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Inside My Toolbox: Drive Traffic to Your Website with Your Email Signature Using WiseStamp

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Back in the days of our founding fathers, there was only one option for signing your documents: pen on paper or, if you wanted get really fancy, quill on parchment. And nobody did this better than John Hancock, which is why your sig is sometimes still called a John Hancock.

Luckily, today we have more options. You can sign things the old fashion way, electronically, or even with your thumbprint. But when it comes to email, most of us still rely on plain old text.

If you’re not using your email signature to dynamically funnel people back to your website, blog, and social media, you’re missing a huge opportunity. Every single email you send – regardless of whether it’s business or personal, formal or casual – is an opportunity to drive traffic right where you want it.

If you’re not using this valuable real estate, you’re losing potential fans and clients.

The #1 Thing You Should Be Writing About: How to Develop a Content Strategy for Your Blog and Social Media

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If you’re not getting results with business blogging or using social media for business, don’t blame the tools. You probably haven’t designed a content strategy that will engage your target market around your specific topic.

Most people jump into blogging and social media and start posting content wily nily about whatever floats their fancy at that particular moment in time. The problem with this approach is that you may be writing about topics that have little to do with your products and services, so the audience that you’re building may not be interested in what you have to offer.

If you laser focus your posts around the #1 topic your work is about, you’ll drive targeted traffic to your website that is much more likely to buy from you. That doesn’t mean you can’t write about other things, but it does mean that you should choose sub-topics that relate to and support your #1 topic.

Do What Works: 5 Web Analytics that Will Change Your Business Forever

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The 80/20 rule famously states that 80% of your results come from just 20% of your efforts. Yet most of us keep wasting time on activities that produce little to no ROI, because we don’t know where we’re sweating for no reason and where we’re striking gold.

Luckily, that uncertainty is not true on the Internet. Metrics show you exactly what’s working and what’s not, so you can laser focus your efforts on getting more results. If you get into the habit of checking your metrics weekly, you can start to see the results of your Internet marketing activities in real time and track the trends over a month or two.

That’s amazing. Think about it. How many times in life can you instantly see where you’re struggling and how your efforts have paid off?  Then adapt and refine? Imagine pitching your project to a key partner and being able to know what word convinced them to move forward with you.

That’s exactly the kind of information you can discover…

Webinar Replay Video: 5 Steps to Building a Website that Authentically Represents You

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My thanks to the 283 people who registered for “5 Steps to Building a Website that Authentically Represents You.”

Many of you couldn’t join the call and asked me to make the replay video available. So here it is! Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think.

In this webinar, you’ll find out:

– how to get clear on exactly what you want for your site (because there’s a million options out there)
– simply, what content you really need (because too much takes too long)
– how to inexpensively create a site that looks the way you want to be represented
– the perfect technology platform for your unique business
– how to turn visitors into clients

The 3 Second Rule: How to Beat the Odds When Making Your First Impression Online

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Within a few seconds, people judge you. Whether you meet them in the elevator or they visit your website, you have just 3 seconds to make a first impression

If you don’t instantly send a clear, coherent and compelling message, you run the risk of losing them forever. Online, all it takes is a click for someone to walk away and never come back.

The thing is, you don’t know where or when you’ll make that first impression. It may be the home page of your website, your blog, an email that gets forwarded on, or your Facebook profile. Every single one of these touch points has to contain the seed of what you uniquely do, who you serve, what their problems are, and how you can transform their lives.

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