Day 13: Roving Robin Report: Week Two!

Hey, there, #CustomerLove-rs!

How is it going?

• Your biz.
• Your challenge.
• Life in general.

For me, it’s about learning my capacity, and exploring ever more of those odd balance-things, and discovering what they look like in reality, instead of just on paper.

How about you? How goeth your week?

Tell me down in the comments. :> It gets lonely flying around the Interwebz by myself. :>

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.

Topic: Let’s brainstorm product ideas to launch at the end of the challenge!

(Feel free to play along in the comments! :>)

• Q1. Have you come up with a product to sell at the end of the challenge?
• Q2. What are you really good at?
• Q3. What’s your best idea for a product using your superpower?
• Q4. What can you put together quickly?
• Q5. What are your favourite products other people have done?
• Q6. What products would make your life easier/better?
• Q7. How can you deliver content in an unusual way?
• Q8. How can you make your offer stand out?

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

Today’s topic: What’s your biz dream?

• Q1. What would you do if you had $1m to spend on your business?
• Q2. What are your dreams (even without the $1m)?
• Q3. Why are you in business?
• Q4. Why do you want more money?
• Q5. What do you want to do when you grow up?
• Q6. What are you doing to make your dream come true?

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

The fantabulousness continues with a Spotlight call on @DelisaCarnegie.

Since this was a Mastermind call, the audio is only available to the participants in the call. Due to some tech glitches, the recording this week did not take.

Support

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

• If you’re new, or your information has changed, make sure you go here and sign up to be included in the next update.

• 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.

• Peggie Arvidson is offering free-for-publishing-rights hand readings which can help you get in right with your biz & your life. Go here for the details, requirements, and to sign up.

• Ainslie Hunter is offering to answer Qs about online educational platforms.

Chats

Free chats hosted by #CustomerLove peeps:

• Caffeinated Business Chat – Rachel Acklin, with summer guest hostess Deanna Lohnes (every Monday at 3p Eastern, 8p London time)(To be included, message Deanna on skype. Her handle is skyzinoureyez. OR you can email her your skype info – deanna at parlancellc dot com.)
  
• #CustomerLove Skype Chat – LaVonne Ellis and Ryah Albatros (Saturdays at 4p Eastern, 9p London time)
• #CustomerLove TweetChat – LaVonne Ellis (every Sunday and Tuesday at 4p Eastern, 9p London time)
• #emmit chat – Tori Deaux (every Monday at 2p Eastern, 7p London time)
• #handchat – Peggie Arvidson (every Friday at 4p Eastern, 1p Pacific, 9p London time)
• Living A Creative Life Monthly Chat – Melissa Dinwiddie

The Blog

Summing up the wondrous wisdom provided by you awesome customer-love-rs, you! 😀

• Day 7: Inspire Them and They Will Come – LaVonne Ellis
• Day 8: How to Be Nice, Part II: Make Eye Contact and Smile – Colin Beveridge
• Day 9: 5 Surprising Reasons We Hide From Our Customers – Heidi Dobbs
• Day 10: An Introvert’s Guide to Loving Marketing by Loving Your Customers – Anne Melnyk
• Day 10: What Kind of Metaphor Describes Your Business? – Rebecca Kellogg
• Day 11: A Little Hero Worship –Lisa Robbin Young
• Day 12: On Not Rushing Love – Or – The Power of Lurking – Jennifer Mackerras
• Day 13: Tailor-made CustomerLove – Christie Halmick

Get Your (Blog) Shit Together

The wondrous LaVonne Ellis is helping us to get our blogs in shape this summer with “Get Your (Blog) Shit Together”, a post and series designed to help us do just that.

The latest:

• Blog Basics: The Easy Peasy Way to Backup & Upgrade WordPress

Previous Editions:

• Blog Basics: The Difference Between WordPress Plugins & Widgets

• Blog Basics: How to Set Up a Mailing List & Where to Put Opt-ins to Build Your List

• Blog Basics: How to Add a New Page in WordPress

• Colin Beveridge, the man behind the test site ‘Adorable Geek’ joins the blog polishing team with a vid on how to add a new page in WordPress.

• 7 Ways to Get Your (Blog) Shit Together and Why They’re Important

• Blog Basics: How to Set Up a Domain and Install WordPress

• Blog Basics: How to Set Up a WordPress Theme

And speaking of polishing up the ole blog, Jade Craven gives us some fantastic tips on how to make your site more user-friendly in “Stop Putting Barriers Between You and Your People!”

The Fabulous Offers (from you & for you!)

• Christie Halmick is offering free 30 minute ebook brainstorming sessions via Skype on July 18th and $25 On-Call Design Specials on Tuesday July 19th (for select graphics for your social media profiles and website). For deets, go here: http://jewelsbranch.com/customer-love

• Nathara has a wondrous offer for CustomerLove peeps: a weekly ‘Dear Nathara’ column applying animal magick to your problems. To check it out and sign up go here.

• If you want to see fab art created (almost) daily by the fab artist Melissa Dinwiddie, go here and sign up for “The Daily Art Spark”. This newsletter is one of the highlights of my day! 🙂

• Speaking of fab artists, brand harmony artist Rachel Acklin is offering a spectacular summer special: “Limited Editions Webistes”. The package: one basic (but far from boring!) website up by Sept. 1st, at a price that just has to be seen to be believed. Hurry tho’: there are only four spots left at that price.

• Phyllis Nichols is offering free 30 min sales consults via Skype. What a wondrous birthday prezzie! :>

• Deanna Lohnes is offering half-price one hour consultations on Friday, Saturday, Sunday during the month of July for CustomerLovers.

• Susan T. Blake is offering a $50 CustomerLove discount on survey consulting packages to challenge participants.

• The ever-lovely El Edwards is offering ‘Craziness Check-ups’ for all those mums out there who are afraid they are alone in their chaos. Free with subscription to ‘Digital Escapology’.

• Anne Melnyk is giving away 28 free hours of coaching during July. Go here for the deets.

• And LaVonne Ellis has free chapters from the “CustomerLove Cookbook” available.

• Finally, a bird of a different feather. Laura White-Ritchie’s ‘Start Up Yours‘ class may have started, but you have a wondrous opportunity to spread the magic: she is taking donations for scholarships for worthy folk who just need that extra bit of help to get their wonderful out there. Any size helps, so feel free to go and share the CustomerLoving spirit. 🙂

Flying Away (but not for long!)

That’s it for this time.

I’ll catch you on the wing!

If you have anything you’d like me to add to my next report, here’s how to contact me:

In the comments (see below! :-D)

• Twitter: @EncouragingBird
• Skype: Birdy.Diamond
• E-mail: Birdy at-the-fantabulous-site-known-as Crow Tarot Tours dot-com-baby! (Edit accordingly. ;-D)

Help me help you spread that #customerlovin’ goodness!

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