Beth Lane

Last year, I designed and developed a website for Beth Lane, a certified coach specializing in sales. Her website – Peaceful Selling – was great, but she wanted to be able to manage simple changes to text and images herself. My solution? WordPress, of course! It was so easy to simply conver the existing html and php framework to a WordPress site (ask me if you’d like this done for you, too). We didn’t need to find a whole new look and feel – I just put the existing design into WordPress and voila. It’s perfect, because now she also has an integrated blog that looks exactly the same as her website, creating the ultimate streamlined integration.

Kenn Darling

I started working with Kenn last year, just doing some edits on one of his online jewelry store sites. He later came back and asked me to create an entire new gift site template for him – GiftArray – which was a really fun project. He’s still in the process of getting all of the data together, but the template and foundation is there. I also created the logo and six others for him.

Matthew Watson

Matt Watson is creator of the FPSystem Automated Betting Bot (UK horse racing). Matt and I go back awhile as well, but recently I’ve been setting up three blogs and making a ton of changes to his current site. I also created a great squeeze page for him for another product – ProLayingProfits.

He’s trying to streamline everything (shopping cart, affiliate site, blog and website) for easier management. Working with Matt is fantastic and even though we’re separated by an ocean, I’ve had one of the simplest and best working relationships of all time with him.

Joe Hage

Joe Hage wanted a whole new look and feel for his site, so he asked me to work with him to install a blog framework – WordPress – with a Woo theme – to create a blogsite that works perfectly for him. We made minimal customizations to the fabulous theme (one of many that Woo has) in order to create a custom look for Joe’s site. We also worked with Bruce of Bruce Colhart Creative to customize the site even further, adding color and a great header to finish the look.

Karrie Kohlhaas

Karrie is my new favorite friend. We had some great discussions early on about fixing some rather annoying problems she was encountering with her WordPress site (ever have those?). She was able to get her site so far on her own, but like many blog owners, there were a few issues she needed extra help with to tackle. I spent just two hours and her site was almost transformed. We fixed a sidebar issue, added some plugins for social bookmarking and other great functionality, updated the permalinks, added a great background color, fixed formatting issues and updated her blog to WordPress 2.7. She’ll eventually update her entire site, but for now, it’s made a world of difference!

Kate Phillips

I met Kate through Biznik (along with Joe and Karrie, above). She needed a few changes made to her blogsite – Garden of Plenty. We morphed her site from a  traditional blog which was hosted at WordPress.com to a full blog blogsite so that she could have more sophisticated functionality, such as a newsletter signup form (which you can’t have at WordPress.com). To accomplish a streamlined integration, we used a static front page from her blog and re-directed her main URL to it. The result is great – Total Wealth Coaching links to her main front page, while Garden of Plenty links to the blog on her site – two “websites” using the same content and hosting. It’s a great technique!

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He’s a Marketing Guy. That’s not his official title, of course, but he knows his stuff. Just look at his resume or testimonials to figure that out.

But I’m writing because I was reading a marketing article of his and I am compelled to share it! Never mind that it says Seattle Marketing Strategy – the advice is actually completely independent of Seattle (he probably did that for SEO purposes – learn it!).

Virtual assistants, marketing assistants, etc – we’re as in demand now as it’s ever going to get, so if you’re not getting business, you really need to re-think your marketing strategy.

Read Joe’s article here and if you’re brave and/or smart, you really should join me on Biznik and follow my lead so you can get clients (good paying ones), too. I am a paid member but didn’t start out that way. A Biznik membership is completely free. Even if you just want to learn from some experienced folks, you need to be networking.

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