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To add a new category, you can do it from the actual blog post, by clicking Add Category, or you can click on your dashboard by navigating to Posts and then Categories, which takes you to the entire categories page so you can edit and manage all of your categories at once.

Here, you can create a new category and give it a parent category if you want this to work in a hierarchy system, with sub-categories. You’ll create the slug (which is the URL version of the category). Depending on the theme you’re using, you may want to add a description because some themes show the description while others don’t.

You can delete categories here too. If you delete a category, it doesn’t do away with your blog post. Instead, it just causes that blog post to return to the default category of “Uncategorized.”

Categories help your visitors navigate your website better.  Some people truly depend on them to find what they need.  Tags help too, but they’re a bit different.  For instance, let’s say you have a vegetarian blog and one category is vegetarian foods.  You can post a blog post about a certain brand of food and place it in the vegetarian foods category. But the tags you use might be the brand name and type of food that it is, such as “Yvess, vegetarian corn dogs.”

The only bad thing about categories is if you over do it. If you have a long scrolling list of categories on your site, it can get confusing for your visitors.  So it’s better to keep them trimmed back, and possibly create sub-categories instead.  Try coming up with a list of 10-12 categories main categories first – and begin to assign your posts to each category accordingly.   Try going “general to specific” – an example of this would be having “social media” as your parent category, with “Facebook, Twitter, YouTube” as sub-categories.

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Timeline Tip#2 – FAN PAGE INSIGHTS and STATISTICS:
You can now go to any fan page and click the “likes” button (grouped with custom tabs), which shows the number of likes on a page – and gain insights to statistics of this actual fan page. You will also be able to see how many people have liked this page per week, etc. Important if you are in a niche market, you can track what your competition is doing. You can actually track what they did in terms of engagement on a specific date. You can also discover who they are successfully targeting by demographics – city, age group.

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 “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

~ Anthony Robbins~

How many times do you hear that being consistent is the key to success? Too many times, but how many of you are consistent in your business and what you do?

I think we all have been in the situation, where we would learn something new (let’s say a new technique) and we really want to apply it within our business. And at the end we do it once and after we forget or put things off and then after a month, we say – Oh, I haven’t applied this new way for a long time and we start all over again… and therefore we are not being consistent with this new technique. We know that we must do it because we know that the business will benefit from it, but we just put things off. It could be that as we are busy we might forget about it or we need time to do it and as we never have time, we put things off.

To me, being consistent with something that means looking to the future and knowing what you want to achieve. Once you know what you want to achieve you work towards your goal. Nothing happens over night and to get closer to your goals, you need to take small steps towards it.

Doing something every day or nearly every day is far easier to sustain than doing it once in awhile. Being consistent it’s like a new habit that you need to get use to and run it every day. And with your business being consistent should be pretty easy; because this is something you enjoy doing on a daily basis. So make it an irreplaceable part of your life and enjoy it.

Yes, sometimes you won’t be able to do it every single day but at least make it work on a fixed schedule. That’s where your planning ahead comes in very handy. If you want to do something consistent it should become a part of your life.

So, if you have been struggling with being consistent in your business REMEMBER – Practice makes it perfect – try to be consistent with something that you are doing in your business for almost every day, let’s say for a month and keep it up for another ninety days and there we go – it will feel like home!

Here are the tips, which will help you to stay consistent:

• Find and do what you love
• Let go of old self images and always have a challenge in what you do
• Schedule the reminders in your calendar
• If you start feeling bored – change your routine
• Have breaks throughout the day

Always have a plan or an idea, what you would like to achieve, because this will help you a lot to stick with it. In any business you will have ups and downs, but remember when you are consistent with what you do in your business in that way the clients will see you all the time on social media or on other sites and that way you are building relationships and trust with them.

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Let’s give a warm welcome to Cindy Freland of Maryland Secretarial Services, our new guest blogger!  I am thrilled to have her participating in our guest blogging program, providing amazing content for our blog.

How many times have you had to stop doing what you do best, whether it’s writing, designing, or meeting with prospects or clients, and you had to do something else because there was no one else to do it? Those time-consuming, nagging projects, like typing, filing, social media or stuffing envelopes, need to be done but you hate doing them. You might not even know how to do them or you might not have the staff or your administrative assistant is on vacation or ill.

Doing it all yourself is costing you up to 60% of your revenue. You may think that doing it all yourself is saving you money. But just think how much more time you could spend meeting prospects or making those revenue-generating phone calls if you outsourced those nagging administrative tasks to an experienced Virtual Assistant (VA).

VAs are business owners who provide professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients – usually other independent entrepreneurs and small businesses. VAs work from their own office (hence “virtual”), thus making it a fairly popular (and growing) profession in centralized economies. It is estimated that there are as many as 35,000 VAs worldwide. They charge between $15-45, depending on where they are located.

VAs are experienced professionals who know the quickest and best way to complete tasks. Therefore, what may take you hours to complete, may only take a VA minutes, saving you time and money. With the VA doing the work, it enables to you do your revenue-generating tasks.

The following is a list of just a few of the duties that can be taken “off your plate” and given to a Virtual Assistant:

• Bookkeeping: Make it easier for your certified public accountant (CPA). A VA will organize your income and expenses into an Excel spreadsheet or enter them into your QuickBooks.
• Business Card Scanning: Have the business cards you collected at networking events placed into a usable format such as Excel or CardScan. You can then easily make phone calls, send direct mail or send an email. From this Excel file, a mail-merge can be done to send out a direct mail piece.
• Desktop Publishing: have your flyers, business cards, brochures, letterhead and envelopes designed and printed
• Filing: Most VAs work from their homes but some will come into your office to work. They can do all your filing and organize your office so you can find things easily and you will be more productive.
• Internet Research: find material for a book, article or research local business owners
• Mail-Merge: format letters and labels for a mailing using your client and/or prospect list
• Phone Calls: schedule appointments, flight and hotel arrangements, follow-up phone calls
• Social Media: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts can be set up. Profiles and business pages can be created and updates can be posted daily.
• Stuffing Envelopes: Complete the mailing by folding and inserting the letters into envelopes, affixing the mailing labels, return address labels and postage and sealing the envelopes.
• Word Processing: proposals, agreements, letters, forms, interrogatories, orders, documents

With all these responsibilities and possibly others taken “off your plate,” you will be less stressed, more organized and free to do what you do best, which is generating up to 60% more revenue for your business.

Cindy Freland is the author of several business articles. Freland is an award-winning virtual assistant and founded Maryland Secretarial Services, Inc. in 1997. She can be reached at (301) 352-7927 or cindy@marylandsecretarial.com or visit her web site at http://www.marylandsecretarial.com.

So here are the tips how you could use social media in your business:

1. Recommendations

Yes, until now we all believe in the power of recommendation.  We will go with someone who is recommended. In this example let’s look at Facebook. Research has proven that 483 million people are active users and so Facebook is one of many great sites you can use to connect with your clients. As we all know, the influencer plays a very important part in the buying process and one of the ways to reach your audience is via Social Media sites.

Facebook is a great way to connect with people and their businesses from all over the world.  Not only can you interact with people there by leaving your comments, asking their opinion on something etc, but also you can post photos and tag people and thank you them for something they have done or for their useful tips. For example: I have organized the MLM Summit UK conference for one of my clients and during the conference we took a photo together.  So, he posted this photo on Facebook and tagged me in this photo and left a comment saying how I helped him with this conference and what outcome he had.  I love seeing my clients happy and satisfied with my services.

Social Media is always about putting forward a positive image, building trust and value and attracting the right clients!

2. Cost Effectiveness

Using social media sites Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc is a great and beneficial way to find your clients. The most important thing is to remember that when advertising your services and what you do, you always need to think about your clients and provide the solution to their problems. That would mean that you need to spend some time to study your audience and what they are looking for, so that you would be able to deliver the right solution.

We are all very different and we use these social media sites differently too. Sometimes people just over do it because they want so much to find clients and therefore they deliver the message in a wrong way. So be careful how your deliver your message! Think of the language you are using and don’t try too hard, have fun with it and be you. People like to connect with people! Social Media is expanding rapidly and we can see new social sites appearing and one of the newest sites is Pinterest, but it’s already slowly taking over LinkedIn.

I don’t use all the social media sites, for me Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest really work and I always use these sites consistently. You need to find what sites are useful for you and your business and once you identify them – use them consistently.

3. Traffic and Links

Social media sites guarantee that you will increase the traffic to your website. When you are posting your messages make sure that you direct them back to your website. So if you are offering your free report add the link to your website, if you are promoting your e-book add the link to your website. Maybe at the time they would like to know more about your free offer or your e-book, but once they are on your website they might see more information on something else that they really need and they will contact you. You never know!

I would love to know, which of the social media sites you love? How do you use it for your business and how does that help? What’s your strategy and idea?

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