What led to this Strange Horse for Sale Video?

First of all I have been dragging my feet about selling Jerry Lee in particular, because he is special. he is smart and personable.  But I made myself post a video on all my horses so this one was all I had, no riding, no training, just Jerry Lee in a pen.  I have been trying out camtasia 7 and it has some cool features I have been trying out, and here I just screwed up while recording the narration on the video, but I neeed to do that once in a while, but I kind of like how it came out.

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Online Revenue Workshop Mastermind

I think the online revenue workshop mastermind is a great idea, for a number of reasons:

• This mastermind is available to all workshop participants before the workshop
  
• Everyone has a  opportunity to expound on what they want to take away from this workshop
• I see what each of the hosts specializes in and what success means to them
  
• I listed what success means to me as well as some of my websites, we all get to do this
• I get to see what others going to the workshop are doing
• I can see what they look like and their interests
• Since I am hearing impaired, I can read about them and can fill in the blanks a bit when we meet
• I can print some of the mastermind sheet so I can remember names and faces better
• I have something to do and read before going to the workshop, sort of like the Sears Catalog before Christmas

You should presume that I make money with the links on this page if you purchase from the links

Why else do you think I am attending this Online Workshop

If you did presume, you were right!

“Are we clear?”

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Want to Learn how to use Local Online Marketing for Small Service Businesses?

If you want to learn how to use local online marketing for small service businesses, I have just the greatest opportunity for you go to: 

Marketing for Small Businesses and opt-in.  This is an excellent way to build up your cash if you are a marketer or, if you have your own service business and have time to use local online marketing, this can really speed up the results.  I think I know a fair bit  about local online marketing, however Connie Green has set up this program to help people just like us.  I am also going to Las Vegas latter this month to a online workshop hosted by Connie Green and Jeanette Cates.  I am looking forward to going there, maybe we can meet up there, check it out Online Revenue Workshop and oh yeah, I signed up for both of these opportunities myself.

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Local Website Marketing for Bellingham Lawyers

We will use Bellingham lawyers for our local website marketing study.  Okay so we need a keyword rich domain name to put a website on, here are a few ideas:

• bellinghamattorney.info
• bellinghamattorney.org
• bellinghamattorneys.info
• bellinghamattorneys.org
• bellinghamlawyers.info
• bellinghamlawyers.org
• bellinghamlawyer.org
• bellingham-attorney.com
• bellingham-lawyer.net
• bellingham-lawyer.info
• bellingham-attorney.info

Okay so which ones do I use?  Well here are the ones I chose:

• bellinghamattorney.info
• bellingham-attorney.com
• bellinghamlawyers.info

Why these choices in domain?  The .info domains are cheap for one year $1.07 at GoDaddy.com and bellingham-attorney.com was only dot com left.  The .org domains would work too as well as the .net.  If I was a Bellingham layer I would pickup some of these domains, since I am not an attorney or lawyer I am going to think a while, at least over night before I but a few of these domains on speculation.  A good domain name will certainly help my local website marketing for bellingham lawyers.

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Local Internet Marketing for a Bellingham Attorney

When I think of local internet marketing I think about doing it for a Bellingham attorney, because that is where I live and so I could use a lot of offline marketing methods to find an attorney that wants more clients.  This should not be hard, remember those big full page ads event half page ads in the Yellow pages testify to their dsire for more clients, so lets take a look at Google’s external keyword tool again.

If I wanted to test these keyword statistics I would create a web site with the following pages in it:

• bellingham attorney
• bellingham attorneys
• bankruptcy attorney bellingham
• injury attorney bellingham
• dui attorney bellingham
• divorce attorney bellingham

I would find news stories, articles, maybe even list some attorneys in Bellingham that specialize in those areas.  I would see how much traffic I could drive to those pages and then armed with those stats I would contact attorneys in Bellingham by what ever offline method I chose.  Since most of the attorneys have little local internet marketing going on, this is wide open for development.

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Local Business Marketing

If you want to make the best use of your time and energy helping local businesses get online, start with smart local business marketing research. Quit guessing which businesses spend big ad dollars, go to the Yellow Pages or a local business directory that has big display ads.

Go through the listings, you’ll find a niche that has full-page or very large display ads, write them down. Continue searching all the way to the end you will have more than enough potential niches.

You will find a lot of businesses and professions that advertise like this:

• Home Contractors
• Cosmetic Dentistry
• Medical Doctors
• Insurance Agencies
• Injury Lawyers
• Realtors

These businesses and professionals make big profits on each new customer or client they get. Spending thousands of dollars for local business marketing every month, this is just a fraction of what they receive in profits. You can be the one that gives them great value for their advertising dollar.  Just because there professionals earn large sums of money doesn’t mean they deserve a fleecing, you will be able to provide a quality service at a price point  so it is a win – win situation.

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Go Local Marketing

Put a New Plan in place using your Internet marketing skills: Go Local Marketing.  Maybe you’ve made a little money online and have a basic understanding of the business. So why not take your skills and help local merchants and service providers market their merchandise, products or services. You might be able to help them scale up any special cabability that they want to promote. Best of all, you can organize it so they give you monthly, recurring cash.

Usually brick-and-mortar local businesses know their business inside out, but don’t know how to market effectively.  Most of the time they do what their competition is doing, but they don’t venture outside the box. You, as a local marketer, can help them do things they may never even knew existed.

You must understand that what local businesses need is not a lecture in local Internet marketing. They need you to look at what they’re doing with virgin eyes and and listen to them. The last thing you should do is stroll into a local business with a “business in a box” remedy all worked out ahead of time. You need to know what the problem is before you throw out any solutions.

Don’t build a product or service, then check to see if anybody is interested in buying something like it. Do your extensive market research first. Locate the hungry buyers who are already searching for a local marketing system and build your services and products to match.

Research the Local Market 1st

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Local Marketers

Is there really a need for local marketers who have a firm grasp of what a local business needs to increase their customer base?  Well let’s see;

• 75% of Americans use search engines on a regular basis.
• 56% of all Americans using one every single day.
• 40% of all search engine searches are for local businesses and services.
• 54% of Americans regularly use the internet instead of the phone book to find local services
• 92% of all local searches will eventually convert into a sale

There are some local businesses that use some of their staff to promote their business online and some are actually good internet marketers.   Then there are the others who have dabbled a bit with no results, and still more businesses have been snookjered by web design firms that made a website for them, some time quite beautiful, but still no customers showing up.

Why are there no new customers flocking to the business?  A local marketer that understand how internet marketing actually works and can implement online strategies that attract the customers, can turn many of these hopless situations around so the shop keeper can run their shop and concentrate  on providing good service, not wondering how the new customers are going to find them.

Local Marketers can supply this valuable service, if they have a good understanding of local internet marketing.

For a Free Local Internet Marketing Report ( click here )

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Marketing for Local Business

Sometimes we go about marketing for local business on purpose and sometimes it just happens by accident let me show you how this happened to me this past summer.  I was going to a couple of Dennis Reis horsemanship clinics in Albany Oregon and Puyallup Washington.  I made a couple of blog posts about the clinics and I also wanted to give away some free tickets Dennis had given me.  Now I mainly did it to increase the numbers in the bleachers as like most clinics or seminars the people that really need the information don’t show up.

Here is what showed up in Google for Albany OR

As you can see I got :

• Blog post
• US freeads posting I made
• A squidoo lens I made
• A sub domain
  

All on the 1st page of google for the keyword phrase dennis reis albany

Here is what showed up in Google for Puyallup WA

I ended up with 5 listings at the top of google’s 1st page

• my subdomain
• US freeads
  
• a blog post
• another blog post
• My squidoo lens
  

How did all these happen?  I blogged about it and set up a separate subdomain just for the free tickets, I posted an ad in US freeads, and finally I made a squidoo lens about the Dennis Reis tickets.  All very inexpensive or free to do.

Surprise where the hell is Cookville ?

I looked at the list of cities listed in the Dennis Reis tourstop  information and saw the  name Cookville, thought I see how I did there.

Wow 4 listings for a place I never knew existed, all because my content had the city name in it, so from now on I think I’ll include content like:

The Horse Barn serving all of Whatcom County including

• Bellingham
• Ferndale
• Lynden
• Nooksack
• Blaine
• Sumas
• Maplefalls
• Acme
• Custer
• Cookville ….oops

Well you get the idea, go get it done and start marketing for your local business.

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