Women market differently… women run their business differently…

Nothing against guys but often the tactic and methods they teach and use don’t work for us women.

So were do you get the answers?

You get them from two very successful business women

My coach Deb Micek and my mentor Mari Smith. These women totally rock and making a big splash on the internet. If you follow @CoachDeb and @MariSmith on Twitter and Facebook, you know what I mean.

Today they are live broadcasting at 4:00pm Eastern Time you can hear them live discussing

• Women on top - the risks, rewards and battle scars of getting there
• How women sabotage themselves in reaching the top
• How women hold themselves back - and how to attack these fears
• Seducing the Boys Club
• What Men don’t tell Women about business
• And a few other top secret strategies that only LIVE participants will hear

It’s totally free to join them. They may password protect the broadcast. So make sure to sign up on the left to receive the password

Go to http://idebi.tv/blog/no-boyz/

Personally working with these two women continue to make a big difference in my life and business. I know you’ll gain so much from listening to them.

See you there at 4:00 pm Today. August 11

90 Day Social Networking Strategy Plan

Use conjunction with Article:
Are You Wisely Managing Your Time to Develop Relationships through Social Networking Groups

First Month:

• Identify a core group of people from your friends list and devote time to developing a relationship
• Actively participate in groups
• Strategically continue to add friends.

Second Month:

• Continue to relationship building with your core group of individuals
• Pick your top 3 groups and regularly participate. Volunteer to moderate if possible. Welcome new members
• Occasionally post in the other groups
• In the middle of the month, explore another social networking group.

Third Month:

• Continue relationship building with your core individuals and groups
• In the beginning of the month, sign up for an account with your new social networking group.
• During the month set up your profile.
• At the end of the month, evaluate your original social networking groups. Did the groups meet your expectations? Do they show potential? Eliminate any group that isn’t a good investment of your time. What about your core individuals? Remove anybody from that group where the relationship isn’t promising. Select a few more individuals do develop a relationship.
• Add friends to the new social group you join this month.
• Strategically continue to add friends in your original social networking groups.

Keep repeating the process. In about 6-9 months, you will build a powerful network of people.

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

Are You Too Busy to Market Your Business?

Time management plays a critical role in the survival and success of your business. Managing your time effectively makes it easier for you to consistently market your business…and generate the profits essential for growth.

Marketing is everything you do to make your target audience aware of your product/service. It convinces your target market that you provide what they want. It sets up the strategy for the path of least resistance to closing the sale. In other words all the activities leading to the sale.

Entrepreneurs frequently find themselves dealing with the day to day stuff of running their business. (a.k.a. Multiplicity of Stuff Syndrome) This results in putting marketing on the back burner because of the lack of time.

5 Time Management Strategies to Manage Your Time for Better Marketing and Sales Results

1. A wise internet marketer once told me to clearly define my target market and identify what an ideal client looks and acts like. Describe them in writing and add plenty of details to the picture. Well worth the effort and time because it really simplifies your marketing efforts.

2. The sales funnel is a great tool in effectively using your marketing time. Comparing the sales process to a funnel, a prospect starts at the top of the funnel (the widest part) and then works through a system to reach the narrow part where they become a customer. By using the sales funnel, you can gauge your marketing activities and quantify your prospects at each stage of the process. Create your sales funnel and define the activities needed to keep it full.

3. Put the law of accumulation on your side. An accumulation of tiny efforts that start slow but eventually snowballs and continues to grow while gathering momentum.

Block 15 minutes a day to do something that keeps your sales funnel full. Just 15 minutes for five days a week equals one hour and fifteen minutes of marketing time. That’s five hours a month devoted strictly to marketing your business. Doing a little bit everyday will produce great results. Consistently do those activities to keep adding to your sales funnel.

4. Another way to keep your funnel full is to devote time to follow up. We often forget about the follow up… make it part of your sales funnel activities. Decide how much of your business schedule you will devote to follow up marketing.

5. Not all marketing actions are created equal. Do the 20% that brings the greatest results. When you consistently devote time to market your business, you begin to discover patterns. Some will produce better results with less effort and time than other activities. Blocking 30 minutes every week to review your marketing efforts can speed passage through your sales funnel.

NOTE: Don’t confuse advertising with marketing. Your marketing plan should include some advertising. Marketing discovers what your client wants and you give it to them…provided it doesn’t fall into the realm of illegal; immoral; or fattening!

Tracking, testing and reviewing your marketing activities will show what works best for your business.

Perhaps you devote a half hour a week to one activity and half hour on another but one produces 20% more sales. Which would one you prefer to devote your marketing time doing?

It’s important to your business success not to let the "busyness" take over and squeeze out time for marketing. Each week devote time to keeping your sales funnel full and improve your sales by focusing on your top marketing activities.

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

Social Networking : Getting Started with Twitter - Part 6

Here we are at the final Twitter video… you’ll learn how to read your followers conversations, write an update and how to carry on a one-on-one conversation. You now possess all the basics to get started. Please add your twitter url in the comment section and will be glad to start following you.

You can find this series of videos on You Tube

Come follow me at Twitter - http://www.totcgo.com/twitter

Add your Twitter URL address in the comment section

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

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Social Networking : Getting Started with Twitter - Part 5

The first few times you visit Twitter it appears very confusing and can make you feel lost. But once you get the hang of it, it’s so easy….In this Twitter video, I’ll go over the flow of Twitter conversation and eliminate the confusion.

You can find this series of videos on You Tube

Come follow me at Twitter - http://www.totcgo.com/twitter

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

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Social Networking : Getting Started with Twitter - Part 4

In this Twitter video, you will learn how to add a photo and write your first message.

You can find this series of videos on You Tube

Come follow me at Twitter - http://www.totcgo.com/twitter

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

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Social Networking : Getting Started with Twitter - Part 3

In this video we begin to set up your twitter settings.

You can find this series of videos on You Tube

Come follow me at Twitter - http://www.totcgo.com/twitter

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

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Social Networking : Getting Started with Twitter - Part 1

What is Twitter:

According to Twitter: free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time with friends, family, and co–workers to communicate
through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple sentence. When you visit Twitter, it can look very confusing, it almost makes My Space look easy.

This series of videos will walk you through the process of setting up your account, make friend and how to talk with them.

Karen is somebody who started following me. She wrote a wonderful insight about twitter that you might find helpful. http://wordsforhire.blogspot.com/2008/03/twitter-dee-twitter-dum.html

Come follow me at Twitter - http://www.totcgo.com/twitter

	Ann Rusnak - The Time Diva Entrepreneur Time Strategist
Ann Rusnak, is the author of "Flip Your Time" a step-by-step system that shows you how to take control of the clock so you can increase your profits and spend more time with your family and friends and experience the luxury of time.

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10 Reasons to Use Facebook for Business

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Mari Smith of the Facebook Fortunes

Social networking websites, especially Facebook, have significant implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs. To keep your business current, you should at least be familiar with the latest conversational marketing techniques and viral technologies, including Facebook and its array of powerful features.

Here are ten reasons to be active on Facebook:

1. Meet your peers . Facebook is not just for college kids anymore. Members are typically older and more mature than on other sites, and there are more white collar users.

2. Find business contacts . With more than 65 million active users, and predicted to be 200 million by the end of 2008, not only are your friends on Facebook, so are your prospects, your customers, your JV partners… and, of course, your competitors. You need to be on too.

3. Instant gate opener . Facebook members are open to connecting. You can easily begin a dialog with highly successful—even famous—people who were previously otherwise unreachable.

4. Build relationships. By engaging in conversations with your prospects and customers, you can better adapt your marketing and business services to meet their needs.

5. Raise visibility . By consistently showing up, posting relevant information, and being a thought leader, you can increase visibility and credibility as an expert in your area.

6. Develop your personal brand . The lines between business and personal have become blurred. You can reveal as much or as little about yourself as you wish, allowing you to personalize your brand.

7. Target your niche . Users volunteer vast amounts of information about themselves that you can readily access. These kinds of demographics, psychographics, and technographics would previously have cost fortunes to access. Author, John Battelle, calls Facebook a "database of intentions."

8. Get rapid top Google placement . Create a Page for your business and "push" information to your "fans." Pages (for business) and Profiles (for personal) are indexed for optimal search engine positioning. Facebook has a page rank of #7 according to Alexa.

9. Place targeted ads . With Facebook Social Ads, you can test out extremely targeted advertising for minimal cost.

10. No cost marketing . Aside from paid ads, Facebook is totally free to use and with regular activity you’ll end up with more traffic, more subscribers, and more paying clients.

Mari Smith is a Relationship Specialist, Internet Marketing Consultant and Facebook Business Coach. She offers a free introductory class for professionals on how to use Facebook for strategic business growth at: http://facebookfortunes.com. Class materials include PDF guides, how-to videos, discussion forum, and dozens of interviews with successful active Facebook members.