Category: Notes From Liz

I made a discovery the other day about emails…

You know how sometimes you go to a page and it wont accept your email address or you never get an email after subscribing? Well it might not be an issue with the page or the email service they're using.

It might be…

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS!

Here's what I'm talking about…

I recently created a squeeze page from something I'll be telling you about soon 😉

I started sending some of my Facebook group people to it and people started having issues. Many couldn't subscribe or if they could my confirmation message was going to their SPAM folder.

Initially we thought this was an issue with Optimize Press, but after some back in forth and looking at log files (yeah I had to get super techy with this issue) we found that Aweber was blocking certain email address.

Very few were for absolutely NO reason, but many were from what they call “role based emails”.

Note: Here's the page from Aweber that talks about this https://help.aweber.com/hc/en-us/articles/204029356-Why-is-my-email-address-blocked-

Emails like this…

admin@
orders@
payments@
press@
sales@
support@
webmaster@

So, if you're using an email address on your domain then many autoresponders are blocking these.

Now I know on my side there are many things I can do to ensure my emails end up in your inbox, but if you really want my emails or the emails of others that you subscribe to then you need to make sure you're using a good email address.

AOL, hotmail, Outlook, and yahoo emails are also emails that are getting blocked by Aweber and other email services.

My best advice?

No clue as of right now. 🙂

I'm going back and forth with Aweber right now on figuring all of this out, and will update you as soon as I have a concrete answer, but I wanted to bring this information to you RIGHT NOW so you have a heads up of some problems that you might have in actually getting email. I know it's a lot of you because you're always on the helpdesk saying you didn't get this email or that email.

Aweber is supposed to get back with me with an answer on Monday and then I can give you more details… Until then…

If you're using domain name email make sure you're not using one of the mentioned roles emails. Use something like YourName@YourDomain.com

If you use one of the mentiioned services then I recommend you stand by until Aweber tells me what to tell YOU guys. 😉

Talk soon!

Liz

Today the “sun burn drama” continues, but we're moving forward and talking about doing your own Facebook Live Challenge, listening and not listening to your haters, and the real truth behind YOUR competition.

And here’s the replay of the Day 7!

 

When I first got online I knew I wanted to teach people the things I knew about advertising and marketing their business. In 1998 I started a mailorder advertising business. We used adsheets and opportunity magazines to advertise our offers. I brokered advertising, created ad copy, did typesetting, did direct mail campaigns, and all kinds of stuff for businesses. All to help them get customers through the good ol' mail. Snail mail…

I also had “dealers” (they'd be called affiliates now days) who I allowed to sell my services for a percentage of the profits. They'd run ads selling my services, get orders in the mail, pocket their part of the money, send me the other part along with the order and I'd fulfill the order for their customer.

Yes I'm a dinosaur in the advertising and marketing world at the ripe ol' age of 42 now…

When I came to start a business online in 2004, I instantly started teaching people what I knew. I did coaching groups, and videos series, and ebooks, and everything else you can think of to take my knowledge and get it into other people's hands.

I've now been doing that for 17 years…

Everything I learn I take and I pass it down…

Currently I do that all via online workshops. These workshops are done live via Zoom. You can attend and watch me do and teach everything live. They are also recorded so you can watch them at your convenience if you can't make the lives or just need to rewatch them.

I currently have four brands that offer workshops…

LearningIM – This brand does workshops all about the different internet marketing tactics that I teach. There is an offer to get ALL LearningIM workshops for one bundle price.

You can see all workshops at https://learningim.com/all-workshops-w

PLR Profits Coach – This brand does workshops all about different ways to make money and market with PLR content. There is an offer to get ALL PLR Profits Coach workshops for one bundle price. I recently just added that. 😉

You can see all workshops at https://plrprofitscoach.com/all-access-bundle-offer

Passive Income Squad – This brand does workshops all about passive income. There is an offer to get ALL Passive Income Squad workshops for one bundle price.

You can see all workshops at https://passiveincomesquad.com/all-workshops

Backpack Business Lifestyle – This brand does workshops on various business models. Each workshop covers a different online business model that you can build and profit from. There is NO offer to get all of these workshops at one bundle price.

You can see all workshops at https://backpackbusinesslifestyle.com/sp/current-workshops

And… You can tell what brand a workshop is from by looking at the domain name.

Example: If a workshop has the domain name LearningIM.com in it then that's from the LearningIM brand and if you have the bundle offer you get it for-free. Same for the other three brands that I have bundle offers for.

People absolutely LOVE my workshops because it's all hands on learning. This isn't just me talking through a PowerPoint presentation. This is me actively teaching you and showing you as I go. I encourage you to attend AT LEAST one workshop that meets your needs and experience learning from me. You'll walk away with a ton of knowledge that you need, and they're always highly entertaining via my shenanigans.

Hope to see you in my workshops!

Liz

 

If you've been on Facebook very long you probably at least know someone who has been put in what we call “FB Jail”. This is where Facebook restricts your account for a certain number of days because of something they say goes against their terms of service.

Now first let me say that MOST of the time they DID post something that goes against their terms of service. Just because you think something is ok, doesn't mean that it is. And, at the end of the day it's Facebook's rules and we're just playing their game. They can do whatever they want.

So, you have two options… Play along or quit the game. 🤷‍♀️

I have been in FB Jail for some stupid things. Like the time I posted a picture of my feet and my cousin said he wanted to tickle them and I commented that I would kick him if he ever did that.

BAM!

3 days in Facebook jail for threatening someone…

Sometimes they are absolutely ridiculous, but I chalk it up to “the cost of doing business”.

Facebook is a great way for me to market my business, interact with my tribe, and it's fun, so I just play their game.

Now today I posted about building the new TacoAboutMarketing.com brand, and second after I made the post not only did they remove the post, but they put me in Facebook jail stating my post went against their community standards on human exploitation.

WHAT????

How does THAT post have anything to do with human exploitation?

Luckily I was able to appeal it, and they said they were wrong, put my post back on Facebook, and let me out of FB jail.

I'm free!!!

So the point of this post is two fold…

I encourage you to follow me on all of my social media platforms. Here are all the links/accounts…

Facebook – http://www.Facebook.com/liztomey

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/liztomey

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/liztomey

Twitter – https://twitter.com/liztomey

YouTube – https://youtube.com/liztomey

Pinterest – https://www.pinterest.com/liztomeyoninternetmarketing

TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@liztomey

Second… You don't necessarily need to be on EVERY social media site out there, but find the ones that work for your business and your niche. Build out your profile on each. Build a following on each.

Why?

Well because you never know when they will kick you off, put you in their jail, and/or disappear. Plus not everyone is using the same social media sites so you have more chances to get more people into your business by using multiple social media channels.

If you want to learn how to use social media marketing in your business I have a workshop for each of the BIG social media sites. You can see them all at https://learningim.com/all-workshops-w

I recommend you start with one social network at a time, and as I said, build your profile CORRECTLY and build a following. And then move on to the next one. Rinse and repeat.

So, for now… I'm out of FB Jail and I look forward to sharing all my funny and crazy posts about life and lots of stuff about marketing. See you over there!

http://www.Facebook.com/liztomey

There are a lot of tutorials, courses, blog posts, and the list goes on and on all about website traffic, but if you don't know these three things you're going to keep on struggling with getting website traffic. In just over 7 minutes I'll give you the REAL truth about traffic. Check out the video below and if you'd like to learn tons of traffic strategies from me then make sure and checkout my Learning IM Workshops!

This is a follow up video to my last Techy Stuff Tutorial. You'll want to watch that before watching this one.

It's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKyBXL1D9TQ

In this video I'll show you how to setup a blog to use in your marketing.

I'm starting all the way from installing it and covering how to pick a theme and plugins and getting it looking just the way you want! I've done a video like this before, but with all the new updates and changes I have done this one brand new for 2021.

Here is a link to the page that has all the resources I was pointing to in it http://imwithliz.com/online-business-resources-by-topic/blogging-resources

If you have comments or questions just leave them in the comments below…

I've been quiet over the last 2 weeks due to Thanksgiving and then… I took an entire week OFF after Thanksgiving just to recover from the last few months.

I've been working non-stop lately on several different brands and projects and I just needed to take a step back, catch my breath, and “refill my tank”.

We are in the last few weeks of the year and I've still got some big stuff to do, so I needed some big energy.

If you can take a few days off and just “veg out” please do it. Down time is just as important as focused work time.

I had an amazing Thanksgiving surrounded by friends and family along with AMAZING food (I cooked it ALL this year).

You can see the “spread” I put out this year here… https://youtu.be/CntMZzEWPKo

 

I hope you had an amazing Thanksgiving too!

Anyway… I had someone in one of my Facebook groups ask me about what they should be posting on social media for their business.

That's a hard question to answer because there are so many variables…

What is your goal of your content? Make a sale? Get eye-balls in front of your content? Build your list?

What kind of content does your audience respond to?

Which social media site are you using?

There are so many and each has an audience that likes different stuff!

And more!

But I've made a little guide to help you understand what kind of content to TYPICALLY create for each of the BIG social networks.

Check it out at https://dfysocialmarketingcontent.com/blog/what-content-type-works-for-which-social-media-networks

 

Okay that's it for now…

In the next couple of weeks I have TWO new things coming out that I'll be telling you about that are really going to help you out if you're in the Internet marketing and/or make-money online niche, so stay tuned 🙂

Talk soon!

Liz