If you’ve ever struggled to publish a page on the Web, for example, a sales or landing page, here’s how you can use your easy WordPress blogging platform to avoid the hassles. I’ve interviewed Suzanne Bird-Harris.

Here’s how you can find out more about how to Create Great Sales Pages Using WordPress. Free audio, PDF transcript and slides available.

I hosted a teleseminar this past month and the recording is now available:

The Ultimate Traffic Formula with Michael Martine of Remarkablogger

Access to handouts, worksheets, action steps and MP3 audio file.

Information and registration here: Get More Blog Traffic $49.00

If you’re not getting good results from your online marketing, don’t miss this workshop.

There are three bonus ebooks included. You get access, for free, to Time-Saving Tips for Smart Blogging, a $39 value audio program + 23 pages of worksheets on best blogging practices.

Plus, How to Start a Business Blog and Get Them in the Door: Using Blogs, Email and Social Media for Retailers. All in all, this is a comprehensive program for any professional who wants to use the Internet to get found, get known, and get clients.

There’s nothing worse than spending time and energy writing on your blog and not reaching the very people who need your help, the ones who have the problems you solve.

I take that back, there is one thing worse, and that’s NOT to write your message at all. At least when you publish on a blog, you put it out there on the world-wide bulletin board. Eventually someone will see it, and if you do a few things right, many will see it.

In my ongoing traffic survey, www.surveymonkey.com/s/getmoreblogtraffic, more than 80% respond that they don’t have enough readers to their blog, and more than half report they’re not sure how to attract their ideal clients.

If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do so now. I’d like to find out what your challenges are with driving traffic to your blog.

If you’re going to use a business blog to drive sales and grow business, you’ve got to tackle the traffic problem. But don’t worry, you don’t have to hire an SEO expert and spend a lot of money. You don’t have to be a techie-geek type either.

A business blog is the best darn marketing tool on the planet, but only if you use it right. I found out the long, slow hard way. I fell into blogging backwards. I randomly wrote about my favorite topics without any training about keywords, search engines, tags, etc.

I was lucky because almost immediately people began to find me, even though I’d been working online for five years already. Within a year, my list had tripled and revenues had doubled, and it has continued to grow steadily ever since. I attribute all my business growth to blogging.

When I started blogging in 2004, Facebook had barely started, Twitter didn’t exist and nobody was using LinkedIn. All that’s changed and now social media has a major impact on the way visitors find you on the Web.

Writing optimized, compelling, keyword-rich content on a blog is the quickest, least expensive, easiest way to grow sales and build your business.

Don’t do like I did. Don’t rely on random luck. If you’re going to spend time and energy blogging, do it right, do it smart. It’s not rocket science, and you’re probably not simplifying your traffic-driving tasks the way you could.

Here’s a suggestion: Take the survey and let me know what your questions and challenges are. If you don’t want to do that, leave me a comment here on this blog.

The other thing you could do (just saying) is sign up for the Get More Blog Traffic workshop I’m doing with Michael Martine May 12, 2010. There’s a fee, but what you learn could make the difference between blog success and blog oblivion. Find out more here: Get More Blog Traffic.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Webinar: How to Do Surveys to Attract, Sell, & Profit

One of the challenges with coach and consultant websites and blogs is capturing the attention, engagement and email addresses of visitors. Offering a survey or a quiz is a great way to do so, but it’s not easy to write one that is effective.

A good survey can do several things for you:

1. Gather information about your visitors
2. Find out more about what they need and want
3. Get their opinions, ideas, feedback
4. Get social proof & testimonials
5. Gauge how much they know, where the gaps are
6. Hold their attention long enough for them to remember you
7. Make them think (i.e. get them involved and engaged with you)

Here’s another crucial piece of information you’ll need to be aware of: new FTC rulings making many of us afraid that we can’t get the proof we need to bring new clients in and keep the clients we have.

If you’re not sure what the FTC rulings mean for you and your marketing, and want to learn more about surveys and quizzes, don’t miss the Webinar I’m leading with Jeanne Hurlbert, Ph.D., MySurveyExpert.com.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

3 p.m. ET

Register here (will be recorded):

How to Do Surveys to Attract, Sell, & Profit

You will receive a free report when you register:  “How to Avoid the Top 10 Survey Mistakes That Cost Marketers Millions, and Double Your Profits in 90 Days or Less.”

We had some people who  missed the webinar on JournalEngine, and many people had questions. We’ve decided to host a teleseminar this coming Tuesday March 2 at 4 p.m. ET. If you’re curious about adding new profit streams to your coaching business, don’t miss this. Attend (for free) a teleseminar with Marc Manieri and find out about JournalEngine. Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 4 p.m. ET. Registration page here: JournalEngine Teleseminar (will be recorded).

Why You Should Attend: Read this post: Multiple Pathways to Online Profits

Did you know that with a few good tips, you could be getting good blog marketing results in under 20 minutes a day? It’s true.

Joan Stewart, aka The Publicity Hound, is sharing her tips and interviewing me, The Blog Squad, about Time-Saving Tips for Smart Blogging

Be smart. Turn your blog into the best darn marketing tool on the planet.

When: January 20, 2010 at 4 p.m. ET

What: Smart Blogging teleseminar

How: Sign up here: http://snipurl.com/smartblogging

Where: On the phone, audio recording available

Who: Patsi Krakoff, The Blog Squad, and Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound

Small fee involved, big handouts, recording, big value in saved time, money and energy!

If you’re considering adding Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to your marketing mix, you won’t want to miss this free teleseminar:

Thursday December 17, 2009 at 4 p.m. ET, click here to read more and register:

http://mixiv.com/vp/68753/19900

I struggle myself with knowing how much time to spend over on Twitter, and sometimes get fed up with all the mindless chatter.

Then I found out about a new solution to the social media challenges. I want to know more.

I’m hosting  MySocialMedia Solutions experts Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound, and Dr. Jeanne Hurlbert, on a no-holds-barred teleseminar to reveal the real truths about using Social Media to get clients.

Here’s some of what we’re discussing:

–5 reasons why you must participate at social media sites if you want to grow your business

–Why Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook might not be the best sites for you

–6 huge roadblocks that are keeping most people from actively participating in social media

–3 common mistakes that can derail your efforts and how to keep from making them

–The biggest, dumbest mistakes Jeanne and Joan made when they started

–A killer tip that will help you establish your expertise and enhance your credibility fairly quickly, with almost no work on your part

–How to know fairly quickly exactly how you should be spending your time at social media sites and what you should be discussing

–Why generating thousands of followers on sites like Facebook and Twitter can be a major mistake

–How to promote without looking like you’re promoting

If you’re like me, and struggle with time issues, you want to get the most out of social media without wasting time and energy.

Join me this Thursday, December 17 at 4 p.m. ET as I interview Joan Stewart and Jeanne Hulbert, two social media experts who are making some pretty bold claims that they can help solve social media challenges.

Find out what the solutions are.

Click here to learn more and register:

http://mixiv.com/vp/68753/19900

Space is limited.

Reserve your Webinar seat now.