Great Tool for Building Your Business

Articles are a great way to build your business in a variety of ways. Articles do several things, they:

• build you as an expert in your field
• when submitted to other internet article directories you receive links back to your site
• this helps to optimize your site
• articles in directories can also be picked up by other e-zine publishers and it's then distributed to whole new group of people that you didn't have access to in the past.
• your resource box on each article provides readers with brief information about you and a link back to your site, your squeeze page
• your database grows as people visit your site due to the article and due to the improved optimization

If you are challenged by writing articles and getting them out to the market I have a tool for you.

Article Cash is packed with great information for you on building your business using articles. See the full details: http://www.compassroseconsulting.com/easy-article-creation.html

If you desperately NEED high quality content for your website, adsence sites, promoting affiliate programs, promoting your own products, to create an unstoppable viral income or anything else for that matter!

Wishing you great success.

Donna

Do you have staff that are challenging and not producing?

check out what you can learn from our new tele-seminar: Coaching Staff for Success. In this tele-seminar you will learn practical hands on skills to use with your staff to improve performance, morale and satisfaction. Your life will improve and so will theirs when you use coaching and mentoring skills. Staff will be empowered to perform and you will have a clear understanding of what is happening with staff.

Visit: Coaching Staff for Success.

All the best,
Donna

Marketing Tips

I have a great Marketing Tips Newsletter available now. You will receive an email every couple of days with the greatest ideas for boosting your success with internet marketing. I will share information with you regarding email campaigns, google adwords, e-zines, article writing and much, much more!!

Visit my special home business site to sign up: http://www.ExtraordinaryHomeBiz.com

All the best,

Donna

Mentoring Winners!

2007 is going to be INCREDIBLE!

Happy New Year! My 2007 is jumpstarted and taking off already and I am very excited. I've started a new mentoring program that is incredible. My business is jumping to new levels this year, just as it did last! Growing an incredible business is so much fun! And I am offering to you the opportunity to be mentored. I am accelerating the services that I offer to ones that will support you totally in creating the success you want. Do you want more money? More Time? More Success?

Imagine having a Mentor that knows who you are

& where you are going…

THINK BIG !

NOW THINK BIGGER !!

Donna Price holds your hand & takes you there….

RIGHT HERE… RIGHT NOW

Achieve the Wealth, Health and Love that YOU deserve. When you copy a Winner YOUR Success is Guaranteed. When you have a Mentor YOUR goals and prosperity are assured. I already know how!

Want more info? Visit my new site: Mentoring Winners!

All the best,

Donna

Donna Price
http://www.mentoringwinners.com
http://www.extraordinaryhomebiz.com

Happy Holidays!!

It's the eve before Christmas Eve. The children, finally asleep and tucked in for the night. Presents are wrapped and the shopping just about done. And we sit and relax. Preparing for another Christmas. This year simpler, and hopefully more meaningful. With gifts plenty but not overboard. Things wanted but each with meaning. It's been fun preparing for a simpler holiday. Our hope to an emerging pattern from overdone to one of gratitude. In gratitude and simplicity there can still remain abundance.

Happiest of Holidays!

Living in the Flow....

Living in the Flow

Living in the flow. Are you living in the flow? What is the flow anyway? for me it is the energy of positive action. It builds and builds the more I am in it. When I am taking positive action and things are happening I feel the power of the flow of positive energy. It rejuvenates me and gives me more energy. Part of it is creative energy. The ability to create and move quickly into action. For example, two days ago I was working on a tele-class on enhancing employee performance. I am offering it next week. As I worked on it, I thought about the importance of the information, the power of the information to impact lives and businesses. I also thought of a friend and colleague that has offered similar but different material to her clients. And the idea of collaboration was born. I emailed her and invited her to collaborate on a joint venture project. She agreed. We talked it through and designed a 6 week tele-seminar. I built the web page for it yesterday, and we pulled together bonuses and ideas. We are living in the flow. The creative juices are flowing and we are creating. It empowers you to take action in a variety of areas.

This newsletter is another example. Because the creative energy is flowing this article and newsletter come together easily and quickly. So, how do we get in the flow and then how do we stay there once we are there? And if for some reason we get knocked out of the flow how do we jump quickly back in? These are each vital questions.

1. How do we get in the flow?

   We have to know ourselves, what turns on our creativity? And consciously move ourselves into action to be in that energy.
   

2. How do we stay in the flow once we are there?

   It's partially a conscious choice that we make, to be in flow. We control our consciousness, we can decide to stay in that energy and build upon it. Once you are in the flow, it consumes you. For me, excitement and energy build, and creativity breeds creativity.
   

3. How do we jump back into the flow when we get knocked out?

   This takes conscious action on your part, commitment and determination. When you get knocked off a horse, you have to take action to climb back on the horse. And, we all have heard the saying "get back on the horse". What a great metaphor for what needs to happen when you get knocked off the flow of creativity. You need to take action, intentional action to get back into the flow. The type of action you need to take depends upon what knocked you down It might mean what you do to heal from tragedy or trauma, or from simple interruptions. One of the important keys is that it takes intentional action. It doesn't just happen. You know yourself and some of the things that can help you get back into the flow. But what if you are really knocked down? Then, you might need to reach out to others to help you figure out the action you need to take. To give you the action tools for moving forward and jumping back into the flow. One tool that I love and talk about a lot with clients is visioning. Vision the vision. Write it down, read it, talk it and you will start living it.

Once you have experienced being in the flow it's a place you want to return to, it feels good. Not only does it feel good, but you are moving forward at what feels like lightening speed. You are achieving, and performing.

As we move into a new year take time to reflect on the times that you have been in the flow. And learn from your experiences of the past year for staying in the flow in 2007.

Another New Website

This is the time of year for launching new websites!! Please check out my latest site: http://www.extraordinaryhomebiz.com

It's a fun site that I am trying out. I am learning so much about internet marketing through this new venture. If you sign up for the newsletter on the site you will receive incredible marketing information via email every couple of days.

Enjoy!!

Donna

Donna Price
Compass Rose Consulting, LLC

www.extraordinaryhomebiz.com
www.compassroseconsulting.com
www.coachingstaffforsuccess.com

Check them all out!

New Website Launched

It is the week of new websites. Today I want to invite you to visit my new site: www.extraordinaryhomebiz.com. You can sign up there for a really valuable internet marketing e-zine. This email newsletter has so much information about markeing for your business you will be amazed! I want your business to grow and thrive and I know that the information in my internet marketing manual e-zine will help it do just that!! In fact there is so much info in it I have advertised it as the Mega Internet Marketing Manual E-Zine. be sure to check it out today!!

http://www.ExtraordinaryHomeBiz.com

Enjoy the day!!


Donna

New Issue of Bearing Points

The new issue of Bearing Points is available:
Get it here!

The issue is filled with some great information regarding new programs available. Be sure to consider Alex Mandossian's new tele-seminar Secrets Course. This class changed my business last year. After taking the class I added tele-seminars to what I offer more intensely. Business Builders Intensive was born and turned out to be a fantastic course! Click Here to check out the full details of this course.

I am currently working on a collaborative course called Coaching Staff For Success. Last year it was part of the Business Builders Intensive. This year it will become it's own course.

I am teaching at the University of Masters material from my book: Launching Your Dream, and now am interviewing people living their dream!! Be sure to check it out:
University of Masters


And this week I will be offering a class on improving employee performance through the performance appraisal. This program is offered through 24-7 Coaching. You can ktake up to two tele-classes with them complimentary. So, check out my class!

And, my last bit of news is my new website: ExtraOrdinary Home Biz
I have learned so many things since I launched this site and am participating in many new programs. The internet is a wealth of information and there are so many ways to promote your business via the internet. As I learn I will share my new learnings with you via this blog and my site, so be sure to keep reading. If you aren't a subscriber to my e-zine you can sign up for it today!

I hope you are continuing to dance!

All the best,

Donna Price

Working with businesses to chart the path to success!!

New Issue of Bearing Points

The new issue of Bearing Points is available:
Get it here!

The issue is filled with some great information regarding new programs available. Be sure to consider Alex Mandossian's new tele-seminar Secrets Course. This class changed my business last year. After taking the class I added tele-seminars to what I offer more intensely. Business Builders Intensive was born and turned out to be a fantastic course! Click Here to check out the full details of this course.

I am currently working on a collaborative course called Coaching Staff For Success. Last year it was part of the Business Builders Intensive. This year it will become it's own course.

I am teaching at the University of Masters material from my book: Launching Your Dream, and now am interviewing people living their dream!! Be sure to check it out:
University of Masters


And this week I will be offering a class on improving employee performance through the performance appraisal. This program is offered through 24-7 Coaching. You can ktake up to two tele-classes with them complimentary. So, check out my class!

And, my last bit of news is my new website: ExtraOrdinary Home Biz
I have learned so many things since I launched this site and am participating in many new programs. The internet is a wealth of information and there are so many ways to promote your business via the internet. As I learn I will share my new learnings with you via this blog and my site, so be sure to keep reading. If you aren't a subscriber to my e-zine you can sign up for it today!

I hope you are continuing to dance!

All the best,

Donna Price

Working with businesses to chart the path to success!!

Dancing with Delainey

One of the things I love about being a Mom is dancing. We play music loud in the living room and we dance, wildly. Delainey is my 2 1/2 year old that loves dancing. She still loves for me to hold her and dance sometimes. Her sister, Sadie, loves it too. Well, what does this have to do with business or being successful. For me, it has to do with freedom, flexibility, and being a business owner. Sure you can dance with your kids when you're a working Mom, but for me, I have the time and space to do this because I'm working from home, and have created a flexible schedule that keeps it's focus most of the time on family.

I think that it is also part of what keeps me in the "flow" of positive energy. Because I dance and because I have the time and space to dance.

I hope you are finding ways to dance in your life.

All the best,

Donna

check out my new site: www.extraordinaryhomebiz.com

Keep dancing

New Website Launched Today!!

Compass Rose Consulting, LLC has just launched a new website! Please visit it and let me know what you think. It's a new look, but still offers you a wealth of information about our services, products and free articles.

visit today: http://www.compassroseconsulting.com

I look forward to your feedback!

Donna

Lastest Issue of Bearing Points available.

Dear Friends and Colleagues-

The newest issue of Bearing Points: Build Your Business Success NOW, is available at: http://www.compassroseconsulting.com/bearingpoints3.html

In this issue there is great info on enhancing employee performance... read the article today.
http://www.compassroseconsulting.com/bearingpoints3.html

Watch for our new website -- coming in the next two weeks, refined and new design. Watch for the news.

The newest small business group is still forming. We have 3 spaces left. Don't miss this great opportunity to build your business with a group of like minded business owners, the benefits of having a coach and an effective strategic plan. This year we are also working on your business plan. The program is so comprehensive you don't want to miss this business building opportunity.Register today at: http://www.compassroseconsulting.com/entrepreneursuccessgroup.htm

Great business owners coming together to support each others success while building their own!!

Are you wishing you could join the group but you are not in New Jersey? Well, I am working on a solution for you!! Soon, I will be annnouncing a on-going coaching group. Using "Launchingg Your Dream" as a framework for working together on building your success. Groups will meet every two weeks and each member will receive a copy of my complete "Launching Your Dream Kit". If this sounds good to you, let me know: dprice@compassroseconsulting.com

Thanks for being a part of my growing community of success oriented people. We are approaching 3500 subscribers between this newsletter and my "Dream Makers News" Want to join my other newsletter or subscribe for the free "Launching Your Dreams E-Course"? Visit: http://www.launchingyourdreams.com

Have a Great Autumn Day!

All the best,
Donna
Donna PriceCompass Rose Consulting, LLCPO Box 615Branchville, NJ 07826973-948-7673dprice@compassroseconsulting.com
Growing Businesses Like a Gardener.....
http://www.compassroseconsulting.com/http://www.businessbuildersintensive.com/www.launchingyourdreams.com

Take my new survey at:
http://www.compassroseconsulting.com/dreamassessment
Are you realizing your dreams??? Check out how you are doing.....

Entrepreneur Success Groups starting in September

The Entrepreneur Success Group is starting in September.

Are you aiming to:

-Make sure you run your business ~ instead of having your business run you?
-Reach new professional heights and achieve your personal aspirations?
-Intentionally create balance in your life?
…then this program is for you!

2 New Groups starting in September 2006!

The results that our current participants are achieving are great:
operating with a new mind set
developing new programs
increasing clients
increasing revenue
improved tracking of marketing plan and marketing results
new marketing approaches
renewed enthusiasm
focused accomplishment of goals and priorities

Are you an entrepreneur creating your vision?

Could you benefit from regular support and coaching to keep you on track and moving forward?

What is the Entrepreneur Success Group?
The Entrepreneur Success Group is group of committed business owners and leaders that want and need to create better results in their businesses. The program focuses on creating results in small businesses. Best Year Yet™ is a year-long planning and implementation process for actually achieving previously unattainable levels of business performance. It is the only system that begins with the planning session, but then monitors progress throughout the full year, holding people accountable for the goals they set for themselves.

For all of the details visit: http://www.compassroseconsulting.com/EntrepreneurSuccessGroup.htm

Be sure to check the bonuses at the bottom of the page. This program is filled with value and bonuses. And they are continuing to pile up!

Join us for the next year in building your year of great success!

Reflections on Summer

As I sit here reflecting on summer I realize that we have spent wonderful times swimming, kayaking, sailing, spending time intentionally. We decided to change our lives years ago by having children, and we also decided to change our lives by having a business. Both have been wonderful changes. But, how do you continue to maintain intentional living? We have spent time this summer equipping ourselves so that we can spend time with our kids and doing our passions -- sailing, kayaking, biking. We added a double kayak to our fleet, a small sailboat and bike trailers and bike tag along! Lots of great recreational equipment. It brings us altogether. It comes back to vision. Creating that intentional vision of your life, the details, and moving towards your dream and vision each day.

We continue to move intentionally towards the life we are visioning.

Remember to create your powerful vision that is clear and detailed and exciting. Inspire yourself.

Don't miss this great this business building opportunity!

We are offering in September two new Entrepreneur Success Groups. These groups are phenomenal in that each member works on their business -- creating a powerful strategic plan, and then implementing it. The group gives members an opportunity to learn from other group members, help other group members and build additional business relationships. As the facilitator and coach of these programs I have seen great growth of members AND have seen many advances in each person's business as well.

The Entrepreneur Success Groups will begin in September. Registration has just opened! Don't miss your opportunity to produce better results in your business.

For more information: Click Here

Don't miss out. This can propel your business to new levels.

Back To Vision

Back To Vision:

With each business I work with and each tele-seminar I lead I am finding that vision is key. Having a strong, clear vision of your business and where you are going is an essential component of building that business. It goes beyond the daydream of success and deep into what that business will look like. How you visualize it. Am I talking about using visualization, well certainly that can't hurt and can even help you in manifesting what you want. but more importantly I am talking about having a clear vision, written down of where you want to go. Your vision statement becomes your roadmap. It guides you on your journey. A clear vision helps you to make good decisions for you business. Often there are tempting distractions that get us off course. We decide to add a new product line or create a new service, and down the road we find that it doesn't feel like the right fit. When we look back at our vision, there it is clear as day. The new service or product wasn't a part of the vision. That's why it didn't fit or wasn't successful.

Sure, we want to be creating new services, new products, new opportunities for business growth, but we want to stay on our path. If the new service takes us too far off the path then it might not be the right choice and as the owner it's your role to evaluate that.

Do you have a compelling vision? folks that have been working with me will tell you that I keep coming back to this with them and in my own business. What is the vision? What does the company look like? What are the services, the clients, the products? What growth has the company experienced? What does it feel like, sound like? Writing a detailed vision that includes all of the emotion helps you to develop a clearer plan.

Once you've created a written vision, then make a picture, hang it on your wall where you can see it.

And, as always, tell people about your vision. They can become your partners in making it happen.

If you have questions about creating your vision, give me a call!

Donna

Networking, Networking and Follow-up

I am a member of several networking groups and organizations. I have found that networking is a talent. I am amazed at the great people that I meet through networking groups both in person and on-line. I am also amazed at the number of people that don't do any follow-up following the networking.

I've actually created a networking plan. Now, I can't say that I always follow it to the letter but it has helped me to focus my networking efforts. The plan came about because I found myself in several networking groups and didn't feel that I was really getting the business I expected from them. I decided to make my networking efforts more intentional and focused on producing some results. I evaluate each networking group based on the results that I am producing in the group. I find that networking can be an expensive venture, especially as a business owner, with no one else paying the dues or meeting fees. So, it had to be working for me to continue to do it.

My plan includes: goals, a step by step plan and a follow-up component.

My goals are to:

1. add 8 new contacts a month to my database/leads list and categorize each contact based on the group where the contact came from, and the type of service/product that might be appropriate. (for me, this means that they get grouped by the size of their business).
2. meet one on one with at least 3 new contacts per month
3. get 5 new leads/clients quarterly

I use an "audio" logo when I meet people and it is ever changing. Creating an audio logo for your business gives people information about you quickly and engages them in conversation. I learned the concept of an audio logo from Robert Middleton, of Action Plan Marketing. The audio logo eliminates the label of "I'm a business coach" and moves me directly into who I work with and the problem or pain that I address. "I work with business owners and leaders that are frustrated with the results they are producing in their company."

The audio logo intentionally doesn't tell the person how I do what I do. The goal is to engage in conversation about my business. To leave them hanging so that they want to know, they need to know, because they feel like they don't have enough info.

Back to my networking plan. Also in the plan is to attend the meetings regularly. You can't be an effective networker if you are not present. There are too many other people there and you are quickly forgotten. I work to send each person a follow-up email in the next couple of days. I find that very few people do this. I also, find that not everyone acknowledges that I have.

For people that I had longer conversations with that I feel might have a good lead for me or might be in need of my services themselves, I set up a one on one meeting for breakfast or lunch. It's not a hard sales lunch ( I'm not very good at the hard sales approach). It's a relationship building lunch. A chance to get to know them better and for them to get to know me better.

I also add them to my database so that they receive regular communications from me. I call that my "keep in touch" marketing. I find that people that I have met years ago, know who I am because of my "keep in touch" marketing approach. It helps me to continue to build the relationship, the trust and move into a client relationship down the road.

What is your networking plan? Do you follow-up with people after you meet them? Do you think of ways that you can help them in their business? Do you network with intention or are you just hoping it pays off?

Call me to create an effective plan for your business.

How do you create a culture of open communication in your workplace?

Communication has got to be the biggest challenge we each face as people. We are constantly communicating but are we doing it effectively? And, at work there are added roadblocks to communication. As an administrator, I realized that communication was limited just by the location of my office and my role. it didn't have as much to do with me and who I was as the pre-conceptions of staff or their personal history with supervisors and administrators.

So, how as an administrator can you open the communication with staff? There are several steps you can take to be more open with staff and have them be more open with you.

1. Be open and honest yourself: role modeling communication is a great first step. Staff will be hesitant to risk openness and honesty if you aren't willing to do that.
2. Share your vision of the future. What is your vision for the company? Where do you want the company to go, and how do the staff fit into your vision?
3. Meet with staff regularly.
   
4. Meet in a circle, without tables or barriers between you. Tables create barriers to communication. They can hender the communication and block the communications.
5. Empower staff to do their jobs, coach them to succeed. When you over control, limit communications and micro manage, staff get less done, and communication shuts down.

Communication is essential to work places, working effectively. As the administrator, you can shift the culture of communication. Be open to hearing staff, hearing their suggestions, their ideas and implementing the ones that make sense.

What great solutions are you missing because you have a closed communication system? Staff see the problems but they also have great ideas about the solutions. Ask and listen and you will tap into a wealth of valuable information.

Are you planting a good garden?

Gardening is one of my pasttimes. I love working in the yard, planting seeds, and plants and watching it all emerge. I just planted our vegetable garden last week-- tomatoes, beans, sqaushes, cantelope, watermelon, basil, carrots and more. We have a two small areas we use for vegetables. In the back we've added peach trees, blueberries and a variety of raspberries, and a small patch of strawberries.

With small children it's a great way for them to learn about the earth, growing and eating. My two year old, walks into the garden and picks vegetables , eating them as she prowls for more. It's fun!

I see my business in much the same way, a garden, in which I plant seeds -- with the contacts I make, sharing a bit of knowledge or something of value. Through my ongoing contacts I am working to grow the relationship, and further our connection. I use my e-zine, Bearing Points, Build Your Business Success, NOW! as one of the methods for continuing to connect and add value. I also use my book and it's e-zine: Launching Your Dream. And tele-seminars both free and fee based to offer value to contacts. Each is geared at growing my business garden, further my business and offering real value to the people I am in contact with.

As I watch both gardens growing this spring there is excitement and momentum. My business garden is multiplying with close to 2000 subscribers to my two e-zines, many personal contacts, and a growing client base. My fruit and vegetable gardens are just starting. Strawberries are getting ready to blossom, lilacs are blooming and the sunflowers are coming up! Everything else is preparing for full growth and food for our table.

How is your garden doing? Is it blossoming? ARE you bearing the fruits of your hard work? Do you wonder what you are missing and why it's not coming together better? I am offering 10 initial consultations over the next two weeks. An intital consult is a half hour session in which I provide you with 30 minutes of coaching. At the end of 30 minutes you decide if you want to continue or we part as friends having had a great consult. contact me to schdule your consult today: dprice@compassroseconsulting.com

Coaching provides you with a wonderful resource. Someone to talk with about your dreams and goals. Someone to share ideas with, get feedback from, act as a sounding board. If you are wondering how could this help me and my business grow, try our initial consult offer!