Subscribe To My New Podcast - Praestabilis: Excellence in Marketing My name is Connie Ragen Green and I teach people just like you how to build a profitable online business and use the basic technology needed to get started in this fun and lucrative field. The first year (2006) was difficult for me online, and I ended up spending about 10K and making almost no money. I vowed that my students would not have to struggle like I did. I have now been making my full-time income online since 2006, … [Read More...]
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To-Do Lists vs. Schedules
Why Your To-Do Lists Are Failing You... ... Spoiler Alert: Become a Schedule Builder Instead! Think about how you approach productivity and time management. Are you to "to-do" lists maker or a schedule builder? Did you make a to-do list for the day? If so, how far have you … [Read More...]
Membership Profitability
Membership Profitability Requires the Profit Trifecta 3 Keys To Maximizing Membership Profitability So, imagine this… Your site is up and running. (Yay!) You’ve got a set of initial members. (Woot!) You’re making some money. (Hooray!). This worked out exactly like you hoped … [Read More...]
Earning Online
Can Anyone Become a Leader?
Can Anyone Become a Leader? The Short Answer is YES! Most of us do not recognize our potential for leadership. But when you ask yourself this question and take a closer look at who you are as a human being, you'll see that this question ... Can … [Read More...]
Creating Cornerstone Content
7 Steps To Creating Cornerstone Content that Google Loves Cornerstone content is the best, most important article(s) on your website. These are the posts you make to rank high in the search engines and look like the authority you are. Your goal when … [Read More...]
Branding Your Product for Market Saturation
Branding Your Product for Market Saturation - Why Product Launches Really Start Weeks Ahead of Time! In order for your information product, online course, or eBook to be successful, you have to get the word out that your product is for sale - and … [Read More...]
How to Manage Your Membership Site
How To Manage Your Membership Site Processes Every Month I’ll now discuss the next component you need to snap into place to run and manage your membership site, which is your Monthly Calendar. Here we’ll talk about the three things you need to do … [Read More...]
Recession Proof Your Business
Why You Want to Recession Proof Your Business for Ongoing Income and Security I have found that by creating multiple revenue streams you are able to recession proof your business. This is by far one of the most effective ways to ensure a steady cash … [Read More...]
Build a Community of Raving Fans with Blogging
Build a Community of Raving Fans with Blogging Writing a good blog post and delivering a fantastic freebie is a wonderful start to your list building efforts. But there’s something else you can do to ensure they stick around. Turn your blog home … [Read More...]
Shopping Cart Strategies
How’s the Money Going to Change Hands? Shopping Cart Strategies for New and Seasoned Marketers Alike Once your site is designed and hosted on a server, you want to have a way for your customers to pay you for your products, courses, and other … [Read More...]
Giving Away Products: A Case Study
Giving Away Products Makes Excellence Sense One marketer I've known since coming online in 2006 recently brought in $145,000 in revenue and grew his list of customers and subscribers to over 20,000 (and counting), using this method. Giving away … [Read More...]
Getting to Seven… Figures
Getting to Seven Figures is a Goal Worth Achieving For several years now, I've run a small Mastermind and Mentoring program for people earning at least a quarter of a million dollars each year. Yes, they must prove this by submitting some financials … [Read More...]
Information Products: How to Compile Your Content
Information Products: How to Compile Your Content for Easy Consumer Digestion When it comes to info product creation, there are basically three ways to do it. Since the choice is ultimately yours, I’m going to tell you about all three of them, not … [Read More...]
Identify the Root Cause of Your Fears
Fear: How to Identify the Root Cause of Your Fears The best way to completely eliminate the fears that hold you back from taking action towards your goals is to identify the root cause of them. Once you have identified your fear's true cause, you … [Read More...]
Jump Start Your Online Marketing… Write a Book
Jump Start Your Online Marketing by Writing and Publishing a Book There's a reason I continue to write and publish at least one book each year: This strategy continues to grow my business. You too can write a book to jump start your online … [Read More...]
On-Site SEO: Ways to Boost Web Authority
On-Site SEO: Ways To Boost Your Web Authority Creating a website that is authoritative, relevant, and has amazing content is the first steps to boosting your web authority. Let’s look more deeply into this process of on-site SEO (search engine … [Read More...]
Niche Marketing: Why One Niche Outsells Another
Tapping Into the Needs of an Online Consumer with Niche Marketing: Why One Niche Outsells Another Launching your own eBook and information product empire makes sense on many levels. Niche marketing is the secret sauce of success. Almost every … [Read More...]
Traffic to Your Sites, Blog, and Landing Pages
Why You Can’t Ignore Getting Traffic: Driving Targeted Traffic to Your Sites, Blog, and Landing Pages The one thing about online marketing that you cannot ignore is getting traffic to your sites, blog, or landing pages. After all, your website … [Read More...]
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Making Your First Income Online is Easier Than You Think So, you want to be an online entrepreneur. Good for you! Making your first income online is easier than you might think. I invite you to … [Read More...]
Places Where You Need a Strong CTA (Call to Action) First of all, let's review the concept of a "call to action." The abbreviation for this is CTA and it's a marketing term. This describes the … [Read More...]
Low Cost or No Cost Ways to Earn Online... Your Guide to Entrepreneurial Success! It's time for you to live your dream lifestyle and this begins by earning more income than you ever could have … [Read More...]
Building a Brand and People Will Love What You Have to Offer Branding. You know the word and may even understand its importance, but are you building a brand so people will love what you have to … [Read More...]
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur Requires a Reframe of Past Beliefs Entrepreneurs think differently from everyone else. Maybe you’ve noticed this in your interactions with people from all walks of … [Read More...]
Passive Income You Can Implement Now is Worth Your Time and Effort When you think about passive income, what comes to mind? Perhaps it conjures up images of a sandy beach and walking along the … [Read More...]
Is Your Site Trustworthy? Simple Ways To Boost The Trust Factor That’s Becoming More And More Important For Ranking If you did an audit of various websites, you’d quickly see that not every page that … [Read More...]
Membership Site Models That Earn You Profit Today we’re going to look another component of starting a membership site: Models and Choices. This is where you’re going to take a look at your business … [Read More...]
Storytelling for Everyone: Tell Me a Story and Make It Thought Provoking I can remember being with groups of people in various situations over the years and not knowing what to say. I'm an introvert … [Read More...]
Your Portable Empire Lifestyle: How to Make This Your Reality Recently, during a call with someone I've mentored for the past couple of years, I was recounting the story of how I began building … [Read More...]
Passive Income Streams: Create Them Now and Watch What Happens Building streams of passive income is the natural next step for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs even before they get … [Read More...]
LinkedIn Courses: Show Your Expertise By Creating a Course Back in 2015, LinkedIn bought out Lynda.com, an online learning platform founded by Lynda Weinman where anyone can learn almost anything; … [Read More...]
Your Six Figure Membership Site is Closer Than You Can Imagine I'm going to start out by walking you through the five essential components of a membership site. Your six figure membership site must … [Read More...]
Traffic That Converts is Worth Going After What you’re about to discover within this post is how to start turning more of your existing traffic into visitors who take action. Generally, we’ll be … [Read More...]
Formulating A Solid SEO Strategy For Your Site And Your Business In previous blog posts I’ve shared quite a bit of information with you about putting it all together and formulating a solid SEO … [Read More...]
Becoming Minimalist is a Choice At some point in my life I realized I had become a minimalist. I preferred to have less "stuff" and more people, places, and experiences as a part of my life … [Read More...]
Finding Time In Your Busy Morning Routine Mornings are busy and they can be quiet chaotic. If you have a young family and plenty of people to get ready and out the door, you know this first hand. … [Read More...]
Why I'm Ready to Go Back to the Future...Mindfully For over a decade now I have chosen a word or phrase as my theme of the year. For the year 2021 my theme is "Back to the Future...Mindfully." Now … [Read More...]
Blogging with Consistency: Focus on Quality and Consistency My journey as an online entrepreneur began in 2005 with a simple blog. It was built on a free platform hosted by Google and was an … [Read More...]
Signing Prospects Up to Your List is an Art Form Worth Perfecting I have become an observer of human behavior, namely my own. When I visit someone's blog or website for the first time I wait to … [Read More...]
What Is Passive Income and How Do You Do It? Setting up a viable passive income stream is the dream of many small business owners and freelance service providers. This is a system where you don't … [Read More...]
Using the Pareto Principle to Achieve Anything More Quickly When I came online as an entrepreneur in 2006 I was entering a whole new world. Having worked previously as a classroom teacher and running … [Read More...]
5 Ways Writing a Book Can Grow Your Business Like millions of people around the world, I was someone who dreamed of being a published author. It wasn't until I started my online business and began a … [Read More...]
The Essential Tools You Need for Working Remotely Remote working has become a regular part of life for many of us, especially if you run your own business. There are many things to learn and get used … [Read More...]
List Building With a Blog Blogging was a relatively new phenomena when I came online in 2006. I had used one in my classroom to teach and encourage interaction with my science students but I never … [Read More...]
Thinking About Reinvention, Pivoting, or Starting Over? I don't write about the state of the world very often, but I think about it every day. Our world has turned upside during 2020 due to the … [Read More...]