Another week has gone by and I have found a way to turn my busyness into business to keep from going crazy. I have pulled the online and offline marketing together and it is working very well right now. Things are still changing for the better and making my life easier. I am at the point where I can set up certain things i am going to do for my offline marketing on the days that there are networking meetings either here or in Greensboro, and Shannon and I alternate days, and on the days there are no networking meetings we stay at the house and do all of our computer work. GAS costs way too much to do too much running around, so we pick our days carefully.
It has taken me a little while to get system going, and it is not perfected yet (you will be the first to know if that ever happens while I have four kids) however it is working for me right now. I have chopped my networking sites in half continuing only with the sites I spent most of my time on. I had so many that I forgot about from month to month, that I figured it was time to let them go. Now I can be more affective online than I was trying to figure out which site to go to next, and trying to remember where I could just throw info around. That was not fair to the people that were actually there to network.
As for our newest vision. Shannon and I have already started putting things together. We are gathering information right now for various people of various businesses who we are going to advertise on our site, so that people who need certain services will access to the best people to help them.
Now the radio show this week was different for us. Last week we had a rough show, however this week although our guest did show she was only there for a sec so we went on and talked about the importance of a Prepaid Legal Membership. It is something Shannon and I both know well and we know how much it is needed. So we went for it.
Talk to you all next week!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Two Sides of the Street!
Alright ladies and gentlemen, I am realizing lately that I have become very good at online marketing, however I needed to work on my offline marketing. Funny how things work out. When you become a stay at home mom you forget what it is to talk to people when you are face to face.
Lately Shannon has been dragging me out of my comfort zone, out of my box more and more. She has been putting me on the spot and I am beginning to love it. It takes some time to get used to. However, it is definately worth it. One thing that I have realized is that I had to start leaving the house in order to know both sides of the track, online and offline marketing.
Alot of people see offline marketing, hitting the street, networking meetings, walking up to people as old school. I admit it, I do too. However, in your own home town for you to get to know people and for them to get to know you, you have to be able to see them face to face, be able to touch them. Let them know you are a real person.
Even when it comes to online marketing, people want to get to know you before they jump in with you. You also need to get to know who they are and what they do. As I have said before I started a group on Cafemom for women in my area who are either working from home or are looking to work from hoome. We have all been getting to know each other, however it came a time when we needed to meet. We found out alot more about each other face to face than we ever did online.
Contacts are a great thing to have no matter who you are or what either of you do. The main point is to gain relationships and not just lists of people. The only way to do this is to have both online marketing and offline marketing under your belt. That way you are not just stuck in the house going crazy and yelling at your computer or stuck with no money due to the fact that you had to give up your first born for gas money.
Lately Shannon has been dragging me out of my comfort zone, out of my box more and more. She has been putting me on the spot and I am beginning to love it. It takes some time to get used to. However, it is definately worth it. One thing that I have realized is that I had to start leaving the house in order to know both sides of the track, online and offline marketing.
Alot of people see offline marketing, hitting the street, networking meetings, walking up to people as old school. I admit it, I do too. However, in your own home town for you to get to know people and for them to get to know you, you have to be able to see them face to face, be able to touch them. Let them know you are a real person.
Even when it comes to online marketing, people want to get to know you before they jump in with you. You also need to get to know who they are and what they do. As I have said before I started a group on Cafemom for women in my area who are either working from home or are looking to work from hoome. We have all been getting to know each other, however it came a time when we needed to meet. We found out alot more about each other face to face than we ever did online.
Contacts are a great thing to have no matter who you are or what either of you do. The main point is to gain relationships and not just lists of people. The only way to do this is to have both online marketing and offline marketing under your belt. That way you are not just stuck in the house going crazy and yelling at your computer or stuck with no money due to the fact that you had to give up your first born for gas money.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Short But Sweet!
This weeks post is going to be very short but sweet. My last few weeks working with Shannon have been very productive so my work load has expanded. We have taken the last two weeks and networked our heads off. We have been meeting some wonderful people that are allowing us to learn from them and giving us ideas as to what we would need to do to push our businesses ever farther.
I also last week sent out an email on one of my networking sites asking the people I network with who they are and what it is that they do. My main point in sending the email was to see who was serious about what they do. I understand that if you join a business you are serious about it, but I wanted to know who was really there to NETWORK.
Sadly, 75% of the replies I received were links, ads or one and a half lines of information on what they did nothing else. I even had someone that when they sent their link, I asked them to elaborate and they copy and pasted information from their website. The other 25% I am still in contact with and we are building an excellent networking relationship.
People please work with me. I say this in almost every blog, email, or video that I do. If you are going to network with someone you can not just send them your link and think that they are going to jump on your business and not look. People at this time are being very cautious about what they join and they will not join you if they do not know who you are. Find out about the other person and see what your business can do for them as well as what their business can do for you. If you have nothing in common with your business remember you can always bounce ideas off of each other on advertising, marketing, frustrations, etc. At this point we are human networkers and most of us go through the same things. We can always be there for each other one way or another.
Okay I was wrong, the post is not short. But as always I make a point to share my latest radio show. This week I have had Eddie from http://www.fabulousblackwoman.com. She is an amazing woman and she was an amazing guest. Check out what she had to say about her products and her way of networking.
See you again soon,
Lorreen
I also last week sent out an email on one of my networking sites asking the people I network with who they are and what it is that they do. My main point in sending the email was to see who was serious about what they do. I understand that if you join a business you are serious about it, but I wanted to know who was really there to NETWORK.
Sadly, 75% of the replies I received were links, ads or one and a half lines of information on what they did nothing else. I even had someone that when they sent their link, I asked them to elaborate and they copy and pasted information from their website. The other 25% I am still in contact with and we are building an excellent networking relationship.
People please work with me. I say this in almost every blog, email, or video that I do. If you are going to network with someone you can not just send them your link and think that they are going to jump on your business and not look. People at this time are being very cautious about what they join and they will not join you if they do not know who you are. Find out about the other person and see what your business can do for them as well as what their business can do for you. If you have nothing in common with your business remember you can always bounce ideas off of each other on advertising, marketing, frustrations, etc. At this point we are human networkers and most of us go through the same things. We can always be there for each other one way or another.
Okay I was wrong, the post is not short. But as always I make a point to share my latest radio show. This week I have had Eddie from http://www.fabulousblackwoman.com. She is an amazing woman and she was an amazing guest. Check out what she had to say about her products and her way of networking.
See you again soon,
Lorreen
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