01.20.12
Posted in Blogging, Networking at 10:34 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
As a nurse entrepreneur I have learned that it is helpful to follow what other nurse entrepreneurs are doing. Watching what they are doing can serve to inspire me. Nurse entrepreneur leaders that I think any nurse entrepreneur should follow are the seven nurses listed below:
Claire Hull
www.thejerklnc.com
I met Claire Hull through the Nurse Entrepreneur Netowrk. She is a woman of endless ideas and enthusiasm. Claire works with legal nurse consultants to hlep them be successful in their businesses.
Anna Morrison
www.icoachnurses.com
Anna Morrison is a new comer on the scene as a nurse entrepreneur. However, she has entered with incredible energy and visibility. Just about everywhere I look I see Anna Morrison on the internet.
Pat Bemis
forensicsciencefornurses.com
nnba.net
Pat Bemis was one of the first nurse entrepreneurs I met. She had taken over the National nurses in Business Association. She has been very supportive of me in my efforts to help nore nurses become nurse entrepreneurs.
Donna Cardillo
www.dcardillo.com
Donna Cardillo has made a career of speaking and writing. She is the Career Guru of Nurses and has spoken extensively on Alternative Careers for Nurses. she is also known as “Dear Donna” as she writes a regualare column for Nursing Spectrum and NurseWeek Magazines.
Barbara Phillips
www.nurseprectitionerbusinessowner.com
Barbara Phillips is a nurse practitioner who shares information and resources with other nurse practitioners about the business of being a nurse practitioner. She explores the many areas of business in which nurse practitioners are involved.
Ann Johnson
www.nursingceu.com
Anne Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of Wild Iris Medical Education. This company offers online CEUs for nurses, occupational therapists, and physical therapists. Ann set out to provide education that was convenientk, affordable, and had professional credibility.
Seattle Sutton
www.seattlesutton.com
Seattle Sutton is a nurse who decided to offer a healthy eating program. She is a dietitian and a nurse. Her company makes up a combination of 3 meals per day 7 days per week which the participants pick up fresh twice weekly.
While you are following nurse entrepreneur leaders don’t forget to go and see what is happening at www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com.
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01.15.12
Posted in Blogging, Marketing, Networking at 3:32 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
One way to get noticed more by your target market and by Google is to write articles. These articles are for sites other than your own. This technique helps you draw in people who are interested in your nurse entrepreneur business that you would not typically reach by only posting on your own blog or website. When you post on other sites or blogs you also would include a link back to your own site in your resource box. It is these links that are so helpful in increasing your nurse entrepreneur business search engine ranking.
Many blog or website owners are very willing to accept guest articles. I recently wrote a guest article for Anna Morrison: http://icoachnurses.com/7-questions-nurses-leaving-bedside-nursing-stay-go. Writing a guest article for someone else’s blog or website gives them valuable content and it gives you exposure.
In addition to writing for someone you know you can write and submit to article directories. Article directories are places for you to submit one or more articles to be picked up and posted by others on their blogs or sites. This is also an exceptional way to introduce your content to those who can benefit from what you have to offer in your nurse entrepreneur business but who haven’t found you yet. You will also get valuable links when someone picks up and posts your article that they found on an article directory.
Writing an article as a guest or submitting it to an article directory allows people who are not in your direct network to experience you and your content. It is also a legitimate way to get links back to your nurse entrepreneur business site and your content. Search engines will value these types of links far greater than links from link exchanges. Links from sites that are not consistent with your content are not valued and often devalued by search engines such as Google.
If you haven’t started writing articles to promote your nurse entrepreneur products or services now would be a great time to start!
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01.03.11
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 2:54 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
I am sitting in a travel trailer in the dessert near Yuma, AZ as I write this. I am excited that we made the decision in 2010 to buy a travel trailer. We picked up the travel trailer in California in early December 2010. I have such a feeling of freedom to be able to work from whereever we are now that we have a mobile satallite set up. To me this is what being a nurse entrepreneur or nursepreneur is all about. I love being able to work where I want and when I want. It isn’t that as a nurse entrepreneur I don’t have to work or that I don’t have to work many hours, but I am in control or where and when that will be. Wouldn’t you like that also?
I am especially excited to be out of Minnesota for the winter since they have already gotten over 30 inches of snow which is not usual for Minnesota. Yes, it does snow but generally not so early and so much!
We are planning to be camped in the dessert on Bureau of Land Management land at least through the month of January. This is an absolutely beautiful place and typically the weather is very mild here. It has been cold here this week but that is a relative term since we are from Minnesota. It has been in the 30s when we get up in the morning and has been warming into the 50s or 60s during the day. How can one complain about that?
If you are not already a nurse entrepreneur when will YOU start?
LeaRae Keyes, RN
Executive Director
www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com
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Posted in Blogging at 2:34 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once once a week for all of 2011.
I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.
If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.
Signed,
LeaRae Keyes, RN
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12.13.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 12:22 am by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
We have decided on department and category titles for the Family Caregiver Assistance website. This will affect where the information will appear on the website. It also affects the site map and how subscribers of the Family Caregiver Assistance website will find the information they are seeking.
I have been working on writing one article per day for the new site. These articles contain beneficial information for family caregivers. I will continue to work on writing one article per day.
We have also set up the forum on FCA (www.familycargiverassistance.com). I have written the welcome message for the forum. We have also set up the blog on FCA. Continuing information on my actions to set up this new site will be posted on the blog on that site.
I visited my dad in Arizonia for about a week. I got back this Thursday night after the snow storm in the Minneapolis, MN area. Visiting my dad gave me ideas on more material for the FCA site. Living in MN and being a long distance caregiver for my mom and now my dad results in my being keenly aware of long distance caregiving.
LeaRae Keyes, RN
www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com
www.familycaregiverassistance.com
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12.03.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 10:39 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
We received another revision of the web site design today and it was uploaded to the site today. That seemed like a big step! We asked for a few more tweaks of the photos. We are getting really close.
Now we need to get working on some of the catagory titles and the content for the various catagories. I also want to continue to write more articles before the site is actually “launched”. I will need to be very busy writing vetween now and the end of the year.
LeaRae Keyes, RN
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12.02.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 9:10 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
Today we reviewed the latest changes to the web site design. We requested changes to the look and size of some of the type. We also developed a tag line and asked to have it added to the site.
I also spent time on the Nurse Entrepreneur Network website. I wrote a tip, article, downloadable worksheet for collecting overdue invoices, and created and posted a new survey.
LeaRae Keyes, RN
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11.22.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 1:20 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
I am still waiting for a draft of the new website. Right now it is the standard, basic Membergate page.
However, since Google has been coming to the page and searching it I think it is time to begin to post new material. I posted an article on “The Perils of the Handoff”. This is the time when care of your family member shift from one care team to another. This occurs at change of shift, when transitioning between facilities, at the time of surgery, and at other times along the care continuum of your family member.
It is important to keep search engines coming to your site and searching for new information. If they do not find new information they will begin to come to your site less and less often. This results in a lower ranking with people search for your key words and affects traffic to your site. Therefore it is critical to add new information to your site on a frequent basis.
Today I will be working on new content that I can add to the site later today or tomorrow. I have been told on webinars that I have attended that it is important for your new content to be at least 240 words. So, I will be seeking a topic for which I can write at least 240 words.
Are there other things that you know to be important when adding content? If so, I would love to hear your comments. I would even enjoy comments as to if you are finding these blog entries to be helpful.
LeaRae Keyes, RN
Executive Director
www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com
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11.16.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 9:13 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
Today I watched a webinar about using press releases. It was explained that press releases are not just for big companies. They can also be easy to create and post online. Following this webinar I listened to a teleseminar about “My Knowledge Genie”. This teleseminar was not as helpful for me as the earlier webinar. It can sometimes be difficult to determine if a teleseminar or webinar will be beneficial or not. I do not like attending events that are primarily a sales presentation. When I spend my valuable time attending an event I want to receive information that I will be able to use not simply be educated about a product. I will certainly keep this in mind as I create this website and offer information.
LeaRae Keyes, RN
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11.14.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 11:08 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
Today I worked on deciding on possible colors for the website. I think navy blue and a combination of browns would like nice. Research I have done indicates these colors convey health and have a natural appearance. I thought about a possible tag line but have not decided definately on the tag line. I came up with a draft of the look and feel I would like the website to portray. I also drafted an idea of what I would like for the logo. Whew, busy day working on all fo this.
LeaRae Keyes
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11.13.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 4:34 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
My websitte purchase has gone through. I am now needing to provide information for the software company who will be assisting in setting up the initial “skeleton” of the site. I will be talking with my office manager this weekend and brainstorming on the information that has been requested which includes: color preferences, tag line, and look and feel of the website that is being desired.
What colors do you think of when you think of a website for caregivers and care providers?
LeaRae Keyes, RN
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11.10.09
Posted in Blogging, getting started at 11:42 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
I am creating a new division of my company. You are welcome to follow me here as I blog about the steps that I take to develop this new business. Following these steps will give you an abbreviated idea as to how your might be able to create a new business or a new product line.
After much discussion recently with my husband and office manager I decided to start a new subscription web site. Sometimes subscription web sites are also called continuity programs. However, the business model for this site will be to charge “sponsors”.
This week I have decided on the domain name for this new site. www.familycaregiverassistance.com. The domain name has been purchased. I have also contacted www.membergate.com to purchase the software for this site. I have begun to explore colors I would like for the website and have been thinking about the design and logo. I have also started the initial planning for the catagories I will use on this new site.
Today I discussed with my MasterMind group if the resource directory that is available to me on this new site will work the way I am envisioning it working. Even though most of the members of this MasterMind group also have “membergate websites” they were not heavily using this feature of the software very much.
That’s it for now, join me on this journey -
LeaRae Keyes
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04.30.09
Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized at 10:08 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
For interesting information on how Swine Flu can potential spread through a work place see http://www.thenetworkthinker.com/2009/04/network-structure-of-swine-flu-pandemic.html
LeaRae Keyes, RN
www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com
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04.19.09
Posted in Blogging, Sales, getting started at 1:02 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
I love watching the You Tube videos of Britain’s Got Talent! If you haven’t seen them take a look at the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GrOMLylvhQ&feature=related
There are a few lessons in these videos for nurse entrepreneurs.
1. Having a dream will pull you through the difficult times
2. It can take many works of working at your trade before you “make it”
3. Pick your partners well, because you will spend every day with them
4. Chase the dream not the customer
5. You have many choice in business and in your personal life, choose wisely
Please comment, what lessons did you get from these videos? What are your thoughts on this post?
LeaRae Keyes, RN
www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com
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12.12.08
Posted in Blogging at 9:15 pm by LeaRae Keyes, Executive Director, Nurse Entrepreneur Network
Have you ever wondered what all those different colored ribbons mean that people wear? I know I have. I found a website that lists the ribbons and what they represent. Take a lood here: http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/2008/06/awareness_ribbon_and_bracelet.php
LeaRae Keyes, RN
www.nurse-entrepreneur-network.com
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