Elk River Online Business Mastermind Group

What is all this SEO (Search Engine Optimization) about and how can I do it for my website?

How do I pick keywords for my website that people are searching for?

How can I get more visitors to my website?

What tool can I use that will quickly drive traffic to my website?

This month I want to share with you some tips and ideas that can help answer these questions and others related to how important it is to identify what people are searching for on the Internet and how to make your website stand out in front of them for those search terms.

I will also be showing you how to properly link up keywords on your website pages and blog posts so that your pages get found and indexed by the search engines like Google.

Come on out this Wednesday evening February 10th and join us for a  hot cup of coffee or any other favorite drink.

The monthly Elk River Online Business Mastermind Group meets from 7:00 – 9:00pm at the Caribou Coffee shop next to Office Max in Elk River off Hwy. 169… just down the road from Cub Foods.

Bring a friend or business partner along. Forward the link to this page to them.

Be sure to leave a comment below about coming to the meeting.

The first Elk River Online Business Mastermind Meeting of 2010 will be on Wednesday night January 13th starting at 7:00pm.

I have some cool new stuff to show you about using Social Media Marketing tools like videos and Google Voice. Watch as we make an Amimoto video like the one below.

Be ready to give me a video testimonial for my new Mission Springs WordPress Web Hosting site.

Bring your questions about Facebook, Twitter, Yourtube videos and all so that we can all share about our experiences good or bad with using Social Marketing tools.

We meet from 7:00 – 9:00pm at the Caribou Coffee shop next to Office Max in Elk River off Hwy. 169… just down the road from Cub Foods.

Bring a friend or business partner along. Forward the link to this page to them.

Be sure to leave a comment below about coming to the meeting.

Do you have an existing website that could benefit from having pre-recorded or live video on it?

Are you wondering about how Social Media Tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube might be used to help increase traffic to your website in 2010?

Do you like to write about your business or hobbies and think that maybe setting up a Blog would be a good place to put your writing skills into good use on?

These are just a few of the many topics that I will cover in my new weekly live streaming video training that I will present FREE here at the Elk River Online Business Mastermind Group website. Watch for more information on the starting date and times for these live Internet broadcasts.

You may have watched my Live Streaming Video from the new NorthStar Commuter Rail Train in November. I will be using the same technology but unlike that video, which was streamed via my Blackberry cell phone at less than half the normal video frame rate, I will be broadcasting from my office over my Charter Broadband connection so it will be a much higher quality video feed.

Let me know if you have a topic that you want covered during one of my broadcasts. You can leave a comment below.

If the snow lets up and the roads get cleared off on Wednesday afternoon I hope you can join me for this month’s Elk River Online Business Mastermind Group meeting. People have been asking me lots of questions about how to setup new websites or, how to get a “website makeover” for an existing website that is not doing much in the way of helping to get business and sales.

This month I will be talking about using WordPress and all the great tools that go with it to build business websites. I will also be showing off my new WordPress Hosting Website.

I hope the weather cooperates and we can all get together on Wednesday, December 9th.

We meet from 7:00 – 9:00pm at the Caribou Coffee shop next to Office Max in Elk River off Hwy. 169… just down the road from Cub Foods.

Bring a friend or business partner along. Forward the link to this page to them.

Watch my LiveStream.com streaming video channel for a demonstration of how to use remote live streaming video over the Internet. On November 14th my wife and I attended the Grand Opening of the new Northstar Commuter Rail from Elk River Station to the new Target Field Station in Minneapolis. This is a recording of the trip from that day.

If you are interested in learning how to add pre-recorded or live video to your website, please contact me.

This coming Saturday, November 14th will be the Grand Opening of the new Northstar Commuter Rail system in Minnesota. Elk River is one of the locations with a station for the new commuter train which begins full service from Big Lake, MN to Minneapolis, MN on Monday, November 16th.

Our family has received free tickets to the Grand Opening Event on Saturday to ride the Northstar Commuter Rail train from the Elk River Station to the Target Field Station in Minneapolis and visit the new Target Field Twins stadium ballpark.

I plan to try out the WiFi system on the Northstar train and, if all goes well, provide Live Streaming interviews with a few of the passengers and perhaps some folks that will be riding the Northstar train each day to work. You will be able to view the video on the Home Page of my Elk River Mastermind website… if it all works.

Although I will not need the daily commuter service provided by the Northstar train, as I have my office in my home, I do look forward to taking occasional trips into Minneapolis on weekend outings with our family using the Northstar train. I might also use the Northstar and the connecting Hiawatha Line Light-Rail service to travel to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. I used this service about a year ago riding the Northstar bus from Elk River into Minneapolis and then taking the light-rail to the airport. That worked pretty slick and the cost was less than driving and parking there.

I hope you will take time to visit my website this Saturday from about 11:30am to about 3:00pm to checkout my live video stream.

Opps, almost didn’t get this up here for a notice for tonight’s meeting. Actually, I did already do this last week but you don’t see it now as I moved my whole website from my old hosting account to my new one at HostGator.com. I posted the new meeting notice after I already backup the files for the move and didn’t remember to not add anything until the move was done. I know… I should know better than that. LOL

So tonight I want to share with you ways to make yourself and your business Famous with Video. Below are the links to the websites that I will be sharing and doing my show-n-tell on. I hope the WiFi at Caribou Coffee is working nice tonight so we can see how the video works here.

LiveStream.com

UStream.tv

Palm Springs Studios

We meet from 7:00 – 9:00pm tonight at the Caribou Coffee shop next to Office Max in Elk River off Hwy. 169… just down the road from Cub Foods.

Bring a friend or business partner along. Forward the link to this page to them.

Here it is October 8th already and the holiday season is fast approaching. For individuals and businesses it means it is time to start thinking about sending out greeting cards to stay connected with family, friends and business associates.

The best way that I have found to stay connected and, save time with the job of writing and mailing cards is with Send Out Cards.

Send Out Cards is an online website that you use to select a card, add your short personal message and then push a button to print and mail the card out for you… a Real greeting card that people will get usually within 1-3 days in their USPS mail box.

I have been using Send Out Cards for over two years. This is a great system for businesses and for personal usage. I want you to try Send Out Cards for yourself so I have setup a special link for you to get a Free Gift Account so you can send a couple cards to try this great system for yourself at my expense.

Just click HERE to access your Free Gift Account and give Send Out Cards a try today before the Holiday Rush is upon you.

The Northstar Commuter Rail Project and Metro Transit have launched a Web page that allows members of the public to enter a drawing for free train rides during Northstar Commuter Rail grand opening events on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009.

Enter the drawing at this website: www.metrotransit.org/Northstar/tickets.asp or by leaving a voice mail message at 612.349.7479. More than 350 tickets will be awarded to Elk River station. A limited number of additional tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis on Nov. 14 during the grand opening event. Space on the grand opening trains is limited and tickets are required to ride.