Teleseminar AND Group Coaching Coming Up!

Hello Sweet Friend!

It is April 1st!

Yep! APRIL 1st!

How are your goals coming? How many of those resolutions have you already attained…or thrown out the window. :(

This year is already on track to be my biggest year ever. I pray that your year is the same. I have met many of my goals and some have not even seen ONE DAY of on my daily agenda! Well, that is just honest! Relate?

So, how are YOU doing right now? Could you use a little support and encouragement?

Today begins the second quarter of the year. What are your business goals? Do you need some help reaching them? Have you been lovingly putting them off and deep down you KNOW that you will really be disappointed if you do not reach them this year?

Well, let me help!

I have two things planned and I hope you will join me!

First–Thursday night at 7PM CT, I am planning a fun teleseminar. You can join me live for F-R-E-E!! Yep! Details below….

Second-Beginning Monday, April 8 and continuing for 4 weekly sessions, we will be hosting our next Group Coaching Session beginning at 6PM each Monday night of April. Alongside of our Group Coaching, I have opened up slots for personal coaching. Shhhh—I even have a super rate for the course or for coaching slots for all of you through this next Saturday night. Details below….

If you have a dream to write that first book (or 100th book)…or, produce that audio series….or, finally write that eCourse…or, set up that online event….or, add teleseminars to your business model…or, begin that radio show…or, let your heart dare to dream again; then, THIS IS YOUR MOMENT!

Not only is the Membership Site for this course already jam-packed full of audios and videos from the previous coaching sessions on this topic, but you are going to get even MORE than ever before! Well, don’t wait, just plan now to set aside time to join us. AND…if you cannot join us live, NO PROBLEM! We will be recording everything and you can access everything at YOUR convenience. Plus, you can email your questions and we will still address those during the sessions or privately if that is what you prefer. This is ABOUT YOU and helping you reach your goals, resolutions, and dreams THIS YEAR!

Join me!!

COMPLIMENTARY TELESEMINAR: From Idea to Information Product to Profitable and Very Successful Business
Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7PM CT
Register at:
http://thebizmentor.com/preview-chat-from-idea-to-information-product-to-profitable-and-very-successful-business-2 (If you have registered for this course before with your email address, you will not have to register again–just make sure by signing up there now.)

OUR NEXT COACHING SESSION: From Idea to Information Product to Profitable and Very Successful Business
http://thebizmentor.com/store/our-next-coaching-session (Joined us before for this topic, you are already added to this session as well! If you need Personal Coaching, we have a special price for you there at the bottom of the page.)

Don’t miss this training! It is time to link up and get moving toward your goals and dreams. This is your turning point!

See ya there!

Sincerely,
Cindy
http://www.TheBizMentor.com

PS–If you are wanting to set up either of the Personal Coaching options, go ahead today and sign up for those today. They sold out the last time. It has been over 1 1/2 years since I have offered Personal Coaching at this discounted rate. We expect to fill up all of the slots fast this time. Go ahead and reserve your spot. This is YOUR TIME to set your agenda for what you really need in your business!

Preview Chat: From Idea to Information Product to Profitable and Very Successful Business

How is your year going? Are you reaching for your dreams? Are you getting things done? Have you “birthed” those new projects? Is it maybe time to have a friend come alongside of you and help you troubleshoot so those projects go from Idea to Product to Profitable and Very Successful Business? You won’t want to miss THIS! [Read more...]

Time for our Fall 75% Off Sale!!

It’s that time!

Our big Fall Sale–75% off this week!

Yep! 75% off everything in our eStores–including coaching sessions!!!

Here is what you do: shop at any of our estores (links below) and at checkout enter the coupon code: FALL for your 75% discount on your complete order. Your order will be processed and you will be taken to your download page immediately. It is that EASY!

Stock up today on your entire wish list at our eStores:

Talk-a-Latte eStore

CindyRushton.com eStore

The Biz Mentor eStore

COUPON CODE: FALL

Offer expires Sunday, October 21, 2012 at Midnight CST.

My FIND of the Week–Credit Card Processing on your iPhone/iPad (FOR FREE!)

Hello Sweet Friends!

I am BUZZING about my “find” of the day! You are going to LOVE it!

I was minding my own business, drooling over the new Macs on sale at MacAuthority, slightly (OK–VERY) aggravated that the credit card machine that I have leased from my credit card processing company is messed up when the sweet “genius” at the Mac store shared with me a solution for credit card processing that YOU have got to know about! [Read more...]

Need Help Creating Killer Graphics?

WordPress Plugins You CAN’T Miss!

Good morning dearies!

I just got a super question from Stephanie about plugins. She was asking about plugins that can integrate our sites with our Social Media. And, there are other questions–I will dig into those next time. I thought you would want to peek at my answer. You will LOVE these new plugins. Let’s dig in…

Hello,

I’m finally getting to the point where I’m working on social media. I know these have been discussed before and I could probably find these, but I’m tired and I’m hoping someone will take pity on me and simply point me directly to the sources.

A while back, there was a discussion on a plug-in called Facebook Connect. When I search, I see several that are similar. Can someone give me the precise name and maybe the author so I know I have the right one? (Is there anything I should know about installation/use?) Do the comments go from blog to FB or from FB to blog? I couldn’t quite figure that out.

Also, how do I get the share buttons on my site? I am on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, but have never added the share buttons because I wasn’t really active in those yet. I think I’m ready to take the plunge. Where do you find the various icons to use? I’ve seen some really nice ones, and others that are not so nice.

One last question. What is the best way to integrate all your social media? I seem to remember there is a single plug-in, but I’m not sure if that is still current or if something newer and better has come out?

Thanks,
Stephanie

Good morning dearie!!

I am soooo sorry that it took me so long to get to this email. I have had a very busy week. I worked ALL DAY on email yesterday and had to just go to bed without finishing everything again—ugh! I am SO sorry to not jump in on this discussion. Of course, I LOVE all of the super ideas that everyone has shared. You guys just ROCK!  (I am talking about our private Coaching Clients Discussion Group–if you are not a member, join any coaching group or personal study course and you can connect with us!)

Of course, I didn’t want to miss sharing on this topic.  I just wanted to drop a line an share some of my favorite plugins and other apps that I have been using to make things easier for me to manage my “SOCIAL LIFE” online.

First, plugins! I haven’t been HUGELY supportive on a lot of plugins because it is sooo easy for them to get out of date or to be hacked. DO watch them. Make sure that you pick plugins that are going to be serviced by their developers. Of course, if you ever have any problem, just uninstall and delete their files. It is easy, peasy to get rid of them.  Now, for some of my NEW favs….

DISQUS…Oh! I LIKE THIS ONE! (Beth, this may be one that you may want to add to your site—for helping people comment but not making the comments wide-open for spam.) Disqus manages your comments. I love that people can log in with a multiple of options—from their social networks to even Disqus. The neat thing, they have an option to share their comment on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. I LOVE IT! The best part is that it also enables DISCUSSION on your site. A visitor can comment on another visitor’s comment. I LOVE THAT! Why not hop over to http://www.TheBizMentor.com and join the conversation! (Give me some blog love!!)

SEXY BOOKMARKS…OH! I LOVE THIS! I have swapped it out for SHARE THIS. NOW, it DOES need to work on updated WordPress. Also, watch some of your old plugins. I forget which ones I had to disable—but they were ages old. I love, love, love this plug in). I have installed it on a bunch of my sites so far. It enables visitors to share your posts and pages (which I disabled on sites that have product download pages with my shopping cart—don’t want those shared!! ) on just about any social network imaginable. AND, I mean IMAGINABLE! I love that it also keeps stats on how many times your site has been shared. That is sweet too!

SOCIAL PROFILES WIDGET…this is nice! This plugin offers a widget in your list of widgets that gives a quick listing of where your site visitors can find you on the social networks. It has buttons on your sidebar that lead them to all of your social networks. You can even choose the style of your button. You can see this in action on almost all of my sites. Peek at http://www.TheBizMentor.com on the sidebar under FOLLOW ME ONLINE. Aren’t they cute? All you do is install the plugin, then look for it listed under your widgets, then drag/drop on your sidebar. Set up is as easy as adding all of the links to your social networks. I LOVE THIS ONE!

WordPress eStore…You guys know how much I LOVE WP eStore. Kimberly first shared it with me. NOW, I swear by it. I have developed 4 eStores—plus 2 more for my clients. It is a ROCKING plug in. Instead of getting off on my tangent about how much I LOVE IT, read more about it here: http://thebizmentor.com/my-big-find-easy-estores

CONTACT FORM 7… I LOVE this one too! I am using it currently for my site contact forms AND even for surveys and my ASK CINDY pages. It is easy to set up AND easy for my site visitors to use. Harold is getting A LOT of internet contacts from this plug in on his site. Look at it at: http://playmasters.info/?page_id=13

PRETTY LINK….OK! This is another plugin that I am currently installing on EVERY SITE! :) I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this one! You guys are going to BUZZ over this one! This one enables you to take those long, long urls and shorten to bitty links or links with terms you want. It can even be used to cloak affiliate links or redirects. It is SOOOOO SWEET! Just yesterday I used it again for a project. I have just revamped my Marriage 911 Flight Plans. I wanted to redirect the old link because the old sales letter was no longer valid and the link was out there EVERYWHERE. I just deleted that old sales page (which I normally don’t recommend) and redirected that link into the new page. It was easy, peasy! Also, another cool feature was when I shortened my links this week for our IP-Chat, I was able to create different links for the different places that I shared about the chat and the coaching program. It immediately began showing me stats on where people are coming from (I was just wondering last week if Twitter was worth my time—BUT, within 2 minutes I had over a 100 click throughs to my site. I LOVE knowing that that few seconds on Twitter was worth my time). Great way to test your responses to headlines or to where you post. Did I say that I LOVE this one?

WP-THREAD COMMENT…This is another plugin for comments, I was using it until I tried Disqus. I think I am going to switch to Disqus. But, this one is SUPER! Look at it on http://www.CindysDesktop.com. On it, you can comment on the other comments and carry on a discussion. Of course, it requires a WordPress login. I like offering the multiple options for logging in to comment—Disqus does that.

FACEBOOK LIKE…I am using that on my sites. I think it is really helping to grow my pitiful fan pages. :)

And, on my sidebar….

FACEBOOK SOCIAL PLUGIN
GENESIS LATEST TWEETS (inside Genesis—Studio Press).

There are also a few Plugins that I am using with my Studio Press themes–  Dynamic Content Gallery, Featured Content Gallery, WP-Cycle.

I LOVE plugins! I am sure that I am forgetting a bunch, but these are the ones that I am playing with a lot lately. Hope you have fun with them too!

Love,
Cindy…Your Biz Mentor
http://www.TheBizMentor.com

My Big Find: Easy eStores!

Hello dearies!

I was just kicked back resting and working through my email (I don’t have a voice today–this cold is getting the best of me! So, I am enjoying a nice day INSIDE digging into my email–NICE!). I ran across this great question and answered it. I thought you guys might like to see this discussion. So, here it is… [Read more...]

WordPress–Setting Up Private, Unlisted Pages

Good morning sweet friends!

I just got a great question in my email. It comes from one of my dear friends who is a part of my private coaching client circle. I thought that you might want to see my answer to her–it is actually something that I just found for my sites a few weeks ago. You will love this!

Does anyone know if you can make a “blind” page on WordPress?  I want to create one page just for family and friends.  I usually send out a Christmas letter each year but want to drive them all to my site this year.  I don’t want the general public to be able to view it, I just want to send an email to family and friends with the “private” page. I’ve messed around with it some in WordPress but thought I would go to the experts.  Hope you all are doing well!  Kay

Good morning Kay!

This is a super question! Actually, this was something that I researched just a few weeks ago. AND, I found a SUPER plug-in that does this for me. It is called: [Read more...]

Ready to Kick Off of Your Own Affiliate Program? Let Me Help!

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I have a fun announcement to make!

I remember the first time that I heard the word “affiliate.” I think my eyes glazed over instantly. As my dear friend began to explain what an affiliate program was and why *I* needed to set up my own affiliate program immediately to take my business to the next level, I remember thinking, “TMI!” It was just too much information. It seemed so foreign to me. I had no idea just HOW key my affiliate program would be to my business. [Read more...]

You Don't Want to Miss This!

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs226.ash2/49144_780216339_296174_n.jpgA quick question – do you sell stuff on ClickBank as an affiliate or a vendor or both?

If yes, you may want to check out the ClickBank Y.E.S (year-end-sale) by my friend, Adrian Ling – the author of EasyClickmate.

You may have heard of it before or if you are one of my affiliates, you have experienced it! I LOVE Adrian’s program, EasyClickmate. Adrian helped me set up my Affiliate Toolbox almost 5 years ago. His program manages EVERYTHING for me. And, you won’t believe how reasonable his program is! AND, it is even MORE reasonable this week. Well, stick with me!

EasyClickmate is one of  the most robust and well known tools for ClickBank vendors. It has been around since 2002, and it’s what I use to manage my affiliate program, affiliates, and my affiliate toolbox. (If you have not seen it, check out my affiliate program today at www.CindysAffiliates.com)

Sweet friends, if you have been wanting to begin your own affiliate program OR if you need help revamping your affiliate program so it is easier for you to manage and for affiliates to grab the tools that they need OR if you’ve been thinking about getting a copy of this program now is the best time because of this incredible deal.

Take a minute to check it out:
http://www.families-in-business.com/easyclickmate.html

This software tool won’t make you rich overnight, but it is an essential pieces of software that makes your ClickBank business run like clockwork FOR YOU.

Check out his offer – there’s no hype on his letter. Adrian’s not much of a copywriter, but he’s a great programmer and a very REAL guy. I like that about him. His program instantly set my affiliate program on the right track. You have GOT to grab it for yours!

http://www.families-in-business.com/easyclickmate.html

You can also read all the other comments posted by his customers on that page. Real customers, real comments. In fact, look for mine there as well! :)

Have a great day! Go grab this set now or you will be very, very sorry. It is an ESSENTIAL for business online! Here is that link again:

http://www.families-in-business.com/easyclickmate.html

With Much Love,
Cindy

Ready to Go Uplevel in Your Business? Start Your Own Affiliate Program TODAY!

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I have a fun announcement to make!

I remember the first time that I heard the word “affiliate.” I think my eyes glazed over instantly. As my dear friend began to explain what it was and why *I* needed to set up an affiliate program immediately to take my business to the next level, I remember thinking, “TMI!” It was just too much information. [Read more...]

We Have a New eStore!

For some time now, I have wanted to organize my products so you could find them easily here on the site. Guess what! Yep! I just set up all of them in our new eStore. I am definitely doing a “happy dance!”

We have a full line of eBooks, Mp3 audios, eWorkshops, personal study courses and online studies by me and my family! Plus! We have extras by our dear friends. Take a look at them today. You will LOVE them!

We will be adding new titles regularly. PLUS! We are gearing up for some amazing online eWorkshops and new Coaching Sessions. Why not connect with us today so you will be first to hear about each of them? All you have to do is look to the right ======>>

Sign up for our mailing list. We will keep you updated. Plus, you will receive lots of fun freebies, updates from our website, and special coupon offers. I promise that you will LOVE it!

Time to Spring Clean!

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We are days away from spring.

Can you believe it? How is your year going? Are you reaching your goals, resolutions, and dreams? Have you been getting those projects done?

Or… Do you need a friend to help you troubleshoot, problem- solve, organize, and get out of your rut? Could it be time to Spring Clean and get some real help so you can make this year really count? Is it time to get a plan that will help you set and reach your goals…get things done…make those resolutions a reality…and live your dream? I can help! [Read more...]

The ULTIMATE Writers Set!

http://www.talkshoe.com/custom/images/icons/TC-38348-MainIcon.pngOh! This is the year to go for your dreams! We can help!

We are so excited about our Ultimate Writer’s Expo. Order the set of audios and get access to our amazing, well ULTIMATE, Membership Site for only $29.95. Learn more here: Click Here

Get Started (OR RE-Started) Writing On the Right Track!
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YouTube as a Marketing Tool

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Marketers were quick to catch on to the possibilities presented by YouTube.  They began to create “viral videos”, clips that were intended to draw interest and spark widespread distribution.  YouTube’s embed feature allows anyone to place videos on his blog or website, so by creating funny or informative videos, marketers could spread their message far and wide.
[Read more...]

Where Do You Begin with Your Website???

Question:

Hi Cindy

You mention that Elisabeth likes web designing. Did she use Steve’s DVD’s to teach her web design? I would like to learn how to make a website, however I have no idea how. I wanted to find out how comprehensive is Steve’s DVD’s – will I know everything I need to know from just using them.

I would so appreciate your advise of this.

Regards
Susan

Cindy’s Answer:

Hi!

Thanks for your email. I am happy to help. :)

Yes, Elisabeth has used Steve’s DVD Set. She loved learning from it. We actually learned from them together. It was a fun course. Steve did a fabulous job on that course. It includes SO much! I am amazed at all he covered. It was very good for her.

Of course, Elisabeth was already designing sites before that course. She really has a great gifting with them. Most of what we build together uses WordPress. It is very, very easy. We found a great course that walks you through each step. Many of the ladies in our classes have used it as well, with very little web experience. They have beautiful sites. We found a great program that they have all used. It is by my friend, Lynette Chandler. It is called the Blogging Starter Set, but don’t let the name fool you. You can use WordPress to build a traditional looking website or a blog. Plus, the programming is so much better for getting your website to the top of search engines. Here is the link so you can check it out:

http://tinyurl.com/2sthhj

We recommend that you also look into GOT-Hosting. They have Fantastico installed that helps to make setting up and updating WordPress much easier. You can use it alongside of Lynette’s set and have your site up over the weekend—probably in one evening. :) Here is a link to get to GOT-Hosting:

http://tinyurl.com/3295aj

I hope that this helps you. If not, just ask and we will help more! :)

Have a super day!

With much love,
Cindy