Women's Success Network 4 Entrepreneurs

Technology Tips - Where to Put Your Business Information

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:47:58 GMT

Include all your business information in your voice mail. Voice mail is so underused! Voice mail is a easy technology device that most everyone has. By using this piece of technology, it's a free way to advertise when you're not available. So now every caller will know about your business whether the caller knows you or not. What a great way to introduce your business to everyone.

Business Builders - With Social Media

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:43:18 GMT

There are many ways to create new business relationships. Social Media is a great way to find new friends. Build on those relationships before you start to introduce your business. You do this by F.O.R.M. Form stands for Friends, Organization, Recreation, & Message. To learn more about F.O.R.M. stop by our training vault.

Power Success Tips - Liquid Chalk

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:37:18 GMT

Liquid Chalk is an inexpensive way to advertise on your car. Keep your message short and captivating. Don’t forget to include a way for customers to contact you like your website and phone number.

Planning Tips - Holiday Strategies

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:36:47 GMT

Now is the time to start planning your strategies for the holidays. Get out you planner today and plan out you exact actions for the next 60 days. This will propel your business into success for the holidays.

Networking Tips- Coffee Chats

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:32:44 GMT

Create your own Coffee Chats. Meet online, offline or both. There are many venues to use Skype, Yahoo, Google or open your own Chatroom. Pick a topic to talk about and get everyone involved to share their thoughts.

Trick or Treat! Who’s Ringing that Doorbell! WSNBA Halloween Marketing Top 20 Tips

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:22:01 GMT

1. Wrap your Halloween treat uniquely. Add orange/black cellophane with lots of ribbon. Attach your business card to it. Parents check out all their kids’ candy and will go to your treat first.

2. Have special Halloween treats ready for parents that are standing at the curb. Tell them to come on up and get their goody bag. If they don’t come, drop it into the child’s bag, so the parents will see it.

3. Run a contest for the spookiest or cutest costume. They can show up at your door and you can take a picture or people can submit them online.

4. Create a list of safety tips to hand out in your neighborhood, at your store or people can get at your website.

5. Print your logo on candy. Send out a couple of costume dresses employees or friends to give away candy

6. Blog about Halloween and what you’re doing special. You can also write an article and post it at several places on the internet.

7. Clients are important and you need to make them feel special. Send them candy with a coupon or discount when they purchase from you or your site. Give them a call a few days later to make sure they received your little treat and to say hi.

8. Change your template at your website and play scary music at on your website

9. Change up your logo and make it look spooky

10. Get people to sign up for your blog or website by offering them candy or a treat

11. You’ll want to advertise abundantly with Halloween companies, so think hayrides and costume rentals stores.

12. Have a scavenger hunt by placing scary clues all over town that lead to your business or website.

13. This is a cool little idea. You have a lot of people drive by and walk by your house on Halloween. Carve your company logo into a pumpkin.

14. Create a logo on pillowcases and give them out for children to put candy in.

15. Create monster feet out on the sidewalk that go to your business. If you just have a website, lead them to a table with flyers on it or put out skeletons having their fingers pointing toward your store or information

16. Give out free pumpkin carving kits at your business. Remember to attach your business information.

17. Create a special Halloween business cards

18. Send a Happy Halloween Card to your clients and email to your subscribers

19. This will help you increase awareness of your business and if someone goes to your store or website and buys, then that’s a nice bonus. Just have fun with it.

20.Congratulations, You just MARKETED your business with our top 20 tips!

Halloween Marketing Business Tips

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:15:00 GMT

Celebrating Halloween can be one of the funniest and easiest times to market and advertise your business. Women’s Speed Networking, techniques is an awesome opportunity for those that come to your door or visit your website. These tips are easy, low cost and effective ways to market your business during this exciting and busy event. It doesn’t matter what type of business you have either. Your business could range from daycare in your home to a MLM or a brick & mortar store. Trying something new to create your advertising buzz will help your business be successful. Just remember to be creative and by using the Halloween theme you’ll get people’s attention quickly.

1.Grab those parents at the curb. Have a special goody bag with free samples waiting for them with a cup of hot cider. This is the start of building a business relationship with them. They will love you for it. Don’t forget your business card or business information attached to the goody bag.

2. Parent’s sort through their child’s goody bag, so what do you think they would take first. How about a Maple Bun or a Dunkin Donut’s Gift Card. I know that would be very cool for me. Attach a little note and thank them for stopping by your house on Halloween and would love to chat with them about “What Can I Do for You” (find out their needs) to increase their incomes, start a new biz, or an exciting idea that you have. Invite them to your website or set up a consultation with them. You may get a booking or a recruit out this. Will they all respond to you? Probably not, but what a wonderful way to get the word out about your business.

3. Throw a party for the public. Schedule it the day before or a week ahead of Halloween. It will bring your more guests. Invite our potential clients and customers. You can gear it to the children or even a college crowd if your business has something to do with that crowd. This is a good marketing strategy.

4. You could create a haunted walk through for your Trick or Treaters. Make sure that at the entrance you put your sponsor sign up and information. Have it at the exit of the party too. Have someone there to hand them a treat with your business information attached.

5. How about a Halloween Cooking Class? Do this the week before Halloween. It’s a great way for you to introduce your products to parents and children. You’ll need to supply the ingredients. Wrap all the ingredients in holiday orange & black cellophane. Create a bag topper for each ingredient with your business information on it. Offer people attending a Halloween Cooking Class Basket with a 10% discount that includes all the ingredients that you used to make your food. These baskets are great for someone who can’t make it to your cooking class. Include all the instructions to create you perfect Halloween treat.

6. Create a Halloween Buzz about your special events. Create flyers and post them everywhere and leave them with neighbors. Submit newspaper, radio and TV commercials to get the word out. Send out invitations to everyone you know. Even invite the mailman! Think outside the box and even if you think they won’t come, invite them anyway. You never know who’s looking for a little creative fun. If you don’t advertise, people will not know about your special events.

Business Builders Tips - Your Team Members

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:36:39 GMT

Are you complicating your teams training and trying to reinvent the wheel? When you find your team unmotivated, it's usually because they are finding it hard to duplicate what you are doing. You need to keep it simple and don't over complicate your trainings. Keeping your team motivated on a daily basis is the key to making them successful. Start by making them your friend and don't make it about making sales. People are really not interested in the product at first, but are interest in people. So take the time to get to know you team.

Networking Tips - Seminars, Trade Show & More

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:31:00 GMT

Attend seminars and trade shows and pass out brochures and business cards. This is a great place to
do demos or presentations of your biz.

Planning Tips - Are You Planning at All?

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:39:00 GMT

Are you planning your day? You need to open that planner and write everything down that needs to be done this week. So many people fail to plan. If you don’t plan you will not succeed. You can minimize the time you are working on your home business by working on the important things that are making you money in the morning when the kids are at school, hubby is at work and when things are quiet. Don’t open up emails, don’t call a friend, and don’t just sit there. Be product in whatever activity it is to make you money. Start planning by design, not default.

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Technology Tips - iPod Touch is so Cool!

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:33:00 GMT

iPod Touch is such a cool little business tool. Your iPod touch doesn’t come with a manual. Here are a few tips that I’ve compiled for operating and managing your iPod touch with more control:

1 Quick Music Controls
Double clicking the home button in any application or with the screen off will bring up the music controls.

2Force App Exit
To completely exit an application to save battery power. Press and holding the home button for approximately 5-8 seconds. This will help boost battery life if you run lots of different apps regularly.

3 Quick Symbol Input
Holding down letters on the keyboard will pop up the accents/symbols associated with those letters. Once it pops up, slide your finger over to the accent/symbol you like.

4 Delete Mail
When you’re in the Mail apps inbox view, slide your finger from left to right on a message and a ‘delete’ button will appear. This also applies in the list view of the Videos application.

5 Zoom in
In Safari double tap to zoom in. You can also “pinch” (putting your thumb and index finger on the screen and pinching in and out) to zoom in Safari and in Pictures.

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Planning Tips – What to do with all that important account information

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:30:00 GMT

Do you have to many accounts like emails, websites & affiliate links? Here’s a great tip, get a small address book and write all your information in them. That way next time you are looking for a particular user id and password it’s at your finger times. Make sure you keep this information in a secure place.

Business Builders – Sweeten the Pot!

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:26:00 GMT

Always give your customers a little something free with their purchase. You’d be amazed at how many more people buy a product from you if they know they are going to get a free gift.

How To Save Time On Email Related Tasks

Fri, 20 May 2011 18:21:00 GMT

It seems like whenever we log into our email anymore there are way too many to read in the amount of time we have. It could take all day to actually go through each email and view the videos or websites or whatever – especially when you’re getting a hundred emails a day. Let’s try to figure out some ways to cut down on the number of emails we get and organize the ones we do want to read.

One of the first things you should consider is unsubscribing from stuff you never have time to read. So many times, we are signed up with every single thing we come across – like a little kid wanting to listen to the adults: we don’t want to “miss anything”. But think of it this way – are those subscriptions really giving you value? OR are they taking you away from your business?

Set a time limit for email tasks. Deal with any emails related directly to your clients, customers or your business first. When that time is up, you’re done. Move on to other activities that will actually generate an income for you and your business. If your allotted time is up and you still have emails – delete them or unsubscribe.

The second thing you should do for anything that is like an update to a website or anything is to subscribe to an RSS feed. This will send the info to you, in your reader, and it will cut down on the number of emails you get.

The next thing you should do is organize your emails. You can do this easily with a program such as Windows Live Mail. You can have all of your emails go to one place, create folders and rules for what to do the emails you do get. You can have your gmail and many other email accounts set up with Windows Live Mail. (You cannot set up your Yahoo email to go to Windows Live Mail unless you subscribe at Yahoo for a Plus account or something like that.)

If you have your own website, you can also set up lots of email addresses there to help keep you organized. For example, along with denice@wsnba.com I could have news@wsnba.com for newsletters, facebook@wsnba.com for Facebook, etc. Then you would know where the emails are coming from and how important they are.

If you have any tips for dealing with email, please share them with us.

7 Ways To Save Time With RSS

Thu, 19 May 2011 18:25:00 GMT

Learning about RSS can really save you time everyday. If you have an e-mailbox full of newsletters and stuff from every website you visit, setting up an RSS reader can allow you to unsubscribe from some of those newsletters and free up space in your mailbox and give you more time for business. Keep reading to find out what RSS is and what you have to do to take advantage of this simple tool.

You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a website.

An RSS is a means of publicizing updates about websites. It may or may not include a summary and photos of the latest posting. But those that provide summaries (thus Rich Site Summary) allow users to skim through the article so that they could decide later on if they want to access the website source. The RSS feed usually contains the title of the update originating from the website. It is also usually the link to the website source.

Business Relationships - Build It…They Will Come

Sun, 15 May 2011 18:48:00 GMT

The new business marketing strategy is about building relationships, not selling your products and services. It’s about building a business network of people you Like, Trust and Respect. The social media is a natural way to build relationships with your customers and clients.

Have you tried to build business relationships and feel it’s not working for you?

Are you becoming frustrated and want to give up? Social networking if done correctly will help you translate into revenue for your business if it’s done right.

Your relationships with your customers should be engaging and you need to make sure that you provide them with the valuable information that they are seeking.

Most people use the marketing concept “What’s in it for me?” is one that will help you to succeed tremendously in business. What the concept means is that your objective should always try to satisfy the needs of your customer. Your customers are not concerned with how great your products and/or services are. The only thing that matters to them is that you have a solution to their problem. If you never stop following that principle, you will continue to be successful in your business.

You all probably have an email list of clients and prospective ones. Anyone can have a bunch of names, but without a relationship to tie to those names, you won’t get very far.

It isn’t enough that you’ve acquired a friend or follower through your social media. This is your stepping stones to Building Business Relationship. If your social media was to shut down, would you lose this contact? Now this is where the building comes in. Once you’ve established the contact on your permanent list, you need to manage and build your relationship.

Here are some tips to bridge those stepping stones.

1. Choosing a high quality niche market to work in. Following the leader is a better business model than going it alone. Learn from your competitor’s mistakes. So go where your competitors are. Survey these individuals within each niche topic to identify their wants, desires & needs.

2. Invite your new social relationship to join your list, an email list, newsletter, a website or blog or free gift. At this point, your list will be of people who have opted in to hear more details about what you offer.

3. Now that you have a responsibility to your new founded business relationships. You must be consistent and show them benefits & value.

4. Create high quality content that creates discussion. Make it engaging and helpful. Give then information that you feel they would appreciate. You can give tips they can use for their business and everyday life. After you’ve done that for a while, your customers will be ready to buy your products, because you have shown them you are trustworthy & credible. Remember it takes time and it’s not an overnight thing that happens.

I would keep it simple in the beginning. Have a way to track if they are opening your emails if you’re doing it online. I would put them on a drip list. Send out emails every 3-4 days to get their attention. Don’t use any products or selling things in these emails. Give them tips and ideas and show them a value of yourself.

5. By putting the needs of potential customers ahead of your own, it will come back to you in a very positive and successful way.

6. Repeat this process over and over to identify new opportunities

I like to go where your competitors are…it puts a different twist on the way a lot of conventional thought to business goes, I think.

If at any time you need ideas or help with your denice@wsnba.com or stop by http://www.wsnba.com. I offer one 10 free minute consultation.

Expert Advice - Cold Calling & Fear of People

Sun, 15 May 2011 18:41:00 GMT

Do you have a question about business or is something pressing on your mind?
Let the experts at WahMagazine.com & WSNBA.com help you! Ask away and see your comments here next time! Email askdenice@wsnba.com

Hi Denice,

I hate cold calling and have a fear of talking to people. What can I do to overcome this? Help Me! Tiff

Hi Tiff,

This is common for most people to not like cold calling. It's because they don't really know what to say, sometimes say too much and their ego is holding them back. I have learned through scripts the number one secret to cold calling. Scripts are part of our training at Women's Success Network 4 Entrepreneurs. If you're teachable and willing to learn, then I'm here to help you. All you need to do to get started the learning process and change your mindset is joining our membership training today.

Let's chat real soon.

Peace, Love & Success, Denice

Networking Tips - Your Activities Are Your Key

Sun, 15 May 2011 18:40:00 GMT

To get the most out of your networking activities, it's important to stay focused make a list of what needs to be done. Make a list of key business and professionals that you want form strategic alliances and seek out professionals in those areas. Your main goal is to expand their resources and continue to grow and improve their businesses, just as they should be doing the same thing for you. When meeting with other professionals, make sure you are having personal one on one conversation with them and getting to know them. Make quality business connections and mingling with top professionals will move your business in the right direction.

At Women's Success Network 4 Entrepreneurs we encourage you to network with all the members. Take a moment and introduce your self to at least 5 new people a week and see how you can build your strategic alliances for each other.

Are you living the Greatest Lie?

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:00:00 GMT

Only 5% of people will be financially independent at retirement, the rest will have to rely on inadequate pensions, social security, and family assistance. You need to take action now! to create your own financial freedom, because nobody else will do it for you.

Have you ever felt that your life was a conveyor belt of ….

Go to school, graduate, get a good job with a good company, accumulate retirement savings, and use these to do everything you’d ever wanted to during your retirement?

If that’s what you’ve grown up expecting you may be in for a big surprise. Only 5 people in 100 who follow this route can look forward to a comfortable retirement. Are you shocked?

That means a whopping 95 out of 100 hardworking people who try to follow this route are going to have to rely on inadequate pensions, social security, and family assistance to live out their golden years. Not a happy picture.

Just take a look in your community to see how few retirees are financially independent. If you know any that are truly financially independent then you’ll probably find they did it on their own.

So, if you want to want financial independence what are your options?

You could pray that you’ll be one of the 1 in 180 million people who hits the lottery or you could inherit a fortune when your aged maiden aunt checks out. Another way could be a life of crime, but I warn you that your chances of reaching retirement age, let alone enjoying it, are really slim.

In reality there’s just one way you can ever be financially independent..

You have to do it on your own.

I’ve just read some fascinating statistics about age and self-employment:

“According to recent studies 22 percent of men and 14 percent of women over 65 are self-employed. That’s compared to just 7 percent for other age groups. According to a Vanderbilt University study the number of entrepreneurs in the USA age 45 to 64 will grow by 15 million. That’s compared to a 4 million decline for entrepreneurs age 25 to 44.”

And: “Self-employment among American workers increases with age, with the most dramatic jump occurring at age 65.”

Don’t worry help is at hand. With the advent of the Internet there’s a whole new world out there, and, most importantly, it’s a level playing field. (Finally I can say it…Size doesn’t count). There are more than 500 million consumers out there and with a good plan, you can learn to build your financial independence with your own online business.

Before you say “I can’t do it” let’s chuck out some of the most common reasons people give for not wanting to start an online business:

Objection #1: I’m not smart enough to have my own business. This is unlikely to be true. Successful businesses are run by people with vastly different capabilities. Running your own business is about solving people’s problems and not about how smart you are.
Objection #2: I don’t have the time it takes to start or grow an income source online. Unless you’re already working 80 hours a week, you can probably find time to start building an online business. You’ll probably need to find 2 hours a day (14 hours a week) to successfully build your business. (Not too much is it?). It’s really all about organizing your time. How about using your commuting time to record ideas for a business?
Objection #3: I don’t have the money it takes for a new business. The cost of starting your online business needn’t be expensive – certainly less than starting a real world business. I’ve managed to get going for less than $500, but believe me, I have wasted some of that.
Objection #4: I’m not an expert at anything. No matter what your background there’s probably something you know that somebody else doesn’t. That makes you an expert to the other person. Just do some research and before long you’ll find that there’s something that you can teach others.
Objection #5: I have nothing to sell. There are two parts to an online business a product and people wanting that product. You can sell other peoples products (just like real world) if you know what people want.
Objection #6: Someone is already doing what I want to do so it is useless trying to compete. Of course other people are already doing the same thing but that’s true in the real world too. Just do it better. If there aren’t others doing the same thing you probably can’t make money out of it. Competition shows that there is a market for your product/idea.
Objection #7: The only people making money are people telling others how to make money. When you start on the Internet Marketing route you’re desperate for information and in finding it you sign up with everyone offering to help you – these are the guys (and girls) offering their services as business advisers. They are not the only businesses on the ‘Net but they are the ones you’ll come into contact with first.
Objection #8: I’ve tried plenty of business opportunities with no success — it’s just not for me. Maybe it’s not, but chances are, your failure is from chasing different business opportunities, instead of building your own business from the ground up.
Objection #9: I’d need a top search engine ranking to get anywhere and that’s almost impossible. Search engine positioning is not the be all and end all. There are other ways to find traffic and customers.

Objection #10: I’d need a big advertising budget to get any results. That’s simply not true, the ‘Net is the perfect place to do business with a small budget.

The greatest lie out there today is that, if you get a good job and slave away for 40 something years, your retirement years will be golden.

About Annette Lucas

I am the wife of my very best friend and the mother of a beautiful daughter and a wonderful teenage boy. I am also the grandma of a beautiful little girl - Adalynn - totally spoiled and the proud recipient of all the attention I was too "busy" to give to my own precious children. I have worked in many home-based businesses and have always had good success selling products and having parties but I would rather build a business more online than by traveling to other people's homes. Many of the things I was taught to do in direct sales just do not apply to the online world of network marketing. I am learning new and wonderful things everyday and I hope to share them with you. I am interested in learning all I can about marketing and advertising and teaching those skills to others. I believe that just like heart surgeons need to learn surgery, network marketers need to learn marketing. I hope to connect with you and help in any way I can to build a lasting network marketing relationship.