Hey, there, #CustomerLove-rs!
How is it going?
- Your biz.
- Your challenge.
- Life in general.
For me, it’s a week of awesome teetering on the brink of owerwhelm.
Balance, anyone? 😀
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, flown in for your un-flummoxing.
Topic: In the spirit of Queen – finding somebody to love!
(Feel free to play along in the comments! :>)
- Q1. How and where do you find customers to be awesome to?
- Q2. If you have customers, where did they come from?
- Q3. Where else might they be hiding?
- Q4. How do you spot the ideal client?
- Q5. How do you approach your ideal client?
- Q6. What can you do to make your ideal clients notice you?
- Q7. Do you freak out at the thought of trying to make people notice you?
- Q8. Do you have anxiety attacks when the client gets in touch? (Or is it just me?) How do you stay calm?
- Q9. What’s your biggest problem with getting customers/clients?
The Qs from Tuesday’s Tweetchat, provided for your pondering.
Today’s topic: We’re halfway there – time to check in!
- Q1. What have you been doing for the #customerlove challenge?
- Q2. What are you stuck on?
- Q3. How are you doing at finding your right peoples?
- Q4. Can you describe your ideal client in a tweet? Go for it!
- Q5. What are you planning to launch at the end of the challenge?
- Q6. What is your goal for this challenge? More buyers? More subscribers? Something else?
- Q7. How do you measure your progress towards your goal
- Q8. How will you know when you’ve achieved your goal? What will that look like?
- Q9. If you need help with anything, now’s the time to ask!
The Qs from Saturday’s Skype Call (insert alliteration of choice here! :-D)
The fantabulousness continued with a Spotlight call on @FaeNathara.
Since this was a Mastermind call, the audio is only available to the participants in the call.
Unfortunately, the fantabulousness was not the only thing that continued and 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)
- #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 14: Don’t Just Love Your Customers, Love Your Product
- Day 15: How to be nice, part III: Say sorry and put it right
- Day 16: What Your Love Life Can Teach You About Marketing
- Day 17: Our Greatest Strength
- Day 18: Step Into Your Authority!
- Day 19: Are You Stuck on Perfectionism?
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 (that’s you!)
Just a couple of posts that really caught my eye this week. There’s way more fabulosity out there in CustomerLove land, tho’, so stayed tuned for more fly-bys as I get my own ducks in a row.
- Kiri from ‘The K Diaries’ has a great post on what divination is (and isn’t).
- And this post from the lovely ringmaster of Circus Serene, Tori Deaux, had me sniffling, and has me rereading it. A lot.
- Carol Logan Newbill gives some firm firing-up advice in “Doing It Scared“.
The Fabulous Offers (from you & for you!)
- Christie Halmick is doing it again! She’s offering free 30 minute brainstorming sessions via Skype on July 25th, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST, and $25 On-Call Design Specials on Tuesday July 26th Choose from: sidebar ad, website header, twitter background, facebook welcome page image, or facebook profile image. 8 spots available. For deets, go here: http://jewelsbranch.com/customer-love
- Want to earn some free-for-documentation-rights sparkly goodness? Check out my offer on TwOOwls Art. I’m looking for two people that I can create some lovely jewelry for in return for being able to use the pieces as case studies.
- 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’.
- 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!
