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My E-Book Update

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:34:01 GMT

For those of you who know me well you know that I quite often start things and then leave them half finished. Well not this time! Yeah! I have finished the final touch ups and sales page, I have my testimonials and my book is now for sale! Check it out. Beginners Guide to Basic Bookkeeping for Small Business.

www.glendasfreesite.com.au

How to get a 2yr old to sleep

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:24:10 GMT

I have been having problems getting my 2yr old daughter to sleep at night. She quite often is still awake at 10:30pm. Tonight I had no problems and she was asleep at 8pm... Wow! How did I do it? Well it wasn't actually me that got her to sleep, it was John Howard and Kevin Rudd. There was nothing I wanted to watch on TV tonight so I didn't take any notice of what channel the TV was on and didn't bother changing it when the electoral debate came on. (Too busy on my computer.) Next thing I know Joanna is sitting on my lap with her head buried in my shoulder and she went to sleep. Finally our PM and opposition leader have done something useful... LOL.

Living in 2007

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:21:03 GMT

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 when...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.: )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.

Yeah!!! It's finished

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:36:03 GMT

I have finally finished my book and a report to go with it. Just need to do my sales page now and get it proofread and reviewed.

To those who say it is easy to write a book, I agree but there is also a bit of work that has to go into it especially if you have to do research on your topic as well.

To those who are thinking of writing their own e-book. Go for it. It is an amazing feeling of accomplishment once you have finished it.

Okay, I'm off to do the finishing touches.

www.glendasfreesite.com.au

I'm taking a break

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:22:32 GMT

Hi, I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be taking a break from the Internet (Aaaarrrggghhh!!! shock horror) so that I can finish my book. I am finding too many distractions by having my Internet on (like blogging, social networking, email, games etc) so I am turning it off until my book is finished. Good news here is you will be the first to know when my book will be available because I will post here as soon as I connect my Internet again.

Anyway, wish me luck.

PS While I'm away take a look at the changes I have made to my site http://www.glendasfreesite.com.au

Info on Business Plans from Aussie Dave

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:15:48 GMT

Yeah Yeah I know this is a bit off topic for this blog but a thought there may be a few of you out there that may be thinking of starting your own business.

A Few Ideas on Internet Marketing
by Aussie Dave – http://www.gravitysponsoring.com

Promoting your small business on the internet is crucial in today’s world. The entrepreneur who ignores this gold mine of potential opportunity does so at his or her own peril. There is too much to be gained through marketing on the internet, and little to be lost. If you company is internet based to begin with, this is a no-brainer, of course. But things are rapidly changing on the Web, and those marketing strategies that worked a few years ago may not work as well today. Here are a few things you can do to expose your business to potential new customers that work today, but may not in a few years.

SEO. Search engine optimization. For the internet entrepreneur who wants their website to be a success, this is the first step toward ensuring that success. Unless you have unlimited funds with which to advertise your product, this is a step you cannot afford to skip. Optimizing your website is the equivalent of building your brick-and-mortar store in a major shopping district as opposed to halfway down a dirt road with an old rusty sign pointing in the other direction. Its importance cannot be overstated. There are many facets to SEO, and not enough room in this article to get into them. Fortunately, few topics have been as exhaustively written about. Do a Google search of your own, and you will find plenty to read.

Pay Per Click. This is another fine way to get your internet business off and running. This service is offered by Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, to name a few. With Google AdWords, you’re going to have the most potential traffic, but you may also have the most competition for the best keywords. What does this mean? Well, AdWords (and the others) work by letting you create an advertisement (usually a headline and a couple of sentences). You then must choose the keywords that will activate your ad. Then you place a bid on how much you’re willing to pay per click of your ad, depending on each keyword. It all sounds a lot more confusing than it is. The benefit of this type of advertising (as opposed to, say, banner advertising), is you only pay when you have been ensured of a visitor. Of course, what you do with that visitor is up to you and your own marketing skills.

Articles and inbound links. Next to SEO, this is the most powerful section of strategy for the up and coming internet business owner. In order to move up in the search engine rankings, you must have incoming links (backlinks, as they’re called in the SEO world). When the search engines see a website with a lot of natural inbound links, they begin to see the website as an authority on whatever subject the site is about. Thus, the site’s ranking begins to improve. There are many ways to go about getting backlinks, but one of the best ways is through writing articles. There are article “farms” on the internet, which host your articles for free and then sell them or give them away to other website owners, who are hungry for content. This benefits you because at the end of the article you will have included your name and a link to your website. Every time someone grabs your article to put on their website, you get another important link.

There are a million successful strategies for marketing on the internet, but these are the three building blocks. Go and research them, and your business will be the better for it.

About the Author

Aussie Dave has been in the work from home industry for well over 6 years now, both on and offline. You can be personally mentored by him for home business success by requesting a call at http://www.gravitysponsoring.com

For more info on starting your own business click here.

Guess what I'm Doing Now!!!

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:11:11 GMT

I have been convinced that I can write an ebook and sell it. So I am working on 2 of them. Just because I can and I had ideas about both of them at once.
Anyways that's just a heads up on why I won't be talking to people much for the next month. I've set myself a time limit to get at least one of the books finished by the end of October.

nuthin much

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:04:58 GMT

Hi, I'm bored so I am just playing around and seeing what I can do.

Holidays

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:34:57 GMT

Hi, Just letting you know I am going on holidays for a few days over Easter and won't be back till Monday night. Yes am having a holiday from my computer as well...lol
cya when I get back.
Glenda

About

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:26:30 GMT

Hi,
This is more a family blog but if I find anything interesting to tell you about from my travels to the depths of the internet and internet marketing I will put that in here too. I am trying to find the time to update my website at the moment with some of the new free things I have found on the internet so I will keep this short. I am also very very unorganised at the moment so need to spend some time organising myself and my time. If anyone has any tips please let me know.
Anyways, I said I would keep this short so....
Cya
Glenda
www.glendasfreesite.com.au