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Upcoming Seminar: Monday, January 17, 2011

You might be saying... I am ready for my CD to blow up or I am ready for my book to be featured on Oprah (yes, even the new network)! My question to you: are you "media" ready?

So many people want to be on various radio shows and others want to have maximum media exposure for their business, products or services B U T are they "media" ready? Can the media find them online? When they do find them, what impression will they have? This Teleseminar is great for anyone seeking media exposure ( radio, TV, print media etc). This foundational seminar will give the beginner the tips that enable "media" readiness!

Special Admission: FREE  ---> Click here to Register!

 
Time: Monday, January 17th at 7:30pm Eastern - 30 minute seminar

Listening method: Phone OR Web Simulcast

Facilitator: Sharvette Mitchell

For more information, visit www.Sharvette.com

I’ve been getting questions from someof the women in my tribe/network and most want to know how they can getstarted in the coaching business. I’m sure each of them have varyingreasons why they
are interested.

If you have a desire to help others that would be one reason to seriously look into this model. If you’re tired of
working harder without realizing the results, this is an ideal model for you.
If you want to monetize and share your expertise with the masses, this is an
ideal model for you.

Watch the video for additional supporting information. Go to http://budurl.com/coachstream to request access to the audio replay of the power-packed Teleseminar mentioned.

Are you using Social Media like Twitter and Facebook to build your list? Are you building a list?

One thing you must be doing if you’re going to realize any level of business empowerment is list building.

One of the most important things in an Internet Marketing business is a list of contacts. It’s important for you to build relationshpswith your customers. Your contacts are called subscribers on your listsand they are the most important asset of your business. List buildingincorporates building relationships. Your prospects are encouraged tovisit your website through your marketing efforts. Hopefully they signup to receive your free offer which should be of value to them and youare given an opportunity to build rapport with them and share thesolutions you have with them.

You notice I said you have the opportunity to share your solutions with them. Unless you have the opportunity to build rapport andincrease the know, like and trust factor you will only share yoursolutions and never have the opportunity of actually add them to yourclient/customer community.

One way to build your list is to use Social Media.

Social media includes Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Myspace and it actually includes blogging. There are many other Social sites, however,my focus at this time is on Twitter and Facebook.

If you don’t have an account on Twitter you can go to www.twitter.com and you’ll see a prompt to register and you’ll need tofollow each one. The one thing you need to keep in mind is that thefirst impression is important having said that you need to have aphoto. If you have a business you might opt for a business logo,however, I would suggest that you have at least one account with yourpersonal name and then add another one. The other important thing is tohave a link to your blog or website. I suggest your blog or if you havea free offer (recommended) have a link on your page to direct them toyour free offer. This will also enhance your list building endeavors.You can only use one email per account.

If you don’t have an account on Facebook go to http://www.facebook.com you’ll see a link to register. Follow theprompts. Same thing with regard to your photo. Don’t post every linkunder the sun on your profile. Be intentional and don’t confuse yourfriends.

You need to know the proper etiquette for each site. Twitter is a fast mover. You can actually tweet all day, however, there is a rulewith regard to the ratio. You want to do more original tweets, followedby retweets and then maybe 20% tweets to your own offers, links etc.

Facebook is a little slower. You don’t want to post updates all day and resist posting links to your business for the majority of yourupdates on your profile wall. Your profile is for personal and there isa facebook fanpage that can be used for business.

Now back to the idea of list building. You need to know what your target market is and your goals for Facebook and/or Twitter. Withoutthis you won’t have any real results.

You’ll want to know your Twitter and Facebook strategy.

Then there are followers and friends. How do you add targeted followers on Facebook/ How do you add targeted friends on facebook?

These are all great questions. I can’t answer everything in this post however, I do want to invite you to request free access to myTele-training “I Rock on Twitter and Facebook and you can too!” Go to http://budurl.com/irocktwitterfacebook and you’ll receive immediate access.

If you want advanced support I invite you to learn more about my “I Rock on Twitter and Facebook Social Media Empowerment Coaching club.”You can go here
http://budurl.com/irocktwitterfbcoach there are limited spaces for the Early Bird level so I suggest you enroll now!

Let’s Rock!!

Robin aka The Empowerment Diva
The Authentic Life and Biz Empowerment
Mentor,Coach and Trainer to women across the world

Why should you listen to Robin?
Robin has a combined total of over 10,000 followers on Twitter which she accomplished au naturale’ (no gimmicks)
She was named 1 of 25 urban woman entrepreneurs to follower on Twitter

She has a nice following on Facebook and her Facebook Fanpage fans grow by the week without intentional effort, however, she plans tointensify her efforts.

Okay, yes the title may tell you I know a little something about martial arts...but no, I don't. Only as much as the last Karate Kid movie
(which is one of my kids' favorites) and the line from Kung Fu Panda
which says that Kung Fu stands for "excellence of self".

I was thinking about that today after having watched the main character, a Panda named Po, one of 50 jillion times. I think personal brand work is like working out your Kung Fu - it truly stands for mining
and understanding how to portray your self excellence.

I thought I'd share how you can strategically do some kung fu kicks with identifying your personal brand strategy below. One approach is using the SWOT analysis.

SWOT Analysis is a well-known method of identifying your Strengths and Weaknesses, while also examining the Opportunities and Threats you face. All four areas can help you clarify your personal brand and your
distinctive and unique value.

Often carrying out an analysis using the SWOT framework will be enough to reveal changes that need to be made in your plan.

Try to work through the following questions and think about what insights you have from this focused work:

Strengths -

• What do you do well?
• What can you do better than anyone else?
• What comes naturally for you?

Weaknesses -

• What could be improved?
• What might you do poorly?
• What comes with more difficulty for you?

Opportunities -

• In what areas do you see possibilities?
• What resources or circumstances can you leverage?
• What trends might you use to your advantage?

Threats -

• What obstacles are in your way?
• Who is your competition and what are they doing well?
• Are you financially challenged?
• What else do you find yourself up against?

About the Author: Tanya Smith, Career & Personal Brand Coach, offers women professionals, with dual roles in a corporate career & solo side business, access to cutting-edge strategies to help them thrive
and promote themselves as experts in a progressively competitive work and
marketplace. Claim your free instant access to two fill-in-the-blank brand templates and a special report, The Beginner’s Guide to A Successful Career
Brand at: http://www.bepromotable.com.

I have really begun to mentally process how the discipline of marketing a business and many of the principles that come with it are just as critical for personal success.

There is great value in developing a personal brand marketing strategy that helps you stand out, and that makes you more credible in the eyes of your select audience. Unfortunately, it is way too easy to ignore because of competing priorities for our time.

• Do you have a personal brand marketing plan or do you personally market yourself unintentionally?
• If you have a brand marketing plan, does it include specific promotional activities and are these tied to events?
• Have you taken the time to identify a target customer, or employer? What desired characteristics have you named?
• Does your personal brand strategy identify ways to sell to and maintain your current clients while attracting new ones?
• What are the demographics of your key prospects? What makes you distinctly different, or unique as compared to your competitors?
• What is your personal brand marketing budget? How will you distribute these funds?

About the Author: Expert-ize your personal brand. As a Personal Brand & Marketing Coach, Tanya Smith offers female professionals with dual career & entrepreneurial roles access to cutting-edge strategies to help them thrive and promote themselves as experts in a progressively competitive work and marketplace. Claim
your free instant access to a special report at: http://www.bepromotable.com.

“I don’t know how to navigate the professional world. It is like I am an outsider looking in. As an African American woman, I don’t have any willing connections in my family. I am actively networking, taking classes to gain new skills, writing blogs, and interning; this way I can groom myself into the professional I want to be…”

My answer went like this:

Thank you for your note & for expressing your challenges so honestly. I will share that I have been mentored and I have mentored. In most cases where I was on the receiving end, I actively pursued the
relationship. There have been both good AND bad experiences on either
side – I chose to learn from both.

One of the conversations that came out of the recent Women of Color Career Success telesummit I hosted focused on the topic of mentoring and where to find them. There were 3 strategies highlighted from the panel:

1. Pursue mentoring relationships with people who already at a level for which you are aspiring – seeking a combination of mentors with similar backgrounds as you AND those who can share a completely
   different perspective;
2. Peer-to-peer mentoring – reach out to positive, motivated colleagues and others within your field for idea/resource sharing; and
3. “remote” mentoring – seek out books, presentations, and media that may have messages you can apply to your own situation for growth. If something really appeals to you, consider contacting the author, etc to
   let them know how their ideas have helped you – social media really
   opens possibilities here. You never know until you try.

“Mentoring” was very loosely defined in each case but the ultimate message was that you can learn from just about anyone’s experiences.

Lastly I will add these tips:

* Don’t be intimidated to ask anyone you have identified as a possible mentor for you. The worst they can do is say no. * You should not expect
someone else to invest in you what you don’t invest in yourself and
others. Definitely look at ways you can mentor and give back. * And if
you happen to run into that not-so-great experience, you can learn
lessons from that too. It just may be “what not to do”.

I hope others will chime in and offer their advice and perspectives on your questions.

Best success to you, Tanya

What are your thoughts around mentoring and what advice would you offer someone for finding a mentor?

About the Author: Tanya Smith of Be Promotable helps ambitious professional women of color develop a competitive personal brand strategy for the career of their dreams. To get instant access to
her free special report on Simple Steps High Performing Sistas Need to Know for Career Success stop by and visit http://www.bepromotable.com.

You have a few months left to make it happen for you in 2010 but

you have no more motivation and you’re out of ideas. You are working

Give up? No. You can do it!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

VIP program just for you, The Bold, Courageous and Brilliant 90 day VIP

coaching program for 10 wealth conscious women and woman
entrepreneurs or aspiring.

“I want to give women an opportunity to get clear on their vision,

more specifically to get laser focused on one BIG goal while tapping into

Women will join Robin for a 90 day journey together with other like-minded

Your goal might be to realize a healthy lifestyle so you can realize better weight
management and
achieve that ideal weight, to launch your first telesminar, to set up the

needed components to effectively build your list, to increase your revenue by a
certain measure, to become bold, courageous and tap into your brilliance so you
can play a bigger game etc.

Robin wants to support you in accomplishing your desires and goals within 90 days.

To learn more about how you can be one of the ten women who join in

this life-changing program go to http://www.RobinTramble.com/Brillianceinquiry.html

Get ready to kick start your year!

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About Robin Tramble

Robin Tramble International was founded by Professional Life Empowerment Coach,

life of empowerment. Robin is a Mentor, speaker, Recording artist and Author

of the upcoming book “The Dynamic Power of Focus for unstoppable women.”

She is also creator of Empowerment-Success-Songs.com .

Find out more about Robin Tramble International at

http://www.Authenticlifeempowerment.com

Contact Details:
Contact:
Gen
info@RobinTramble.com

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must
fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act.
There is no other route to success.

~Stephen A. Brennan~

Do you have goals for your life and business?

I'm sure you do. Are you achieving any of your goals?

Even when you've set a "good" goal - you can run into some

challenges along the way... namely, motivation. Without motivation,

even the most ambitious person will get sidetracked. Here are the strategies that
will keep you on track to achieving your goals:

Write it down

It's one thing to set a goal and yet another to write it down.

You're making a step towards committing to your goal when

you write it down. I know it seems obvious, however, you'd be

surprised at how many individuals

don't complete this step.

Determine what achieving this goal will do for you

Give life to your goals. Write down what it will mean or what it

will do for you to achieve this goal. Visualize it and write it down.

Place yourself in the moment. This is also a key to manifesting

your goals.

Focus on success.

Being overcome by negative thoughts or "what if" scenarios can spell
disaster, even death, to your goals. When you start out by finding a
million ways why your plans won't work, your energy is getting diverted
to dealing with failure that hasn't even happened!

Instead of funneling your time and resources into negative thoughts and
processes, make the decision that you're not going to entertain any
ideas of failure. If it happens, it happens. You don't have to spend
your precious resources worrying about it now.

"What you focus on expands." ~ Author unknown

Chart your progress.

A great motivation is to create a visual graphic to represent your
progress towards your goal. Think of those thermometers that elementary
schools place outside on a busy road, measuring how close they are to
achieving their fund-raising goal for the new community pool or
library. A similar, physical chart that you can update with progress
will do wonders to keep your attention focused.

When you're doing this step, think outside the box. If you're trying to
spend more time at the gym, why not post a map of the US on your wall,
and draw an inch from one coast to the other for each hour you spend on
the treadmill? Visual reminders are fun ways to keep your goals in the
forefront of your mind.

Don't be afraid to ask for help or turn to an expert for advice.

Some individuals feel guilty about asking for help or admitting that they
need help. Or you may think that you need to do everything on your own.
Nothing could be further from the truth! Alcoholics Anonymous has
sponsors, Michael Phelps has a coach, and Jack Welch had an advisory
board. No one has to be alone in their goal-setting efforts. Trying to
eat healthier? Nutritionists will help you fine-tune your diet. Working
out to get fit? Trainers will help you find the most effective
exercises to achieve your physical goals. Trying to get clear on your
vision, goals and stay focused or maybe even get unstuck? Coaches such
as

myself can assist you in this area.

There are business mentors and coaches who can help you figure out social
media, launch a new information product, create action plans, stay
focused, streamline your finances etc.. You can also find tons of
books, videos, and websites to help you reach your goal, no matter what
your goal happens to be. Don't go it alone. You also need an
accountability partner. Many times this is the missing piece.

Need more support in setting and/or achieving your goals? I invite you to
contact me for a complimentary life and business breakthrough strategy
session. Where I'll help you create a vision of where you'd like to go,
uncover some of the things that may be holding you back

and more. You'll leave our session re-energized, empowered and more focused.

Send an email to info@RobinTramble.com put "Life and Business

Breakthrough strategy session" in the subject area.

Someone will contact you to set up your session with me.

Women have many hats to fill and the demand is great on their time and because of the lack of support, training and/or
resources the dreams and desires of many go unfulfilled. If you're
ready to be more, do more and have more this may be for you.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Are you tired of feeling blocked by your own fear? You may know what you really want to do, and how to live, but are afraid you can’t do it. That it is too much for you. That others might laugh, or dissuade you. Or you might fail. Does this sound familiar?

Well, I know how you feel, and have been right where you are. We women often have a hard time dealing with our fear. Certain things are expected of us in life, and we feel pressure to confirm, to take the safe path, to chose wisely.

But what if God has something in mind for you? What if you could relax, follow your dream, and achieve what you long for? What if you could just brazen right through that fear?

I have found the solution to eliminating those fears that stop us- to helping you achieve everything you want in your career, in your life, in your relationships.

Contact me now and let me show you how you can achieve your dreams!

Schedule a free 30 minute consultation. www.guidingu2success.com

WebInterpreter.info is here!

In the midst of the Apples’ iPad and iPhone OS 4, you now can take the web wherever you go.

Now, whats this mean for me?, you say, a lot because you are now scratching your head wondering, how in the heck do I use this new cool gadget. But before you start fooling around with that, this weblog is your one-stop-shop for understanding the web and how to start your web endeavor and put them to successful use.

Welcome to Web Interpreter

“Translating web technology, transforming non-experts to experts.”

This weblog was created to translate web technology to non-experts and transform them into experts, or at least feel like an expert. Here at WebInterpreter.info you will find useful information such as: how to start/update your web site correctly, how to use HTML/CSS code for your site, picking the right social networks sites to market in, email marketing, creating email campaigns, and discovery of what technology is used on the web. As your Web Interpreter, I can help you create an effective plan and also point you in the right direction of web products and services you will need to make your web endeavors a success and in the process save you a lot of money!

Read more useful info about web technology at: http://webinterpreter.info

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So ask questions, or leave a comment. Let me be your Web Interpreter for your web solutions, whatever the case KNOWING the difference makes a world of a difference.

Ladies helping moms grow their business is what personal development and coaching is all about. One of the best forms of marketing idea and its totally free is Writing a Press Release. I know your thinking but my business is small right now and I am doing it part time and at home. Put that thought aside because this tecnique works for all entrepreneur's especially you and therefore extremely powerful!

You can write a press release for just about anything going on in your business that you’d like others to know . Think about it. Anything new that's happening in your business is news worthy. Here are a few examples of press release material:

• A new employee, partner or association
• Grand Openings
• Special Discounts
• Charitable Functions you are sponsoring or participating in
• A new product or service
• Receiving an Award
• A Big Sale
• Business Anniversaries or other Milestones

You see how awesome and exciting this could be for your business. I bet you have plenty of news to tell your prospects and clients. Therefore, I hope this triggers your list and add more for you to market and help grow your business. Stay tune for more marketing tips and examples of a press release.

Here's to your success!!

Marlene McCray

Lifestyle Expert @ bizymoms.com

Marlene McCray, MS is an Adjunct Faculty member, Success Coach and Compass Representative. After years in academia, her passion and committment focuses now on inspiring and empowering women to live their life on purpose as well as the opportunity to work at home in their own Compass business. Email: marlenemccray@fallintoyou.com