This week, I have the amazing Carrie Wilkerson with me.

The audio recording of our interview is below. Just look for the “play” button and listen. It’s free!

Also, be sure to check out all of the resources listed below.

If you're not familiar with Carrie yet, here's more about her and why I wanted her on the show.

Carrie Wilkerson

Carrie Wilkerson is the voice of experience. From corporate life to teaching high school to direct sales, to information marketing and coaching she has ‘been there and done that’ professionally and personally. An ‘overnight mom’ to 2 toddlers through adoption, her priorities instantly changed and so did her workplace. She’s now built several businesses and coached others to do the same while overcoming extreme debt, losing 110 lbs and having 2 more children, for a total of 4, aging from toddler to teen!

As “The Barefoot Executive,” and President of the Association of Work at Home Women, Carrie and her network of experts have quickly become the definitive resource for helping others achieve extra income and career goals while working from home.

Currently a mentor/coach/advisor to over 100,000 men and women as the Barefoot Executive through videos, podcasts, masterminding, mentoring and live speaking. Not only a business expert, but an expert IN Business, Carrie’s work-at-home methods have inspired thousands and has earned many awards, online and off.

A sought after speaker, Carrie’s humor, real-life examples and tough love translates to every audience, gender, genre and generation.

Her passion is in teaching others to ‘Fill their Stadium’ with fans so that marketing is easy and business is abundant!

Translation: She's pretty awesome.

Step 1: Check out these Essential Tools for Online Business Success that Carrie Recommends:

All links will open in a new window and not interfere while you're listening to the audio.

For Content Management: WordPress.org – For content management that you can access from anywhere.

For Social Media: Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Are you following us? Nicole on Twitter | Carrie on Twitter

For List Building: An Autoresponder.
(I use and recommend Aweber since 2005 – Click to try it for $1.)

For Video Marketing: Carrie uses a basic Flip Mino Cam. She suggests the kind that uses AA batteries.

For Selling your Products: You need a way to sell your products, with a built-in affiliate tracking system – also known as a shopping cart or an ecommerce solution. (Carrie Recommends: SwimCart)

Step 2: Listen to the Interview.

Be sure to listen to the entire interview. It's another great one.

Step 3: Get a free link on my blog.

Please post your comments below after you listen to the interview. Show Carrie the love so I can continue to get great guests like her.

Plus, of course, you can include your URL and your Twitter ID in the appropriate fields when you comment, as always.

Step 4: Share the Love.

If you liked this interview, don't keep it to yourself. Share the link with some friends. (Pretty please.)

Step 5: Learn More about Carrie.

Want More Carrie? I know you do!
Head over here to learn more from her: The Barefoot Executive.

Thanks again for being part of my business and my day. I'm looking forward to hearing what you learned and will apply from this interview.

Warmly,
Nicole Dean

PS. Would you Like to Start a Podcast like Mine and Have Cool People Like Carrie Wilkerson on your Show?  If you can make a telephone call, you can have a podcast, too: Click here -> How I Record My Podcast On the Telephone.

-> Better than article marketing? Heck yeah.

-> Better than begging affiliates to promote you? Definitely.

-> Better than chocolate? Not a chance.

Here's what Carrie Wilkerson said about my Blog Tour guide on Twitter:

See original Tweet here to confirm:
http://twitter.com/barefoot_exec/status/5217094040

Here's what Lexi Rodrigo said about my Blog Tour Guide. Her blog was one of the ones that I stopped at during my tour.

Hi Nik,

Frankly, I wish you hadn't written the Blog World Tour Guide. I would have wanted to remain one of the few who knew about this secret ninja strategy for getting more traffic, subscribers and buyers.

I know the Blog World Tour works, because I own one of the blogs you toured. As a result of you touring my blog, I had more readers and made more affiliate sales than ever. I also saw an increase in participation on my blog.

But the best part, I think, was that I had terrific content on my blog that I was truly proud to share with my readers and Twitter followers. And my readers were thrilled to win a few prizes from you as well.

It was win-win for everybody involved: the guest expert, the blog owner, and the blog readers.

After seeing these results from your Blog World Tour, I plan to go on a blog tour myself. And now I've got your blueprint to do it, step by step. Including your forms, and emails I can swipe.

I'm glad you have different suggested schedules, because I don't think I could manage to post daily for several weeks. I've been posting daily on my own blog for the whole of October and it's been a real challenge. Not sure I want to keep doing that.

Oh and I'm also going to recommend this strategy to my clients who want to give their infoproduct businesses a quick shot in the arm.

I can't wait to tell you about the results of my own blog tour. Watch out for it!

Lexi Rodrigo
TheSavvyFreelancer.com

Can this method work in niches outside of Internet Marketing? Yep.

Here's what Susanne of  HillbillyHousewife.com said:

“I did a much shorter blog tour than Nicole. Mine is turning out to be 5 weeks long. Some blogs I posted on all week, others preferred one post a week for 4 weeks and I fit in a few single guest posts as well. The results – so far my traffic is up 20.55%, my newsletter readership has increased by over 2,000 and I have made quite a few sales.

By far my favorite part though is that I've gained a few new affiliates that might just turn out to become super affiliates and I was able to get a few others who had joined my affiliate program a while back to actively promote my ebooks.

Last but not least, my own affiliate income has increased by 15% as well, and I've been spending less time than usual on the Hillbilly Housewife website.”

Note: Susanne already had a list and a good readership when starting AND she implemented the info as I laid out in the plan.

If you sell any of your own products or services online – this can help you to get more traffic & more sales.

If you'd like to check it out, here's the link:
How to Get More Traffic & Affiliates & JV Partners Through a Blog Tour

As always, I want your trust more than I want your money, so, if you'll buy this and USE it – you'll benefit. If it'll sit on your hard-drive, then get back to work, and we'll connect soon.

Thank you for your trust.

Warmly,
Nicole Dean

PS. If you're a Virtual Assistant and you've studied this guide, don't forget to get on our list of VA's who are Blog Tour Certified. A pdf of VA's will go out to all customers as a special bonus. After you've bought it and studied the guide, if you want to be added to a list of qualified service providers who offer this service that I'll send to past customers in a few weeks, just email helper@mostlysanemarketing.com with your name, URL, and email address.