Good morning all

angela · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Red Deer, AB

My name is Angela and I live in Alberta

I am very new to internet marketing and have signed up with a site to promote them. I'm still in the learning phases of things and reading lots. I just got back from the Okanogan from visiting and it's nice to know Rosiland is close by. Maybe next time I'm there we can do coffee.

Good luck to everyone in your quest for wealth.

Griff Grumbein · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: **Re: Good morning all**

Hello Angela!

Don't hesitate to share your questions, answers and progress reports.

There are lots of helpful folks here and lots of information to benefit from on your path to success, and I'm reasonably sure Rosalind would take you up on the coffee if you're in her neck of the "North Woods".

Welcome to the forum! Smile

Griff

angela · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Red Deer, AB

At present I work full time 12 hours of shift work and my job allows me a week off every 2 weeks.....nice. I'm an LPN and work at a very unique Palliative Care facility, the only one of it's kind in North America.

Both LPN and Palliative Care services are in need of some serious recognition from the public. I'm not sure how to go about marketing them. How do you make money promoting yourself. These are two causes I can promote until I'm blue in the face but people still think I only clean bed pans......far from it.

Any suggestions or should I just stick to finding something I can physically sell like weight loss products etc.

Thanks

Jim Hutchinson · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

Hi Angela

Participating in discussion forums is a good start. Get a website set up with a blog. Put links to those in your forum signatures and email signatures.

Write articles about your industry and post them on your blog. Unique articles can be submitted to article directories like ezinarticles.com and goarticles.com. When you submit articles to those sites they look for duplicates, so you cannot put them on your blog first. You can add them after being listed on those sites though.

If you have a video camera or web cam, create some movies, even short ones, that show what goes on in your industry. Post the videos to YouTube with related keywords and good descriptions. People can then search YouTube for that industry and find your videos.

You can even put your videos in the blog articles to draw traffic and keep visitors there longer.

There are many ways to marketing online, but those are some of the best.

Jim Hutchinson

angela · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Red Deer, AB

Thanks Jim,

Great advice, having been in the nursing profession for over 20 years, I know how we neglect ourselves. We don't eat, sleep properly and the stress....

Thanks for the info about starting a blog. I have a plan to start one then market some items to the nursing community such as instant shakes we can down on the go and all that kind of jazz.

Do you have any idea how long it takes to get a web site published and viewable on Google? I think it's where I'll start.

Thanks for the help.
Angela

Jim Hutchinson · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject:

Using a blog you can get listed in Google within a few hours. That depends on the sites you have set in the Update Services section in WordPress.

When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies all the sites that you list. By default, WordPress is installed with just one site. I recommend adding others though.

Some of the more popular sites are shown at http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services

Jim

angela · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Red Deer, AB

Thanks Jim,

When I'm at work tonight and everyone else is asleep I'll cruise your site and wordpress and check things out.

Angela

marmo · Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Montreal, Canada

Great to meet a fellow Canadian. You're already getting some great advice here, Angela. Smile

You seem to have a very unique background and this would make for a fantastic health site if you ever put one together in the future.

It is true that you should incorporate a blog into your site. You can develop some good traffic this way, and it's true that WordPress is a great place to start. They have some great tools and resources available to help you.

Best of luck with putting this all together. The health care system isn't the best, so it's great to have a voice out there fighting to make it better.

angela · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Red Deer, AB

Thanks Marmo,

Nice to meet you. I've started my blog. I think I'll spend some time really tweeking it.

I've been cruising the forums looking for info and have found lots.

Angela

BradleyD.Haslam · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject:

Hi Angela,
(That's my wife's name as well Very Happy

)
You sound like one that really has some passion to share.
I think you will find great success if you follow it.

angela · Joined: 24 Apr 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Red Deer, AB

Thanks Brad for your great advice. I've been tweaking my blog. I now am getting it up and running. Takes a bit of time because my expertise is stabbing people with needles and such not being technical but I'm slowly getting it.

I have some content on it but I'm having to transfer files from another site so it's not great yet.

You're right about the "caring" part, I work in a Palliative Care centre that is the only one of it's kind in North America. I'm hyped about spreading the word about that let me tell you.

This forum is great for info and I'm learning a great deal. Thanks all.

Angela