Growing your list is a very important business building task, but it’s not always easy to know how to do it. This list includes 10 very handy ideas for promoting your newsletter.

1. Put it in the sidebar of your website. Have some sort of headline above the newsletter box to draw…

If there’s one thing that makes it easier for you to grow your list quickly, it’s to give away something valuable in return for the opt-in. If you’re not sure what to give away, here are 50 ideas to get you started.

1.  A free PDF. Give them a report on something or a brief guide on…

A Profile of Facebook

Facebook is the largest social network on the internet. First founded as “Facemash” and then “The Facebook” in 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg, this social network first started out as an exclusive college-only network. It quickly expanded to the general market and has today become the #2…

As a business owner I love free! It means less money out of my marketing budget but not everything free or low cost is actually good. Which is why I'm sharing with you a few of my favorite or low cost online tools to help you grow your business. Most of these offer a paid version of their…

It Works is an amazing company of all natural health and wellness products. I am an independent distributor and would love to provide more info for anyone interested. I personally use these products, I have used our Ultimate Body Applicator wraps on 3 customers this week and all of them saw tighter and firmer skin in 45 min. The photos below are my personal results from my hip/outer thighs: before, 1 hour after a wrap and then 24 hours later. This is not water weight, this is fat…

Hi, my name is Hope and I'm an intern with The Green Life Online. Last month, we put together a Farm Photo Contest, with the aim of promoting local and sustainable agriculture. Yesterday, the voting for the contest went live, as we uploaded the final 13 submissions to our facebook page. It's a really neat project, but it would be even better if we got as many people involved as possible.…

Optimize Your Pinterest Profile

If you have decided to usePinterest for professional reasons think about your profile and how you can be unique and interesting. What will attract people to your boards and…

If you’re a blogger headed off to BlogHer 2012 in NYC in a few days or another social media conference in the near future based on my past experience of traveling to multiple social media conferences here are my top 3 tips to help you connect with brands and PR. Good luck!

Tip 1: Take roughly 250 business cards and have some handy in the…

It’s well documented that many traditional household cleaning products contain chemicals that are known toxins and irritants to the skin, eyes, lungs, kidneys, and other organs. Children, the elderly, and pets are especially sensitive to these chemicals. Natural cleaning ingredients perform well in an array of household cleaning situations and are nontoxic, making them safe to use around…

The Fourth of July is drawing near and barbeque preparations are underway. Fireworks are a traditional part of Independence Day celebrations, but they can also be dangerous. Sadly, children and teens are too often hurt by fireworks. So, before the celebration begins, get your EyeSmart fireworks safety tips from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Of the 9,000 fireworks-related injuries each year, 21 percent are eye injuries and more than half of the victims are young children or…

Bloggers do a lot of things right but I’ve learned from carefully watching other bloggers at conferences, ambassador trips and PR events what they are doing wrong.  I consistently see these four mistakes and in my opinion, they’re costing the blogger money, connections and opportunities.

1.  Hard Sell. The blogger that is about the hard sell approaches the expo table with the young PR lady and tries to tell the young lady how they need a social media campaign or a blogger outreach…

Pinterest is the hottest new social media site and for good reason. A recent survey from Steelhouse showed that Pinterest users are 79 percent more likely to purchase…

Tomorrow, June 5, 2012 from 12:00pm – 12:30pm I’m having the first ever social media lunch hour – or half hour rather. So you can eat lunch, listen and learn. If you’re just waking up on the West Coast, grab a cup of coffee and dial in. 

PR, Brands and Bloggers

You won’t want to miss this chat, free of charge. I’ll be talking with Katie Trautmann who works with…

A few weeks back an amazing company in Australia purchased a slew of lists from HandleYourOwnPR and proceeded to conduct its own textbook perfect PR campaign.  They created amazing press materials with a press release, images and fact sheet on the company.  Of…

Has social media (Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, Instragram, Google) put a whole new twist on the pressure to look good in photos – never has our “Face” been more on display from people we went to grammar school with to colleagues to extended family. How can we put our best “Face” out there? Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel, world-renowned facial plastic surgeon and professor at Boston University School of Medicine, offers these tips to “put your best face forward” in photos.…

As a blogger I want traffic for ad networks, affiliate marketing, the brands I work with and because it feels good when lots of people come to your blog and read your stuff! To increase my traffic I am careful to do keyword research, have a blog that is search engine optimized (SEO), posts that include keywords and more! Below are some key pointers to help you get started with SEO to help drive traffic to your business!

Where do you rank?

The first step is to…

Facebook is probably the world’s most popular website.  If you are working online, you don’t need to have a presence on there, but considering that millions of people of just about every demographic use it - why not?

One issue with Facebook is that so many people use it; you are forced to deal with annoying issues.  I know as you read this you instantly compiled your own list of annoying Facebook behavior.  If you can’t think of 5 annoying…