The Selling Lounge March Newsletter

February 28, 2010 by Bays · 2 Comments
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March 2010 Newsletter

Edition 18

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WOW!! Can you believe that it is already March 2010! How time flies when we are having fun. I tell ya, we have all been really busy learning from each other as well as helping to promote each other. What a wonderful group you all are. I can’t thank you enough. You make The Selling Lounge what it is!

Now I need to pick on some people and draw attention to them! This is coming from something our Head TSL Moderator Diana has pointed out to us.

Valerie and Shelly = for stepping up to help other members in the forum and for promoting other members by sharing, tweeting…

Sally (Evie’s Jewelry) = for making it a point to post kudos in the forum for our members and for supporting them by sharing/commenting… on face book…

CBSsews = for being tireless in promoting TSL (most of our new members this last few months came over because of her) and for helping in the forum.

Mary = for being one of our biggest cheerleaders when any of us needs a boost and for always looking for ways to support us by leaving a comment, tweeting, sharing… our products and news…

The Selling Lounge couldn’t be prouder of you ladies for stepping up like you do. Please send me either a 88×31 or 468×60 banner URL along with your site URL so that I can place them in the forum for you.

For all The New Members to The Selling Lounge, please when you have the time; stop on in and get acquainted with the forum and the members as I promise you will enjoy your stay with us. We are constantly learning something new to better our online business. We are all glad to have you on board!

The Selling Lounge is a friendly forum full of resources for online sellers where sellers are helping sellers.
We all work together in a positive manner to better our understanding of our business no matter where we sell.

ALL MEMBERS please make sure that you add all of your links in your signature as well as adding your site to your profile!

We together, if we all work together; can help each other out by participating in the Squidoo, Stumble Upon, Blogging, Contests, etc. Threads in the forum.

We can’t thank you enough for all your participation and positive interaction with each other which has made learning fun!

Our Stats: Total posts 27972 | Total topics 3053 | Total members 678

Stop By and Welcome Mary

Please stop by the forums and Welcome Mary Russel as a huge part of The Selling Lounge Staff! With her writing skills as an Author, she will now be writing articles for our Newsletter! Thank You so much Mary for bringing your talent and know how to us! You are so appreciated!

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Creative Web Promotions

Marketing and Promotional ideas for your website is an awesome blog where you will find lots of helpful information for your online business. Check them out by going to Creative Web promote!

Congratulations on being Voted The Best Blog in our Contest!

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Have You Ever?

Article By Mary Russel

Novels by Mary Russel

Have you ever wished your dog could talk, even if only for a day?

On a sunny Saturday in spring, Tom walked the dogs while Mary made breakfast. Breakfast was ready when they got back.

“It’s bacon!” Cookie bounced excitedly.

“I wanted sausage.” Coco growled.

“Did you say something, hon?” Mary asked her husband.

“Nope.”

“I must be hearing things.”

After breakfast, Mary filled the wading pool. Tom grabbed the old towels and dog shampoo. Coco jumped in the water. Cookie taunted him from the yard.

“You’re pretty ugly; you’re all wet.” She laughed at him.

“Don’t laugh. You’re next.”

“They’ll have to catch me first.”

“The yard’s fenced; where do you think you’re going?”

The dogs might have been more enthusiastic about their bath if Mary had used some of Diana’s all natural dog soap. Diana makes her own all natural organic products.

Diana says “I am out of stock right now, but I have some drying that will be ready for Spring:

This soap is great for dogs, horses, and people too!

This soap is made of saponified oils (soybean,coconut and olive), shea nut butter, goat milk, water + a strained infusion of citrosa, bay leaf, rosemary, yarrow, comfrey root, calendula, chamomile, lavender, and basil in a water base Also: citrosa power, neem oil, tea tree essential oil, nioli essential

I do not use petroleum based ingredients or mineral oil in ANY of my products.”

When Cookie and Coco are all clean and dry they can dress up in leashes, cute outfits, and lots of collars from Diana’s eCRATER store.

Cookie and Coco will look adorable in cute dog shirts from Diana’s Zazzle store.

Diana also recommends body balms to relieve dry spots, suitable for furbabies and the humans who love them:

Your Pet Store With More also offers a wide variety of Dog Bath items and grooming products to care for the hair, eyes, ears, teeth, and nails.

Cookie and Coco often find bath time stressful. Mary has discovered aromatherapy relaxes them. The all natural Chamomile and Lavendar dog shampoo at Your Pet Store With More is relaxing and soothing.

Whether at home or traveling with Cookie and Coco, Mary just loves having all of the essential nail and hair care products in one convenient grooming kit.

Cookie and Coco will be much more kissable with Bamboo Dog-Toids Breath Mints.

And last but not least, from Your Pet Store With More, here is a medicated shampoo for use on dogs OR cats to relieve itching, inflamed skin, and hot spots.

Cookie and Coco send doggie kisses and say, “Be sure to check out Organic Gifts by Diana and Your Pet Store With More for all of your grooming needs. Your furkids will thank you.

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Best Site For April Contest – Vote For Your Best Site

Please stop by and visit our members Sites in this month’s Contest and vote.

  • We will have ONE (1) Winner
  • You can vote up to 2 times
  • You can only vote once for each site
  • You have to use your votes at the same time


Our 5 Sites to vote on are:

The WINNER will be featured in our next Newsletter going out to all members as well as placed on the front page of The Selling Lounge Forum and in our Blogs as well. This is a great opportunity for you to get yourself out there and noticed!

Please while looking at The Sites

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Vote Here For The Best Site Contest Going On Now! SellingLounge.com

We have a Best Site Contest or Best Blog Contest each month and would love if everyone could participate in this fun activity. This not only gets visitors to your sites, but also get visitors looking at what you have for sale and helps up your page ranking.

Sign Up Here For The Best Site Contest: SellingLounge.com

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Sign Up Here For The Best Squidoo Lens Contest: SellingLounge.com

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from www.promote-101.com

Promotional products to market your business!

Business promotion is the key to your business success. It might not be fun but like anything else its got to be done.
You should spend at least an hour a day on business promotion or planning how to promote your business (and more is better, if you can fit the time in)!

You promote your business by getting the word out. The first adage of business promotion is that you have to do this consciously. You can’t rely on other people to do it for you, no matter how great your product or service is.
The second adage of business promotion is that like every other aspect of your business, it’s a budgeted activity. But business promotion doesn’t have to be expensive. Here are ten inexpensive ways to promote your business; all most of these will cost you is some time.

#1 Be a walking billboard

You see the big companies do this all the time. There’s a reason they do it – IT WORKS! Maybe you can’t afford to give away free wearable items to your customers all the time and not every business can afford to buy thousands at one time. But at Promote-101 we cater to the small businesses so you can buy just one and there are no set up fees on our wearable promotional items.
We have t-shirts, button earrings , and watches and many other wearable items that can be made with your store name and URL on them.

#2 Use every outgoing piece of paper, and every electronic document as business promotion.

You have business cards, but you also put out a lot of other documents and emails in the course of doing business.
Check these to make sure you’re using their promotional possibilities to full advantage. For instance, business stationery is an ideal business promotion tool. Is your business name, logo, contact information including your URL and slogan on your envelopes and labels as well as on your packing slips? Or are your labels only printed with your business name and return address? What a waste! Your phone and fax numbers, your URL, and even a memorable slogan should be there, too. It’s not just an label, it’s a business promotion tool! You’re sending it out anyway, so why not make it work for you? The same goes for outgoing faxes, bill payments, receipts; whatever paper you send out should carry your full company message. And don’t forget to make sure that your email has a complete signature that provides all your business information and a promotional tagline.

#3 Writing articles on topics related to your business expertise is an excellent business promotion technique.

Well written articles can provide free advertising and build positive word-of-mouth. If you’re a Web site designer, you might write a piece about assessing Web site usability. The more specific your topic, the better. Write a short biographical note, or “blurb” about you and your business to go with the article. Then send it out!
Where? As the goal is to promote your business, ideally you’d like it to appear in a publication that your target audience will be reading. Realistically, you may have to send it to a publication that accepts unsolicited work from unknown authors. Magazines generally have a long lead time, so I would focus my first efforts on the ‘Net. There are an astronomical number of e-zines and sites with newsletters that are hungry for content. One place to look for e-zines to send articles to is The Internet’s Best E-Zine Directories. E-zines also provide excellent advertising value; the trick is to find the right e-zine for your target audience.

Newspapers are also excellent places to place your business promotion article, as they too have a much shorter lead-time than magazines, and are always looking for material. Try contacting the Business editor of your local paper and pitching your article. If this approach fails, you might be able to get your piece into the paper by sending it in as a letter to the Editorial section.

#4 – Forums, Buddy Marketing and Freebies As Business Promotion

Posting messages in forums (a.k.a. bulletin boards) is a great way to make your business known to people you would otherwise be unable to contact. You can’t blatantly advertise your business on most forums, but you can show others that you’re a knowledgeable, personable individual and promote your business through your signature file.

Getting people interested in your business and perhaps attracting new customers works best if you choose forums that are business-related or product related.
The other caveat with choosing forums to post in is to check their level of activity; posting in a forum that doesn’t have much traffic or regular activity isn’t going to do much to promote your business.

#5 – Use buddy marketing to promote your business.

Businesses Growing Together has some great programs for having online merchants promote your business. This gives you the chance to reach more online shoppers. The BGT programs can considerably cut down the cost of business promotion, and allow each business to use promotion techniques that would be too expensive to implement alone. Joining in with http://twitter.com/BGTogether where we retweet & promote all member’s sites is another great way to get your name out there.

#6 – Give out freebies as business promotion.

We’re all familiar with this kind of spot promotion because it works. People love to receive things that are free. Besides using freebies as business promotions, you can also use them regularly as customer “rewards”. What small, inexpensive things could you give out with your product or service that will get your customer thinking good thoughts about you? Combining business promotion with customer rewards is definitely a win-win situation.

#7 – Use your vehicle to promote your business.

Mobile business promotion isn’t just for white delivery vans. Put the name and phone number and URL of your business on your car windows or doors. Think of all the people who see your vehicle when you’re driving around – especially if you live in a place where people often get stuck in traffic!
You can get a pair of magnetic signs or window decals from Jeri’s Signs. Or for under $20 including shipping get a license plate holder with your URL.
Car signs are also a great way to use your “errands” as a promotions trip.

#8 What to do with your business cards

Do not leave home without them! Put your business cards to work. When you pay that bill hand the clerk or waitress your business card. When you go to the library slip them in some books. When you go in a public restroom leave some on the counter. Get in the habit of doing business promotion wherever you go and you’ll be surprised how word-of-mouth builds. Create your Business Card here.

#9 – Talk it up!

There’s always the opportunity to promote your business by letting other people know what you do and how it could benefit them. This doesn’t mean that you talk about nothing else, but there are bound to be chances to talk about your business that crop up during normal conversation.

These business promotion ideas are just some of the ways you can promote your small business without spending a small fortune. With a little experimentation and time, you’ll find out which of these ideas work best for you – and best get the word out about your small business.

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I will go through all submitted sites and pick which one will be added to the upcoming Newsletter. I will save all submitted sites to be featured in upcoming Newsletters.

I will need the following for your site submittal:

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If it’s GREEN or on Sale in March …

In honor of St Patrick’s day, the Gift Listings blog is going to be featuring items that are predominatly GREEN in color throughout the month of March. It doesn’t even have to be on sale to be included, it just has to be GREEN.

THERE’S MORE!

In addition to green items, I’m also looking for your March Sales, Contests, Coupons, or anything special you are doing at your stores during the month of March.

To see what information you need to give me in order to get your green things or March Specials featured in Gift Listings, please see the very first post in the following thread: Advertise Something GREEN for March + your March sales
Then, just post the requested information in the same thread. I will try to get your March Specials posted within 48 hours, and will be featuring green items in blog entries throughout the month.

Go GREEN with Gift Listings!

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