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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Passive Income You Can Implement Now
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 shoreline while the waves gently cover your feet. Or maybe it's more time with your … [Read More...]
Is Your Site Trustworthy?
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 does on-page SEO well also ranks well. They may have chosen keywords wisely and … [Read More...]
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Membership Site Models: 5 Profitable Models
Membership Site Models That Earn You Profit Today we’re going to look at the next component of starting a membership site: Models and Choices. This is where you’re going to take a look at your business goals and your topic in order to decide the … [Read More...]
Storytelling for Everyone…Tell Me a Story
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 and tend to hold my thoughts and feelings inside, … [Read More...]
Your Portable Empire Lifestyle Lives On
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 relationships online during the first couple of years … [Read More...]
Passive Income Streams You Can Set Up Now
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 established, but many are hesitant to take that next step. … [Read More...]
LinkedIn Courses – Show Your Expertise
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; from software development to digital illustration. … [Read More...]
Your Six Figure Membership Site
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 have each of these in order to succeed. These … [Read More...]
Traffic That Converts: Attracting More Prospects
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 referring to visitors who turn into cash-paying … [Read More...]
Formulating a Solid SEO Strategy
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 strategy that can boost your rankings and the traffic … [Read More...]
Becoming Minimalist
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 experience. But over this past year, a long and tedious one … [Read More...]
Morning Routine: Finding Time in Your Busy Morning
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. Finding time in your busy morning routine will make … [Read More...]
Back to the Future… Mindfully
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 that we have entered the second decade of the new … [Read More...]
Blogging with Consistency
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 excellent way for me to get my feet wet. The idea of … [Read More...]
Signing Prospects Up to Your List
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 see if I am compelled to join their list. Most of … [Read More...]
What is Passive Income?
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 have to be there and work every minute for the money … [Read More...]
Pareto Principle Explained
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 my own real estate business as a broker and … [Read More...]
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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...]
Using LinkedIn for Content Marketing LinkedIn is an excellent location to use for content marketing. Content marketing is an essential part of doing business today, whether you have an online or … [Read More...]
Back in the Days When I Had Only 50 on My List Once I began achieving some success as an online entrepreneur I vowed to never forget what it was like in the beginning. Most of my early prospects were … [Read More...]
Strategic Thinking Skills as a Tool for Entrepreneurial Success What comes to mind when you read or hear the term strategic thinking skills? You may know it's essential for your career and your … [Read More...]
Video Live Streaming - How to Run an Effective Video Call When Working Remotely...Even If You're an Introvert! If you’re working remotely, you almost certainly have to make video calls. Some remote … [Read More...]
Choosing a Profitable Niche Means Learning How to Gauge Profitability This is the second segment of a two part training I have written on the topic of choosing a profitable niche. Please read the … [Read More...]
Case Study: How I Wrote a Book in One Hour a Day (and teach others to do the same) There came a point in my business where writing and publishing a book was the logical next step. But I had no idea … [Read More...]
Why Writing Makes a Difference in Everything You Set Out to Accomplish: FAQs I am often asked why I consider writing to be the most important and valuable skill to cultivate and improve. Whether you … [Read More...]
Taking Full Responsibility For Your Life Empowers You Over the past decade I have begun taking responsibility. Not just for the more obvious things, like forgetting to return a phone call or email, … [Read More...]
Stop Talking and Start Listening for Awesome Results For many years I traveled to New York City twice a year to work with a corporate client. Each time I was able to see a Broadway show - seeing the … [Read More...]
Writing a Book to Build Your Marketing Chops Are you writing a book? Excellent! Now it's time to think of this as "writing a book to build your marketing chops." Writing a good book is step one. … [Read More...]
Create a Simple Product to Grow Your Business as an Online Entrepreneur The idea of learning how to create a simple product to build your business on the internet is not a new one. In fact, … [Read More...]
Embracing Minimalism - Six Benefits in Your Business and Life In today's culture, we are constantly fed the message that we need more in order to live a good life. More electronics, bigger homes, … [Read More...]
Developing an Abundance Mindset Makes Sense Mindset is an incredibly powerful tool. It is the driving force behind the actions and behaviors which will set us up for success or keep us fearful and … [Read More...]
Follow my blog with Bloglovin LinkedIn Live is the newest kid on the block when it comes to live streaming and broadcasts. I even teach a course on video live streaming, geared toward authors, … [Read More...]
Double Your Productivity with a Few Changes The concept of being able to double your productivity conjures up visions of someone who goes from walking to running marathons or a business going from … [Read More...]
Public Speaking: Fear Can Make Your Presentation Less Impactful Than it Could Be When it comes to public speaking fear can and will get in the way of your delivering the most impactful presentation … [Read More...]
Finding Your Purpose as an Entrepreneur is Life-Changing Let’s talk about purpose and why it’s so important to have one (or several) to live a happy and fulfilled life. As human beings we need to … [Read More...]
Journaling for Productivity on Your Way to Massive Action Success When I began writing with the intent to be successful as an online entrepreneur I soon realized that journaling regularly would be … [Read More...]
Writing Content with SEO Makes Sense Let's focus more on creating and writing content with SEO in mind for your audience. Again, the content that you put on your website is one of the most important … [Read More...]
Unlock Your Hidden Creative Genius - Writing a Book is the Most Interesting and Lucrative Way I had been yearning to write a book for many years, but I honestly believed it required a level of … [Read More...]
The 2020 Productivity Challenge is Complete! The more things change in my online business as an author and entrepreneur, the more they stay the same. It was on a warm spring evening in 2010 that I … [Read More...]
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People I'd like to discuss how to create and set up highly effective habits. The book that comes to mind and that I highly recommend and will be taking from and then … [Read More...]