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Entries from February 2008

Business Resource Pick – SelfGrowth.com

February 27, 2008 · 2 Comments

Hello Fabulous Women!

A great business – and personal — resource to check out is Selfgrowth.com, the number 1 self improvement site on the internet. 

SelfGrowth has a wealth of information on a wide range of topics, from relationships to success skills, from diet and nutrition to spirituality, and from money and finance to health and fitness.

I recommend SelfGrowth for your own personal use, but don’t underestimate its power as a business and networking tool as well.  David Riklan, founder of SelfGrowth, is dedicated to creating great opportunities for people, and has implemented a number of different ways to help entrepreneurs in many fields to promote themselves and their businesses.  SelfGrowth has over a million visitors every month, and David is a master at turning that traffic into opportunities. 

Here are some of the ways you can get access to huge exposure for your business through SelfGrowth.

Ezines:

Hundreds of thousands of people (including me!) have signed up for one or more of SelfGrowth’s weekly and daily newsletters on topics such as: Home Based Businesses, Self Improvement, Natural Health, Brain Improvement and IQ, Selling and Sales Skills, Relationships and more.  You can advertise on these newsletters or contribute articles and reach a huge number of people.

Articles:

Selfgrowth is always looking for more articles on all kinds of topics.  You can write and submit articles on your area of expertise, and once approved, your article will be published on the site and be available to anyone searching the site for information on that topic.

Advertising:

Selfgrowth has a number of different advertising opportunities which are very targeted and can help you to reach your audience.  Remember, more than a million people go to this site every month, looking for information and resources on many topics — you can reach them through targeted, opt-in email blasts, text ads and more.

Become an Expert:

SelfGrowth.com has created a designation of Expert in a host of different areas related to self growth and development, and you can submit yourself and, if approved, be listed on the site as an Expert in your field, with an Expert page and profile which can include a description of yourself, your background and work, your published books or articles, your affiliations – any information you would like to share to help people get to know you and what you have to offer. For example, I am listed as an Expert in Coaching and Business Coaching, with my information and background, my offer for a free business coaching consultation and links back to my website.

Networking:

As a corollary to the Expert program, SelfGrowth recently launched a networking capability by which you can easily connect to and network with other Experts in any field, refer business to each other, collaborate and create new projects, etc.  When they first launched this capability, I was literally flooded with requests from others asking to network with me – I’m still trying to catch up with the backlog!

So go ahead and check out Selfgrowth.com. see what you can find for yourself and your business!

–Ann

Categories: Marketing · business · effectiveness · entrepreneurs · inspiration · women

Life Fully Lived

February 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.

–Dawna Markova 

Hello Fabulous Women!

I invite you to live today fully.  What could you DO today that will make a difference?  What could you SAY that has been unsaid?  How could you choose to BE today that would alter the status quo of your life, wake things up, make today juicy and fun and delicious instead of just another day?

How about acknowledging someone for the difference they make in your life?

How about asking someone what matters to them the most, and really listening to their answer?

How about just listening in a new way to someone you don’t usually “connect” to?

How about stopping in the middle of all your busy-ness and dancing to your favorite song?

How about calling an old friend you haven’t spoken to in way too long?

Stop and ask yourself: What would make life delicious today? 

After all, is there any reason, any good reason at all, why you shouldn’t have a fabulous, fun, powerful, even life-changing day today?  You will never know the difference it might make to have that new conversation, meet that new person, make that phone call, acknowledge that person for what they do – you’ll never know what difference it will make until you do it.

So go for it, have fun, make a difference, make today a day to remember with a smile.  It’s Friday, February 15th – make it a great one!

Categories: business · effectiveness · entrepreneurs · inspiration