Make sure you have the right time for your meetings next week by using one of my favourite tools: World Clock Meeting Planner: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

Once the time change is in place you can “Google” the word “time” and the name of the city you need to know the time for, ie: “time London”. This will give you the current time in that city.

Widgets are sidebar and footer elements that you can add, remove, organize and customize. Some plugins include their own widgets in order to make it easier for you to display them in your sidebar and footer. You can use these widgets (and the pre-installed widgets) to customize the look and functionality of your sidebar and footer.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Log into your WordPress account (www.OurWebsite.com/wp-login.php).
2. Click “Appearance” in the top menu bar.
3. Click “Widgets” in the sub-menu bar.
4. On the right hand side, click the sidebar/footer you want to modify. This will expand your view to see the widgets that are already there.
   NOTE: the footer is what appears at the bottom of your site near your copyright information.
5. From the left-hand side, choose the widget you want to add to this sidebar/footer and drag it to the widget area. You can “drop” it into any position you like, before or after any of the widgets that are there.
6. To reposition the widget, just drag it to any position in your list of sidebar items.
7. Click the dropdown arrow beside the widget name to view any required settings or options.
8. Set the title that will appear above the widget and modify any other widget-specific settings.
9. If you are viewing a “Text” widget, enter your text or html code into the empty box that appears. This is where you would add the code for your email subscription sign-up to a text widget.
10. Click “Save.”
11. View your website to see the changes you made. You can play around with these widgets as much as you like, until you get the look and functionality that you’re after. And you can always change them again later.
12. To remove a widget from your list, click to expand the widget options and then click “Delete.”

Did you like this tip? It came right from my book “Does This Blogsite Make My Wallet Look Fat?”. Also available on Kindle!

If your client’s asked you to set up a membership site today would you know what tools to use and how to do it, while making your client look good and looking good to your client?

Do you want to know the ins and outs of WishList Member, the most popular membership plugin, to add it to your menu of services?

Membership sites have been around for years and they aren’t going anywhere. Membership sites are attractive to clients because they offer a cost effective option to work with the membership site owner and membership site owner’s love it because they get to leverage their content, serve more people and create another stream of revenue.

Find out more about this one week course that begins Monday, January 24th http://hotskillsvatraining.com/membership/ You’ll make back the cost of tuition with your first membership site client and I will make sure you will have a great time with me next week!

Learn more and register here.

Why offer a complimentary teleclass?

• Promoting your teleclass on your newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc will attract potential clients who want to get to know you and the services or products you offer.
• Your current fans will tell others about your teleclass and promote it on their social media sites, thereby expanding your reach and getting the word out about what you do.
• Each time someone comes to your site to register for the teleclass, guess what? You’ve accomplished the “more traffic” goal.
• You can set it up so that those who sign up for your teleclass, are automatically set up to your newsletter list. This accomplishes the “more newsletter readers” goal. And if you can get 100 people on each of your teleclasses and you run one a month, then you will add 1200 new newsletter readers in a year!
• During your teleclass “wow” them with your knowledge and be generous. No one wants to attend a teleclass just to hear the same old thing and learn absolutely nothing, you’ll lose fans not gain them. Give them at least three “take aways” that they can use immediately. Now your “more fans” goal can be checked off too.
• During your teleclass offer them a related product, course or service at a lower price, to reward them for coming to the call and to be generous.
• After your teleclass, send your participants a recording of the call. I use AudioAcrobat.com to record my calls. If you made an offer on your teleclass promote it in the same email and be sure to send a link to register/purchase your offer.
• Be even more generous by offering prizes! I did this for the first time last month and it was a hit. In my post-teleclass email I asked them a few questions about the teleclass itself, to see if they were paying attention, and I added two questions asking them what they learned and what they want to learn more about. I choose three winners and notified them by email. I don’t know who had more fun, those who participated in the game or me, watching all of the entries come through.

If you plan your teleclasses a head of time, and you run one once a month, you can imagine the success you can create! Yes, less people are coming to free teleclasses, but when word gets out that your teleclasses are filled with valuable content and prizes, how could anyone resist?

By the way, my next teleclass is Wednesday, December 15th: The 3 Tasks Every Blogsite Owner Needs to do Before 2011 I’d love to “see” you on the call.

I absolutely love this strategy because I get to teach, interact and enjoy an hour with a bunch of entrepreneurs. Do you like this strategy? Why or Why not? How has it worked for you? Comment below.

This question came in from a good friend and fellow coach Tia Singh.

If you are using Feedburner to deliver your blog posts via email you may have noticed that the subject line never changes. You can change the settings in Feedburner to display the name of the blog post it is delivering in the subject line instead of the name of your site, the name of your feed or the tag line of your WordPress blogsite. Here’s how to do it!

How to Customize the Subject of Your Feedburner Emails

1. Log into Feedburner: http://feedburner.google.com
2. Choose the feed you want to customize under “Feed Title”
3. Click the “Publicize” tab across the top
4. Click “Email Subscriptions” on the left menu bar
5. Click “Email Branding” in the sub-menu
6. Input the following in the “Email/Subject title:” field
   ${latestItemTitle}
   This will pick up the title of your blog post and input it in the subject field for you automatically.
7. In case you write more than one blog post a day click “Change Subject when an email has 2 or more items”
8. A new field will appear and so will a few examples for you to copy and paste into that field. I choose “${latestItemTitle}” plus ${m} more
   This will display the title of the most recent blog post and “plus 1 more” in the case that I wrote 2 blog posts that day!
9. Scroll down (all the way down) and click “Save”