086: The Publishing Entrepreneur – Karen Strauss

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Karen Strauss

Publishing has never been easier and it has never been more important that a publishing entrepreneur get it right. A book is a wonderful calling card, but with so many self-publishing options, how do you make certain that you are getting it right and not spending an unnecessary fortune?

Publishing Entrepreneur Karen Strauss is a publishing veteran with broad experience in all aspects of sales, marketing, strategic planning, and distribution. Karen is Publisher of Rockstar Publishing House. Designed to publish books from entrepreneurs and self-publishing authors, Rockstar is a one stop shop publisher who will edit, design, distribute and help market your book.Strauss Consultants works with small and medium size publishers to maximize sales to the largest retailers and wholesalers in the country.

The Publishing Entrepreneur – Karen Strauss

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085: Online Marketing Strategies – Allen Jordan

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Allen Jordan

As an innovative, results-orientated marketing technology expert with more than twenty-five years of proven experience in providing solutions to business problems, Allen Jordan has been instrumental in creating and managing search marketing and online reputation management strategies for clients wishing to increase their revenues, online traffic and maintain a positive brand image.

Allen has worked directly for several notable customer products, financial services and consulting companies such as Union Carbide, Beneficial Financial, Gartner Group, Sony and UBS among others. Since the early 90’s he has been exclusively involved in Internet and Intranet design focusing on marketing and content management systems. Prior to that, his technology background was in IP based design used in ATMs and loan transactional system. He has consulted at AT&T, which possess one of the world’s largest marketing databases. His Internet expertise has led to interviews by multiple media outlets such as CNET,MSNBC, New York Times and New Jersey Star-Ledger.

Allen holds an MBA from New York Institute of Technology in Information Technology, an Executive M.B.A. from Columbia University in Sales and Marketing, a Certificate in Marketing Strategy from Cornell University, a Master Certificate in Internet Marketing from University of San Francisco, and additional certifications in Search Engine Optimization, Reputation Management, eMarketing, Social Marketing, Professional Internet Marketing and is a Certified Ethical Hacker. To learn more about Allen and his work, visit: www.farpointalliance.com.

Online Marketing Strategies with Allen Jordan

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084: Expert Marketing with Debbie Allen

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Debbie Allen

Everyone is an expert at something – that is the idea behind Expert Marketing and the Expert’s Industry.

Debbie Allen, “The Expert of Experts”, is a business and brand strategist, best selling author and award-winning entrepreneur. Her expertise has been featured in numerous motivational movies including The Opus and The Compass and regularly featured in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Debbie has built and sold numerous million-dollar companies. She mentors clients from around the world on how to become a highly paid expert within their niche market using a step-by-step marketing strategy to develop authority domination. Sign up for Debbie’s free marketing course and learn about her upcoming events at www.DebbieAllen.com.

Expert Marketing with The Highly Paid Expert author Debbie Allen

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083: Online Marketing Success – Julie Musial

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Julie Musial

Online Marketing Success is more than just putting up a website or Facebook page. It takes a system, effort and strategy. Thank goodness we have online marketing royalty in the house!

Julie Musial is the CEO and Founder of Musial Marketing. After 20 years of winning Top Sales Awards and working with thousands of businesses on their marketing needs for companies like Chrysler and U.S. Cellular, Julie Musial left corporate America and put her skills to the test as an entrepreneur. Julie Musial “Queen of the 5-step system to Online Marketing Success” teaches business owners how to convert your current website and/or business into a lead-generating and money-making machine.

For the last twelve years, Julie has been working with business owners on both online marketing and offline marketing. Over the last three years she has created an online training library called Musial Marketing Academy. She has written and produced eleven online marketing courses including a course on LinkedIn, Video, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, blogging, Google Analytics and Keywords, Pinterest, SlideShare, YouTube and WordPress. Julie is author of the international selling book “Advertising Evolution-Making Sense of the Marketing Options in Today’s World”. To learn more about Julie and her work, visit: www.musialmarketing.com

Online Marketing Success – Julie Musial

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082: The Queen of Copywriting – Beverly Bergman

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Beverly Berman

Good copywriting can be the single most important component to high conversion rates. Knowing how to write benefits rather than features is problem every rookie stumbles over, but I have a solution for you today.

Beverly, a.k.a. The Queen of Copywriting, is an award-winning twenty-year veteran in the marketing industry who blends her incomparable understanding of exactly what your clients need to hear in order to make a buying decision, with an amazing talent for creating compelling marketing messages for her clients worldwide. She is considered one of the top direct-response copywriters in her field today, with an opt-in page that consistently pulls a 77% click-through rate. She focuses on helping companies to unearth and optimize the right keywords and get higher conversions that allow them to work with more of their ideal clients, so they make more money and have more fun doing it!

Exploring what was working and not working in her business and her life, led Beverly on a path where she chose to be more open and vulnerable — and to quote her favorite Robert Frost poem, “…and that has made all the difference.” To learn more about Beverly and her copywriting work, visit: www.TurningCopyIntoGold.com

The Queen of Copywriting – Beverly Bergman

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