Category Archives: Technology

Tips, tools and links on technology for coaches and virtual assistants.

Getting Prospects to Your Website (Traffic)

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Kenn Schroder

How many people came to your website each month over the last three months? Where did they come from? No idea? None? There are typically two culprits causing your lack of traffic: Culprit #1 – You have no visibility strategies. … Continue reading →

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Your Business Blog – Doing It Right

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Janet Slack

Blogs are a great way to connect and build relationships with your potential clients. They give your audience a way to get to know you and your brand and to participate in your community. Of course, you want to maximize … Continue reading →

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Software To Use to Draw Out Your Ideas

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Tammy Barbee

In the past, I used to draw my ideas out on a piece of paper until I discover a software that will allow me to draw my ideas for my business and in turn to demonstrate to my clients. This … Continue reading →

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How to Integrate Flickr Photos into Your WordPress Blog

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Tammy Barbee

Photos can be a great way of giving support to your blog whether it is within the blog post itself or on the sidebar to link to a photo gallery. The majority of us either use a self-hosted blog like … Continue reading →

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10 Home Page Attractors that Draw Clients to You

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

You want clients to see you as the coach to hire. To do this, you want your clients to see you as a very, very, very, very, very good solution to helping them overcome their challenges and helping them attain … Continue reading →

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Email Marketing and Autoresponders

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Janet Slack

A mailing list is your most valuable asset, but it will only work in your favor if it is handled with care. It is absolutely vital that you know how to use the power of that list to its greatest … Continue reading →

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How to Set Message Rules in Outlook Express

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Don H. Morris

Hi, Everyone, Those of us who get lots of messages in our email Inbox every day day may find it difficult to keep them all straight unless we set up message filters, which most email programs allow. This is especially … Continue reading →

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Text Link Usability to Keep People Longer

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

Noisy, ugly, confusing pages scare people away. Easy to read and use pages keep people longer. Ever seen a page with more links than sand in the Sahara? And to make it worse, have you seen such a page with … Continue reading →

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2 Key to Compelling Website Content

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

2 Key to Compelling Website Content: being specific and immediately valuable. In the Neil Fiore’s book, “The Now Habit,” he explains that immediate rewards are very powerful for motivating people to getting started on their work. For me, taking a … Continue reading →

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3 Minimalist Keys (increasing website effectiveness)

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

A quick story. About two years ago, I decided to make my business mobile. I got rid of office equipment (computers, phone, printers), removed extra software (lots of MS stuff), and stopped various office tasks (printing stuff and filing). I … Continue reading →

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Starter Social Networking Strategies for Coaches

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

Essentially, social networking is setting up a profile in a network (e.g. Facebook) and becoming “friends” with others who use the same network. As friends, you will be able to share, see and partake in various happenings, updates, and events … Continue reading →

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Chicken Scratch Model for Website Attraction

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

Above is a 5 step diagram on getting potential clients to your website and into your marketing systems so that eventually they become clients. Details Prospects – Potential clients are out there with challenges. You will need to get something … Continue reading →

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Coaching Newsletters: Dead or Not?

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

What is dead: creating a generic success-is-easy newsletter for which there are too many. What is not dead: keeping in touch with potential clients with helpful, wanted information. What will never die: using email to keep in touch with people. … Continue reading →

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How a SiteMap Brings You Traffic from Search Engines

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

If you are actively optimizing your website pages to bring traffic from search engines, then you will want to create and optimize a SiteMap page. A SiteMap is a single page containing links to all of the other pages of … Continue reading →

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Three Musts for Getting Free Sessions from Your Website

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Kenn Schroder

Many coaches dream of the idea of putting up a website and somehow, magically, clients will come. In working with coaches on their websites for 5 years, this has never happened. You’ll need these three things to get more free … Continue reading →

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