Want to give your Facebook Page or Fanpage a short cool title? e.g. http://www.facebook.com/thewebchik as opposed to one of those long weird ones? It’s really simple!

Go set yourself up right now go here:

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Here is the Facebook Help section telling you how to do it if you need some extra help or else just add a comment to this post and I’ll help you!:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=383008189821

Wicked!

Love it!

Over the past 6 months there have been some really useful blog posts on this site to benefit everyone! So here’s the long list

• Brand new website traffic-getting system BE FIRST!
• The hands down #1 way to stop spam comments in wordpress
• How to give your Facebook Page a shorter URL link
• What do you LOVE doing? Now let's turn that into an online passive business for you!
• How to suggest a Page to your friends in Facebook
• Table of Contents for ALL WebChik Blog Posts
• How to stop "Who is checking your profile" Photo Spam in Facebook
• VIDEO: How to create a Facebook & Twitter account
• The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
• Ultimate plug-ins list for Wordpress.org websites
• Video: How to insert a PDF into a Wordpress page or post
• 8 questions for authors to ask when interviewing web designers
• Wordpress most important icon #3: Inserting a video
• Wordpress most important icon #2: Highlighted quotation box
• Wordpress most important icon #1: Upload and insert image or PDF – VIDEO
• Editing your Wordpress site: The 3 most important icons and tools
• 2 hours of Online Blogging Vs 2 hours of Face-to-Face Networking: Actual Results
• Personal Development Legend John Rohn Golden Tips Video
• Over 300 Free Wordpress Theme Designs
• EVERYONE editing a website in Wordpress MUST know this ONE icon
• Tear jerkin' inspiration: Nick Vujicic teaches us to Get Back Up
• 7 ideas for your website (no matter what your industry) to save you time and make you a truckload of money
• Blogging Proof: check out my actual stats
• VIDEO: How to add a paypal button to your wordpress website in under 3 mins
• Do this 30 minutes a week – You'll be blown away by what it does for your business
• Increasing Sales: The 8 things I did to absolutely nail my best week in sales EVER!
• #3 way to auto-magically promote your blog to the world: Share/Save
• #2 way to auto-magically promote your blog to the world: FeedBurner
• #1 way to auto-magically promote your blog to the world: Ping.fm
• The best 48 hour virtual party, EVER! Awesomeness to the expediential of infinity.
• 7 Blogging Tips to seriously explode your online street cred
• Ask yourself this one powerful question and it will blow your mind!
• Ask a web designer any questions to help you inyour online business
• VIDEO: How to create a Facebook Fanpage in less than 3 minutes
• Cool Stuff that spin my wheels and will help your business
• Getting a website is pointless without this FREE TOOL (& how to video)
• Barbie Girl parody video – just because its hilarious :)
• How you can get a website (with a blog) with just $1 buck!
• ASK YOURSELF… Do you know how to give your website visitors a return ticket?
• ASK YOURSELF… What jumps out and slaps you in the face on your website?
• Get a website (with a blog) you can update yourself for $397
• The Art of choosing good keywords & a FREE golden tool!
• The 4 Pillars of a Good Website
• Flight of the Conchords – Videos for some laughs :)
• Michael Jordan and Failure – Nike ad
• A video of Contagious Enthusiasm
• 7 Simple Strategies to Guarantee Your Online Success in Today’s New Economy
• How to get a baby out and snap yourself out of the worst day EVER!! (No gorry stuff I promise)
• FREE EVENT: Attract More and Better Clients Using the Power of Social Media
• Tony Robbins interview with John Reece and Frank Kern
• How your BUY button can increase your sales!
• The man who made 1 million dollars in one day
• Twouble with Twitters: SuperNews!
• The progression of information technology video
• Who are the biggest search engines?
• The Power of Video with Lou Bortone

If someone has tagged you in Facebook saying “Who is checking your profile” then you need to untag yourself and report it. IF YOU DONT the spammers will invade your entire friends list. This video shows you how to get rid of it so your mates are not spammed!

I’ve got a simple on here for those of you who are totally “green” to the online social networking scene. They are 2 very simple videos on How to set up a Facebook account and a Twitter account.

They’re the absolute basics!

The sound is a bit crap. I’m using JING and my audio settings need some work, but you’ll see how it’s done anway

You’ll be set up within a few minutes! It’s super easy!

• VIDEO: How to set up a Facebook profile / log in for people completely new to Facebook
• VIDEO: How to set up a Twitter profile / log in for people completely new to Twitter

Next video will be How to set up a PING FM account which i Highly recommend for everyone to automatically get traffic to your blog!

Over and out for now!

J

I’m putting my stats out here for the world to see. I have always known the importance of blogging but was always “too busy” to actually do it. Now that I have finally started to delegate more I have more time to test out powerful marketing strategies, like blogging, that I KNOW is golden!

Almost everyone I talk to who needs a website says that they were referred to me or found me somewhere, then read my blog. Most of them had horrible experiences with web designers but after reading my blog felt reassured that I could help them. That is PROOF that blogs are personalized and give you credibility. You can show that you actually know what you’re talking about on your topic.

I have only been blogging a couple of months and as a result my sales conversion rate is currently at 100% and as you can see my traffic in the last month has increased by 776%. The ONLY thing I’m doing differently is blogging 3-5 times a week.

It sounds like I’m bragging but I just want to prove the power of blogging. As I said, keep in mind I have only been running my business differently for about 8 weeks so imagine, if you stick with it, the long term benefits of websites like this one.

How I actually make money from my blog:

I use the WebChik blog as my FREE INFO site. I give tools and tips that help people in their business. I do this to build my brand and give credibility. This is usually referred to as TRUST MARKETING. That’s the perfect term because if they know and trust you they’ll buy from you. If not now then at some point. They’ll at least refer to you!

The way I monetize is through creating websites for people. Not just “normal” sites (for lack of a better word), also Blog sites, Membership sites and eShops – all created using Wordpress as a base. Then we add the bells and whistles. Clients can manage their own sites and add as many pages and content as they like. We’ve also streamlined the process to keep out prices super affordable.

Check out that blatant plug. Got a bit carried away and started doing my spiel

Ok so the proof…

Since I have been blogging here is the result on my Big Fish Website Design traffic in the last month:

And here is my biggest referring site:

As you can see nearly 50% of my website traffic comes from my blog site.

Even better… they spend on average 5 minutes looking at my services AND they look at about 8 pages. This means the people coming to my Big Fish site are QUALIFIED leads looking at web design services. I’m sure there are just a few nosey people and competitors checking it out too but that’s cool

And the stats on the blog:

This shows you the gradual increase of the last couple of months of followers of my blog. You can see it’s gradual and not really anything to do somersaults over just yet, BUT its a long term strategy and if done consistently is a MASSIVELY powerful too to increase your street cred

The bounce rate is pretty high which means there will be a lot of “robots” checking the site to see if it’s “real”. I’m cool with that though because it’s so knew I want the search engine robots to be checking me out for ranking purposes. They’re also checking to see how often I post. The more the better!

The average visitor is staying over 3 mins too which means they’re actually READING the posts.

Ok so if that doesn’t show you the value of blogging then nothing will

I’ll keep you posted on other tips and tricks and stats so you can continue to see the power of the blogmonster

Till next time… over and out

Paypal is one of the most commonly used Credit Card payment processing services out there. Probably because its free to set up and you only pay a small % of each sale. I use it myself!

So I wanted to share this video on how to insert a PayPal button to your website.

This video does show you: how to add a DONATE button however when he gets to the merchant page and selects DONATE you can just choose  BUY NOW BUTTON instead… And you can either paste the code he demonstrates into the page, a post or even on the side of your website (that sidebar is called a “widget”).

If it gets confusing just add a comment to this post and I’ll clarify for you

I also created a HOW TO printable PDF on how to set up a BUY NOW button in PayPal also just in case it helps.

You can download that free here >>

SHARE/SAVE Button: You want as many people as possible to share your blog posts with all their buddies and business colleagues, so you need to make it really easy for them to do this.

At the end of every post have a Share/Save button that they can hover over and then its usually just a one click for them to be able to post it to their Facebook, Twitter or email to a friend.

Check out mine at the end of this blog post… I pimped it out 

If your site is in Wordpress the Plug-in can be downloaded here: Wordpress Add To Any Plugin

However.. ANYONE can use this feature on their website by going to www.addtoany.com and following the instructions. Even if your website is just an HTML site. Plug-ins are far easier though and automatically show on every post.

This is what will pop up when your visitors hover over the button:

As always…  if you get stuck add a comment on this blog post on how I can help you, or email me at j@webchik.net Happy to help!

Over and out

Jodz

FEEDBURNER: Feedburner allows you to set up a little form where people can enter their email and then automatically be emailed every time you post. It’s magic and super powerful. Plus once it’s set up you don’t have to do a thing… it just sends them the email and link to your blog post every time.

so… Go get yourself a Feedburner account at www.feedburner.com.

1. Add the your blog URL to the RSS feed box. It’s the first one to come up.
2. There is a tool under the PUBLICIZE tab called EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION.
3. Just click the button to activate it then…
4. Paste the code to where ever you want it on your website.

Its easier than it may sound so just go do it!… If it seems too hard just add a comment to this blog or email me at j@webchik.net and I will do a video on it

Note: Feedburner are now part of Google so when you go the their website www.feedburner.com you will be redirected to the Google log in page. If you already have a google account, then just log in and on the Google Account Manager add Feedburner to your services.

Again…  if you get stuck add a comment on this blog post on how I can help you, or email me at j@webchik.net

Over and out

Jodz

There all sorts of rad little tools out there to automate your online business. Like little robots that just make stuff happen!

When we build websites for our clients we encourage them to automate everything as much as possible so that they can focus on what the LOVE doing i their business and what they are good at.

There are the 3 key tools to automating your blog so that every time you do a post its easy to get the message out to the world… AUTO-MAGICALLY

I’ve split them into 3 blog posts so you’re not overwhelmed. Make sure you subscribe by email in the top right of the blog to get them emailed to you as soon as they’re posted.

Best  blog automation tip #1

PING FM: Got too many social media sites to handle? Seems like a full time job? Ping.fm is a single website where you set up all your social networking sites so you only have to update the ones site (at Ping.fm).  It will automatically post to ALL your social media sites in one go.

You can spread the word to Twitter and Facebook (and whatever other social sites you have set up in Ping.fm) automatically.  Every time you post on your blog ping.fm tell the world – and you don’t have to lift a finger.

Go set yourself up on www.ping.fm, then add to your Wordpress website the ping.fm plug in. You can get the plug in here: Wordpress 2 Ping.FM Both a ping.fm account and the plug in are free and we like free stuff!

We set this up for all our clients and it saves them a bunch of time!

I know there might have been a lot to take in so if you get stuck add a comment on this blog post on how I can help you, or email me at j@webchik.net Happy to help!

Over and out

Jodz

Quite often I get asked the same questions so I’ve added a wee function to my site for you to ask me your burning website design questions

I’d love to help you out (it helps me at the same time) so just drop me a line here and I’ll reply or else I’ll blog about it!

Let me know if your question if you want me to reply to you and make sure you include your contact details, otherwise… subscribe to get these blog posts by email in the top right corner of www.webchik.net and you’ll be emailed the answer

ASK AWAY…