From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Get Yourself Known Now

June 30, 2010

As someone in business who is passionate about your area of expertise, I am sure you want to be financially successful. But in addition to that, what most entrepreneurs want more than anything, is to share their message to the world and help to change the lives of others. The only way you can do this is if people know about what you do.
I am sure you have heard it said “It is no good being the best at what you do if no one knows about you.”

There are many ways to get yourself know in business, but without a doubt one of the quickest ways to build your credibility is through good media exposure. You only have to take a look at programs such as “Big Brother” or “Australia, You’ve Got Talent”, and you can see how quickly folks that were previously relatively unknown can suddenly shoot to stardom and become a household name almost overnight.

As an ex-journalist, today’s guest speaker on our Passion, Profit and Play Superseries, Sue Papadoulis knows just what it takes to get ‘in’ with the media and spoke about how to generate the best possible opportunities for you to get seen in the media. Of course, one of the beautiful things about media exposure, is that in most instances it is free!

So, if you:
• Have something exciting and new happening in your business;
• Are about to launch a new product
• Want to increase your public image and exposure, then go get some free publicity NOW!

To learn how to do this, listen to the full interview with Sue during today’s replay which is available for 24 hours. After that you can access it at http://www.passionprofitandplay.com/offer2html

You can also get your very own Publicity Pack by clicking here.

The lessons that I take away from today’s call are:
• Never give up on submitting press releases – you never know when your story is right for the journalist
• Contact the journalist rather than the editor – they need to get good story’s while the editor may be more interested in selling you advertising
• Follow up your media releases and create a relationship with the journalist

I would love to hear your thoughts on this great subject.  Have you been able to capitalise on media exposure at some stage and what results did that get for you?

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Today it was amazing to hear how Dr Daisy Sutherland fits in several busy businesses, creates content for other busy marketers, and manages to find time to homeschool her children!

I’m sure that as an entrepreneur or small business owner, you yearn to be successful. You want to earn more money yet you realise there are only three ways to grow your income.

1. Get more clients

2. Charge more for your products or services

3. Work longer hours to accommodate additional clients

Any one of these might not be something you want to consider – you may be happy with the number of clients you work with now, you may not want to give up your personal time in order to see more clients, and if you already charge what you are worth, increasing prices further at the rise of losing clients could worry you.

Almost every solopreneur and small business has the opportunity to leverage their current expertise into some type of product that could generate more money while still allowing you time to take a holiday or do the other things you love to do.

It is incredible to think of how many ways your knowledge and expertise can be repurposed, and then sent to the ‘bank’. I even had an old blog site that I was going to take down, and was reminded that I could take all the posts and package them up into an E-book and put it for sale.  What a great idea!

The most successful products are those that are created with your clients in mind.  These will be well thought out and planned. Product creation should also go above and beyond showing the value within the product itself.  It should also be accompanied by great customer service.  Your client should feel good about having purchased your product because you know it was made for them.

Listen to Dr Daisy’s great call here for the next 24 hours.  After that you can access the recording at http://www.passionprofitandplay.com/offer2html

For your complimentary copy of Dr Daisy’s Ten Top Twitter Tips go to:  http://www.drmommywrites.com/PPS_Superseries

My top takeaway points from today’s call are:

  • How easy it is to create new content using Private Label Rights products
  • How advantageous it can be to have guests post blogs in your site
  • How useful it can be to go back to previous tweets or facebook entries to get ideas for content creation

Leave me your comments on how you are enjoying the series and any aha moments you are getting from these calls.  Loving the feedback:

Fay’s two interviews so far have been great. The interview with Ari Galper, which is is going on right now, is so awesome. I’ve always hated sales….he’s soooo helping me to adjust my discomfort with it. “Release the pressure,” he says. YES!!! – Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt

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June 26, 2010

Today Rod Moore, from Attraction Marketing Associates  spoke to us about how to establish an effective marketing system for your business. He highlighted the fact that amongst the many ‘hats’ we wear as small business owners, one of those is of ‘marketer’, and if this area is not one you have experience in, it can [...]

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June 24, 2010

You have a dream or you have a passion that one day you will create a successful business. Then some well meaning friend or person comes along and tells you that you are crazy and why would you want to do that when it is so hard? Now, you start to second guess yourself and [...]

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June 23, 2010

Today is Day 2 of the Passion, Profit and Play Superseries, and we heard from Ari Galper. On the call today Ari shared with us a profound learning curve he experienced in the corporate world that lead him to develop his amazing program Unlock The Game, that provides a new sales mindset that overturns the [...]

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June 22, 2010

Wow, today we kicked off our Passion, Profit and Play  Superseries with the first of our guest speakers, Pam Brossman. This series is designed to teach you how it is possible to grow your passion into a profitable business idea and design your business in such a way that allows you to also have time [...]

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June 20, 2010

Everybody seems to have a business card these days. They’re not just for corporate executives or salespeople anymore. Even students print business cards. They’re easy to carry and come in handy if you want to get your information into someone’s hands. Business cards – your own and other people’s – can work very well toward [...]

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June 16, 2010

What is it that is stopping you from moving forward in your business? If you have not had too much exposure to online strategies for increasing your business you will really be blown away at the amount of information that is going to be given away for absolutely free, during the upcoming Passion, Profit and [...]

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June 15, 2010

Last weekend Murray and I took off for one of our little ‘getaway’ weekends.  He surprises me with these occasionally and I must say I love it!  At first I didn’t know were he was taking me, but as we started to head in a familiar direction, before long I knew that we were headed [...]

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June 9, 2010

When you listen to the wrong people for advice on the internet, you can find yourself spending thousands and thousands of dollars in the wrong places, not to mention the hours and hours you spend heading down the wrong path. I have been there myself.  After attending a great big ‘pitch fest’ type of event, [...]

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