This product is no longer available. It's being revised and upgraded. Stay tuned for it's re-release. Attention Independent Professionals and Small Business Owners! You may think you’re pretty savvy because you’ve started blogging, (and you really are), but listen to this: If you’re working hard on your blog, but seeing little traffic and no increase in business, then stop wasting your time and energy! 9 out of 10 business blogs are abandoned because they are perceived as too much work (with little return). Most professionals simply don’t know how to use their blogs effectively to drive traffic and get new clients. They don’t know the few simple tricks that can turn a loser blog into a winning one. Your blog should be working for you, not the other way around. Here’s the whole point of using a blog for your business: A blog makes it easier for people to find you on the Web Your blog will establish you as a credible expert in your field Your blog will attract those readers interested in what you have to say and the solutions you have to offer them…(if you use it well) Blog readers are more savvy, have higher incomes, and are more likely to buy on the Web than other users A blog is inexpensive and user-friendly (you can fire your web designer) A blog creates interactive dialogue with readers and potential clients, pre-qualifying and pre-disposing them to call you up and hire you, and/or buy your products.   Just a few simple steps will improve your blog and drive traffic and new clients your way. The Blog Squad to the rescue! Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff, a.k.a The Blog Squad, have saved many professional blogs. Now you too can have access to blog-saving tips and techniques, for less money than you might spend at Starbucks in a month. The Blog Squad offers blog-saving makeover tips to you so you won’t have to struggle with your blog anymore. Until now, you would have to hire us at our substantial one-on-one consulting fee to get help for your blog. Well, here’s what even you can do to get this valuable information without spending big bucks. Get this information-packed ebook that tracks the transformation of a professional blog makeover for just peanuts: Confessions of a Reluctant Blogger: From Boring to Brilliant in 30 Days, A Blog Squad Makeover By Patsi Krakoff, Psy.D., and Denise Wakeman Instead of paying for costly one-on-one consulting, you can listen in and read all the tips that transformed one of our client blogs from boring to brilliant in just 30 days. If you’re like many people, you learn by example. When you see step-by-step how a tip can be applied, and how it makes a real difference in traffic with real dollar-and-cents examples, you know you can apply the same tactics to your blog and get real results too. The people who read this informational product will end up with money in their pockets before the end of the year, because they’ve applied these simple tips to improve their blogs. Why pay full price for anything when you can copy and get the same results? Of course, these examples have to apply to you. If you already know the answers to these questions, then you don’t need this ebook and audio files. If you can answer these questions, then you DON’T need to buy this book: 1. How can you create attractive sidebars, with graphics that show off your products and services, and have links directly to your sales page? 2. How can you add product graphics and links with ad tracking and affiliate information? 3. How can you use one of your registered domain names for your blog instead of a name with Typepad or Blog in it? 4. How can you get people to subscribe to your blog, so they don’t miss any updates when you post a new article? 5. How can you monitor the number of visitors to your blog, not just the page views? 6. Why are categories important, and how can you use them to create additional informational products? 7. What is pinging, and why/how should you do it each time you post a new article on your blog? 8. What are three different ways to respond to comments on your blog, and which is best? 9. Why should you understand what a trackback is, and why should you use it as much as possible? 10. How do you drive traffic to your blog? 11. Is it really possible to go from 1 or 2 visitors a day to 500 a week by just implementing a few simple tactics? 12. How do you make money with your blog? 13. What do you really need to know about Feedblitz, Adsense, Ping-o-matic, Pingoat, RSS and Feedburner? 14. How do you put audio onto your blog? If you can’t answer these questions easily, or worse, if you don’t understand what these questions can mean for your business, then stop right now, and click on over to our easy purchase page. Because, if so, you REALLY need this informational product! Confessions of a Reluctant Blogger: From Boring to Brilliant in 30 Days, A Blog Squad Makeover By Patsi Krakoff, Psy.D., and Denise Wakeman From Boring to Brilliant may not be as exciting as a Desperate Housewives soap opera, but is it the saga of how The Blog Squad took a ho-hum blog from zero to 500 visitors in a couple of weeks just by implementing a few simple strategies.   “Okay, I get it already. I don’t need to continue reading. I’m convinced. Let me buy now, please!” Send Me the eBook Now! If you have a blog and a business and the two just aren’t making it, or if your blog is singing the blues, then you need to read and listen to this ebook. You will get much more than 14 hot tips to make your blog sizzle! If you read this book and apply only half of the 14 hot tips you’ll get: Increased traffic to your blog… from both repeat visitors and new readers Increased traffic to your website…because the search engines are picking up your keywords on your blog which links to your site Additional sales from the product and service links on your blog and website Prospects calling you (who have already pre-qualified themselves from reading and connecting with you on your blog) – when they call you they already feel they know you and like you A better looking blog, with use of branded graphics A way to track what works on your blog and what doesn’t Additional revenue from affiliate sales and blog ads Increased credibility and expertise as perceived by readers Increased comments from readers, increased connections with other blogs…so that you can continue a dialogue and create relationships Confessions of a Reluctant Blogger: From Boring to Brilliant in 30 Days, A Blog Squad Makeover   …will show you how to use your blog software features like they are supposed to be used…you know, all those things you were hoping you didn’t need to learn, things like trackbacks, and pinging, and permalinks. It will show you in easy non-techie jargon how you can have a blog that looks as professional as you really are, and one that delivers valuable content to your targeted readers (clients). Here’s what else this ebook will spell out for you: 1. 4 reasons why blogs are good for your business 2. How to easily implement tips & techniques, without being a techno-geek 3. 7 secrets of successful business blogs 4. How to set up a blog the media will love 5. A list of successful business blogs you can model   By now you are probably wondering what it is going to cost for all this valuable information. You won’t have to pay our $500 Blog Squad Makeover fee. This information comes packed in 4 audio recordings, an ebook with transcripts AND valuable articles that are easily downloaded to your computer for only $39.   “That’s a pretty good deal. It’s worth it to me to spend $39 to improve my blog and get lasting results. Sign me up!” I Get It! Sign Me Up Now. This information could transform your blog and make all the time and effort you put into setting up your blog worth it. You are probably already close to having a blog that works for driving traffic and getting clients. Don’t stop now. Make just 2 or 3 changes that could send your blog to the top of the charts, and out in front of the pack of all your competitors’ blogs. Here’s what one of our blog makeover clients said about our services: “After the Blog Squad's overhaul of my blog, which I blogged about steadily for one month, I took my traffic from about 15 visitors per week to well over 500 per week! Not only that, their suggestions were profitable and I got several new clients just from the professional new look and feel of my blog. I can't recommend these two enough, their attention to detail and their genuinely caring attitude. If you're REALLY lucky, maybe they'll pick your blog for a Blog Squad makeover! Drop by my blog to see their work.” -- Get Known Now Blog Suzanne Falter-Barns Why are we offering all these valuable tips to readers for such a low price? Why don’t we keep these secrets for only our high-paying makeover clients? We, The Blog Squad, (Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff) recognize that there are a lot of professionals with blogs out there, who don’t need a total makeover. We also know that many small business professionals struggle with keeping profits, and don’t want to – or can’t – spend the money for high consulting fees. We’re giving you access to the same information, but for less than 10% of our fees! Why else are we doing this? We’re not going to make much money selling a $39 ebook, at least not until we sell a ton of them. We are, quite frankly, in love with blogs and what they can do for professionals like you. When we discovered blogs and how easy they were, and what a powerful tool they are for getting visible on the Web, we went Blog Crazy! So, we’re not going to let you leave this page without knowing about our two fabulous bonus gifts for ordering right away: Free bonus gifts for ordering from this web page: No, you don’t get a knife set, or the veggie-matic…but wait! Just for ordering today, you will get these three audio programs of Conversations with Experts (value $9.95 each): Andy Wibbels on Podcasting – find out how adding audio to your blog works Dave Taylor on increasing your Findability on the Web – from one of the pioneers of the Internet T.L. Pakii- Pierce on Blogs as Social Marketing Tools You can’t get these recordings without paying the $9.95 fee that we charge to Conversations with Experts listeners. But you get them free, today, for ordering the ebook From Boring to Brilliant. Don’t wait, or leave this page without seriously considering if $39 is worth it to spend on having a successful business blog that works to bring in clients or not. How Your Blog Creates a Lasting Impression with Readers If you just want to use your blog as an online journal and don’t really care if people read it or not, then fugettabowdit! Don’t bother with this ebook. But if you want to stay ahead of the pack and be seen as a leader in your field, then, come on! - Spend a few bucks and do some up-keep on your blog. You wouldn’t work in a messy office if clients came by, so why would you allow your blog to look crummy and not be user-friendly? Your blog is just like your front-office, a place where clients can come in and see you and the kind of business person you are. If the windows are broken, they probably aren’t going to buy from you. Fix your broken windows; sweep up the floors of your blog! We bet there’s at least one broken link on your blog right now, and you probably haven’t put up a blog roll that works since maybe you started blogging, right? Here’s what another of our makeover clients said about our services: “The Blog Squad, Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff, wanted this blog to get 200 visits by yesterday. I thought they were crazy. But, it happened! “Before I started this blog makeover with them, I was getting, on a good day, two visits. One of those visits was probably from my mom. Now, the blog is getting more like twenty visits each day. That's ten times as many visitors per day. “Am I glad I signed up for a Blog Squad extreme makeover? You bet.” Annie Dennison, Smart At Love Okay, so who are we, and why the big deal about blogs? That’s Patsi on the left, and Denise on the right: we’re not really joined at the hip. In fact, we live in San Diego and Los Angeles, and work together as The Blog Squad™. We have worked on a lot of blogs since August 2004, and we’ve learned a thing or two. In fact, Patsi was one of the worst blogging amateurs ever to start a blog. She just ignored things she didn’t understand and went on posting articles. Never mind if anyone ever read what she wrote, she was writing to fill pages for a book on newsletters, and the blog was a great platform to organize her content. Traffic can triple to your website, in spite of ignorance. But don’t count on it… Well, that worked anyway, and she started getting readers, and then something amazing happened. In three months, traffic to her website doubled! Yes, her old static website that she hadn’t updated in 6 months… The only thing she was doing differently was writing fresh content about her targeted niche (newsletters for consultants) on her blog. But Denise wouldn’t let Patsi get away with ignorance. She’s been Patsi's marketing arm for several years now, and has an affinity for all things technical and especially for Internet marketing tools. She started salivating when she heard the word "blog"… So she went to work on her own blog and Patsi's, only she’s not a techno-weenie like Patsi. She dug into the workings of a Typepad blogging account, and before you knew it, she had a black-belt in blogging. She wants to make it an Olympic sport. So, with a few simple changes to Patsi's blog, and since learning to use it properly, traffic to her website has now tripled. We wrote an ebook back in April 2005 on how to save time and money setting up a Typepad blog, and we revised in September 2005. As the blogging software has improved, we want to give our readers the latest time-saving tips and traffic-driving techniques. And things continue to change at the speed of Internet connectivity... How can you stay tuned and stay in front of your prospects? You’ve got to use your blog effectively. You’ve got to save time and energy by letting it work for you, not the other way around. You’ve got to read this ebook, and learn how to optimize your blog. We see blogs all the time that were started with the best of intentions… and then not posted on at all for months and months. No prospect is going to buy or hire a professional who has a messy blog that has been abandoned. Ain’t gonna happen… Okay, we're done nagging. Buy the ebook. Make some changes. Start blogging the smart way…   “Alright, already, I know what you say is true. I’m gonna read this and make a few changes to my blog. Let me at it now.” OK, I'm Ready! Money-back guarantee? Nope, we feel strongly that this information will help you, and anyway, you can’t exactly return a digital downloaded product, now can you? The value is in the information you get when you read it, and you can’t return that. So we don’t offer any money back. But if you seriously don’t like this product and can say that it can’t help you and your blog, we’ll try to help you with your blog in another way. We are open to feedback and suggestions. See ya around the blogosphere! Patsi and Denise The Blog Squad™   “Okay, I’m convinced. Let me pay you and get on with making my blog the best biz tool it can be.”     © Copyright 2005 Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff. All Rights Reserved. This site is protected under both U.S. Federal copyright law and international treaties. No part of this work, including text, look and feel, layout, images, may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means.