If you’re looking to get your presence known on the web, to your clients and target audience, then this coaching and hosting package is a great starting point. His social media influence alone will guarantee immediate traffic results and an increase in viewers and fans to help get the ball rolling.

Build a website, sure. Make it a plain site without a blog, multimedia, or engagement tools? Never!

Today’s technology has propelled us to a new level of engaging each other online. As a business ventures onto the Internet, online marketing becomes a necessity. Otherwise, you only get traffic typically from who you know and have met. What you want, combined with the social media profiles you have created, is a site that is dynamic, flexible, robust, and offers business tools that make it easier for you to:

• Build and Launch the website quickly
• Customize the look and feel easily
• Add your own content and have a blog with RSS feed
• An easy way for people to sign up for more information and newsletters
• An ecommerce tool to upload your product info and sell directly from your site
• A Contact Management database section to add new contacts, or have contacts add themselves through the website
• An email center that ties to the contact database and can do email marketing campaigns
• A workflow automation tool to set-up complete sales and communication cycles with new clients signing up, or for purchases.

Being asked often about this business of getting online, having a site, a blog, being involved with social media, I will often refer new clients to this tool for it’s ease of use.

Since we get asked often about this online business, getting a website up, what to sell, what tools we need, etc. I will often refer people to XLsuite for great starting tool.

From our sister site, OMC Social Media Solutions, you can own site and see the template sites ready to go.

With this systems full tool-set behind the website, designed for online business management and marketing, building your online business has never been easier. More services under one roof at a fraction of the cost. Versatile too.

Go check them out now and sign up for their free trial. Post your questions if you have them. We’re also interested in seeing you succeed. For early-adopters, consider joining the Reseller Program with multiple avenues of generating revenue streams.

Coming from a good source, it is also understood that the Flickr integration may well incorporate a Good Life Vancouver Flickr group; an idea that is being tossed around.

You’ll also note the Podcast channel that is ready to go. This site being such a new launch, live less than a week actually, the podcast audio from the radio program is still on hold.

The other thing about this site, which didn’t exist a month ago, is that it is already yielding tremendous traffic results. Part radio-show and friends, and even still, more via social media sites.

OMC Social Media Solutions

* choosing a domain and a host

* structure and planning for the site

* the website as a business model, not a billboard

* recommendations for best services and applications online, as well as strategic use and best practices with these services and web applications

* guidance and recommendations on how to use social media, including Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, LinkedIn, and many more.

Many people venturing into the online world see the opportunities, and fail to realize them simply because they don’t know where to start. This series, how it is structured and presented, will take users through the basics, and moving beyond with the insight and knowledge to then be able to self-sustain.

Benefits include:

* Increased web-traffic by 300%

* Huge Time Savings with systematic processes

* Build friends and followers by the hundreds, then the thousands easily

Visit the Starting Online Internet Business Ideas post at OMC Social Media Solutions to sign-up for the announcement. A cool benefit is he is asking for you to include your questions too.

I phoned their toll free line 1-866-267-9825 and ended up speaking with Linda Baxley at extension 438. If you call, use her extension and tell her you found out about her from Lee Down. I can’t commend her enough for her superb manner, expertise, and service. You can also visit CopyTalk.com directly and sign-up.

Speaking with her I had my questions promptly answered, and she helped set me up right there on the spot. CopyTalk.com has trial offers and I was considering the “Buy 1 Month, Get the 2nd Month FREE” option. She gave me the afternoon to play with it since I was working on a book that afternoon.

Here’s How It Works

• Call the toll-free line for the subscription (not customer service) and enter your PIN
• Say “Subject: _______” and then start talking.
• At the 4-minute limit warning, quickly end speaking, follow the prompt to accept this recording.
• TRICK: each phone call is permitted FIVE four minute recordings, so stay on the line, speak the subject at the prompt again as you did previously.
• After the Five four minute recordings are captured, dial back and continue.
• Within 24 hours, you should receive your transcribed recordings via email.

Now that you’ve got this great content in your email, now you can cut/paste, organize it however you need it for web copy, for ebooks, brainstorming, and so forth.  This is a great time-saver, really well suited to auditory thinkers/doers and creative types.

Annoying 4 Minutes?

It seemed annoying to have to limit my time, though I do understand from a technical standpoint that setting a limit aids in the processing behind the scenes. Giving it a try, I found myself initially dialing back after each 4 minute recording until I clued in that I was being asked to continue after my first recording. This made a huge difference. That’s a lot of good content written in 20 minutes, but there’s a catch.

What’s the Catch?

I tend to speak, explain, teach, and sometimes even write in a conversational tone. Speaking is obviously worse than writing as I’m able to edit on the fly. So I learned quickly that if I want to maximize the return on this tools potential, I would have to ease up a bit. That was the problem: Trying to get it all said in four minutes.

Now that I’m signed up and no longer testing, slowing down the thoughts, the dialogue, and my emotional energy, I can focus more clearly upon each item I wish to capture and speak it out as though I’m reading a book. Slightly different voice, better use of words, appropriate grammar, etc.

Good News

With practice, the transcriptions received back via email the next day are often ready-to-go with very minor editing. Previously, I’d stitch together the copies, have to do major edits around my conversational style when I recorded the call, and I’d lose all interest in using the service. So the good news is with practice, and realizing there’s no limits which allows so much more time to relax and do this well, great content creation with minimal effort no matter where you are.

My Recommendation

I find it an incredibly useful tool. While the monthly fee seemed pricey, the lack of limits and the potential to get enormous value from that far outstrips their monthly rate of approximately $80.00/month. It’s cheaper than hiring a temp, and when you experience how much you can get out of it when you use it, you’ll see the incredible value it offers immediately.

Tweetlister.com is a fairly new online Twitter application service that allows Real Estate Professionals to add excellent details about their property listings for sale, and to auto-tweet these, save them, re-use them within your Tweetlister.com account.

Signing in to Tweetlister.com is easy using your Twitter account details — a necessity as it will Tweet listings on your behalf. The interface and data entry for this online application shouldn’t intimidate any seasoned real estate sales professional. The MLS tools and such used often have much more complexity of detail and such that I’ve heard many a complaint about.

Yes, Tweetlister.com is going to make a noticable difference in the lives of many real estate professionals.

If you’re wondering why there’s mention of Facebook and Friendfeed also, please visit OMCsocial and ask about how these can be streamlined to save you time.

With online user applications, the simple streamlined interface is a sought after commodity. People are more likely to use something that is easy to learn, and is useful or entertaining in their lives. For the most part, as we’ve developed web technology, the aim has been to simplify significantly for the easiest user experience. As web technology and services advance, however, so do the users and levels of users.

Is it an App or a Website?

As with most things, the UI is usually designed more like a website page than an app. When I think of apps, I think of efficient tools. I’m seeing  a lot of good things everywhere of course, but this one simple concept of managing database information quickly and efficiently gets swept into an idea born from the visual expectation of a web page. In other words, I’m saying give the ability to update records in bulk versus one at a time when creating these external toolsets. It’s the backend processing that would simply need adjusting to auto-schedule bulk updates into a stream, versus the abusive look of 20 tweets popping into a stream in the same minute.

What about abuse?

Feedback loops already in place help to weed out abusers and in social media, we need to self-police. That means we all are participating in this role of reporting the abusers. As with anything, there is a certain level of self-promotion that is a significant and important element of social media. We all want to be seen, heard, and to be known by others. In turn, we do the same as we are curious too of others.

Are there savings to be realized?

I can imagine, that were I presented with the full page of data as most apps currently serve the information, were I able to update each of the 10 to 20 records presented all at once before pressing the Submit, Send, or Save button, that there would be savings enjoyed.

Each button pressed on a web page sends information across the web. Each request returns new fresh results that are then updated on the web page. Pressing that button once to update the information presented, versus the 10 to 20 as I update each individually, and I would think that the load on the Internet Traffic would be reduced somewhat, as would the load on the server processing the requests.

I know without a doubt, that as the user experiencing this shift in updating information presented, that the savings in time would allow me to accomplish more, to engage more, and to create more.

On this main domain-level, you will find the little helpful tidbits that will keep you somewhat informed and educated. The big ticket items will be hosted separately in another training area for signed-up community members. I’ll have more on that for you later.

In the meantime, visit my friends at OMC Social Media Solutions for the current educational news items.