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On-line Makeover

Get Yourself an On-Line Makeover

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Workshop Given by Judi Knight and Dene Shepherd of New Tricks to Georgia Coaches Round Table Workshop November 14, 2009

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On-line Makeover

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Know Your Avatar

Who are you?Who are your clients?

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Your Brand: Meet Annie

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From International Coach Federation

Alternative Healthcare ProviderHospital AdministratorBusiness OwnerNon-Profit Experience

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Your Brand: Meet Annie

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Healthcare Provider?Hospital Administrator?Business Owner?Non-Profit Experience?

Purple & Orange? Water Lilly? Candles?Hmmmmm......

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Your Brand: Which Annie???

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Healthcare ProviderHospital AdministratorBusiness OwnerNon-Profit Experience

Purple & Orange? Water Lilly? Candles?Hmmmmm......

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Your Brand: Which Annie???

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Your Brand: Laurie

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Is Laurie an acting or dating coach?

No she is an executive coach!

Not a good photo for her clientele.

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Your Profile + Your Ideal Client Profile +Your Design = Your Brand

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• Determine your brand.• Get good photos.• Create a consistent on-line presence.• Print our a copy of your website, your on-line

profiles, Linked-In, Facebook etc.• Examine them and seek honest feedback from

friends and mentors.

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Today’s Market is Tough

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Why not have the best web presence?

•But I don’t know how!•It’s the best I can do.•I found a free template.•I am not technical.•It will be expensive.

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You are in Luck!

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Out with the Old Brochure Style Site• Must mock up completely before beginning to code in html and css.• Once coded they hard to change the style. • The content remains, once someone visits they don’t come back.• And search engines do not come back either.• There are templates out there easy to set up – They look like it.• Even web designers don’t go back to their static sites to update.

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In with the New……

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We WordPress! Content Management Style Websites• Easy to implement. • Easy to maintain.• Dynamic and tied into social media.• Search engines love them.

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Even dogs have blogs and great SEO!

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Static Brochure Style Websites

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Header

Text goes here

More Text goes here

Footer

Themes

Categorized for the ArchiveNo Data-base

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Static Brochure Websites

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Header

Text goes here

More Text goes here

Footer

NO ARCHIVE

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Content Management WordPress Site

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Header

Text goes here

More Text goes here

Footer

Themes

Categorized for the ArchiveData-base

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Content Management Websites

Typical “Blog”Format. Doesn’t have to “look” like a blog.

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Header

Sidebar

Most Recent Post

Second Most Recent Post

Third Most Recent Post

Footer

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Content Management WordPress Websites

They can look liketraditional brochure stylestatic sites but with behind the Scenes databasecapability.

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Content Management WordPress Websites

CMS sitescan have blog front pages and also dynamic sidebar info.

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Good Branding and Design For Entrepreneur Networking Coach

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Nice Professional look.Consistent to client profile.Good clear content.Doesn’t say what she does.Static brochure site.Articles are only pdf file links.Search engine not so good.Can’t update it herself.

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Get Yourself a Blog/Website

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•Static front page & sidebarsarticles are now in database and can be added to. •Search Engine will be good•Margo can update it herself.

•She can post her articles to Facebook, Linked-In, Twitterwith one click.

•Since she had good graphics and content and design, it took less than two hours to port her site over to the WordPress format!

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Getting Your Social Groove On

Publish

Worthy Content Post regularly Don’t give up

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What we do:More than just web designers.Business Internet Marketing Coaches.Branding and Logo Development.Graphics and Web Design.Marketing Consulting.Newsletters.Set it up and teach you how.

For examples see: www.newtricks.me www.wordpress.org/showcase