Emily Gordon

Do Your Own PR

Have just been to Paula Gardner of Do Your Own PR’s introduction morning workshop and wow what an energetic morning packed full of everything you need to know to get your PR campaign off the ground, who to contact how to contact together with tips and tactics for getting your name and company in front of the press and out there into the public eye.

New Newsletter

Over the past 10 days I have been endeavouring to put a sign up box here on the blog.  I wanted to be able to send out a newsletter based on all of the internet marketing, and business development skills that I am developing.  However, yet again stumped by the lack of technical skills it is still not up.  Now strangely enough I do have the skills to put that box up on a separate website linking into the blog.   In the meantime I wonder if you wouldn’t mind sending me an email here to let me know whether you would be interested in receiving a newsletter sending you all the recent tips, tricks and techniques as I learn them!  If so sign up here website coming!

Money Gym Workshop Day 2

The two day workshop ends on an incredibly high note for me.  Every one of us in turn is taken to the front to talk through their internet business goals over the next 3 months, year and 3 years.

All the Way to the Top

I haven’t yet been to a Money Gym workshop and was really disappointed that I wasn’t able to go to the last one – Property – because I was moving house.  Apparently it was superb.  So I cannot wait for this one – Internet.  It is the perfect atmosphere for me, about 20 delegates so not too vast and all of the Money Gym coaches.  So you get the coaching input and feedback from 5 Money Gym coaches instead of one…..if you can handle it!  Totally fantastic! 

Largest Number of Hits

I've had my biggest ever number of subscribers in one day....up to 29 last Thursday.....29 subscribers a day every day is well, now... 10,585 a year isn't it! 

Now, what I've done is set up a new site, which links into the main one at www.cafedesenfants.co.uk I set it up using all the skills I learned at the AMM 3 day intensive course and then went home to creat my first site from scratch on Front Page.  So now I'm getting subscribers on both sites and can send them all my (did I say weekly...well it's about every 10 days now!) newsletter. 

Also the wonderful Barbara Saul who designed the site in the first place let me know about another website called www.statcounter.com where she was seeing huge numbers of traffic to my site.  Another one to check how things are going well!

Adsense Tips Discovered

A lot of webpages out there have adsense on them lately. What is Adsense? Adsense is a PPC Advertising system (Pay Per Click) launched by the web's now biggest search engine Google.  I've come across this short article...see what you think and let me know if it works!  I'm trying it right now!

Emily

Showing up on Google

Top Tips for reaching the Number One Slot on the Google Search Engines

(I did this and it really works!)

1.    Carefully choose your top 10 keywords relating to your product/services and business
Are there people searching for your product and services?  If so, what words or phrases are they likely to type into Google?

PR

2 years ago I was working for the amazing Paula Gardner as her VA and one of my jobs was proofreading her absolutely fantastic book Get Noticed WorkBook. Well now I’m using those self same techniques to actually do my own PR on Café des Enfants. I’ve enjoyed my forays into the media world so much that I’m getting a craving for more – yes even Radio 5 Live!

 

Time Management and Products

Today after one coaching session with Judith (for goodness sake if you have a business or want to start one get her as your coach!), I made a commitment to creating good time management habits and writing them all down as I go plus another commitment and after a quick skim through my to do list, another promise to do away altogether with the dreaded to do list!  Plus...yes she is a very strict coach you know!  A commitment to do what is important on the list and what will move me forward fastest in achieving my goals.  After all this I got to work and within a couple of hours discovered that I had written 3000 words and crossed off 11 things off from my to do list!  So the list is nearly banished already! 

Time Management 1

I wrote earlier in the year that I was going to make myself take a lunch break and I think what I was really saying / meaning was that I wanted to bring a bit of balance to my life.  And that actually the realisation that work can be more effective and fresher when you get a chance to sit back from it for a while, especially everyday for an hour or so - you actually become much more productive and have some really good moving forward ideas.  For one reason or another the lunch break thing hasn’t quite got off to the habitual arrangement that I had envisaged having with myself.  Probably because I am a bit of a workaholic and still think that if I just do more I will do more if you know what I mean.  Well this is a rather interesting idea to consider.  I’ve heard that in Denmark if you are still at your desk after 5pm you are thought to be incompetent and a terrible time manager as you haven’t been able to get all of your work done in time.  What would they make of me I wonder, still here at 10:00pm?