Self Employed Success

When you offer services, whether to large corporations or individual consumers, you find that you’re just one of many and you need to stand out from the crowd to be seen and remembered.

Many small business owners struggle with the question of “How do I make my service unique and stand out from the crowd?”

Announcing March’s free teleclass – Personal Branding: Stand Out By Standing For Something

In Personal Branding, we talk about creating a brand to captures people’s attention, and more importantly, their loyalty. Here’s what we cover:

• How to define your brand and your uniqueness
• How to become a know expert in your community
• How to use specific marketing techniques to build your brand and reputation
• How to stand out from the crowd

March 24, 2010
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM eastern

Class will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it at your leisure.

To register for this free teleclass:

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

I’ll be speaking at the following live events:

• March 19 – “Creating Small Business Websites That Grab Attention” – Association For Women in Communications – NJ Chapter/West Orange, NJ
• March 23 – “The Power of Mastermind Groups” – Women’s Entrepreneur Success Symposium/Warrington, PA
• April 30 – “90 Minute Marketing Plans That Get Results” – International Coach Federation – Connecticut Chapter/Shelton, CT

I hope to see you there!

Starting a Mastermind group will help create SUCCESS in your personal and professional life.

Create a mastermind group for yourself, or increase your income by offering mastermind groups to your clients. Your clients will love you for it!

There is synergy of energy, commitment, and excitement that participants bring to a Mastermind Group. The beauty of Mastermind Groups is that participants raise the bar by challenging each other to create and implement goals, brainstorm ideas, and support each other with total honesty, respect and compassion. Mastermind participants act as catalysts for growth, devil’s advocates and supportive colleagues.

In this 3-week teleclass you will learn how to:

• Help people distinguish between a mastermind group, group coaching, and training classes
• Pick what type of people should attend your mastermind group
• Choose to facilitate, participate, or both
• Select your mastermind group’s niche and type
• Decide where to hold meetings
• Determine if your group should be free or paid
• Create meeting agendas
• Write group guidelines
• Prepare for your first meeting
• Choose among basic masterminding techniques
• Determine why mastermind groups fail

FOR MORE CLASS DETAILS AND TO REGISTER ONLINE:

http://www.MastermindGroupToday.com

This teleclass series begins February 23, 2010

• Feb 23
• Mar 2
• Mar 9

All teleclasses are 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM eastern

Classes will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it at your leisure.

Fee: $129

Instructor: Karyn Greenstreet. I’ve been starting and running mastermind groups since 1994. They are your greatest resource for creating success in your personal and professional life!

Do you need to hire a VA, but don’t know how to get started? Are you using a VA and need help in creating more effective project/task management and communication?

Then join me and my special guest Angee Robertson, who is MY virtual assistant. Angee will answer your questions about finding, hiring and using a VA, and we’ll share some of the secrets about how Angee and I work effectively together to run Passion For Business. Angee will also talk about what types of projects and tasks you can delegate to a VA and where technology can help you and your VA work better together.

After you register for this free teleclass, you’ll be sent a link to a web site where you can ask your most pressing questions about hiring and working with a VA. We’ll use your questions on the call, so be sure to include your name, your business name, and where you’re from!

February 17, 2010
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM eastern

Classes will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it at your leisure.

To register for this free teleclass:
http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/calendar.html

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Quick Reminder: the teleclass series, “Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses” begins tomorrow (January 19).

If you want to create classes that students will LOVE, and earn increased revenue for your business at the same time, then this class is for you.

For more info:

www.DesigningEffectiveWorkshops.com

I hope to see you in class!

People always ask me, “Karyn, how do you get so much done? You always have new class and new services to offer!”

I have an important business fact that I want to share with you: You don’t have to feel overwhelmed by your business. And you CAN get more done in less time.

I do it, and so can you. I’ll teach you the secrets of how I got to be so productive at growing my business and getting things done.

There is a way to create your plans, over and over again, that makes you feel confident and energized that you are moving in the right direction.

Just imagine how wonderful you will feel, knowing you are on the right track!

In this step-by-step, practical 90-minute teleclass, you will:

• Review your goals and intentions for 2010, selecting the perfect goals for you
• Prioritize which projects and tasks, creating order out of chaos
• Create your Action Plan using masterminding techniques…stop wasting time on tasks that don’t bring in revenue or build your business
• Learn how to master the Action Planning Worksheet, so you can use it over and over again
• Find mastermind partners among teleclass participants and colleagues; you’re not alone anymore

We will be using the power of mastermind groups in this teleclass to brainstorm new possibilities, find clarity on challenges, make decisions, percolate ideas, tap creativity, and garner support and encouragement.

There is synergy of energy, commitment and excitement that participants bring to a mastermind group. Mastermind groups are made up of peers working together to support each others success.

January 14, 2010
1:00 – 2:30 PM eastern
Registration fee: $39

Class will be recorded, so if you can’t attend live, you can download the recording and listen to it at your convenience.

Learn more about this class here:

www.OneActionNow.com

Warmly,
Karyn

Make your business look more polished and established with the power of great design. Pamela Wilson of Big Brand System will be our guest, and will share four easy-to-learn design tips that will make your marketing materials more effective and save you money by keeping some of your marketing duties in house.

December 10, 2009
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM eastern

Class will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it at your leisure.

Click here to register!

SEO For Everyone class begins Tuesday

Since 84% of internet traffic goes through search engines, being ranked highly by search engines sends you a huge number of prospective customers.

For instance, for the phrase “mastermind group” (which I rank #1), Google sends me 23,000 visitors per year. For the phrase “small business coach” (which I also rank #1), Google sends me over 10,000 visitors per year. Just those two search phrases alone send 30,000 NEW visitors to my site each year.

In order to achieve high rankings on search engines, you need to know and use search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.

In this 5-week teleclass, you will learn:

• What to do to get a higher ranking
• How to choose the absolute BEST keywords for optimum results
• How to figure out what your competition is doing — and how you can beat them at the SEO game
• The secret places on your website where you can optimize for keywords
• How to stay out of trouble with the search engines
• How to optimize your website AND all the places you can optimize online
• Powerful (and free) tools you can use to setup and track the results of your SEO campaigns

For more class details and to register:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/seo/

This class is designed for small business owners, to learn the basics of SEO, whether you do the work yourself or hire someone to implement your SEO plan for you.

Join us for this five week teleclass series where we cover some of the most important things you can do to improve your search rankings.

This five-week teleclass begins
October 27, 2009

For more class details and to register:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/seo/

I’m offering two great business-building classes for September!

Now that summer is over, it’s time to kick-start your business. After all, there are still four more months in 2009…better make good use of them!

What do you want to create for your business?

• Increase Your Income With a Powerful Marketing Plan – if your marketing isn’t bringing the results you want, it’s time to revisit your marketing strategy — begins September 15
• Creating Small Business Websites That Grab Attention - do you need a new website or a face-lift on your existing one, and need a strategic plan for a successful website project? — begins September 17

“Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.” 

–William Butler Yeats

If your website is not giving you the results you want, or if your business has grown and changed over the past few years, many business owners start asking, Should I redesign my website now?

Your website is the front door by which your customers enter. If it’s amateurish, hard to read, difficult to navigate, or poorly designed, your customers will walk right out the door without looking around. The professionalism you display on your website leads to trust and respect; customers are looking for legitimate people to do business with.

The quiz asks questions like:

• Are you getting prospects, leads and sales from your website on a consistent basis?
• Have your business offerings changed since the last time you designed your site?
• Are your high-traffic pages easy to find?
• Can customers find you via search engines?
• Does your text appeal to your target audience?

Here’s a self-quiz to help you figure out if it’s time to get a website facelift:

 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/quiz

(Note: the quiz is in PDF format so that you can print it out and take it offline.)

If it IS time to re-design your site, consider taking the Website Planning class that starts September 17. It will lead you step-by-step through the process.