Cool News!

I’ve been named one of the

Top Women In E-commerce 2011 by WE Magazine!

I love spreading my message over the internet. My blog alone gets 30,000 visitors a month.

It’s cheap, easy, and connects me to my kind of people…

If you’re shy,

or on a limited budget,

or you want to protect your privacy,

or if you’re a female entrepreneur who wants to stay home and play with your kids…

it’s as if the internet was invented just for you.

The secret to Social Media success is your ability to blend new technology with old fashioned humanity and authenticity. There’s something about audio and video and instant chatting that is so much more immediate than text.

That’s why I’m going to take a break from writing tonight, and give you a video post instead.

web traffic

Want more website traffic? Baffled by Social Media?

It’s EASY. Here’s what to do:

• Link back to your site when you post comments on well trafficked blogs, twitter, facebook.

• Put your website on your YouTube videos. (Facebook and YouTube are MUSTS for web traffic.

• Include your “gravitar” (got to http://en.gravatar.com/) with your posts. (Your photo posts automatically when you enter your email address.)

• “Anchor” your keywords everywhere: that means hyperlink your most important keywords back to your site when you post around the web.

• Circulate articles. Create your own blog. Create a group page and a fan page on Facebook. (I’ve gotten so much business and international exposure from being on Facebook that it blows my mind.)

• Be a friend, not a salesperson, when you connect with people on social networking sites. Post amusing tweets. Don’t spam your friends. Don’t be pushy or icky.

• Ping your tweets: they’ll show up on LinkedIn and other places Twitter doesn’t go… yet.

• Get a wordpress blog, hook it up to social media, and add new content all the time.

• Have social networking and “forward to a friend” links on your newsletters.

And that’s how I get traffic. That, and getting a lot of radio and press.

Once you get traffic to your site, bribe your visitors to take action (sign up for something) with a gift. Website visits that lead to no action are a waste of bandwidth.