North San Diego Business@Large

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There are tips for pre-show planning, lead generation and follow-up to make your next business expo/trade show a success for your small business.

Resource Links discussed in this interview:

• Denise Mahaffey, Mahaffey Enterprises
• Dianna Arreola, Rudi Advertising
• Measurement Technologies, Inc. (MTi)
• Calibration Consultants

Also included in this podcast is an audio article on “Blogging Defined.” If you want to learn more about blogs, GeekSpeak To English, 101 will focus the next four free webinars on blogs. This is your chance to pick my brain!!!

This is the podcast I did last year for North San Diego Business@Large sharing tips from Colm Kelly, Smarter Small Business, on trade shows.

Between the two of these podcasts you should get a good idea of what to do to make your trade shows a success for your business.

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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 6pm PT/9pm ET
Blogs, An Intro

If you can’t change the content regularly on your website, you are, in effect, dead in the water. You need the changing content to “feed the spiders”, search engine spiders that is! The time is past for plain old html sites. Today there are more options and one of the most viable options for an online business is a blog.

This webinar series will introduce you to what a blog is, give you a look at many different sites that are blogs and share why blogging is an important tool for you to use in your online marketing strategy.

Discover what the Internet has to offer you and your business through GeekSpeak to English, 101 Podcast.

This is your chance to “pick my brain”!

Register Today For These Free Webinars

I’m participating in a Blog Carnival about why I’m a WAHM (Work At Home Mom). I really don’t refer to myself that way. I used to be a work at home mom in the late ’80s and early ’90s. I cherished the time I was able to work from home while raising my daughter.

I know there are young mothers and fathers struggling to establish their online, or offline, businesses while raising their children. To you, I say, kudos…you’ll never regret the sacrifices you are making today, for your children. When they graduate from high school and move on to college or their first job, you’ll look back and see what a difference it made to stay home with your children.

We have so many opportunities to start great homebased businesses with all the new technology. When I was at home publishing my newspaper I didn’t have any of this. All I have to say is, being homebased and raising our own children is the ONLY way to go. You’ll never, never regret your decision to become a WAHM.

Show Notes

GeekSpeak To English, 101 discussion on emerging web 2.0 technologies and how solopreneurs and small business owners can utilize them in their marketing strategies. Discussed were social networking sites, blogging strategies, monetizing strategies and much more.

The following are the websites/resources discussed:

• Wikipedia
• My Space
• Linkedin
• Ryze
• Squidoo
• Magic In Words’ Squidoo Page
• North San Diego Business’ Squidoo Page
• Carlsbad’s Squidoo Page
• Google News Alerts
• Flickr
• You Tube
• Tibetan Singing Bowl Viral Video on You Tube
• Stumble Upon
• Myrna’s List
• Semiologic
• Amazon

Join me Wednesday, July 25th at 6pm PT for GeekSpeak To English, 101 where we’ll be discussing different ways to use your blog to create passive income for your business.

While I was on vacation last week, I read Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Red Book of Selling. What a great book! It’s an easy read, well designed including plenty of additional resources on his website.

I think this is one book every solopreneur should have in their library. You’ll discover what it takes to be number one and, more importantly, stay number one! Add this book to your library today!

Debra

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Interview with Dan Murphy, Computer Connections here in North County. As solopreneurs, sometimes we have no choice but to have colleagues into our home offices. Dan was gracious in allowing me to interview him in our newly floored, and empty, dining room. Hence the "cave" effect.

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GeekSpeak to English, 101 webinar on autoresponders, what they are and what they aren’t.