tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541449694055436982012-02-01T17:13:19.380-08:00TIPS, TRICKS & MAGIC for Marketing Your Creative/Spiritual Business and Building Your Own Professional WebsiteSandy Penny - WritingMuse - Love and Happiness Coach, Build Your Own Website Instructorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14727758553150352160noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654144969405543698.post-8612858096037144422012-02-01T17:13:00.000-08:002012-02-01T17:13:19.393-08:00

"Dialogue Creates Community" by Sandy Penny It has long been known in the marketing community that keeping in touch with current and potential clients is the path to future and multiple sales to loyal customers who appreciate the time, effort and thought you give them. I began blogging before it was even called blogging. I have offered an email and online newsletter since I built my first

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A Stable Client Base is Built on a Solid Reputation by Paul Lalley: http://www.webwordslinger.com/ A Stable Client Base Is Founded On A Solid Reputation As freelance web writers, a stable client base - one in which work comes organically - lets us sleep soundly each night. But there are plenty of other benefits to having repeat buyers. If you run your copy writing biz on

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Different people use different tools to run an online business. I love free tools when I can get them, and I evaluate these tools all the time. Here are some tools/hints for a monetized blog (money making blog). You don't have to have a product or service to sell, you can sell other people's products or services that you love and make money doing it. Blogging: I only use Blogger now. I used to

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Before I get to the meat of this article, let me say that I finally added my first book to Kindle. I'm so excited about it. It's not live yet, but it will be in a couple of days, and I plan to market the heck out of it. You can buy it now on my website. It's a spiritual adventure based on my life experiences at Sanctuary, my halfway house for the spiritually awakening. You can buy the pdf on my

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Hi, I'm Sandy Penny. First, let me say, I am not a techie. I'm just a writer who loves to write and share my writing, and I love free and easy tools. It's time to get paid for what you love to do. I know that's my goal, and the easier it is to create an online business, the more likely I am to do it. The internet economy is growing every day while many other economies are not. As a proponent of

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Posted on Facebook by Yola on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 12:06pm.Congratulations on taking the big first step toward getting your business website online! By signing up with Yola, you’re on your way to creating a professional website for your business. If you’ve suddenly realized you don’t have everything you need to get your website live, don’t panic. Here are a few simple things you can do to

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by Sandy Penny, http://webclassesnm.com This is one of the most down to earth, easy to read blogs I’ve found in a long time with non-hyped sane information about how to make money blogging. I think you’ll like it, and I am currently creating my blogging empire, so it’s a hot topic for me. http://www.problogger.net/make-money-blogging/ I immediately signed up for updates. Inquiring minds

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So, I’ve been working on my new website now for a while. After years of being unavailable, my sandypenny.com domain name became available. I jumped on it as I had wanted it for so long. Having already set up my Yola.com site for WritingMuse.com, I had mastered the tools pretty well, except they gave us a bunch of great new tools, like a blind contact form and easy to use mp3 media player. Lots of

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We all have friends who are writers of one kind or another these days. In fact, I am one of those, but this is not me asking for help yet, but I’ll remind you of these hints when my books is ready this spring. Buy the book as soon as it is released if you can afford it. Early numbers encourage publishers and other readers. Don’t ask for free copies because they are not free to the author.

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By Sandy Penny, http://sandypenny.com The first time I used my psychic skills in a business setting I was 24 and working as Secretary to the Dean at the Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, Texas. I had just finished reading “Think and Grow Rich,” by Napoleon Hill, and I was eager to try out the techniques he gave for creating what you want in life. I felt it would be as life changing for me

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Who are these masked men and women?According to Wikipedia: Cultural Creatives is a term coined by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson to describe a large segment in Western society that has recently developed beyond the standard paradigm of Modernists versus Traditionalists or Conservatists. The concept was presented in their book The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million

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One of the best ways to create is to bombard your senses with messages that reinforce your goals. Today, I created My Fabulous Life as a composite picture for my laptop screen. It’s nothing new, it has been called treasure mapping, success mapping, lots of other titles, but basically, it includes photos that picture your goals and statements that reinforce them, and in my case actions toward the

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by Sandy Penny I received an email today asking about pricing for reading a manuscript that is ready for design. The designer has noted errors and inconsistencies and is unsure of how to proceed with the author: [Good morning Sandy, I'm a graphic artist who will be formatting a client's book after her manuscript is complete.  She is not a fluent writer, her grammar usage is poor, she lacks

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by Sandy Penny, WritingMuse I love using Windows Live Writer for blogging my articles. I write the articles offline, save a copy, and then choose which of my blogs to post it to. After setting it up initially, when you choose a new blog to post to, it automatically sets up the format for that particular blog. If you choose another blog to send the same article to, it changes the format to

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Have you read my article titled “Is Feedback Important” yet? If not, this article is the second in a series about asking people for feedback. It’s more about email marketing and website structure. This whole doing business on the internet is evolving so quickly that some of the niceties of doing business are being forgotten or intentionally left out or made obscure in the technology. When

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by Sandy Penny Why do so many people use a question as a headline? It starts the reader thinking about the subject of the article. It speaks directly to the reader and immediately engages them. It’s a popular marketing strategy because it works. It actually sounds like you care about the opinion of your reader, and most authors do care. So what if it’s a marketing ploy? If it engages you in

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By Sandy Penny Many small business owners make the same mistake when times get tough. In an effort to slash expenses, they stop advertising. It may seem like a likely place to save dollars, but it’s a surefire way to go down the tubes with the rest of the entrepreneurs who don’t recognize the full value of marketing and advertising. You cannot measure the benefit of an ad as a one to one

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How Can You Turn the Web into Money for Your Writing?By Sandy PennyI got an email from a fellow writer who is desperate for some money using his writing skills and working from home. This is part of my mission in this New Age, to help people do what they want to do, live where they want to live, and market their skills, services, or products online to a world market. Since I’m still developing my

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Should you have a Free Web Site?By Sandy PennyI paid for a Web site through Yahoo for seven years. It was only $20/month, but over those years, I spent $1680. At the time I signed up, I was living in Houston, making plenty of money, and that was nothing. It was a bargain.Since then, my life has changed. I left Houston in 1995, quit the corporate world, and moved to Taos. I scaled back of my own

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What Creates Success in the Aquarian Age?By Sandy PennyIn this time of shifts, changes and re-creation, it’s no longer time to go it alone. One of the requirements for success in the Aquarian Age is the establishment of community. I notice it happening all around me now. People are creating groups for all kinds of endeavors. We’ve always known that networking helps build success, but now, more

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Insider Info for the Wannabee Filmmaker, February 9, 2009By Sandy Penny "WritingMuse" (Taos, NM) - You can't get more insider info and practical advice on how to fund your film project than this book, "The Art of Film Funding" by Carole Dean. Nobody knows how to get money and donations better. Carole asks you the questions that make sure you really want to do the project and that you understand

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by Sandy Penny, sandy@WritingMuse.comWho doesn't love a good party? Social networking has always been the way to get to know people and convert them into clients, before Facebook, My Space and Linked In were born. It's a tried and true recipe for success.When you start a new "bricks and mortar" business (not just a web business), make a list of competitors, if you have any, and find out who their

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By Sandy Penny, WritingMuseAs this year ends, many are cheering the fact that it’s finally over. It has been the most challenging year in my 58-year memory for more people than I’ve ever seen. For me, it has been a big zero (on the surface, but don’t be too hasty to judge it, fallow fields restore their rich minerals and grow better crops.). That being said, it has also been the best year ever

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by Sandy Penny, WritingMuseIf you have a passion for something, you will always be able to do a better sales job. I love to write, and I love to share with others, so my profession as a freelance writer and marketing consultant is the perfect combination for me. I get to do what I love, and my enthusiasm stays high while I do it. When I help others do what they love, I serve the greater good.

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by Sandy Penny, WritingMuse.comPeople love getting something for free, and the Web has a strong tradition of offering freebies. When offering your products or services, offer something for free with a purchase, or offer something that will make you more valuable to a potential purchaser. These days, it's popular to offer a home recorded video or audio that gives tips or tricks to clients, and

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As a corporate marketing writer for more than 20 years, I've seen a lot of changes in marketing strategies. One of the fastest growing concepts is blogging, the beginning of social network marketing. I posted my first blog on Geocities in 1998 and in 2005 posted on blogger when the concept was already well on its way to becoming the marketing venue of the future. The future is now. If you don't

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