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| Volume: 3 Issue: #11
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July/2010
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 Keep Up with the Social Media Scoop!
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Check Out These Links!
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Social Networking Nuggets
Promote Yourself
My mother taught me not to brag on myself, but to be a good little southern girl and be humble.
Well, that theory is out the window when it comes to promoting yourself online.
One of the best ways to promote yourself is through Facebook and Twitter with links back to your website or best blog posts. But also, using sites like Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon to share your links will help promote you and your business.
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You Can Catch Me Here
Are you planning your Fall events and meetings?
Looking for a Speaker?
I'm available to speak on social media, online business start-up, building a home-based business and many more topics. |
I Need Your Help.
I am in the StartUp Nations Leading Moms in Business Contest and I would love to have your vote. Just click this link VOTE NOW to cast your vote.
You can vote daily. I really appreciate it! :)
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Can I Ask A Favor?
One of the best ways to market is word of mouth marketing. If you saw something in this issue of The Social Media Scoop that you would like to share with someone, please click the link below to "Forward Email" I would really appreciate it! :)
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A Tasty Morsel
| I thought I would add a fun little area to my newsletter and share a few of my favorite recipes with you since my whole new theme is all about tasting, bytes and scoops!
Healthy Pasta Salad
2 Cups Wheat Pasta (cooked and drained)
1 Tomato (diced)
1-2 Medium Cucumbers (diced)
1 cup Medium Carrots (diced)
1 cup yellow and red pepper (diced)
1 Cup Low-Fat Italian Dressing (you can add a little more if you want)
Mix together and chill. Sprinkle with Parmesan Cheese. Enjoy.
I add bacon bits and cheddar cheese to mine, but that takes the healthy part out of the title!! :)
If you have A Tasty Morsel recipe that you would like to share, email me at Recipes. Include your name and website and a picture of the finished recipe, if you have one.
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A special welcome to all my new subscribers. It's great to have you! I hope you always find a helpful "scoop" of social media here.
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Greetings! I don't know about you, but it's been blazing hot here in East Tennessee! It has been in the high 90s for weeks and the calendar just officially turned over to Summer. Yikes!! What does that mean for rest of July, August and September? I might be moving to the North Pole for the Summer. :) Struggling with the heat, caused me to think about heating up my business. Typically, summertime brings a lull in your business, unless you sell swimming pools and boats. With everyone going on vacation and the kids being out of school things can get slow. (Sidenote: my kids are grown, but I recently had my four grandchildren spend the day with me and although I planned to work a little bit while they were here...that didn't happen)  But I realized that the slow summertime, could be a great time to do some planning and re-visiting of my business goals to help me end 2010 where I want to be. What about you? Are you positioned to meet your 2010 goals for your business? We'll talk some more about it in the main article and give you some steps to help with the process.
To Your Online Business Success!  The picture of my "babies" above was taken at Easter, if you want to see them in action visit my YouTube Channel and watch Summer Fun at Gramma's House. |
| Heating Up Your Business
| It's July, we're at the mid-point of 2010. How's your business shaping up with the goals you set back in January? If things are not where you want them here are a few steps you can take to get back on track and finish the year at or ahead of your goals.
- Hold up! The first thing you should do is just take a couple of days to work "on" your business, instead of "in" it. Carve out a few days away or at least away from the phones and distractions.
- Evaluate what you did right in the first six months of the year. What worked; what didn't. If writing and selling ebooks brought in a lot of traffic and income for you, then this should be an area that you want to continue to offer. But if offering seminar's didn't produce anything but lots of extra work, you might decide to stop offering them.
- Ask your community what they want. This is the people who allow you to market to them. Whether it's through email marketing, Facebook, blogging or face-to-face marketing. It's very easy to find out what products or services they need from you by using surveys. Survey Monkey is a free service and it's very easy to use and distribute.
- Take Action. Once you have determined what worked best for you and have gathered information from your market as to what they want and need from you, take action! Develop the products and services that best fit the needs of your clients. These might be very similar to what you have been doing, but they also might take you in a new and exciting direction with your business.
It's so easy for us as entrepreneur's to think we know what our target audience wants. But it's so much easier to just ask them, either through surveys or by evaluating what has worked in the past.
Try these steps and HEAT up your business!
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| Things You Might Be Interested In
| Sameon Crumby is hosting a course beginning July 1st, online - "Building Blocks to Spiritual Health." Visit Sameon's event page on Facebook for more details and to register for his course.
My friend Sandy Rees, CFRE of Get Fully Funded is having a 4th of July Sale!
Sandy is an expert fundraiser and she offer's her knowledge to small nonprofit organizations. Click below to see what Sandy's offering:
How To Turn Your Website Into An Automated Marketing Machine
 Your website is probably one of the most
expensive parts of your business.
But does it do what you really need it to do? Does it:
- Convert visitors to prospects for you automatically?
- Lead people to the one thing you want them to do?
- Let your prospects know exactly what to do to keep in touch
with you?
- Cost
you more in design and hosting fees than it brings in
income?
Join featured guest expert, Sue Painter, The Confident Marketing on Wednesday, June 30th. Click this link to register: How To Turn Your Website Into An Automated Marketing Machine
Click this the image below for some 4th of July Freebies! 
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| From the Social Media Blog
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Whether you're just writing about your
kitten Fluffy's daily adventures or update a serious corporate blog
for shareholders, your blog's security should be something to consider.
Hackers and other unscrupulous people may want to break into your blog
for many reasons - whether for fun or to steal your files and passwords
or to turn your popular blog into a marketplace for male performance
enhancement drugs. Take for example the case of blogger Robert Scoble,
whose popular blog, Scobleizer
was hacked. Scoble lost about 2 months worth of posts, and the attack
on his blog actually exposed a vulnerability in WordPress' security
system. So everyone should at least know the basics of blog security.
Whatever the reason, make sure you're
protected by keeping the following tops in mind:
Practice common sense -
never, ever share your passwords with ANYBODY,
keep your software updated, and always back-up your files. These are
the basic things everyone should do, yet still not all of us follow.
Be careful of installing themes and
plug-ins - it's fun to play around with your blog and put all
sorts of bells and whistles on it, but every user should be wary of all
software readily available on the web. Don't just download and install -
do some basic research on the authors and make sure you have an
anti-virus installed. Also, by installing tons of plugins, you could
potential slow down the loading time of your blog.
Read the rest at my Social Media Blog.
Using StumbleUpon to Increase Site Traffic
Awesome Plugin to Backup your Entire WordPress Site
Do you Have any Backlinks?
While your visiting my blog, it would be great if you left a comment or shared my blog link on
Twitter and Facebook. Just click on the little icons below each blog post to share. Thanks! 
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More about Terri
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Terri Brooks is the President of Tasting
The Internet, One Byte at a Time, an online business management and training company
providing entrepreneurs, start-up and small business owners the tools and resources
to build an amazingly successful online business.
Terri's an Online Branding and Social Media Trainer and
Consultant with certifications in Internet Marketing and Social Media Marketing. She is also a speaker and author of "The
Start Here, Now Do This" social media guide, a step-by-step manual
for understanding and developing your social media profiles.
She is a member of eWomenNetwork - Knoxville Chapter
Leadership Team and the developer and administrator of the Official
eWomenNetwork National Facebook Fan Page.
She's also a member of Big Fish Nation, and SelfGrowth.com's - Social
Media University Faculty.
Terri's easy approach to training and her strong desire to
help new entrepreneur's with social media and developing their online marketing
make her a highly sought after consultant.
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