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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Selling Lounge December 2009 Newsletter

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December 2009 Newsletter
Edition 15
Welcome To The Selling Lounge

I would love to start off by Welcoming all new members to The Selling Lounge and to let you know we are all glad to have you on board! The Selling Lounge is a friendly forum full of resources for online sellers where sellers are helping sellers. We all work together in a positive manner to better our understanding of our business no matter where we sell.

The Selling Lounge has grown vastly over the last almost 15 months since we opened our doors to online sellers. We have 608 members to date, 22908 Total posts, and 2594 Total topics.

These last few months we have been involved in many areas of our business’ to help ourselves grow by participating as a group in such things as Blogging, StumbleUpon and Squidoo.

Our Head Moderator, Diana graciously put on 3 Squidoo Workshops teaching us how to set up a Squidoo Lens to adding content to them. You can view these workshops in the forum under Workshops by signing in.

CruiseReady has spent many hours putting together a Blog called Gift Listings and has been adding our products. You must really stop by and check it out. You can also get yourself added by stopping by The Selling Lounge and having yourself added. Gift Listings

Stop on by the “Introduction Corner” to get acquainted with all the members and tell us about yourself.

ALL MEMBERS please make sure that you add all of your links in your signature as well as adding your site to your profile!

We together, if we all work together; can help each other out by participating in the Squidoo, Stumble Upon, Blogging, etc. Threads in the forum.

If you find imprtant information on the net that is going to help out other online sellers, please bring it to the forum and post it for us. We would really love to see more of you participate in this as we are all working together to better our business’ together. Please make yourself at home!

Best Blog Contest Winner – Congrats Apron Madness!
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Apron Madness

New Creations & Ideas are our passion. Crafting is a relaxing time between family & business. Join us & enjoy these new Ideas!

You will find many great recipes for all occasions over at Apron Madness’ Bog. Stop on by and check it out because chances are that you are going to want to follow her blog.

You will find many recipes such as Save That Turkey Carcass, Homemade Holiday Gift. Sugar and Spice Nuts, Thanksgiving changes to traditional recipes, Egg Nog Bread, Great Christmas Gift, along with a whole Blog full of wonderful recipes that you will for sure want to check out.

About StumbleUpon and What We Are Doing!

Our Stumble Upon Threads are run By: loraseverson

StumbleUpon is a social networking site that helps people discover and share websites. It has the potential to send a huge increase in traffic to your site and increase it’s popularity. As members “Stumble” through sites, they are delivered pages matched to their personal preferences. Rating them or giving them a “thumbs up” automatically shares them with others that have the same interests.

How can StumbleUpon help you as an online seller? When someone rates your site and gives it a thumbs up, it puts it into the StumbleUpon circulation and it is shown to people with similar interests. The more people that rate and review your site, the more exposure it will get. The more exposure it gets, the more popular it becomes and the more sales you make. The Selling Lounge is a great resource of other supportive online sellers who can help you get your sites rated and into the StumbleUpon mix.

However, StumbleUpon has a lot more to offer than just giving “thumbs up”. It is a social networking site and the more you are involved, the better results you will have. That’s where your Selling Lounge buddies can help you. Become StumbleUpon friends and subscribers of each other. “Share” stumbles with your friends. (The “share” button is found in your StumbleUpon toolbar.) Join StumbleUpon groups and become a part of the community.

Another tip to help StumbleUpon success is to dig deep into a site when rating it. Rating the first page is good; but digging deeper and targeting a specific product or niche is even better. When reviewing a product, make sure to pick the right topic and keywords. This will ensure that the right people are eventually seeing your site. Getting the right traffic to your site will ultimately lead to more sales.

Also, take advantage of your StumbleUpon blog which is located on your member’s page. Your StumbleUpon blog is a great place to post pictures, videos or blog about new products which is all helpful to gain exposure and traffic.

To join in on the stumbling going on at The Selling Lounge, add you links to the StumbleUpon thread. But it doesn’t stop there. Once you have added your links, it is your responsibility to stumble everyone else on the list. If we all work together and support each other we can all benefit from this powerful StumbleUpon tool. Keep in mind that your links will be removed if your are not actively stumbling.

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Best Blog Contest

Best Blog For January Contest – Vote For Your Best Blog

We Have 9 Blogs To Pick From for The Best Blog Contest for January! Please stop by and visit our members blogs in this month’s Best Blog Contest and vote for your best blog.

  • We will have ONE (1) Winner
  • You can vote up to 2 times
  • You can only vote once for each site
  • You have to use your votes at the same time

Our 9 Blogs to vote on are:

Please while looking at The blogs

SellingLounge.com Tweet them
SellingLounge.com Favor them
SellingLounge.com Comment on them
SellingLounge.com Stumbleupon them

Vote Here For The Best Blog Contest Going On Now! SellingLounge.com

We have a Best Site Contest or Best Blog Contest each month and would love if everyone could participate in this fun activity. This not only gets visitors to your sites, but also get visitors looking at what you have for sale and helps up your page ranking.

Sign Up Here For The Best Site Contest: SellingLounge.com
Sign Up Here For The Best Blog Contest:! SellingLounge.com
Please Read Our New Best Site Contest Rules! SellingLounge.com

Do You Want Your Site Featured In Our Newsletter?

If you are interested in having your site featured in our Newsletter please submit to me why you think your site should be featured in The Selling Lounge Newsletter along with a brief description of your site no more than about a paragraph in length.

I will go through all submitted sites and pick which one will be added to the upcoming Newsletter. I will save all submitted sites to be featured in upcoming Newsletters.

I will need the following for your site submittal:
1. The name of your site
2. The URL of your site
3. The Description of your site
4. A Banner for your site no wider than 500px
5. You must be an active member in the forum

Contact Me About Your Site!

The Selling Lounge Site of The Month

Gift Listings
Gift Listings for Shoppers – Online Gift Ideas for You

Yes, it’s yet another shopping blog!

However, this one will be primarily clickable lists to help you find gifts for others from a host of reliable online stores. The lists will begin appearing shortly, and there will be quite a few of them before you absolutely MUST fiish your holiday shopping. We currenetly have a group of folks scouring the net, compiling some great gift lists to help you find something that everyone on YOUR list will just love!

We’re working on lists of gift ideas for pet owners, sports lovers, cooks, babies and toddlers, jewelry lovers, and lots more!

We’ll also have lists places with free shipping, free gift wrap, and coupon specials. So, start your shopping excursion here!

If you have hard to buy for folks, then,we’d love to know just how we can help… To suggest a list, just leave a comment, asking for “Gift Ideas for ________” (you fill in the blank) and we’ll do our best!

The Selling Lounge Top 100 Sites

Top lists are excellent traffic building tools and is an easy way to get traffic to you. The Selling Lounge has it’s own Top 100 Site and we want you to benefit from the free traffic that they bring, so please add your banner today for FREE.

Sign Up Here SellingLounge.com

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Why writing articles are important to your business!

An excellent way to draw traffic to your online business and to succeed in making money is article writing and submitting them to directories. Article writing and submitting them is one of the most successful and free ways to promote you and your website.

When someone is looking for something on the internet chances are they will find you through an article that you have wrote which will have links going back to your website. This turns into future sales and traffic to you and your website which means money!

Think about it this way! When writing articles you want to put yourself in the shoes of your customer, therefore you want write content that your customer is looking for on the internet. You want to make sure that you have all the information needed to draw these people to you.

The Selling Lounge has its own Directory where you can submit your articles to.

Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

If you are new to SEO, I strongly recommend you to
Download the Full 22 Page PDF of Google’s SEO Starter Guide.

The Selling Lounge Directory

The Selling lounge Link Directory is a 100% SEO friendly Link Directory and Human Edited. Submit your web site free to our fast growing link directory.

SellingLounge.com TSL Link Directory.com TSL Help Center TSL Contact Us

SellingLounge.com @ Copyright 2008

Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Selling Lounge November 2009 Newsletter

SellingLounge.com
November 2009 Newsletter
Welcome To The Selling Lounge

I would love to start off by Welcoming all new members to The Selling Lounge and to let you know we are all glad to have you on board! The Selling Lounge is a friendly forum full of resources for online sellers where sellers are helping sellers. We all work together in a positive manner to better our understanding of our business no matter where we sell.

Stop on by the “Introduction Corner” to get acquainted with all the members and tell us about yourself.

ALL MEMBERS please make sure that you add all of your links in your signature as well as adding your site to your profile!

We together, if we all work together; can help each other out by participating in the Squidoo, Stumble Upon, Blogging, etc. Threads in the forum.

If you find imprtant information on the net that is going to help out other online sellers, please bring it to the forum and post it for us. We would really love to see more of you participate in this as we are all working together to better our business’ together. Please make yourself at home!

Best Site Contest Winner – Congrats Junk2Treasures!

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Junk2Treasures! Best Site Contest Winner – 1st Place!

I am Suzanne and I have been selling online for about 10 years now. As you look around my store you will find a wide variety products. I have always enjoyed finding interesting and unique products, taking great pride in the products I offer. Making sure the quality is that of something I would own myself. If at any time you have any concerns or questions please do not hesitate to contact me. See the Contact Me page for more information.

The Selling Lounge Squidoo Workshop

Our First Mini Squidoo Work Shop was hosted By: OrganicGiftsByDiana

On October 26th The Selling Lounge had a basic Mini Squidoo Workshop for beginners. Diana has easy to follow directions for beginners on how to start your first lens.

Our Homework for our first workshop is: Write up a little something about your topic – REMEMBER use short paragraphs and don’t forget to write a short intro about your topic or why you chose that topic…

If you would like to have a copy of our first workshop on Squidoo, please email OrganicGiftsByDiana, she would love to send you a copy.

Next Workshop: Monday November 2nd, 11:30 a/m (EST)
Must be registered and logged in to view the workshop!
Click Here for the SellingLounge.com Squidoo Workshop
All of our members are welcome to attend this free workshop.

We will be working on adding your intro photo and Diana will have you start filling out text boxes. You can of course work on your own, but some folks wanted to walk through this step by step.

Add Your Squidoo Links Here so we can Roll Them! SellingLounge.com
Then when we all rate/comment/lensroll/favorite/join fan club… each others lens we tell each other which ones we did here. SellingLounge.com

What is Squidoo ?
A Squidoo lens is a page – a sort of blog/journal/article/photo essay with captions… whatever you want it to be.

A Squidoo lens can help you define your brand and expand your network.

NEW CONTEST!!! Best Blog Contest

Best Blog For December Contest – Vote For Your Best Blog

We Have 5 Blogs To Pick From for The Best Blog Contest for December! Please stop by and visit our members blogs in this month’s Best Blog Contest and vote for your best blog.

  • We will have ONE (1) Winner
  • You can vote up to 2 times
  • You can only vote once for each site
  • You have to use your votes at the same time

Our 5 Blogs to vote on are:

Vote Here For The Best Blog Contest Going On Now! SellingLounge.com

We have a Best Site Contest or Best Blog Contest each month and would love if everyone could participate in this fun activity. This not only gets visitors to your sites, but also get visitors looking at what you have for sale and helps up your page ranking.

Sign Up Here For The Best Site Contest: SellingLounge.com
Sign Up Here For The Best Blog Contest:! SellingLounge.com
Please Read Our New Best Site Contest Rules! SellingLounge.com

Do You Want Your Site Featured In Our Newsletter?

If you are interested in having your site featured in our Newsletter please submit to me why you think your site should be featured in The Selling Lounge Newsletter along with a brief description of your site no more than about a paragraph in length.

I will go through all submitted sites and pick which one will be added to the upcoming Newsletter. I will save all submitted sites to be featured in upcoming Newsletters.

I will need the following for your site submittal:
1. The name of your site
2. The URL of your site
3. The Description of your site
4. A Banner for your site no wider than 500px
5. You must be an active member in the forum

Contact Me About Your Site!

TSL Member In The Spotlight

The TSL Spotlight is shining on Evie Jewelry
Where It’s Not About the Jewelry, It’s About the Fire in Your Eyes

For some absolutely beautiful vintage jewelry that has stood the test of time, pay a visit to Evie Jewelry. Youi find gemstone jewelry, including topaz, emerald, garnets,and more. I was particularlly taken by a couple of the topaz pieces. The owner must spend many hours searching for rare or hard to find vintage jewelry pieces – both signed and unsigned and has a wonderful selection of bracelets, rings, necklaces, earrings and more. In fact, her love of vintage jewelry is obvious… and, in reading her recent blog entry, titled Go Green by Buying and Wearing Vintage Jewelry made me aware of several reasons why buying vintage jewelry is a good idea.

And, if you need supplies to care for your already owned items, visit the jewelry supplies page at Evie Jewelry for polishing cloths, cleaning solution, and jewelry keeper bags.

There is so much to see at Evie Jewelry! Being a June baby, I was curions to see what she had in the way of pearl jewelry, Oh, what a nice surprise! Along with a couple of classic pearl strands, there were several unusual and stunning necklaces that anyone would be thrilled to recieve. With gift-giving season at hand, I would be hard pressed to select the perfect gift, even after narrowing down my selection to just the pearl items, so it’s good to see that gift certificates are available, too.

Our own Sally Brown, who owns Evie Jewelry, is a veteran web seller, having been selling online since 2003. She is also versatile, owning a second store, called Evie Baby Childrens Shop, selling new clothing for Girls and Boys, including Baby Gap, Gymboree, Janie and Jack, Oskosh, Carter’s, and Guess Baby brands, along with gently used infant and toddler clothes at bargain prices.

An interesting little tidbit: The name “Evie” in both stores is in honor of Sallly’s little granddaughter.

The Selling Lounge Top 100 Sites

Top lists are excellent traffic building tools and is an easy way to get traffic to you. The Selling Lounge has it’s own Top 100 Site and we want you to benefit from the free traffic that they bring, so please add your banner today for FREE.

Sign Up Here SellingLounge.com

SellingLounge.com

Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

If you are new to SEO, I strongly recommend you to
Download the Full 22 Page PDF of Google’s SEO Starter Guide.

The Selling Lounge Directory

The Selling lounge Link Directory is a 100% SEO friendly Link Directory and Human Edited. Submit your web site free to our fast growing link directory.

SellingLounge.com TSL Link Directory.com TSL Help Center TSL Contact Us

SellingLounge.com @ Copyright 2008

Thursday, October 1, 2009

October 2009 Selling Lounge Newsletter

SellingLounge.com
October 2009 Newsletter
Welcome To The Selling Lounge

I would love to start off by Welcoming all new members to The Selling Lounge and to let you know we are all glad to have you on board! The Selling Lounge is a friendly forum full of resources for online sellers where sellers are helping sellers. We all work together in a positive manner to better our understanding of our business no matter where we sell.

Stop on by the “Introduction Corner” to get acquainted with all the members and tell us about yourself.

ALL MEMBERS please make sure that you add all of your links in your signature as well as adding your site to your profile!

We together, if we all work together; can help each other out by participating in the Squidoo, Stumble Upon, Blogging, etc. Threads in the forum.

If you find imprtant information on the net that is going to help out other online sellers, please bring it to the forum and post it for us. We would really love to see more of you participate in this as we are all working together to better our business’ together. Please make yourself at home!

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FRIENDLY REMINDER:

If you have added your site links to the many areas of the forum to be included in either Stumble Upon, Squidoo, Blogging, etc. for others to either give credit to you and or help you out, please make sure that you are doing the same. If you are not participating in these areas which help YOU then others may just by pass your site. So please if you have added yourself to the many areas of the forum, stop by and participate like many others are doing.

For all of those that are participating and doing your part, The Selling Lounge and participating members all THANK YOU!!

If you have any questions concerning this, you may contact me.

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Best Site Contest Winner – Congrats TwiceAroundBooks!

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Twice Around Books Best Site Contest Winner – 1st Place!

We welcome you to our store. We carry a full line of non fiction books, book accessories, magazines, and ephemera, Most items are either new, outdated, first editions, used and signed editions. We also have some antiquated books, which are in good, old or worn condition. Here you will also find many craft books and cookbooks.

We list items daily, so keep checking back with us. Please contact us if you are looking for a particular book or item and we will do our best to locate it for you.

Best Site For November Contest – Vote For Your Best Site

We Have 5 Sites To Pick From for The Best Site Contest for November! Please stop by and visit our sites in this month’s Best Site Contest and vote for your best site.
We will have ONE (1) Winner
You can vote up to 2 times
You can only vote once for each site
You have to use your votes at the same time

Our 5 Sites to vote on are:
Overnight Shops
Candy Bar Wrap
Junk 2 Treasures
Secrets Of Great Chefs
Little Shoppe On Web Street

Vote Here For The Best Site Contest Going On Now! SellingLounge.com

We have a Best Site Contest each month and would love if everyone could participate in this fun activity. This not only gets visitors to your sites, but also get visitors looking at what you have for sale and helps up your page ranking.

Sign Up Here For The Best Site Contest: SellingLounge.com
Vote Here For The Best Site Contest Going On Now! SellingLounge.com
Please Read Our New Best Site Contest Rules! SellingLounge.com

Featured Site!

My name is Shelly Gannon from Colorado. I started selling online in 1995. I began with a small site for our printing business. In 2000 we left our “brick & mortar” print shop & I began working from home.

One day as I was surfing the net & looking at other online bizes, I discovered Custom Candy Bar Wrappers. I thought this would be a great match with our printing biz & I decided to jump right in. Got my www.candybarwrap.com site on the internet… started taking samples to businesses & I was on my way. Later that year I discovered a company that would drop ship Custom engraved chocolates & I started www.creativecandyland.com

In 2007, a friend turned me on to www.ecrater.com & I set up a few more stores there. That same year, my friend proposed a business partnership & we began with our 1st website: www.promote-101.com then came www.earringstop.com , www.petsadored.com & more.

All along, I have been a firm believer in “more is better”. Taking the plan of the “Big Boys”…. the more stores you have on each corner… the more you will make.

In 2009, we formalized our Business Partnership & set up BlueSkiesPlus LLC. Since then, we set up so many sites that we listed them all under BlueSkiesPlusLLC website along with our blogs, my own sites & my friend’s sites.

To date, I, personally, have 13 websites, ecrater stores & zazzle galleries. I also sell during the holidays at etsy & ebay. Our Partnership is at 15 between websites, ecrater stores, buyitsellit, zazzle & bonanzle.

I have several blogs, squidoo lenses,& twitter accounts. All of our sites & my own have been set up & marketed by ourselves & we don’t pay a dime (except for any domains, store fees & hosting). I spend approx 16 hours a day / 7 days a week working on sites, adding products & marketing our sites. I do manage to clean the house & feed my kids in between all of it.

I have 2 daughters & along with working from home, I also started home schooling in 2001. They are now 19 & 13. My youngest went back to public school for middle school. Now I have a lot more time during the days.

Some of my / our sites, www.candybarwrap.com, • www.creativecandyland.com, • www.kjscreations.com,• www.customcandlesunlimited.com, • www.scratchoffgametickets.com, • www.mediacenter.ecrater.com,• www.candybarwrappers.ecrater.com, • www.petsadored.com, • www.earringstop.com, • www.licenseplatemadness.com, • www.apronmadness.com, • www.promote-101.comwww.golftimeshop.comwww.designertimeclocks.comwww.zazzle.com/kjscreationswww.zazzle.com/kjsweddingshop

Our Blogs: www.apronmadness.blogspot.comwww.petsadored.blogspot.comwww.candybarwrap-partyideas.blogspot.com

Our Squidoo Lenses: www.squidoo.com/blueskiesplusllcwww.squidoo.com/apronmadnesswww.squidoo.com/petsadoredwww.squidoo.com/candybarwrapwww.squidoo.com/kjscreationswww.squidoo.com/kjsweddingshopwww.squidoo.com/kjscreations_zazzle

I don’t see any end of our “New Ideas” . I LOVE being able to work in my jammies & be home when the kids get home from school. So Online Selling is a great “job”. I do “what I want… when I want” & I’ll never get laid off.

Do YOU Squidoo?

Article By: OrganicGiftsByDiana

You should if you want to make it easier for potential customers to find you.

What is Squidoo ?
A Squidoo lens is a page – a sort of blog/journal/article/photo essay with captions… whatever you want it to be.
A Squidoo lens can help you define your brand and expand your network.

Curious yet ?
Join those of us in the Selling Lounge who are using Squidoo and loving it.

What can you Squidoo about ?
I list over 30 ideas here SellingLounge.com
I give lots of tips on how to Squidoo here SellingLounge.com

Do you already have a lens?
* If you agree to “Hug” the other lenses on the list in return,
add your lens link here SellingLounge.com

What in the world does “Hugging” a lens mean ?
Find that out here SellingLounge.com

If you think you might want to write a Squidoo lens, but don’t know how – I will be having a mini How-To one of these days, just watch the Squidoo threads for the day and time.

It will only be for 15-20 minutes.

I will try to have a mini Squidoo workshop once a month to help new ones start a lens and to help those who already have one learn something new too.

Do You Want Your Site Featured In Our Newsletter?

If you are interested in having your site featured in our Newsletter please submit to me why you think your site should be featured in The Selling Lounge Newsletter along with a brief description of your site no more than about a paragraph in length.

I will go through all submitted sites and pick which one will be added to the upcoming Newsletter. I will save all submitted sites to be featured in upcoming Newsletters.

I will need the following for your site submittal:
1. The name of your site
2. The URL of your site
3. The Description of your site
4. A Banner for your site no wider than 500px
5. You must be an active member in the forum

Contact Me About Your Site!

TSL Member In The Spotlight

The TSL Spotlight is shining on A real, live, bonafied Author: maryrussel

Yes, it’s true! The TSL spotlight has found a writer to shine on this time! It’s one of our newer members at The Selling Lounge… and one who started right off contributing to our forum from her first day – Mary Russel. Mary writes travel, automotive, dog, and business related articles, children’s stories, mystery novels, short stories, and ad copy.

You’ll find some of her articles and a biography at her eHow.

The TSL Spotlight is shining on RhinestonesPast

When you enter the beautiful, and recently redesigned, site of RhinestonesPast, you immediately find yourself in a pleasant place, a world of beautiful vintage jewelry and intriguing collectibles that will, for some, bring back fond memories, and for others, inform of an earlier, gentler lifestyle, when bracelets and watches made an elegant statement, special gold pieces were treasures, and specal items, with special uses sometimes held a very special meaning for the original owner.

The Selling Lounge Top 100 Sites

Top lists are excellent traffic building tools and is an easy way to get traffic to you. The Selling Lounge has it’s own Top 100 Site and we want you to benefit from the free traffic that they bring, so please add your banner today for FREE.

Sign Up Here SellingLounge.com

SellingLounge.com

Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

If you are new to SEO, I strongly recommend you to
Download the Full 22 Page PDF of Google’s SEO Starter Guide.

The Selling Lounge Directory

The Selling lounge Link Directory is a 100% SEO friendly Link Directory and Human Edited. Submit your web site free to our fast growing link directory.

SellingLounge.com TSL Link Directory.com TSL Help Center TSL Contact Us

SellingLounge.com @ Copyright 2008

Cruise Ready Store will be closed for vacation October 10-17, reopening again on the evening of October 18.