Networking in your PJs while watching soaps?

One of the greatest benefits of living in the technical age is that we can do all sorts of things from home just by going on the internet. We can shop, learn, be entertained, and connect with others without even getting dressed! As a social being, I like to go out in the world once in a while to network with other entrepreneurs, but there's nothing quite like connecting with others from all over the world without leaving my ergonomic comfy chair.

I have taken advantage of online social networks for many years and frequently visited sites like craigslist.org, care2.com, ryze.com (see my ryze at http://www.ryze.com/go/ggirlz) and tribe.net to meet people, share passions, and make business connections. Now, with the addition of sites like Hub Pages (see my hub http://hubpages.com/hub/Attracting-Perfect-Customers ) Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/magicalmarketer ) and Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com/ggirlz) I can network even more effectively and get to page one of google almost instantly!

Often I sit at home in my PJ's (guess what I'm wearing now!) and share my passions, illuminate with tips, offer help and advice, check out the brilliant sharing of others, and this activity helps me to attract perfect customers. Sometimes I even do this while watching my favorite soap (recorded on TiVo). It's a really fun way to market and make friends. I cannot recommend this enough.

Here are some tips on networking online:

1) Find social networks that you really like and that reflect your personality. Care2.com is for folks who like to contribute to causes, Tribe.net has hundreds of topical 'tribes' for you to join, Ryze.com is for entrepreneurs, Twitter.com is a micro-blog community, Waccobb.net is for the Sonoma County, CA community (do you have one in your community?)

2) Join the group/s you like best and set up your profile. Make sure to include your picture, what you do for biz, your personal passions, your mission, and your offerings. Don't forget to include links to your website/s, blogs, and other social network pages.

3) Search your network for folks of like mind and heart and introduce yourself. Invite them to join your network. Join their network.

4) Visit your network often and spend time meeting folks, updating your profile, commenting on other folks' blogs and sites ie contribute to others

5) Join groups if your network has them. Find groups that reflect your passion and your offerings and share yourself authentically there. Contribute to others in the group at least as often as you promote your latest offerings.

6) Respond quickly to inquiries from others on your social network. Timing is everything. Let people know you appreciate their desire to connect and make efforts to really get to know them. See if you can get involved in their network of friends.

7) Create a blog or site where your latest interests, info, tips and queries are posted so folks can keep up with you and your offerings.

8) HAVE FUN! Magical Marketing is all about doing what you love to do and being open to receiving all you desire!

I have a free webinar on "How I Got to Page One of Google by Sharing Myself Authentically" on my home page. Check it out.

Getting to Page One of Google is Magically Fun!

I really love it when I get a phone call from a potential client telling me that I came up number one on Google in a search I'd never even considered. I'm not exaggerating. This happens to me more and more these days, I'm happy to announce.

The other day someone looking for a food label designer searched the phrase "Graphic Designer Food Products Bay Area" and I came up number one on Google. That says to me that consciously using the Law of Attraction while using free webby networking tools and is an effective Internet Marketing Strategy. I recently learned that 51% of internet searches have never been done before. That means that I must rely at least 51% on 'synchronicity' and 'luck.'

That's where the Law of Attraction comes in. This law states "like attracts like," or in other words "what you seek is seeking you." My perfect customers are seeking me right now. The internet is a great tool to help my perfect customers find me.

How will they find me? They will find me through searches and social networks. How will they know me when they find me? They will know me when I am authentic and come from the heart in my expressions (my marketing being one of those expressions.)

To attract perfect customers online, I believe the best strategy is to network online and promote your main website using Web 2.0 properties like Blogspot, Squidoo, Hubpages, and Twitter. This will not only put you in front of a stream of possible clients, but it will also help your main site gain better ranking.

Learn more about how I got to page 1 of Google, listen to my free teleclass recording at http://www.graphicgirlz.com/teleconference.html

I am offering a free introductory teleclass/webinar on this topic on May 8th from noon - 1pm pst. To register for the free webinar, please email teleconference@graphicgirlz.com with the subject line "Register me in Free Webinar May 8"

How I Got to Page One of Google and Yahoo by Sharing My Passion Authentically

The most attractive marketing to your perfect customers is a true reflection of you and your offerings. Those people who are seeking you and your services want to know you're the one when they find you. That is why I stress coming from the heart, sharing your passion authentically whenever you can. I have been taking this approach to Internet marketing for about ten years, but just last year when Google changed it's game plan, I started popping up on page one searches all over the place. What seemed to me a logical approach to attracting perfect customers online turned out to be the best way to appear like an authority to the search engines.

My tried and true online market place also turned out to be a top-ranking site to use, craigslist.org now ranking higher than amazon.com on search engines. I've been posting on craigslist.org for free since around 1999 with great success, and now my craigslist postings are helping my other sites rank better for certain key word phrases I'm using. If you only do one thing online, it should be creating craigslist postings of your offerings. I make sure I post one for each of my main businesses every week.

Some of the new social networking sites that we may associate more with teenagers turn out to be some of the best ranking sites out there, including blog sites like blogger, social networks like myspace and youtube and newer business networking sites like squidoo. Sharing yourself authentically on these fun sites is a way to develop the clarity of your mission while boosting your site ranking and being easily found online.

I've been playing around with some of these sites. You can see my most recent squidoo lens at http://www.squidoo.com/ggirlz and visit my other lenses from there. I hope you rank my lens!

Here's one of my hub pages. Let me know what you think of it! http://hubpages.com/hub/Attraction-Marketing-for-Conscious-Entrepreneurs
You can access my other hubs from there.

This spring I'm taking a group of entrepreneurs through the process of creating authentic online marketing that catapults them to page one of Yahoo and Google for a variety of "Magical Keyword" searches. My 10 Week Webinar for Web-Challenged Individuals is perfect for anyone who would like to delve into Law of Attraction Marketing while learning smart internet marketing techniques for being found online. Using the latest Webinar software you can literally 'look over my shoulder' as I guide you step by step in setting up your internet properties.

You can listen to a free 1 hour intro-teleclass recording called "How I Got to Page One of Google by Sharing My Passion Authentically" on my home page http://www.graphicgirlz.com.

You can also participate in my second live free introductory teleclass/webinar on this topic to take place on Thursday April 26th at noon pm pst. Just email teleconference@graphicgirlz.com with the subject "Register Me in Free Webinar 4_26_08" to join in the fun.

One of my favorite experiences is attracting my pefect customers online. I want you to have that freedom that I enjoy every day!