• How many of you believe you run or work for a company that’s doing a pretty darn good job?
• How many of you realize that ALL companies big and small make mistakes?
• How many of you realize that sometimes a customer needs help?

Here is the thing though: Now more than ever customers are making their decisions ONLINE.

If you are not managing your business online, you are loosing opportunity. Just like these two companies did. Don’t be that company. What will you do differently to engage your customers online?

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Have many passions, live life passionately, but build a career, a business around a focused passion or an umbrella that will encompass those passions. Also, remember my earlier post about FOCUS. Once you take one passion, monetize it, and develop it to make money with little effort on your part, absolutely add the next passion to do the same!

Lastly, remember that some passions are just meant to be personal. Sometimes it’s just that you LOVE living life- I do!  See, I love to exercise. I’ve even had people tell me I’d make a GREAT trainer (well I am a coach right?!), but working out is something I do for me.

How do you separate your personal and professional passions? Are you loving life and creating passion in your business? Are you creating a brand that allows you to bring different passions to life under the brand?

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This is a great book about focus, can’t go wrong with Mark Victor Hansen right? I have decided to add it to my list again for getting my dang book done!

What are you going to do to re-focus effort into working yourself out of the job?

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Have you discovered your passion?
Where are you on this continuum I speak of?
What do you do to keep your passion alive everyday?

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I also HIGHLY recommend that my corporate clients use this product for corporate exposure, right now the corporate plan is crazy good because you can have UNLIMITED accounts with it and amazing customer support!

As graduates of my bootcamp and lifetime members of my Social Networking Coaching Club will tell you, one thing I do is make myself guinea pig to all the apps and new programs out there to see if they are worth your time. It can be exhausting, haha, but what you know is I don’t recommend anything I wouldn’t use myself.

Twitter, let’s face it can be a beast, but tools like Hootsuite (which I have blogged about before as I love it) make it easier. But have you ever noticed that there is a prime piece of real estate on each and every tweet? Every tweet tells you when and WHERE they tweeted from. Where they tweet from is a link back to their site. So if you tweet from Hootsuite your tweets say “via Hootsuite” with a link to Hootsuite.com (you can click on the pic to see the larger version).

Market me Tweet (yes I am an affiliate-it’s a GREAT product!) has done something amazing! Now you can have that link be the name of YOUR business! (like mine in the pic) Watch this video to see what Market Me Tweet can do for you!

What a great investment for your business! SEO and visibility! I think you will be glad you made this investment! Yes, the price has gone up since I did this video, but I’d happily pay it!

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Sometimes without even realizing it, we can be our own worst critics and say things that our body then believes.

Do you say:

“I’m fat” or “I’m a lean, mean machine!”

“I’m broke” or “I’m attracting everything I need and more.”

What I have realized is that this often happens at an unconscious level. I have to:
1-stop – think consciously about what I have been thinking about
2-change it right then and there
3-feel the new I am statement in my body for a reality check

Brian Tracy says we need to “release the brakes!”

Here is a little recording excerpt from a piece I do when I speak in front of audiences:

How can you change your I AM statements today to reflect a more positive day? How are you feeling right now that might have been created by I AM statements?

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This audio shares my thoughts I hope you will take a listen...

What are you doing, in your networking, to remain present and relevant? How are you keeping QUALITY the goal while growing?

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I want to be able to dialogue with people, absolutely! I just like each of you want to feel respected for my viewpoint. So here is my pledge:

1-I promise to practice this MORe often, especially with people I feel closer too. You are the ones I often think can handle my strong opinoion and that’s not fair.

2-I also promise that if my opinion is super strong, I will post what I think on my wall or profile, but if you choose to jump in, you are fair game.

3-i wil also promise to take the 1 minute “time out” when I write a response due to an emotional reaction BEFORE I post it, and then ask myself, how should I rephrase this or not post at all?

What can you do to make sure that social media sites remain a place of positive interaction and sharing, even when we disagree?

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See those calla lilies never gave up, and they are now reaping the rewards. Sometimes I think it’s easy to feel like they did over the last several years; tired, neglected, your heart and soul not nourished. Those things come when you are persistent.

I mentioned blogging as an example, persistence is key with blogging. And let’s face it, it’s NOT easy! Writing, doing a video, uploading, tagging, sending it out to the world. And it sits. Finally a friend may comment. BUT with persistence, by knowing who you are and what you have to offer the world, your voice can be heard and clients show up.

Irene Turner of Irene Turner at hOMe recently posted this on my facebook page:

“blog about inspirational ideas…I just landed a client…client says, we should get together…I say, yes, it’s important that we click as it’s a very intimate process to be in your home the way I am…client says, oh not a problem, we’ve been all over your blog and already love you and what you do (including the color you use say’s the wife)! Oh yea…that’s why I do that!”

That is why I love the work I do.

Persistence pays off, I know cliche, right? WRONG! It’s true- ask those calla lilies in my front yard.

Where has persistence paid off for you?

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This weeks Warrior-Preneur facebook fan truly gets the art of engagement. Still building her personal brand and blog she has for weeks now participated in Blogger Monday just by commenting, engaged on our biz pages on Facebook AND tweets with many people. She’s figured out who to “make friends” and is a go-giver of the most selfless kind. EVERYONE should want to know a woman like that! Meet Louise Edington this weeks Warrior-Preneur facebook fan!

(oh and did I mention that she’s a Brit- witty with a great accent!)

Here are some amazing things about her and what she’s looking for – see if you can be a go-giver and connect!

1 – one thing that makes you – not your biz unique: I think it has to be my love of learning in all aspects of life. The older I get the more I want to learn in fact. My first ski instructor, when I had my first lesson the week before my 49th birthday, told me that I’m very teachable and I love that compliment. I like to keep my mind and body active and learning new things does that for me.
2 – who are your power partners (not clients): My family, you (Ann), all kinds of books, my fellow childcare coordinators and the other wonderful staff at my company, mainly other women entrepreneurs who inspire me to succeed.
3- links to your blog and biz website if different: http://louiseedington.wordpress.com

http://ledington.aupairnews.com/

Twitter @LouiseEdington
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/louise.edington
Linked In http://www.linkedin.com/in/louiseedington
4- your favorite thing about running your own biz: I love that I can make it fit around my family and my other interests, being a mum has always been my most important job so my work has to fit in.
5- what you do: I am a Childcare Coordinator for Cultural Care Au Pair. I work as an independent contractor and the role is very varied. I market to find new families and have to figure out new and inventive ways of doing that – hence my loving Ann’s training, I interview new families, I hold monthly Au Pair meetings so I can get my Au Pairs together and see that they are doing okay, I conduct mediation’s and transitions when the host family/Au Pair relationship isn’t working out and I hold orientations for new host families and Au Pairs.

6- who would you most like to meet ( type of person) that would help you get to the next level: I would like to continue to meet more female entrepreneurs who have, like me, emerged like a butterfly from motherhood and who continue to learn and grow and who are successful.

I hope you will take the time to get to know Louise! You can listen to the WarriorPreneur audio interview (with completely different questions) here.

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