Archive for January, 2008

Are you a speaker looking for more speaking opportunities?

A professional DVD of your presentation will open those doors for you, whether with a meeting planner, speakers committee, or speakers bureau!

A quality video will:

• *Get you past the "gatekeepers" to the decision makers
• *Show your unique style and how the audience responds to you
• *Entice potential clients, grab their interest and make a great impression
• *Reach thousands of potential clients by streaming your demo on your website
• Increase the caliber of your bookings.
• *Get you hired and increase your income

Join us Saturday, March 1st for a day of DVD Speaker Presentations. If you want a DVD of your presentation to show to potential speaker bureaus or meeting planners, this day is for you!

Innovative Video Solutions will be on hand to record your presentation, in front of an audience, then create a video you can stream from your website, or share on a DVD. Click here for the event details.

Here are some speaker demos I saw when I searched "speaker demo videos" at YouTube.

Thayer Willis Speaker Demo

Geoff Bond International Speaker – Demo video

Joel Block – Speaker Demo Reel for 2007

This is a great community to belong to if you are blogging. It’s also a great networking site for solopreneurs.

We need all the help we can get online. Belonging to these "social networking" communities helps your online business in so many ways. You can list the blogs you author, offer a profile widget, as well as a recent readers widget. Both widget allow you to share your online information with your readers.

Best of all, MyBlogLog offers tracking for your blog. I’ve just reviewed the stats for North San Diego Business@Large and am impressed with what I see. You can track where your readers came from, what they looked at, and what they clicked on. It’s another fabulous tool to use for your blog. Not only can we network online, building our communities, and tracking our activity.

If you have a blog, you need to join today. Let me know what you think by commenting below!

I had the distinct pleasure of being named one of the Women Bloggers to Watch in 2008. It’s always nice to be recognized by your peers. I’ve been touting blogging since February of 2005, when I started my first blog over at Blogger. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen eyes glaze over and roll to the back of heads. What is blogging?  Only kids blog, right? Finally, blogging arrives as a business tool.

Let me share with you why blogging is so beneficial to a business.  Let’s say I visited your site a month ago, I saw what I saw and I read what I read. If I visit your site today, will I see what I saw and read what I read? Will anything be different?  If not, why should I come back to your site?

The two most popular free blogging platforms are Blogger and WordPress. You can start there. Here’s a document that shares the differences between these two popular free platforms. Here at Magic In Blogging you’ll find how-to videos for common tasks .  As I work on adding videos, please let me know if there’s a specific task at Blogger or WordPress.com that you need a "how-to" for.

Now, if what you want is a totally robust blog like North San Diego Business, or Magic In Blogging,  you can have blog software installed and programmed for your site. I used WordPress because of it’s extendability, flexibility and the vast number of plugins available. It’s also very user friendly.

Blogging is here. It’s an essential asset to any business web presence. Think about embracing it!

Here is the actual post:

1. eJohnson and Company with Elizabeth Johnson
2. Susan Mernit
3. Personal Development Demands Success with Priscilla Palmer
4. Mom Gadget with Gayla McCord
5. Laura’s Learning about Business
6. Organize Your Life with Sarah Kimmell
7. The Technology Vixen with Gennipher
8. Natural Living Blog with Pennie Mills
9. What Sells Online with Samantha Tang
10. Organicsyes with Susan Loughrin
11. California Musing with Susan
12. Phoenix Consulting with Theresa Rhoden
13. Angie Pedersen – Scrapbook Marketing
14. Debra Simpson – Magic in Blogging
15. Ash Joie-Lee – the Paisley Goddess
16. One Minute Book Reviews with Janice Harayda
17. And a Mom with Jules
18. How I changed the world today with Julia
19. Social Net Rocks True with Jacinta Gascoigne
20. Biz Chicks Rule with Kristen King
21. Home Biz Notes With Mary Emma Allen
22. Suburbia Queen with Jamie
23. Eavesdrop Writer with Vienne
24. NuNomad Blog with Carmen Bolanos
25. ZenGuide by Yang-May Ooi

Wow, what an honor to be named one of 25 Women Bloggers To Watch In 2008. I can’t thank Heidi enough for this honor.

I’ve talked for three years now about blogging. It’s a great tool for any online business. I’ve created "how-to" videos for the folks using Blogger and Wordpress blogs. You can find them at Magic In Blogging. Let me know if you want a particular task video to help you in your blogging!

Read the post here: Magic In Blogging