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Posted by LaShanda Henry on February 13, 2009 at 7:43pm in Sistas Connect
2:59pm LaShanda Henry Hi Guys, Welcome to the chat session today! 2:59pm LaShanda Henry It's 2:59 so we got a minute :) 3:01pm Katrina Hello everyone! 3:01pm Makeup Noir Hello 3:01pm Richelle Shaw I'm hungry so, no telling how gentle I will be :) 3:01pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply Hello everybody 3:02pm Richelle Shaw Clarissa- good to see you! I have the CD's of the calls for you and Katrina 3:02pm Katrina yippie!:-& 3:02pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply thank god. i have been on bbwo non stop for hours lol 3:03pm Richelle Shaw They will go out in the mail on Monday.. waiting for my assistant to show up 3:03pm lorretta a walker Hello everyone! 3:03pm Richelle Shaw Hey Lorretta - introduce yourself 3:03pm LaShanda Henry I am loving the energy in here today! Let's keep on with the greetings for a few minutes. 3:04pm Richelle Shaw Hey Makeup Noir! 3:04pm lorretta a walker I am a tax professional/bookkeeper/desktop publisher based in upstate NY. This is my first chat, so be patient. I do enjoy getting the emails. 3:04pm Makeup Noir Hello Richelle 3:04pm Kareen Aristide Hi everyone!! 3:04pm Richelle Shaw Patient??? Of course gorgeous! Good to see you 3:05pm Richelle Shaw Lorretta - change your picture on BBWO - we wanna see you! 3:05pm Richelle Shaw FIrst tip - people buy people and those that have real pictures on BBWO do much better 3:05pm Kareen Aristide I hear that! 3:06pm lorretta a walker I really don't have a good one right now. I am going through a health challenge that has affected my skin. 3:06pm Kareen Aristide photoshop is great for that :) 3:06pm Richelle Shaw Pick an old one - we all hate to take pictures, I wish I could get rid of 100 pounds but you will find that many times, it does not matter 3:06pm LaShanda Henry Use your business logo or create an avatar 3:07pm lorretta a walker How do you create an avatar? 3:07pm Makeup Noir Also a picture that represents your business 3:07pm Katrina yes photo shop is great! it make me taller and thinner 3:07pm LaShanda Henry Create your own cute avatar: a clipart image for free - Use Yahoo Avatar Creator: http://avatars.yahoo.com/ 3:07pm Kareen Aristide lol Katrina! Yeah! 3:07pm Richelle Shaw I love these in the middle of the day chats.... just a few girls together 3:08pm Brooks J. Young LOL, Katrina! 3:08pm Kareen Aristide I'm learning already...avatar...have no idea what it is?? lol 3:09pm LaShanda Henry Avatars are little clipart images. My photo is an avatar I created on yahoo. 3:10pm LaShanda Henry They are the next best thing to using your own image. 3:10pm Kareen Aristide ok! nice! 3:10pm LaShanda Henry I'm cute, but my avatar is cuter. lol. 3:10pm Richelle Shaw lol 3:10pm Kareen Aristide lol 3:10pm Makeup Noir lol 3:10pm Richelle Shaw ladies rev your fingers..... 3:10pm LaShanda Henry Alright ladies, small group chat on small business. Where do we start Richelle? 3:11pm Richelle Shaw Gimme a question. I am open - How about any questions from the Target Market Webinar? 3:12pm Richelle Shaw so funny... stop being shy - or else I'm going to Taco Bell 3:12pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply I have a question about internet marketing 3:12pm Richelle Shaw sure what up? 3:12pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply is that ok 3:12pm Richelle Shaw yep 3:13pm Kareen Aristide I have a question but it's on sponsorship after we're done with that question please? Thank you! 3:13pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply How can i get more traffic? I don't know if i am impatient or not but I am not seeing the results I want in that area 3:13pm LaShanda Henry Guys feel free to just send your questions and I will keep track of them as we go along. 3:14pm Richelle Shaw buy it! Set aside a budget and buy google adwords. It will drive traffic immediately and you will be able to track conversion rates 3:14pm Richelle Shaw That is the only way to get traffic immediately. 3:14pm LaShanda Henry Track your stats first of all... be sure to use Google Anayltics... set a goal of how many more hits you want a month. 3:14pm Richelle Shaw Are you posting on other blogs, forums and article marketing? 3:15pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply yes. I have an autoresonder that alway notifys people of my blog entries on twitter and my email list 3:15pm Richelle Shaw SHould we be talking about Chris Brown?? You guys are way more chatty when we do that 3:15pm Makeup Noir I am in a MLM which I love but how can I set my self a part from all the others. 3:15pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply lol 3:16pm Katrina lol! 3:16pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply if he can get me his wirgleys campaign now that he lost it. fine 3:16pm Richelle Shaw Larissa - are you good? 3:16pm Kareen Aristide LaShanda, I have another question, if you could explain Twitter for me in simple terms? 3:16pm LaShanda Henry Do you have a current Marketing Strategy? Where do you promote your business, and how often do you market? Every day once a week? These are other questions you need to ask yourself. You need to have a marketing plan in place, so you are either actively marketing each week or you have marketing promotions in place that market for you in your sleep. 3:17pm Richelle Shaw Saw your question MakeUp - just a min... 3:17pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply LaShanda can you make a cd for all of your webinars kinda like your ebooks (in a collection sense)? I would love to view your webinars on my tv in dvd. 3:17pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply i would pay for that! 3:18pm Richelle Shaw OHHH, love that answer 3:18pm Kareen Aristide lol 3:18pm LaShanda Henry Twitter is like all social medias... make friends in your niche and chat on a regular basis. Hopefully sometimes you chat about what you do to redirect folks to your site, sometimes you just casually chat to make new connections. Social Networking is not direct sales. You do not aggressively market. You make friends and invite them to your site or business on a casual level. 3:18pm Richelle Shaw Traffic is always slow at first. AND, it can be frustrating but you can get it to come to you for free you just have to be patient 3:18pm Richelle Shaw OK on to the next. Hi Latanya! 3:19pm Richelle Shaw Welcome 3:19pm latanya I have a blog on blogspot,How do you get where people can actually know it exist? 3:19pm Richelle Shaw Sponsorship - Kareen> 3:19pm Richelle Shaw One second LaTanya we got a few before yours... but we will get there 3:19pm Kareen Aristide yes Richelle, I was wondering if you have any tips on approaching sponsors for an event 3:20pm Richelle Shaw Sigh..... this is really not the right time. 3:20pm Richelle Shaw BUT - since you are not Chris Brown... 3:20pm Kareen Aristide lol 3:20pm Richelle Shaw Find one that wants what you want - the same kind of customer and show them the you know how to gather them into one room 3:20pm LaShanda Henry All be quiet now and let Richelle answer your Small Business Questions 3:20pm Richelle Shaw I would pay for that! 3:21pm Kareen Aristide you ladies are awesome! lol 3:21pm Richelle Shaw Show the sponsor what they will benefit - 3:21pm Richelle Shaw Not exposure - they already know how to get that. You want to show them how to convert the people in the room 3:21pm Richelle Shaw Help them sell something at the event too! 3:21pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply LaShanda- How can I move my hosting from my web developers to a good hosting site. I want more control over html but they have my word press and payment site under their account. what should i do? How can I transfer everything over to another hosting site and what hosting site do you suggest? 3:22pm Kareen Aristide that's great Richelle! Thank you! 3:22pm Richelle Shaw Before we answer that one - I think I Makeup is next 3:22pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply np 3:22pm Richelle Shaw How to set yourself apart. Well, first LaShanda - can you give her the link to the target market webinar 3:22pm Richelle Shaw I would watch that . Then, pick a target market 3:22pm Richelle Shaw AND then, do the 3 things I love to do 3:22pm Richelle Shaw Be Somewhere- 3:23pm Richelle Shaw Be Somebody - 3:23pm Richelle Shaw Do Something 3:23pm Richelle Shaw Pick a market that you can dominate. Is it your church? 3:23pm Richelle Shaw Can you be the only makeup person there 3:23pm Richelle Shaw Offer a free fundraiser for the church 3:23pm Richelle Shaw AND Then, get new customers 3:23pm Richelle Shaw Or dominate the school district?? 3:24pm Richelle Shaw Make sense? Don't sell to everyone - sell to someone 3:24pm Richelle Shaw Who's next was it LaTanya? 3:24pm LaShanda Henry Here is the link to the Target Marketing Webinar: http://businesswomenofcolor.net/2009/02/12/5-quick-steps-to-finding-a-target-market/ 3:24 pmLaShanda Henry Save it to watch later. 3:25pm Richelle Shaw Ok so how to get people to know that your blog exists... 3:25pm Richelle Shaw Ok, 3:25pm Richelle Shaw here we go 3:25pm Richelle Shaw The top answer could apply to you too, LaTanya 3:25pm Kareen Aristide Another question for LaShanda, I want to have a user friendly software to improve my business directory of my members on my website...what do you recommend? I have html knowledge so I do my own website updates but I have no programming experience and I don't even see database capability on my cpanel...I think my web master is cheating me! lol 3:26pm Makeup Noir Thanks 3:26pm Richelle Shaw Did that help? 3:26pm LaShanda Henry Getting people to notice your blog LaTonya. Well one of the things I talk about in my Internet Marketing eBook is making the most of social media webtools like blogcatalog, and stumbleupon to promote your blog. 3:26pm Richelle Shaw BUT - are you blogging on BBWO? 3:26pm Richelle Shaw do you have a twitter account? 3:26pm Richelle Shaw you can send traffic to your blog from there 3:26pm Richelle Shaw Buy traffic - ewwwww 3:27pm Richelle Shaw Or, write articles so that people will eventually check it out 3:27pm LaShanda Henry If you have a login for BWOC you can get the Internet Marketing eBook for free. URL: http://businesswomenofcolor.net/2008/11/03/internet-marketing-strategies/ 3:27pm Richelle Shaw You good LaTanya? 3:28pm Richelle Shaw Lorretta how can I help you before I go on to our question hounds... :) 3:28pm Kareen Aristide are you talking about me?? lol 3:28pm Kareen Aristide love it! 3:29pm Richelle Shaw :) 3:29pm Makeup Noir Do you need to register to get to the webinar? 3:29pm LaShanda Henry Here is a quick Blogging Tip: Add your Blog RSS Feed to your BBWO Profile Page. You have an RSS Feed Text box on the left sidebar at the bottom. That's free blog promotion for you. So long as you are active on the network, people will regularly visit your profile page and glance at your blog links. Also helps with SEO, creating backlinks to your blog. 3:29pm Richelle Shaw Damn you are good LaShanda ! 3:29pm Richelle Shaw Forgot that one 3:29pm LaShanda Henry I know I Know *takes a bow* 3:29pm Kareen Aristide this is so chinese to me...excuse my expression! 3:29pm Kareen Aristide lol 3:30pm Richelle Shaw lol 3:30pm Katrina ding ding! 3:30pm Richelle Shaw Alright - Larissa were you next 3:30pm LaShanda Henry chinese noooooo.... what's confusing you? 3:30pm Kareen Aristide RSS 3:30pm Kareen Aristide just don't get it 3:31pm Kareen Aristide I do have a blog so I guess it be a good thing for me to get it right?? 3:31pm Kareen Aristide lol 3:31pm Richelle Shaw Larissa is gone so - Kareen you are next 3:31pm Kareen Aristide yeah! lol 3:31pm Richelle Shaw Ooops, you are already dominating.. 3:32pm LaShanda Henry Your Blog should have an RSS Feed. Scroll around your blog, probably at the bottom and you will find a link to your RSS Feed. Your Feed displays all the recent posts of your blog. 3:32pm Kareen Aristide I'm so clueless about certain things... 3:32pm Richelle Shaw that's why you are in the program right! 3:32pm Kareen Aristide yes! 3:32 pmLaShanda Henry Here is the url for my RSS Feed for my blog: http://www.sistasense.com/feed 3:33pm LaShanda Henry That is what an RSS Feed looks like. You can plug it into feed Reeders, like the one our your BBWO Profile page, to promote the most recent posts in your blog. 3:33pm Kareen Aristide I've got Facebook down pack though...I think...I have a few people following my blog through the blog network thing they have 3:33pm LaShanda Henry You can even add your feed to your Facebook page. 3:33pm Richelle Shaw good that's a start! 3:33pm Kareen Aristide ok! that really looks like chinese!!!!!!!! 3:33pm Richelle Shaw Good tip too, most social networks have the same feature 3:34pm LaShanda Henry We did a great No Cost Marketing Session last month. If you signup for the BWOC site you can watch the No Cost Marketing Webinar: http://businesswomenofcolor.net 3:34pm Kareen Aristide so I just have to click the rss feed on my blog and it will show me what to do?? 3:34pm Richelle Shaw Makeup - I thought the webinar was free, but we do have a special for $9.99 for 30 days what a bargain! 3:34pm Richelle Shaw Hey Miko! 3:34pm Kareen Aristide yes I did sign up so I'll check it out 3:35pm miko moore Hello! 3:35pm Richelle Shaw where's your pretty picture? 3:35pm LaShanda Henry Sigh... sounds like I have to do a video on RSS Feeds. Too much to get into here, but look out for that soon Kareen. 3:35pm Richelle Shaw also one on Avatars and pictures - Pllllleeeease 3:35pm Kareen Aristide thanks so much LaShanda! I will for sure 3:35pm LaShanda Henry I will post it on the Business Women of Color website for you :) 3:35pm Kareen Aristide lol 3:35pm Katrina Yay another video 3:35pm Richelle Shaw Miko did you have a question? 3:36pm Makeup Noir OK Thanks! 3:36pm LaShanda Henry lol Katrina 3:36pm Kareen Aristide I'll shut up now! lol 3:37pm Richelle Shaw NEVER - look that is what we are here for... just want to give everyone a chance 3:37pm Richelle Shaw Katrina - no questions from you? 3:37pm Katrina no that was a serious yay not a sacrastic yay! I find them very helpful... 3:37pm Katrina No can u beleive it? That's only because left my WOCC notebook at the spa. 3:37pm LaShanda Henry I think most of you on the chat have BWOC accounts, so if you subscribed to the feed. Link is on the mainpage to subscribe, you will get a notification when the new video is online. Anyone can subscribe though. The form is in the right sidebar: http://businesswomenofcolor.net 3:38pm Kareen Aristide no worries Katrina! I was referring to the young beautiful woman who said I was dominating here! lol :) 3:38pm Richelle Shaw Whew... young and beautiful - oh Kareen stop it 3:38pm Richelle Shaw Miko - tell us about your business 3:38pm Kareen Aristide I'm just looking at the picture here! 3:39pm miko moore I am just starting out and have been reading everything and looking at all of your videos! Thanks to both of you for doing this!:-) 3:40pm Richelle Shaw Good, now it is time to pull the trigger. This economy is the best time to start a business. The whiners are stuck at home sitting on their last $1003:40pm miko moore My husband is a fleet owner (trucks) and I have had to help him so much in the past few years. I have been doing VA work but I'm considering that as my niche 3:40pm Richelle Shaw praying our new President will turn it into gold 3:40pm Richelle Shaw Good niche - we targeted them for our state of the art calling card and it was fantastic 3:41pm Kareen Aristide amen to that! 3:41pm Richelle Shaw They tell each other, they are easy to reach and Miko - I think that is fantastic 3:41pm Richelle Shaw Welcome back Larissa 3:41pm Richelle Shaw Ooops Clarissa 3:41pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply lol 3:42pm Kareen Aristide Is Clarissa Healthy Hair?? 3:42pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply yes 3:42pm Richelle Shaw Yep! check out her website - she has some killer stuff 3:42pm Katrina Can you talk a little about good incentives to reward customers? 3:42pm Kareen Aristide ok! :) 3:42pm Richelle Shaw Good incentives 3:43pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply thanks for the plug Richelle! lol 3:43pm Katrina yes...more than a $20 gc 3:43pm Richelle Shaw I would pick your top 3 that you like - gas card, facial, money 3:43pm Kareen Aristide Clarissa...do you have products for natural hair? 3:43pm Richelle Shaw ANd then, send a choice on the incentives 3:43pm Richelle Shaw Now the customer is thinking which one do I want 3:43pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply yes 3:43pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply the curls line especially. sorry everyone for that 3:43pm Richelle Shaw From the ones that they pick.... choose those 3:43pm Kareen Aristide I will check it out...I just decided to go natural... 3:44pm Healthy Hair Beauty Supply me too. lol 3:44pm Richelle Shaw sidebars sidebars.. did that help Katrina? 3:44pm Katrina hold on gotta re-read 3:45pm Richelle Shaw grumble GRUMBLE - oh, that's my stomach - still hungry 3:45pm lorretta a walker I do have a similar issue. I have a blog on BBWO but I am not geting much business from my it. How can I generate more business? My advertising/marketing budget is extremely limited. 3:46pm Katrina By letting them pick are you saying let the client tell me what will motivate them< 3:46pm Richelle Shaw YES! 3:46pm Richelle Shaw Give them options - that's always the best 3:46pm Katrina humm ok -got it 3:47pm Richelle Shaw Lorretta - people have to buy what you say before they buy what you have 3:47pm Kareen Aristide and do you buy those incentives yourself? 3:47pm LaShanda Henry Getting folks to notice your blog posts on BBWO here are my quick tips... If you ever wanted to share your event or article with all of BBWO, now you can. Check out the new advertising opportunities: http://tinyurl.com/c8hr8c 3:47pm Richelle Shaw SO - if you are not gettting sales from BBWO it is probably because people want to see your face 3:47pm Richelle Shaw Or they need to hear from you more often other than to buy something. 3:48pm LaShanda Henry Also, if you are doing the BIG Thing... which is searching the Member profiles for folks in your niche you should be building a BIG Friend Circle 3:48pm Richelle Shaw Have you ever heard my speech on Bootycall Marketing? 3:48pm LaShanda Henry So you can share your Great posts with your friends: http://sistapreneurs.ning.com/page/members-1 3:48pm LaShanda Henry When it comes to no cost marketing... you spend in time what you don't spend in money. 3:48pm lorretta a walker Yes I did. I can identify with that. What few clients I have can barely afford me, and I am pretty cheap. 3:49pm Richelle Shaw YIKES - we need to get you more clients that can afford you. PLUS 3:49pm Kareen Aristide I here that LaShanda... 3:49pm Richelle Shaw change the perception that you are not cheap. 3:49pm Richelle Shaw People buy what they want not what they need 3:49pm Katrina Amen to that! 3:49pm LaShanda Henry Here is a link to the No Cost Marketing Webinar on BWOC: http://businesswomenofcolor.net/2009/01/05/no-cost-marketing-strategies-webinar/ 3:50pm Richelle Shaw hi Brandi 3:50pm LaShanda Henry Good point Richelle. Love that you have to sell yourself and make them want you. 3:50pm Richelle Shaw ok ok , stole that one from you :0 3:50pm Kareen Aristide lol 3:50pm LaShanda Henry Our next WOCC Call Should be on Client Attraction : ) 3:50pm Brandy hello 3:51pm Richelle Shaw Yes, I will add that to the list..... 3:51pm Kareen Aristide when is the next call? 3:51pm LaShanda Henry Hi Brandy! 3:51pm Richelle Shaw Tuesday night - webinar live Q&A 3:51pm Kareen Aristide oh man can't make it! :( 3:51pm Richelle Shaw always a replay 3:51pm Kareen Aristide ok great 3:52pm Brandy Hi is there any adviseon how to get B2B sales 3:52pm lorretta a walker I have done tax seminar every year at my church to market myself. What more can I do to attract the church members? I do income taxes but not all of these people have jobs. And some of them would rather go to the big boys or the free tax prep places. 3:52pm LaShanda Henry WOCC Calls are limited to Gold and Platinum Members Kareen. You are currently in the Silver Level. But if you want to upgrade here is a link to the details: http://wocc.workandwebwomen.com/wocc_joinus.htm 3:52pm LaShanda Henry And when you can't make the calls they are recorded, so you can always listen to them later. 3:53 pmKareen Aristide oh ok! Thank you! Hopefully in a few months! :) 3:53pm LaShanda Henry All the WOCC Small Business Training Calls are on the BWOC Website: http://businesswomenofcolor.net 3:53pm Richelle Shaw You need to decide - why are they going to the big boys??? I grew a telephone tax prep office from $0 to $1million in the early 90's and it was because we gave your niche what they wanted 3:53pm Richelle Shaw yep - telephone tax prep - all of the tax prep was done on the telephone. My Tax Man was the name 3:54pm Richelle Shaw great story in my book of what I did ! 3:54pm Richelle Shaw Hey Brandy: 3:54pm Richelle Shaw Your question - B2B 3:54pm Richelle Shaw Same as B2C - people buy people 3:54pm Richelle Shaw Can you tell me about your product or service Brandy? 3:55pm Brandy I am looking to market to other businesses but dont know how to make them notice me or my products 3:55pm Richelle Shaw what is your product 3:56pm Brandy I offer home decor bath and body products and gift baskets and candles hand made. 3:56pm Kareen Aristide Sorry Richelle, is your book the one about b 3:56pm LaShanda Henry It's 3:55 Time Flies when your having fun :P 3:56pm Kareen Aristide sorry, about building business in Las Vegas? 3:56pm Richelle Shaw so why are you selling B2B? Brandy 3:57pm Richelle Shaw Are you trying to get your products into a store? 3:57pm LaShanda Henry Here is a link to Richelle's Book: How to Build a Million Dollar Business - https://freshstart.infusionsoft.com/saleform/nifrhnat 3:57pmKareen Aristide sorry! thank you! :) 3:58pm LaShanda Henry That link got messed up. Here is the Richelle's main site: http://www.richelleshawmarketing.com/ 3:58pm LaShanda Henry Sorry for the interrup. 3:58pm Richelle Shaw I know time if flying... but before we go, I want to answer Brandy's question 3:59pm Richelle Shaw (jeopardy music playing) Brandy can you tell us why you are selling B2B? 4:00pm Richelle Shaw Ok, looks like we lost Brandy 4:00pm Richelle Shaw Final Words LaShanda? 4:01pm Richelle Shaw OK - this is it! 4:01pm LaShanda Henry Final Words.. well 4:02pm Kareen Aristide Thanks Ladies! You ROCK! 4:02pm Kareen Aristide Bye everyone! 4:02pm Makeup Noir Thanks, Learned Alot 4:02pm LaShanda Henry For a link on the latest updates and new features on BBWO visit this link: http://sistapreneurs.ning.com/forum/topics/bbwo-just-got-better 4:02 pmlatanya Thank you Richelle & LaShanda 4:02pm LaShanda Henry Keep a look out for the next one of these chat! 4:02pm Richelle Shaw Anytime - We are here to help! 4:02pm LaShanda Henry You are so very welcome. 4:02pm LaShanda Henry I will repost this entire chat right now in the forum. 4:03pm latanya Thank you That would be great 4:03pm LaShanda Henry Thanks Richelle for being our Small Business Guru. Take Care guys. Online

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