8th Level Podcast

Have you ever heard of people mention landing pages or sales pages, thank you pages? In today’s episode I’ll briefly explain the differences between a landing page and a website. 

Jan has pivoted her business and walked away from providing virtual assistant services (sort of; she  is not accepting new clients) .  We’ll find out why,  as she explains the pros and cons of being a VA . 

Continuing with creating a customer profile and how to use the questions we gathered. Listen to last week's episode Part 1 and today's episode will make more sense. 
We cover:

• How to use the questions we asked last week
• How to promote ourselves

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Conducting  market research should be included in a business plan.  Who is your customer and how do you write copy that attracts that customer? This episode, I talk about one example of how to do a market research. Listen in and hope this gives you ideas to do your market research and be brave!

Mimi is an Online Business Manager and owns her own business and has been homeschooling her kids for over 20 years. She has 8 children and a few of them attended college and are successful adults. She is still homeschooling her younger children today and she shares her experience as a homeschooling mom and managing her own business.  

• Virtual Learning
• Different types of Learners
• Managing your children while you work "at home"

Mark Hunter is a full-stack, self-taught Wordpress Developer.  He shares how he joined networking groups and not realizing he was in relationship business building and that gave his colleagues trust in him and referred him more business!  He shares how having his very first client gave him the confidence to provide services as a Wordpress Dev and formed a thriving business.

·      Relationship Marketing

·      Getting Referrals

·      Peer Relationships

Zeina is a Certified Virtual Assistant and Language Specialist and is based in the UK. When she started her business over 12 years ago, she was a freelancer.  She shares her previous experience  in starting up, the challenges, why did she move from freelancing to contracting, who has been her ideal client - why did she jumped into just the one contract.   She  shares her beginnings and how to find clients, and how she de-stress.  

This episode is about having an online presence and a website. How important is it to have your own website? Do you rely using only social media to use for your business? 

• Not relying only on social media for your online presence
• Importance of you owning your own content by having your own website
• Hosting service
• Buying a domain name

Don't just rely on having your business online presence on a social media platform.  In my humble opinion, you have more control over your own website.  For the hosting service GreenGeeks, I mentioned that they speak to you in plain easy to understand English, (just a quick note, I don’t know if they speak to other customers in English only, since I am in the US and shared my own experience. They might speak to you in other languages too.) Please read terms of usage, and/or condition of the social media platforms mentioned in this (or all of our) episode.  


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Today, I have a spectacular guest, Doris Symonds.  Doris is an author, a serial entrepreneur, a community connector and a business owner.  She created one of the largest women’s conferences in East Peoria, IL, “Women in Business Networking".   
Doris is a spunky and wonderful active woman in her community and she shares why she started her business, lessons learned and what she's has been up to.

In this episode we'll explore how to name your business. You can name your business as your own name and ideas on how to name your business.