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What an inspiring conversation last week on Empowering Spiritualpreneurs with the Manifesting Muse, Debbi Chambers!

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When it Come to Making Your Small Business Plan, is the Online Aspect Giving You Chills?

I’ve talked to many Spiritualpreneurs who seem to have a great fear of running the online aspect of their business, but (and this is coming from a real ‘techno-phobe’ here), having an online business is a lot less complicated than you may think it is!

Having any kind of business starts first at the Inner level – and if you don’t believe you can know what you’re doing when it comes to running your business online, there are a lot of other piggybacking beliefs that are riding on that…

• I don’t have what it takes
• I’m not good at technology
• Everybody else knows more than me
• I don’t have the time
• I glaze over when it comes to learning things like this…

You’ve got all these things rolling around inside your head – it’s sort of like Prego Spaghetti Sauce – ‘It’s all in there’!

So the first thing you want to do is get clear on what the beliefs are that you’re telling yourself – get really honest with yourself – what are you telling yourself about why you can’t have an online business?

Then, while you’re putting together your small business plan, start to identify the areas that you feel like you need more support on. If you’re feeling like, “Oh I just don’t understand blogging. Social Networking – it gives me a headache! I don’t get how to do this or that…”

Well, start out with identifying the areas YOU think are important to having in an online business, and anywhere that you feel you are lacking.

You also want to identify the areas you feel belong in an online business that you really do feel like you have some sense about, because there are things that are really serving you at an inner level with your beliefs, and at an outer level you do have competencies and skill sets and brilliances that are serving you.

People tend to focus on everything they can’t do, everything that don’t know how to do, everything that’s confusing or overwhelming – but you have to remember that for everyone that says they can’t do an online business, there are both inner and outer level reasons you have to address in areas that are both serving you and not serving you.

It’s very important to look at it from both sides.

A good starting point for having an effective online business, whether you understand all the ‘technology’ involved or not, is to simply map it out. Take a piece of paper and make a flow chart.

• OK, someone comes to my blog or website. What happens?
• What do I want them to experience?
• What do I want to have occur?

Map it out all the way down to all the different levels of all the different things you want to offer. Think of it as your online small business plan.

Online business are often based in having an effective profit funnel – you introduce yourself to people through free or lower end products and begin building relationships and credibility, eventually going all the way up through to higher end products – programs, seminars, continuity programs – it goes all the way through. Read more

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What Does Maturity About Money Have to do With Manifesting Money?

If you’re like most people, you’re probably interested in manifesting more money these days.

A quick look around online and you can find classes promising everything from “Get Rich Quick” schemes to programs that teach you how to invest in the stock market, buy and sell real estate or even get your inventions on Oprah!

Even in our current economy, I believe that there have never been more opportunities for manifesting wealth, but at the same time, there are not many opportunities available that support you in developing a maturity about money.

A person with “money maturity” has a plan for their long-term wealth that includes more than just a balanced portfolio.

It also includes a life plan in which you are doing work you love and creating and spending your money in ways that are aligned with your Life Vision.

Top financial advisor, Cynthia Fick, offers you three tips to create a relationship with your money that is based on a deeper connection to your own Inner Guidance and a solid financial plan that reflects what is important to you.

Her Financial/Life Plan considers how your beliefs about money impact your financial decisions and your level of confidence in your ability to earn money and let money work for you.

Cynthia believes that every Spiritualpreneur needs to create a Financial Life Plan. Check out her three suggestions for creating your own: Read more

Are You Manifesting What You Want in Your Business?

Greg Braden, a former earth scientist and author of the Isaiah Effect, has this to say about the power and value you can find in visualizing and manifesting:

“The Soup of Creation exists as a state of all possibilities. All of the components for all the things we could ever conceive of, including life itself, exist as this state of possibility.

Although the components are there to build them, there has been no trigger to “nudge” them into motion.

The idea is very similar to making rock candy from a jar of sugared water. WE may place many tablespoons of sugar into the water and watch as sugar dissolves and disappears. Though we no longer see the sugar, we know it is hidden there somewhere in the water.

The sugar remains in the same state–invisible–until something comes along, a catalyst that triggers a new opportunity for the sugar and water to interact.

That trigger can be as simple as placing a fiber like a string into the water. The sugar-laden water seeps into the string, it evaporates and leaves behind the sugar.

In the absence of the water, the sugar now crystallizes into a new expression of itself. Read more

How do You Make the Shift From Entrepreneur to Spiritualpreneur?

The greater your ability to tune into, trust and act upon your Inner Guidance – even when logic would seem to dictate otherwise – the more you can experience your life from a place of ‘connectedness.’

Learning to connect in this way is a big part of making the shift from ‘entrepreneur’ to ‘Spiritualpreneur’!

You hold the intention to develop this ability by searching for ways to regain conscious access to what you already know intuitively.

You can find motivation in this search by discovering a ‘sense’ of what living a life from Spirit would look or feel like. Read more

What Does it Mean to do Joint Ventures Backwards?

The approach that I like to take when developing any kind of program is to reverse-engineer – or reverse-create – it by starting at the end and going backwards.

You start by really thinking about the gap for your clients or customers that your product or service will address – begin with what you are going to offer to your vibrationally matched clients and everything has to seed back to that.

When I created my in-person workshop and marketing venture called Heavenly Meals, it was very successful because it identified and focused on a real gap; it brought together the “right” team to address the gap; it attracted Joint Venture partners to support the project, and then I was able to easily market a well-organized workshop to the market.

After just a short time, I was able to sell this business for a profit and move on to other ventures.

Most people get tangled when they try to write a workshop (or a teleseminar or an interview) because they see a blank page and try to figure out what they are going to present or teach.

You don’t have to do this!

You can fast forward to the end of your presentation and:

• Examine the problems/issues for your ideal client or group
• Identify what their challenges are
• Then identify what your solutions are to those challenges

When you can clearly see the gap for them, you can then easily create solutions to offer for their challenges.

This is creating starting from the end and moving toward the introduction.  You can think, “Now I will work backwards and create the element that will support them taking a next action and will activate in them that what I am offering to them is a solution”.

This really leverages your time and energy.

What’s so great about reverse creating your in–person workshop is that you are simply activating the gap and seeding.  By following this process, you will see that by the end of the workshop they are saying, “I want this, I need this”, and it is a totally irresistible offer.

All you have to do is think about what programs you have and what would be an amazing offer for them.  From there you can create all the different pieces of the workshop that would support it.

The onsite workshop is a 90-minute to two-hour free, local workshop where you are actually live in-person.   It gives you exponential opportunities to energetically tap your potential ideal clients’ senses so you can even more deeply connect with them. Read more

Have You Ever Thought About How You Can do Joint Ventures “Offline”?

Teleseminars and Joint Ventures are great ways to market your business on the Internet.

But have you ever thought about leveraging those same ideas and activating your ability to do an in-person seminar and have the same great success?

This is yet another marketing channel for you to easily and effortlessly connect to your ideal clients and be a huge revenue producer.

What makes this process so easy is that the principles and formula for the Internet campaign are the same for the in-person seminar.

You get to discover Joint Venture folks who are on-fire to promote your work, as well as give gifts from them to your ideal clients so that you are also promoting them.

This is the essence of the energy exchange.

Connecting with your ideal clients in person this way can actually be easier than something like a teleseminar, because you are really able to tap their different senses.

Awhile back I made a decision to create my own in-person workshop to identify and address a gap that I had in my own life.  I then attracted the “right” business partner and together we created products and services to support others who also experienced this same gap in their lives.

As a busy mother of a young child, I often found myself doing what I called the “five o’clock freezer stare” when it came time to figuring out what to serve my family for dinner after a long day.

I just knew that others shared that feeling of lack of time and energy to cook as well as concern for wanting good, nutritional meals for the family. Therefore, Heavenly Meals was born.

This business was born out of my gap and I was looking for people to support who felt just like me.

For the Heavenly Meals Workshop, I didn’t do any fee-based advertising in the newspapers – it was all Joint Ventures.  My business partner and I ended up having over 100 people at the workshop.

You can always do advertising if you feel led – just remember that Joint Ventures don’t cost you anything, or very little.  And they give you great local connections!

You can keep costs at a minimum and do customized mailers.   I opted to write the copy for the Joint Venture partners to give them an example of an endorsement and just let them sign their name to it.

I simply told them, “I’ll write it for you and you can tweak it to make it personalized from you, but I’ll set everything up to make it totally easy for you.”

In terms of hosting, you can also offer the opportunity that someone hosts your promotional workshop and get 20% of all revenue in return as their referral fee.

I did this for that workshop, and then went out to look for folks for their goody-bag stuff.

So, I did:

• Marketing first to get Joint Venture partners
• Created all the promotional copy that was then sent out to potential ideal clients
• Handled all the logistical set-up
• And wrote the script for the workshop

If this seems like something that is intimidating or overwhelming, remember to always begin any project at an inner level.  Manage your energy around it before taking ANY action.

Before you begin to put together the documents, formulas and outlines that you will need, take an opportunity to activate your connection to Spirit about this workshop approach.  You can use the following Activation Exercise for this purpose: Read more

What Are Some of the Qualities You Will Need to be Successful in Affiliate Marketing?

If you’re a Spiritualpreneur, you’re probably not comfortable with the idea of being just a passenger on the ship of life.

You would rather take your destiny into your own hands then continue to be tossed on the waves of what is going on around you!

You have the desire of maneuvering the ship yourself and being able to take it anywhere you want to.

Being onboard a ship that is on its way to a particularly great destination is something you dream of, and the knowledge that you do have the capacity to steer it yourself is what empowers you to achieve your dream!

One of the ways that you can take your destiny into your own hands is through financial freedom.  I believe that all Spiritualpreneurs should be financially free, and that there are incredible opportunities out there for those that are looking!

If you are looking for ways to achieve this in your life through a second income stream, you should really consider affiliate marketing.

In this business, there are no bosses to order tell you what to do.  There are no deadlines to meet and no clutter.  When you are equipped with the tools you need to succeed in this business, you are bound to get what your heart ultimately desires.

So, what are some of the things you need to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing?

While there is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, you can rise above the norm when you are equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel you forward!

I recommend that you begin with these 5 steps that will enable you to stand out among the rest. Read more

Are You an Entrepreneur That is in the Right Place?

“Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.”

- Ursula Roberts

What does this inspirational quite activate in you?

When I first started out as an entrepreneur, it was a very scary jump!  I had a newborn baby girl, and I had planned to go back to my corporate sales job when the maternity leave was up.

But when the time drew closer for me to return to that job, I just knew that I wanted to do something different. I had an intense passion and desire to start out on my own as an entrepreneur.

I felt the strength of this desire like it was a pager going off inside of me – it was loud and incessant and it wouldn’t stop!

I also knew that if I didn’t start right then – if I continued to put it off until everything fell into place (enough money, enough security, enough time, etc.) – I would never do it.

It wasn’t easy!  My husband was worried, my family was worried, I was worried.  It’s never difficult to begin to let fear win out – especially when you know you’ve got about 3 months to get your business up and running before you have to start selling stuff! Read more

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