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Blog Hopping Tour Delay and Update
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityIf you’ve been stopping by hoping to read about the Blog Hopping Tour put on by the Online International Virtual Assistants Convention, I have news!
As you may have guessed, the Blog Hopping Tour, quite unexpectedly, was “derailed” there for a bit. Which means, our date was pushed back a bit.
The good news is I am pleased to announce that “our stop” has now been rescheduled to Wednesday, May 12.
So, we hope to see you back here then!
In the meantime, you can get back on the “Blog Hopping Tour” train by checking out Tuesday, May 5th’s, tour stop at the VA Directory.
Jewels of Life: Hope, OIVAC, Working with a VA
read comments (0)Create Easy Peasy Information Products Tip #3
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityI began this mini-tutorial for “Creating Easy Peasy Information Products” with Tip #1 on Friday.
You’ll find Tip #2. Q&A report. here.
So now, we continue with Tip #3…
3. Audio interview of an expert.
With this option, and the next two, you create an audio product in just one hour, plus a little preparation time.
Just persuade someone to be interviewed for an hour, and record the session. Your “guest/interviewee” would be someone whose opinions, experiences and knowledge would be in demand, someone that people would want to hear what they have to say.
Then, voilà, you have a product!
You’ll find many experts will agree to do this for fr/ee; the usual “trade” would be you’d provide them with a copy of the recording and permission to sell it or use it as a bonus product for something else.
It’s quite easy to record such an interview on a conference-call line using a service like Free Conference Call You’d then sell your interview either as a downloadable MP3, or as a CD that you send to the buyer by mail.
Some information marketers also provide customers with the option to purchase a transcript, in addition to or instead of the audio recording.
Tip #4, Audio Interview of You, will be ready Friday, and we’ll look forward to seeing you back here then.
Jewels of Life: Dream, Hope, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Working with a VA
“Tackling Anxiety”
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityWith all the recent happenings in the world with people losing their jobs and business cutbacks, as well as the natural disasters, etc., many of us may perhaps be experiencing some form of anxiety for the first time.
Which may leave us wondering how to deal with these outside forces.
Last summer, I was able to provide ebook production support and encouragement to Ernie S. Schmidt, LCSW, Palo Alto Therapy in Palo Alto, CA, as he wrote his ebook, “Tackling Anxiety: How to Regain Your Peace of Mind” This book might be just the ticket to help you sort through the issues like these you may face.
Ernie says, “I wrote this ebook as a guide to help you better understand and manage your anxiety, so that it doesn’t have to hurt so much anymore.”
He goes on to say, “When everything in the world gets bigger than you, sometimes it can be hard to know how you really feel–except that you know you feel bad. And then you feel bad about feeling bad.”
So, here are a few of the points highlighted in the book
* How to recognize when you’re feeling anxious
* How to accept anxiety as a normal emotion
* How anxiety can actually be useful
* How to understand the different types of anxiety
* How to work with your own thoughts to lessen anxiety
* How to change your behavior to overcome anxiety
“Tackling Anxiety: How to Regain Your Peace of Mind will be an immediate comfort, and will help set you on a path to feeling good again.”
Ernest Schmidt‘s psychotherapy practice is Palo Alto Therapy in Palo Alto, CA. He is also a tenured faculty member of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills where he offers personal counseling, training and supervision to new therapists, and teaches students the basics of stress management and emotional wellness.”
Jewels of Life: Believe, Dream, Hope, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA
Brenda Adelman’s Ebook Hits the Stands
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityEach week in my ezine,“On the Bright Side” I give “complimentary shouts-out” to some of the talented people/businesses I’ve met or worked with along the way over these last few years.
Today, I’m pleased to present Brenda Adelman, author of “My Father Killed My Mother and Married My Aunt.” (I provided the ebook production support.)
Brenda Adelman is an award-winning actress and a recipient of the Hero of Forgiveness award from the Hawaii International Forgiveness Project.
Brenda has performed her one-woman show titled, My Brooklyn Hamlet, about forgiving the unforgivable at the LA Women’s Theatre Festival, The Until the Violence Stops NYC festival, and at Repair the World, an international Jewish theatre festival held in Vienna, Austria, with audiences from 17 countries and 6 continents.
Brenda has performed at and been the keynote speaker for Coalitions Against Domestic Violence in Arizona and New Mexico, the Peace and Reconciliation Centerin Hawaii, and for university and high school students across the country.
She leads teleclasses onHealthy Boundary Setting, and is a transformational life coach.
Her first book, My Father Killed My Mother and Married My Aunt: Forgiving the Unforgivable, which is a memoir and a workbook filled with practical tools to help readers move past blocks in their relationships immediately, is now available as an instant downloadable ebook at forgiveandbefreebook.com
Jewels of Life: Believe, Dream, Hope, Resources
Steve Thomas Shares Quick and Easy “Self-Help” Tips
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityToday’s Guest Blogger, Steve Thomas is a member of Self-Starters Weekly Tips.
My name is Steve Thomas and I am staring sixty years old in the face!
My life up until about ten years ago was not much to shout about. I had some successes and a lot of failures.
Then something happened!
I had been reading self help stuff for years, but never done anything much about it. I finally decided to put some of what I had learned to use.
Things changed!
What I really want to talk about has happened in the last few months. I have long wanted to share what I have learned, but I live in a really small town. I could move, but then I would leave family behind. How to go about it? Ah, I know, share it on the internet!
I joined Lynn Terry’s Self Starter’s Weekly Tips and started learning ways that I could share with the world.
Now I have to admit that I knew next to nothing about how to build a web site, or anything about computers other than how to turn it on and waste time surfing the net. However, the saying, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” is wrong!
For those of us who are nearing retirement age, or have been pushed into it for one reason or another, I strongly suggest looking seriously at internet marketing.
You may think that you can’t do this, but let me tell you; you can do anything you put your mind to and work hard at. Is it easy? Well, there were times when my windows were in fear of having a computer thrown through them, but if I can learn it, you can!
Karen has some excellent advice and teaching on this site. You would do well to read it over carefully and think long and hard about where you are now, and where you want to be ten years from now.
You decide!
You take responsibility for your life and enjoy the ride like you never have!
Here’s to You!
Steve Thomas is the creator of A Life Change For You. By clicking on the link, you can subscribe to Steve’s “’self-help’ tips on taking action,” He’s also created A Common Path, dedicated to helping people find a better, more fulfilling life. Steve is a minister, yoga and meditation teacher, reiki practitioner, blogger, online marketer and all around nice guy!
Jewels of Life: Believe, Dream, Hope, Internet Marketing, Tips and Tricks
Learning Life’s Lessons
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityPay Attention to Your Inner Talk
I have BAD news and GOOD news…the bad news is my main computer has taken a turn for the worse and has been sent to the “infirmary”! When my computer kept shutting off after I had turned it on, and did this several times in a row over one morning last week, I decided it was probably a good time to have someone with a lot more experience than I look at it.
The GOOD news is two-fold.
When I took my computer in, I was informed they were having“free tuneups” all this week…so I’m getting it looked at, cleaned, etc., initially at no cost! Woo hoo!
The other “good news” is I finally listened to me. And it’s paid off. If you’ve been reading along here regularly, you know sometimes suggest tasks you might perform, or various products and tools that could help you in your business.
One of my tips was to do regular backups. Which I have been doing regularly, usingCarbonite Online Backup.
Fortunately, I’ve had a second computer that I’ve used off and on the last few months more for “turning on and turning off”, checking online email, surfing the web, all while taking my time getting it set up so I could begin to use it on a regular basis. <
One of the other recent suggestions I’ve written about was to use PC Mover to transfer files from an old computer to a new computer. Luckily, I had that “moving day” about three weeks ago.
So, this past weekend I logged in to Carbonite, selected their “Restore” files feature (to get Carbonite installed on my new computer) and to begin the “restore” of my files.
So, I”m not missing a beat…well, I am a little because of the file transfer time…but the good news is I am not losing my files.
Note to self: Pay attention to those “inner voices” more often!
Jewels of Life: Believe, Dream, Internet Marketing, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA
Cue Up the Twilight Zone Music
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityAbout six months ago I spent several days, off and on, whining about some issues I was having with this Kreative Ramblings blog site; the home page often would not load correctly. And when it did, I was linked to some “errant” sites that when I clicked on a link showed up as sites selling Viagra and other medicines.
I discovered, after a time, that a “rogue hacker” had got into my site somehow and had deposited malicious links.
After much searching and finally a move to a different web host, the bad guys were located and the problem resolved.
That was then, this is now!
A few days ago, I received an email from a company representing a bank in Spain. They informed me that my mail Web site was “hosting” a phishing company that was trying to gather credit card and other personal information for a bank they represented.
Since the email originally landed in my “Junk Mail” folder, I at first thought the email was a scam. I did, however, log in to the control panel for my Web site so I could see the site page to which they referred.
But, I could not log in to the back end of my site because the password would not work. When I contacted my web host, I learned they had changed the password because the “phishing” issue had been reported to them, also. They resolved the matter for me.
Then, just yesterday…Tuesday…I again received another email from this same source. This time they identified another part of my site that had also been hi-jacked. Actually, it was a PDF file I had created and uploaded–two years ago!
And, I was able to delete the web page the hackers had created; now I’m crossing fingers that this resolves the issue once and for all.
Jewels of Life: Hope, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Working with a VA
Tell Them About It!
Author: KMcGreevey: Konceptuality
If you want people to find you on the web, a good way to do that is through blogging.
This also holds true for how people can find your information products. Sure, you have a sales page for each info product and you use essential keywords in the sales copy, but sales pages are meant for one thing: for the customer to click the “buy” button, have the “prize”drop out, and then move on.
So, starting a blog and writing pertinent information for your target market on a regular basis will help to secure your position as an expert. However, it will also encourage people to visit your blog many times over.
By you writing multiple posts each week, your are supplying your visitors with a“Come back often now, you hear?”invitation! Better yet, while they’ “stopping by”, they may even subscribe to your RSS feed, newsletter or download whatever it is you’re offering.
A blog is easy to create and you don’t need to be a web expert to do create it. Since you’re trying to reach “expert” status, you may want to keep your blog attached to your current business Web site. All you need after that is a design and then you’re set to start writing.
What you write is essential if you want your blogging efforts to be successful. Make each post interesting and timely and something people will want to read. Make your blog posts short (300-400 words) and easy to read—and don’t use big words people won’t understand.
Start by blogging about your info product since that’s what you’re selling.
This isn’t another sales pitch so you can focus on smaller topics. For instance, if you have an info product about green living, write about the “Top 10 Ways to Get Your Kids to Recycle.” Another post can be “How to Introduce Green Living into the Classroom.” You can write on any number of different topics of interest or highlight certain ideas from the info product to show your expertise without giving another hard sell for your product.
Constantly update your blogs, don’t just blog once and forget about it. Blog daily at first to attract readers. Add promotional posts for your info product at the end of your blogs to also get people to your site. Feel free to mention the product in another individual post. If people are interested in what you are writing, they’ll find your link and click on it.
Jewels of Life:Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA, Believe, Hope
Getting Back the Fire – Tips 5 & 6
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityBoost your energy
Perhaps you’ve noticed how the desire to lose weight sometimes leads some of us to drink coffee, use diet pills or to drink diet pop. This is because the energy-inducing ingredients in these products boost our systems and act as an impetus to motivate us. Actually, exercising and getting a good night’s sleep will as well.
Since the “moody blues” can sometimes be brought on by too many sugary foods and the “sugar blues”, in turn, can kill motivation, it’s wise to limit the use of sugar products.
Take any small step
Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind”. While he probably didn’t mean it quite like this.
But if you commit to doing just one task for one day toward your goal, perhaps like writing a paragraph in a sales letter, it won’t be long before you get motivated enough to finish the sales letter because you know when it’s finished you’ll be able to finish uploading your ebook to your Web site, and you can then start selling it and earning money.
Money speaks pretty loud
Motivation techniques really do work.
Some of the foregoing examples attest to the fact that motivation techniques really do work. However, the “how” is up to you since what stirs your colleagues may not stir your soul.
In any case, a good laugh can overcome a lot of things so whatever path you choose to rev up your motivator, let humor be your guide.
Jewels of Life Believe, Hope, Tips and Tricks
Secrets to Getting Back the Fire
Author: KMcGreevey: KonceptualityCan’t think, brain numb? Motivation won’t come?
Believe it or not, we all have times when we just can’t get motivated to “get up and go”; whether that “go” is to work or to write an article or to clean house or to tackle a huge project for a client.
How many times have you taken the time to sit in on this or that seminar or to even read this or that motivational book to learn hundreds of ways to improve your life? But then all that learning just set up camp in your brain because you didn’t do anything with it.
Instead, you got side-tracked watching the Aflac duck in his latest predicament (I love that duck!). Perhaps you didn’t feel like doing what you ought to have been doing and so you did nothing!
Aflac duck or not, sometimes even the highly motivated of us may sometimes find ourselves in the throes of lazy and more readily disregard the nagging pull to start on an important task.
So what’s a body to do?
Over the next few days, we’ll discuss several tips to help you get motivated.
Stop back tomorrow to get started.
Jewels of Life: Hope, Tips and Tricks, Working with a VA