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Stamping Is My Business!: May 2012

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5 posts from May 2012

May 24, 2012

ANNOUNCING - The 2012 Marketing and Advertising Boot Camp! Early Bird Begins NOW!

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I'm happy to announce Early Bird Registration has opened for the 2012 Marketing and Advertising Boot Camp!

This Boot Camp will show you, step-by-step:

  • How To Determine Your Target Audience!
  • How and Where To Locate Your Target Audience!
  • How To Determine What To Say To Your Target Audience To Get Them To Become Your Customers!
  • How To Drive New Customers Into Your Business!
  • How To Generate Repeat Business From Your Existing Customers!
  • ...and more!

In addition to the four weekly webinars, you'll receive step-by-step video tutorials showing you how to construct marketing pieces, like landing and squeeze pages, print and online ads, and more!

I've recorded a video explaining the Boot Camp in detail! 

Watch the video now!

For more information, use the link below.  The Early Bird Discount Period begins NOW!

Click Here To Learn More About The 2012 Marketing & Advertising Boot Camp!

May 21, 2012

QUOTE OF THE WEEK - Action vs. Inaction

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

May 11, 2012

This Week's BSCG Hot Topics!

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More great, exclusive "Member's Only" training happening on the Business Stampers Coaching Group message board this week, including:

  • How To Create A Class Flyer That Works! (Video)
  • How To Get Your Local Customers To Pay You In Advance! (Video)
  • Dealing With Negativity

For those of you who don't know, the BSCG is the premier online Coaching Community for profit-driven, business-minded stamping business owners.

The Group is fantastic, and the content is killer. In addition to the Message Board, which is where Members communicate, ask questions of me and fellow Members and receive tons of positive, professional support from like-minded business owners (and me), Members also receive:

  • Exclusive, monthly business-building webinars
  • Business-building How-To Videos every week
  • Weekly blog evaluation videos
  • Twice-weekly Coaching Challenges
  • Weekly writing prompts to help with your blogging
  • Motivational audio messages to start off every week
  • A private Twitter feed
  • A monthly Backlinks Packet to help build SEO for your blog
  • BSCG Fit Club
  • Hundreds of links to business-building articles to further your knowledge and education
  • Exclusive discounts on various SIMB products & services
  • AND... The Newsletter Co-Op - you write one article every month, and you gain access to over 60 others you can copy and paste into your monthly newsletter!

If you're on the fence about joining the BSCG, take the special 3rd Anniversary $1, 30-Day Trial. If you don't think the information is worth the dirt-cheap monthly fee, or you can't benefit from it, just cancel before the 30 days are up and owe nothing.

To learn more or sign up, click here.

May 09, 2012

VIDEO - Three Ways To Increase Your Profits Today!

If you're struggling with becoming more profitable, there are several steps you can make sure you take today that will have an almost immediate, positive impact on your bottom line!
 
What are they?
 
I've recorded a video detailing each of the three steps!

May 04, 2012

Sucked Into Negativity

Negativity-positivityOver the last 24 hours, I've received several e-mails asking my opinion of the miscommunication regarding the Carryover Flyer. 

This has been a big topic of conversation on many chat boards, and one of my clients told me she was surprised at all of the negativity she's seeing out there.

I posted a message about negativity to my clients this morning, and I thought I'd expand on it a bit and share it with all of you:

In any business, there are things you can control, and things you can't control. 

Successful business owners (and by successful, I mean balanced and efficient) recognize the difference between the two and act accordingly.

When you're dealing with something you can control, do what you can to fix the situation.

When you're dealing with something you can't control, figure out how to minimize the problem and move on.  In some cases, you may even be able to turn that negative into a positive.

Whatever you do, though, don't do anything to make it worse!

When situations like the Carryover list thing happens, you have two choices:

      1. Quit
      2. Figure out how to roll with it and get back to work

If that sounds harsh, I apologize, but those really are your choices.

Should you expect a certain level of professionalism and service from the people and companies you deal with?  Absolutely.

And when those people and companies don't meet those expectations, you have every right to complain... but complain to someone who can actually do something about it!  That's productive.  And after you're done doing that, if you're not going to quit, it's time to get back to work.

Letting yourself get sucked into negativity is not and should not be one of your choices. It doesn't do anything to change the situation.  In fact, you just end up compounding the problem because all of that time and energy you're wasting on negativity is just taking more away from your business.  That's DEFINITELY making things worse!

Just keep calm and carry on.  Remember, NOTHING can stop you if you're committed to being unstoppable!