1. Pinterest –  business as well as pleasure - Pinterest is an up and coming social media platform that can be used for promoting your business and is especially good for businesses who advertise visually.
2. How To Add A Google+ Business Page - Google+ is another new kid on the block when it comes to social media. They have just changed their format again and it now looks very similar to Facebook. Here is a great post on how to set up a Google+ business page.
3. How Can Twitter Help Grow Your Business - Twitter is a great site for sharing your businesses news and ideas as well as interacting and building relationships with clients and other businesses. Here is a post which helps you to use this medium to grow your business.
4. How Social Media Helps Promote Your Business - This post explains the ways in which social media can help to promote your business, giving ideas on how to use these platforms to reach new customers.
5. Killer Business Tools and Apps: A Roundup - Great post which has a round up of some fantastic social media tools and apps you can use for your business.
6. An Introduction to Twitter for Business - Here is a fantastic post which gives you an introduction to using Twitter for business. Great for anyone not yet using this social media platform for promoting their business.
7. Social Media for Small Businesses Made Easy - A wonderful guide on how to use social media for your small business. Easy to use and follow giving great tips and ideas on how to make social media work for your business.
8. Social Media iPhone Apps: Start working remotely - Want to have access to your businesses social media whilst you are out and about? Here is a post which gives some wonderful apps for your iPhone which makes keeping in touch with your accounts easy.
9. How to Link Up Twitter - This post explains how you can link up Twitter with your other business accounts, spreading the information you share about your business further.
10. Using Facebook For Business - You may use Facebook for social interactions with friends and family, but are you using it to promote your business and build relationships with prospective clients? No well here is a post that helps you get started using a page to promote your business.

It covers everything from themes, what certain colours mean in our culture to more in depth information such as easy HTML and how to link correctly. So whether you are new to blogging or have been blogging for a while, there is something new to learn in this excellent book.

Here is what one of the reviews of Blogging The Essential Guide said:

Becky said, “Brilliant advice about blogging form Erica and Antonia. I have had products from these two in the past that have been so clear and strightforward they are an absolute delight and this book does not disappoint. I have been writing a blog for a few years and I so wish I had read this book before i began. it has everything for a new blogger and some good tips for a more experienced blogger too. It is so easy to follow unlike most IT books and I am very impressed. Highly recommended.”

So if you want to learn more, then grab yourself a copy of this easy to use guide to blogging.

Back in the beginning when I was trying to find ways to make money for myself I felt like I wasn’t making much progress.  It was difficult to see at those times how I was on any kind of journey when I hadn’t even made £1.  I had hopes and dreams and a lot of time on my hands.  I had no indicators to show my success and no ££’s to show for my time.

Looking back now I can see that even in those early days I was already on the path.  My failures were moving me one step closer to making that first £1.  The thing is you don’t know that until you actually have the breakthrough.  I read somewhere once that many people give up on their dreams and ambitions right before their first breakthrough.  I don’t know if there’s any truth in this in general but I know from my own experiences that I’ve had fleeting thoughts about giving things up and shortly after deciding to give it ‘one more month’ I experience a breakthrough.  When I was trying to make that first £1 I was determined not to be the sort of person who gives up, and my breakthrough came.

I made my first £1 and there was the excitement and elation of earning money for myself. Yes it was only £1 but it was so much more than that.  In that moment it was success.

That feeling passes though and £1 isn’t as exciting any more, £1 doesn’t make me feel as successful as it once did.

Fortunately this motivated me to earn £10, then £100, £1000 and £10,000.  Each time there is the excitement and the feeling of success and then it becomes the norm, the new standard.

Success isn’t a place you’ll ever arrive at.  You may well have an income goal right now but once you’ve met that goal there will always be the next goal, the next high, the next fix.  The success feeling comes and goes, it is part of the journey.

If you don’t feel like a success today, think back to a year ago, are you further on than you were then?

Success isn’t earning £1, £100 or £1000. The success is in the progress, it’s in the journey, and it’s not a feeling you can have all the time.  If you did you would tire of it. Enjoy your success.  Enjoy the journey.

Now you’ve read this, what are you going to do next to achieve your own success? If you want more help getting your business to succeed all our eBooks are on special offer on Kindle and Smashwords this month. For £0.77 or $0.99 you can get information on:

• online study success
• designing and carrying out surveys
• choosing a web host
• choosing and email service provider
• building your business online

The first new initiative they have launched is the Business Mum of the Month award, which will highlight one business mum:

• has had a special achievement or
• gone out of their way to help other business mums or
• is an all round good ‘egg’

Area managers of the Mumsclub regional group will be looking out for these individuals at their local networking groups and they will then submit their application to Mumsclub HQ where an impartial judge will decide that month’s winner from across the UK.

Then in the Summer of 2013, all 12 winners from over the past year, plus their area manager will have a special get together to celebrate their achievement.

So if you are not currently an active networking Mumsclub member, then find a group near you and go along. You never know it could be you who wins the award!

·         Consistency

·         Clarity

·         Continuity

Let’s have a quick think about each in turn.
Consistency

Every piece of marketing or communication should send the same message.  So first you need to be clear what you want that message to be.  If you’re a hip baby clothing company then your message might be related to being ‘on trend, cool, modern parent’.  Once you’re clear, have a look at your product, your packaging, your website/shop, your logo, your advertising – does it all send the same message?
Clarity

Keep your marketing simple.  Doing so will ensure that it’s easier to achieve clarity in the minds of your target customer.  Have a core message and ensure that message is communicated throughout your entire marketing campaign.
Continuity

Customers prize longevity in businesses, this is why we see many companies showing of ‘established since’ dates.  It’s a sign of quality, trust and reliability –  ‘This company must be good they’ve been established since 1983’.

Communicate to your customers that you’re a company that can be trusted.  Repeat your core message in campaign after campaign to build familiarity, trust and loyalty.

The best way to build a better  business is to read, learn and then take action.  So now I want you to think about what you’ve just learned from this article and think about it in the context of your own business.  What ONE action can you take that would improve your brand?  Can you take that action right now?  If not can you schedule that action?

Want to know more about how to help your business perform better?  ACEInspire have launched a great new eCourse to help you research where your business can achieve better results. 

We are looking for:

• information products, such as eBooks, Books, eCourses or membership sites
• products that will help people start or grow a business

The small print: your product must have an affiliate scheme with commissions of at least 20% or £25 per sale. The product must be something that you have created personally. You need to provide a review product for one of our team to trial

If your product meets all the above criteria please contact us and one of our team will look forward to reviewing your product

This is a great interview showing the benefits of starting a business as well as being a mum.

Very shortly we are going to be launching our new course for Summer 2012. I’m telling you today so you can be prepared. Over the next few days we are going to give you a taste of the quality of information we’ll be providing on the course. As with all ACEInspire courses, our new course will include written and video material, with a combination of live workshops and work for you to do at your own pace. What’s new is that we will be covering a fresh topic and we are definitely taking things to the next level. This course is for you if you want to step up and see your business grow.

Sign up here if you want emails about this new course and some fab articles to help you improve your business

In the book you’ll find practical advice based on experience. If you are a beginner it will guide you step by step through all you need to create a brilliant blog. If you have been blogging for some time, we guarantee there will still be tips and tricks that are new to you. And there is a whole chapter on making money from your blog if you want to take your blog to the next level.

Blogging: The Essential Guide chapters include:
• Blogging Basics
• Starting a Blog
• Basic Skills and Concepts
• Content for Your Blog
• Community and Blogging
• Style and Structure
• Blogging and the Law
• From Blogs to eBooks
• Social Media
• Writing a Blog for Profit

If you’re thinking about buying the book, we’d love it if you bought it today. Our mission is to help people to improve their blogging, and it would really help us if you bought the book today.
We’re asking as many people as possible to do this because we’d love to see the book shooting up the Amazon best seller charts: then it will become visible to even more Amazon browsers.
To say thank you for buying the book today, we have some great bonus training material.
Buy today and you will get access to 4 valuable videos that will help you improve your readership and even make money from your blog:
1. SEO Tips Video
2. 40 posts in 5 mins video
3. Monetise Your Blog video
4. Creating an eCourse video

Plus, you’ll be amongst the first people to get access to the ACEInspire Members Site, with BONUS training including:
1. Your Guide to Online Study Success – a workbook to help you make the most of online training
2. Your Guide to Online Promotion – a short eBook looking at some of the newest and hottest social media sites and how to use them for promotion. Find out about Pinterest, Google+ and LinkedIn
3. Pinterest: A video from Erica Douglas

We’ve had excelllent sales of the book since it launched just a couple of weeks ago. The publishers say, “The reviews, articles and feedback we’ve had on it is amazing. Blogging: The Essential Guide is definitely one of our most popular titles!”

In a recent review author and blogger Jane Alexander said:

“Seriously though, the book is really great – it’s got everything you need to start blogging and there are some nifty tips for old timers too. It’s clear, concise and beautifully presented. It’s not padding and waffle – it cuts to the chase and tells you just the important stuff”

If you want some fresh inspiration for your blogging. practical tips, a book to keep on hand AND valuable online training, buy Blogging The Essential guide today via Amazon. Once you have bought, send an email to antonia3-674311@autocontactor.com with your receipt number in the subject, and we’ll send you access to your bonus materials