Why you need a web site with a blog

People use the web for everything now: ticket purchases, public transport routes, phone book and for information on your business…..no website equals lost business.

Web sites are so old school though. They are static, hardly ever change and don’t work behind the scenes to attract multiple new business to you on a daily basis. Customers searching for you want to enter into a conversation with you. A website doesn’t do that.

A website with a blog does.

Business blog posts are key word rich and the search engine spiders love them. As soon as they leave their web, the spiders swing across to web sites with blogs to gobble the new information and take it back to be indexed by mother spider search engine: to place it in the search engine libraries for customers to call up at any time. The more active your site, the more the spiders come to chew on your information.

It is a fact that web sites with active blogs attached rank higher in indexed pages of search engines and appear in customer’s searches for the key words you might use.

You need a blog! Even you authors out there. Are you aware that traditional publishers are more likely to pick you up if you have an active following already? Search engine ranking is an easy way to prove your following. To a publisher, higher ranks means potentially more book sales.

Check out this excellent blog post from a publisher: Six Reasons Why Every Author Should Have a Blog.

Have you been thinking about getting a website or a blog but haven’t been sure where to start? Perhaps you’ve had a quote and swallowed your surprise at the cost.

Web site development does, however, offer some budget options. For $1000 I will explain those options and build your blog or web and blog for you.

 

WEEKLY SPECIAL 26.7.10 – 2.8.10
Four lucky people can have a wordpress website for $500.00 up front.
I am offering four website specials this week
(offer ends Sunday 4th August or as soon as four website bookings have been taken).
Just $500.00 – that is an excellent deal. Half price!!!
Contact me now for further details.

Yes, for just $1,000.00, (domain name and host space is additional and approximately $150.00), you can have a web site up and running within a week.

Based in Cairns, Megan Bayliss can offer this service to you Australia wide. Through consultation, Megan will help you to work out how you want your site to look, which pictures you want to use, what words you want, what pages are important, whether you want to blog or pay Megan to ghost blog for you. She will then put it all together and work to get your site listed in search engines and/or social networking sites. Further, Megan will offer you a single training session on how to update your own site and provide you access to tutorials for your ongoing learning.

Megan Bayliss has used blog themes that look exactly like a website for four years now. Her own business blog is highly ranked through out the blogosphere, in Google and she is a top 50 Australian blogger. Not a geek, Megan speaks real life language and understands that web site language is not the typical language of the regular business person.

Want a website with a blog? Contact Megan Bayliss.

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New edition of Parent Sense: a protective play tutorial

Do you teach or want to learn about protective behaviours? Available for immediate download through my book shop, Parent Sense is not available anywhere else.

For just $10.50 you can print and hand out as many copies as you require – no restriction, no further permissions required.

Written in an easy to understand way, Parent Sense teaches carers how to protectively play and how to keep their kids safe from sex predators. A study at home tutorial (or an etorial as I have dubbed it), it provides information on child sexual assault, tells you what to do if you suspect sex abuse and is jam packed with protective play ideas.

If you are a trainer and want to offer protective behaviour training, then Parent Sense IS the basis of your training program AND your core handout.

Perfect for day care settings, play dates, child therapists, youth workers, foster carers, schools, or parents who want to teach personal safety to their children. Use this valuable resource as a once off or store it for multiple print outs to hand out when ever you want to share protective behaviour, no go tell or personal safety information.

If you do not yet know the BITSS model of protective behaviours then you are behind the times. Buy it now and keep your kids safe through protective play.

 

BITSS of Protective Behaviours is a play program designed by Megan Bayliss from Imaginif.

 

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Surviving Adolescence

Yesterday I facilitated a workshop on how to survive adolescence. Hosted by Hambledon House, it was a free workshop for anyone affected by adolescent behaviour: parents, teachers, grandparents, aunts, etc.

With only two hours available,  we hardly touched the surface. I do believe, though, that every participant walked away from the workshop understanding that the major developmental task of adolescence is separation and that six months in the life of a teen is a long time (interests, friends and behaviours change quickly).

For those who want to run something similar for your client groups, this was the outline that I followed (handouts are linked and you are welcome to use them with credit back to author please):

Ice breakerDeep Speak: pick a card and answer the question from your own perspective. Think of a teen in your life. Imagine that you are that young person and now answer the question from their perspective.

Adolescence is about thinking through to different levels and they love these sorts of questions. You are about to discover why.

Tasks of Adolescence: Handout. Go through the 11 tasks – in a nut shell, adolescence is about separation from us as parents/carers/adults.

Active Listening: Adolescents always say….you never listen to me. Well, let’s have a look at how to listen properly.

Effective attending (Handout) has 3 parts to it –

  1. Soler (Sit square on, Open body language, Lean slightly forward, Eye contact, Relaxed posture)
  2. Your psychological noise
  3. Their psychological noise (including their tasks of adolescence).

Overall messages to take away:

  • The major task of adolescence is separation, and,
  • six months in the life of a teenager is a looooong time. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
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Do writers survive? How is Megan Bayliss doing?

There is life after management in the social services. I am currently writing curricula for an early childhood training provider and am supplying four articles per week for a business to use as they please.

I have submitted a few of my creative pieces to places that accept unsolicited manuscripts and to date have had only two rejections.  Naturally, I am hoping that some of my pieces are accepted because I need a constant cash flow to keep me in the manner in which I like to thrive :) Can anyone share any places they use for unsolicited flash fiction?

I have picked up an external training and am constantly fielding enquiries about my  own training programs, guest speaking and locum work. I don’t want any locum work in the social sciences. I want to get paid to write.

The Masters degree has started. I am loving the creative stuff but am much less enthusiastic about journalism. It strikes me as another institution of social control and value decided patriarchy. However, I am stoic, tenacious and definitely not a quitter so I push through journalism and make myself find the positives in it!

I am writing practice pieces every day at Writer’s Prompts Daily. If you are an aspiring writer, do consider joining the fun. We operate within a critical friend framework and, as individuals post their written piece, we each comment, encourage, point out flaws, etc. To join, all you have to do is look at the daily picture prompt (I change the pic every afternoon) and start writing anything about it on your blog: any genre, any voice, any style. Simple and ever so fun. There’s five of us playing along at the moment: myself, The Little Dun Pony, Sammi Speaks Sometimes, Mountain Girl Musings and The Lockless Door. We would LOVE you to join us. It is a fantastic way to learn and to develop the discipline of daily writing.

My Fair Trade Journal online book shop has sold a few journals. I’ve raised a facebook page for the shop and have closed off my personal profile to family only. If you would like to keep in touch with me then please “like” my shop as a friend. It is there that you will find me interacting in my usual gregarious, irreverent and straight forward incorrect way. The social network plugin is in the side bar, down toward the bottom of the page.

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How to survive an adolescent

As much as I am tempted to suggest: ingest heavily and go to bed, I will not. This is a serious issue and it calls for some serious action.

Come and learn about the tasks of adolescence and what you can do to survive the necessary and developmentally appropriate turbulence.

Interactive and practical, all parents of a teen are welcome to attend. Sharing with other parents lessens your isolation and confirms that you are NOT a bad parent.

Failing wanting to learn and improve your home life, come and cry with me…I have gone through six adolescents and therefore require a month away in a five star resort on the Seychelles…six months in a row!

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