I know, that title looks wrong. What happened to Days 6 and 7? Well, kittens, I flaked out.
Short version: Saturday morning, I went on my first grocery shopping trip since getting off the crutches for a broken foot, and spent every last energy cent. I crashed and burned. Gave up on anything productive and went to bed.
Then I got overwhelmed with the idea of creating a roundup of all the wonderful efforts you folks are doing for the Make Customers Love You Challenge. Thank heavens for the lovely and talented @HeavenandEl, who volunteered to gather the information for me, but I still couldn’t face it yesterday. Sometimes, we just need to give ourselves a fresh start, and Monday is a good day for fresh starts. Round-up coming up!
First, some announcements:
- In my usual, jump-first-think-later style, I have impulsively decided to offer a free voice coaching teleclass [or webinar, not really sure what the difference is yet] in honor of #customerlove. If you use your voice as part of your business [hello, podcasters, webinar/teleclass leaders, teachers, and pretty much everybody else], you can sign up here: Free Voice Coaching Class. Time, date and other details will be forthcoming shortly.
- We have received more offers of guest posts than we can accommodate [although it’s tempting, considering my fear of writing, to let you guys write all my posts for me], so we’ve decided to put together an e-book of those guest posts for you to give away to your customers at the end of the challenge. That will be our gift to you. @DavidCrandall’s specialty is designing beautiful e-books, so I know it’s going to be a class act.
If you’re interested in writing a guest post for the #customerlove challenge, submit your idea on the contact page. Deadline for ideas: Friday, September 10. Deadline for finished posts: Friday, September 17, so we have time to proof, edit and format the e-book before the end of the challenge.
- Don’t forget to sign up to get some link love and so everybody knows you’re taking part in the challenge. Then go grab a beautiful badge to put up on your site.
- And if I’ve missed mentioning you below, please let me know in the comments so I can fix it!
Tweets with links either to posts about #customerlove or to things people have done for the challenge. Be sure to check these out!
(Newest first:)
- @AmysNotDeadYet – http://antemortemarts.com/2010/09/the-beating-of-mighty-wings/ “As part of the Customer Love challenge, I decided to go ahead and be a little more me and show off my inner fangirl some more.”
- @itybites http://www.getcaughtthriving.com/reflections/ “My challenge isn’t about making customers love me. It isn’t about getting comfortable in front of the camara. It is about showing up as myself and about telling on myself showing up.”
- @RustyTim http://intentionalinfluence.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/how-you-can-win-big-with-intentional-influence/ “I want to help people. I want to encourage people. I want to spread their passion for the things that they are doing.
Here is how I plan on doing just that.
Starting on Wednesday September 8th I will be doing one Skype session each night starting at 10 pm EST. I will do this for 7 days straight, ending on the night of Tuesday September 14th.” - @LindaEaves: 3 Linked In recommendations accomplished today – who else can I help? #customerlove http://is.gd/eTzmk
- @HeavenAndEl Caught up on @DavidCrandall #customerlove post, can reveal I have plane booked 4 tomorrow morn. No sky writing, trailing banner instead 😉 http://ow.ly/1qP86Z
- @icecolbeveridge What’s your best piece of advice? Turn it into a 5 min video or audio, or a 1-page worksheet/poster. Make it freely available. #customerlove
- @josh_crocker Great early start to the day! Gonna be a rockin’ one! Don’t worry fans and friends, my #TK tweets will begin shortly… #customerlove
- @fitforpaper That should have said “free help finding/retouching/resizing pictures”, of course. #customerlove day3 catch-up! Need something? Just @ reply
- @intuitivebridge: Here’s some #customerlove. I created a bitch box for you on my blog. http://bit.ly/d3j5jz and a button. – (This is awesome!!!)
- @pegkd: you are a picky eater. and i love you. #customerlove http://bit.ly/a33RGu
- Holly is a dragon-loving gamer! Who knew? RT @copygeniusgirl: Behind the Curtain (http://bit.ly/9UQAqQ) #customerlove
- @lizziemcg Here’s what I’ve started: Non Violent Communication podcast day 1 http://goo.gl/fb/vjlTb #customerlove
- @AlisonGresik Just sent 1st HTML newsletter to my email list. With my real-live signature at the bottom. Innit cute? http://budurl.com/vvfj #customerlove
- @abbykerr Who’s got a Q about niche-y biz/mktg, copywriting, or indie retail? I’m offering free quickie consulting! http://bit.ly/9Fzp9f #customerlove
- @creativeonion 1st #customerlove blog post! Lead Generation: Give Away your Best Ideas for Free http://bit.ly/aSkp2Z
- @intuitivebridge I like you and I love you, and here’s a love meditation for 99 cents to prove it. #customerlove http://www.bridgetpilloud.com
- @thecopycorner is here to help! Check out her 28 days of #customerlove: http://ow.ly/2yFZj
- @pegkd I’m continuing intuitive insights 4 insecure bloggers (i.e., I giv ’em tips & hints 2 beef it up 4 their peeps) #customerlove
- @karenparitee WORK WITH ME | Effindiets http://bit.ly/bvp3Gr
- @LisaMilesBrady: Took on day 2 #customerlove challenge. New on the blog: In the Beginning http://bit.ly/d7nhbs #2500wds
- @thecopycorner Does this count for #customerlove: Teaching noozletter subscribers what makes good copy by deconstructing real sample text. 😛
- @susantblake: A big Thank You blog post http://susantblake.com/?p=351
- @AlexiaPetrakos Ok. I have my goal for #customerlove. 🙂 Day 2? I’ll be writing up a post about a few of my fav. people shortly 🙂
- @pegkd :They Rock My World and we Haven’t even Met…Yet http://pgsdt.th8.us WOW!!
- @icecolbeveridge #customerlove I finally got around to asking my clients from last year how their exam results were. Been putting it off.
- @icecolbeveridge #customerlove Did I mention here that I’m giving away free half-hour math[s] classes to anyone who asks this week?
- @fitforpaper: Did a couple favors for a couple clients that really needed them, no strings. Does that count for #customerlove?
- @LaVonneEllis Ok, my challenge task for today, since it’s not over yet, is to love on my poor neglected email subscribers. Sorry! #customerlove
- @josh_crocker My #customerlove will start tomorrow…sort of…by @ mentioning EVERYONE that I follow. I apologize to those that follow me with SMS! lol..
- @abbykerr: Starting to write long-overdue replies to some *awesome* emails from my e-course subscribers. #customerlove
- @AlisonGresik: You can add me to the list! I just put up today’s post about Finishing Stuff: http://budurl.com/58wq #customerlove
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Oh my gosh, how long did it take you to complete that list? And how did I miss seeing about the challenge?
You’re doing fantastic LaVonne – you Go Girl!
Ah, thanks Mel! I didn’t do the work, @HeavenandEl did, but it didn’t seem
to take her very long, thank goodness.
I think you’ve been pretty busy yourself, and I’m sorry I flaked on
following your 31DBBB challenge. I got this idea and just ran with it. It’s
kind of taken over my life, lol!
~LaVonne
That’s ok, I’ll be running it again later. Love your flakiness!
I wonder where David got that idea to take all of the guest posts and compile into an ebook. I have to say it’s a genius idea :). David and I just spent an hour working on something that I’m sure he’ll tell you about in the next day or so. I think this make your customers love you challenge is absolutely brilliant. Good stuff.
Thank you, Srini, and it’s so good to meet you at last. 🙂 I’ve been wanting
to talk to you about podcasting, actually.
Yes, David is full of genius ideas. I’m so glad we bumped into each other!
~LaVonne
LaVonne, having had a foot op myself about 16 weeks ago, I feel your pain! Don’t be too hard on yourself – even just starting this up is such a great idea. Keep going girl!
I totally thought it was a planned break — with the Labor Day weekend, there were very few people around. It makes sense to breath and think about it for a couple of days, both for organizers and the participants. And come up with more great ideas.
Great job everyone participating; loving meeting new people through this challenge!
I’ll be catching up again soon. 🙂
P.S. My later tweets re: days 3 and 4 are missing. No biggie, but I think there were tweets from others around that time too — are a few hours of timeline missing? Did Twitter API eat them?