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Social Networking Success

Have you started using social net.working as the powerful marketing tool it can be? If so, is it paying off for you yet? I've been getting both clients and book sales from my Facebook presence.  Many of our experts are also finding clients from social net.working. For example, Nancy Marmolejo (our visibility expert) says that in the past 6 months, 75% of her income and 90% of her PR leads came from social net.working contacts...

If you'd like to learn more, Nancy is the expert to show you how to put the sizzle in your social net.working. On August 5th, she's conducting a class on this very subject. To learn more please go here.

Best of Blogs and Podcats - IdeaMarketers Update

CreateAWOW Podcasts

What is intuition? Do you need it and how can you develop it? 
Intuition expert, Andrea Hess, joins the CreateAWOW Podcast to answers those questions and more. Learn how to use your intuition and how to tell intuitive promptings from your own thoughts and fears. This segment is an excerpt from the audio program, “How to Tap into Your Intuition to Achieve Amazing Success” which is included with Marnie Pehrson's “How to Get More Done in a Day than Most Accomplish in a Week” program. 

To listen please visit The CreateAWOW Podcast

All About Domain Naming
Interview with Bruce Galle, Official Getting Started Online Expert, discusses domain names, selecting them, registering them and protecting them. Tips/traps to look out for in the domain buying/selling process. Visit Bruce online at www.MakeMoneyOn.com 

To listen please visit The CreateAWOW Podcast

How to Get More Done in a Day than Most Accomplish in a Week IdeaMarketers creator, author of 20+ titles, and mother of 6 shares her unique method for getting more done in a day than most people accomplish in a week. Enjoy life, accomplish more and earn more m.o.n.e.y while you do so! Learn More

Best of the Blogs

Small Business Strategies

• Your Customers Want Step-by-Step Instructions
• Tax Deductions: One Way to Minimize Self Employment Taxes
• Are You Disorganized? - The Psychology of Disorganization
• Why Weird Words Make Great Brand Names
• Turning a Disgruntled Customer into Your Best Client
• Work At Home Business Opportunity: A Step By Step Approach
• Are You Taking Advantage of Online Business Opportunities or Playing it Safe?
• Top Four Marketing Secrets of Building a Professional Practice

Visit the Small Business Success Blog

Mind & Body

• Good Food For Good Mood
• Simple Techniques for Brain-Friendly Learning

Relationships

• Top Ways to Determine a Match
• When Things are Going Wrong with Your Teenager
• What Does Real Love Look Like?

Visit Relationships & Relationships Management Blog

Writing and Publishing

• Copywriting: 
The Seven Vital Steps You Must Know To Ensure Direct Mail Success
• Web Copy: Is Your Website a Derby or a Grand National?
• Article Writing: The Secret of Writing on 3 Tracks at the Same Time in Your Articles
• Web Publishing: Membership Websites that Make $100,000 or More Every Month!

Visit the Writing & Publishing Blog

Creating Wealth & Prosperity

• Net.working – A Must-Have Skill for Real Estate Investing
• Vocational Schools Offer Fast-track Education
• How Do You Define Yourself?
• The Pursuit of Clarity
• The Time is N.o.w
• These Prosperity 'Laws' Aren't Working!

Visit the Creating Wealth and Success Blog

Simplify Your Life: Shortcuts for Home & Business

We've added a new article category under the Life/Self-Help section called "Simplify Your Life" and added a new expert to head up the category. Please welcome

Official Shortcuts for Home and Business Expert - Debbye Cannon
Debbye knows what it’s like to be overwhelmed. Twenty-five years ago she had two kids in diapers, a husband in the military, a growing home-based business...and a terrible habit of saying “Yes” every time someone asked her to do something. It wasn’t long before she had a breakdown on her sticky kitchen floor. Now, Debbye's sharing the... Shortcuts That Saved Her Sanity . . . and has since helped women all over the country take control of their chaotic lives. Visit her online at TheShortcutExpert.com

Turn Your Business into a High Six-Figure Success

One of the most enjoyable parts of working with a group of talented experts is reading their blogs. As I've been perusing this morning, there were a couple that stood out as beneficial to all of us as entrepreneurs.

Divine Download
This is a great audio with Kendall SummerHawk our expert on how to charge what you're worth. She shares her six best marketing, money and soul strategies she used to turn her business into a high 6-figure success... and how you can too so you're making the money you rightfully deserve, helping the people you're destined to help.

And here's a fun one about branding...

What I Learned from Gene Simmons
Advertising expert, Michele PW shares what she learned from meeting Gene Simmons of KISS and reading his book. Good stuff on branding for any entrepreneur -- musical or not!

Speaking of fun, we had a meet & greet at my house Saturday Night and a couple of our experts from Atlanta came - Nancy Gerber (our relationship expert) and Nancy Spivey (real estate investing expert). My nephew, Noah Collins was there to entertain us, and Nancy Gerber joined in the mix with a soulful rendition of "House of the Rising Sun."

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Customer Service Tips

Most people are so busy looking for new customers that they neglect the customers they have. Anyone who knows anything about business knows it's easier to increase the lifetime value of a happy customer than it is to obtain new customers. The following articles were submitted by our experts on the subject of customer service.

3 Customer Service Ideas to Earn Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty
by Official Customer Service Expert, Digital Info Diva
Customer service has never been worse than it is in today's business environment. With companies trimming their budgets as much as possible, there isn't the time or money to spend on customer service skills. If it can be automated, it gets automated no matter how inconvenient it is for the customer.

5 Simple Tips for Dealing with Nasty Customers
by Official E-Business Expert Jason Tarasi
If you've been in business very long, you've likely heard it all! You know, the irate customer who is going to sue you over the nineteen dollar product that they claim is bogus; the one that’s going to “shut your business down” because they conjure up in their minds that you might have breeched your privacy policy, or the one that takes complete advantage of your money-back guaranty. My favorite has to be the one that calls and screams vulgarities into the phone for apparently no reason.

Challenging Customers – Love Them or Leave Them?
by Official Small Business Expert Sandy Reed
If you own a small business, you will likely run across some customers who try your patience and may even cause emotional turmoil and undue stress. Here are 7 tips, from a Soulpreneur's perspective, to help when you encounter disgruntled customers.

3 Reasons Why You Better Know Your Customers...or Else
by Official Advertising & Marketing Michele PW
Do you have any idea how much money you're losing (yes losing) by not knowing who your customers are? Find out why you need to have a SPECIFIC customer in mind...or you could end up losing your business.

Business & Personal Tips from Our Experts

One of the funnest parts about representing a fantastic group of experts is looking through their articles and blogs and learning from all their insightful tips. These are a few I ran across today that I wanted to share with you.

Global Meeting Planning Tool
Shared by Terri Zwierznski, official self employment expert
Planning a teleclass or schedule a meeting with folks around the globe? Try this handy scheduling tool. Enter up to four cities and get a color-coded chart you can use to pick the best time for all of your participants. Click here to learn more.

Your Secret Key to Information Marketing Success - Teach to Learn
by Adam Urbanski, official information marketing expert
"After spending a day mingling with a lot of successful professionals, entrepreneurs, and information marketers I had experienced sort of an “a’ha” moment around why some people don’t start their own information marketing businesses sooner… and how to overcome this challenge. So I mustered whatever energy I had left at 2 in the morning to record this quick video message for you. Go ahead and watch it now…"

Use a Blog and a Journey to Publicize Your Book
Blogs are a great way to publicize your book. How about a blog and a journey? HERE'S AN EXAMPLE of how Susan Klopfer is marketing her civil rights book on Mississippi-- Click here to learn more from our Self-Publishing Expert.

Work From Home: How to Write Quality Articles Fast
by our official home business expert Jeff Casmer
To write articles as a hobby is one thing; to develop marketing copy for your work from home business is another. Perhaps you know how powerful articles can be when it comes to not only generating leads for your business but also increasing your inbound links and, hopefully, your ranking in the search engines.

A Little Secret That Produces BIG Results
Jason Tarasi, our official e-business expert says, "What if I told you that with each passing day, you are losing dozens of subscribers to your newsletter? As you read this, you are probably losing potential customers, and taking money right out of your own pocket. Don't panic, I have a secret I want to share with you. It is important to remember that what separates the top Internet marketers from you, is using small, but effective techniques not known to the masses. Click here to find out Jason's secret!

How to Get Unstuck
by Stephany Alexander, official dating expert passed along this article by Karen Cross on her blog:
Ever thought to yourself something like "I feel so stuck?" This usually happens when we feel like we're not moving forward in our work or lives. We feel like we've lost momentum, which leaves us feeling unenthusiastic, unmotivated, and ultimately unhappy. The problem is that when you're in this place, you usually become even more frustrated...

Car Buying Tips for Women!
Peter Robinson, our official car buying expert says, "I have seen a lone woman drive into a dealership, park, walk around for a while, and finally go up to the receptionist and ask for some assistance. I find this curious, as women directly influence 75% or more of ALL car sales. To watch trained attack-jackals…er, sales associates, virtually ignore her because they believe that she is not the decision-maker is almost surreal. No one can just ‘walk around’ out there!! Who does she think she is?

Live Happily Ever After

Live Happily Ever After!

Four experts with a combined total of 126 years of devoted marriage discuss the 5 Myths that Get in the Way of a Happy Marriage and 7 Tips for Living Happily Ever After. Panelists include IdeaMarketers experts: David Evans, Dr. Neill Neill, Nancy Gerber and myself.

Whether you're married or single, you'll benefit from this audio. As Dr. Neill said, "we're hardwired to be in relationships." Someday you're bound to be in a relationship and these tools will help you make it a happy, lasting one.

This is an audio file you can listen to at your convenience... available 24/7 at Happily Ever After.

On a personal note, yes, that's me and my hubby Greg in our younger, thinner years! :)

SEO, Relationships and Civil Rights

Please welcome our new experts at IdeaMarketers.com!

Official Search Engine Optimization Expert Joshua Spaulding
To see how Joshua has conquered some of the most competitive terms on the Internet, which he's used for years to Make Money Online, visit http://www.TheEasySEOReport.com where he provides an extremely popular SEO Report for free!

Official Relationship Expert Nancy Gerber
For over 30 years Nancy Gerber, “YOUR Connection Magician”, has coached and educated thousands of people worldwide on how to improve their communication and deepen their relationships with others -- and themselves. An expert communicator and relationship builder, Nancy’s an internationally published writer and popular speaker who has given presentations on three continents. A Certified Teleconference Leader, she’s facilitated hundreds of learning programs over the telephone for thousands of people from all around the world. Sign up for Nancy’s popular FREE e-zine, “Thoughts For A Thursday.” Learn more about her learning tools, programs and services at www.sstones.com

Official Civil Rights Expert Susan Klopfer
As the city reporter in fast-growing Branson, Missouri, Susan Klopfer won statewide journalism awards from Missouri State Press and Managing Editors associations for a 5-part series on gaming and for investigative reporting on city government. When her husband, Fred, became chief psychologist for Mississippi's prisons, they moved to the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta to live on the grounds of historic Parchman Penitentiary. For two years, Susan traveled the Delta, collecting civil rights stories and photographing people and places where significant events took place. Within months of her arrival, Susan learned of the uninvestigated murders of two elderly women, both civil rights activists, and she became determined to tell their stories. Learn more about the history of civil rights.

A Holistic Look at a Life of Joy

So, you've decided that something is amiss in your life. Perhaps it's your career. Working in that corporate environment where integrity can be lacking is wearing on your soul. It's no longer bringing you joy and you think you'd like to become an entrepreneur and own your own small business or home business. Self employment very well could be the answer. Unfortunately you've got a stack of bills that need to be paid and you'd really love to become financially free and experience ultimate prosperity. Did you know there are laws that govern prosperity? If you lived in harmony with them, you could really build wealth. Then you could buy that new car you've always wanted or purchase the home you've dreamed of owning.

If you could thoroughly grasp the principles of prosperity, you might even get into real estate investing. Hey, you might even buy a piece of Manhattan real estate. That area of the country seems to be thriving in spite of the collapsing real estate bubble.

Then again, life is more than just your career and money, isn't it? That niggling feeling that's weighing on your mind may have more to do with parenting your teenager or a loved-one who's a functioning alcoholic. Perhaps it's that you haven't yet learned to live by faith. Maybe you need a Christian coach. Have you discovered your unique mission yet? If not, then that's really the place to start. If you nail down your unique mission and message you'll live with purpose and passion. Then it will be much simpler to select the right name for your business and brand yourself in the marketplace. You could create a whole platform around your mission and your message and really make an impact on the world. Wouldn't that feel wonderful, knowing you're making a difference?

You could uncover your million dollar story and author a book or perhaps build a speaking career. You could have a whole line of information products and services around your unique message. Think of the impact you could make for good! All of it would be neatly packaged and marketed online via advertising, article marketing and promotion and visibility. Think of the fantastic customer service and value to the world!

As you bring all parts of yourself (spirit, mind, career, & body) into harmony with your unique message and mission, you'll be living up to the full measure of your creation and finding joy along the way.

 

Turning Your Fame Into a Fortune

Our visibility expert, Nancy Marmolejo, is offering a one-of-a-kind comprehensive program that will help you stand out, get noticed and get more business.  So many people "get famous" without ever "getting rich" and Nancy's training is all about helping you get pr and then translate that promotion into bottom-line revenues.

Enrollment is limited. Enrollment ends February 10th. To secure your space in SpotlightU go here.