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Have you ever thought of unconventional ways to stay motivated?

One of my clients, Michael Edward, is a personal development coach who has a way of digging behind the scenes of someone's life and finding ways to motivate them to achieve their goals, overcome mental blocks, or simply to see life in a more positive manner.

In this interview, Betty Jo Ross, one of his past clients, shares how Michael helped her get and stay motivated and on track with her book project. Listen, as it may inspire you, too.

Raising Funds to Shout Michael's Cause

Michael was blinded before the age of 10, and he has total hearing loss in one ear. How he uses his computer to create his website, his course, and navigate many other things digitally is beyond me. I am thoroughly impressed by what he's accomplished. Yet, he needs some help getting his videos edited and sprucing up the images on his website and in his marketing materials.

Please help Michael by donating on our campaign, so we can help Michael...

What are Alexa Flash Briefings on Amazon?

For the past month, I've been sharing near-daily updates on my new Alexa Flash Briefing show on Amazon. This is a great way to connect with new audiences through a completely different channel than what we normally think about for marketing.

I am using this to share marketing tips and tricks and stories of my fans and clients. Because it's only been out for a month, my subscribers are still fairly low, but I expect them to build up over time. The nice thing about the software I'm using to automatically feed the audio clips to Amazon allows me to repeat episodes when I notice they haven't been listened to as much as some of my other ones. I'm also able to embed them right here onto this blog post, so that you can hear the ones you've missed.

If you'd like to subscribe to these types of programs, log into your Amazon.com account, click on the search bar's dropdown box, select Alexa Skills, type a topic in the search bar, and look for...

As a web developer and virtual assistant, Susan started well before anyone else I know in this online virtual world

When I met Susan, she was developing her Virtual E-school. That was over 3 years ago. Little did I know how much experience she had in this arena. She was list building before anyone else I know.

When she's not out cruising around Maine on her motorcycle, she's working on projects for clients and helping her husband run his wrecker service. Today she is sharing tips with us from over 3 decades of being in business for herself.

Tips from Susan to Be a Better Virtual Assistant

1) Do YOU.

Stay true to YOU and YOUR purpose, no one else’s. Don’t copy others. Their path is different and is theirs. Duplicating theirs won’t work for you. It is easy to let others influence your path, but always remember - it is YOURS to travel. 

2) Stop buying SHINY OBJECTS!

Don't buy into the "gurus" mindset, which leads people to believe that if they...

No more excuses for setting and accomplishing goals

This interview with Janice Stephens about Michael Edward and his ability to help other people accomplish their goals is just what you need to hear to be convinced that Michael has a special talent. Blinded before the age of 10, he uses his strengths to find unique ways to think through problem-solving.

Mike’s perseverance and positive attitude are why he’s one of our Shout Your Cause beneficiaries for whom we are raising funds to help with digital marketing and advertising expenses.

Listen to the full interview here.

Want to help Michael progress with his marketing and advertising?

Please consider donating to Michael's cause to get his course to the world.

Transcript:

 00:06                                     Hi, Janice Stevens....

With a knack for digital marketing, Jen Lehner has quite the story to tell

I met Jen Lehner 4 years ago in Kimra Luna's program, and I knew we'd be fast friends. Her love of digital marketing and techy tools matched mine, so there's always a lot for us to talk about.

I wanted to go deeper into Jennifer's history to find out how she ended up where she is today as an emerging force in this industry, gracing stages, and attending important events to network and gather information.

I also snagged her course on how to set up Alexa Flash Briefings and got mine set up right away. Thanks, Jen!

Here's the full interview.

Transcript:

00:23                                     Okay. Hey everybody, this is Sally Hendrick and I've got Jen lighter here of Jen laner media. Is that what your business is called?...

Have you stuffed your dreams down to go for a more practical career?

I was truly inspired by my conversation with Rayna Russell, stage name Rayna Campbell, when she told me about how she studied marketing in school but decided to pursue a career in acting.

It took a great deal of mindset work for her to move past all the rejections typical of the industry, but she did the deep work. Now she focuses on teaching how to handle this up-and-down career to her own coaching clients who are performers, actors, and other types of artists. Not only is she helping them manifest what they want, she just wrapped up a project with Chris Hemsworth called Dhaka herself, soon to come out on Netflix.

Not bad, Rayna. Not bad at all! Listen to our conversation here.

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From paramedic to healthcare entrepreneur, Jennifer Carlquist is improving lives

When Jen showed up in my group with her cardiology course to promote, I was impressed! She had found a corner of the market that was untapped in healthcare by solving a problem that she has seen throughout her career that started in the back of an ambulance.

Today as a physician assistant, she is teaching paramedics and others in her field how to read EKG's by offering an artistic point of view of how the heart works. Now she's reaching more people by teaching through a digital course, and she came to me for help in promoting it with Facebook ads.

Listen to our conversation.

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Have you ever created a digital course or online program to find out that it wasn't exactly what your clients needed?

Hopefully you haven't experienced this, but if you have, I'm going to teach you how to sell your program before you finish creating it. 

Listen to this audio for details.

Sign up here.

Transcript:

Hello and welcome to Social Media Traffic School with Sally Hendrick.

That’s me! I’m Sally, and today I’m wondering if you’ve ever wanted to create a digital course or online program….or maybe you already have created one, and when you started using it with your clients, you found out that wasn’t exactly the direction you needed to take with them.

Well, that sucked, didn’t it? You likely spent weeks or months getting everything perfect, too, and then you had to go back and make a lot of adjustments.

I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to do that anymore, and if this is your first program or course,...

Introducing Rock Bottom Wellness with Tiffany Flaten

Tiffany and I met at a conference in Nashville a couple of years ago that inspired her to take those scary steps forward in her business and really step it up online.

And that's exactly what she has done.

When it comes to nurturing your thyroid back to health, Tiffany knows what she's doing. As a board certified nutritionist with an online program, she can help you where you are.

Since my audience is full of entrepreneurs seeking advice on business, I thought it appropriate to bring you one of Tiffany's videos on how to get your focus back with your nutrition.

Focus and Attention for Your Business

Transcript:

00:01                                  Hey, it's Tiffany with rock bottom wellness. And I just wanted to talk to you today about attention deficit and...

Even though we've never met in person, I have noticed Kim Jefferson online through Facebook groups that I'm in, particularly Jade Jemma's group. I like the message that Kim has to share about health and fitness.

Kim's focus is on women over 40, so if you fit the bill, check out what she has to say. Don't mind me not being on camera. I was playing around with this overlay graphic that Cathy Nolan made for me awhile back.

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                         00:07 Kim Jefferson. Tell me a little bit about yourself, what you're doing, that sort of thing. We'll get into some more background questions, but in general, what do you do, Kim?

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