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We will be joined by

Life Coach Susan Liddy, MA, PCC, CPCC, is on a mission to let every woman know that she can live a confident and fulfilling life. Since 2004 she has helped women around the globe achieve goals and dreams such as heal relationships, write books, change careers, start businesses and create overall life balance. She is the Founder and CEO of AspireLifeCoaching.org, creator of the Passage to Empowerment™ coaching program, and author of The Secrets to Ultimate Living: What You Wish You Knew When You Were Twenty. Learn more about Susan Liddy by visiting her website: www.AspireLifeCoaching.org or blog: www.SecretsToUltimateLiving.com

where we will be talking about “Our 3 Tips on How to Catapult Your Business forward”

You will not want to miss this!  C U THERE!

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Jody & Charlotte

Ok…as a new blogger I joined a blogging group a few months ago and the group recommended I join MyBlogLog.com!

This is a great piece of advice….my site has been seen and commented on..as well as I’ve read some great blogs as well. You do need to set up a Yahoo email…this is promoted by yahoo..and gets quite a few hits through yahoo.

Enjoy, Join…and add me when you get there!!!

Sincerely JODY

Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification

Back in June I wrote about why anyone would blog. There is a critical piece I need to add to the reason people blog.

As I have been blogging, on a few different blogs.. and talk about what ever strikes me or which ever revelation I have.. I find that I attract different sorts of readers. I have found that different people google different topics and end up reading my stuff. Some readers find me because they follow me on Twitter or they are my friend on Facebook… once in a while it gets mailed to someone else. Which ever way people find it… I have noticed I am getting a certain type of follower.

What is this certain type of follower? Other people who are interested in what I am interested in. I have lots of different interests and I write about it all, I write about concerts I go to, my vacation, my difficulties with hairdressers, how I set goals, kids, relationships.. whatever it is. When I do this people that are interested find me. They feel a connection with me.

My blogs are online 24/7 representing me. My new online friends get to know me through my blog, they get to see my authenticity. They see that I don’t try and act like my life is perfect and that I have idiosyncrasies like collecting cookie cutters and sprinkles. They are attracted to me because my blog tells them who I am.

Blogging is critical for attracting the sort of people you want in your business, life, relationships etc. What ever sort of community you are building, blogging is key. Don’t worry about having to make it sound perfect or developing the correct sentence or grammar… I can say this, I was always a D student in English. If you are focused purely on the content, your message will get to who it needs to get to.

Blogging will bring in those who you wish to be connected with.

Try it, you’ll like it.

Charlotte Salafia

www.DesignedforDivineDestinations.com

“Where is not just about the Destination, but the journey to get there.”

Social Media is on the rise.

Most people are not aware of how they can integrate social media as a “Free Business Tool”.

There are many ways of using Social Media and how to use them properly.

Here are some great tips for using FaceBook as a business tool.

Enjoy and “pay it forward” to others who could use these tips!

Many people are hooked up on Facebook to connect with Friends and Family. Then they seem to realize that they can use FB as a business tool, and they either crazily try to promote something they are currently into or find something to promote.

FB does have some etiquette that people generally follow.  One of my favorite resources I have used is by Mari Smith a FB superstar and I believe one of the first people on FB to actually make a million dollars.  You can click her Free FaceBook Tips and enjoy that right now.

The biggest tip to remember with FB is to “relationship build” vs “throwing product” into peoples faces.

Let’s put it this way, you are at a “networking meeting” or say even an event at your local ‘chamber of commerce’.  Do you just go around and hand out 350 business cards? Or do you want to actually meet 5-10 people who can help you expand your business? (who each knows 350 plus people???)

By the way, people can smell a salesperson at a distance, so going with the intention of  just throwing around your business card might not always be the wisest choice.  Now, I’m not saying that you don’t want to meet 350 people, far from it, but even when your intention is to hand out your card you don’t usually just walk up to someone and say “Hey, nice to meet you!  Here is my business card, I would love if you would join my business in the next 20 minutes!”

So why on earth would you post that same caption to someone you have just ‘met’ on FB?

My friend Leigh LeCreux of Intended Creations and I have discussed this many times.  People don’t get it that “Social Media” actually means being, uh social!!!

When I decided to market my business to FB I had the ‘intention’ to meet 3-5 great ladies that I:

• Shared a common interest with
• Genuinely like and admired
• Could have a great conversation with
• Were like-minded & shared a love of ‘the secret’ and LOA

These were the things I was looking for in others.  Within ten days of actually doing this I met 4 ladies who shared this criteria (and one fella) and it has brought my business to greater heights then I could ever have imagined.

One became my BF, Leigh, who I mentioned above and we are each other’s personal cheerleaders.

Another became my biz partner and great friend, Charlotte Salafia (by the way check out her other coolio business here).

The two others I have met I’ve co-hosted with on a weekly Blog talk radio programs.  Ladies! Let’s Talk and Mom’s Coffee Break.

And the ‘fella’ is owner of SelfGrowth.com, David Riklan, who has personally named me on several ‘Social Media’ calls that he has hosted! (Selfgrowth.com is one of the largest selfgrowth sites in the world btw with over 900 million subscribers!!!)

So if you are ‘unclear’ of exactly how to start monetizing your business with FB, or perhaps you are unsure of FB etiquette, I highly recommend you check out Mari Smith’s Free Facebook Tips.  Mari also has some paid programs available which she will let you know about after you have received her Free FaceBook Tips!

I hope you have gotten a bit of a better idea of what FaceBook is all about and Feel Free to join Charlotte and Jody’s FB group Here!

This week we will be featuring alot more tips and ideas on “Social Media” that I can’t wait to share with you!

Jody Maley

Owner & Speaker

www.DesignedforDivineDestinations.com

“Where it’s not just about the Destination, it’s the Journey to Get There!”

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