Self Employed Success

Designing Effective Workshops & Teleclasses begins September 23.

A good workshop design allows:

• students to learn with ease
• teachers to speak with skill, comfort and centeredness
• both to build a trusting business relationship which can continue long after the class ends

For many years, I was the International Director of Education for a software company and creating new educational class was what my team did, day in and day out. I have studied the structure, process, and psychology of good adult educational design and am happy to share my knowledge with you and to help you create an outstanding class for your own students!

What You Will Learn:

In this 4-week teleclass, you will learn:

• the psychology of how adults learn
• how to design a structured, multidimensional workshop or teleclass
• how to construct lessons and lesson plans for optimum student learning
• the art of creating powerful exercises
• how to discover the needs of your students
• how to make your lessons interactive so adults won’t be bored
• how to conduct post-class evaluations to give you valuable feedback
• the easy way to convert lessons and exercises from a live class format to a teleclass format (and vice versa)

Come with your ideas and questions, and walk away with a class design of your own, ready to teach!

This 4-week teleclass series begins September 23.

Click here for more information and registration details:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/dewt/

You know you’ve hit the flatlands.

• Your current business doesn’t excite you any more, and you’re in danger of losing your original passion.
• Economic, competitive, or life changes are forcing you to transform your business model significantly.
• Your marketing model isn’t bringing in customers the way it once did.

Whatever the reason…

Let’s face it: you need to reinvent your business.

In this FREE one-hour teleclass we’ll explore the business plateau and the steps to reinventing your business and marketing model, so you can get off your business plateau and leap forward into a bright future.

DATE: August 11

TIME: 1:00 PM eastern (New York City time)

(And, yes, this free teleclass will be recorded. So if you can’t make it to the live teleclass, register anyway and you can listen to the recording when it’s convenient for you.)

This isn’t my ordinary blog post.

It’s long. It will take you exactly seven minutes to read it. (I timed it!)

It tells the story of my journey to reinvent my business. You might recognize yourself in the story.

And at the end, there’s something exciting waiting for YOU.

It Begins With a Feeling, A Knowingness

Two years ago I was feeling restless. I knew there was something more for me to do in the world, but I was confused about the direction I wanted to take my business. I knew I needed to reinvent my business model, but I was so busy running my current business, I couldn’t imagine where I’d find the time to think it through.

I found myself ignoring the call of my inner voice.

This wasn’t my first stab at reinventing my business. I’ve done it five times before! I know how it feels when the reinvention is complete (awesome!) but the process didn’t have boundaries or guidelines and it was making me nuts. I wanted a step-by-step process that combined linear thinking and a creative approach.

Then I started getting phone calls and emails. My clients and colleagues who were already running successful businesses were saying the exact same thing: I want to reinvent my business.

Was some sort of cosmic event going on or was it just a natural phase in every business cycle, this need to transform and grow a business? As I helped them, I explored the process, the techniques and the landmines to avoid.

My Ah-Ha Moment

It took me a year (no kidding) to finally get it. After a year of knowing I needed to transform my business, the idea synthesized and coalesced instantly: My new business model was going to be all about helping people reinvent their business!

As I worked on my model, I became clearer about my values and how they had to be incorporated into my new business model. After 16 years on the internet I was desperate to connect to real, live human beings. I missed face-to-face time with colleagues, students and clients. So that had to be part of my new business model as well. Both a virtual component and a live component: it had to have it all.

Zig When They Zag

But when I looked at all the live workshop models out there, they were all leaning towards huge workshops. Sometimes they had 400 students in a room and 10 different instructors. I’ve been to those kind of workshops and I learned a little from each instructor. But I had three things I hated about those big workshops:

• I didn’t learn enough in-depth information
• I didn’t walk away with an action plan
• I didn’t really get to connect deeply with the other participants

So while my colleagues were all creating mega-workshops, I decided to create a small, intensive workshop about business reinvention, one where I could see everyone’s face, learn each person’s name and their story, and create a group education experience which included training and brainstorming, action planning and connectivity to the group.

Is It Time to Reinvent Your Business, Too?

If you’ve read this far, you might be thinking, “I’m feeling restless, too. I know I need to change my business model. What’s next for me?”

Welcome to the tribe. Many people who have been in business for longer than five years feel the exact same way. It’s part of your business life cycle.

Sometimes life circumstances change and after less than five years you find you need to transform your business to fit what’s going on around you. Sometimes you’ve been in business quite a while, say 10 or 20 years, and it’s no longer challenging to you. You want to grow and you want your business to grow with you. Or maybe you’re looking to simplify and scale back.

Wherever you are on the journey to business reinvention, I salute you.

It’s Uncharted Territory: Until Now

I reviewed my own five business reinventions and pulled out the common elements. I found the step-by-step process by reviewing what I had done and what my clients had done during their business reinvention journeys. I interviewed my colleagues to see what their experience was like. I took all my knowledge about business strategy development, creative thinking, and business planning, and created a model, an easy way to think through the entire process and create a reinvention plan of your own.

Introducing Compass: Your Roadmap to Business Reinvention

This website isn’t for everyone. It’s for those of us who have owned our businesses for a while and are ready to reinvent and transform it, but don’t know where to begin.

In the Compass website you’ll find information on the steps you need to take to reinvent your business. You’ll find blog posts and stories from others who are on the path to transforming their business model. You’ll find inspiration and advice.

I’ll be updating the Compass blog each week with more information, more stories, more education. I’ll answer your questions and do what I can to help you on your journey.

And you’ll find The Compass Workshop, a live workshop I’m teaching in November in Philadelphia, where you’ll learn to use the Compass Model TM to reinvent your business along with a very small group of other solo business owners – just 15 people will attend this special workshop.

So now you know about my journey and the roadmap I created for myself. I am so excited about this next phase of my life! Don’t worry, Passion For Business and The Success Alliance aren’t going away; this is a new brand in my empire. LOL!

Are Your Ready for the Journey?

If you know that now is the time to start thinking about reinventing and transforming your business, visit the Compass website.

http://www.RoadmapToReinvention.com/

P.S. Remember to register for the free August teleclass: Get Off Your Business Plateau! Details are on the Compass website.

The time you invest in your marketing campaign plan is directly related to your success. Period.

Course Overview

Create your marketing plan in six weeks, and use it to create the business and income you desire.

Delve deeper into the topic of marketing your products and services and learn a structured approach for planning your marketing that you can use year after year.

This hands-on teleclass workshop allows you to explore a new way to strategically synchronize your business thoughts and goals through a simple and easy marketing plan that will catapult you into the greatest future for your business.

You Will Learn:

In this 6-week teleclass, you will learn:

• How your marketing plan fits into your overall business strategy and goals
• How to select the most powerful and productive marketing techniques for your target audience, saving both time and money
• How to create a marketing campaign calendar so you feel less stress when marketing
• An overview of marketing techniques that you can choose from, expanding your marketing options
• How to set your marketing budget, big or small
• How to determine what price you should be setting for your products and services
• How to test and track your marketing campaigns to determine which ones are working for you and which ones you should dump

Bonus!

The Essential Marketing Plan Guide is part of the registration fee and you will be able to download it free once class begins.

Dates and Times

This teleclass meets for one hour each week, for six weeks, beginning July 22.

The teleclasses will be recorded, so if you miss a live class, you’ll be able to listen to it at your convenience!

Get The Details!

Click here to learn more about the Marketing Plan class and to register >>>

July’s Free Teleclass –

From Gridlock to Greatness: Driving Traffic to Your Site.

Is your website getting the attention it deserves from targeted traffic? Join me for this free teleclass on July 15 and I’ll share with you 10 specific marketing techniques you can do (some paid, but mostly free) to promote your website to the world. Bring your questions!

Register here: http://www.passionforbusiness.com/calendar.htm