Sue White's (lanettia) Blog

If you are in or near the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area on March 18th, you won't want to miss this seminar.  Donna Tyson was recently selected at Speaker of The Year by the Best of the Best for 2009 Myrtle Beach Herald.  She is a dynamic speaker and has great down-to-earth advice.  ALL procee...

One of my favorite ways to grow your business is to network with other business professionals.   Over the past year, I have found a lot of business people are not sure how to go about networking. What is your focus when you go to a networking event?  Are you there only to promote yourself and you...

This weekend my husband and I volunteered at the 2009 BiLo Myrtle Beach Marathon.  We were stationed on the 17-1/2 mile mark.  Our job was to cheer on the runners and to be there if anyone needed assistance.  We saw people of all ages, physical abilities and sizes.  What struck me about each one...

The purpose of this series of articles is to prepare you for writing blogs,  e-zine articles, Hub Pages, Squidoo Lens, etc to your target market.  This will drive traffic people to your website and show that you have knowledge about your target market and understand what they are concerned about....

If you have followed the steps in Part I, you are off on the right track to attract your target market and hold their attention.  But the key is to stay on track.  If at any time you noticed you wrote something and it's not clear if it's fitting in as a straight forward review, solving a problem ...

To succeed in business of any kind you must offer value to the marketplace.  If you can't communicate that value to others, no one will come.  Communicate the value you offer and people will come in large numbers and often.  Become a student of communication and your life will be more rewarding ...

Yea - my first business referral from ActiveRain.  A few weeks ago I posted a blog Listening to Other ActiveRainers on Marketing and talked about being in front of your prospects.  Several ideas were discussed and sending a personal note was just one of the ideas. JoAnn from Tarbell Realtors ment...

Recently I purchased a course on Google AdWords and am working my way through the process.  I did a search on ActiveRain and did not see a lot of blogs on this subject.  Are you using AdWords to attract your target market to you?  I would love to hear your comments.   A couple of things I have no...

The other day I was reading a cute blog on ActiveRain about an agent who "hired" her 4 year old to shovel snow.  She had some cute pictures.  I tried to find that blog today to reference, but could not bring it up.  It reminded me about a little known IRS tax break.  As a CPA I wanted to tell yo...

It was Saturday morning and the temperature outside is 16 degrees and we are putting on our leathers to ride 20 miles up the coast.  Are we nuts?  What does that make the wind chill factor?  I have no idea - but I do know it was cold! We rode up to Calabash, North Carolina to join the Sons of Th...