I have created a free PDF for you to download and keep. It shows you how to set up your Twitter account easily in a step by step format.

I’ve also used plenty of screenshots for you, so that you can easily see which stage you are at.

Although it might not be rocket science, there are right and wrong ways to do this and within this PDF I also give you some top tips on how to create a great profile and what links you should be including.

If you already have a Twitter a/c – you may still find the information helpful and you may also know someone who may benefit from the information included.

Just right click on the link below and save a copy to your computer, or go directly to the link to have a look and then save your copy from there.

Best Wishes

Nikki

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These events are becoming more and more popular and it’s great to see a high profile event like this down in the South of the UK.

Annabel Karmel is the main keynote speaker and, as the founder of a multi-million pound company, she will be sharing her advice for budding or even established mumpreneurs. I’m sure this will be a really inspirational talk with plenty of take-aways that you can implement within your own business.

Throughout the day there will be ample opportunities to network with other business mums, so make sure you bring plenty of business cards with you!

You can see the whole program of events over at the Business Mums Conference website and you may be interested to know that I have been asked to speak at the event, so if you come along – make sure you give me a shout (not a heckle!!)

You will also be able to hear from plenty of inspirational Mumpreneurs throughout the day, including Antonia Chitty, author of The Mumpreneur Guide and one of the event organisers.

So come along, learn something new, share your own knowledge and have a great day out! Did I mention the day wraps up with a champagne networking session?

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Welcome to day 1 of the Twitter course. Directly below you will find the Ethos of Twitter which is a little introduction. You have the option of reading the PDF or listening to the audio – or both, depending on what your preferred method is. If you’d like to download it and listen on your mp3 player, you’ll find the link below.

To read the PDF, just hover your mouse over it – right click and choose ‘save as’ or ‘save a copy’. You will then have your own copy to read and keep.

So, now that you have a little background from either the PDF on the left or the MP3 above – lets move on to The Automated Tweet, so that we can really begin to dig into how we can utilise Twitter for our businesses.

You will find the PDF booklet for the Automated Welcome Tweet (pdf below), this will give you an insight on how to set this up, why you should do it and what you can write.

Sending an automated message to your new followers is a great way to connect and build your community, but get it wrong and it can be detrimental to your business.

This pdf report will explain to you exactly what an automated DM is, why you should be using it and the best way to go about using it – once you have absorbed the info, it will then require you to register and account over at SocialOomph.com – this is all explained in the video below.

So – read the pdf and then watch the very short video below to find out how you can set it all up.

If you have enjoyed this taster of the Twitter eCourse – why not tweet complete the rest of the course. It is a completely FREE course that covers everything you need to know about Twitter, including the following;

• The best free tools to make Twitter easier and less time consuming
• How to find the best people to follow in your market
• How to increase your own followers – ethically
• How to track the content you put out on Twitter
• How to manage more than one a/c
• A ton of resources for inspiration on ‘what’ to tweet about
• How to get traffic, sales and conversion from Twitter
• & some more ‘secret’ bonus stuff

Interested? Well, you should be! it’s a completely FREE course designed to help you get the best from twitter.

FIND OUT MORE….

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Dear Mr Jobs,

I appreciate that you are a very busy man, what with running Apple an’ all but I feel that you are missing out on a global opportunity and I am happy to bring this to your attention.

The iPhone is great, infact it has enhanced my life in many ways for the better. There is however, one way, that has been rather unexpected and is rapidly going from a ‘positive’ to a ‘negative’ impact.

I’m talking about apps – and specifically apps for toddlers & young children!

To your left, you will note a screen capture of my iPhone and as you can see, I have rather a lot of apps for kids (I have 3).

My youngest is three years old and finds herself quite at home with my toy phone. There have been ‘scenes’ when I actually need to take it from her and use it myself.

So I find myself in a bit of a dilemma, on the one hand I do appreciate the hour of peace to get on with some work and the apps themselves are incredibly educational (hats of to the global app developers on that one) on the other hand

I WANT MY PHONE BACK

….and I’m full-on concerned that it’s demise could be on the cards from overuse or worse!

So – here’s my plan; I’m aware of the iTouch but it’s too expensive for a young child (not as expensive as my bloomin’ phone tho) to have as a toy – so there needs to be a hand-held device for kids.

Yes we have things like the Nintendo ds etc but I am talking about apps. In addition to a ton of fun, my girl has learned a ton of stuff through some of the educational apps – they really are quite amazing, many developed by primary school teachers.

If kids want an iPhone like mummy – let them have one. Cut out all the fancy pants stuff – they don’t need all the gear the iPhone or iTouch comes with – let’s just give them a device that ‘looks’ the same as the parental version and let us (the parents) fill it with apps – nothing else – just apps.

Price it up reasonably and I guarantee you that parents will buy. We will buy so that we can finally get our own phones back, we will buy because we don’t have to be on tenterhooks wondering if we will be fishing our iPhone out of the toilet, we will buy it because the apps are educational (not all – but plenty) so we know we are not ‘bad parents’.

The beauty of the app store is that it is ever updating, there is always something fresh and new and that is what kids want – so I am willing to take a small bonus (call me) for coming up with such a fantabulous idea and I look forward to hearing when this is going into production,

Yours Sincerely

(Slightly worried) iPhone Mum,

Nikki Backshall

PS May I suggest a waterproof exterior?

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As I’m sure you have already realized, I’m not referring to THE Gary Vaynerchuk, more of a by-product of the man himself 

To be precise, I am actually listening to the iTunes audio book of Crush It, the New York Times bestseller from Gary Vaynerchuk.

I don’t normally go in for audio books, I prefer to have the actual hard copy of the book, but recently I’ve tried a couple and up until this point, it wasn’t going all that well.

I started off by listening to the acclaimed 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, and whilst I know that it is full of excellent information – I am finding the audio version a bit of a sleep aid and have often dozed off whilst listening. At least with the book version, I could read it in my ‘own voice’ and then easily find my place again – not so simple when you’ve dozed off listening to it on your iPhone!

However, I decided to give it another go with Crush It from @garyvee because unlike many audio books, it is actually read by the author himself and in the past I’ve found him really interesting to watch. Plus, since getting my iPhone – I’ve become a little addicted to podcasts and spend far too much time browsing through the iTunes library! It was only a matter of time before I progressed up to a full blown audio book.

If you have never watched any of Garys stuff, then you won’t be aware of the enthusiasm and passion that comes across. I have popped a couple of videos below for you to check out, so that you can experience his style for yourself. These were taken from the Crush It book signing tour.

Gary is another example of someone who knew what he wanted from life, he came from humble beginnings to take life by the balls and follow his dream. It seems that failure was never an option for Gary and I don’t think that is even a word that exists within his vocabualry.

He prioritizes his life with three simple rules and family is by far the top one of those. He attributes much of his success to his parents and that success includes turning his fathers business into a 20 million dollar business within the space of a few years.

Gary invokes the power of social media to reach out to his target audience and he is very specific about the ‘hows’ of doing this. One of the main focus points of using social media in such a way as Gary has, is to make sure that you are never selling to your customer – Gary says, quite intently, that using social media is purely for you to build your brand and that brand is you.

I am only at the tip of the iceberg with this book but it’s been a while since I have found something quite as inspiring as this. The main reason that I like this guy is because he is real and he doesn’t talk crap. He talks from his own experience and tells you to get up off of your ass and work hard. He doesn’t sugar-coat it – he says that you can be full-time workers and you still have plenty of hours between 9pm and 3am to build a business – I love that. Anyone who whines that they are too tired or throws out any other excuse as to why they can’t do this – just doesn’t want it enough!

Will it make a difference to my life? Will I become a success story within my own niche? Well, only time will tell. I certainly have the passion and drive and maybe, with the wise words of someone who is living proof that it can be done, I will be able to reach out and help as many women as I possibly can to get online, start earning or improving their businesses.

I will write another post with my final thoughts once I have finished listening to the audio, but I wanted to share this with you now as I really am finding it incredibly inspiring. If you want to listen to a snippet and try out the audio version then head on over to the iTunes Audio Book library – but I warn you – it’s addictive!!

I’ll leave you with some words from the man himself…..

Part One

Part Two

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Membership Software

It’s important to get the right membership software from the offset as it will save you hours of time and a lot of money.

When I opened my first membership site, which now has over 800 members, I used the popular Ning platform which is great for creating Social Networks – so for that, it served its purpose.

But using a third party platform like Ning is risky because you are not really the owner of your site and you are relying on them, or whatever 3rd party you choose, to always be around for you to sustain your business.

So whilst these kinds of platforms have their place, they are not something I would recommend if you are intending to build a solid platform with the functionality to accept paying members and to also be able to integrate with popular shopping carts.

I spent Hours looking For the Right Membership Software

It probably took me a good three to four weeks of research before I finally made a decision and I am so pleased with my choice that I thought I would share it with you to hopefully save you a lot of time!

The Membership Management Software that I finally chose was Wishlist Member and it’s a powerful plugin for WordPress. After reviewing so many of these various platforms, I found it unlikely that a simple plugin for WordPress could manage such a huge task but boy was I wrong. The scope of this membership software is far beyond anything I could have hoped for and the price is incredible at a one off payment of $97 – that’s just totally mindblowing!

Inside the admin area, you have so much control, you can set up different levels of memberships or even use it just for the one level. I have a site that is delivering content over a period of about 12 -16 weeks, so I will end up with 16 levels. I just input when I want the new level to become unlocked and Wishlist does it all for me! As I have chosen my course to be delivered weekly, the new materials automatically appear when your subscriber logs in. So, if they were on holiday for a couple of weeks and didn’t log in, they would have 2 new weeks of content available to them when they next sign in.

It’s So Easy – You Just Tick a Few Boxes!

When you create a new peice of content, whether it’s a page or a post, you get the option of who to make it available to. Underneath the content you have written there will be ‘tick boxes’ for each level you have created and you just tick the boxes for the folks who have access to this content – it really is that simple.

The payment processing is fully automated too, so if you are going to use PayPal you could be on holiday whilst someone signs up for your site, pays you money and starts to access the content – it’s just a great, great system!

Watch the short video below to get a little bit more of an insight, or visit the official Wishlist Site to have a look at some of their tutorials and FAQ’s.

Here is the raw link which I am happy to include as I rate this so, so highly http://www.member.wishlistproducts.com

And here is my affiliate link if you’re happy for me to earn a referral fee should you decide to buy it – either way, go check it out!

Visit the Wishlist Member Plugin site and tell them I sent you

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The two main qualities that I really like are the ability to schedule Tweets and the Stat-counter – oh and the really easy user interface and did I mention the multi a/c use?

It’s nicely laid out, easy to grasp and it tracks individual tweets so that you can see what your readers are really intereested in.

In the video below I give you the briefest overview of a great way to use it that will save you heaps of time and prevent you having to spend all day over on Twitter…Tweeting! Let me know your thoughts about HootSuite below..

(I mention the ‘Library’ in this video – I’m referring to the library of videos we have in our members area at WebMums.com)

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Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich Free PDF Download

Free Downloadable PDF

If ever there was a good place to start, this is it. Now available as a completely free download to you today. Just right click and ‘save as’ on the book on the left and then get stuck in.

Easy format for printing if that is your preferred method – either way just read it, it’s been life-changing for many people and a top favourite among entrepreneurs world-wide.

Discover the secrets to wealth and success! Enjoy!

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