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Storytelling, Intuition, Truck Driver Training, and Career Change Experts

Please welcome four new talented experts to the IdeaMarketers Expert Village! We're excited to say we're up to 41 experts and are collecting quite a reservoir of knowledge and skill! Look for great things from our experts in the near future!

Official Storytelling Expert - Ronda Del Boccio   Ronda Del Boccio is an award-winning author, storyteller, radio host, columnist, mentor, and inspirational speaker. People tell her their story even without knowing she is known as The Story Lady. Her greatest passion is catching stories and inspiring you to become the hero you are destined to be using a system she created called Storyation™. Ronda is the author of short stories, articles, poems and two books: I’ll Push You Steer: The Definitive Guide to Stumbling through Life with Blinders On and the Kama Sutra of Storytelling: Positioning, Power and Profit. Visit her at Storyation.com or ProfitableStoryTelling.com.

Official Intuition Expert - Andrea Hess - Andrea Hess is an Intuitive Consultant and author of "Unlock Your Intuition: How to Accurately and Reliably Access Your Most Valuable Resource." For more information on her book, her readings, or to read more of her work on her blog, please visit www.EmpoweredSoul.com

Official Trucking/Truck Driver Training Expert - Aubrey 'Allen' Smith
Allen is a 30 year veteran and expert within the trucking industry. He has written dozens of articles, helping students and new drivers to be successful by avoiding the scams of many truck driving schools and trucking companies. He is the original author of the well known book, "The Truth about Trucking."

Official Career Change Expert - Valerie Young
"Off the beaten career path" consultant, Valerie Young, abandoned her corporate cubicle to become the Dreamer in Residence at ChangingCourse.com, offering free resources to help you discover your life mission and live it. Her career change tips have been cited The Wall Street Journal, USA Today Weekend, Redbook, Entrepreneur’s Business Start Ups, and on-line at MSN, CareerBuilder, and iVillage.com. An expert on the Impostor Syndrome, she’s presented her How to Feel as Bright and Capable as Everyone Seems to Think You Are program to thousands of people.

Trucking, Career Change, Alternative Health Care, Intution and Storytelling Articles

We've added a few more article categories for those looking for content and also for those who wish to better categorize their articles so they can be found and picked up more easily: 

• Business: Trucking/Truck Driving
• Business: Career Change
• Life: Alternative Healthcare
• Life: Intuition
• Entertainment: Storytelling

Email Marketing Checklist

Kathy Gulrich, information marketer and Real Estate Expert gives the following marketing tip:

"Before you send out your next flyer, or brochure, or direct marketing campaign, think 'green.'  Instead of using paper, consider using your email signature to get your marketing message to your customers and clients.  You'll not only help save the planet - you'll save a great deal of money, as well. Getting your email marketing message to the right people will have the most impact on your marketing results, so choose your list carefully.  And when you send out those emails, be sure to take advantage of an often-overlooked marketing tool: your email signature.

How can you turn your email signature into product sales?  Just follow the 7-Step Checklist in Kathy Gulrich's article.... Using Your Email Signature to Make Sales: 7 Step Checklist.

Article RSS Feeds Available for IdeaMarketers Article Categories

We've added RSS feeds for all our article categories. This is a great way to receive updates on the latest articles on your favorite categories or to integrate our content into your site, blog or social media account. Anything that takes an RSS feed works. To find the RSS feeds, click on the categories at the bottom of any page of IdeaMarketers.com and if the RSS feed has been generated, you'll see a link for it at the top with a little RSS feed button. For examples, you can click on any of these brand new categories we've just added to IdeaMarketers.com this week to see an RSS Feed for them:

Business: How to Charge
Business: Getting Started Online
Business: Worker's Compensation

Life: Career Change
Life: Diabetes
Life: Life Purpose
Life: Elder Care
Marketing: Copywriting

Elder Care Marketing, Pets, and Affiliate Marketing Experts

Official Elder Care Marketing Expert - Valerie VanBooven RN BSN
As seen on NBC’s Today Show and CNNFN’s "Your Money" with Ali Veshi, speaker and author, Valerie VanBooven RN, BSN, PGCM is one of the nation’s leading long-term care experts and consultant for consumers and professionals. Learn how to market your seniors service by signing up for the FREE MARKETING EZINE at www.ultimateseniorservice.com. Visit Valerie at TheLTCExpert.com/.

Official Pets Expert - Eleanor Scheidemann
Eleanor Scheidemann,CEO The Dog Lady, Inc. has over ten years experience as a professional dog trainer. She doesn't just train dogs: Her mission as a professional dog trainer is to build relationships. The Dog Lady builds relationships first with dog owners and then between owners and their dogs. As a dog behavior consultant, she always strives to find new and imaginative ways to bring pets and people together to their mutual benefit. Through dog obedience training, she works to solve your dog behavior problems and provide your dog with the dog obedience skills he needs to be a happy member of your household. Visit her at www.thedoglady.org

Official Affiliate Marketing - Kenth Nasstrom
Among all the different activities used for online profit, the one that can help most people get started is affiliate marketing. Kenth teaches affiliate marketing as a gateway for his customers and subscribers into more advanced methods of marketing with their own products and mailing lists. Kenth is constantly learning new things each day and enjoys teaching others what he discovers. Visit him online at www.gurusay.com.

Homeschools, Colleges, Success Acceleration, Marriage and More!

Please welcome our new experts to IdeaMarketers.com! We're excited to have them aboard!

Official Expert on Colleges: Online & Campus
Michael Bustamante is a staff writer for Media Positive Communications, Inc. in association with SchoolsGalore.com. SchoolsGalore.com, exists as a resource for students, parents and adult learners who are searching for online schools, colleges, universities, and post secondary education. The site lists more than 2,800 accredited traditional schools and online colleges, and visitors can find a wealth of information about various vocational, occupational, and professional programs of study.

Official Homeschooling Expert - Lisa Preston
Lisa Preston taught elementary school for 17 years, and then quit to write as a homeschool evangelist - to encourage parents to homeschool, and to work with my own nieces. Lisa has homeschooled for other families and has authored materials for homeschoolers. She is 100% committed to quality content and continually writes for the homeschool community. (BA and MA in Education). She is the author of "Why You Should Homeschool Your Child - A Public Schoolteacher's Confession," simple reading software, brain strategies for accelerated learning, and resources for parents of super-creative children. You may reach her at homeschoolhelper.com.

Official Marriage & Family Therapist - Dr. Linda Miles
Author, Dr. Linda Miles, is deeply committed to helping individuals and couples achieve rewarding relationships. She is an expert with a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology, and has worked in the mental health field for over thirty years. She has been interviewed extensively on radio, TV, and in newspapers and magazines. Find more relationship ideas and relaxation techniques on her web site and in the award-winning book she co-authored, The New Marriage: Transcending the Happily-Ever-After Myth, and numerous CD's, that Train Your Brain. http://www.drlindamiles.com

Official Writing for the Web Expert - Lesley Morrissey
Lesley is an expert in readability - that's knowing not only WHAT people read, but also HOW they read. She writes commercial copy for the web, brochures, marketing, press releases, newsletters and articles. She is also a professional non-fiction editor and celebrity speech writer. Visit Lesley online at http://www.insidenews.co.uk/

Official Copywriting Expert - Allan Katz
Are You Getting The Biggest Bang For Your Marketing Buck? If the answer is ‘no’, or even ‘maybe’, I can help you improve the results you’re getting online and offline by attracting new customers and clients, and keeping them coming back again and again. Allan has been helping entrepreneurs and small businesses for over 20 years in all types of industries, from retailers to banks, online marketers and services; non-profits to mail order businesses. And he can do it for you also. Best of all, he's offering you a way to find out without risking another minute of your time or a penny of your money. Visit Allan at www.webmagnet.info

Official Getting Started Online Expert - Bruce Galle
Bruce Galle teaches you How to Make Money By Getting An Online Business Started. Bruce has a successful on-line entrepreneur since 1996 showing others how to duplicate his magic with his web site, http://MakeMoneyOn.com. Sign up for his free news letter and get your FREE Cash Flow Generator report!

Official Accelerate Success Expert - Hazel Palache
Hazel Palache, MCCht, CPC, CNLP, is a best selling author and certified coach who empowers women to reach accelerated success in their lives and business. She teaches women professionals how to zap negative thinking in order to accelerate success in any area of life. Visit her online at TheAstonishingPowerofYou.com

Turn Your Business into a High Six-Figure Success

One of the most enjoyable parts of working with a group of talented experts is reading their blogs. As I've been perusing this morning, there were a couple that stood out as beneficial to all of us as entrepreneurs.

Divine Download
This is a great audio with Kendall SummerHawk our expert on how to charge what you're worth. She shares her six best marketing, money and soul strategies she used to turn her business into a high 6-figure success... and how you can too so you're making the money you rightfully deserve, helping the people you're destined to help.

And here's a fun one about branding...

What I Learned from Gene Simmons
Advertising expert, Michele PW shares what she learned from meeting Gene Simmons of KISS and reading his book. Good stuff on branding for any entrepreneur -- musical or not!

Speaking of fun, we had a meet & greet at my house Saturday Night and a couple of our experts from Atlanta came - Nancy Gerber (our relationship expert) and Nancy Spivey (real estate investing expert). My nephew, Noah Collins was there to entertain us, and Nancy Gerber joined in the mix with a soulful rendition of "House of the Rising Sun."

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Article Marketing that Grabs and Pulls Clients to You

Here are a couple informative blogs that talk about article marketing and how to us it to pull clients to you:

How a Few Measly Words Can Dramatically Improve Your Blog Headline and Content
This is a must-read for anyone who writes articles, blogs, books, etc.

An Excellent Example of the Power of Article Marketing!
SEO Expert, Joshua Spaulding shares a powerful example of what article marketing can do.

Information Marketing Tips

Protecting Electronic Downloads
by Stephanie Chandler, Entrepreneur Expert
I am often asked if I worry about my ebooks and special reports getting passed around the Internet for free. The reality is that we can’t prevent people from forwarding our ebooks along to friends, just as we can’t prevent them from loaning out a trade paperback. My feeling is that if someone shares one... click here

Article Income Tip of the Week
Article Marketing Expert Jeff Herring offers the Article Income Tip of the Week on how to create a mini-guide with your articles... click here

Work at Home with Squidoo: How to promote your site!
by Jeff Casmer, Home Business Expert
Squidoo is a relatively new web 2.0 website that was launched in March of 2006. Work at home with Squidoo allows people to build web pages, or lenses, that offer unique information to visitors. Squidoo lenses come with built in income programs like Adsense and affiliate programs like Amazon and Ebay. What many people don’t ... click here

Technical Difficulties Resolved

IdeaMarketers.com had some database difficulties around 11:30am ET today which required us to revert to a previous  backup of our database. We were able to restore any transactions such as bids, deposits, proofreading requests, etc. But if you set up a writer account or added/edited any articles, press releases or books between about 3:00am ET Monday April 7, 2008 and 11:30am ET Tuesday April 8, 2008, they will most likely need to be re-added or re-edited. We apologize for this inconvenience, but it simply couldn't be avoided with the database issues we encountered.