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It starts tomorrow, December 1st!

My Birthday is December 23rd and this year I’m giving YOU the gifts!  Each day beginning on December 1st, I will be giving away gifts.  Some days I’ll give links to great gifts and other days I will select one lucky winner from everyone who has registered for my Blogging Birthday Bash through the special pop-up box on this page to receive a special gift.

On the 23rd, I will select 1 lucky winner who will receive a fully customized Facebook Fan Page designed by me!  So be sure you register and get your name in the drawings.  Then visit my blog each day to see what great gift I’m giving away for the day!

Tell all your online friends to join the party too!  I love a crowd!

Hey,

If you didn’t have a chance to hear my friend Perry Lawrence talk about Direct-to-Web TV Shows and Podcasting… You missed it.

BUT Perry is allowing me to share the replay link with you.

Direct-toWeb TV Shows and Prodcasting

Go now and listen to a great webinar on how you can create a web series that sets you apart in your niche or industry.

Perry really delivered the goods and this webinar has already created a stir. Search twitter using #directtoweb to see the buzz.

So go watch the replay here and learn how easy it is to become the authentic authority in your niche.

As most online business owners, I produce my newsletters through email.  I specifically use Constant Contact to produce my newsletters and manage my contacts, open and bounce rates and now for all my events.

As a business partner with Constant Contact, I am privy to early information and I just learned that Constant Contact has an iPhone app called QuickView.

It’s the iPhone app built specifically for Constant Contact® Email Marketing. QuickView lets you:

• Check the status of your email campaigns
• See who clicked, opened, forwarded, bounced, and unsubscribed
• Create a new email list on the go — you’ll see it when you’re back at your computer
• Add a new contact while you’re out networking — your account updates automatically
• Search your contact database
• Update any contact’s individual record — your changes will save to your account

All you need is an iPhone or iPod Touch and your Constant Contact username and password. It couldn’t be easier or more convenient.  I just downloaded the app to my iPhone and have added some new contacts and checked the status of my most recent email open-rate.  I love it!

Email Marketing by Constant Contact® is the easy, effective, and highly affordable way to get your message out to your customers, clients, or members—and build strong, successful, and lasting relationships with them. You’ll create high-impact email newsletters and promotions in minutes, no technical expertise necessary. With more than 300 easily-customized templates, a simple point-and-click tool, and award-winning free customer support, you can create professional, compelling messages your audience will act on. And it’s easy for you to manage your contact lists, sign up website visitors, track your clicks and open rates, and send automated communications to new subscribers.  You can even try it Free for 60 days!  Click this link Free 60 Day Trial to get started.

Well, today’s your lucky day!  Today at 1 pm est. is the official launch of the Blastoff network.  It is free, easy and fun, plus you can make money with your Blastoff site.

Watch this short video to get more information and then click I Want a Free Blastoff Site

I have just returned from an incredible trip to San Diego with a business associate of mine, Sue Painter of  The Confident Marketer and some other friends where we learned some amazing Internet Marketing secrets to really explode our businesses. (and yours!)

We were at the Paid For Life conference in San Diego with Mike Koenigs and Brenden Bouchard and a host of other speakers such as Russell Brunson, James Malinchak, Paul Colligan, John Carlton and others.  These thought leaders shared massive amounts of information with the participants on ways to grow your online business and the one recurring theme was Video.

With Google’s recent purchase of YouTube, it stands to reason that video is a SEO booster.  We came away from the conference with a passion for making videos of just about everything we do.  Trainings, speaking opportunities, how-to videos, video testimonials from clients and more.

If you haven’t started using video for your online marketing – now is the time!  You can easily get started for less than $100 with a Flip Camera.  Carry it with you everywhere.  You never know when a marketing opportunity will present itself for you and your business.  Point – Click – Record!

No matter what your business, no matter what product, service or expertise you are selling, you need the right words to sell. Of course, in this “Web 2.0” world, there are so many places and platforms that need relevant and persuasive words – blogs, press releases, Squidoo lenses, articles, newsletters and bios/profiles for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, to name a few.

Many successful marketers will tell you that copywriting – the ability to put what you are selling into words that actually sell – is the #1 most important skill to have in marketing. And this is true now more than ever.

No more spinning your wheels in your current online and social media marketing efforts…

Learn how to tweak and master your social message so that you have more business than you ever imagined…

Conquer the fears you have about using social media as a marketing tool…

Become a profitable content creation and distribution machine…easily and quickly.

My colleagues Craig Cannings of VAClassroom and Allison Nazarian of Get It In Writing have teamed up to present something that simply does not exist anywhere in the online training world. They saw an amazing opportunity to teach other entrepreneurs and professionals a very specific and easy-to-follow system to launch and profit from — their own “Content Creation and Distribution Machine!” In the world of social media, and social marketing in particular, your credibility, your visibility and your reputation are the measures of your success. And the key to being able to shine in social media lies in the words businesses use to have the conversations they are having.

Craig and Allison – and I – invite you to take advantage of this live, 5-week interactive training.  This is an event you don’t want to miss – the “secret weapon” so many successful marketers have and use can (and should) be yours too.

How: Registration Page: www.CopywritingKingdom.com

I had the opportunity to attend a teleseminar this morning by L. Drew Gerber CEO & Partner of PressKit 24/7.  It was part of the Big Fish Nation program I am a member of.  Big Fish empowers women entrepreneur’s to take their business to the next level through hard core business skills with a spiritual approach to success.  Today’s teleseminar focused on Online Press Releases.

Drew shared with us that he defines PR as, Your Relationship with the Public and that you should begin using PR from the onset of your business.  It will increase brand recognition, and boost your sales of  products and services.  90 percent of reporters are getting their information from the Internet, so an Online Press Kit is essential to your Online Business Success!

As part of his company, PressKit 24/7 he has established a source to bring potential media opportunities right into your Inbox.  PitchRate.com is the name of this site and it’s completely free!  You can register, include a profile, select your area of expertise, along with subcategories and daily you will receive a digest of media opportunities.  You can also search on the site for keywords relative to your business.

Drew loves games, and so do I!  So he has offered the participants of today’s teleseminar an incredible prize for the person that gets the most people to sign up for PitchRate.  That’s where I need your help!  If you would like to get daily feeds of media opportunities and grow your business through online press release marketing, please sign up for this free service.  And then send me a quick email to (terri.avirtualbiz@gmail.com) and put your name in the subject line.  And of course, I’d love to get your feedback to share with Drew.

It’s very important that you send me an email, otherwise, I won’t know that you signed up and can’t count you in my group.  I’ll follow up and let you know if YOU helped me win!

I am constantly amazing by the number of plugins, widgets and features that are available for my WordPress Blog.  I actually have this one and I have a static page that I have set-up through the blog platform for my Tasting The Internet, One Byte at a Time Program.

I am hosting a Free Webinar on February 26th at 2 pm eastern, “Why Should I use Twitter?” and I needed a sign-up form for people to register for the webinar.  After checking with my friend and colleague, Rebecca Zwar with Social Web diVA and Invisible Assistant, she shared an incredible plugin called GWA Autoresponder for WordPress.

I have been very pleased with this plugin so far.  People have registered for my webinar and they receive an automatic autoresponder with some freebies that I’m giving away and then I’ll be able to add them to my newsletter list and communicate all the details of the webinar.

If you are looking for a easy to set-up, fast to learn and effective autoresponder for your blog, look no further than GWA Autoresponder for WordPress.

Oh, and by the way, there’s still time to register for my Free Webinar, “Why Should I use Twitter.”

At the end of 2008, I had an opportunity to read many blog posts from Internet experts making their predictions for 2009 and guess what was at the top of their list: Social Media Marketing. It is anticipated that Social Media will grow at unprecedented rates in 2009 and beyond as more and more businesses seek to leverage this powerful new marketing channel.

A further prediction is that Social Media Marketing Services will be in very high demand through 2009! Most businesses either lack the time or expertise to effectively carry out all the necessary Social Media Marketing Activities and will be seeking to delegate these tasks to skilled Social Media Marketing Specialists.

VAClassroom.com has recently released a high calibre 7 module training program based on the seven hottest Social Media Marketing Services requested by businesses today including:

- Social Media Strategy and Action Planning
- Social Networking Profile Set-up and Management
- Facebook Marketing
- Twitter Marketing
- Online Video Marketing
- Online Reputation Management
- Social Media Content Distribution

The Social Media Marketing Specialist Training Program offers a self-directed training system for Virtual Assistants and Online Professional seeking to offer these in-demand services to their new and existing client base, or anyone looking for more knowledge of Social Media Marketing. The program features 8 modules, 30 videos, an interactive and supportive learning community, comprehensive resource guides, assignments and a Social Media Marketing Specialist Certification.

Claim your seat now Social Media Marketing Training and don’t miss out on one of the most important training opportunities you will take this year.