Webinar starts tomorrow!

This is a quickie blog post to remind you that tomorrow the price of my Great Groundhog Day Integration Extravaganza webinar will go up from $69 to $99, so if you were thinking of buying (even just for the recordings), now’s the time.

What will I be integrating? And what’s a “webinar,” anyway?

Well, a webinar is a teleclass, but you can also watch me demonstrating stuff live on your computer screen. You don’t need to download anything or have special fancy software installed — just go to the webinar link (which you’ll get as soon as you sign up) and you’ll be able to watch my screen (as webinar host, I also get the option of turning on my webcam and showing you my actual face, which I probably won’t because, honestly, it’s highly likely that I’ll be wearing pajamas. But you can always hope, right?).

And the “integration” part refers to getting several important parts of your online business to work smoothly together. In this case, I’m talking specifically about AWeber (for emails to your customers/visitors), E-Junkie (the shopping cart that handles sales and affiliate commissions) and PayPal (the actual payment processor). And, of course, the WordPress site that brings them all together. Your WordPress site, that is.

I’ll be giving live demonstrations of several common “I need these things to play nice with each other” scenarios, and answering your questions. The class will include two one-hour live sessions (both recorded and sent to participants) and a followup guidebook (showing you step-by-step screenshots that you can follow along with while listening to the audio recordings).

If you’re not ready for the whole webinar experience yet, that’s perfectly OK. You can hang out here on the blog, where I’ll be posting some followups to this post about adding audio clips to your website this week. Or you can call me up during my Open Office Hour on Thursday, or leave a comment here with your question.

It’s all good.

How to get your shopping cart and mailing list to play nicely together

Let’s say you’re off to a good start with WordPress. Maybe you’ve got some good blog posts, or you’ve come up with a few good ideas for products, and you want to spread the word.

Now you’re thinking you need an email list. And you’re wondering if you need a shopping cart. And you’re starting to freak out a little bit because suddenly your online empire has (or is about to get) a bunch of new moving parts, and you’re the one who has to juggle them and make sure they all work.

You’re not alone!

This is not easy stuff. And you probably don’t have an IT staff that can just take care of it for you. Right?

So what’s a solo entrepreneur to do?

Personally, I use AWeber for my email list and newsletter. I use E-Junkie to manage my shopping cart and affiliate program — both of which are hooked up with PayPal (Yep, those are totally affiliate links). I know lots of tricks to get these three buddies to play nice together.

And I’m here to help. I’m holding a free call about how to get these three services (or any two of them) to get along in the little online playgroup that is your business.

It’s going to be on Tuesday, January 19, at 11am (Pacific timezone). I’ll be recording it and sending the link to everyone who signs up, so if you can’t make it, you’re still covered.

Plus, everyone who signs up for the free call will get a $20 discount on the followup two-week workshop (regular price will be $69), to be held January 26 and February 2 in the same timeslot. The workshop will include a webinar, so you’ll have a visual demonstration of the tech tweaks I’ll talk about. Plus you’ll get a PDF workbook with screenshots and audio recordings. And if you wait and buy the recordings later, it will cost $99. There, you’ve been warned.

The free call will be info-packed and useful, even though I will mention the paid workshop. I’ll take questions, too. So this is a great chance to get free mini-consulting from me (normally limited to my Open Office Hour on Thursdays).

Just fill out this form to get the phone number and access code for the free teleclass. (If you can’t see the form, maybe because you’re reading this in your RSS reader, swing by my website sign-up page to fill it out.)

It’s going to be awesome!