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I joined Dean Holland’s Starting With Marketing course because I want to stay home with my kids…all five of them. I love the internet and Internet Marketing really appealed to me. A friend of mine had told me about Deans program and I just had to sign up! I mean Dean has been kickin butt and he offered to show people how to get going on the internet! How cool is that?

We are almost halfway through right now and this is what I got so far.

We have been learning all about blog posting, plugins, Twitter and other social media.

Ok now, I have my blog up and just finding a theme, well that is a job in itself! It’s kinda like shopping for a new purse! YAY! What color, 2 columns, 3 columns, left side, right side…HUH???

So I asked around in the Starting With Marketing forum and this is what one of the coolest people I have ever met, Brian Wolfe aka Sick Hippie came up with. Looks good huh?

Then we have to optimize the blog. You know, plugins to make it do what it’s supposed to do! SEO (Search Engine Optimization) stuff so y’all can find us!(Google, too!) That was very cool! Learned something new and it was very easy. More about that later.

Then in our second module, we went over Social Media. Now, I thought I knew something about social media, but I still have a lot to learn! I was following and unfollowing people on Twitter one by one and talking to all of them! Now that’s cool for building relationships, but very time consuming! Facebook too!!

There are so many different ways to tweet!! You can even tweet and have it post on Facebook! YAY!

Tweetdeck <—my fav!

Bit.ly <–another really cool one

Twellow <—very cool for finding folks to follow!!

Tweetlater <—for future tweeting

There are a ton of applications to help you tweet!! I would have to write a book to tell you about them all!! HMMM….might be a good idea, I’ll get back to you on that!

Now, module three is going to be real new for me (and exciting!) Traffic! Ya gotta get the folks to the blog! I don’t know anything about traffic or analytics or anything, but I am gonna learn it and let y’all know right here how it goes. Believe me, I am opening myself up here, so if I am gonna look like a newbie, y’all will see it here first!!

So when I started about three weeks ago, I had no blog, no plugins and no traffic. Now I have the blog up, optimized, more twitter friends, more new friends and traffic coming up!

Stay tuned! Let me know what you think! Always happy to hear from y’all!

Roonie~

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