with your free account here.
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 Thrive Hiring System
One of the most common questions we hear business owners ask is "Where do I find the support I need?"
On the flip side, the number one question asked by virtual support professionals is "Where do I find clients?"
I'm excited to announce that my colleague Tina Forsyth is working hard to answer this question. Tina has put together what she calls the THRIVE job board. A connecting point for virtual support professionals to connect with business owners . Itís a one stop resource for business to find the support they need and a place for you to find clients.
Tina is inviting virtual support professionals of all kinds to visit www.ThriveHiringSystem.com/hire and to set up their profiles. There's no cost for this, it really is about creating a great resource for business owners and helping them finding the help they need in one spot.
As long as you provide some kind of service to online based business owners, you are invited to visit the website and join. Whether you're a Virtual Assistant, Online Business Manager, Affiliate Manager, Web Developer, Copywriter, Graphic Designer, Virtual Event Specialist, Public Relations Expert, Social Media Specialist, Blog Customization Expert, Virtual Bookkeeper, Live Event Specialist, Video & Podcasting Expert --- you are invited to submit your profile.
The THRIVE team will be providing more information in the coming weeks about the bigger picture side of things as the launch later this summer. In the meantime, visit http://www.ThriveHiringSystem.com/hire to watch Tina's video and post your own profile.
 "Dose of Donna" 1:1 Marketing Strategy Session
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Schedule a "Dose of Donna" 1:1 Marketing Strategy Session with me to get your questions answered, action steps defined, marketing strategy outlined, and the exact information you need to move your business forward -- today!
Each session is designed to get you moving forward quickly. Here are examples of how other service business owners have used their sessions:
- outline your marketing plan so you know the exact steps you should be taking and when those should be scheduled
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- determine your signature system and outline the steps in that system
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 "Donna helps you create a truly effective marketing program tailored specifically for your online service business."
I don't write many testimonials. Of the ones I've written, this one -- for Donna Gunter's coaching services -- is by far the easiest, and the one about which I can be the most enthusiastic.
You can read books on how to market your website business (I've read several). You can read newsletters and articles (I've read a ton of them). All this information is very helpful as background information. However, all the books, newsletters, and articles in the world will fall short of taking you where you need to be. This is because they lack the essential ingredients of focus and follow-through… leaving you better informed generally, but essentially stuck in a trial and error rut.
You need Donna's hands on approach -- focused on the unique requirements of your service business -- to tie together all the marketing elements into a truly effective marketing program tailored specifically for your business. And you need Donna's expert guidance along the way as you execute this program.
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 Donna Gunter, author of Get More Clients Online: How to Get 95% of Your Clients from Internet Marketing, and founder of OnlineBizU.com, is an Internet Marketing for Introverts Coach and Internet Marketing Strategist who helps introverted service professionals learn how to marketing themselves online without sacrificing their introverted souls.
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