Last night I went to the first meeting of a group called Lighten Up — we all want to manage our weight in a way that sustains our health at an optimum level. Along with Pilates exercises and other forms of exercise, there is an emphasis on using the power of your thoughts to change how you think about food. Right up my street, as I’m sure you can imagine!
But what I noticed last night was that I had vague feelings of shame and embarassment. Why? Because I had a thought that I ‘shouldn’t’ need to to go a group like this’; that I ‘ought to be able to do this on my own’. Well, as you can also imagine I simply noticed this and thought (more...)
Joint ventures and your database
also posted in Jane's Blog
A joint venture in the internet marketing world is when two or more people join together to help promote their business to each others’ mailing lists. I’ve been investigating this lately, and although I have learnt a lot about it from various people more experienced than I, what I hadn’t realised is that my whole marketing programme needs to be laid out before I can approach others.
I discovered this when I agreed blithely to promote a colleagues’ work, and introduce my mailing list to a teleseminar they were doing, which would provide them with great content and then an opportunity to take up an offer they would make at the end of a call about their new teleseminar series.
What I’d forgotten was that (more...)