~SusanneUK~ Sues Digest

Something I realized just a few short weeks ago and have been cramming information into my poor little brain since then is one very simple fact that I am absolutely sure is going to help me start earning a wonderful and steadily growing income.

That simple fact, which probably applies to most Internet Marketers (yes even you new to the game guys and gals) is that, everything you have learnt to help you build your business online is most probably an absolute goldmine of information to an “offline business”.

I know that in my little area of the world in South Wales, UK that most people barely know how to switch their computer on, let alone how to use it to increase business to their offline interests BUT and this is the important bit, a lot of those very same people are now realizing that they NEED an online presence but yikes! they have no idea how to go about it, nor the time it would take to learn what to do.  Well can you see where you come in?

Are you a copywriter and can you put a site online, e.g. a self hosted wordpress site?

If you can’t put a site online but you know a little about online marketing then you can outsource the other work.

If your an SEO expert this is perfect for you as well.

In fact, all you really need is enough online marketing knowledge to get a business owners attention.

Well I have, what I thought was a little bit of knowledge in each of the above areas (after a bit of offline research I am now realizing, it’s a fair bit of knowledge compare to offline business owners) and with the contacts I have made online, I know I can, if I want or need to, outsource some of the work at very reasonable costs.

You are probably thinking, well that’s going to cost me a lot to get this business set up if I have to outsource some of it.. well no actually.

You see, offline businesses are used to spending way more on Marketing than we online people are used to, so you simply include the outsource into the quote you will give them, they invariably are still getting marketing cheaper than they normally pay and you are left to do the part of the business that you are good at, or perhaps just love more than the other bits, whatever your personal reason would be to outsource.

OK so before I go off on another tangent, which I am apt to do, sorry LOL let me give you this link to a pdf I found that is going to help me set about doing this because if this idea interests you at all, well I reckon you want me to stop blabbing and get to the point LOL.

This is by “Andrew Cavanagh” who is a member of the marvellous Warrior Forum and it’s called “Offline Gold for the Online Marketer” and yes there is a price tag, at the moment that is $19.99 and I am told, that price will go up - take a look and see if you think it’s something you could do, oh and wish me luck as I embark on this endeavor which I am very excited about.

I am very tempted to say I will give a progress report here BUT I also realize I might be to damn busy! Hey let’s see how that goes, perhaps a monthly update will be a doable thing and we can all compare notes.

OK lets do the shameless plug first, get it out of the way I say LOL

I have a new blog called “Osmonds Galore” which I am getting “stuff” including content onto as fast as my little pinkies and people knocking at the door with flippin leaflets! will let me, why, well just because! lol

Real reasons:

I find I am blogging more and more on this blog about The Osmonds nowadays and not much else, so I think that needs it’s own home/blog.

The timing is right as far as I am concerned with The Osmonds 50th Anniversary Tour kicking off just a few days ago in Belfast.

I have my own ‘Meet and Greet’ with all of the Osmonds to attend next week on the 28th and yup! I am gonna do a blog about that because it will be so much fun.

So people who want to subscribe to something about the Osmonds can do so WITHOUT getting email updates about Internet Marketing, which, if they subscribe here, they will get.. I am sure they are not interested in those, so this way, they can subscribe to “Osmonds Galore” and only get what they are interested in.

Some more reasons which I forget right now.

I hope to make “Osmonds Galore” into a bit more than a blog and add things like chat facilities, a forum, a place to locate Osmond Memorabilia, other Osmond fan guest blogging, other competitions, raise money for Marie Osmonds Childrens Miracle Network, all kinds of other ideas too. 

One of my first posts over there is called “Marie Osmond on floor again” and includes video from Entertainment Tonight (amusing, not nasty) if you would like to read that, please hop on over and also don’t forget to subscribe via the feedburner email subscription in the sidebar so that you will get emailed any time I make a post over there and more importantly, if you are an Osmond fan, you will also get entered into the competition I will run after the tour to win a photo or photos (presuming I get some good ones from the Meet and Greet), details of that will be on the blog when I have it more finalized, however, just subscribe and your entered.

Here is the link if the ones in the text above do not work for you: http://osmondsgalore.co.uk/

Thanks for reading and if you know anyone who loves The Osmonds, please pass the link on.

Sue

Just a quick update today on the upcoming Osmonds 50th Anniversary UK Tour - all the Osmonds are over here now doing various promotional work before the actual tour begins.

With them they have Jeremy Hall who is the official photographer for the tour.  Jeremy always manages not just to get really wonderful photos but also to get really unusual ones, not your standard Celebrity ones.  I guess it must help being along for the ride for the whole tour to get those unusual snaps but still he has done some wonderful work with Donny Osmond in recent tours both here and in the US.

I can’t wait to see what he comes up with now he has the chance to get to know and photograph the whole Osmond family, not just Donny.

Here is an example of just such a photo of Donny, taken during their travels over to the UK, it’s on Jeremy’s own blog called “What’s Gotta Stay” and I love this one, simply because it’s not “posed” and I know most Osmond fans will also lap up this kind of photo, so kudos Jeremy.

Just a reminder (or perhaps you didn’t read my previous post on the upcoming tour), if you would be interested in reading my experience of a Meet and Greet for The Osmonds Cardiff concert and/or if you have a burning question you would like to “Ask an Osmond”, or perhaps you would like a free photo emailed to you from the tour (if I get any good ones LOL) then please read the following snippet from that post and/or click to go read it to see what you need to do and don’t worry, it’s not going to cost you anything.

Click Here to go to the previous post

Thanks

Sue

Snippet:

I have decided that I will be blogging about the whole experience of the 28th May, with photos and so if that would interest you, then please do register (top left under my photo) to receive blog updates via newsletter - then you won’t miss anything and for those of you who do, IF I manage to take any good photos then I will select a few to send to you. You don’t need to accept the current free download gift that goes with subscription to “Sue’s Digest” but what you will need to do is, go to my contact page, either before or after subscribing, and send me a quick email with OSMOND in the subject, then I can put you in a separate list from my other subscribers and make sure you get a photo.

Now lastly, I would love to know what any of you would want to “Ask an Osmond” at a question and answer session, so please do leave me a comment and tell me what you would ask.. and perhaps let me know via comments if you would like me to blog and show some other photos from all the recent Donny tours I have been on?

Do you want to give your visitors a new toy to play with?

And do you want to make it easy for them to bring over all their friends to do the same thing?

Well, soon you will be able to, read on:

Google Press Release just announced “FriendConnect” and basically it is going to give webmasters the ability, by adding a simple piece of code to their website (any kind of website) to allow their visitors to interact even more with your website and more importantly, bring over their friends easily as well.

For the visitor it means they get to do all kinds of things on your website AND takes away the boring task of continually filling out registration and profile forms, so less work for them, that’s gotta be a plus right there in my book.

I am sure most webmasters can see endless possibilities with this new application from Google, I certainly can but I would love to hear from you so please do comment and add your thoughts on this Google Press Release.

Below are some quotes from the press release and then a link to go read all of it for yourself:

“Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect.”

“Google Friend Connect has been developed to lower two barriers to the spread of social features across the web. First, many website owners want to add features that enable their visitors to do things with their friends, but the technology and resource hurdles have been too high. Second, people are tiring of needing to create new logins and profiles and recreate their friends lists wherever they go on the web. Google Friend Connect offers a solution to both these issues.”

“Any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.”

“Google FriendConnect” Press Release