Happy Thanksgiving!!

I wanted to thank all of my readers a very happy Thanksgiving and tell you about a Thanksgiving day Checklist.

Perfect for the busy parent, it contains the following:

• The Thanksgiving Planning Guide with organizing and planning tips.
  
• A Complete Thanksgiving Menu with detailed recipes.
  
• A Shopping List with everything you need to prepare the recipes of the menu.
  
• A second Shopping List of non-perishable items you can buy ahead of time.
  
• Our original “To-Do” List to make sure you’re not forgetting anything.

All the best to you and your family this holiday season.

Kristine

Bright New Concept Can Earn You Some Spending Cash!!

The following is an advertisement for a brand new website.

It’s rare that I post twice in a day but I just had to share this with you because it is quite a new and interesting concept.

A brand new site called ReviewMe has been created to help those of us who don’t have huge advertising budgets but are looking for word-of-mouth buzz about our product or service.

Advertising, especially if you’ve just started a brand new site is not only time-consuming, it can also be very expensive.

If you’ve been advertising for some time, you know that banner advertsing as well as other forms of advertising, just simply doesn’t work like it used to and that having a link to your website from another relevant site is very important!

Creating a buzz about your product or service is of vital importance. ReviewMe helps you do just that! Sign up for free and start people talking about your product or service within as little as 2 days!

If you’re willing to write a review about another site you can also earn yourself some extra spending cash!

A sidenote here, even though this sounds like an easy way to make some money, be sure that the website you’re reviewing is a high-quality website and one that you would be proud to link to. Remember that you are providing a service to your website visitors!

Your friend and partner in business,

Kristine

Beware the Silver Tounge…

I receive many newsletters on a daily basis as I’m sure you probably do too.

Some of them really surprise me though.  Not with the new and impressive information that they provide but with the sheer ignorance of what is published!

Today, I received some information about search engine optimization which is of course, right up my alley, so I thought I’d read this particular article.  This person had also been “featured” by two very major publications (which in my opinion is either completely false or the publications just didn’t know better – my guess is the latter).

But as I read this article, I was in total and complete shock!

Not only did this person recommend creating doorway pages – which are pages created strictly for the search engines and not for the site visitors, but they also suggested that when you finished with these pages, you submit these pages to the search engines!

Not only is submitting your pages to search engines completely unnecessary, but this person was recommending that you submit your “doorway” pages to them.

What probably upset me the most was that this person was being touted as an “authority” on the subject of search engine optimization.

Never, ever create your website or webpages for a search engine.  Always create them for the site visitor.  And you don’t have to submit your website to the search engines.  All you need to do is find another website who is already listed in Google link to you.  Your link will get followed naturally and your site will then get searched and thus indexed.

All the best,

Kristine

P.S.  Don’t forget, we’re moving our blog to the Be-a-WAHM.com website beginning on December 1st, 2006.  Don’t forget to visit us there!

P.P.S.  In a couple of weeks, the search engine optimization guide will be released.  This however, is not your typical SEO guide.  This one actually shows you how to do it and gives you checklists and charts to help you along the way!

Well, it was bound to happen….

I have been talking about the I-Guides for quite awhile now but was approached around the same time to write a guide on simply “Search Engine Marketing” and so I have also been working hard on that as well.

Needless to say, the I-Guides won’t be released until after the 1st of the year – we’ll let you know but if you’re just itching to get your hands on a step-by-step process about Marketing online – this will be available within the next three weeks via eBay.

It will not be free but I will be sure that it gets sold at a very low price so that everyone can afford it! I guarantee that absolutely NO ONE will have access to this book before it goes on sale so you will know it’s fresh and new. Being as it will be something that no one has ever done before (at least to my knowledge) …

…as I knock on wood

If I may rant for a moment…

…I get tired, just like you do of hearing that the “next best thing” is coming out. As if there is some big secret that no one else knows about that you simply have to pay $1,200/month for or you won’t know what everyone else does!

Nothing like playing on your fears is there?

The bottom line is that there is no secret. There are certain steps that you can take to assure your success and they are all pretty easy to implement.

You need to know what these are, yes but they are no secret.

I simply can’t give this away for free. What good is 12 years of learning on the Internet if you’re just going to hand it over to someone right?

What I can do however, is give you some things *in addition* to the book about marketing online.

Keep an eye out here and we’ll let you know when the book becomes available via eBay and how you can get it along with the free stuff to boot.

So keep an eye out here and we’ll keep you informed!

All the best to you,
Kristine

November 13 is the last day of the Picture Perfect Sweepstakes!

Win a $2,500 shopping spree with ClubMom.

If you haven’t already signed up with ClubMom (it’s free), simply do so and you can enter in the contest.

All the best,

Kristine

Don’t forget!  We’re moving – http://www.Be-a-WAHM.com/wordpress/