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Private Label Rights content (PLR) is NOT Plagiarizing

Let’s demystify a myth right here right now: using Private Label Rights content (or PLR) is NOT plagiarizing!

Here’s why: Plagiarizing is when you copy and paste someone else’s printed words into your own document and claim that it’s your own work. Whether it’s one sentence, one quote, or an entire document, if it’s taken directly from another person’s work, without any quotation marks or citations, it’s plagiarizing. To me, hiring a ghostwriter to write content or a book for you and put your …

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3 Ways to Create Compelling, Shareable Content While Barely Touching Your Keyboard

Lots of people cringe at the thought of having to blog. “I am not a writer,” they say. Does this sound like you? You’re not alone. I used to feel this way too. I used to have trouble getting started writing, but once I started everything would flow. As a matter of fact, if you ask most any online business owner what their most dreaded task is, blogging will likely rank right up there with bookkeeping and cold calling. Most people simply do not like to write and will find any excuse not to do it.…

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Do You Hate Planning? (Learn to Love What It Does For Your Business!)

Are you a naturally organized person? Did you get that special organizing gene at birth?

I used to think that I did, but as my life has become increasingly busy, I am finding that I am not nearly as organized as I once thought I was. I am working on it. Keeping all the aspects of a coaching, training, or speaking business organized and running smoothly is difficult at best, especially if you don’t have your systems and procedures in place. Most people who have a goal of where they want their b…

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Is Your Email List Your Friend or Nemesis?

“You need a list,” they said. “The money is in the list,” they said. “You need an autoresponder,” they said. So you purchased an autoresponder; you added an opt-in box on your website; you have a couple of subscribers; now what? Now, you sit down and plan out what you’re going to send to your list. The thing is, the money is in the list ONLY if you stay in contact with the list. If you send out random emails every few months or every few years (yikes!) chances are you’ll have several unsubscribe…

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Setting Career and Personal Financial Goals

Your career path and personal financial goals work together to help you achieve the top dreams and goals for your life. In fact, the career path you choose sets up the possibilities for financial success you’ll experience throughout your life. You need to better understand the connection and the reasons why you should think of the two. As, issues you need to work on together, ensuring you achieve the success you desire for both. Also, you need to learn how to plan personal financial goals such a…

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Using Chat Effectively during Your Webinar

Webinars are very effective means of communication with your audience. You can teach people almost anything during a webinar if you plan everything right. It’s really as good as a live in-person event, but without the added hassle of travel expenses. The audience actually doesn’t even need to get dressed. But, let’s not think about that. Instead, let’s talk about what is different about a webinar compared to an in-person event; the chat. During a live in-person event, everyone listens intently t…

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Tips for Recruiting Speakers for Your Webinar

It sounds like a wonderful idea - a multi-speaker webinar event. And yes, it is a great idea, but it’s not as easy to arrange as you might think. Recruiting speakers is tricky because you want to find people who market to your niche but who aren’t necessarily direct competition with you. Plus, you want them to be good, honest people who offer amazing value to their audience. After all, you’ll be introducing them to yours.

Here are some tips for recruiting speakers so that you and they get the m…

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How to Make Your Audience Love Your Live Events and Come Back for More

There is more to hosting a webinar than simply having one. You need to ensure that it’s fun, informative and useful too. When people go to a webinar, they know that they’ll get a sales pitch eventually. But what makes them come back is the actual content outside of the sales pitch. Plus, if they choose to purchase due to your sales pitch, the product must be fabulous. If you offer your audience amazing promises, you need to live up to them.

  • Make It Educational – Every webinar should offer a m…

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How Long Is Too Long for a Webinar?

Keeping your webinar at a good length really depends on the topic. But, in general, more than 90 minutes is too long. People get tired of sitting, and need breaks when you offer something longer than that. If you’re using a webinar for business and product promotion, then taking too long can be the kiss of death. But, there are times when you need to be long because that is what the information requires.

  • Start With and End With Engagement – Your webinar should feel very personal, and the best…

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Do's and Don'ts of Selling Your Products during Your Webinar

There are four P’s of marketing: Product, place, price and promotion. Using this marketing mix will result in better results while focusing on one thing. Today, one of the ways in which you can market your business is to host webinars. But, remember that there is a difference between promotion and marketing. Marketing encompasses many aspects of marketing, promotion is only one aspect. Here are the Webinar Do's and Don'ts to help you sell your products.  

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Benefits of Having an Open Mic Q & A Session

The entire point of hosting a webinar is to inform and educate your audience about something you know will help them. While you will likely seek to answer questions before they’re asked, using your knowledge of your audience, you will probably miss some things your audience needs to know. This is the obvious reason why a Q & A session is a good idea during your webinars. But, besides that, there are many other benefits to having an open mic Q & A session.

  • Improves Audience Engagement – Someti…

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How to Keep Your Guest Speaker (and Yourself) On Track

When you host a multi-speaker webinar, one of your biggest concerns outside of technology playing nice is likely to be whether or not your speakers will stay on track during the event. It’s very easy to get off track and go over time, or even speak too fast due to nerves and leaving too much time at the end of the presentation. You want to try to avoid both of these possibilities by using these tips to stay on track.

  • Prep in Advance – Once you’ve chosen your speakers, send them information ab…

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