Hey, there, #CustomerLove-rs!
How is it going in this Time Between Challenges?
For us, the Journey continues.
Ups. Downs. Roundabouts.
The Challenge
LaVonneEllis -Banish self-deprecation! #customerlove
The Qs from Sunday’s Tweetchat, placed for your perusal.
“Today’s topic is Business Basics – starting with your website!”
- Q1. What’s your website?
- Q2. What do you use your site for?
- Q3. How does your site help you get customers?
- Q4. What would you change about your site?
- Q5. Do you have a site task list that you work on every day?
- Q6. What’s missing from your site?
- Q7. Site stuff isn’t your biz, but where do you draw the line? Doesn’t it need to have some basics?
- Q8. What is the most important thing your site needs to do?
The Qs from Tuesday’s Tweetchat, provided for your pondering.
“Today’s topic is FEELINGS, nothing more than FEELINGS…”
- Q1. What scary emotions does being an entrepreneur bring up for you? Let’s name them all!
- Q1a. Start with Fear. What are you afraid of?
- Q1b. Do you ever feel anger or jealousy? I do.
- Q1c. Do you compare yourself to others and their success?
- Q2. How do you handle rejection, big or small?
- Q3. How are you able to focus on your work in spite of upsets and fears?
- Q4. What techniques or resources do you use to handle the emotional stuff that comes up?
- Q5. susantblake: Can we talk about some of the positive emotions around being an entrepreneur?
- Q6: icecolbeveridge: How can you use good days to help yourself when you’re feeling low? Or to help others?
The Deets from Saturday’s Skype Call (insert alliteration of choice here! :-D)
Saturday’s Skype Call was a small but wondrous discussion of science, magick, and the lines between. Rockets and maths were also mentioned.
Support
- 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
- Living A Creative Life Coaching Call – Melissa Dinwiddie
- Klatsch – Ryah Albatros
The Blog
Summing up the wondrous wisdom! 😀
First It Sucks, Then You Write. – LaVonne Ellis
The Fabulous (that’s you!)
- Peggie Arvidson has a fantastic post on “The Practical Woo“.
- Linda Eaves has Launched! And it looks loverly. :>
- Phyllis Nichols declares that “What You Do Today Matters.”
- Tisha Berg talks about why we need to keep our big ideas to ourselves… at least for a while.
- Peter Crowell asks “Want to watch me write my first e-book?” And oh, yeah, he’s launched his new site “Life is Making” and TOTALLY spiffied up his ‘About’ page. Go take a look! :>
- Finally, Mike & I join the ranks of Susan T. Blake‘s “Captains Curious” with “Curiousity in Times of the Tower”.
The Fabulous Offers (from you & for you!)
- Deanna Lohnes is still offering free copy consultations.
- Delisa Carnegie started an interactive novel. Comment to suggest what happens next! :>
- I have pretty sparklies up at TwOOwls Art! Come see the lovely jewelry. :>
- 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.
- 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.
- Shawna Atteberry is offering newsletter subscribrs a 20% discount when her book “Women Who Didn’t Shut Up & Sit Down” comes out on May 9th. Click to subscribe.
- 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!