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High profit Business Practies that put money in your pocket

with Rogene Baxter, RN, MA, CMC
Rogene BaxterHaving a successful speaking/training/consulting business takes careful focus on consistent practices that can make or break your profitability. You’ve heard about spending time ON the business, not just IN the business — but what fun is that when you’d rather be speaking? Talented presenters have gone broke because they didn’t know how to squeeze the most profit from each engagement. If you don’t know how to do this you might be one of them.

Rogene has had a highly successful practice for nearly three decades. Clients flock to her for six-figure engagements. She’s figured out the small business practices that pay off big and keep her and a bevy of subcontractors thriving.

You will learn:

  • why to start with a business mind-set
  • how to develop formulas to more accurately determine fees in proposals so you are not underpricing your services
  • what key components to include in a contract to ensure your IP is protected
  • how to make sure you are paid on time and ramifications if you are not
  • how to you make sure you’re paid regularly for more than one-time engagements
  • ways to assure you are making what you think you are
  • what you should know about using subcontractors to extend your impact and business

http://www.profcs.com/app/aftrack.aspafid=338276&u=http://www.speakernetnews.com/tsem/ts20080626.html

Register or order the CD or MP3 recording

Date: Thursday, June 26
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern, 6 pm Central, 5 pm Mountain, 4 pm Pacific
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $25

Special Limited-Time Offer:

If you want more information on ways to run your business more profitably, we’re offering a special discount — only $10 each (while quantities last) — on the audiotapes (note: not CDs or MP3s) of two earlier programs to complement Rogene’s program:

  • “Don’t Grow Your Career — Build a Business” with Rita Risser, JD, CSP
  • “Profitable Proposals For Contracts Beyond One-Time Events” with Warren Evans, CSP
  • “Make More Money By Doing Less: How to Leverage One Engagement into Profitable Results for Your Clients and Your Bottom Line” with Lorna Riley, CSP

With your order of Rogene’s teleseminar, CD or MP3, at checkout you will be offered these tapes and transcripts at a special discounted price of $10/each. This offer expires July 15.

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High-Profit Business Practices That Put More Money in Your Pocket

 with Rogene Baxter, RN, MA, CMC
Rogene BaxterHaving a successful speaking/training/consulting business takes careful focus on consistent practices that can make or break your profitability. You’ve heard about spending time ON the business, not just IN the business — but what fun is that when you’d rather be speaking? Talented presenters have gone broke because they didn’t know how to squeeze the most profit from each engagement. If you don’t know how to do this you might be one of them.

Rogene has had a highly successful practice for nearly three decades. Clients flock to her for six-figure engagements. She’s figured out the small business practices that pay off big and keep her and a bevy of subcontractors thriving.

You will learn:

  • why to start with a business mind-set
  • how to develop formulas to more accurately determine fees in proposals so you are not underpricing your services
  • what key components to include in a contract to ensure your IP is protected
  • how to make sure you are paid on time and ramifications if you are not
  • how to you make sure you’re paid regularly for more than one-time engagements
  • ways to assure you are making what you think you are
  • what you should know about using subcontractors to extend your impact and business

Register or order the CD or MP3 recording

Date: Thursday, June 26
Time: 7:00 pm Eastern, 6 pm Central, 5 pm Mountain, 4 pm Pacific
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: $25

Special Limited-Time Offer:

If you want more information on ways to run your business more profitably, we’re offering a special discount — only $10 each (while quantities last) — on the audiotapes (note: not CDs or MP3s) of two earlier programs to complement Rogene’s program:

  • “Don’t Grow Your Career — Build a Business” with Rita Risser, JD, CSP
  • “Profitable Proposals For Contracts Beyond One-Time Events” with Warren Evans, CSP
  • “Make More Money By Doing Less: How to Leverage One Engagement into Profitable Results for Your Clients and Your Bottom Line” with Lorna Riley, CSP

With your order of Rogene’s teleseminar, CD or MP3, at checkout you will be offered these tapes and transcripts at a special discounted price of $10/each. This offer expires July 15.

Wonderful Web Giveaway Event

Hi
I have a wonderful gift for you. The community at Wonderful Web Women have banded together with invited friends to create a collection of over 200 gifts for you. This is a really unique event which is only available for 3 weeks.

You can sign up here to choose as many of these gifts as you like.
http://www.consultpivotal.com/Awonderful_web_giveaway.htm

Many of these gifts have been created especially for this event and are donated by men and women from all walks of life. Here are just a few of the topics covered:
 * tools to help you build an Internet business
 * ebooks and audios on personal development
 *  ideas and help on starting a business
 * Health and lifestyle gifts on yoga, weight loss and skin care
 * fun things like books and videos on music, recipes, jewelery making and gifts for children created by children

There are so many great ideas and the value of the gifts is easily more than $ 10 000.

Enjoy
Bronwyn
P.S. The Giveaway event is only open for 3 weeks. It may take you that long to download all your gifts so sign up as soon as you can.

Waldo Turns 21

This fall marks the 21st anniversary of Waldo, Martin Handford’s once-ubiquitous, world-traveling, striped-shirted character, who has been featured in six titles that collectively have sold more than 46 million copies in 50 countries and 25 languages. The celebration will include two new books, an online presence and a range of merchandise for the 20-somethings who grew up with the character. 

Although Waldo’s heyday was in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the books have continued to sell in backlist and he has remained a pop-culture icon, especially among young adults, many of whom have gone so far as to create user-generated content featuring the character on the Internet. The catchphrase “Where’s Waldo?” pops up in conversation, in film and on television; Waldo has even made five cameos on The Simpsons.

Candlewick Press released the sixth Waldo title, The Great Picture Hunt, back in 2006, nearly a decade after the fifth book was first published, followed by paperback versions of the first five titles in 2007. Meanwhile, Entertainment Rights/Classic Media acquired the licensing rights to the property in 2007. The two companies worked together to develop consistent product design and marketing plans for this phase of Waldo’s life.  

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Make a point

 

Ed Sykes celebrated International Make a Point Day! and made his points very succinctly.  Very useful!

Have you ever been in a meeting where the presentation when on and on. Have you ever asked yourself, "What's the point to this presentation?"

Here are five public speaking secrets that will keep your message on point:

Read his secrets here...

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You’re Too Kind : A Brief History of Flattery

You're too kindby Richard Stengel

From the reviews

Stengel (a senior editor at Time magazine) ponders the meaning of flattery and illustrates that more than mere praise, flattery is praise with a motive, be it benign or grasping.

You're Too Kind is a witty, colorful, fast-paced trip through history.  It's meticulously researched and comprehensive. Stengel charts a droll and whimsical history, starting with the Egyptians ("Laugh after he laughs, and it will be very pleasing to his heart," recommends Vizier Ptahhotep), and concluding with handy hints on how to flatter without getting caught: "Never be candid when a person asks you to be candid." In between, he asks questions such as "What is circumcision, really, but a kind of divinely enforced flattery?" in an irreverent discourse around the covenant with the Israelites, and looks at everyone from troubadours to Dale Carnegie, Puritans to Hollywood D-girls.

It does bounce around, from the fascinating history of flattery to great tips about flattery to research concerning flattery.

Beware: After reading this book, you may look at the subject of strategic praise in a whole new light, and it may not be a flattering one, either. Enjoyable and informative.

 

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trail blazer

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Resource for the Week

Create Your Success

Would you like to double your income this year? Now that is a silly question for most people. Would you like to do it without working harder?

No matter how successful you currently are, most people have blocks that keep them from moving ahead any further in life.

Success does not have to be a struggle like many would have you believe. You can learn how to set yourself apart from the group and change your current results no matter what your present conditions.

Action is one of the keys to success. Click the link below, Start your future today!
Create Your Success

Media Mania: Book Tie-ins to High-Interest Movies, TV Shows, and More


    Blockbuster Movie Roundup - It’s been a stellar season at the movie theater with more sure-fire hits waiting in the wings. This slew of film-related reads—perfectly suited to summertime savoring—will reel in teen film fans. more » » » 

     

     

 

7 Signs It's Time to Drop a Client

While you may feel like you really have to hang on to every client, whether for your own cash flow or out of your sense of commitment, there are several signs that it may be time to terminate the client relationship. In some cases, it may be about the client -- they're a jerk, they don't pay on time, etc. In other cases, though, it may be about your own situation. Here are seven signs to watch for.
Read on ...

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Inspiration


: Your Ultimate Calling
by Wayne W. Dyer

From the reviews

There’s a voice in the universe calling each of us to remember our purpose—our reason for being here now, in this world of impermanence. The voice whispers, shouts, and sings to us that this experience of being in form, in space and time, knowing life and death, has meaning. The voice is that of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.

The bestselling author of the New Age classic The Power of Intention has another book that will probably delight his fans and new readers who resonate with his spiritual approach. Inspiration, Dyer writes, is the opposite of motivation and goal-oriented thinking, the latter, "grabbing an idea and carrying it through to an acceptable conclusion." Inspiration, on the other hand, is when "an idea has taken hold of us from the invisible reality of Spirit." To Dyer, getting rid of ego in all its manifestations is the first step to connecting with the power of inspiration.

Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling contains methods for finding your way to an inspired life, absorbing the inspiration of others, becoming an inspiration, and transcending commonplace uninspiring energy. According to Dyer, inspiration is the opposite of motivation. Motivation is "grabbing an idea and carrying it through to an acceptable conclusion", but inspiration is the reverse-allowing ourselves to be moved by a Force greater than ourselves. While motivation pushes us towards goals, inspiration is a relaxed flow, enabling us to enjoy where we are on the way to where we're going. By remembering our constant connection to Source energy, we tap into peace, ease, and abundance.

Dr. Dyer explains how we’ve chosen to enter this world of particles and form. From our place of origin, in ways that we don’t readily comprehend now, we knew what we were coming here to accomplish, and we participated in setting this life process in motion. So why not think this same way? Why put the responsibility or blame on any one or any thing that’s not a part of us? On Earth we have the capacity of volition—we can choose—so let’s assume that we had the same capacity when we resided in the spiritual realm. We chose our physical body, and we chose the parents we needed for the trip. It doesn’t seem too great a stretch to move into the idea that we chose this life in concert with our Source.

Each chapter in this book is filled with specifics for living an inspired life. From a very personal viewpoint, Wayne Dyer offers a blueprint through the world of spirit to inspiration, your ultimate calling.

Some of my favorite quotes from the book include: "Remember: We're already connected to everything that we think is missing from our life. Below and above the ranges that our eyes and ears perceive, the entire activity of creation remains invisible and inaccessible-but when we shift from sensory searching to trusting what we know, we discover the folly of chasing after anything in order to feel inspired."

"...you'll never find light by analyzing the darkness..."

"Having an interest in something is the clue to a thought that's connected to our calling-that thought is a vibration of energy in this vast Universe."

"Ego nags us to compete and insists that we've failed when others defeat us or have more than we do."

"Lecturing or demanding others live peacefully is one of the least effective ways to inspire them; however, when we simply demonstrate that we're living peacefully, we offer other people a large dose of inspiration by our mere presence."

"...we must make a conscious choice to say no to anything that takes us away from an inspired life...We can start by turning down requests that involve actions that don't correspond with our inner knowing about why we're here".