Roving Robin Report – Fourth Week of May

Hey, there, #CustomerLove-rs!

How is it going in this Time Between Challenges?

For me, if I don’t see some sun soon, I think I’m going to forget what it looks like! 😀 We had a few all-too-brief moments today, but soon it was back to the clouds and the grey

How about you???

The Challenge

LaVonneEllis -When you start to doubt yourself, think, “What do I need to hear right now?” And say that to your people. They need it too. #customerlove

The Qs from Sunday’s Tweetchat, placed for your perusal.

• Q1. What is your favorite way to love your customers?
• Q2. What kind of responses do you get when you love on your customers?
• Q3. Have you been happy with the results of your past #customerlove challenges?
• Q4. What will you do differently in the next #customerlove challenge?
• For you oldtimers: Q5. What’s your best advice for new #customerlove challengers?
• Q6. What questions do you have about loving your customers?

• @KarimBenyagoub: A6 have you loved anyone before me? LOL!
• @lisarobbinyoung: A6 Where’s the line between loving and smothering? 🙂
• @petercrowell: A6: How much correspondence is okay/expected with customers?
• @EncouragingBird: A6. Where are you? 😀

• Q7. What kind of help do you need? #customerlove

The Qs from Tuesday’s Tweetchat, provided for your pondering.

There was a massive brain fart in the Space-Time Continuum, or at least the part of it surrounding the #customerlove tweetchat for this past Tuesday, so Tweetchat did not occur. Watch this space for more developments as they happen.

The Qs from Saturday’s Skype Call (insert alliteration of choice here! :-D)

No call this week, but I hear tell that there will be guest speakers on the weekly calls starting next week! Can’t wait to see what LaVonne is dishing up for us next! :>

Support

• The CustomerLoveDirectory is out! :> Many thanks to Christie Halmick of “Jewels Branch Creative” for the fantabulous design!

• SilverMagpies, being the awesome person that she is, is compiling a list of guest posting opportunities for and from people in CustomerLove. Contact her with your #CustomerLove related guestposting opportunities and she will add you to the list. Looking for places to write? Go here to take a look at the list so far.

• Ryah Albatros is looking for short pieces about information management to include in “Erudition“, part of “Information Junkies Anonymous”. “Erudition” is a fantastic mini-mag that comes out once a week. Here’s this week’s issue.

• Lisa Valuyskaya & Colin Beveridge are offering to help #CustomerLove participants in any way that they can. If you’d like to join in the helping goodness, add your name and skills into the comments and I’ll add your name in the list next time. :>

• Deva Coaching’s Sandi Amorim is looking for peeps for her #FF spotlights. Shoot her a message on Twitter to find out more and to volunteer to be spotlighted.

Chats

Free chats hosted by #CustomerLove peeps:

• Caffeinated Business Chat – Rachel Acklin (NEW LINK! :>)
• #CustomerLove Skype Chat – LaVonne Ellis and Ryah Albatros
• #CustomerLove TweetChat – LaVonne Ellis
• #handchat – Peggie Arvidson (every Friday at 4p Eastern, 1p Pacific, 9p London time)
• Living A Creative Life Coaching Call – Melissa Dinwiddie
• Klatsch – Ryah AlbatrosA@

The Blog

Summing up the wondrous wisdom! 😀

• Peggie Arvidson does a reading on LaVonne Ellis’ hands and comes up with some very interesting results.

The Fabulous (that’s you!)

• Kirsty Hall’s Jar 148, and a tribute to the Jar Fans that keep the project going.

• Shawna Atteberry’s book “Women Who Didn’t Sit Down & Shut Up” is out! In honor of that, she is offering excerpts from related podcasts. (The full versions are free through the end of May with purchase of the book.) Here is the first one, the second one, and the third one. Also remember that she is offering newsletter subscribers a 20% discount. Click to subscribe.

• The plot thickens for Delisa Carnegie and her  interactive novel. Go check it out  – comments will direct the plot!

• From a different fantasy land, Peter Crowell reminds us that sometimes ponderingis not the best idea.

• Tara Joyce joins the ranks of the “Captains Curious” with “Living the Questions“.

The Fabulous Offers (from you & for you!)

• LaVonne Ellis is dishing up the fab “CustomerLove Cookbook” in both visual and audio versions. Be sure to get yours and start loving on your customers even more!

• Tisha Berg is teaming up with Vonetta Booker-Brown on Wednesday, June 8th at 7pm ET, 3pm PT (midnight London time, alas – will have to see if there will be a recording) to bring you what is looking to be a fantastic free webinar on how to create successful podcasts and videos. I’m already signed up and waiting eagerly – join me?

• Deanna Lohnes is still offering free copy consultations.

• Pretty sparklies abound at TwOOwls Art! Come see the lovely jewelry created by yours truly. :>

• Our own LaVonne Ellis did a delightfully wicked webinar on “The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Maniacal Laughter“. Tho’ the webinar is over, I do believe the recording is still for sale. (And an option to have her turn your own Evil Laugh into your very own signature sound! :>)

• “Ask A Designer” is going strong over at Lisa Valuyskaya’s‘Idea Stylist’. Check out her posts and feel free to join in the Question-asking Goodness!

• Claire Tompkins is offering free 20 min  Mind Decluttering Mini-Sessions.

• Delisa Carnegie has launched! “The Creativity Rebellion Guide to Kicking Zombee Ass & Breaking Free from the Hive Mind”.

• SilverMagpies has a delightful free-for-addy e-book on “Every Day Best”, why you should take your treasures out of storage and use them in your everyday life.

• Colin Beveridge is offering a “Silly Questions Amnesty”. Free email mini-consults on any area of math

• Peggie Arvidson is offering free-for-publishing-rights hand readings. Go here for the details, requirements, and to sign up.

• Susan T. Blake has a free-book “The Survey As Conversation“.

Flying Away (but not for long!)

That’s it for this time.

I’ll catch you on the wing!

Yours in #CustomerLove & BACON,
Birdy Diamond, Roving Robin & Paranormal Diva! :>