Effective Communication?

Being in business today means that you have to be a savvy communicator. You must connect with your readers and build a relationship with them.Would you like to expand your communication skills? Learn fun, fast and flirtatious writing techniques to create social media posts, blogs, newsletter articles and, oh dare I say…a book?

 June is Effective Communication Month. How are you doing with that subject?

Prior to the invention of the telephone, information might have been exchanged around the cracker barrel at the local mercantile, across the back fence, at a church supper, or perhaps at the barbershop…all word-of-mouth.

After Alexander Graham Bell’s apparatus was installed in homes and businesses, word spread faster…still word-of-mouth.

Advertising, a public promotion of something, is a concentrated plan to influence communication, simply put to get people to not only take notice of your product or service, but to BUY, to get people talking about your product or service… word-of-mouth.

Your blog is you promoting YOU! It is your words describing your passion for your business. Why you do what you do to serve those who need your gifts.

You are creating your own word-of-mouth advertising campaign with every post.

It will help you:

• Establish yourself as an expert in your field
• Share your message of who you are and what you do
• Connect with your clients and customers

Your readers have to get to know, like and trust you before they become clients and customers who will buy from you.

Your blog is a tool you can use to be a savvy communication to build a relationship with your readers. Sharing stories about what is happening in your community, your industry, your family and friends, your observations as a keen observer of life, asking questions and engaging in conversations to get to know what your readers think.

Have you…

• been meaning to write more on your blog?
• been continuously stuck on how to come up with blog ideas?
• made up your mind that 2013 you will finally do something about that blog?

If you answered YES to the above, I’ve got a solution for you –

Blog Writing the Fun, Fast & Flirtatious Way!

Write your way to Fame and Fortune!

This 6-week series is designed to help you develop that writing muscle and create a system to not only know what to write about, but when!

Hurry, the class starts June 12 and this is a small class to allow everyone my personalized attention. Safe and supportive environment in a Closed Facebook Group, weekly writing prompts, two group coaching calls, three video trainings.

$250 Value – Register before June 11…$67 Special Price

Your blog is a valuable business tool you use to connect with your clients and customers.

Join me on my Facebook page to share your struggles with blogging.

Let’s get started today to Unleash the Writer in YOU! 

Do you look at your life and wonder…what part of it is mine?

Recently, someone close to me said, “I don’t even know who you are anymore!”

Sadly, I don’t know who I am either. Or do I? I’ve been on a journey to discover me ever since I was diagnosed with breast cancer…for the second time.

I wrote in my journal, of course, even those close to me really don’t know who I am. I’ve made a point of only showing the parts of me that I was willing to share; that I felt would be accepted and judged acceptable. I’ve done that my whole life.

Sound familiar?

I’m taking my life back.

This month is about mothering yourself. Okay…that means treating me with TLC. I’m tired of being the good girl who wouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings or disappoint anyone while I got the fuzzy end of the lollipop. Yes, the world needs followers as well as leaders. How about cooperation and collaboration? Why does it always have to be about one person winning and everyone else losing.

It’s not about winning or losing; it’s about respect and awareness. 

It’s not about judgment and who is right…it’s about everyone being heard.

Do you have anyone you can talk to about this? 

Who do you tell?

We’re mad. We’re frustrated. We’re tired, cranky and fed up.

So when is it “appropriate” to speak up about what we…you…I…want?

I’ll answer that…now!

Right now. Let anyone and everyone know it’s your turn to be heard.  As much as we’d like to have people read our minds and not have to tell them what we want, we’re just going to have to speak up. Regardless of whether your “office” is on Market Street, Main Street, Wall Street, or behind the wheel of a mini-van barreling down Any Street, we are all afflicted with the “Voiceless Syndrome.”

We have to speak up…my life is mine!

We have to practice self-care by asking for help. (While we may have demonstrated that we could do quite a bit of it in the past, clearly we are not going to keep doing that behavior because that would be insane.)

We have to ask for what we want…help with the paper pile-up that is threatening to overtake our office. Help in brainstorming ideas about the next big project. Help with driving the carpool and help with the dinner preparation as well as clean up. Help with the laundry – those towels, shirts and underwear don’t fold themselves and march into the bureau drawers.

Help with creating consistency and confidence in a world full of challenges and uncertainty.

I’m claiming time for myself to do whatever I absolutely please once a week. 

Do you look at your life and wonder…what part of it is mine?

Isn’t it time you stopped wondering? How will you take your life back? I’d love to hear your plans. Please hop over to my Facebook page and share.