Own Your Power

Build it and they will come? No, not quite. I know many folks who think all you need is a website, but you have to build incentives to collect data and to keep people coming back.  Take a look at this little tidbit of information and see how your current online marketing matches up.

Own Your Power,

Simone

Make Your Website a Lead Generating Machine

by
Clate Mask
Everybody knows one-sided relationships never work. The same is true with websites. If a website is focused entirely upon you, you will lose any visitors that may stumble across it. On the other hand, a website done correctly (one that focuses on the visitor) can easily become a lead generation machine!

When designing your website, think about these four ideas:

* People are egocentric. Subconsciously they’re viewing your website and thinking, “There’s tons of companies just like you. What are you going to do for me?”
* People love being entertained. If they believe your website is providing interesting information, you’ll have them hooked.
* People want their opinions valued. This is why most companies have incorporated a blog or forums-so their customers can put in their two cents.
* And this is the ticket for generating leads for your business: visitors want to do something.

Give your visitors something to do. Give them something free to download. Offer a free report or whitepaper. Ask for their opinion on a blog entry.

Do something, anything, and once the person responds, you “Require” the following information: name, address, phone number, and email. Guess what you just got? A qualified lead. Qualified because they stayed on your site long enough to take action.

Sincerely,

Clate Mask
CEO, Infusionsoft

FOR MORE: | www.infusionsoft.com

I was proud to be a featured speaker a couple of weeks back for the Miami-Dade Chamber. I am a member and hope if you are in the area, you join me! They have amazing events and truly assist members with taking their business to the next level and connecting them with serious power players. JOIN THEM HERE!

MIAMI-DADE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESENTS

The Business Empowerment Networking Series:

Marketing and Brand Development

Friday, May 21, 2010

WHAT: The Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce presents its latest Business Empowerment Networking Series (BENS): Marketing and Brand Development. This networking series will feature a thorough panel discussion with distinguished, prominent business leaders on how to successfully and strategically develop and market a corporate and personal/professional brand.

WHO: The luncheon will feature keynote speaker, Harriette Cole, Acting Editor & Creative Director of Ebony Magazine. Cole became Creative Director of Ebony Magazine in 2007, and is responsible for fashion, style, relationships and lifestyles coverage of the magazine. She is also the head of the magazine’s art department and is responsible for leading the overall design, look and feel of the re-design for Ebony Magazine. The panelists attending the series are: CEO of Own Your Power Communications and Author, Simone Kelly-Brown; CMO of the Orange Bowl Committee, Christina Francis; E-Commerce Marketing Specialist at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Malaika Moran; and CEO and President of On The Ball Marketing, Steve Nudelberg.

Learn the secrets your boss would hate for you to find out!

Gone are the days of having just ‘ONE GOOD JOB”. It’s sad to say but… its reality. Layoffs and companies completely closing down are commons events in our economy and many people are left with a pat on the back and if they are lucky a few weeks of pay after YEARS of dedication.

No longer are people just getting one “side-hustle” or a plan B.. but a Plan B, C, and D! We want to share with you how to create abundant streams of income and why it’s so important.

From creating your own product or automated service, to incorporating a turn-key operation; having more than one stream of income isn’t anything special anymore but ,quite frankly it’s just plain common sense.

Learn about why the most successful business owners do not rely on just one stream of income, no matter how RICH they already are.

Join us on Saturday, June 5th in Aventura, Florida to experience this fun and educational seminar!

YOU NEED TO JOIN US IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN…

· Eliminating that glass ceiling

· Creating a legacy for your children or future children

· Another stream of income without breaking the bank in start-up fees!

· Wealth Coaching

· Business Ownership

· Long term Residual income

· Debt elimination

· Daily empowerment

Let’s face it…If Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Paul Zane Pilzer and Richard Branson with having residual and multiple streams of income and they’re Billionaires. Hmmm… there must be something about it that the rest of us are missing.

LEARN THE SECRET YOUR BOSS DOESN’T WANT YOU TO FIND OUT!
-Experience fun and down-to-earth networking led with Holistic Business Coach, Simone Kelly-Brown
-The Gift The Keeps on Giving: Learn how to have multiple Streams Flow Into Your Bank Account with Simone Kelly-Brown and Vice Presidential Marketing Director, Maxandra Desrosiers

RSVP NOW!

COME EARLY AND WE’LL TREAT YA REALLY REALLY NICE.

THAT’S RIGHT! Door Prizes for the first 15 guests!

Complimentary coaching (Valued at $100)

If you bring two friends or more you’ll get entered in a raffle to win your very own Free Personal Assistant (One month of service)

And much more…

For directions please call: 786-528-1001

RSVP: simone@ownyourpower.biz

COST: FREE FOR GUESTS!

Time: June 5, 2010 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Residence Inn by Marriot/Aventura Mall.
Street: 19900 West Country Club Drive
City/Town: Aventura, Florida 33180

Tune into the latest OWN YOUR POWER RADIO SHOW!
Featuring:

Malaika Moran, Image Consultant

Coach Rochelle Schwartz

Fighting or Flowing - How Is YOUR Life Going?

I feel an immense sense of freedom. Want to know my secret? I just let go…. That’s it, I let go! I stopped fighting against the current and let the stream of life just flow. I became aware and open to the synchronicities that the universe has in store.
My First   A-Ha! moment:
A few days ago, I had been listening to workshop by Esther and Jerry Hicks-Abraham called The Art of Allowing (it’s included with their book: The Astonishing Power of Emotions, Let Your Feeling Be your Guide.) Mind you, I’ve heard this CD at least five times before, but on this day I needed another boost of it to remind me of their message and it was music to my ears.

Esther spoke about how many of us think life is supposed to be hard. We think it’s supposed to be a fight, a battle, or a struggle. She used the analogy of Life being a river and us being in a boat. We want to go upstream all the time, because of our belief. We have to fight, battle, or struggle to get anywhere in Life. Esther mentioned we should just go with the flow of the stream. To stop paddling against the current.

“The moment you let go of the oars, the majority of that resistance you have subsides.” – Esther Hicks-Abraham

You’ll begin to really enjoy Life’s lessons when you pay attention to the messages that cross your path—sometimes hurling straight for your head at 500 MPH!  I like to call those the RED FLAGS that we tend to ignore ? Red flags can be good signs and bad signs, we just need to WAKE UP and SEE them for what they truly are!

When you let go of the “oars”… relief comes, even though it might not come exactly when you want it, it will come!

My Second A-Ha! Moment:
Doing the work that I do, I no longer believe in coincidences! Yesterday morning, I popped in The Wayne Dyer Collection CD that I haven’t heard in probably a year or so. He started to talk about a childhood song that has a simple message that we should all take heed to.

Then he asks the audience to sing along…

“Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream….Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.”

He said, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Row your boat, not your brother’s boat, not your wife’s boat, but YOUR boat!” LOL … He also used the same analogy as Esther and talked about the stream is like our life and how we need to go with flow.

I say, when you let go of the oars—you don’t even need to row anymore. Let the current take you and trust your intention and intuition to lead you to the right path of your soul’s journey.

When you go with the flow, you truly take time to remember who you are, and the honor values and dreams with the integrity your soul’s mission desires and deserves. You don’t go against the grain, but do what comes easy for you … what you LOVE to do.  It’s also about releasing your inner control freak and sending her or him away to a far off place! Come on … admit it. We all have one.  For this article, I’ll just call her Ms. Jackson. (Some of you 80’s kids might get it.) LOL

I’m saying good-bye to Ms. Jackson because:
•    She refuses to go with the flow. She won’t accept things that come with no effort. She believes that’s just being lazy!
•    She wants to have it all planned, scheduled, lined up, and the reservations called in three months in advance.
•    When things don’t go as planned, she loses it. She says, “Who needs some rinky-dink oars? I’m going to get me a high powered MOTOR and strap it on to my tug boat of life of fight against the flow, because I can!”
•    Not only would she want to fight for her life, but she wants to take every wounded soul around her for the ride. (You Suzy Save-em-Alls, know who I’m talking about!) Oh yeah, she’ll stuff them all in her little boat. She has a motor, so why not?
•    If she runs out of gas….aka BURNED OUT, no problemo, Ms. Jackson will try the oars again and pull the weight of EVERYONE in the boat.

But wait…it’s not moving. She isn’t going anywhere. The waves are hitting her in the face, she’s paddling with all her might, but she’s stuck. She can’t understand why things weren’t working in her life. Why her career, friendships, love life, and health were heading into a downward spiral.  But then, she looked back and noticed a few of those people she took along for the ride were just DEAD WEIGHT, like anchors holding the boat in place while she paddled, paddled, paddled with no success and no one was volunteering to help.

Ms. Jackson, aka your INNER CONTROL FREAK, wants Life to have no waves and wants everything to be perfect! However, we all know that the waves (things we call problems) bring with them gifts of abundance and love. Though, at times, we don’t see it in the moment. A gift can be sickness that allows us to sit still and really evaluate our life or let people take care of us for once. Or, a break up with lover who may have been taking advantage of you. Or, a huge blow out with your teenager that taught you that you CAN’T CHANGE anyone. Or, the unexpected layoff from a job of 10 years that allows you to finally focus on your dream business.

Of course, it looks like a tidal wave about to take us under when it hits,  but the gift is coming in the form of a lesson.  Stand strong and don’t worry. When it’s over, you’ll be able to wring out your wet clothes, shake off that water, and continue down the stream to realize that there are more gifts all along the way.

Don’t Be A Control Freak Like Ms. Jackson
Oh, if she only knew from the beginning to go with the flow!  You can, too, when you consider the following:

1.    Do things that come effortless to you in your life. Focus on your God Given talent, even if it’s not your main way of making money right now. Work on it part-time, until it is!

2.    Dump  the heavy weight out of your boat. Focus ON YOU FIRST! Those anchors can be toxic relationships with friends, co-workers, and even family members and lovers who might be holding you back or draining your energy and nay-sayers that are not interested in your personal dreams.     they are not reciprocal relationships, and can’t or won’t support the vision you have for yourself.

3.    Honor your values and stand by your beliefs!

4.    Become an allower!
The Art of Allowing is finding a vibration that feels SO good when you find it, feels better and better as you maintain it, and gives you evidence of that connection through THRIVING. You’ll learn to recognize an immediate response of to that connection … It is joy in the moment (NOW). The long long-range evidence is abundance in all things you consider good — like health, relationships, and dollars.  —Abraham-Hicks, Phoenix 3/29/2003

5.    Get good at finding an appropriate release. Let go of what it is that doesn’t make you feel good.

6.    Realize you are the creator of your experience. You do have a choice … downstream with the flow or upstream with the struggle? Take your pick!

Once you begin to flow — circumstances and events become immediate. It will feel like magic and you’ll be slapping yourself in the head for not “letting go of the oars” sooner.  The only thing holding you back is yourself. Come into vibrational alignment with who you are.

Most importantly, RELEASE THE OARS and go with the flow of life. Pay attention to your A-HA! MOMENTS. Oh, what a ride on river it will be!

Sources:

Tune into Love, Atttract Romance Through the Power of Vibration Matching
By Margaret McCraw, PHD

The Wayne Dyer CD Collection

The Art of Allowing CD