This week’s shop of the week is Sumiko Shop. I was impressed by the quality of the jewelry in her shop. The fact that she uses a lot of red was a big plus for me. I wear a lot of red. That IS one of my signature colors after all.   Here’s one of her gorgeous pieces:

Regina Bracelet By Sumiko Shop

Check out this beautiful purple necklace that is in this shop.  This is another one of my signature colors.  I love purple.

Purple Rose Necklace By Sumiko Shop

She has so much more in her shop.  Take some time to check it out now.  Just go to:  Sumiko’s Shop today.

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Yep, you guessed it. It’s Saturday! You know what that means. Website Review Day! (cue happy cheering) Today’s lucky contestant is (drumroll, please)…SeeYouOnTheCall.com. I happened to find out about this awesome resource when I was updating the listing for my radio show on TeleseminarNation.com. SeeYouOnTheCall.com is a great tool to use to promote your telecalls. They have a free and a paid service. Basically what you do is list your telecall and they email it to their list. The paid service allows you to schedule when they email your announcement. The only thing you have to remember is to put your call on the list at least 48 hours in advance.

That’s today’s website review. Go check them out!

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As part of my article marketing challenge, I’ve been writing a lot of articles about social media. Since today is the day that I normally write about networking, anyway, I decided to share one of those articles with you here. Enjoy.

So you’ve joined a new social media site. Fantastic. So you’re at the phase where you are setting up your profile. I bet you are tempted to just use the standard faceless image that they start you off with. After all if you use a picture, that fabled Internet stalker might find you. Here are some reasons why you should always use a picture on your social media profile.

It will let people know you are a real person.
People like to follow people. I know that sounds fairly simple. If you don’t have a picture on your profile, how can I know whether or not you are a real person or just some miscellaneous bot? Adding a picture to your profile helps people to connect with you more.

It will help your old friends recognize who you are.
Many people use the Internet to reconnect with old classmates. If you put a picture on your profile, it will make it easier for people to recognize you. I’ve been able to reconnect with people that I went to middle school with all because they could recognize me from my picture. This is especially useful for females who may have gotten married since they left school and changed their last name.

Social networking is all about discovery.
If you are trying to hide from someone, you probably do not need to even be bothered with having a social media profile. As far as that fabled Internet stalker, if he did exist, he would have found you already. Just kidding. On a serious note, if you are using online networking for the purpose of growing your business, you need a picture on your profile, period. Now what are you waiting for? Take a picture now to use for your profile.

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I decided to expand this to include events happening next week as well as this week.
Without further ado, here’s what’s happening…

Journchat-This chat happens via twitter every week. This chat is for journalists, bloggers, and public relations professionals. The main purpose of this chat is to provide a platform for the people that report on the news to have an open dialog with each other. The chat takes place every Monday from 7 PM to 10 PM (CST) via twitter. This is a fast moving chat so I suggest you use tweetchat to help you follow the conversation. Also if you are a journalism student, you should add this to your routine. You’ll learn a lot of “real world” stuff in this chat that you may not learn in your college classes. More information can be found here: http://www.journchat.info

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I have the #editorchat happening every Wednesday from 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM (EST). The purpose of this chat is to provide editors and professional writers a chance to discuss ways they can help each other better. More information can be found by going to http://www.editorchat.net/

Next Week,
June 30th-Mitch Mitchell and Renee Scherer will be doing a PAID teleseminar titled: Social Media, SEO & Your Business in 90 Minutes. Go here to register for this one: http://www.presentations-plus.biz/WebinarCalendar/tabid/1263/Default.aspx

And last but certainly not least, yours truly has a teleseminar in the works with Willie Crawford about using video to drive traffic to your website. I’ll have the sales page done just as soon as I finish this blog post. The date/time for this teleseminar will be on Thursday, July 2nd, at 8 PM EST.

That’s the event roundup for this week. If you know of something else happening, leave me a comment!

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I know I already reviewed this book.  This post was one of those that I lost when I was “fixing” my blog.  Therefore, I have to repost it so that the information will still be here.  Here goes…

I had the privilege of interviewing Linda Bishop on my Radio Show, DeAnna Troupe Teaches Online Networking a while back.  She is the author of Selling In Tough Times. I got the chance to read this book before I interviewed her and I must say it was an excellent and timely book. This book simply gives common sense strategies any business owner can use to increase sales. Get your copy of this book today by clicking on the icon below.

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Since I decided to stop doing automatic direct messages, I had to come up with another way to give my followers the free twitter guide I’ve been promising. So what I decided to do was to place the guide on this blog. That way I can just tweet the link to the blog. This guide is the same exact guide that I read when I first joined Twitter. It helped me. I hope you get something out of it too. Good luck to you and Happy Tweeting! Just click on the link below to get your free twitter guide. No opt in is needed.

Mastering Twitter

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I know a lot of you aren’t that talkative. Now if you are talkative, this post might not apply to you. Don’t let the fact that you aren’t a talker keep you from recording a podcast. It is actually better to record a shorter podcast than a longer one. A podcast should be no longer than 30 minutes. The reason is that you actually want people to listen to and act on the information you are sharing with them.

A lot of people like to download podcasts and listen to them while they are working out or on the train. If your podcast is too long, your listener won’t be able to listen to it in one sitting.  So what are you waiting for?  Stop reading this blog and start recording your podcast!

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30 Day PowerBlogger Challenge
Originally Posted June 8, 2009 – 5:36 pm in: Events

Yes I know. I am participating in another challenge. I just can’t help myself. I am like one of those little kids who can’t say no to a dare (although I always said no to dares when I was little).
The culprit behind this challenge is none other than Connie Ragen Green. She’s @conniegreen on twitter for those of you following me on twitter.
So basically the objective is to post thirty 100 word blog posts between now and July 7th. This will be a bit of a challenge for me because I am just not that wordy. So what this means for you, my loyal readers is that you’ll see me post to my blog two times a day on the days that I write in my blog instead of just one. That is the only way that I see myself getting through this. Oh yeah, if you’re a blogger and you want to join me in my insanity, here’s the link with the rules:
http://ebookwritingandmarketingsecrets.com/the-30-day-powerblogging-challenge-begins-now/

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You learn something new everyday. I’ve learned that things stay in google’s cache for only a few days. I didn’t copy my blog posts soon enough apparently. When I looked back at the cache, my old blog posts were GONE!!! Oh the horror! So that means I have to try to remember what the heck I wrote in those posts originally or just start from scratch. I think I’ll just have to start from scratch. I will have to post the announcement about the blogging challenge again. That’s the only way for everything to make sense, since I’ll be doing things a little differently than I normally do. Stick around. At least you know my blog won’t be boring…

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So by now you know I am just a little bit obessessed with this blog’s search engine positioning. I know it’s a bad thing. I check everyday to see where it is on Google for my keywords. It’s bad. I should probably find a SEO addiction group or something. During the recent battle I had with my blog, I discovered something. Google keeps my blog posts in their cache! That made me a very happy girl. What that means is I can just copy my previous blog posts into my current blog! So what I’m going to do over the next few days is to repost the old blog posts in here with the notation of “This was originally posted on ___date” so I don’t confuse anyone. I just wanted to share that with you. I thought that was pretty neat.

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