Your 1 Minute Introduction

I've been attending a lot of networking events recently. So I'm getting in some practice on giving my one minute intro. One of my favourite events is the eWomen Network event. They meet once a month for dinner or lunch and a speaker on a practical topic on how to grow your business. Here's some tips they gave me for giving a great one minute intro:

Here are some helpful preparation tips for tomorrow's networking event:


Spend some time today thinking about how you will introduce yourself to others tomorrow. We call this your "60-second commercial." You will be asked to tell us, in 60 seconds or less the following:

Who you are

What do you offer

What do you specifically need in the next 30 - 60 days

What do you plan to purchase, for personal or business reasons, in the next 30 - 60 days



One of the keys to the success of our networking events is our philosophy of "GIVING FIRST." Translated, this means we approach networking from a position of abundance, where giving to others leads to unlimited opportunities for all. Tomorrow, as you meet and connect with others, please approach all of your interactions from a place of "giving." Seek first to help others before being helped.

We promise, by engaging in our "giving" approach to relationship building you will gain more from this eWomenNetwork experience than you ever imagined.

Check out future events at http://www.ewomennetwork.com

For events in Surrey or Vancouver, BC Canada: https://events.ewomennetwork.com/event/calendar.php?lid=102

Where is your RSS feed?

I recently had a faithful blog reader ask me this question. Good question, I thought, where is it? I hunted around Blogger.com dashboard and found it hiding under the Layout button.

Go to Dashboard. Look at the box at the top of the page titled Manage Your Blogs. Click on Layout and then click on Add Page Element. See the section Subscription Links (New!)Let your readers easily subscribe to your blog with popular feed readers. Click on the button "Add to Blog".

Another way to access the Layout page is to go to the Posting page and click on the Layout tab at the top menu.

View your Blog and you will see the orange RSS feed button. Users can click on this button and add your blog to their blog reader.

What's a blog reader? Good question. Look for the answer in my next blog posting.

See the excellent article "What is RSS?"

What is Link Popularity?

You may have heard the term link popularity. It is the total number
of links to your website from other websites or directories.

Why is Link Popularity Important?

Having many good quality links to your website will increase targeted traffic to your website. Google tracks these links to your website and rates your website with a Page Rank number. Websites with a Page Rank 3 or more are the best ones to place your website link.

From www.linkpopularity.com
Knowing who links to your site and increasing the number of quality links is an important part of any web site promotion effort. This free service allows you to query Google, Yahoo, and MSN and reports on link popularity.

Try out this free service today!

Top Two Marketing Tips of the Week

July 4th, 2008

Here is my top marketing tip for the week:

Super Duper FREE Online Marketing and PR Resources


including the Free Online Marketing Guide


I found this above valuable resource on mynameiskate.ca
Great name!


My top blogging tip comes from my favourite blogger at out-smarts.com

3 C’s for Blogging. Thanks Mhairi!

Happy Fourth of July to our American cousins to the south.

And Happy Canada Day last Tuesday to all my Canadian brothers and sisters! You rock, eh!

For more Internet Marketing tips, visit Katy's website at Vancouver Web Design and Marketing

Where does your website rank in Google?

Marketing tips for Professional Organizers in Canada.

To find how your website ranks in the most popular search engine, Google:

1. Go to google.com

2. Type "professional organizers" bc canada in the search box.

3. Click on Google Search button.

1. You will see the 1st and 2nd listings are for the Professional Organizers in Canada website:

POC BC - Professional Organizers in Canada
Get to know the BC chapter of POC - Professional Organizers in Canada.
www.organizersincanada.com/chapters/index.php?ishow=1&chap_id=3

2. Kudos to goodriddance.ca for having the number 3 spot on Google.com
Here's the listing:

clutter, de-clutter, Professional Organizer - Vancouver, BC
CanadaGood Riddance - Professional Organizers - Vancouver BC Canada, Professional Organizing Solutions. De-cluttering your house, One Room At A Time ...
www.goodriddance.ca/ - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

3. And my blog comes up number 4 and 5! Your blog could be here!

Web Design Secrets: Searching blogs for Professional Organizers in ...
professional organizers bc canada with no quotes and came up with nada to do with professional organizing. Then I put quotes around the phrase "professional ...
seascapewebdesign.blogspot.com/2008/06/ok.html - 43k - Cached - Similar pages


Contact Katy@seascapewebdesign.com or visit SeascapeWebDesign.com today to get your blog or website listed in Google's Top Ten!

What is a Blog?

I recently attended a workshop on Blogging for Business given by Mhairi Petrovic on June 17th.

One of the attendees piped up: What does a blog look like? I imagine little comment balloons popping up when someone makes a comment on a blog.

(By the way, that's a great visual idea - having comments pop up in balloons when commenting on blogs.)

That is a very good question. What does a blog look like?

Most definitions say a blog is an online diary or journal. Sort of but not quite. Does anyone want the whole world to read what's in your private diary? I think not. They forget to add a very important qualifier to their definition of blog. It's a very public online journal. More like a column in a newspaper. I like this definition found on blogger.com:

A blog is a website. (It looks like a webpage.)
It's a website where you write stuff on an ongoing basis.
New stuff shows up on top so your visitors can read what's new right away.

And blogs are more interactive than the normal website. Visitors can comment on each blog entry and add their opinion or facts thereby creating a discussion rather than just a static webpage. And the blog poster can respond to the comments and the visitor can respond again. So then we have a conversation. This builds community.

If you're new to blogging, a good place to start is at http://www.blogger.com. This blog is built on blogger.com. It's free to sign up and start a blog. They have a tour explaining the features of the blog. And you can restrict you views your blog. If you're a bit shy at first, you can show your blog only to your friends and family. And then later on you can show it to the world.

How to customize your blogger.com blog

I am learning how to customize my new blog. I clicked on Customize button on the upper right hand corner. I clicked on the Edit link for the title area. After searching blogsearch.google.com for other blogs with the name, Web Design Secrets, I decided to change my blog name. Too many cheesey network marketing sites with that name.

Tip: Do a search on http://blogsearch.google.com for the name of your blog to see if any other blogs have the same name.

You can always change your blog name to something else. But it helps your audience to find you when you are consistent with the name of your blog.

I figured out how to add my company logo to my new blog header. I created an image with Adobe Photoshop that incorporated my logo and the new name of my blog. I clicked on Customize and then on the Edit link in the header. This is where you can customize your blog title, description and image. So I replaced the text blog title with a customized blogger header featuring my company logo and the new blog name. Don't you think it looks great?!