I’m so excited to share this with you!

You’ve got to see the Virtual Birthday Gift Bag that is available through the International Association of Women in Business Online (IAWBO)

More than 30 successful women have contributed their wisdom to this complimentary gift bag devoted to supporting – and accelerating – the success of women in business online like you.

And it’s SO much more than your average “give-away”…

Each item in the gift bag is an EXCLUSIVE resource not available for-free anywhere else and also includes access to a special interview series that will unfold on IAWBO’s blog… the How Does She Do It? 2.0 series. You’ve watched and you’ve wondered. Now you can KNOW what these women do to achieve MEGA success.

And, you’ll really appreciate this too…

You’ll get immediate access to all 30 gifts with just ONE opt-in! (You do not have to subscribe to any other list – unless you want to).

Hurry — the virtual gift bag is valued over $1000 and is only available for a short time. You can see ALL the fantastic gifts included inside at http://www.iawbo.com/giftbag

Once you register for your gift bag PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to the thank you page where you’ll discover a MEGA secret . You’ve really got to see it to believe it! http://www.iawbo.com/giftbag

These awesome training packages from VA Classroom are coming to an end on September 6th.  These are their most popular training programs and you can take advantage of great pricing on these packages.

I have taken several courses from VA Classroom and I really feel that they are top notch for VA Training.  Sure, there are others VA Trainers out there but the prices for the courses at VA Classroom are affordable, and they normally offer a payment plan option.  The courses are jam packed with great examples, worksheets and resource guides and of course the training itself is supreme.  The training don’t leave you wanting more because every base is covered.  They also offer great bonus items with each course.

Check out these training specials, special pricing ends on September 6th.

• Training Package#1 is The Internet Marketing Specialist and Social Marketing Specialist 2010 Training Certifications. With this training package you can receive the most current and in-demand skills business entrepreneurs are seeking here in 2010!  If you enroll today you will receive VAClassroom’s Two Most Popular Training Programs and receive a $200 Discount!

• Training Package #2 is The Social Marketing Specialist 2010 Training Program AND the Fantastic Facebook Pages Mini-Course Get certified as a Social Marketing Specialist and develop current and cutting edge Facebook Page design and marketing skills that will be sure to WOW your clients!  If you enroll today you will receive receive a $100 Discount!

• Training Package #3 is The Virtual Events Specialist Certification AND the Camtasia Skill Training Mini-Course. Become a certified Virtual Events Specialist and master your Camtasia Video Editing and Production Skills in one of the fast growing virtual events industry!  If you enroll today you will receive receive a $150 Discount!

You can click here to read more about each package and to enroll.

Have you seen the prices on some of these copywriting courses lately? $600, $800, $1,500! Whether you’re an aspiring copywriter, a new freelancer looking to improve your skills or a website owner/manager who writes your own online copy, that’s a lot of money to spend.

Why spend over $1,000 when you can learn online copywriting free?

You can lay a firm foundation for online copywriting simply by attending this free, 10-day event. It runs September 1 – 10, 2010 and is produced by Chris Cobb and Karon Thackston. They decided to broadcast each session free for 24 hours so as many people as possible could hear this vital information.

Enroll here for your FREE pass.

That’s almost $300 worth of expert teaching for absolutely nothing. No strings attached.

Are the sessions taught by nobodies? Absolutely not! Here’s the lineup of speakers. I’m sure you’ll recognize more than a few of these names.

* Kevin Hogan on the Science of Persuasion
* Michel Fortin on Sales Letters 2.0
* Lynn Terry on Blogging
* Jeff Herring on Article Writing
* Shannon Cherry on Press Release Writing
* Brian Massey on Landing Page Creation

and

* Karon Thackston on Knowing Your Target Audience, Basics of Online Copywriting, Headline Creation and SEO Copywriting

Get all the details and the complete schedule when you click over to Online Copywriting 101 now You’ll also get your free pass to this world-class beginner’s copywriting event so you can attend at no cost to you.

Here’s to your success!

View this video for more information about how to get your free pass to Online Copywriting 101

Enroll here for your FREE pass.

No, it’s not magic. It’s the Virtual Business Startup System (VBSS) written by Tawnya Sutherland, a virtual professional and Certified Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about starting a thriving Virtual Assistant business. This system contains the training procedures you’ve been looking for. All of the answers to your burning questions can REALLY be found here.

So, what’s in Tawnya’s bag of tricks? It’s the total package! You get a step-by-step workbook, 2 instructional VA books, and tons of business templates on CDrom. Everything you need to get your business up and running in just 30 days! Hands down it’s the most comprehensive action plan for aspiring virtual assistants. Download this 48-page sample

Even though the VBSS – Virtual Business Startup System alone is valued at well over $500, it’s being offered combined with more than $1000 worth of bonuses (a total of over $1500 in products). It’s a bursting boxed system of goodies at only $997 (plus shipping and handling).

Don’t let this opportunity disappear without knowing that there is a 100% satisfaction guarantee! Try it for 45 days and if you aren’t convinced simply return it. Tawnya is THAT sure that this contains the answers you’ve been searching for.

If you order NOW, for a limited time only, included in your VBSS package will be a 35-page completed business plan and two years of financial in MS Word/Excel from Tawnya Sutherland’s own successful Virtual Assistant business, Mediamage Business Solutions.

Wait, there’s more! You will get 10 Virtual Assistant website templates, optimized for high rankings in the search engine, with source files (Photoshop and Dreamweaver), to choose from. Now, there’s no reason preventing you from having website and establishing your web presence.

And another added bonus – always saving the best for last! You will get a personalized private VA Coaching Session with Tawnya Sutherland. Grow with Tawnya who has worked directly with virtual assistants to improve the performance of their marketing and business plans. Glean her personalized suggestion specific to YOUR business.

The VBSS comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee – if you’re not happy after trying it for 45 days then you will get your money back. Put it into action and see for yourself!

Click here and you, too, will have all the answers you’ll need in one place.

Janice D. Byer of Docu-Type has this to say:

“This is a wonderful reference for all new VAs. It takes you step by step through the entire process of setting up a Virtual Assistant business; from deciding on your business entity to setting up your office and everything in between, this manual guides you through every process. Great job, Tawyna!”

I’m just following up on last week’s call with Ali Brown, “Grow That List! The 7 Streams of List Building That Are Working Right Now.” Listeners received amazing strategies for growing their contact list, which as you know, translates to boosting their bottom line.

Even if you missed the call, you can still get in on Ali’s brand new 4-part telecourse “List Building System: Strategies, Tools, and Secrets to Grow Your Own Profitable List of Prospects Who Buy.” The course starts next week, and Ali will be personally teaching you simple to advanced list-building step-by-step.

“List Building System: Strategies, Tools, and Secrets to Grow Your Own Profitable List of Prospects Who Buy”

4-Week Telecourse with Ali Brown

July 28 – August 25, 2010

Get all the details about Ali Brown’s program here now

Ali will be teaching list-building starting with the basics and moving into advanced techniques that are simple and step-by-step for you to:

* create a list-building machine that’s ALWAYS on…bringing in new buyers for your products and services

* communicate with your subscribers authentically, genuinely, and profitably

*grow your list steadily and with “fast surges” to generate your most valuable marketing asset

* BONUS: Ali will ship you 2 complete binders PACKED with the entire List Building System curriculum, including checklists, worksheets and real-life examples that help you see exactly what to do next as you learn today’s most explosive list-getting strategies. PLUS, you’ll get transcripts and MP3 recordings of every call!

Building a valuable list is tougher these days…and whether you’re just starting out or you’re looking for ways to get a surge of new prospects each month, it’s more important than ever before!

With the first call set to begin on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 (just days away!), there’s not much time left to have Ali Brown teach you how to explode the size of your subscriber list.

If you’re ready to create long-term business success, your next step is to reserve YOUR spot now

Hope to see you on the course!

I was struggling a few months back trying to help a client move her Blogger Blog to WordPress because Blogger was no longer going to be supporting FTP publishing, they were giving us ‘the boot’ so my client decided to move her blog to WordPress. I started to migrate the blog over but soon ran into some issues that I was unsure how to solve.

First of all my client had an ‘old school’ blogger blog so I couldn’t just transfer the content over I spent about 2 hours (of my own time) researching plugins and tricks to maintain Permalinks. I had given up, I just couldn’t do it, this was getting tricky. So in doing my research I came across an article by Devil’s Workshop (love the name) and I tried a few tricks they had outlined.  But, because I was dealing with a clients old Blogger platform it wasn’t working.  I needed professional help.  The guys at Devil’s Workshop also have a site called Blogger to WordPress Migration.  So I did it, took the plunge and contacted them.  Not only did was the blog migration done quickly and economically,  but they were professional and very nice and answered my questions. I mainly worked with Harsh and he was fantastic!

If you need to move your blog from Blogger to WordPress (and you totally should) then I suggest hiring the guys from Blogger to WordPress Migration to do it for you.

When you move your blog over you will need a new theme and I suggest using Studio Press themes or Flexx Themes.

Everybody talks about the wonders of Twitter, but no one tells you HOW to use it!

With Twitter Rockstar, you are going to learn how spending 10-15 minutes per day can create an entirely fresh and new traffic and revenue stream that is targeted and incredibly effective.

Why use Twitter Rockstar?

* If Twitter never really made any sense to you, then you’ll love this course.
* If you need to know how you can combine Twitter with WordPress to put your message on autopilot, you’ll absolutely love Twitter Rockstar.
* If you know you need to use Twitter, but you aren’t sure how you can use Twitter to leverage your brand, then Twitter Rockstar is for you.
* If you need to know how you can spend as little as 10 minutes per day in order to get a boatload of targeted traffic to your site, then Twitter Rockstar is for you.
* If you want to learn how to build solid relationships on Twitter that will not only help you make money, but will help you build and maintain influence within your niche, then Twitter Rockstar is for you.
* If you want to learn how to develop and maintain guru status, then you can with Twitter Rocksta

Click here to visit the Twitter Rockstar site.

If you are looking to dip into the Social Medial world the first place to start is with Facebook. You can create a personal profile and then also a Fan Page to promote your business. The Fan Pages on Facebook have really developed into something that every business should consider adding to their marketing strategy.

Here is a link to a recent article by Mari Smith about how cool Fan Pages can really be.

Here are just a few of the companies Fanpages that I find appealing

Macys

Skittles

Mari Smith

Social Media Examiner

If you are looking for more information about Facebook and why you and your company should be on it then check out this recent article “5 New Studies Show Facebook a Marketing Powerhouse” by Amy Porterfield on Social Media Examiner.

If you are looking for help getting started on Facebook or creating a Fan Page then I can help.  Send me an email at dawn@SunriseVirtualServices.com.

I attended Erin Blaskie’s Blog Design Bootcamp last year and I am still utilizing the skills I learned in her class with my clients and I built this site shortly after attending her class.  Erin’s teaching techniques make learning blog design easy because she shares her desktop screen and is on the phone with the students.

She takes the time to answer questions in a way that make it easy to understand. Purchasing a seat in her class was the best investment I made in my business.  She is once again offering this fantastic class live from February 1-8, 2010 — 7-9PM EST. The Blog Design Bootcamp is an intense 10-hour course of webinar / virtual training.

Here are some of the topics she will be covering, see the full list on Erin’s event site.

Understanding the Basics
* Installing the blog platform with the one-click install feature
* Using an FTP client to upload files – themes, plug-ins, etc.

Customizing a Theme — Part I
* Working with the CSS to make changes to colors, etc.
* Setting up Google Analytics on the blog from day one

Customizing a Theme — Part II
* Working with sidebar widgets
* Looking at more advanced plug-ins. (Sociable, WP-Video, Technorati Tags, etc.)
* Working with external services ie: Feedburner

Other House-Keeping Functions
* Creating and managing pages
* Creating and managing posts
* Setting up permissions / privacy / allowances for the blog

How to Deliver Blog Design to Your Clients
* How to charge for your blog design
* Setting boundaries – how to draw the line at the number of on-going changes to the blog design

If you are in need of creating a website or blog for your business or your clients then this is the class that you need to invest your money in.  I highly recommend Erin’s classes, she is very knowledgeable and a great teacher.  To sign up for the course you can visit Erin’s event site or email me at dawn@SunriseVirtualServices.com if you have any questions about her class.

Are you wondering why there are so many people on Twitter?

How in the WORLD are you going to listen to all they have to say?

Well, you don’t have to, you only need to listen to the people who matter to you and weed out the other yahoos out there.  Twitter has a service called Twitter Lists.  This is a way you can  organize the people you follow and put them into little categories.

You can build many different lists of people and even just organize the people you follow by topic, region, profession, groups of friends or family members.  The lists are then shown on your Twitter page and can be viewed by anyone who visits your page, heck they can even start to follow your list.  Another cool feature is that you can see the lists that other people have put you on and follow that list as well.

The lists that I have created include my fellow online business owners, a celebrity list, a Mommy Bloggers list, a local Sacramento list and a list that I appear on called Ask Erin Live which was created by Erin Blaskie.

Creating a Twitter List

• Go to your Twitter Page and select “New List“.  Then you can name your list, create a description and select if you want your list to be public or private.

• After you have your list created you will need to add people to it.  Go to the pages of the people that you want to add to your list and simply click the list button and add that person to your list.

• Once your lists are created you can edit them at anytime by clicking the “View all” link under the Lists section of your profile page.  Once on the list page just select the “Edit” link to rename your list or adjust the privacy settings.  To remove people from the list simply click on their thumbnail photo or the “View all” link under the Following section and you can adjust which list (if any) they appear on.

Things You Can Do With Your Twitter Lists

You can add your Twitter Lists to your blog or website by using either Twitters List widget or the one that I used on my website by Tweet Grid. If you are a HootSuite user you can integrate your Twitter Lists as columns.

More Resources

Here are some more resources you can check out about Twitter Lists and see what these experts have to say

Twitter’s Blog – Posting “There’s a List for That”

Mashable – “10 Ways You Can Use Twitter Lists“  and Twitter Lists Guide

So, how will you use your Twitter Lists?