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Were you planning on going, too?

Feb 10, 2011 in News Flash

There’s a new development regarding the free webinar that
I mentioned in my article this week (and I recommend you
do go! I’ll definitely be there myself!)

It’s called…

“The Insider’s Guide to Making Great Money
Online With Info-Marketing”

Get the details here

It’s about using information-based products (downloadable)
to create an additional income stream and attract more
high-quality clients to your business in the process.

This concept works like a charm for service-based businesses.
I’ve been doing it for years, so I know first hand.

But I just got a message from the guy who’s doing the webinar
saying that it’s already OVERBOOKED! That means there are
more than 1,000 people registered. Wow!

The webinar is TONIGHT!

So if you were thinking of going, you can still register,
but you’ve got to show up at least 5 minutes early to be
sure you can get in. (Some people will get shut out)

Register here

If you can’t make it, there will also be a replay available,
but you’ll want to be there live if at all possible.

His message also said he’ll be sharing some EXTREMELY
valuable (premium quality) special training only with those who
show up LIVE and it will NOT be included on the webinar replay.

So I’m DEFINITELY planning to show up early!

Word is spreading fast because this guy is a real expert
and is a self-made multi-millionaire from selling ONLY
info-products online!

Hope you get to go too. :-)

Gabrielle

PS – I’m giving you this tip about the webinar because it’s
a great way to position yourself head and shoulders above your
competition AND attract high quality clients at the same time.

It’s not often that you can get this kind of true cutting edge
guidance for free, so I wanted to make sure you knew about it.

Register here

The BEST Way I’ve Found to Attract More Customers and Beat Your Competition

Feb 08, 2011 in Articles, News Flash, Smart Choices

Have you ever thought about what a little bit of fame could do for your business?

If you were well-known in your field as an expert, what kind of customers could you attract?

Best-selling business authors are assumed to be the best in their field, usually because they’ve written articles and/or published a book. That’s the catalyst that helps get them invited to appear on TV spots or radio talk shows. And you can be sure that that kind of publicity works wonders for their business.

SECRET REVEALED: Business authors don’t write books to make money from the book sales, but to make sales because of the authority and notoriety they get from the books!

But when we think about it, what great feat have they accomplished?

Nothing too difficult, really. They’ve provided some helpful information related to their field of expertise…and made it easily accessible to the public. That’s it!

Guess what?

You can easily (and quickly) do nearly the same thing and start positioning yourself as the go-to authority in your field too! That’s what will help attract high-quality customers to your business like a magnet (and they won’t complain about your prices, either!)

Why So Few Do It

Q: If it’s so easy, why don’t more business owners do it?

A: Because writing a book can be a huge, time-consuming project…when done the hard way, which is how most people do it. It can take a long, LONG time. Most entrepreneurs cannot afford that much time. And once it’s finally written, they don’t know how to get their book published.

But that’s actually VERY good news for you!

With the Internet and online technology, it is quite easy (and MUCH faster than traditional methods) to publish information, whether in writing, as audios, or with videos (or all three!).  You can even SELL your information to create another income stream for your business!

This is exactly what I’ve done in my own virtual bookkeeping business, and it has brought me FAR more high quality clients than I can possibly serve myself. I regularly refer incoming client inquiries to colleagues because I am truly booked solid. (And they always want to know how I’m able to keep pulling in so much business!)

How did I get my business to this point?

Simply by providing helpful, instructional information online surrounding my expertise as a QuickBooks trainer and consultant. I’m just sharing my knowledge using what are called info-products.

And here’s the secret – if you are a professional in your field, you can DEFINITELY do this too. You could start by offering a free or low-priced special report on your company website.

That’s actually how I got started.

And the best part is, once you do it, it’s like having a little salesperson working for your business 24/7! Online technology automates the whole thing.

And I’ve got to tell you, it sure is a nice little bonus to open your email in the morning and find out that you’ve made sales (and found new customers and prospects) overnight while you were sleeping.

Will This Work For YOU?

Creating small, but effective info-products works for ALL kinds of businesses, but it’s especially powerful for service-based businesses.

Because so few people are doing this effectively, creating small but valuable informational products positions you as the obvious expert and the person your prospects will trust and want to do business with when they need your services. In effect, you won’t have any competition!

If you can see how powerful it would be for your business to position yourself as an authority simply by providing useful information geared toward your best customers’ needs, then I highly recommend you serious consider publishing simple information products as lead generators for your business. It’s really quite easy.

And remember, you can even sell the information to create an additional revenue stream. Few ways of marketing your business is sweeter than that!

But I bet you’re wondering, “Where do I begin?”

I’m glad you asked!

This coming Thursday, February 10th at 7:00 PM (Eastern Time) there’s a FREE online webinar that shows you how to create your first info-product fast AND avoid making BIG mistakes that can really backfire on you and actually KILL your reputation.

Even though I’ve been doing this successfully in my business for years now, I’ll definitely be attending this online event. The guy teaching it is (in my opinion) the absolute BEST!

I always pick up time-saving tips every time I attend one of his events.

If you’d like to attend too (remember, it’s 100% FREE), you can get all the details here:

=> Click Here to attend the Webinar

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Online Services: What They’re NOT Telling You

Dec 01, 2010 in Articles, News Flash, Smart Q & A

More and more small businesses are using web-based software to run key day-to-day functions. Even if you are only using simple tools like online email services or online banking, should you be concerned about the risks? Are the risks real?

Software companies large and small are pushing most of their flagship applications into “the cloud” (accessible only online through a web browser and/or mobile device). Think about QuickBooks, Quicken, and even Microsoft Office. They are all gradually moving us to web versions of their software with eventual plans to phase out the desktop software altogether.

That means your software and your data will no longer be accessed on your own computer, but only through the Internet on computers located in large data centers “somewhere.”

This trend is quickly gaining momentum, especially with the break-neck pace of new “app” development – including how financial information is being accessed and manipulated using mobile devices.

It’s important to listen to what’s NOT being said by the companies promoting “The Move To The Cloud.” Besides it being more convenient to use web-based software, there are other reasons why they are pushing us more and more onto the Internet.

With some tongue-and-cheek humor thrown in, this short video raises some important questions about businesses that are completely dependent on the Internet and cloud-based technology.

What do you think about this? Should we be worried about having vital financial information stored in the cloud? Or is this really no different than the risks we face with our dependency on electricity, or the risk of loss due to theft or natural disaster?

What’s your take on it?

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Two Reasons Why Attending Live Seminars Helps Your Business

Sep 22, 2010 in Articles, News Flash, Smart Choices

1. Live Training

2. In-Person Networking

Nothing can take the place of live training and networking.

Training helps you to keep up with what’s going on in your industry or adapt new strategies that could give your business a fresh angle that puts you miles ahead of your competition.

In-person networking helps you to build strategic alliances and stimulate new ideas that can make a HUGE difference in your business. When you look for ways that you can complement other businesses and make friends in the process, that’s a powerful way to build your business that you just can’t do any other way.

In fact, for many years it’s been my goal to attend at least one major seminar a year. And my business has always prospered from making the investment in attending live events.

This year, I’ll be attending three important training events. And when it comes to getting extremely valuable training AND making important connections by networking, nothing can compare with the event I’ll be attending in Las Vegas November 5-7, 2010

It’s called the Big Seminar (I know, not the most creative name)

If you’ve got a business and you’re trying to use your website as a way to market your business, then I guarantee that learning the best ways to market online EFFECTIVELY will put you MILES ahead of your competition!

(Most businesses have absolutely no idea how to use the Internet to explode their bottom line!)

In fact, this seminar has made a HUGE difference for me in my business.

Ever since I started attending (and using what I’ve been learning) from the Big Seminar several years ago, my revenues have increased…dramatically.

That’s because this is the largest Internet marketing seminar in the U.S. with the best trainers in the industry. All of the faculty members are business owners themselves (many of them self-made multi-millionaires) who are using what they are teaching in their own highly successful businesses.

Doesn’t it make sense to learn from and model those who are already making millions? I think so. In fact, the business owner who runs this seminar, Armand Morin, has an expression worth remembering:

“Success leaves traces.”

Like other seminars, you can learn from the faculty on the stage. But there’s something that makes this one really rock…

You also get to network with the faculty and other extremely successful business owners…it’s actually part of the scheduled program! Many of the people you meet are world class business marketers. And THAT is what has kept me coming back year after year. I’ve made some amazing connections that have had a direct effect on my bottom line.

I never could have been able to meet such influential people any other way.

In fact, this seminar has created more success stories than any other seminar in the history of Internet Marketing.

The only sad part is that this is the LAST Big Seminar (after 7 years straight!)

But…

It’s going to be a BIG finale worth remembering!

See what I mean and get all the details here:

http://bit.ly/Big-Seminar

I know I wouldn’t miss it for anything! Will I see you there?

If so, let me know, and we’ll get together!

I’ll introduce you to my friends and we can brainstorm some ways to get YOUR website boosting sales and being the vehicle to take your business to a whole new level of success in the coming year! :-)

Hope to see YOU there!

http://bit.ly/Big-Seminar

Gabrielle

PS – Even if you can’t make it, it’s worth getting onto the mailing list because between now and when the Big Seminar begins in November, there will be completely free live online training calls with each of the faculty members for FREE! So check out the speakers and then make sure you attend the free one-hour training that Armand will do with that person… and take notes!

Sign up for the free training here:

http://bit.ly/Big-Seminar

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If you’ve got a business and you’re trying to use your website as a way to market your business, then I guarantee that learning the best ways to market online EFFECTIVELY will put you MILES ahead of your competition!

(Most businesses have absolutely no idea how to use the Internet to explode their bottom line!)

In fact, this seminar has made a HUGE difference for me in my business.

Ever since I started attending (and using what I’ve been learning) from the Big Seminar several years ago, my revenues have increased…dramatically.

That’s because this is the largest Internet marketing seminar
in the U.S. with the best trainers in the industry. All of the faculty members are business owners themselves (many of them self-made multi-millionaires) who are using what they are teaching in their own highly successful businesses.

Doesn’t it make sense to learn from and model those who are already making millions? I think so. In fact, the business owner who runs this seminar, Armand Morin, has an expression worth remembering:

“Success leaves traces.”

Like other seminars, you can learn from the faculty on the stage. But there’s something that makes this one really rock…

You also get to network with the faculty and other business owners…it’s part of the scheduled program! Many of them are world class business marketers. And THAT is what has kept me coming back year after year. I’ve made some amazing connections that have had a direct effect on my bottom line.

I never could have been able to meet such influential people any other way.

In fact, this seminar has created more success stories than any other seminar in the history of Internet Marketing.

The only sad part is that this is the LAST Big Seminar (after 7 years straight!)

But…

It’s going to be a BIG finale worth remembering!

See what I mean and get all the details here:

http://bit.ly/Big-Seminar

I know I wouldn’t miss it for anything! Will I see you there?

If so, let me know, and we’ll get together!

I’ll introduce you to my friends and we can brainstorm some ways to get YOUR website boosting sales and being the vehicle to take your business to a whole new level of success in the coming year! :-)

Hope to see YOU there!

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Tips for Boosting Your Bottom Line This Fall

Sep 06, 2010 in Articles, News Flash, Smart Choices

What better way to kick off the Fall than by getting some useful information on how to effectively promote your business and increase your bottom line?

If that’s what you want, then you’ll want to read this article by my favorite online marketing expert. It cuts to the chase to solve the mystery of effective marketing using the Internet. You’ll find it on this brand new blog especially designed for small businesses.

Small Business Marketing Weekly

Although I’m primarily a freelance bookkeeper and QuickBooks trainer and consultant, I love to learn what makes small businesses really prosper – and apply it to my own, as well as suggest improvements for my clients’ businesses.

I’ve learned a lot through the MANY books I’ve read and seminars I’ve attended. And the vital conclusion I’ve come to is that, as business owners, marketing is really job #1 for all of us. That’s what keeps the sales coming in, which keeps the cash flowing. And as we know, cash is the lifeblood of your entire business! No sales = no business.

And I can tell you honestly, out of everything I’ve studied over the years and all the people I’ve learned from whose techniques I’ve actually used in my own business, there is no one that has given more high value and true nuts-and-bolts information that really works like Jim Edwards.

No one.

So I hope you enjoy this article as much as I did for a big picture reference of what we really must to be doing to pull more business in locally or virtually with our websites (and beyond). This one’s a keeper:

Small Business Marketing Weekly

And it looks like Jim will be writing a series of these helpful articles. I’m definitely going to be following them, so I thought you’d like to know about them too.

Enjoy!

Gabrielle Fontaine, PB
BookkeepingDirect.com

By the way – I’m a long-time member of Jim’s monthly training program, The Net Reporter. As I said, I think he’s the best (and I’m picky!) because he tells it like it is… AND shows you exactly how to market your business effectively online. (My business is proof of that!)

Most of his training, though, is primarily geared toward building an information-product based online business. So I usually have to try and translate what I’m learning to work for my own QuickBooks consulting business.

But this month he’s doing something I’m quite excited about… Tomorrow he’s starting a 2-webinar training series entitled:

“Using Internet Strategies on a Brick and Mortar Business”


No translation needed! So I’ll definitely be attending this one LIVE! If you’d like to attend the first webinar on Tuesday too, just join The Net Reporter and try it out for a month (you can get two of these live webinars AND get access to Jim’ “Fast Track Video Coaching” for less than most other people charge for a single webinar!)

The Net Reporter

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