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Gong Xi Fa Cai – Happy New Year

February 14, 2010 | 1 comment

Happy New Year!

February 14 is not only Valentine’s Day, a celebration of love and joy, but this year, it is also the date of Chinese New Year (or Spring Festival). The year of the white metal tiger, by the Chinese calendar, year 4708 brings an urging to be decisive and to take action.

With that in mind, I’m offering a New Year’s Special!

From February 14 till February 28, the last day of the New Year Celebration, I’m offering 2 hours of private, focused 1 on 1 coaching for the price of 1! That’s a savings of $150!

Contact me now to schedule your spot. I only have room for 5 people at this price. This is the time to take that step you said you were going to take January 1. Find your dreams, let’s make them happen together!

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5 Questions To Ask Customers, Partners and Yourself

February 11, 2010 | No comments

Inspired by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing’s post, 5 Questions You Should Ask Every Customer, and a contest post at Tungle, it made me think. I’d really like your comments.

1. What made you decide to start following Living A Created Life?

2. What’s one thing we do better than any other site  out there?

3. What’s one thing we could do to create a better experience for you?

4. Do you refer Created Life Strategies to others? If yes, why?

5. What would you Google to find a site like Created Life Strategies?

Not only are these good to ask your customers, (and I would really love it if you would comment to answer them for me), but these questions are also good to ask of yourself, your friends and your relationships!

1. What made you choose to start a relationship with me?

2. What’s one thing I do better than any other site  out there?

3. What’s one thing I can do to create a better experience for you?

4. Do you positively talk about me to others? If yes, why? What do you say?

5. What things would you do to find someone like me?

I mentioned in my Laws for Success #6, Ask, Ask, Ask that it’s really important to ask questions. How else are you going to know what other people are thinking? I know I’m personally still working on that mindreading thing, but have not perfected it yet, so I always like to ask questions.

Let me know your thoughts about this site, about the people you asked the questions of, or just anything you want to share with us.

Thanks, I really would like your feedback.

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That Thing In Your Hand Is A Phone

February 8, 2010 | No comments

With all the technology advances and the “latest toys” being touted everywhere, the telephone has become everything to many. It’s a camera, a music player, a web browser, a connection to social networking sites, a portable file cabinet for information, and all sorts of other applications. But here’s the thing — underneath all the fun stuff added on, it’s still a communication device to use for one on one personal contact!
With all the pressures of Social Networking — Facebook, Linked In, Biznik, Ning, Xing, Twitter, Plurk, and more than I can list here, how many times do you just pick up the phone and call someone to touch base and tell them you’d like their business?

For years it was the only way to do that, now it’s foreign to many. I have one client who tells me that although they MUST have the latest and greatest phone out there, they never make any calls on it. They wouldn’t know where to start if they had to talk to someone on the phone! Have we lost that skill?

Oh, and another thing to think about – with all the phone services offering free national calling, do we still need 800 numbers? They cost us for every minute used. A few years ago, they were required as a business tool but now seem pretty superfluous and an earmark of a bygone era. What do you think?

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Need to know versus reply to all

February 6, 2010 | No comments

Help stamp out “Reply To All”. I’ve been reading a number of articles lately about this subject. This has long been a closely held belief of my own. It wastes time, bandwidth and frustrates the heck out of the receiver when there’s no need for it.

The latest is a video by Tim Sanders from Yahoo who says,

The more inexperienced you are on email or the more senior you are at a company the more likely you are to use “reply to all” to reply to every email you get including ones from one person in the first place!

Replying to all has been a dangerous practice for many years as has blatant forwarding. How many times have you received an email that has been forwarded to you and it contains every email address from everyone who has ever seen it as you scroll down to find the original message? This is a spam goldmine, folks! Not only that, but back in the early days of email (waaaaaaay back in the late ’80′s) I remember reading an article about a really cool way to build your list – just add a “bcc” to yourself onto an email that has an intriguing story, offer, ad or picture, and you will be forwarded on along and receive any and all addresses that the other people send your original message to.

Believe it or not!

Now, this particular function in email has been outlawed, though, if you can read through the original headers to your emails, (in some programs it’s called show full headers”) you can occasionally still  see where an email has been as well as where it hopes to go.

Another blogger, Jake Kuramoto on AppsLab,  says

So, today, my inbox was choked with about 30 messages all in the same thread. It was one of those ironic spam threads where at least 75% of the replies were unsubs or stern reminders not to reply to all, some of them in all caps, sent of course, to the whole list.

As far as I’m concerned, receiving emails that do not require action on my part or teach me something is a waste of my time. I average 400 emails a day as it is that I need to stay on top of. I’d much rather receive a couple of lines updating me on the final result of a conversation than all the chatter along the way.

So the next time you’re tempted to hit the “reply to all” button on your email program, think twice and resist the urge!

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Living A Created Life 6: Lisa Sasevich

February 4, 2010 | No comments

Heralded as “The Queen of Sales Conversion” Lisa Sasevich has x-ray vision for seeing sales conversion opportunities and the creativity to convert them into gold! Remember that we always love to hear your questions, comments and suggestions: createdlife@bitwiremedia.com and we’re @bitwire and @createdlifeshow on Twitter!

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Guest: Lisa Sasevich

Heralded as “The Queen of Sales Conversion”, Lisa Sasevich has x-ray vision for seeing sales conversion opportunities and the creativity to convert them into gold! Lisa teaches her clients how to exponentially grow their speaking sales using Irresistible Offers, get massive results without being “salesy” and maximize profits with little to no marketing budget.

For over 15 years she hones her skills with Fortune 500 companies like Hewlett Packard, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and North American Title. After years of winning Top Sales Awards, she left corporate America and put her skills to the test for a small but promising seminar company. In just 3 short years, Lisa’s creative marketing ideas tripled their revenues from $300,000 a year to well over $1 million. And she did it all with no marketing budget!

Lisa and The Invisible Close (affiliate link)  were recently featured as the Top Story on NBC’s Inside Arizona Business where she offered solutions to help small business owners close a larger percent of the prospects they see, without being pushy or offensive. The Invisible Close is proving to be the perfect solution for those who love what they do, but hate “the sales part”.

If you’re a speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, coach, small business owner, service professional or an expert looking to get your message out in a BIG way, listen up because Lisa has some gold nuggets to share with YOU!

Lisa has graciously offered some special gifts for LCL listeners at The Invisible Close/gifts

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