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Conquering The Digital Divide, Introduction To Blogs and Blogging

June 24th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Introduction to Blogs and BloggingFriday, June 27th, I’ll be talking about Blogs and Blogging at the Free Friday Webinars in our ongoing effort to Conquer The Digital Divide. The webinar starts at 3pm. If you haven’t been to one of my webinars before, you’ll need to sign up here

Are you wondering about blogs? Did you know that you’re reading a blog right now? Are you wondering what the advantages of a blog are for your business? These are some of the questions I’ll be answering during this 30 minute webinar.

If you have specific questions, use my contact us form to share them with me ahead of time and I’ll be sure to incorporate them into my presentation.

So, grab a drink of your choice, log into my online classroom, turn the speakers up and take some time to Conquer The Digital Divide.

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Your Competitive Edge, Developing It and Maintaining It

June 17th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Free Fridays at the Digital DivideJoin me on Friday afternoon, June 20th, at 3pm Pacific Time, 6pm Eastern Time, for an afternoon break at the Digital Divide. This Friday we’ll be discussing strategic planning for our service businesses. My special guest will be Barbara Eldridge, Mind Masters, who will share some strategic planning tips for solopreneurs.

Part Two covers Your Competitive Advantage, or Your Personal Brand, how you develop it and how you maintain it.

This comes down to a characteristic of you or your business practices that your customers value, but that your competitors find difficult if not impossible to duplicate. In developing your competitive advantage ( brand) focus on who you are and what is unique about you. Then focus on who you want to reach and how you want to be thought of so that you package and promote yourself to accomplish your goals.

When you do, you predispose your audience by capturing the essence of what you have to offer, creating interest and enthusiasm for it and enhancing your image for differentiating yourself in your marketplace.

Come and discover how to create and implement plans for your business. Ask the questions you need the answers to in this informative hour long webinar (30 minute presentation and 30 minutes Q&A..

When registering for the webinars, please make sure to include your website address for the networking segment of the webinar and ask Barbara or myself any question you want.

Our webinar next Friday, June 27th will be an introduction to blogging.

Register Here!!

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Free Friday Webinar on New Media, What Is It?

June 9th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Free Fridays at the Digital DivideJoin me on Friday afternoon at 3pm Pacific Time, 6pm Eastern Time, for an afternoon break at the Digital Divide. This Friday I’ll be sharing what New Media is and how solopreneurs and service professionals can add new media to their marketing strategies.

You’ve probably heard all about audio and video on your websites and you’ve probably been told it will cost you thousands of dollars to put video on your website. Let me share with you the advantages and some of the tools to help you put audio and video on your website for a fraction of what others might be telling you. When it comes to guerrilla marketing strategies for your website, you’ll want to incorporate new media and I can show you how.

Come and discover how to decide for yourself whether you need to spend BIG bucks on new media, or can you learn how to do it yourself.  Ask the questions you need the answers to in this informative hour long webinar.

When registering for the webinars, please make sure to include your website address for the networking segment of the webinar and ask me any question you want.

Register Here!!

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Conquering The Digital Divide

June 4th, 2008 by Debra Simpson

Free Fridays at the Digital DivideJoin me on Friday afternoon at 3pm Pacific Time, 6pm Eastern Time, for an afternoon break at the Digital Divide. This Friday we’ll be discussing strategic planning for our service businesses. My special guest will be Barbara Eldridge, Mind Masters, who will share some strategic planning tips for solopreneurs.

Planning your business to accomplish your goals is something we all strive towards. Barbara has been teaching solopreneurs and small business owners for years how to work their way through the five stages of the planning cycle. They are:

  1. Situational Analysis
  2. Results
  3. Strategies
  4. Action
  5. Controls

Come and discover how to create and implement plans for your business. Ask the questions you need the answers to in this informative hour long webinar.

When registering for the webinars, please make sure to include your website address for the networking segment of the webinar and ask Barbara or myself any question you want.

Our webinar next Friday, June 13th will be an introduction to the Internet and terms related to the Internet. This is a great webinar for anyone who just needs a primer.

Register Here!!

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