Tuesday 24 March 2009

Please Support This One

Hello again,

The other day I published an article on my Marketing Manual blog, called 'Have Giveaways Had Their Day?'. You can read it here:http://marketing-manual.blogspot.com/2009/03/have-giveaways-had-their-day.html

I concluded that they haven't, which, assuming I'm right, is just as well.

Today saw the opening of a giveaway event that's very close to my heart, The Gifts For MS Giveaway. Multiple Sclerosis has hit my family twice, with my grandmother and my late father both being affected. Dad had it for almost forty years and was wheelchair-bound for most of the last twenty.

So, when you go to Gifts For MS, pause for a moment before you skip past the special offers and one time deals on your way to all the wonderful free gifts. This time, the profit is going to a very good cause.

I've added a new gift but you'll have to go to the Gifts For MS Giveaway to get it!

Please do, if only to grab all those amazing gifts.

Roy

Saturday 21 March 2009

Goal Setting that WORKS

Hello again

The other day I was chatting with a coach from Nightingale Conant and the subject of goal setting came up.

Now, we all 'know' that goal setting works, except that sometimes it doesn't seem to work at all. In our frustration and disappointment, we probably blame ourselves for 'failing' when that happens, instead of asking why setting that goal didn't bring about the desired result.

Of course, we have to take action to make things happen, but even so, sometimes the goal slips further away, rather than getting closer. The harder we try, sometimes, the further away our goal seems to get.

But my friend from Nightingale Conant had an interesting take on this. Without him actually saying as much, the inference I drew was this:

Goals can all too easily seem like dreams. They're unreal, because they haven't been achieved yet, and although Neuro-Linguistic Programming might tell us we have to frame our goals in the present, our subconscious isn't always so easily fooled.

So, a goal is something we can all too easily fantasise about, because it isn't real.

But what did my coach friend say to trigger this line of thought?

It was simple, really. He just asked this:

'In an ideal world, if everything had gone to plan, where would you and your business be NOW?'

The word 'now', coupled with the pain of now not being the perfect place we hoped for, is enough to give real weight to our intentions to get there, and SOON!

Try thinking of your goals like this and see if it helps.

Good luck and please let me know how you get on!

Roy

PS. My goals were sufficiently reset that we gained three new clients within a week and finally relaunched Niche Seminar Secrets for the US market. Add a few personal matters that we resolved and I think you can safely say that little 30-minute chat was very worthwhile!

Sunday 8 March 2009

Seminar Secrets for $1

Hello again

Apologies for the lack of new content here, although you'll find some recent fresh articles on my Seminar Secrets and Marketing Manual blogs.

I've been busily rewriting the copy for my Niche Seminar Secrets website but until I'm ready to upload it, the one dollar offer will continue at Niche Seminar Secrets.

But be warned: I expect to have the new Niche Seminar Secrets sales page up by Tuesday - and the Seminar Secrets one dollar offer will then be history!

Roy