Tech Tools for Creating Information Sites (from Eben Pagan)

by Lindsey on June 11, 2010

Last night, two of Eben’s staff presented an outline of the 12 classes to be presented on the topic of Tech Tools.  They include such things as setting up your blog (which I already know), doing an online survey (which I have done but not too effectively), creating a website (which I have done many times), making a downloadable eBook (zowie), putting stats and analytics on your site, creating a membership site (another zowie), setting up a mailing list and autoresponder, setting up a landing page, hosting a live webinar online (woot!), setting up a social media presence (I’ve sorta done that with facebook.com/exploringnewmedia and twitter.com/xplorenewmedia), creating a shopping cart and affiliate program, and using press releases to reach new customers.

Wow, so much to absorb over the next 12 weeks.  Wish I could just slurp it all up right now. Mmmmmm. Tasty.

Now back to my WoW research on Jewelcrafting. More mmmmmm.

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Creating and Marketing Information Products (helped by Eben Pagan)

by Lindsey on June 9, 2010

Just signed up and started the Guru Blueprint program with Eben Pagan. This course will teach me how to create and market information products.

Since I don’t have a real product at the moment, I decided to go where my passion is and work on a World of Warcraft (WoW) concept. I will create an information product that shows how WoW players can very quickly learn a profession that will help them make WoW gold. My first blog about this concept may be viewed at my WoW website

, wowboomers.com

The course is presented over 3 months with two webinars a week – one for the blueprint and one for tech tools.

Last night was the first blueprint meeting and for the first time in many moons, I felt excited about learning again. Eben is a masterful presenter and appears to be quite successful in practicing what he preaches.

Although this is an affiliate program, I will not publish affiliate links ’cause I don’t yet know how effective it will be FOR ME. And that’s what counts – how good is it for me.

So to you, patient reader: Stay tuned. Ask questions.

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Is Tai Chi New Media? If not, why am I exploring it? (Thoughts of an aging dragon)

May 26, 2010

Exploring things is fun. Two days ago, I was in a meetup with friends Wayne Key, Katie Raver, and new friend Mary Charron. We were discussing ways of improving our respective meetups. Wayne does a thing on 7 habits, Katie is a meetup organizer expert, Mary makes her own wine with someone else’s grapes, and [...]

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Write, Blog, Podcast About What You Know and Love

May 18, 2010

What do THEY say about things? THEY say “write about what you know or love”.  What I really know and love these days are Wordpress, blogs, podcasting, meetups, and the World of Warcraft (WoW). What I need to do is determine how to tie them together in such a manner as to interest you folks [...]

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The Many Faces of WordPress

April 30, 2010

During the years, I’ve conducted many SIGs (Special Interest Groups). Today, we seem to be calling them ‘meetups’.
One thing all them had in common (aside from me) is that attendees with a wide range of experience and knowledge about the meeting topic made it difficult to present information that would keep all of them interested [...]

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iPads. Ready for Prime Time? A Social Media Examination Event

April 26, 2010

I attended the Social Media Breakfast in Austin, Texas on April 26th, 2010 where the topic centered around the newly released Apple iPad. The meetup, hosted by Bryan Person was at Mandola’s Restuarant at 4700 Guadalupe with a beginning social period followed by a discussion led by Jon Lebkowsky.

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So You Want to Learn WordPress?

April 19, 2010

So you want to learn Wordpress?
It is as easy to do as learning to ride a bike or drive a car or cook breakfast or… well, you get the idea. Probably none of the tasks just mentioned were initially that easy to do but after lots of practice and a few bruises, burns, cuts, and [...]

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Tribes? Mastermind Groups? Meetups?

April 14, 2010

Back in the day, we called a group of people meeting to discuss a common topic Special Interest Groups (SIGs).  At least when I was president of the local PC User Group, that’s what we called them.
Of course, that was before the advent of the Internet and multitudinous marketing and get-rich-quick schemes.  Things were simpler [...]

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Today’s Topic? Podcasting

March 12, 2010

I’m really getting into creating podcasts. I recently assumed leadership of the Austin Podcasters meetup and presented an demonstration of how to use Audacity, an open source multitrack audio editor/recorder to that group. Joining me was John Mayo, a veteran podcaster with  over 370 episodes of his podcast, ComicBookPage.

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Create a Web Presence with blogs, podcasts, and social media

March 2, 2010

Many of us would like to create a website with good content, a faithful following, and who knows, maybe make some money. Yet in the face of millions of blogs, how can we ever hope to attract and keep loyal listeners?

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