A swimming pool next door to Luna Park and over looking Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Opera House. You’d think that would be enough to entice you to visit wouldn’t you?

Today I take you there and show what REALLY makes it irresistible and how you can apply the lesson your own business in 3 different ways.

Love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. Do you find pools irresistible too? I’m a lap swimmer (5am breed) and solve many of my problems while in the meditative state that swimming laps creates (while chanting in my head “breathe, breathe, what number am I up to?”). Curious to find my fellow water souls out there.

P.P.S. Free training to create a profitable & rewarding business online. Visit www.thequadrantquiz.com

Transcript:

Hi, come on here I want to show you something.

See in there, every time I come down to Luna Park and to the Harbour here on the North Shore I come down here I look in their windows and I say to myself every time, “You know what I’m going to come down here, I’m going to do a special trip to do lapse here at dawn.”

It looks so fantastic! And I will, I will do that. But why on earth is this pool so special? What’s got me thinking? You know what? It’s these windows because I can look in at all the people having fun, all the people doing great things but I can’t get in, I can just imagine what it’s like.

So how can we do this for our businesses? Have you got a way that you can do like a sneak peak? Really good ways to do like one week or a month, or for free or a dollar for membership sites or it could be something where you’ll have a video where you’re actually guiding people throw in to your membership area so they can imagine what it’s like to be in there. Show them some of the comments and conversations so they can imagine what it’s like.

Another thing you can do is what we always do when I teach you, to always have something that’s great that’s for free that people can get as an opt-in gift that really gives them good taste of what it’s like to work with you.

I’d like to hear from you. What some ideas that you can think of that are kind of like a sneak peak and something that makes you think like “you know what I can really imagine myself there. That looks fantastic.”

Love to hear from you, leave your comments down below and I’ll let you know when I’m down here doing lapse in that beautiful pool.

Hey I’m Baaaack!

Did you miss me? Did you notice?

For the last month I’ve been travelling, kayaking, snorkelling, scuba diving, sleeping, swimming, reading books and sipping cocktails in the Australian tropics. AND I FEEL GREAT!

Super energised and bursting with enthusiasm to help as many people as possible this year and extra excited about working with people in my new Wonderful Web Leaders program (you can still join us by the way. I’d love to work with you http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/wonderful-web-leaders/).

Anyway, yesterday I shot a video for you just before I hopped on a ferry on Sydney Harbour. It is 3 minutes on a topic that most entrepreneurs do really, really badly and something that WILL make you miserable. Plus exactly what you need to do to fix it.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and I’d also LOVE to hear what you have been up to during the holiday break.

Cheers,

Janet

P.S. Want to see some holiday pictures? Ranging from giant mangoes to yachts to tropical waters? Share the fun over here.

Transcript:

Hello, and welcome. Janet Beckers here, with your Wonderful Web TV tip of the week, and I’m back after a month away. This week, I’ve got a message to share about something that us as entrepreneurs with online businesses do really, really badly. Let’s have a look.

I’m down here at beautiful Sydney Harbor with our icon of fun behind us, and I tell you what, when we build our businesses, we’re building something that was built on our passions and our dreams, and sometimes we can lose that fun, as we’re getting stuck into actually doing it. Apart from the fun, one thing that we do really, really badly as entrepreneurs, is totally, totally unplug, to allow yourself to really relax, have that fun, and just not be on call for anybody. Get offline. Just stop being available for people. Because with the internet, you can be available 24/7, you know what? A lot of us do tend to do that. My challenge to you is, if you want to be able to take a month off like I’ve just done now, and still have your business running, what do you need to do?

First thing you need to do is, you need to have systems in place, so that the business can still take over, can still be making money, and your customers can still be happy, while you’re sipping a cocktail somewhere. To do that, you have to really decide what the systems are that you’re going to do, and set the intention of getting somebody to support you as a virtual assistant, and setting the intention that you have got to have time off. What do you do if your business is at the stage where you can’t just take off? You haven’t got the systems. You haven’t got somebody to help you? Does that mean that you do not get to have a break, unplugged, for years, until it happens? No.

I want you to think about, what is the worst thing that can happen if you put up the “closed” sign on your business? Online, if you send out an email saying, “You know what? We are closed for business for a week, or a week-and-a-half, two weeks.” What’s the worst thing that can happen? You know what? You can do it. You can put that message there, so people don’t have the expectation, and commit to yourself to unplug. Really, just be honest with yourself. Is the world going to fall apart? Really? I’d love to hear from you. What stage are you at in business? Do you have those systems? Do you have the challenges there? I have ways to help you, that’s in all of my programs on how do you actually systemize, and get a virtual assistant, and get a holiday.

You’ve probably heard the phrase “The money is in the list”. So how do you make the money?

Well, one way is to pimp out your list!

Sounds kinda gansta I know and I tell you what, if you pimp your list the wrong way, it IS criminal.

So this week I share with you the 4 criteria I use to assess if I will email my list to promote someone else’s programs. # 3 is a deal-breaker.

Love to hear your thoughts.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. For free training to create a profitable & rewarding business online, visit www.TheQuadrantQuiz.com

Transcript:

Hello and welcome, Janet Beckers here with your Wonderful Web TV Tip of the Week. Today, we’re going to talk about, How To Not Pimp Your List.

What is pimping your list? Well, if you’re finding that you’re sending e-mails out to your mailing list because you’re going to make some money as an affiliate and you’re just doing it a lot, or you might be saying, people can say, “Okay, can I pay you some money and I can e-mail your mailing list?” and you’re out that all the time, you could be pimping your list. I’ll tell you what, that is a great way to wreck your reputation and to really just do long-term damage. That’s what pimping your list looks like, when you’re sending things out all the time and honestly, they’re not really helping people and you just seem a little bit desperate as if you’re just throwing ideas.

I know you’ve been on mailing lists like this, haven’t you? Unsubscribed, yeah. I know I do. How do you stop yourself from pimping your list when you get to the state where you’ve got a mailing list and you’re not necessarily wanting to sell your own goods and services, and provide you’re own content. Here’s the criteria that I use to make sure that I don’t pimp my list. Yes, I do get paid sometimes to send them e-mail, how good is that? I do send e-mails out and I make money as an affiliate, but I’m not pimping my list. Here is why. I’ll grab my notes here so I can tell you the criteria. Number one, ask yourself before you accept an offer or go to send an e-mail, “Will this help my subscribers? Is it going to solve a problem for them? Is it going to help them with something?”

They’re on your list for a reason, is this going to help them for reason that they need? That’s number one. Then, the next one is, is the people who you are about to promote, or the product you’re about to promote, is it a competition for you? Sometimes you can think short-term and go, “Yeah, well, here’s a great fifty percent commission and I’m going to make a thousand dollars even if I get one sale. Yeah, I’m going to send that out to my mailing list.” It can help people answer number one, but you know what? If they’re a competitor it’s really only going to confuse your clients and they may decide that they’re going to stick with them and not with you. That’s pimping your list, if you’re looking at the short-term, not long-term.

Another something to say, that quite often people may be competing on something but not on something else. Quite often I will do joint ventures with people who may, on the outside, seem a competitor but we have things that are complimentary. Let’s look at number three, this is absolutely number one. If you’ve met the first two criteria, the third one is, do they have amazing integrity? Remember anything that you send out to your mailing list, as a referral, if people go over to them and they’re not happy, they will remember it was you that called them and it is condemning to your reputa...

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One of the most important decisions you’ll make when setting up your online platform (a.k.a. your Tribal Platform) is your choice of the program to collect, manage and automate your email mailing list.

There area gazillion programs to choose from and they are certainly not all created equal. To choose the right one for your business, first you need to identify which of the 3 categories your business fits into.

This week I identify the 3 categories, list the best programs for each category and give you a list of what you need to look for to evaluate any program.

If you have any questions on what is best for you, just ask below and I’ll help.

If you have some great tips then I’d love to hear from you. Tips on different programs, converting from one to another and maybe other great programs you think should be on the list. Write them below as I know you’ll help a lot of people.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. Need more tips on building your business online? You can get training, 1 page action plans and a very cool quiz to help you focus on the right things in the right order. All free over here: www.thequadrantquiz.com

Transcript:

 

Hello and welcome. Janet Beckers here with your wonderful web tip of the week, and today we’re going to be talking about e-mails. Specifically, how do you choose the right company to host and manage your e-mails for you? I’ve got three different criteria for you to have a look at to make that decision. I’m going to share that with you now.

Before we start talking about e-mail programs and which ones to choose, first of all, let’s look at just a couple of definitions so we’re both on the same page. First of all, with e-mails, you have e-mails and we have auto-responders. Let’s look at the difference. Number one, with e-mails, you just need a program that is going to have a way for you to be able to collect e-mails from on your website and for them to be all added into one database that allows you to then go and write e-mails and send out a broadcast to people. You write an e-mail. It goes out to every single body. Every single person who you’ve collected onto your e-mail list. Number one.

The other one is auto-responders, and an auto-responder means that when somebody joins your mailing list, they will receive an e-mail from you, and then maybe another one a few days later and so on. These are e-mails that you have written and you put into the program and you say okay, everybody who joins, whether it’s today or in twelve months time, is going to receive exactly the same sequence of e-mails. It will seem as if it’s coming from you, but you’ve set it up once and it’s automated.

For a lot of people watching this video, I’ve just told you how to suck eggs, haven’t I? I wanted to get that clear so we’ve got our definitions right. When we’re going to be talking about choosing your e-mail program to manage your e-mails, we’re just going to assume that every single one of them can do the first step, because a lot of programs out there will not allow you to do the second set of auto-responders. We’re not interested in them. We’re getting clear on that.

Now, we’re going to be looking at the criteria for choosing your program. We’re really going to be talking a lot about auto-responders and the power to do with that. Now, let’s look at how do you choose the right program? I tell you what, there are a gazillion out there, and there’s always new ones coming to the market. It can get really, really overwhelming. Let me just tell you, first of all, how you’re going to make that selection,

Today I take you behind the scenes of the World’s First 24/7 Business Education TV show streaming online and through Apple TV. I was honoured to be a guest of my friend Dale Beaumont as he interviewed me about the the power of Web TV and my journey as an entrepreneur online.

I’ll let you know when my interview is aired which should be soon.

In the mean time, I share how you can get the big budget look using just your home or office. Love to hear your ideas.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. You can check out Blueprint TV here

P.S. Want to learn how to create your own professionally branded Web TV with very little cost and very little techy skill? Free training here

P.P.S. We can hold your hand to get your videos done. Check out here.

This week I pick the brains of a friend of mine (Matt Raad) who buys and sells websites the same way he invests in real estate. Like real estate, you need to know the value of what you are buying so I asked Matt how he calculates this. The cool thing? There is a formula and you can apply it to your own website to know what you can expect to sell it for.

Even better, he shares how to multiply the price formula and tells which niche topics return a good investment, even if they aren’t making any money.

I’d love to hear your thought on this one.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. Ready to stand out from the crowd and truly connect with your ideal customer? Here’s free training for you on how to create weekly videos (that rank at the top of iTunes) for your business. Plus get a sneak peek behind the scenes at my studio. www.wonderfulwebwomen.com/metv

This week I share with you an interview with a man who has a solution that will solve many of your headaches. Techy stuff (like creating web pages, adding emails to an auto-responder program, making Facebook ad images,doing stuff in your shopping cart or affiliate program) can do your head in and be enough to stop you progressing in your business online.

But often you don’t need a full-on web designer or a full time virtual assistant and you especially don’t need the headache of finding a contractor to do one small job for you.

Well, here is a great solution and a total no-brainer in my books (plus run by a really nice bloke with years of business experience to back him).

I ask Carl the question………so if you can get unlimited techy stuff done for $200 per month, do you still need a virtual assistant?

You can find out here.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. You can find out more here: www.WonderfulWebWomen.com/techteam

P.P.S. I haven’t used Carl’s service personally (yet) but colleagues of mine, whom I trust and admire, have used his company’s service and highly recommend them. Let me know what you think.

If you’re like me, and many entrepreneurs you work well under pressure. So much so, you create pressure and “fly by the seat of your pants”. In this short episode I share a simple strategy I use to create artificial deadlines and also share the consequences of not practising what you preach.

Love to hear your tips. I bet you have a few.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. I mention 2 ways I can help you get your message out to the world with video. You can get more info here:

Me TV: www.wonderfulwebwomen.com/metv

VIP Workshop: www.wonderfulwebwomen.com/videoexperience

Hey I have another one word hack for you today and at first glance it seems obvious. What to do when you find yourself saying “I’m going to try and do….”.

But this week the one word hack is a test you need to run with yourself. We’re talking about some honesty with yourself here.

In just 3 minutes we’ll cover the word flip and also importantly what you need to do when it doesn’t work for you.

Cheers

Janet

P.S. Ready to stand out from the crowd and truly connect with your ideal customer? Here’s free training for you on how to create weekly videos (that rank at the top of iTunes) for your business. Plus get a sneak peek behind the scenes at my studio. www.wonderfulwebwomen.com/metv

So you’ve got a message to share, you’ve backed yourself and planned your programs, started your website, and envisaged the next level and then….the little voice in your mind starts whispering those words that you are sure others are also thinking when they see what you have planned. The cruel whisper of “Who am I to….”.

This week’s 2 minute episode shares a simple one word substitution for this phrase that will totally reshape the way you think.

Come on….it’s time you stepped up and here is the one word hack that works for me.