I spoke this past weekend at the Extreme Income Explosion Summit 3-day event and I was also one of the sponsors at the event so I had a booth as well.
When I looked around at the other sponsors and their booths, I realized that not everyone understands how to utilize their booths to get the full ROI on their investment.
The first thing that was lacking, was that the other sponsors, who were also speakers at the event, were noticably absent from their booths before and after each day’s event and during breaks and lunch. They set up their tables and then just left them.
I have seen this before at events and I wonder why someone would invest that kind of money and then not capitalize on the opportunity to network with event goers at their booth where their products are set up and make potential sales. I also noticed that many of the booths were not set up to draw people in.
Because many of the people who I serve use events as part of their marketing strategy, I decided to write an article on how to get an ROI on your booth at an event. You can read the article on my article page.
Today’s RANT: It erks me when people show little regard for your time. Like when someone schedules a strategy session with me, then doesn’t bother to show up for the call or email me to let me know they won’t make it. They take up space on my schedule, then disregard my time. Harv Eker says how you do one thing is how you do everything. I wonder where else they don’t show up in their life and business and how that is showing up in their results.
If you want to create greater prosperity and success in your life, you must create the networks that support, encourage, influence and emulate where you want to go and what you want to create. If you want to become wealthy and you continue to spend time with people that are in lack and limitation mindset, is this the most effective environment for you to spend your time in? I say not and it is really up to you to decide what works for you. Ultimately, you are the only one that can decide AND I suggest that you seriously evaluate your networks before you make a decision. Read the full article here
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Spring has sprung
The grass has risen
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to get you out of prison
How do you like my take on that old school yard rhyme?
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out of the prison that keeps you from living the life of
your dreams and from creating the business success you desire.
I have opened up 5 slots in April for a 30 minute Success Strategy Session
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Spring.
* Are you ready to break free from the Prison (self sabotage) that is keeping you stuck?
* Are you ready to breakthrough the barriers that are holding you back?
* Are you ready to uplevel your business and life success?
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When opportunity knocks do you answer? Do you blow it off because conditions aren’t perfect? Do you seize it and take it to its full advantage?
Opportunities show up for us all the time and it is important when building a successful business that you are opportunity ready. Monday, I had an opportunity drop into my lap that although I wasn’t ready for, I made myself ready in a quick hurry.
I coached a Quantum NLP Master Practitioner training over the weekend so for 2 days I was not only helping the participants do NLP processing, I was doing processing myself. If you done any sort of personal development processing you know that after 2 days you may feel a little depleted and need to take a day to let it all sink in and let your mind, body and spirit recover from the amazing work that you’ve done.
I came home Sunday evening after the 2nd day of coaching and after I ate dinner, I just freakin’ passed out in the recliner, woke a couple of hours later and went right to bed. Monday I got up and had some coffee with the intention of showering later in the day but I started motoring around the house, cleaning up, taking the day off for President’s Day and taking care of things and never got in the shower. I got on a webinar with one of my mentors in the afternoon and when it was done, I decided to check my email.
There it was, an opportunity staring me right in the face! My mentors and colleagues at Buzz Booster had invited me to participate in a hang out on Google + via web cam in 45 minutes and it was going to be streamed on Ustream TV and then loaded on YouTube. My first thought was, “Oh shit!” I had not showered, still had remnants of yesterday’s makeup, my hair was glued to my head needing to be shampooed and I was in my sweats and a 20 year old t-shirt that is my favorite go-to comfort wear when I am just hanging around the house.
The tiny voice inside of me said, “I’m not ready for this, I will just have to pass this time”. Then the big voice inside of me said bologna, just do it! This is a great opportunity for exposure so lose the excuses and make it happen. I emailed them back and told them that I would be there. I jumped up, fixed my makeup, curled my hair, changed my shirt and joined them on the hang out.
I had a blast. It was my first experiencing in a hang out; it was streaming live and after I told viewers where they could find me, even got a couple of new people on my email list. It’s funny, because they had invited anther gal to join and she turned them down because she likes to have her hair done before doing anything on video. Guess what? You wouldn’t have even known what I looked like just 45 minutes earlier if I wasn’t telling you about it right now.
So what about you? What opportunities have you let pass you by because you listened to the tiny, limiting voice inside your head telling you it was not perfect timing vs. the big expansive voice encouraging you to just do it? Next time opportunity knocks, answer. You never know what amazing things are in store for you.
I am in training to be a life coach. Today in class I had to coach another student. Because of what I learned from you directly or from the speakers in the Soul Power Success Summit, I was able to ask some powerful questions. My “client” experienced a shift in only 6 minutes. So I want to make sure I thank you for having the summit and for sharing your story. I am truly grateful to you and all the participants in the Summit. I think part of the breakthrough came from your talk on procrastination - the bigger why. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I was recently asked to be a guest blogger for the International Association of Women Entrepreneurs Online. The topic was Creating Innovation.
It is critical in our rapidly changing business environment that you innovate, not only your products and services, but the way you do business and communicate to your customers. It’s how you stay in business.
Instead of writing a full article on innovation, I am sending you to the blog where I participated with 18 other amazing women entrepreneurs on ideas for creating innovation. Enjoy and take notes! We have provided some incredible ideas.
Are you using social media effectively? Do you have a Facebook page set up for your business or are you just using your friend/profile site for your business? How are you using social media as a business tool?
These are some great questions that you must ask yourself if you are promoting your business online and even if you have a brick and mortar business, it is essential that you are using all of the tools at your fingertips to create customer awareness including social media.
Using Social Media effectively will help you:
• Create a connection with your market by showing them your business personality
• Create authenticity and transparency with your market through posting and responding to posts and customer inquiries
• Create customer loyalty by creating a fan base and an easy way for them to follow what you are doing
• Promote your business to many more people than you could reach by direct mail or traditional advertising such as radio, TV and magazine/newspaper print
• Create a great platform to share your business values and philosophies which help with customer loyalty and retention
• And so much more…
Here are some facts about Facebook and other Social Media to inspire you to learn how to use it effectively. Most of these came from the February issue of Success Magazine and some are from internet search sites.
• 51% of Americans over the age of 12 have a profile on Facebook
• Twitter lags behind Facebook at only 8%
• 46 million Americans check their social media sites and services several times a day
• One in four social network users knowingly follow brands, products or services on social networks
• Among those who do follow brands, products or companies on social networks, 80% indicate that Facebook is the network they use the most to connect with companies
• Nearly 25% of social network users say that Facebook is the site that most influences their buying decisions.
• On Facebook, articles posted on Saturday are shared the most, Sunday comes in second
• Articles posted at 8:00am get the most shares (I am assuming this is ET), followed by 6:00pm
• There is a noticeable dip in shares during dinner-time as well as between midnight and 6:00am
• Posting every other day gets the best results in shared contend and fan retention
• When businesses were asked what their most effective marketing strategy was last year, 32% said E-mail, 28% Facebook page, 18% other, 11% Twitter updates, 11% direct mail.
• 82% of the world’s online population is determined to be reached by social networking sites, representing 1.2 billion users around the world and I believe this is even higher now.
• Females account for 62% of all Facebook page views
• On LinkdedIn and Wikia, men are more likely to log on than females each day
• 23% Of All Time Spent Online Happens on Social Networks and Blogs
• Social Networking Sites Reach 60% Of Global Internet Users or more
Pretty awesome facts, right? Does it inspire you to up level the way you are using social media?
I would love your feedback on what you are doing on social media to promote your business and where you need additional support. Please fill out this short 4 question survey. It will only take a few minutes of your time and I appreciated how valuable you time is and honor you for lending me just a few minutes.
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I was riding on the back of an all-terrain vehicle through a forest of quaking aspen in central Utah a while back, enjoying life in the outdoors, kicking back and taking in the scenery. As we drove along through the quaking trees, I noticed how the knot holes in the aspen trees look like eyes. Suddenly, it felt as if a million eyes were watching me. It was kind of eerie.
It dawned on me that in business, as you put yourself out there and market yourself; a million eyes are watching you. You have much greater influence than you realize, especially with social media and web based presence. As your exposure grows, so does the amount of eyes watching you. Even if people are not in direct contact with you, as in signing up for your newsletter or becoming a client or customer, they are still watching. They may be spreading the word about you and your business as well in either a positive or negative manner.
Is that a spooky thought for you? Exciting? Here are a few tips to make sure that you stay on the exciting side of the equation and not the spooky side. Read More…
