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The 11 Most Crucial Emotional Triggers that Convert Prospects Into Customers

If you haven’t already, there’s still time to sign up for a groundbreaking marketing teleclass featuring Creative Marketing Coach Sue Painter coming up on *Tuesday, August 18, 2009*. It’s called “The 11 Most Crucial Emotional Triggers That Convert Prospects Into Customers.” (In a hurry? Sign up for this complimentary call now at http://www.onlinebizu.com/public/421.cfm?affID=Essentials )

If you haven’t heard of Sue, get ready to have your marketing philosophy changed forever. This dynamic woman is paving a new road for entrepreneurs with her innovative and creative marketing strategies. The important thing to know is that Sue’s methods work – she’s helped everyone from home-based moms to seasoned business owners double or triple their revenues by ramping up their business marketing. You see, there’s a monumental shift happening in marketing, and in business. Previous marketing models are failing and fading. Entrepreneurs who are continuing to operate as they have previously are finding the same old strategies are not working anymore. In fact, they are likely hurting their business.

The “traditional” paradigms for marketing are collapsing. And those who know will be leading the way as they listen to Sue talk about…

* It’s not about marketing harder – it’s about daring to market differently
* It’s not about marketing with hype – it’s about authenticity, with style and emotion* It’s not about dreaming aimlessly – it’s about pursuing 11 motivating strategies Sue will explain it all on this one-time call.

Again, learn more and register for this free teleseminar on August 18 at http://www.onlinebizu.com/public/421.cfm?affID=Essentials

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Follow Your Passion!

5 Seriously Misguided Myths about Passion!!

These 5 myths about passion will catch you unawares. I know they have me…..and more than once! And in the end they become your excuses for staying on the busy treadmill of life until one day you wake up and say: was that it? about your life.

If you’re ready to choose to live your life to the full, have no regrets, and experience the unstoppable energy of someone connected with who they are and what they’re here to do…..then it is well worth questioning these common assumptions I’ve collected from clients over the years.

1. My passion should be big and earthshattering: perhaps it will be, but maybe not. Your passion of any size and will light your fire and lead to what’s next. The important thing is to uncover what you’re most passionate about and follow the breadcrumbs. Passion will change your life. Passion is energy and your passion is worthy of your attention.

Feeling passion for something, that’s a good sign you’re on the right track. You’ll be coming into alignment with your deepest self and it means you’ll be doing what you’re here to do – and who’s to say how that will impact yourself and others? You expressing your true essence might be the one thing that causes a huge ripple effect out into the world. It may not be as loud as flying to the moon or discovering the cure for cancer, but it will likely be just as impactful because that’s what you’ve been put here on this earth to do – to contribute to the whole. And you are an important part of that whole picture.

2. Once you’ve found your passion, it will always be with you. Wouldn’t this be wonderful! The reality is that you’ll cycle in and out of feeling connected with your passions. And it’s perfect because each time you come to that uncomfortable place of feeling stuck, disconnected and suddenly unsure of anything very much, it’s a sign something bigger is waiting for you. You’re hearing the call to adventure. And it’s only coming because at some point you’ve asked to be shown the way.

Your frustration, dissatisfaction, unrest is a sign that something is out of alignment now, and you’re being called on to step out of your comfort zone, into the unknown in order to reap new rewards. It’s time to answer that call.

3. You need money and time to really follow your dream – even if you knew what that dream was! I believe deep inside you, you know what your dream, your purpose is. And connecting with what you are most passionate about will lead you to that.

As for the money and time…..when you put the energy of your passion behind a project you’re called to, both money and time magically appear. As you start taking baby steps towards something you’re passionate about, the whole world will open up. You’ll attract everything you need. This is you being called to something much bigger. It’s an expansion of your heart, your head and definitely the box you may be sitting in.

And you know how you always find time to do what’s important to you – having a shower each day, brushing your teeth, eating, being with loved ones, watching your favorite movie? Don’t you think you’d find time for something that made your heart sing, and made you so excited you could barely stand it? I think so! You might even hve to remind yourself to sleep! And you may decide to sell your TV!

4. You’re too old!: If living a passionate and inspired life was just for the young, we’d be in trouble. What’s supposed to happen? Get to a certain age and retire to the armchair with your knitting? Waste all that wisdom you’ve gained along the way?

There is no time limit on passion, or on living your purpose. You have the benefit of life experience and wisdom. And you know thinking you’re too old, or too fat or anything else is just an excuse. I bet you even drop years (and pounds) when you really start living your passion!

5. It’s selfish to follow your passions: Following what you feel most passionate about is the least selfish thing you can do. When you connect with what brings you the most joy and fulfillment, who you’re being will ripple out to make a difference in the lives of all you connect with – even the person at the checkout in the organic veggie store!

In fact, it’s actually selfish NOT to follow your passion.

Living your passions is the catalyst for creating a truly inspired and extraordinary life. Whatever is standing in the way of you knowing this is possible for you is worth questionning. There is every reason why your life can be full of joy, expansion, fulfillment and purpose. And, as a bonus, when you’re living your passions, prosperity flows your way.

It’s Time to leap on that passion train and live your precious life. It’s time for YOU!

Do you have a passion project? Come on over to my blog and let me know.

©2009 Vicky White, The Inner Feng Shui Coach. Get Vicky White’s FREE “5 Biggest Attraction Mistakes ” report and her FREE articles to boost your creativity and your bottom line, at: www.LifeDesignStrategies.com

Where do you lie? Tips for being a person of integrity

Article: Where do you lie? Tips for being a person of integrity.
©2009 Vicky White, The Feng Shui Coach. Get Vicky White’s FREE “5 Biggest Attraction Mistakes ” report and her FREE articles to boost your creativity and your bottom line, at:
http://www.lifedesignstrategies.com/

Have you ever been to a workshop where you’re given a page of agreements to sign before you go in the door? Most people sign them. I know at times I’ve not wanted to create a fuss or be the focus of attention and have signed. Or perhaps you sign it without reading, not really intending to follow through.

Agreements are made and broken almost without thinking.

And at a high cost: losing credibility, trust and respect with others, creating messes that need cleaning up, and in addition losing trust and confidence in yourself. Which is reflected in the quality of your life and your prosperity.

Where do you lie (no pun intended) on this continuum? Do you make agreements you don’t keep? Or are you a person of integrity?

(In Feng Shui – integrity relates to the Fame & Reputation area – how you’re seen in the world -and it also relates to passion and energy. The more integrity you have, the more passion you’ll feel for your life).

Wherever you are, here’s what I’ve learned about negotiating this tricky field. Use these tips and you’ll raise your level of integrity and feel more confidence.

1. Be prepared to say “no” more often: Some people are good at asking for what they want. This doesn’t mean you need to say “yes”. Give yourself the space to get clear about whether you really want to do what you’re about to agree to.

2. Don’t say yes to anything unless you are 100% committed to following through. I once had a son-in-law who always said yes – he wanted to be nice and be loved I guess – but it lead to a whole lot of frustration when he didn’t ever come fix the taps or whatever it was he had offered to do.

3. Write your agreements down – forgetting them is no excuse for not delivering. It still puts you out of integrity. Research shows that when we don’t write something down or make some effort to store it in long-term memory, the memory can be lost in as little as 37 seconds. And not just for the more mature among us!

4. There’s nothing wrong with changing your mind: Just because you agreed to do something you don’t need to if it no longer feels right, or if some kind of emergency comes up that stops you. But you do need to communicate with the other person/people as soon as you know you won’t be delivering. And if you find things coming up to stop you keeping your agreements, perhaps it’s your subconscious telling you something.

That’s one kind of agreement. And then there are agreements you make with yourself!

In the Clutter Busting Coaching Circle, we’re using the forum for accountability to install new habits. I decided my April habit was to be: walking for at least 10 minutes every day. I know the hardest part is getting out there and telling myself it only has to be 10 minutes makes it easier.

Well, April 1st came and wouldn’t you know it, it was snowing. I heard a little voice saying – I’m not going out in that! And once again I was tempted to not keep my agreement with myself. I was also tempted to change my habit – after all I hadn’t announced it to anyone on the forum yet!

But recently I’ve become aware of how I don’t always treat myself with the respect I treat others. And I see my clients doing the same thing. I’m ready to change this.

So there I was before 9am in my leggings, raincoat and walking boots going for my walk as promised. I walked for 20 minutes. It felt great – I was dry, I was keeping my word, I had broken a pattern of ‘any excuse will do’ and I know nothing Spring or anything else can throw up can stop me now.

I also made a decision to be someone who powerfully and joyfully keeps my promises to myself. I repeated this as I walked and guess what? I was soon laughing and smiling and having fun. Really!

Instead of staying in my warm office, feeling bad because once again I had broken my word about exercise, I started my day powerfully and I am 100% committed to keeping my promise to myself for the coming 30 days and creating a new habit that serves me on many levels. (Hint: announcing it does wonders!)

These are my tips for keeping your promises to yourself:

1. Be very careful what you promise yourself: make very few promises and be 100% committed to keeping them.

2. Write them down and review them each day.

3. Tell yourself: I am a person who keeps my promises to myself.

4. Up the ante: for something that’s a really big deal – perhaps it involves fear – make it public. You will give a talk in public by May 30th 2009 and if you don’t, you’ll donate $500 to a cause you powerfully disagree with – George Bush’s re-election campaign or the ‘cut all the trees down’ campaign! You choose!

And here’s my favorite tip:

Take a few moments to think about agreements you’ve made lately, or even further back. Create a moratorium – give yourself permission to reassess every one of them – agreements with others and agreements with yourself. Start with a clean slate.

Which ones are you 100% committed to? Great, write them down and take action.
The others? Communicate with those involved (including yourself) and renegotiate.

Apply these tips as you move forward and grow your level of integrity, your confidence and your reputation. It feels good, I promise!

No Cost Marketing Strategies to Increase Sales

In these times of tight budgets, many of my clients are looking for low cost and no cost marketing strategies to promote their services and make more money. We still need to get the word out about our business and continue to be visible, and there are many ways to do this even on a limited budget. All they cost you is your time.

Here are four ‘no cost’ ideas to promote your services and increase your income:

1. Write and submit articles
Article publishing has been one of the most effective strategies I have used to get more visitors to my website and grow my business and income. Whether you like to write or not, you can either write or record your tips. You always have some good tips and ideas to share with your clients. You can speak an article into a voice recorder, and then have it transcribed. Or, use speech recognition software like I do to dictate your articles and have them automatically typed up. I use ‘Dragon Naturally Speaking’ by Nuance. Submit your articles to online article directories, print publications, and specific online sites that your target audience would go to. My favorite online article directory is EzineArticles.com.

2. Contact former clients
Previous clients can be one of your best sources of repeat business. It costs much less time and money to market to someone who already knows you well than it does to try to continually find new prospects. Yet, many business owners fail to pay attention to the potential gold mine of former clients. They continue to look for new prospects rather than keep in touch with previous satisfied clients. Designing a ‘keep-in-touch’ strategy is crucial to your business growth. Regularly sending out tips and resources to prospects and clients will keep your services top of mind. Survey your former clients using a free tool like SurveyMonkey.com and entice them back by making them an irresistible offer. Provide exceptional customer service to keep them satisfied and buying more. Get creative in thinking about what clients would really like from you and over-deliver on value.

3. Get more visible on blogs, forums and social networking sites
There are lots of places online where you can be more visible, express your opinion, and let others know who you are and what you do … and how you can help them. Posting helpful comments to other people’s blogs in your area of specialty with a link back to your website can be a very effective strategy for attracting new visitors to your site. Posting or answering questions in forums is also worth doing. And – social networking is one of the latest ways to get connected and visible online. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.com can be very effective to develop relationships and joint ventures. Be strategic and limit your time on these sites so they don’t consume all your time. Writing testimonials, comments and book reviews are also ways to get noticed for r fr.ee.

4. Send out press releases
Press releases are often overlooked as a low cost marketing tool. There are paid services of course, but there are also many fr.ee press release sites – such as 24-7PressRelease.com or Free-Press-Release.com. You can send a press release about a new service offering, or a workshop or teleseminar or a new product. To make your release newsworthy, connect it to a current news item or a current event or holiday. Create a list of media contacts, and send the information directly to specific editors or contact people in your area.

Don’t let not having a budget for marketing stop you from promoting yourself and increasing your visibility and income. All it takes is some time and a little creativity!

© by Jan Marie Dore of Femalepreneurs.com.
Jan Marie Dore mentors coaches, speakers, consultants and other solo-professional women to work fewer hours and make more money with online business
building strategies. Get your free ‘Professional Women’s Success
Kit’ and other marketing resources at http://www.femalepreneurs.com/ezine

‘Tis the Season: Prevent Cold and Flu

It is important to strengthen and fortify your immune system for the cold and flu season. The best way to stay healthy and reduce your risk for flu and cold is by eating a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables, exercising, and getting a good night’s sleep. Young Living has a number of products to supplement your efforts.

True Source™ uses nutrient-dense super fruits, vegetables, and other plants to supply your body with the vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants it needs. Our bodies work best when we fuel them with a broad range of nutrients. In a recent study at St James’s University Hospital, researchers found that supplements rich in vitamins A, C, and E can improve immune function.

Life 5™ is Young Living’s probiotic. These “friendly bacteria” assist in maintaining a healthy digestive tract. Research supports the use of probiotics for maintaining health.

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Inner Defense™ features the powerful benefits of Thieves® essential oil blend combined with oregano and thyme. Inner Defense works by strengthening the immune system and creates an unfriendly environment for yeast and fungus, improves digestion, and supports the respiratory system to help fight wintertime discomforts and enhance well-being.

Powerful You!

Now expanding to Regina, Saskatchewan in spring 2009……

The Powerful You! Women’s Network is a diverse group of like-minded women from various backgrounds and professions who come together for the purpose of sharing ideas, continued learning, inspiration, business sense and great conversation. The group is open to all women all the time; it is not strictly for business networking. The group provides a friendly, non-competitive atmosphere that is exhibited by the many women who are drawn to our mission and goals.

Interested?

Contact Shawna Walker

celestelair@hotmail.com

For more information about Powerful You! go to www.powerfulyou.com

The Wellness Inventory

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What Can the Wellness Inventory Do for Me?
The Wellness Inventory is a pioneering “whole-person” wellness program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. The program, developed by HealthWorld Online and wellness pioneer John W. Travis, MD, MPH, offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change, and a renewed sense of health and well-being. The program can help you to:

* Discover your wellness profile in 12 dimensions of your life.
* Identify the areas in your life you are most motivated to change.
* Create a personalized wellness action plan.
* Access tools and resources to help you reach your goals.
* Create the desired changes in your life.
* Track your progress in reaching a higher level of wellness.
* Achieve a higher level of health, wellbeing and aliveness.

Key Features of the Program
The Wellness Inventory determines your state of balance in 12 key areas of your life, which Dr. Travis called the “Wellness Energy System.” The program then identifies specific areas you are motivated to change, and guides you in creating a personalized wellness action plan. Finally, the Wellness Inventory provides valuable tools, resources and services to help you reach your wellness goals and bring more balance into your life.

Your personal experience of the Wellness Inventory program can be summarized as a journey consisting of “5 Steps to Wellness”.

Step 1: Assessment
Complete a lifestyle assessment focusing on all aspects of yourself in 12 key dimensions wellness.
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Step 2: Scores
Receive your personal Wellness and Satisfaction Scores for each of the 12 dimensions of wellness as well as your overall scores. Discover your strengths as well as the areas of your life which you are most motivated to change. View More

Step 3 – Personal Wellness Action Plan:
Create 3-5 simple wellness action steps in the areas you are most motivated to change. The plan is based on our philosophy of small steps for continuous improvement. View More

Step 4 – Tools to Support Your Wellness Action Plan:
Utilize a suite of tools including email reminders, My Wellness Journal, the Self-Study Center, and the 12 Wellness Resource Centers to help you successfully implement your wellness action steps. View More

Step 5 – Resources for Ongoing Wellness:
You can update your Personal Wellness Action Plan to reflect your successes and your current areas of lifestyle focus. After six months you can retake the assessment to monitor your progress. Access to a Certified Wellness Inventory Coach is an optional, premium feature. View More

My Wellness Home Page

Each time you login to the Wellness Inventory you arrive at “My Wellness Homepage” – your personal “wellness command center.” Here you can:

# Start a new assessment or resume an incomplete assessment
# View results from previous assessments
# Create a Personalized Wellness Plan
# View, Edit and Update your completed Wellness Plan(s)
# Change email options for your Wellness Plan
# Access “My Wellness Journal” and the Self-Study Center
# Access the 12 Wellness Resource Centers
# Compare the scores of two assessments to measure progress
# Edit your User Profile

Wellness Inventory Annual Subscription

Annual Plan – $39.95:
Access to the Wellness Inventory program for a full year, with the following features.
Track your wellness goals and monitor your state of wellness.

* Take assessment on a semi-annual basis
* Assess yourself in 12 dimensions of wellness
* Determine the areas you are most motivated to change.
* Create a Personal Wellness Action Plan based on your motivations to change.
* Virtual Coach – Receive regular email reminders to keep you focused on your goals.
* Utilize the “My Wellness Journal” feature to record your progress.
* Update your wellness plan on a regular basis.
* Access tools and resources to support your wellness action plan.
* Retake the assessment at 6 months and use the “Test Comparison” feature.
* Access Certified Wellness Coaches to assist you in realizing your wellness goals. (Optional premium service)

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