Hey, there, #CustomerLove-rs!
How is it going?
- Your biz.
- Your challenge.
- Life in general.
For me, it’s been a week of emotion. Good, mostly, but with some roller coaster riding that’s going to take a bit of time to get used to. :>
How about you?
How has your week gone?
And as we come into the homestretch for this Challenge, how has your Challenge gone?
Tell me down in the comments. :> It can get a bit 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, flown in for your un-flummoxing.
Topic: products!
- Q1. What have you been making to launch at the end of the challenge?
- Q2. How does your new product/service/whatever ROCK?
- Q3. What does it do for your customer? Think benefits!
- Q4. What help do you need?
- Q5. When’s your product/whatever going on sale?
- Q6. How can will you launch it?
The Qs from Tuesday’s Tweetchat, provided for your pondering.
Today’s topic: It’s the final stretch – 7 days to go! Are you ready?
- Q1. What are you launching and when?
- Q2. Do you have a sales page yet? If so, what’s the link? If not, what do you need to get it ready?
- Q3. How will you promote your launch?
- Q4. [eaten by the Ether]
- Q5. What’s your next step?
- Q6. What are you gonna finish today?
The Qs from Saturday’s Skype Call (insert alliteration of choice here! :-D)
The mastermind goodness continued with a general round of Spotlighting & mutual support.
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)
- #creativityrebellion – Delisa Carnegie (every Thursday 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 21: Have You Found IT Yet – Your Perfect Thing? I Have. – LaVonne Ellis
- Day 22: How to be nice, part IV: Take a break. – Colin Beveridge
- Day 23: Secret Destinations – Susan Blake
- Day 23: You Are What You BELIEVE You Are – Kirsten Simmons
- Day 24: Are you terrified of the no? – El Edwards
- Day 24: Mama Says Fly – Sandi Amorim
- Day 25: Rewrite Your Old Stories and Move On! – Pajama Patty K
- Day 25: Customer Love, Stealth Mode – Shawna Atteberry
- Day 26: The 3-Part Formula for Business Awesomeness – Michelle Nickolaisen
- Day 26: Don’t Forget to Laugh…or Why You Should Always Take Time to Bhangra – Jenny Thomas
- Day 27: Be Stubborn for Each Other – Birdy Diamond
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 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.
- 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!)
- Kathryn T. Hunter is offering a free 30 min ‘In Bud’ session when you sign up for her newsletter “Inching Along”. Details + sign up form here.
- Carol Logan Newbill, in addition to being a wonderful quilt artist, is also offering to share her WordPress knowledge with the CustomerLoving world. Ask your WordPress Qs here! 🙂
- 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 three 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’.
- And LaVonne Ellis has free chapters from the “CustomerLove Cookbook” available.
The Fabulous Products (from you talented folks out there in #CustomerLove Land!)
- Kathryn T. Hunter has ‘Staying Sane and Being Social‘, a product to help Highly Sensitive Persons have a social life and actually enjoy it.
- Laura White Ritchie is starting ‘Ideation’, a mastermind group designed to help you be kind to your ideas. For more information and to apply, go here.
- Carol Logan Newbill takes us back to 1949 and an intriguing cross-country train ride in “Silver Road to California“, a quilt mystery complete with patterns & story. To read the Prologue and download the first month’s block, go here.
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!
