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Protecting Your Mom Blog and Business from Attacks

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Protect your Mom Blog and Business from Attacks

Protect your Mom Blog and Business from Attacks April 2013 “Brute Force” Attack on WordPress Blogs

Last week, along with 90,000 other sites, my site received a file that was flagged as Malware.  What the hackers are trying to do is get into sites that kept the login name “admin”.

I had been warned numerous times to change my login from “admin” to some other name, but I figured if I had some crazy, funky, long password hackers would never get into my site.  Well, I was wrong, sort of.

They were not able to get in but they did place a file within my site that somehow tries many different passwords until it does breach.

What Did I Do?

First, I became very scared.  I felt lost.  I felt I was going to loose my blog and my business, I did not want to start over.

I don’t know anything about certain files that are kept with my site.  All Google was telling me

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How to Get Noticed Online: My New Free eBook for Mom Business and Blog Owners

By Allie | 8 comments

Are You a “Newbie”?

Newbies are new bloggers or business owners that have just arrived online in hopes of promoting their blog or business.  You are fresh and full of hope.

But…

Then it happens.  You realize you are starting to get lost.  The Internet is a HUGE place and for someone new it can be so daunting and down right lonely.

I want you to know you are not alone, I’m here and so are 25 of my closest and favorite bloggers and online entrepreneurs.

We have been where you are.  We had a time where we thought, “what the heck do I do next?” or “where do I go from here?“.  But we got through that desperate stage and have come out on the other end ready to help you do the same.

Read on….

Change is Necessary

For a while now I gave away my free Blogging Checklist eBook to anyone who subscribed to my newsletter.

But change is needed to move forward so today I am announcing that I have a

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First Steps to Marketing Online for Mom Business Owners

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Steps to Marketing your WAHM Business Online

Steps to Marketing your WAHM Business Online

Congratulations!  You are well on your way to financial freedom and success as a mompreneur!  You have decided to start and run your own business.  It may be small now but you have big hopes for it.

You know as a business owner you need to promote and market your business.  This means working offline as well as online to accomplish this.

Marketing is the process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers, for the purpose of selling the product or service. ~Wikipedia

I have mapped out 3 steps to marketing your mompreneur business when you first arrive online.

    Start your email list Start your website and blog Create a Facebook Fan Page

See below for details and click any links to find out more.

Start Your Email List

Don’t hesitate to capture the information of the customers that have an interest in your product. This is at the least an

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Video Thursday: TED Talks, Lessons and Encouragement at Our Fingertips

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Hey Everyone!

I’m out today helping my husband market his business online, learning all about Google Places.  I’m working as a teacher in an after school program for my friend’s Bricks for Kids business.  I’m also working on finishing my new free eBook called “How to Get Noticed Online: Tips for Novice Mom Business and Blog Owners.” And, if that is not enough, I am getting an outline down for a book I want to write about Pinterest.

I love being busy but it is not just busy but productive.  What good is getting tired and racking our brains if nothing good comes of all your work?

Good old fashion hard work and know how.

I have read many, many books and blogs about business, marketing and how to make a living online.  But honestly, the one place that has helped me to put all that knowledge into action and encourage me to be a better person thus a better business woman is TED.

TED is a huge compilation of speakers.  But not

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Seven Ways for 7 Days to Spice Up Your Facebook Page and Get More Interaction

By Allie | 24 comments

Get More Interaction On your Facebook Page

I’m sure if you have been working online to promote your small mompreneur business you have read a multitude of articles about of how to get more traffic, followers, likes, comments and interaction to your Facebook Page.  So I don’t really want to bore you and repeat what everyone else says.

Sure, you need to have a presence.  Yes, you need to update on a regular basis and converse with your fans.  And by all means be sure to be helpful and solve your readers problems.

But how do you REALLY get noticed and have interaction that will translate into sales and repeat customers?

You can literally be on Facebook 24/7 and get little to no interaction or results.

I have come up with 7 really simple, fun ways you can get more interaction on your Facebook Page.

Here are My 7 Ways for 7 Days to get Better Facebook Results 1. Using your Facebook profile, interact on other pages

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Video Thursday: Adding a Page to Your Facebook Lists

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We all love Facebook, right?  Well, I know many people that do not.  I tend to have this love/hate relationship with them.

On one hand Facebook sends great traffic to my blog.

On the other hand, Facebook rarely lets more than 25% of my fans to see my updates from my Facebook page.  You can read  my rant on my FB Page here.

This ranking system they have there called Edgerank makes sense to me but it just seems so skewed to larger pages with more fans.

There are work-arounds, of course.  I can get people to interact more with my page through update likes, polls and conversation.  Facebook figures if you have an active community page then there must be something interesting going on and will show your page in news feeds more often.

I can also ask my fans to either place my FB page on one of their interest lists or get notifications every time I post or both.

In the video below I show you

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