Women's Online Business Resources
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 5:36PM
Women’s Online Business Help Resources.
Let’s talk about resources for a few minutes.
Every business, including an online business needs resources. Part of building your online business will require that you get things like a domain name, hosting for the domain name, and a number of other things. Not just as a product to use, but also trainings and educational services to help you grow your online business.
What I have done is to include resources on my site that I use myself, have used, or know them to be reliable and an excellent resource for you. This list is a brief introduction to these resources but in future articles and trainings I’ll go over them in more detail for you.
Part of your women’s online business help will be to teach you about ‘monetization’. This is a way that you can earn commissions from the sale of other people’s products as well as your own if you have them and it can even become a total income stream for you called ‘affiliate marketing’.
I’ll be honest and disclose to you that if you click on any of the photos or links found on my site or in this article, and if you should decide to purchase anything, I will earn a commission from your purchase.
This is ‘affiliate marketing’ and it’s something that you should do as well. You will want visitors to your website to find something of value that they can use and then to purchase it from your site. This can be a good source of revenue for you. Some people use affiliate marketing as their entire source of income, so monetization is good to learn.
What is important however is that you have some experience or knowledge of the products you promote so that you can feel good about sharing these resources with others.
Let’s have a brief chat about some of the links on the page. I will no doubt add more over time if and when I think they are a good product. So the list is by no means static.
1.Let’s start with ‘Romancing the Sale’ by Barbara Silva. It just so happens that Barbara is a very dear friend of mine, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for her, not just as a person but as an educator. Barbara has written “Romancing the Sale “.It’s about “How to Build and Maintain Highly Profitable Customer Relationships”
Whenever you make a ‘sale’ whether it be a product or a service, you want to maintain good customer relations so not only will they buy once, but again and again and you want them to tell their friends about your products or services.
Success is multifaceted and getting the sale is only the beginning.
This is what Barbara is something knows how to do well. Let her show you how to do this too. Get your copy here: Romancing the Sale by Barbara Silva
2. SBI or Site Build It. This is an excellent resource if you want to build a website without having to hire a web developer to do it for you. Lots of tools and trainings to help you along the way and it is a complete service, including domains and hosting. You can watch the short video on my main page or you can just go to the SBI website here: SBI
3. Traffic Geyser. This is an awesome tool. Video-marketing is ‘the’ way to get your name and business on the internet. Once you have created a video, then you need to get it out to the world which can be very time consuming. There are hundreds of sites that you will want to post your videos to and Traffic Geyser does it for you and a lot more. Traffic Geyser
4.GoDaddy. This is a very popular and inexpensive source to purchase domain names. Domain names are the web addresses of your websites or blogs.
For example, my domain name for this site is www.womensonlinebusinesshelp.com
Visit GoDaddy
5. GotoMeeting: Awesome! If you want to have webinars or meetings or trainings for your team, you can use this resource to handle your webinar .You can do trainings by showing people your computer screen, literally ‘showing them’ what you are doing.I use this often and it’s a wonderful tool. You really look like an expert when you use it too. GotoMeeting
6. Hostgator: Has affordable hosting packages for your domain names. Hosting is required if you are creating a website. Please note here, that just because you buy a domain name doesn’t mean you have to buy a hosting package. I’ll address that in other articles. Hostgator
7. Renegade University: There aren’t enough words to describe this. This resource began as free ‘attraction marketing’ training for network marketers, and now has evolved in such a way that internet marketers of every kind come here to learn. Renegade University is free with tutorials to get you started in the learning process. Later, there is the ability to upgrade to the Professional level training which is available for a low monthly subscription. Renegade University is the best training around. Free Renegade University
8. Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto is the latest free manuscript from Ann Seig one the biggest names in Attraction Marketing and in network marketing which is her background. It is free and the strategies she learned is now creating an income for her of over $250,000.00/month. Worth having a look at even in network marketing isn’t your thing. You can learn from so many people. Attraction Marketer’s Manifesto
9. The Renegade Network Marketer. This is Ann Seigs brilliant ebook that has turned the MLM industry on its head and she’s ruffled a lot of feathers for sure. More and more people in the MLM industry are turning to the Internet to build their business.
This Book is Ann’s System and it is also the reference for the Renegade University I described above and Renegade Professional. The Renegade Network Marketer
10. PPC Domination. This creation is by Mike Dillard and for those folks who want to use Pay Per Click advertising with Google, then getting your hands on this gem will help you with your PPC Strategy. PPC Domination
11. AdWordAnalyzer This is a keyword Research tool that provides quite a bit of information at a low cost. There are free keyword research tools available that are great for the beginner, but for those serious about PPC advertising and affiliate marketing, sometimes a more complete tool is necessary. There are other very expensive tools available for the REALLY serious folks, but for most of us the free tools or one that is moderately priced like this one is, is enough. AdWordAnalyzer
12. Aweber Aweber is a popluar autoresponder. For those who don’t know, an autoresponder is a system that allows you to automatically send emails to your customers or to your list.Aweber
13. Oprius Oprius is another autoresonder service that supports network marketers as well as those in other types of internet businesses. Oprius
14. iContact This is the autoresponder that is taught at Renegade University and it’s easy to use. iContact
15. Squarespace Squarespace is a blogging platform. There are other blogging platforms that are free and there is a small monthly fee to have a Squarespace blog, but they look really good and is easy to use. There are many themes to choose from and you can add all sorts of cool things to your Squarespace blog.
16. Blink Web: You can create lead Capture pages, landing pages, websites and blogs, pretty easily here. Blinkweb
17. Clickbank Clickbank is a major player for affiliate programs. I mentioned affiliate marketing at the beginning of this article. There are thousands of affiliate programs available and many use Clickbank as a way to promote their affiliate programs. Clickbank
18. Commission Junction Commission Junction is another terrific source of affiliate programs you can promote. You should have free accounts at both of these affiliate program sources because their products are different and you will want to look at both to determine products you want to monetize with. Commission Junction
19. Wordtracker Keyword Research is very important because this is how the search engines, like Google and Yahoo can find your website, blog, or other content on the Internet. I mentioned a tool previously that is an inexpensive tool to use and it provides a bit more information than many of the free keyword research tools available. Wordtracker has a free tool which I will put a link to here. It also has an expensive, but excellent keyword tool should you advance in your marketing efforts and want to look a bit deeper and harder for the right keywords to use. I always suggest that you use the free tool first, and then if and when you’re ready to take on the Internet world, you can upgrade to the paid account. Here’s the free Wordtracker tool.
Now I know this is a big list and I guarantee it will get bigger over time. My goal is to help women with their online businesses and since I’ve been exposed to many programs myself, providing you with some suggestions is a short cut for you.
By no means do you need all of these programs, but if you need, want or desire what these programs or services have to offer, then certainly give them a try.



