An important call for local entrepreneurs:

A Crucial Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It... Your Community Needs a Blog Evangelist!

Have you ever looked at small business websites in your neck of the woods? It's not always a pretty sight is it? Most small business owners have a limited budget available for having a website built so you see a lot of common mistakes made over and over.

• They buy 'easy website building software' off the shelf at the office supply store and try to create something on their own - with some pretty crazy results!
   

• They let their nephew who took a computer class build it for them and it ends up looking like a something out of 1995. (Or maybe it was really built in 1995!)
   

• They hire the same guy who cleaned the virus off of their last computer 'whip something up for them' and he has added every 'neat little effect' he's always wanted to try: scrolling menus, flashing text, mirrored images... oh no!

• Or on the opposite end of the spectrum, they hire an expensive web designer to build something sharp but they haven't been able to update the site on their own so the info has gone stale.

Gone Are The Days of Simple Brochure Websites.

Local businesses struggle to reach local search traffic. When you have a tiny three page website that hasn't changed a bit in three years, it's no wonder that they get no love from the search engines.

Today small businesses need to interact with their community and reach potential customers through a website that employs Web 2.0 tactics and for most businesses that is going to mean blogging!

When a small business embraces blogging, they keep their website fresh and interesting.  They naturally use phrases and add content that makes them attractive to search engines, bringing in the traffic they yearn for.

The problem is  most small business owners don't know what a blog is, let alone how to use one for their business  and that has created a new high demand niche just waiting to be taken advantage of - a need that calls for Blog Evangelists!

Build Your Own Business
Helping Small Business Owners Go 2.0!

Imagine teaching your local business community about the value of blogging - and getting paid to do it!  Whether you want to offer design services or act as a local blogging consultant, there's a major opportunity in your own backyard.

You would make a great Blog Evangelist if...

• You love the act of blogging

• You like to teach others new things

• You're excited about teaching small business owners about internet marketing

Sound Like Something You'd Enjoy Doing?
Join Our Brand New Membership Program!

Blog Evangelists is a one year membership program with lessons sent out on a regular schedule that will guide you in developing and launching your own blog design business. 

Before you start to worry, let me reassure you: You don't have to be a blogging expert or a small biz expert.  That's what Blog Evangelists is all about - teaching you what you need to know and giving you step by step guidance throughout the first year of your new business!

Regular Lessons Provided
by Blog Evangelists Will Include:
(just a smidgen as example)

üInstructions For Doing Research On Your Local Competition.

• The presence of competition isn't bad. (Something has to serve as a contrast to the simplicity that you'll offer!)

üStep By Step Directions For Setting Up Your Local Website Design Business.

• Choosing a great local domain name.

• What should you include on your website?

üReal World Tips & Tactics For Breaking Into The Local Small Business Market

• Ideas for making inroads with your local business community

• You can make yourself the 'go to' person for web 2.0 advice

• Guerilla marketing advice to help you grow your business

• Getting local press, keeping your company in view

üFresh Local Blogging Ideas To Use In Your Market, Week After Week.

• We'll target specific local businesses common to every community and give you blogging ideas you can share with your clients (or potential clients.)

üStep by Step, Precept upon Precept Wordpress Theme Design Tutorials! (Plus other Tips & Tricks) Yes, we're Wordpress snobs and proud of it!

• We'll tell you about hot new free wordpress themes and review the best premium themes that are great for local blogging.

• We'll provide you with quick form tutorials to help you know Wordpress better.

üSmall Business Website Development Tips

• Info on what small biz websites should include.

• Tips for doing website reviews that win new clients.

Guess What? You're Going to Bootcamp!
(Blog Theme Bootcamp that is.)

If you've never even tried to edit a theme - don't worry!  And if you bring existing Wordpress design skills to the table or not - Blog Evangelists is going to equip you with tutorials that will expand those skills step by step. 

You'll learn things like:

• How to create a theme from scratch.

• How to recreate an HTML website as a new Wordpress theme.

• How to edit existing themes to create the look you want.

• How to work with Widgets.

• And much, much more!

Better Yet - You Can Ask Questions
That Shape Future Lessons & Bonus Material!

Members can submit questions by email for the extra support you need for your unique business area.  We'll answer questions in subsequent lessons or create special bonus material as needed.  Our goal is to cover all the bases and see our members succeeding!

A Few Questions You May Have:

s Do I need graphic design experience?

It sure helps if you want to do a lot of the work yourself but no, you can outsource graphics. We'll give you tips and advice on how to do so.

Still, knowing how to do some things with graphics can be really useful so we'll be sure to provide a tutorial or two on the subject.

s Do I need to be a great writer?

Not necessarily. 

If you want to help clients produce blog posts it helps if you love to write - but you can hire a ghostwriter on the fly anytime. We'll show you how to find and work with great ghostwriters when needed.

s Do I have to be an experienced blog designer?

If you are, that's great - but if you aren't you can learn. We'll feed you step by step chunks of info to help you learn how it's done.

If you don't want to provide complete blog design services yourself you can take on the role of consultant and develop your own team of service providers to work with. We'll be teaching you how to do this too! One step at a time!

s How much money can I make?

Fab Question!  Every business community is different.  We're seeing anything from $147 to $497 for basic blog set up. Some markets would definitely bear higher prices and some businesses will need more complex designs that command higher prices. 

In the end - you will decide what to charge your clients.

Included in the first Month: Learn How To Amp Up Your Income By Offering Web Hosting Services To Your Clients!

You can build in awesome residual income by offering your own branded hosting to your clients and the surrounding business community.  We'll teach you how to set up a hosting service that won't keep you up at night!

Check out these Lesson Titles for the first Quarter of the Blog Evangelists Membership:

• Lesson #1 - Why Your Community Needs You

• Lesson #2 - Ten Questions about Blogging

• Lesson #3 - Your Community

• Lesson #4 - Your Competition

• Lesson #5 - Branding & Position

• Lesson #6 - Your Logo & First Promotional Materials

• Lesson #7 - The Tools of Your Trade

• Lesson #8 - Your Business Website

• Lesson #9 - Setting up Your Development Blog

• Lesson #10 - Geeky, Artistic, marketer...Me?

• Lesson #11 - PHP Basics

• Lesson #12 - Build Residual Income with a Hosting Service

• Lesson #13 - Checking Out Other Blog Designers

• Lesson #14 - Converting an HTML Template Into PHP

• Lesson #15 - Building Your Project Portfolio

• Lesson #16 - Common Problems

• Lesson #17 - Why Local Businesses Should Blog

• Lesson #18 - Acquainting Ourselves With WordPress Tags

• Lesson #19 - Talking Money: What to Charge

• Lesson #20 - Developing Header.php

• Lesson #21 - The Written Proposal & Contract

• Lesson #22 - Developing Footer.php

• Lesson #23 - Ways to Approach Local Business Owners

• Lesson #24 - Developing Sidebar.php

• Lesson #25 - Communicating with Clients

• Lesson #26 - Developing Index.php

• Lesson #27 - Successful Outsourcing: Working with Graphic Artists

"Ladies, Thank you so much for this course. I'm really loving it. You give an abundance of clear how-to and why-to information. So many online courses are full of useless fluff, but not Blog Evangelists! It is very well written and easy to read because you use such an informal, conversational writing style. Because you send it in bite size pieces, I don't feel overwhelmed or stuck trying to figure too much out all at once. The information is easy for beginners yet provides much for even an experienced techie person to learn. Nice job, gals!"  - Sue Scott

Are You Ready To Join?

Great! We'd love to have you.  But hold on...

Meet your Teachers:

My name is Lynette Chandler, of Tech Based Marketing, Creator of Blogging Starter Pack.  I've been teaching business owners how to create and benefit from blogging for many years now and I'm thrilled to be able to help you take this great business tool out into your local and niche business communities.

My name is Kelly McCausey. I'm a successful internet marketer and home business coach.  I've been teaching home business owners how to add blogs to their business with great success and this year I launched a local blog design company. 

I've been taking great notes every step of the way and I can't wait to guide you through the creation of your own local blog design business.

Between the two of us, you're going to get a powerful education in both the technology and the business of creating your own blog design business. 

Join Blog Evangelists with Blog Theme Bootcamp today and Let's Get Started!

First Month Money Back Guarantee: If you join and within the first 30 days find that being a Blog Evangelist isn't going to be for you, you can cancel and request a refund of the first month's payment.

Important Note About Cancellations:  You may cancel your Blog Evangelists membership any time, however, if you wish to return later - due to the nature of our membership system you will start over from the beginning.

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