Call Us Braggers! Site Build It Gives Our Business a Stellar Alexa Ranking

We are bragging about our Site Build It website, EmpoweredBusinessEntrepreneurs.com, and the stellar Alexa Ranking we have achieved in a very short period of time.

Let us explain… and tell you why this is important to YOU.

A little over two years ago, neither of us (Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti) could have told you what an Alexa ranking was, let alone brag about it.  We didn’t even know each other way back then and could not have predicted that we would become sought after trainers for online marketing.

“What’s an Alexa Ranking?”

Here’s what we have learned through Site Build It about the relevance of a website’s Alexa ranking.  An Alexa ranking is simply a way to see how your website or blog compares to the 100 million or so other active sites on the Internet.

In Alexa’s words,

“It’s a measure of a website’s popularity.  The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past three months.  The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.”

Take a look at SiteBuildIt’s explanation here and see how you can take the Alexa ranking test to uncover how your website or blog ranks.

Take the Alexa Ranking Test – http://traffic-test.sitesell.com/

Fast forward two years to when we started our Empowered Business Entrepreneurs Site Build It website.  We each had previous experience with Site Build It and hoped we could combine our talents to create something really special.

We had no idea what we were in for!  To give you an idea, let us just tell you that we closely track a number of parameters to determine where we are making progress with our EmpoweredBusinessEntrepreneurs.com website and our EBE blog.  We know the power of SBI and have  jumped in and are making the proper moves to create full time incomes.

Our Site Build It site is our central hub or online marketing platform that we use to attract people from all over the world.  And to make sure that we continue to attract visitors, we remain extremely focused on providing quality content that is so valuable that they keep coming back for more.

We took the Alexa test ourselves and quite honestly do so almost every day (out of pure excitement and thrill about how well we continue to improve!).

Today (June 22, 2009) this is where we (our EmpoweredBusinessEntrepreneurs.com website AND our blog) are ranked out of 100 million active websites in the world:

That places us in the top 2% of all active websites on the web in the whole world.  In less than 4 months!!

We believe we are only weeks away from being in the top 1%.

Go ahead and put some big names of other online marketing trainers in this test and see if they are making the right moves to explode their site in the Alexa rankings!  Come on… brag with us because we wouldn’t be here without YOU!

We wish we could take more credit but quite honestly all we did was implement the strategies taught by  Site Build It.  (Oh, we added in a few little tricks of our own, but that’s another story… and training program!)

This was our Alexa ranking on May 4, 2009 (just 7 weeks ago):

Building a website that attracts leads is the one challenge that almost all new online marketers face.  And getting it to rank within the top 1% of all websites in the world?  Well, now that’s a downright challenge (and quite intimidating to say the least).

What’s our point here?

We are here to help you do the things that will get YOU noticed!  We’re a team that works to help you

• Focus on your own skills and use them to build your credibility
• Take effective action steps in the right sequence to set up your marketing system
• Resist the temptation to jump from one marketing method to another
• Implement the proven strategies taught by Site Build It and our EBE Mentorship Program

To learn more about our Site Build It journey and how YOU can benefit from what we are doing at Empowered Business Entrepreneurs, join us on a special training Webinar that we are opening up to everyone.  We will answer the two biggest questions we hear from attraction marketers and our very own team members:

1. What’s the Big Deal With  Site Build It?
2. Should I Build a Website or Should I Build a Blog?

One of the most important things you can do for your business is to get your central platform.  Nothing else matters at this point.  You need content up on the Internet and a central place to post it.  More importantly, you need a hub to lead all your friends, followers, and admirers from such social media sites, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, among many others.

You are invited to attend our live Site Build It training Webinar on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6:00 PM PST.

HERE’S THE SITE BUILD IT WEBINAR REGISTRATION LINK:
http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/sitebuildit-free-webinar

We’re going to spell it out in black and white and give you the information you need to know about how to decide if you should create a website or a blog.  Then we’ll show you the REAL support that we provide to further train, teach, support and help you.

You won’t want to miss our live Webinar.  We attract hundreds of people to our training calls and for good reason.  We give away insane value!

See you there!  Remember, REGISTER FOR THE FREE LIVE WEBINAR NOW:
http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/sitebuildit-free-webinar

We’ll also be making some incredible announcements.  If you know us, Alicia Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti of Empowered Business Entrepreneurs, then you know we don’t just deliver.  We over-deliver.

Who do you think taught us to do that?

Get Your Head Out of Your A.R.S.

Too many online marketers waste precious time thinking, pondering, and ruminating about their A.R.S. Of course, by A.R.S. I am referring to your Auto-Responder System and it is one of the most important (and confusing) components for baby boomer online marketers.

At EmpoweredBusinessEntrepreneurs.com we receive a ton of daily emails asking us which is the best Auto-Responder System and why. To help you get over the hump of trying to figure this out on your own, here are a few tips to help you make a decision and get into action.

Your A.R.S. is one of the most important parts of your marketing system and without one you are severely handicapping your business. It allows you to:

• Communicate with the people who visit your website
• Send emails to your subscribers
• Automate the emails so they go out in a specific sequence
• Leverage your time
• Deepen your relationship with your web visitors
• Build your list of targeted traffic
• Presell your product, service, or opportunity
• Develop your marketing pipeline

Simply stated, your A.R.S. gives your web traffic the ability to stay connected to you by subscribing to your periodic emails or newsletters.

Your A.R.S. subscribers are self-selected raving fans of your materials,
and they are therefore very qualified to consume even more
of your information, offers, products, and opportunities.

As an “attraction marketer”, you are in the business of building relationships and educating visitors through quality content. Without an Auto-Responder System you do not have a mechanism in place to further pre-sell your raving fans. In effect, your attraction marketing goes to waste if you do not have a method to “capture’ the people who are most interested in you and the content that you are posting on the web.

An auto-responder gives you the ability to:

1. Collect the names and email addresses of your web visitors
2. Legally communicate with them via an automated system

Please notice we said “legally communicate”. This is very important because a good A.R.S. has a “double opt-in” feature that meets the requirements of the FTC’s CAN-SPAM Act of 2008 which prohibits marketers from soliciting people who have not specifically requested information. So if you are emailing people to tell them about your product, business, opportunity, or service and they have not subscribed or opted-in to receive this information, stop doing it right now!

Instead set up your Auto-Responder System by choosing the one that best meets your needs. We have used the following auto-responders and can personally ‘vouch’ for each one of them.  There are others that we have used and intentionally left off of this list.  And there are many other auto-responders and contact management systems that we have never used.  So feel free to do your own research, and let us know what you discover.

Also please understand that as your marketing needs change, you may need to invest in a more sophisticated Auto-Responder System.  It is never fun to have to change your auto-responder but it happens as your business (and list) grows — and that’s a good thing!  If you already know that you are going to be doing some significant relationship building and online marketing in the future, then choose an auto-responder now that you can ‘grow into’.  We can personally recommend Aweber as a good choice for beginners who need an A.R.S. that can also fulfill the needs of a professional online marketer.

Our favorite Auto-Responder Systems:

Aweber – http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/aweber
Excellent. Our favorite. Gives emails a “SPAM” rating, tells you if you have broken links, allows you to parse email lists, sophisticated tracking data, integration with 3rd party systems (1Shoppingcart, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), and it is used by some of the biggest, baddest, most successful online marketers in the industry.

1ShoppingCart – http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/1shoppingcart
Excellent but only for those doing or planning on doing significant sales and marketing. Excellent live phone support. Reliable and very powerful.

Oprius – http://www.empoweredbusinessentrepreneurs.com/oprius
Good for a beginner using a contact management system for the first time. 30-day trial, lots of support, integrated scheduler and calendar. Opt-in boxes are not customizable (at the time of this writing.)

Site Build It! – http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/ebe.html
Look if you have Site Build It and you are on a budget, start with their auto-responder program. It’s completely integrated with newsletters and it’s included in the total cost of SBI so you do not have to add an extra expense.

Now that you have this information, get you’re A.R.S. in gear and set up your email marketing system today! Sign up for one of the free trial periods and learn how to use an auto-responder effectively. Write a minimum of 7 short emails that go out automatically every 3 to 4 days and over deliver quality content to your subscribers.

If you want to see an excellent A.R.S. in action, go ahead and opt-in to our Empowered Business Entrepreneurs A.R.S. (below) and you will see firsthand how an effective Auto-Responder System works.  Just fill in your name and email address in the form below:

Check Out Our A.R.S.!

And guess what else?  Not only do we go to great lengths to protect your email privacy, but we also provide you with an opt-out link with every email.  So that if you get tired or bored with us — which is highly unlikely  — you can unsubscribe to our series of life-changing emails at any time.

So go ahead … check out our A.R.S! We don’t mind a bit!

Warm Regards,

Lisa and Alicia