11-12-2010 Gratitude List

1. I am grateful I can stay home with my daughter when she is off school.
2. I am grateful I was able to attend the Veterans Day Parade yesterday.
3. I am grateful my daughter is so amused by the headset/mic.
4. I am grateful I am able to be honest about things.
5. I am grateful I made my first $5 on erotica today!
6. I am grateful I can go get new shoes for my daughter today.
7. I am grateful I can be very honest and vulnerable with my husband.
8. I am grateful both my sister and I give great massages.
9. I am grateful my husband is working today.
10. I am grateful for the additional blessing of his over time.

11-10-2010 Gratitude List

1. I am grateful my 6yr old daughter feels free enough to ask for what she wants.
2. I am grateful I know how to cook pancakes:)
3. I am grateful my husband is super accepting of me and all that comes with me.
4. I am grateful I made a big difference in a couples life yesterday.
5. I am grateful I know how to find a g-spot.
6. I am grateful that all my perviness and sexcapades are coming to my aid now to help others.
7. I am grateful I had enough cash on hand yesterday to buy Dragon Naturally Speaking
8. I am grateful for the true friends I have on facebook.
9. I am grateful to experience happiness.
10. I am grateful for indoor plumbing.

11-9-2010 Gratitude List

1. I am grateful for my creative imagination.
2. I am grateful for my understanding of technology.
3. I am grateful for my unique experiences.
4. I am grateful for my opportunity to be of service today.
5. I am grateful I can make something decent in the crock pot.
6. I am grateful I don’t give up even when things get hard.
7. I am grateful I am open minded and constantly learning new things.
8. I am grateful that people like me.
9. I am grateful that I usually like myself.
10. I am grateful for my patience.

11-8-2010 Gratitude List

1. I am grateful I got to spend some alone time with my husband this weekend.
2. I am grateful there is a rope tying class here in Vegas with friendly people.
3. I am grateful that my daughter is feeling better today after puking through the night Saturday.
4. I am grateful I had more than enough money to pay my bills for the month.
5. I am grateful to be cigarette free.
6. I am grateful for the very cool client who took me out to fine dining on Friday Night.
7. I am grateful for the people who listen to my audios.
8. I am grateful for internet marketing.
9. I am grateful to live in Las Vegas.
10. I am grateful when I get to meet with clients in beautiful hotels.

11-4-2010 Gratitude List

1. I am grateful for coffee.
2. I am grateful for the internet.
3. I am grateful to have a microwave.
4. I am grateful to have a blackberry.
5. I am grateful my husband calls me to tell me he loves me often.
6. I am grateful I often get paid well to do what I love.
7. I am grateful my daughter is very cuddly.
8. I am grateful I have a place to conduct business.
9. I am grateful that last night when I came home tired and sore my husband rubbed my back a bit before we went to sleep.
10. I am grateful I saw that I can rotate my video 90 degrees right on youtube.

11-3-10 Gratitude List

1. I am grateful I have more than enough money for today.
2. I am grateful my daughter is cute.
3. I am grateful I know how to use this computer.
4. I am grateful my daughter is going back to school today after a 5 day weekend.
5. I am grateful my neck is feeling better.
6. I am grateful to love and accept myself exactly how I am today.
7. I am grateful my husband has a job to go to today.
8. I am grateful my fridge is full of nutritious food right now.
9. I am grateful I have clients who appreciated me.
10. I am grateful for my bravery and courage.

11-2-2010 Gratitude List

Today I am grateful!

1. We have a good heater in our home.
2. I often work from home and am able to be with my daughter when she’s off school like today.
3. I am cigarette free.
4. I have the motivation to clean the house.
5. I got enough rest last night.
6. My new camera came in the mail.
7. I got to spend almost a whole week with my relatives from Florida.
8. My daughter is cooperative and will help me clean up the house.
9. I am trying the isagenix cleanse again today to feel better and look better physically.
10. I have a good washer and dryer to do laundry.

Organize your contacts in 5 easy steps:Step 5

Now for Step 5:

Stay in touch.  Pick some mechanism to touch base with them on a regular basis.  Some ways are by phone, email blasts and snail mail

Now this is where opinions run the gamut.  It can also be very industry specific.  Find out what the norms are in your industry and find out if they work for you and your business.  More is not always better.  And you might want to do something different from others in your industry in order to stand out from the crowd.  Whatever you do,  make a plan.  Mark it on the calendar.  I’ve learned from several experts one tool that really works is to have a large desktop calendar to use as your marketing calendar.  Write on sticky notes what you want to do and stick them on the days you want to do them.  This way if something needs to be shifted it is easy to do.

No matter what schedule or format you determine to be the best for your business, the most important thing is to come from the right space.  It is a mental thing.  Keep your clients and potential clients in mind and approach them from a place of being of service and being helpful.  If you’re truly not spamming them, ie; you send them things of value, notify them of events they’d want to know about and generally make them feel important, then do it.  This is truly where most business owners get hung up- this is the sales and marketing ‘stuff’ that gets in the way of ‘working’.  But is is critical if you want your business to grow.

Organize your contacts in 5 easy steps:Step 4

Here’s a quick review of the first 3 steps to organizing your contacts.

1. Do the same thing every time.  After you collect your cards put them together in the same place every time.
2. Use a database.  Whether this is Outlook or your rolodex, have a final landing place for all your contacts.
3. Make them searchable (and findable).  File them in a way you will remember them.  This may be by name, company name or industry.

Now for step 4.  Adding them to your online social networks.  This is a great way to tie it all together so that you really are developing relationships with all the people you’re meeting.

Pick one network to focus on.  The three I use are Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook but Facebook is my favorite so that’s the one I spend the most time learning to use.  I do connect with people if they’re on the other 2 networks but I don’t directly check on those the way I do Facebook.

Once you’ve picked your favorite you are ready to begin sending requests. First, open your profile on your netwrks.  Then the way to find out what social networks your contacts are on is to Google each person’s name with the city they live in.  Their social network will come up.  Open their profile and send the request.  It’s best to personalize these requests otherwise they can come across as spam (that is a good rule of thumb for all social network interaction).  Write something like

“Hi _________,

I’d like to add you to my professional network.

Warmly,

___________________

This way you’ll be connected to all your contacts virtually as well as in real life.  And this will make it easier to do business when and if the time comes.  You will have a repor built and the foundation run deep and strong (if you are working it).

This is another opportunity to delegate/outsource.  A virtual assistant can send these requests out for you and devote the time to personalizing each request so you don’t delay getting it done.  Remember,  this is a part of an ongoing system.  You can be caught up but you will never be done so set this as another ongoing project for your business.