This is a collection of my internet marketing friends over the years from 2004 to present. These friendships are all part of my online business story and I’m thankful for each person I share here. This page will get updated every Thursday with new people to tell you about.
What is internet marketing?
Internet marketing encompasses the strategic utilization of online platforms and tools to promote products, services, or brands to a targeted audience. It involves a multifaceted approach, including content creation, search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, email campaigns and various forms of online advertising.
The goal of internet marketing is to engage with potential customers, drive traffic to websites or online stores, and ultimately, generate leads and conversions. By leveraging the vast reach and interactive nature of the internet, businesses can establish their presence, build relationships with their audience and achieve measurable results in terms of brand awareness, customer acquisition and revenue growth.
I hope you have fun getting to know them as it gives you a window into our little online world.
Back around 2003 I was standing in my kitchen one day and took a break from washing dishes. Sitting there on the counter was a local newspaper so I picked it up on my break.
I started reading a story about Alice Seba and how she was working online from home while staying home with her young children. I had 5 retail stores at the time and wanted freedom from feeling stuck in the malls. Little did I know the wonderful friendship we would grow together.
We had a membership site together called, “Auction Strategists” with Lynette Chandler in 2005 to share eBay strategies as I was an eBay machine lol.
Alice also had a group called, “Mom Masterminds” (oh how I miss those days) where she brought together other like minded women who wanted to work from home. The friendships that came out of that changed my life. So many of us came up together, helping one another build out our content sites, services and more. It was a special moment in time.
Alice gave me hope that I could have a full time income online and I wayyyy surpassed that. The moment my online business surpassed sales of my least performing retail store, I knew I was onto something big.
Today Alice helps people with their content marketing.
I met Armand Morin around 2004 at an internet marketing event in Vancouver, BC.
Over the past 25 years, he has built his Internet Marketing empire to the point that he is one of the most well-known Internet Marketers in the world today, teaching everyone from newbies to experts.
He leads the exact techniques and strategies he uses daily in his business. His thousands of students have also produced millions of dollars in online revenue.
Armand is an incredible person and it was a pleasure to meet him, it will be so awesome to meet up with again.
Armand is teaching over at ArmandMorin.com
Stu is a fellow Canadian who I met in Vancouver, BC in 2004 at an internet marketing event by Ray Edwards in Vancouver, BC. It was also the same spot I met up with Armand Morin and Alice Seba.
Stu is one of the happiest people that I know and it exudes into his online work. We once did a text interview together, I will need to dig that up to see where it is. 🙂
This picture feels like a lifetime ago however I don’t think Stu has aged much at all (lol).
Stu helps people launch, grow and scale a highly successful membership business and is also Co-Founder of Village Impact with his wife Amy McLaren.
I had to take my time on this week’s “Throwback Thursday IM Edition” (IM = Internet Marketing) because this week is *extra* special.
Mom Masterminds was a mentoring community of women who all had the goal to make money online to stay home with their kids.
Alice Seba, Kelly McCausey and Lynette Chandler all lead this amazing group of women back around 2004 by sharing what was already working for them.
As I reflect on my time spent with the women inside Mom Masterminds, I know this is the group who ignited my fire for internet marketing.
We all came up together in this internet marketing space before there were blogs, podcasts and social media. Back in those days we were pouring into each other’s lives, commenting on our friends blogs and working on our article marketing.
Wild.
We created content sites, membership sites, service sites and much more. I wish I had pictures with everyone but because of the nature of online friendships we are spread out around the world.
I remember our websites about parenting teenagers, scrapbooking, online business and more. I loved hearing about their daily lives and we all worked together to solve each others issues that kept us stuck moving forward in the “world wide web”.
Thanks to Lynette for teaching us all the technical back end of our websites and helping us all transition over to WordPress blogs and answering all of our questions about Amember lol.
Nicole Dean, Melissa Ingold, Nell Talericio, Christina Rankin Lemmey, Regina Baker Chenier, Patty Bonsera, Alyssa Avant, Sharon McMillan, LaTara Venise, Chrissy Heron, Imie Belanger, Diana Walker, Melody Thacker, Angela Wills, Marya Miller. Tishia Lee, Arika Lewis, Lynn Terry, Tawnya Sutherland, Darina Loakman, Carol Owens, Kim Smith, Melody Spier, Tracy Patton Roberts, Susanne Myers, Glennette Forsythe Goodbread, Stephanie Watson-Barry, Christine Holroyd, Mary Lutz, Stacie Mahoe, Laurie P. Ayers and so many more of us.
These women are true friends, we were once geeky Moms learning html and scripts with kids at home and now many of us are geeky Grandma’s… most all of us still doing this internet marketing thing.
Oh how I miss those days.
Rest in peace to Aurelia Twitty and Niki Jackson, you are both dearly missed.
Kelly, Alice, Lynette, thank you.