A Wealth Creation Dream Come True

This week a long time wealth creation dream of mine came true….but before I tell you about that, I’ll tell you about my mad exciting week first!

Last Tuesday it was my boy Nelson’s 12th birthday so he, Phoebe and I went to Brighton to their favourite restaurant, Yo! Sushi, where they got through frightening amounts of….you guessed it, sushi, then we all went to see “Fame – The Movie”

This was great not only because I love all that singing and dancing “luvvie” stuff, but because the graduation ceremony gave me the best quotes on success I’ve come across for a while, but how to get hold of it?

I scoured YouTube but the film is too new for it to be up there yet, so I sent out a few tweets and an email to our Money Gym Google groups. It took a couple of days but Carrie Eddins emailed the speech back for me to use in my presentation on success on the “Really Useful Internet Day”

When I thanked her, thinking she must have had it downloaded or something, she said”I walked past the cinema, and thought..if  it ’s screened when I walk past then I will watch it again.. and it was. I watched it missed a bit and then it was immediately screened again!! It was fun in the end!!”

Wow, thanks again Carrie, that’s helpfulness above and beyond the call of duty!  Our google group and the people in it, is amazing.  Just think, if that’s the Silver level group support, imagine what the Money Gym Boardroom google group will be able to do for YOUR business!
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SEO For Beginners

You remember I talked about Raphael, my new taxi-service buddy from St Kitts, BVI?  I wrote about him on the blog recently and how well he looked after us….and just yesterday there was a comment on the blog from someone who wanted to book a taxi tour for six, on St Kitts in March.

Just think about that for a moment.

That’s pretty amazing isn’t it?  Some woman writes on her WEALTH CREATION blog about Empress Coaches, on St Kitts, over the other side of the world and within a week or so, he’s got a booking enquriry out of it.

How did that happen?  Because the search engines love blogs, especially Wordpress blogs.  They love the way they are set up apparently.  I also included

I just went to Google and put in “taxi service st kitts” and lo and behold, my blog post is No #5 on the organic search results.  If you put in just “taxi st kitts” it comes up No #8.  That’s amazing.  This is how it looks…

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Our New Friend Raphael Originally uploaded by TheMoneyGym We wandered out of the port, looking for the train station, for a tour of the island only to.
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So you can see that having the key words Taxi Service St Kitts in the title of the post, and the metatags, without it even being in the first line of the blog posting…hey!  I can improve the results even further by editing the first line of the description!  In the words of Gordon Ramsey……DONE!

And Raphael doesn’t even have a website yet!  Just think, if he had a website with the key phrase in the title, the meta-description and the meta-tags…….wow!

The other interesting thing is that there are NO Google Adwords ads when you put that search term in Google.  If Raphael boned up on how to do Google Adwords, he could be the ONLY ad over on the right hand side.  And if he used the little known but totally legit trick of making sure his ad was shown, no matter WHAT key phrase the searcher typed in, he’d be there every single time.

Do you think that would help him grow from two Empress Coaches empire to three, then four….now I know there is probably not much competition for the key phrase “taxi st kitts”…actually there are 337,000 pages returned when you type that in, and most of them are not about St Kitts.

However, when you use a simple tool I know about, to search how many of them have the phrase “taxi st kitts” in the title of the page, you find only 114 pages competing with my blog post.  Or Raphael’s website, if he ever makes one.

What has all this to do with your business?

Just think for a second what your idea customer might be searching for on Google.  They usually have a problem, in which case they put in the solution they are looking for (if they know what it is) or they actually type the problem in.

So, for the Money Gym, the problems could be “how do I make more money” or “how can I pay off my mortgage” or “how can I get out of debt”.  Key phrases there are “make more money”, “my mortgage” or “get out of debt”.

There are 16,900,000 pages competing with you on the key phrase “pay off debt”.  But only 9,740 pages competing with you that have the key phrase in the title of the page or the URL itself.

That levels the playing field a bit doesn’t it?  Do you see how easy it might be to dominate the search engine results by blogging on topic and just paying attention to a few simple rules?

Front page of Google anyone?

Would it interest you to know that the majority of the new visitor traffic to our site comes from Twitter, Facebook and Ecademy?  So much for those who “don’t get” Twitter!

If you find this intriguing, and want to get more traffic to your business website, I’m going to be hosting a free 2-hour webinar this Wednesday 11th February from 6pm-8pm GMT.  This will be a visual presentation as well as audio, with a good amount of time allocated for questions and answers about your business.

I’ll be covering some totally simple traffic generation techniques, dead easy search engine optimisation, and the benefits of building a community around your business, in the form of social networking and a membership site for your visitors and customers, and you really need to be there.

It will be recorded so if you miss it, and you have registered, I’ll send you a link to the recording, so you can listen afterwards.  Line spaces ARE limited so don’t miss out and secure your seat now.

Just book yourself onto the webinar here>>>

There is no charge, but you will have to go through the shopping cart process (no credit card details needed though).  Then you will recieve an email that will tell you how to register for the webinar and get all the details to watch live, or view the recording later.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Need A Taxi Service On St Kitts BVI?

If you need a taxi service on the island of St Kitts, BVI, you need to tour with Raphael of Empress Coaches.  We discovered Raphael…or did he discover us? on our recent cruise of the Eastern Caribbean.  You know I love a nice entrepreneurial story…

We wandered out of the port, looking for the train station, for a tour of the island only to be told that the station was miles away. At that moment a large shiny taxi pulled up and offered us a lift. Inside was our angel Raphael, who promptly took us to the station, only to find the one train has already gone. “Cost you $100 apeice anyway” he said “I’ll do a tour of the island for much, much less and drop you at Monkey Beach too”. So off we went…

In the picture you can see Nelson Soremekun, Spencer “Spud” Cairncross-Wood and Raphael E. Liburd, of Empress Coaches & Taxis, St Kitts, BVI. Fully air conditioned tours of St Kitts! He also really knows his history of the island and shared that with humour and style.

He used to drive buses in Hackney, London for 20 years. Looked after us brilliantly and I highly recommend him for fun, economy and excellent service.