Hey, there, #CustomerLove-rs!
How is it going in this Time Between Challenges?
For me, the Epiphanies have finally struck, and it’s a little bit like being hit by a velvet-padded hammer – blinking in amazement, but then taking some serious action!
How about you???
Tell me about your week in the comments. 🙂
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: Today’s topic is FEAR. Bwahahaha!
- Q1. What’s your biggest fear about your business?
- Q2. What is fear stopping you from doing?
- Q3. How do you cope with fear?
- Q4. What would you do if you had no fear at all?
The Qs from Tuesday’s Tweetchat, provided for your pondering.
The lovely & talented Delisa Carnegie took over hostessing duties, due to disobedient Internetz over at Chez Ellis.
- Q1: What are you having a hard time with?
- Q2: Can you make these tasks smaller and easier to deal with?
- Q3: Do you use a system or planner to help keep you organized?
- Q4: What small thing can you do now to help with your promotion or task management?
- Q5: If you are your customer, what kind of customer love do you need to give yourself?
- Q6: Can you start treating yourself like your best customer today?
- Q7: What other time/task management problems are you struggling with?
- Q8: How do you rate the importance of tasks and decide what order to do them in?
The Qs from Saturday’s Skype Call (insert alliteration of choice here! :-D)
Topic: What inspires you? This TEDTalk inspires me: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
AMAZING call Saturday!
Some of the wondrous insights and great thoughts:
- “Inspiration is the crosspoint of making a difference and having fun.” Colin
- “If I’m mean to myself, I can’t help anyone.” Linda Eaves
- “When you’re in the flow, notice & remember your suroundings so you can draw on that again as needed.” Linda Eaves
Audio: Not sure if there was audio or not, tho’ I certainly hope so, as I think it was one of the best CustomerLove Skype calls yet! :>
Support
- The CustomerLoveDirectory is out! :> Many thanks to Christie Halmick of “Jewels Branch Creative” for the fantabulous design!
- 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.
- 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.
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
- #handchat – Peggie Arvidson (every Friday at 4p Eastern, 1p Pacific, 9p London time)
- Living A Creative Life Coaching Call – Melissa Dinwiddie
The Blog
Summing up the wondrous wisdom provided by you awesome customer-love-rs, you! 😀
The wondrous LaVonne Ellis is helping us to get our blogs in shape this summer with “Get Your (Blog) Shit Togther”.
- 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!)
- Kirsty Hall, in addition to revealing another lovely Jar, talks about psychogeographics, the art of one’s interior map, and asks the Question: what’s your personal map?
- Peter Crowell posted the third part of his e-book.
- LaVonne Ellis is the latest Captains Curious over at Susan T. Blake’s blog.
- Elana Baxter tosses a few things overboard at Sandi Amorim’s ‘Deva Coaching’.
The Fabulous Offers (from you & for you!)
- Deanna Lohnes is still offering free copy consultations, but only until July 4th, 2011, so hurry on over and get yours today!
- “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.
- SilverMagpies has a delightful free-for-addy e-book on “Every Day Best”, great advice on you should take your treasures out of storage and use them in your everyday life, instead of hoarding them like a dragon on their treasure pile.
- Colin Beveridge is offering a “Silly Questions Amnesty”. Free email mini-consults on any area of math.
- Susan T. Blake has a free-book “The Survey As Conversation“.
- And El Edwards has a new monthly mag!
The Fabulous Products (from you talented folks out there in #CustomerLove Land!)
- Alexia Petrakos is offering a six-week course in mapmaking of the idea-capturing kind. If you’re interested, hurry and sign up because this first session’s sign-up closes this coming Wednesday, June 15th at noon, EDT!
- Linda Eaves has an e-book up over at Makeness’ site: “Good Intuition, Good Business”. Get the deets here, but don’t wait too long, as this book is only available until July 5th, 2011.
- Emily Rose has some lovely art up for sale at her site. Go check it out! 🙂
- Deanna Lohnes has a e-book out: “Down & Dirty Guide to HR for Very Small Business” for when “your biz of one is ready to take on a new hire”. She adds “As a thank you for all your support, I’d like to offer you all 5$ off. Use the coupon code customahlovah at check out. Hit me up of you have questions about the guide or HR issues in general.”
- LaVonne Ellis is dishing up the fab “CustomerLove Cookbook” in both visual and audio versions. Be sure to get yours and start loving on your customers even more!
- Pretty sparklies abound at TwOOwls Art! Come see the lovely jewelry created by yours truly. :>
- And speaking of sparklies, check out Delisa Carnegie‘s Etsy shop, “Spiraling Elements“.
- Our own LaVonne Ellis did a delightfully wicked webinar on “The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Maniacal Laughter“. Tho’ the webinar is over, the recording is still for sale.
- Delisa Carnegie has an e-book out, “The Creativity Rebellion Guide to Kicking Zombee Ass & Breaking Free from the Hive Mind”.
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:
- 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!
