Build Your Online Success My name is Bonnie Holscher and as I grow I will be bringing to you resources to help you build your online success. I have been online since 2006 and enjoy a great lifestyle while sharing how I am creating a six figure income and so can you.

Writing articles has become a common occurrence when people begin to build online presence and establish credibility. There are a few very important items you must pay attention to before you publish your articles.

Although this is something most writers think they keep in mind, this common mistake happens again and again.  Always check your punctuation, your grammar and your spelling. On many occasions I have read through my material and thought that I had corrected all of the mistakes. I have later reread it or had it brought to my attention of the mistakes I did not catch. Bad spelling is a downfall for even the most successful of writers and internet marketers. Most programs do have a spell check and some have a grammar check that can be use before you submit you articles for publishing. 

 Make sure that your article is long enough to be called an article. Anything less than 300 words is more like a blogpost. This piece of writing is not long enough to give any pertinent information and probably will not be consider very seriously. On the other hand, make sure that you are not writing a book either. After a certain length, your reader will get bored or overwhelmed and will probably not finish reading nor will there be a likelihood that your reader will click on your links. Too much information is just as deadly as not enough. A good average is between 300 and 500 words.

And with that said, make sure your article is not a sales pitch only. Your article should contain good information but leave an avenue for the reader to want more information. Most readers will know when they are reading an obvious sales letter and will likely not click on your links. Every article must contain nuggets of good information to create credibility and trust from those who will read it and continue to follow you.

It is in your resource box that you can then put a link back to your blog or website. Or you can suggest or recommend other products and services that are related and that can help your reader get where he/she wants to go.

So many times you get caught in the hum drum of writing an article and feel we are just running out of steam. When you sit down it just does not seem that you can think or the ideas you had just don’t seem to flow. What you may not realize is that if you do not have a mentor or coach that you are just needing someone to bounce some thoughts off of or just some conversation to free your mind. That is when a group of 5 to 6 people will give you just what you need to break loose.

Tip number 1 for creating a mastermind group of people to learn from and support you is that the people involved should be at your level of income or making more than you. The key point is to team up with people who are already where you want to be. Many people at a higher level are more than willing to share their experiences that may otherwise not be shared. Especially with article writing there are times when sharing ideas with someone who has been writing successfully for sometime will help you through a time of discouragement.

Tip number 2 is to conduct these meetings on a regular basis, either weekly, every other week or monthly. Although in person is preferred, most mastermind groups meet over the phone. Plan at least an hour but preferably two hours for each meeting. It is recommended that for the first few meetings that each person be given at least 30 minutes to talk about their situation, needs, and challenges so that the rest of the group can effectively give feedback and brainstorm was to help. It also insure that each member gets what they need to move forward in their endeavors. With article writing, it may be an advantage to have members in several different niches to create variety in the feedback.

Tip number 3 is for each member to make a commitment to stretch and grow. There should always be a next action stated before the meeting ends from each of the members. There should also be a time to share the successes from the last meeting no matter how small they may seem. This commitment should not be a continuation of the previous goal not met. It must stretch just beyond the goal set from the meeting before so that the member must not only finish the first goal but other things just beyond the last. By doing this it is an assurance that the group in moving forward toward completing the goals they set. If you are writing articles set a clear amount of articles to be written in a specific amount of time hold you accountable to your group and affords you enough pressure to help push you through. It also brings you to a point of accountability. People tend to produce more when you set a deadline or timeline. You will more actively take steps to accomplish the tasks you set out to do. If you say you will write AND submit 5 articles, you will do what it takes to get all or most of it done before the group meets again.

Article writing does not have to be difficult. There are several groups available for mentoring or masterminding your way to success. There are also tools available to help you as well to create an effective article for whatever you happen to be writing about.

Internet marketing has become one of the widely used avenues for marketing a business. Whether it is a brick and mortar business or one that lives online, owners are turning to the internet for a means to reach the masses. Among the many ways you can market, there are some emerging media markets online business owners are using more regularly.

Video is one of the more common tools being used by marketers today is video broadcasting. Along with YouTube, other websites are cashing in on the widespread use of video. Since most laptop computers have built in webcam with sound, It is easy to create a video and upload it not only to personal websites but to blogs, newsletters and now articles.

Podcasts is a popular audio tools to reach people around the world. It is becoming more popular since many are holding trainings on how to create a podcast. And it is recognized by the search engines as an entity of it’s own.

Teleseminars on the other hand sit somewhere in a file and are not recognized by search engine. However, they are more widely used and there are also several websites created for marketers to become involved with and share their information with listeners who can either listen by phone or by the use of their personal computer.

Webinars are similar to teleseminars but add the ability to see what the host is doing on you’re your own computer screen. The person giving the webinar can speak and show you what they are talking about at the same time.

Internet Radio, although not as widely used is becoming a popular way to give information to a number of listeners and answer questions as well. Many people use this method to do interviews of differently niched online business people to help promote them and their websites.

With such a variety of tools to use to market and promote yourself and others, the possibilities are endless for business and online traffic growth.

Time is something that we all have the same amount of yet some people seem to get a lot more done in that amount of time than others. Is there really a strategy to utilizing your time to the fullest? The answer is yes. There are several things you can do to increase what gets accomplished in the time you have available.

One misconception is that you will be able to get things done in your FREE time. Unfortunately there is no such thing as free time because all time is valuable and your time is precious. One tip to get you started is to find someone successful that you look up to and model after them. They got where they are for a reason. They set their priorities and organized around them to accomplish their objectives. Setting priorities also means that you need to set specific goals. These goals need to be written down so you can see them every day. Do not try to remember everything. When you write down the things that need to be done then your mind is now free to get the task itself done. If it is not worth writing down then it probably is not worth wasting your time on it.  One way to stay on top of the achievement of your goals is to keep a journal and create a celebration each time that you reach that accomplishment. 

Another important tip is to get considerably organized. Many people spend a ton of time looking through things to find the particular items they are needing to get taken care of. Stacking things for later look through or distribution will take up more time than just getting things filed or placed in organized slots to avoid the mountain of material. Lists are also a great way to keep in order the things you wish to accomplish in any given day. By the end of that day you will have a very good idea of where you will need to begin tomorrow.

Most of us have a fair amount of reading to do to stay on top of new developments or just educate ourselves a little fuller on any given subject. A good time saver tip when you read is to underline or highlight important paragraphs or sentences should you need to return to them later. It is advisable to keep those resources you need to refer back to available whenever you need them. Highlighting makes quick and easy access to previously read material. When you have errands to run or places you need to go to for business, find a place or errand in similar proximity to avoid going back and forth several times. This will increase the usability of your time more effect. Keep in mind though, that people or circumstances will keep you waiting from time to time. Do the best you can to utilize that time by having a book or CD handy while you are waiting. Find ways to avoid letting other people waste your time. Learning how to say “No” is very difficult for some people. If you can’t say no, be hard to find for a while. Learn how to say “Thank You” but at this time I am unable or I have another obligation. What ever it is that keeps you from assisting the other person, let them know that you are not available. But make sure you are honest, sincere and firm with your statement. Learn how to let others know exactly where you stand and that your time is very important to you.

And last but certainly not least is to “Do It Right The First Time” How many time have you cut corners to get something done quicker only to have to do it a second time? So how much time did you save by cutting the corner? Exactly! None, as a matter of fact it cost you twice as much time in the long run.

Time can be utilized to its fullest if you take only a few steps to get started.

When I got started on the internet in 2007, I had a lot of learning to do. Some was trial and error. Some was proven methods I learned from my mentors. But for the most part, I studied many of the already successful people who had built their businesses on the internet. What they did, how they did it and why they did what they did. There was one area that I did not grasp at first but learned the extreme importance within the past year.

How do I attract visitors to my websites is a question asked by so many trying to become successful in internet marketing. The answer was in how to build link popularity to your website. I thought, as most newbies do, that once you put a website or blog up, it will automatically bring visitors and they will easily find you. That is far from the truth and a disappointment to the beginner just getting started. The internet is a vastness that need to be utilized by linking your website or blog with inbound links. There are millions of websites out there in cyberspace and the more you have linking to your website the more you will be found and visited by the millions of people that use the internet today.

One of the most important things to remember when building your website or blog is keywords. Find out what people are searching for and use those words to attract visitors to your site. Use them in your titles, on your pages and everywhere there is a place to insert keywords for your work. This makes it easier for the search engines to find you and drive traffic to you.

Another way to drive traffic to your site is to write articles. This is a very effective way to increase traffic to your site. Make sure at the bottom of each of your articles you have an author biography and the link back to your website. Submit to several article directories and watch you popularity rise. Be patient because it will take a little time to become noticed so be persistent. Don’t stop at one or two, write articles on a regular basis. Two article directories you can started with are EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com.

One more thing you can do to get more recognition for the search engines is to comment on other peoples’ blogs and include a link to your website. Make sure they are relevant to you niche or topic. If you have a website, you must make sure that all your pages are linked to the homepage so the search engines can assign a popularity to each of the pages in your website.

The internet is being used more and more by the average person. It has become a major source of advertising for people who would not step into the world of products and services as easily. Individuals have so much to offer yet in the past would forgo pursuing because of the costs and difficulty of getting things advertised. Then along came cyberspace. And with cyberspace came an incredible power to reach millions of people. This opened up a whole new world for a person to not only explore but to get themselves and their products and/or services seen in homes and businesses around the world. There are numerous ways to utilize the internet to market to others.

One way is to set up a website for either information or to include shopping pages with a shopping cart. Just recently the ease of one page websites has made it easier and more cost effective to advertise a product for purchase. With newer programs in place the average person can develop a simple website that will speak effectively and efficiently. Your product could be a virtual product such as an e-book or e-course. The page could also advertise items for purchase that need to be shipped which could be just about anything you can imagine.

The second way that you can become known on the internet is to create a blog.  Blogging has become a huge way to get information out to thousands of people. Although there is an etiquette as to how you can advertise in your blog, people connect and pass information along with simple entries on their blogs. With ways to get updates, your reader can just sign up to get those updates without having to go out to your blog, your blog comes to them via email. This is an easy way to network with others and gain internet recognition as well. A blog is a website and when it is done well can prove to be an asset to your business.

A third way to attract others to you and/or your website is to write articles. These articles become an information source to the readers. As you become more known by writing articles the chances are that people will be more likely to visit your website or websites that you recommend. Make sure that your articles are not blatant advertising because that is likely to turn people away after a time. Articles offer information and assistance to your reader. Even if your reader does not go to your website, they have gained valuable information and are more likely to past that along to others. These others could then be those people who do visit your website.

As with anything, it takes time to become proficient with using the internet to connect with people no matter where they are. These are only a few simple ways to reach people on the internet. But if you keep at it and find other people who have gone before you to become successful, you too will grow and create your own success. There are a lot of resources available to help you in whatever direction you decide to go. There are also many other directions you can take to get known or make money using the internet.

There is no real secret to building any business when you start with a foundation of principles. Every online business owner has learned from someone who has paved a way. But the most successful entrepreneurs have always understood these important principles when building their businesses.

Be careful what you promise

So many new entrepreneurs whether online or offline, get caught up in the excitement of starting a new business that they promise the world to their visitors. But unfortunately, when it get to hard tacks, they find that much of what they promised was not conceivable for them to give at the time. Their reputation takes a fall and it takes awhile to rebuild credibility with past and future consumers.

Do everything you promise

When you do promise something, make sure that it is something that you can deliver and deliver it. Your consumer is basing their opinion on what you promise and the delivery of that promise. Whether it is a product, service or anything else, fulfill your promises and you will see your business grow. Your consumers will recommend your business to others when they receive what they expect to receive.

Do something extra than what you promise.

Going above and beyond the call of duty will build great business rapport faster than any general forms of advertising. Customer service is a form of going the extra mile. When your customer service is top notch your customer base will increase with quality consumers. The after sale is sometimes more important than the sale itself. Repeat customers are happy customers and referring customers as well.

When you implement these principles to building your business online you will experience the benefits of building that online business also. Once you set your mind on being successful there is nothing that will stop you. You will find ways to be disciplined…create time… come up with new ideas and enjoy sharing what you know. Put in the effort and you will reap the results.  

 In this day and age of internet accessibility it is not difficult to get the word out about your business. But it is helpful to know some key ways to effectively reach thousands if not millions of people. One particular way is through the writing and publishing of newsletters. There are at least three different types but several different advantages to either form of newsletter.

HTML Newsletter is a newsletter that has graphics, pictures and areas to advertise products or services that you may offer. This form is more visual and takes a little longer to create. It is usually put out once a month or every other month. the basic design normally stays the same but the content is what changes. People like Jack Canfield and Alan Cohen and many others use this form of newsletter to promote their businesses. It is usually sent by an autoresponder of some kind.

Webpage Newsletter is a newsletter that is created on a webpage within a website that looks similar to the HTML letter. One difference is that an autoresponder message is usually sent to the subscribers with the link to the page containing the actual letter. There are several internet gurus that have used this form of newsletter distribution as well.

Text Newsletter is the most common of those used but is the least that actually look like a newsletter. These usually are messages sent by an autoresponder with only text content and not pictures or graphics. They are generally used to advertise either the senders products and services or those that they affiliate with. They are also used to announce upcoming events such as teleseminars, webinars, seminars and various other things that come up that can enhance your continued education in what ever your niche is.

These are all effective ways to advertise you business on the internet. It also is a way to stay informed as to what others to include your mentors and coaches are doing and how you can stayed connected between times when you are actually attending an event. When you go to someone’s website you with find an area to subscribe to that persons updates or newsletters to stayed connected. You can unsubscribe at any time as well.