Want to Make More Money Doing Teleclasses?

How to Make Money Giving TeleclassesARE YOU GIVING TELECLASSES YET? Discover How to Give Teleclasses and Attract More Perfect-for-You Clients and Create Products, too! Get the Course here.

If you’re not giving teleclasses yet, you’re really losing out on one of the best ways to leverage your time, make a huge difference, get more clients and subscribers, make a ton of dough and reach way more than one person at a time with your valuable expertise, wisdom and ideas.

If you’re as passionate as I think you are about getting the word out about your message, services and products, you absolutely will lose out on the increased impact you desire – not to mention more income – if you don’t utilize teleclasses.

I get countless notes and phone calls from people who want to know “just the basics” of how to do teleclasses. I guess they figure that it’s so simple that all they need is the bridge line info and how to do an easy outline, and off they go.

Nupe. T’ain’t so. There’s just a bit more to it – well, if you want it to be easier on you, and if you want your calls to be good.

It’s a funny combination of easy and complex. Yes, it’s easy to give a teleclass. But the behind-the-scenes creation and set ups, while also easy if you have the right information, venues and systems, are important to do right and in order – and of course your marketing plan, strategy and tactics are crucial.

You need to know the ins and outs so you can plan what you’re doing, develop a road map and follow your steps one by one.

Otherwise you get distracted, out of sequence and frustrated that things take so long and you feel like you’re not getting anywhere.

When you have your systems in place, your progression through the sequence of events is smooth and painless – all the way from idea to creation to presenting your teleclass, to marketing and seeing your money roll on in.

Get the Course here

Here are just 5 ways you can use your teleclasses:

  • free audio for signing up on your website’s opt-in
  • freebie teleclasses to introduce your services
  • freebie teleclasses to attract more clients
  • for-fee teleclasses for your large groups
  • do Joint Ventures with expert in courses, summits…
  • And there are way more….

Any of those options is a gateway you can use to bring people in to your world, give them the info you know they want and need, and make some good money at the same time.

Whether you are a seasoned teleclass leader or a newbie to teleclasses, you’ll love the course that came out of what I taught the Round Table Prosperity Group Teleclass Training.

If you want to know how to set your systems up, discover how to get lots of new clients, create mo.ney-making content, lots of ways to market your calls in a non-aggressive manner, I invite you to check this How to Do Teleclasses package out.

I’m allowing a limited number of presales to go through at an outrageously low price, because I want you to be able to have it. For only a short time, I’m taking a full hundred dollars off the 199 that it will end up being.

But don’t wait, because the price goes up in one week: Get the Course here! And when you do sign up, you get a surprise that could save you $475!

Zoik It?!? What’s That?

Zoik It!A weird thing to change your life with….

I had a dream last week that showed me a little trick to get myself back when I was feeling low.

It was so simple, and so quick, and so profound I thought you’d like to hear about it. But I didn’t want to share it with you until I had tried it out a few times to see if it was consistently functional. And I found that, yes – when I work it right – it is!

When I say “work it right” that means that if you’re not fully present when you do it, it isn’t effective.

Here’s the dream:
I was in a place that was supremely uncomfortable. I was cold, I felt weak, I saw no way out, and was becoming enraged. I seldom get angry, much less enraged, so this was a pretty bizarre-feeling dream. I suppose I was given an extreme example to show me the power of this little trick….

I heard this little buzzing in one of my ears, and reached up to wave it away like it was a mosquito.

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How’s Your Prosperity This Week?

waddmIgonnadoI can’t even begin to tell you how many emails I’ve gotten from people telling me about how this week they have been freaked out, stuck, paralyzed with fear, can’t move forward to do what they know they need to do…sound familiar?

It isn’t your fault! If you know anything about astrology, you might know that Mercury has been retrograde lately.

What does that mean? In a nutshell, Mercury effects communication. Retrograde means that its energy is moving bass-ackwards to ours; and will do so for a short time more. Which means forget clear communications and making contracts that work.

So if you have felt pressured or nutso or fearful or…again, it isn’t your fault, It’s JUST ENERGY!

What you need to remember is how you respond is what is important, not whose fault it is. What will you do instead of the behavior you aren’t enjoying watching yourself exhibit?

One of my Round Table members told me that, instead of continuing to use the big old stick she had spent a lifetime beating herself up (inwardly) with, she went down and got one of those sparkly purple magic wands, and decided to create magic instead. Now she’s in the process of actually DOing what she knows she wants to do to create progress in her life and business. Nano step by nano step. That’s all it takes.

How can you do that in your own life? What nasty thing do you continually do to yourself that you could switch into something creative, fun, enjoyable and magic?

Do it!

(INVITATION: I have 2 more spots available in the Round Table Prosperity Group if you come in live, and plenty more if you come in on the webcast.

You get to tap with me on your personal, business and/or marketing Stuff every week, and you get major support and resources for creating your Dream, with the entire group behind you, all week long, through the forum. Powerful. I invite you to check it out and, if you feel moved, jump in!:
http://DeepentheDream.com/deepen.html)

Paul and Layne: How to Create Personal Improvements in Your Life

Paul & Layne CutrightI get Paul and Layne’s Inspirational tips, and I thought I’d share this one with you that came today.

“Your consciousness is a powerful force for creating. It determines the people you are attracted to and the people who are attracted to you.

If you want to improve your lot in life, or the quality of your relationships, choosing to accept personal responsibility is the first and most important step.”

– Layne and Paul Cutright, from their book, You’re Never Upset for the Reason You Think, which you can get here: PaulandLayne.com

And remember that responsibility simply means the ability to respond! It’s not about a big heavy burden, it’s about being present and giving up reacting n favor of responding. But you knew that….

No More Round Table Tapping Group?

Round Table PROSPERITY GroupIf you have not joined the Round Table Tapping Group yet, you won’t ever be able to from now on.

Why not?

Because we have been having such a blast and such great results that we decided to rename it the Round Table Prosperity Group.

Each person who comes on the call live gets to:

  • have focused individual attention
  • email me with issues and questions, and gets to
  • talk to me through the forum all week;
  • to do a lot of tapping on personal and business or marketing issues; and…
  • great stuff like how to do a teleclass,
  • how to market it,
  • how to get more clients,
  • how to make more money both online and off….

We meet for a full 90 minutes on Sundays at 4pm NY time. If that isn’t handy, you can just listen to the audios and participate in the forum.

If calling the US is too much for your wallet, come in on the webcast and save plenty bucks!

I invite you to join us and get support creating your own prosperity, too!

Here’s where to sign up: http://DeepentheDream.com/deepen.html

Now You Can Get Fantastic Prints of My Paintings, Pastels & Drawings!

Mother's Day gifts and cardsA big part of my expanding my Dream of doing more art is finally being able to make prints available of my work. And it’s happening! Now people can get really nice prints of my work on paper, framed or unframed, or on canvas!

Formerly, if anyone wanted a print, I did it myself, printing, packing and shipping it. It was prohibitively expensive – I had to use a special printer (for archival [long-lasting] prints; the archival paper and special inks were outrageously expensive, the packing & shipping was such a hassle…. I eventually said to heck with it because it was such a huge bother.

But now I can do it using a print-on-demand service. I’m so stoked! I told you I’d set up a ton of images from my paintings, pastels and drawings at the print-on-demand site, FineArtAmerica.com.

Well, I wanted to see what the quality of the work was like before I ranted about how great it is, so I ordered some prints just to see.

I got the package in the mail today, and I’m over the moon – I showed the print (it’s on canvas) to a friend who is also an artist, and I asked him if he could tell if it was the original or a print. He couldn’t tell! It’s so much like the original it’s almost spooky!

So yes, the quality is fabulous! No streaks, no color diversity where it ought not to be and the colors are perfectly matched; it was mounted on the stretcher bars well; it was packed well and came through shipping just fine. What more could I want!?!

So I put together 21 images you could use for Mother’s Day greeting cards and gifts – here’s where to find them: http://angelatreat-lyon.artistwebsites.com/art/all/mothers+day+goodies/all

Here are the other galleries: http://angelatreat-lyon.artistwebsites.com

Have fun gazing through the images – and if you get any, I suggest that you do it soon so you might have them before Mother’s day or soon thereafter.

Want to Get Pro Help Writing, Publishing and Marketing Your Book?

write, publish and market your bookI have three new openings for you who want to write, self-publish and market your book.

I help you not only find the time to write, but write in a conscious, intellignet pattern to save time and energy.

I also help you create your book in ebook form, for Kindle and for print…

And I will show you 2 unique, very profitable ways to market your book that hardly anyone else is teaching (not the intense rah-rah method of becoming an amazon super-star – although you can do that, too, if you want).

You probably don’t know this, but there is one specific document that, if you write it before you even think about writing the content of your book, you will cut down on 95% of the hassle most authors struggle through.

This one page will help you:

  • get started if you’ve been confused and lost about where to begin
  • see if your book is even salable
  • create the working title and chapters
  • determine what to write and how to write it.
  • set your content up so it’s easy to write

And it will help you to:

  • determine your market
  • see if your market will buy your book
  • actually market the book
  • set up the foundations around your book so you can be more than an author.

And I will help you write that document so you can have it to guide you throughout your book-writing process!

You also get my assistance getting through the emotional stuff that gets in your way so you can blast off and write, publish and market that thing rapidly and easily.

You get so many bennies from my help it’s too long a list to put here.

If you want help with getting your book out of you and into a great book, published and on the market in several venues, email me at Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon.com, and ask for an application. Put “Book mentoring” in the subject line!

If I feel you can fit the billl, then we’ll set a conversation about what you want to do and how I can help you.

Do it right quick because these spots fill really fast, and I only have 3 right now. It may be a few months before I open them again. This is the perfect time of year to get started!

Email me at Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon.com, and ask for an application. Put “Book mentoring” in the subject line!

Want to Go to Christian Mickelsen’s Live Event in May?

Christian Mickelsen's Live EventI have two tickets worth $4997 each to Christian Mickelsen’s upcoming live event in May.

If you want to go, let me know and I’ll tell you how to get them from me at one tenth the price.

Christian is a great coach – I have learned a ton from him, and when I use his system I get clients right away. Nice, huh? You can, too.

CLICK HERE to check out the event. Email me at this address, and put “tickets” in the subject line: Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon.com.

Do it now, because I only have two.

Does ‘Out of the Blue’ Creating Really Work?

dance-3Last week I said I’d share with you what it’s been like during the last 3 months in my new Adventure of getting back to doing more artwork. In a nutshell:

Exhilarating and Terrifying
Annoying, Confusing
Disappointing
Exciting and Thrilling
Terrifying and Exhilarating
Success Beginnings
Validating

There’s a lot to be said about clear, bright, bodily-felt visions of the success you want to create. Without the one I painted for myself in my mind and felt in my body, and a whole lot of tapping, I’d have been S.O.L. Why?

Because during the annoying, confusing, disappointing, terrifying stages, I’d have lost myself in woe-is-me.

In the past, I’d have declared it an impossibility, crying, “no one supports me, no one wants to see, hear about or buy my artwork, no one wants what I make, I’m just always going to be broke and sad and sick (!), I’m always going to be an unknown (!), I’ll never get my work shown where I want, no collectors want my work….”

Bored yet? Me, too. Old Story. Old Story. Old Story. Give it up. Write a new one!

Fortunately, I’ve been tapping long enough to know that those stages were just precursors to the next stages of exhilarating and Validating (don’t know what tapping is all about? Go here: EFTinEveryHome.com).

But how did I get through all that?

I’ll be honest – it was hard. Hmmm – not what you wanted to hear, right? “Angela is an EFT expert, and it was hard for HER? What’s it going to be like for ME?”

Well, it was hard because I (at first) tried to roll on over it all with the enthusiasm and excitement of the Dream actually Beginning.

But you can only roll over so much before it picks itself up and rolls on over you if you don’t do a little inner work. In my case, a LOT. I had so many concretized, solid, seemingly-unbreakable beliefs and thoughts that were skulking and spitting and hissing in a very dark hole in the back-back-back of my mind that, for a minute, I was worried I’d never get through them.

I even did a couple of weeks of bingeing – I bought and ate at least a hundred-year supply of gingersnaps. I saw it, and I allowed it, because I wanted to get all the unfelt feelings up to the surface. I bet I put on 10 pounds in that time alone.

But I got bored with feeling bleagh and heavy and fat and bloated and ill and angry and confused and numb. I saw that if I continued, I’d end up really hating myself and my life.

Invitation to come out and talkI decided to spend some very intense, very focused time addressing it all.

So I invited all those old feelings and thoughts to come on out and rear their ugly heads and hiss and spit all they wanted, and so that I could see them clearly enough to help them get some air – and so we all could feel better.

As I’ve said hundreds of times, it’s all energy. We place our beliefs and perceptions on that energy, and create our identifying Story of Who We Really Are around those perceptions.

If it’s just energy, if feeling better only means a change in perceptions, why can’t I shift it? No reason. I can. Anybody can. If you can see it, you can shift it.

Albert Einstein said, “The field is the sole governing influence on the particle.”

Think about that for a bit – don’t just read it and keep going. If you think of your thoughts as the field, and your self, your life, your Being as the particle, what does that say? Um-hm – your thoughts govern your life.

So there I was with all the thoughts and resulting feelings, beliefs and habits from childhood and years of disappointments as a ‘starving’ artist looming over me as I started back on my path again! Yeowie!

Lucky me! My mind held all those fears, doubts, worries, misperceptions and angers safe and sound for me so that when I finally came to the point of acknowledging that yes, I do want to make Art the prime focus of my life again, there they all were all ready to come up and be healed. Thank you, Mind!

And thank you, tapping, because without it I’d have skulked back to giving up again.

gatheredI wanted support and like-minded people around me, so I started a local tapping group. In the first 4 weeks, we worked on a lot of money stuff. A LOT.

I took us through some of the material in Jerry Gillies’ Money Love book (have you read it yet? It’s a must-read – check out my interview with Jerry as my guest on the Daring Dreamers Showcase at IDareYouRadio.com).  That material helped a ton.

The group took a break for a couple of weeks, during which I noticed some pretty significant “miracles” happening out of the blue. A woman called me and bought my car for 2K over blue book (!) and I, in turn, bought her truck – no going to the car dealer, craigslist, etc. It was so easy it was almost absurd.

JoAnn SkyWatcher (EFT practitioner, prodigious photographer) turned me on to the print-on-demand art site, FineArtAmerica.com.

I’ve been uploading all my 2-D work there. Check it out: here (this is one of the private sites you get as a freebie when you sign up for the print-on-demand function). This opens up a whole new world for me because previously I’d have had to print out and mail the prints of the images to the buyers.

Instead, now,  FAA takes the order, makes beautiful prints on canvas or paper, frames it (or not), ships it out and sends me the check. Awesome. Saves me a ton of time and energy, and produces better quality prints than I can do myself.

There were a couple of other things that came through easy as pie that I really hadn’t thought would happen, and for the other people in the group, as well. Mon.ey came through to people out of the blue, opportunities opened up that had seemed closed….

Can you tell I love out of the blue?

Ask for it! Ask for stuff you want to come to you to come out of the blue, and tap on your doubts that it will. It works! You put your order in to the Universe, and just be patient, and tap on your disbelief.

wolffe-pissedDisbelieving is like going to a hamburger stand, ordering your burger, and then not believing the cook will come through. Even getting angry and yelling at him and crumpling in fear at the counter! Silly. Have faith. Let each little thing that come to you – a check in the mail, an old favor repaid, an old debt repaid, a nice word from someone you never expected to say it…it works!

We resumed our tapping group again this last week and are now calling it the Prosperity Group, because we all are intending greater prosperity for ourselves and the people around us. (Local to Oahu? I invite you to join us! Go here to register: EFTinHawaii.com)

It’s happening, too, for the people in the Round Table Group (Register here for our Sunday 4pm NY time meetings: http://DeepentheDream.com/deepen.html).

Just in the short time we’ve been meeting (only 6 meetings so far), Mimi, who had worried about lack of time and was so afraid she wouldn’t get any new clients, is getting them, and is even excited about marketing her business. She kept thinking “who do you think you are?” Ever heard that one in your mind? Tap! Tap on it! She did – you can, too!

Shelagh completed the home page copy that she had hated doing and balked on for months (can you relate? I can!) and is creating joint ventures with people just out of the blue (check out and sign up (so inexpensive!) at Spiritus-theSpiritualMarketingDirectory.com – it’s a great spiritual-based business directory and community); and the others in the group are rocketing, too.

So – even though I felt

  • annoyed at old fears arising in the midst of my exciting new adventure
  • confused because there seemed like too many
  • and I didn’t know which to start clearing first (that’s called stalling!)
  • disappointed that things weren’t moving faster, and
  • terrified of the intensity of the feelings I was experiencing and that I might not be able to clear them –

You did it!But I did clear them. In a big way. There is always more to go, but the worst is over, and the road looks shiny and bright.

I’m feeling excited again and validated that I was able to create such success in such a short time.

The very old, very encrusted energy that so terrified me was actually easy to shake out and clear and give new, fun jobs to do.

I’m carving almost every day (YAY!), and rearranging the rest of my life to fit my Vision. It’s been hard, but it’s been fun and rewarding. And I’ve even dropped some of the extra poundage in this last week! Ha!

Here’s to your Dream! May you find your way easy, fun and delectable. If not, tap!

aloha –
Angela

p.s. Yes, I’ve been tapping for years, but I discovered I had deep secrets even I didn’t know were there.

Do you? Want to ferret them out and get them cleaned up and working FOR you instead of against you, so you can roll forward in creating your own Dream success?

Imagine how that one secret deep fear affects every single aspect of your life, and what it would do for you if you could release it, clean it up and give it an exciting new supportive job to do! Imagine creating your pristine vision and actually living it. You can.

For the month of April, you can bypass my usual $575 fee and get some great tapping with me for only 99 bucks. You can sign up here: http://bit.ly/99-for-99 – you get 45 minutes of powerful work with me. My assistant will help you schedule your appointment when your purchase goes through.

Your Success Castle is only a few taps away!You’ll be amazed at how free you feel after your session – how quickly you implement all those things you’ve been putting off or have been afraid of or doubting, or that that significant someone keeps telling you you should do but you haven’t! Now you will – easy and effortlessly.

I look forward to helping you out of where ever you’re at right now – even if it’s great! It can be greater! – and expanding your Dream, Vision and success!

The links in this note:
EFTinEveryHome.com – FREEbie intro to tapping

FineArtAmerica.com – print-on-demand site for artists

AngelaTreat-Lyon.artistwebsites.com – my new website where pe ople can get prints of my paintings, pastels and drawings

IDareYouRadio.com – interview with Money Love author Jerry Gillies

Spiritus-theSpiritualMarketingDirectory.com – spiritual business directory

EFTinHawaii.com – join our local Prosperity Group

DeepentheDream.com/deepen.html – join the Round Table Group for weekly teleclass tapping and business and marketing instruction


I Have ONE Copy of Christian Mikelson’s Coachiing Package….

FSTS-picALERT: I have one copy of master coach Christian Mikelsen’s $2000 client-getting program (click on the image to enlarge).

The first person to email me (Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon dot com) gets it for only $1750 (and I’ll cover the shipping), as well as the link to the forum where you can hang out, talk with and practice with the other coaches Christian is training.

You’ll find the coolest things in it – I did – I never knew how to do half the stuff he teaches you, because not one of the coaching training I ever did had marketing training included.

Here’s what you’ll learn from these great CDs:

  • How to use free or low-cost sessions to meet & sign up new clients
  • How to do the short session so the client sees the value of the coaching and asks you for more
  • How to NOT overdo the session and why
  • How to set your fees up
  • How to ask for your fees
  • What to do if they say I can’t afford it, I have to think about it….
  • How to set up long-term sessions
  • How to get them into group sessions if they don’t do long-term
  • A notebook with cheat sheets for your freebie sessions
  • Client agreement forms
  • Learning Guide
  • 2 tickets for Christian’s big live event (value 4,997)
  • and more.

I’ve checked out and used this system really carefully, because I wanted to see if it worked, and if I could increase my clients the way he said you could. And I did.

I also studied and practiced his system in a very intensified way because I also wanted to see if I could recommend him – I wanted to find someone who could take my place as a coach’s coach when I transitioned into doing more artwork. And I’m happy to say, yes, I recommend him and his system.

His Client-Getting 25-CD/DVD set comes with a notebook binder and laminated cheat sheet that helps you with your first sessions – what to do, what to say, how to ask for your fees, when to quit, and more.

He even gives you a deal-with-money-fears set of CDs that are just terrific.

I can let the set go now because I’ve studied it well and taken about all the notes I want, and I’m happy to say, “go study with Christain – he can do a better job of showing you how to get more clients and get them coached than I can.”)

If you want more clients, less hassle; and more money for less work, I invite you to jump on this and mail me right now and you can save 250 bucks off what he charged me. Lyon at AngelaTreatLyon dot com. I’m taking this down the second it’s claimed, so don’t wait.

And if you don’t want this set, go to the next post down on this page to find out how you can get all the goodies from Christian in his brand new program.

Ever Said This? “I Don’t Know Where to Find New Clients”

when-yr-smilin-colorIf you or a coach you know have ever said this: I don’t know where to find or where to go to get clients, this post is for you.

I just got a note from my business coach, Christian
Mickelsen. Christian has made a great list of all the best hangouts on the internet for finding coaching clients, and is giving it away now.

I invite you to get these FREE lists. Follow the simple steps (he tells you how to use them in a short video – watch it all the way to the end), and then go get more clients!

Here’s where to get the FREEbies: http://bit.ly/find-clients

Does his system work? You bet!

Here are some of the results I’ve gotten, myself, using Christian’s system:

  1. Between last December and last month, I’ve done over 120 freebie sessions. (This could have been overwhelming, but I created a scheduler that only allowed so many per week, and I spread them out over a few months. Got to do the income providing stuff, too – can’t give away all my time!)
  2. I increased my ability to say no to people I knew wouldn’t be a fit, and to say YES to people I knew would really get a lot out of what I can offer.
  3. I signed up several long-term clients I never would have even had without this system.
  4. I learned about how to structure my fees for long-term, short-term and groups so that even if someone can’t do one way, they can do it another that would help them get going.
  5. I was able to vastly improve my long-term coaching invitations so they worked a whole lot better.
  6. And I also created a way to do for-fee intro sessions that got people tremendous value and an opportunity to sign up with me for long-term or groups.

WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT LONG-TERM?
I had never really gotten the value of long-term coaching before. I was used to helping people fix the hurt or the stuck place and off they go. Help them see new perspectives and give them a powerful list of resources, and they’d be set for a few months at least.

Now I’ve seen that the deepest coaching is

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Marketing Success Tips for Artists by Successful Artists

sm-depressionIf I had had training in art marketing ‘back in the days,’ I’d never have had the grinding, constant worry, depression or confusion I suffered with for over 40 years until I finally figured it out.

I hated the very idea that I had to make the art AND sell it. I thought, “Heck, dentists, lawyers and store owners don’t market their work – they get others to do it! Why should I? And when? I was too busy making the art (gripe, gripe, complain)….”

But I didn’t realize that virtually everything an artist does is marketing.

sm-happinessFrom the clothes she wears to the motorcycle he rides to the galleries we show in to the way we talk to people – it’s all part of developing relationships with people and making sure we communicate that we have something to offer that is of value to the community – not just our products but ourSELVES.

So maybe now you can remember to have fun at marketing – and check this out – I wish I’d had this information way back when! The perfect home-study marketing course for artists.

I hope this information helps you get to that next step and to create more success – especially if it has eluded you for a while!

It Really Is Who You Know…in A Surprising, Non-Snobby, Easy Way

i-cantLast week I worked with a woman who is a really fine watercolor painter.

(If you need to develop how you speak to people about your work – being able to say who you serve and what do you offer them –  here are a few scripts you can modify – FREEbies. Watch the whole video and copy the scripts.)

She told me she was in big, bad financial trouble. She kept on saying, “If I could only make more sales!”

But then she’d cry and shake her head and complain that, “it’s a bad economy, I don’t know where to turn, I don’t know who could help me or what to do….”

I asked her if she would be comfortable teaching others how to use watercolors, too. “Oh, yes,” she said, “but there’s nowhere to teach, I’m not that good, and ….”

So I asked her to suspend belief for a minute and just imagine that there was a new reality bubble right next to her that was just waiting for her to walk into it and prosper. She smirked,

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One of the Best Ways to Get Media and Client Exposure

01-good-stuffOne of the best ways to get exposure for your work is to write 5-600 word articles.

Here’s a great FREE article that has exact instructions about how to create your article’s resource box.

This is the info at the end of your article that includes your name, © and date, and links to your sites.

If you do it right, you’ll choose specific related keywords and embed them with links to your site in a way that gets you more traffic and exposure.

This is a really handy article: http://bit.ly/creative-links

I Hate(d) Goals



postIf you’re one of those artists who say, “don’t tell me I have to market my work, I just make it,” you’ll really appreciate the solutions for easier marketing in this note today.

That actually goes for you health, biz and energy coaches and practitioners, too – especially the Right-Brain goals ally I’m going to tell you about!

When anyone says to me that I need to set goals, I literally cringe. Well, I used to. That was before I figured out how to do it my own way.

I thought of a goal as either a big, probably long-term aspiration, or a little soon-to-be-accomplished something. Either way, I’d think of them and feel nuts. Here was this big picture, and I couldn’t encompass it in my mind in a practical way.

I felt like I couldn’t set or accomplish goals, that I was a failure, something must be wrong with me because I didn’t relate to all the goal stuff people taught, how come they can do it but not me….

Then someone pointed out to me that when I was thinking about goals and feeling crazy it was because it was too big a picture. I couldn’t sink my teeth into it and make any progress because I didn’t know where to start.

She told me that I needed to set my goals first, and then go FURTHER and create little steps to take to accomplish them. Then I’d be OK. Because then I could do each step and cross it off my list, and feel satisfied I was making progress. It’s the steps, not the goals, that I need to think about, even though the goal is always in the back of my mind keeping me on track.

THEN! I was introduced to the coolest goals-help I’ve ever seen: the Artist’s Goal Wheel – all in right-brain languageing, colors and steps. You’ll love this if you’ve ever thought of goals and groaned. Check it out here: Artist Goal Wheel

I use it, myself, and thought you’d love it, too. And yes, I get a cut if you buy it – I’ve taken the time and energy to test and try it, and I absolutely do not recommend anything I haven’t tried and liked.

As a matter of fact, I invite you to listen in on my interview with Tara Reed, the artist (and licensing expert) who created the Goal Wheel here: http://idareyouradio.com

Now you know how I’m able to be so ultra productive – I’ve written over 60 books in the past 8 years. How many other people do you know who have? Plus audios, websites, coaching, speaking…do you think goals bother me anymore? Uh unh.

I don’t JUST think of my goals anymore. I hold them clearly in my mind, and then every day I ask myself, “what’s the next step I need to take to get where I’m going?” I guarantee you that using that one question (and Tara’s Goal Wheel!) will get you out of the boghole of confusion and worry faster than any other you can ask.

Don’t ask why, ask what. Asking why only gets you more questions. Asking what: what steps can I take right now, what connections can I make right now, etc., will get you moving towards results.

Sun, Sand & Sculpture!

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Every once in a while you just gotta stop and not just smell the roses (gardenia, jasmine…) but go down to the beach and have a romp!

My friend, Financial Advisor Jobie Summer (who specializes in advising other financial advisors in Socially Responsible Investing) and I went down to Kailua Beach the other day and made this Spiral-Belly gal and attending Sea Horse….come join us next time!

4th annual smARTist Telesummit Home-Study Edition is Ready!

audio-3hIn January, the 4th annual smARTist® Telesummit knocked another phenomenal event out of the park!

With their extraordinary line up of art-career experts and successful working artists, it is truly the push many emerging artists needed to transition from “just getting started” into a full-fledged, successful art career.

Knowing how important this information is, Ariane Goodwin, who started this whole ball of wax, decided not to stop there, and created the fantastic smARTist® Telesummit Home-Study Edition.

The Home-Study Edition comes with a whole pile of goodies, including audio downloads, CDs and transcripts of the ENTIRE event. Curl up on the couch and soak in all 14 presentations from all 11 keynote speakers, listening till your heart is content!

If you’re new in the art world, breaking into it can be an intimidating proposal. Knowing where to start is hard enough, knowing what to do when you get there can be even more confusing.

Even if you’re a successful artist already,

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Artists: Fear of Rejection Ruining Your Sales?

got-money-3hI NEED TO MAKE MORE SALES!

Hint: It’s who you know – in a surprising but everyday way….

Last week I worked with a women who is a really fine watercolor painter. She told me she was in big, bad financial trouble. She kept on saying, “If I could only make more sales!”

But then she’d cry and shake her head and complain that it’s a bad economy, she didn’t know where to turn, she didn’t know who could help her or what to do….

I asked her if she would be comfortable teaching others how to use watercolors, too. “Oh, yes,” she said. “But there’s nowhere here to teach….”

I asked her if there was:
…an arts supply store in her town or in the nearby area. Yes.

…a bank, restaurant, cafe, or coffee shop. Yes to all.

…a high school or community college, or university nearby. Yes, a high school and community college.

But she was freaked out that they would reject her, that her work wasn’t good enough (she does really nice work), that she “couldn’t teach at the college because she had no credentials.”

And she ended up sobbing, saying that she would end up homeless and all alone. She took her problem all the way to being dirty, alone, afraid and completely destitute!

We worked through her fears (of course using my old pal, EFT) and discovered an underlying pattern of rejection stemming all the way from a childhood friend rejecting her in a really big, really nasty way. She’d kept part of herself closed down and private ever since – and no wonder!

It was her Big Secret, and it affected every aspect of her life.

HERE’S WHAT’S IMPORTANT: I could show her….

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101 Ways to Live to 100: Mellen Thomas Benedict

mellen-thomasSometimes I see waves of popularity run through my ebooks and audios.

For some reason, Mellen Thomas Benedict has been really up in the charts recently, so I figured you might want to check this out:

A while ago, Mellen Thomas Benedict and I created a teleseminar on 101 Ways to Live to 100: The Secrets of How to Thwart Aging! Debunking Common Aging Myths! CLICK HERE TO GET IT

Why? Because I wanted everyone to know his story! It’s incredible!

Mellen died from a heavy duty case of brain cancer. He spent a considerable amount of time dead – completely flat-lined – but suddenly came back, whole – without brain damage!

He has dedicated his life since then to sharing the extensive information he received on ‘the other side,’ and his highly evolved inventions that help people live longer in increased health. You’ll love the teleclass we did together:

101 Ways to Live to 100: The Secrets of How to Thwart Aging! Debunking Common Aging Myths! CLICK HERE TO GET IT

(You also get a very cool FREEbie: the incredible story about how Visionary Mellen Thomas Benedict died from brain cancer and came back.)

Have You Ever Wanted to Say: I Quit!

sm-where-i-wanna-b2Have you ever wanted to say that? Just throw in the towel and walk away? I have. And it’s always been a sharply defined moment that brings better things and options into my life when I actually made that choice.

When I came back to Hawaii from being the first artist in residence in Gore, New Zealand, I was so convinced that I had to find a job to ‘tide me over as I settled in’ that I took a job for the first time in over 20 years.

Imagine standing from 10 am to 5pm in the sizzling Waikiki sun, with only a half hour lunch break (and no food or drinks allowed win your booth), getting tourists to sign up for time-share demonstrations. For $7 an hour. Mmmm, fun! I don’t THINK so.

I tried hard to make it work. I sat demurely at my booth providing tourist help; I experimented with working theidea of time share slowly into conversations; I finally ending up literally walking over to people and pushing the brochures into their hands. It was the essence of push marketing.

If I had any ‘shy’ left, by then it was gone. But I detested who I had to be to do that, and how I was doing it. I felt like an predator. I felt nauseous just thinking about driving in to work.

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Kickstarter: Funding for Artists and Other Creatives

artist-pigeesHere’s a new source for funding I didn’t know about. Check it out!

Kickstarter is a unique funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers…submit their projects for funding and if approved, are added to the site for any and all visitors to donate to them. http://www.kickstarter.com/

The Purpose Prize for Social Entrepreneurs

kisslifeHere’s a very cool prize I just heard about:

The Purpose Prize awards $100,000 prizes to five social entrepreneurs who are 60 years or older and are trying to improve their communities through their work.

As a society, little has been done to support the remarkable efforts of these individuals, which further supports the notion of a decline in the second half of life, rather than a time of creativity, invention and contribution.

These awards were created to honor and support the elders in our communities who are making a difference.

Civic Ventures, 123 Townsend Street, Suite 505, San Francisco, CA, 94107, phone: 415-430-0141, fax: 415-430-0144
info [at] civicventures.org
http://www.templeton.org/prizes/the_purpose_prize

Quit Wanting the Spectacular and Missing Out on What’s Right Inside of You!

pigees-jump3hHave you noticed how so many people want and expect to ‘make a difference,’ be ‘big,’ be or do something spectacular and important?

What if we all just really ‘got it’ that it’s enough to be ourselves and to give being who that is the very best we can? It may be even more than enough.

Why do we feel like we need to make a big splash and change the world? We really don’t, you know.

Just being you is enough. If you are you enough to stand up for yourself or your kids or your co-worker, if you are you enough to enter an art competion, if you are you enough to write an essay about a pet peeve to the NY Times, wouldn’t that be more effective than hiding at home afraid to make a peep? Wouldn’t that make a difference?

One song, one piece of art, one article, one EFT session can….

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99 for 99….

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If you are an entrepreneur, energy, EFT or health practitioner or coach, this is for you!

What if someone gave you a major boost in your business succes right now?

What would it do for your business if you could get the guidance you need in order to get off the ground, out of that stuck place or off that plateau?

See, I think each of us has an awesome responsibility as coaches and energy practitioners and people who help others. I believe we need to 1. do what we’re really good at and serve through that; and 2. get the awareness out about that. If we don’t, how can the people who want our services, help and guidance find or use us? They can’t!

Being ‘successful’ at your business is not about you, personally. It’s about the fact that you have been good to your word and provided valuable services, and have gotten the word out about it enough that people foound you and were served by you.

The common compensation for that is usually money, and the spreading of the word about you. So when you think of the word ‘money,’ it’s a very narrow view to think, “I shouldn’t make money off my service,’ or ‘I can’t be spiritual if I make money,’ or I should give it all away for free.’ That’s mistaken thinking.

All money is doing is greasing the skids so you can keep doing what you do best. And if you are so good at it that you start to make more than you need, you can joyfully turn around and help others do it, too. Not too bad an idea, eh?

Or maybe you think of marketing as intrusive, pushy or hard to do. What if I told you that all it is in truth is a building of relationships. Where each time you got together with anyone, it’s an opportunity to shine with how much you adore what you do. That’s excting!

Instead of introducing yourself by saying something dull and unexciting like, “I’m an energy practitioner,” and seeing people’s eyes glaze over, what if you said, “I help small business owners create outstanding success where their highest values shine through every aspect of their products and services”? Do you see how that would generate more interest and keep the focus off you and onto what you do for them?

Are you already at a good place and just need a little boost to get up to the next step?

Great! I want to be there by your side, providing a solid platform of support with my own knowledge, skills and expertise in business and marketing and the use of energy practices to help you move forward like greased lightning. We need you and your skills! Don’t hold them back!

jump2-5Imagine if you got started out of that hole right now!

Imagine jumping off that plateau right now!

Well, I want to help you get there, so I’m doing the unheard of!!

I know there are those of you who only need a small boost to get going in a big way, and for some my regular session fees of $575 each, or the usual $757 a month package for three months doesn’t work. But there’s a way around that…

Maybe you never thought of this: just three 45-minute sessions with me are enough to set you up for 6 to 12 months because I give you so much business and marketing info and very deep tapping support.

Since there are so many people who need that boost, I’m doing an experiment…

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Harriete Estel Berman: Artist Contracts Guidelines!

ponderHave you ever wondered about your artist’s contract?

Or if the one you’re signing is really and truly on the up and up?

Check out this whole long list of documents, guidelines and such that you can use in your own work.

Here’s a partial list of what Harriete has for you:

Artist Fundamentals

Professional Guidelines (Get the one page handout with a list of all the topics in the Professional Guidelines on her site: http://www.harriete-estel-berman.info/profguidelines/profguide.html

INVENTORY RECORD: Documentation and Provenance
Condition Report Form
Guide to Professional Quality Images
Working with Digital Images Effectively

Juried Opportunities
TOP TEN TIPS for Getting Into a Juried Exhibition, Show, Book or Magazine
Juried Exhibitions
Comparison of Jury Ranking Systems
Artist Checklist: Exhibitions

Fundraising Auctions

Open Studios
Open Studios: Artist Checklist
Open Studios: Guide for Art Organizations

Contracts
Exhibition Contract
Model Release Form
Model Consignment Contract

Additional documents
Artist Checklist: Claims for Damaged Work
Discounts
Resources for Legal and Professional Advice

And she has an ASK Harriete your professional questions: Questions and Answers about the Professional Guidelines. Advice for artists, crafts people and the arts community. Information to assist artists and crafts people in their professional develop. http://www.askharriete.typepad.com

Artist contracts, guidelines, etc.
http://www.harriete-estel-berman.info