Rachel Elnaugh's webinar with feng shui guru Marie Claire Carlyle was very interesting and so inspirational it spurred me on to embark on decluttering my surroundings and I have to say I feel better for it. The title of the webinar was 'How to become a money magnet' and that drew me onto the call if nothing else.
I have to admit I don't know too much about feng shui and was introduced to it by Rachel at our very first meeting a couple of years ago. I do have a personal conflict between feng shui and my personal faith but I can understand it's practicalities.
So this weekend, I attacked my house with gusto starting not with my wealth sector but with my bedroom, followed by my creative sector - my sun room following which I was able to add another five hundred words to my book.
I have now settled into bed after a shower and as I look around my clutter free room I feel very settled in my mind and can think more clearly. I haven't quite finished yet, next weekend I will be attacking the book shelf and the racks of CDs and in the next few weeks I will go deep into the garage.
Unfortunately the webinar ended abruptly due to some technical issues and so I am not sure how the money magnet bit comes in but I think I have a fair idea.
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Monday, 15 June 2009
Experienced people need not apply
I have shamelessly caught both the blogging and twitter bugs and spent most of this weekend writing and following and learning (who says you can't learn from social networking sites). Anyway, I emailed all my friends and demanded they follow me or I would cut them out of my birthday list and then received this reply from my mentor Rachel - I think it's really good advice for first time bloggers and twitters. If you know all this stuff already you can fast forward and go straight to the comments section.
Anne
WAYS TO GET A BLOG FOLLOWING:-
Use the little 'chain' tool to link keywords to other people/sites in your blog posts, that way the authors of those sites get alerts and will come to your Blog and make their comment eg 'In looking into this I came across an interesting blog on alcoholism.' The more links you include and the more people that link to you the bigger your following will grow- Set up Google Alerts on all topics you are interested in. This sends you an email every time an article is published on that subject; you can then comment on it and link to it. Tip: make sure you use a specific search term or you will be inundated! eg I set up an alert for Dragons Den which provided lots of useful fodder for comments about the show.- Cover as many topics as possible and BE CONTROVERSIAL! eg my Obama & Bush Blog post was my most successful ever - it attracted something like 200 comments- That said, if the intention behind the Blog is purely commercial, I would suggest you focus purely on your art/art topics - look at what Hani O'Keefe is doing at http://wwwhaniokeeffeartistcouk.blogspot.com/- Shameless plug now... Get hold of the Marketing Magicians DVD and you can hear the story of Thomas Mahon from the horses mouth about how he went from not being able to afford a chinese takeaway to establishing himself as an international tailor with royalty as clientele simply through his blog English Cut Amazing stuff!
WAY TO GET A TWITTER FOLLOWING
I learnt this tip at Mark Attwood's SEO & Internet Marketing Clinic last Friday... Find people in your space (ie artists) and look at their followers - then follow them all! You will find many will reciprocate. I did this with 250 of Peter Jones' list of followers on Saturday and immediately picked up over 50 new followers. The downside is of course you get flooded with tweets !!! But you can then unfollow ones which aren't on topic.The great thing about getting a big Twitter following is when your book is published you have an instant market to buy itHope this helpsRegardsRachel
Anne
WAYS TO GET A BLOG FOLLOWING:-
Use the little 'chain' tool to link keywords to other people/sites in your blog posts, that way the authors of those sites get alerts and will come to your Blog and make their comment eg 'In looking into this I came across an interesting blog on alcoholism.' The more links you include and the more people that link to you the bigger your following will grow- Set up Google Alerts on all topics you are interested in. This sends you an email every time an article is published on that subject; you can then comment on it and link to it. Tip: make sure you use a specific search term or you will be inundated! eg I set up an alert for Dragons Den which provided lots of useful fodder for comments about the show.- Cover as many topics as possible and BE CONTROVERSIAL! eg my Obama & Bush Blog post was my most successful ever - it attracted something like 200 comments- That said, if the intention behind the Blog is purely commercial, I would suggest you focus purely on your art/art topics - look at what Hani O'Keefe is doing at http://wwwhaniokeeffeartistcouk.blogspot.com/- Shameless plug now... Get hold of the Marketing Magicians DVD and you can hear the story of Thomas Mahon from the horses mouth about how he went from not being able to afford a chinese takeaway to establishing himself as an international tailor with royalty as clientele simply through his blog English Cut Amazing stuff!
WAY TO GET A TWITTER FOLLOWING
I learnt this tip at Mark Attwood's SEO & Internet Marketing Clinic last Friday... Find people in your space (ie artists) and look at their followers - then follow them all! You will find many will reciprocate. I did this with 250 of Peter Jones' list of followers on Saturday and immediately picked up over 50 new followers. The downside is of course you get flooded with tweets !!! But you can then unfollow ones which aren't on topic.The great thing about getting a big Twitter following is when your book is published you have an instant market to buy itHope this helpsRegardsRachel
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Also known as Anne Herbert
Hello and welcome to my blog
My name is Anne Herbert, I am 48 years old and I live in Northampton UK with my family.
I run a small business creating bespoke fine art prints for artists and photographers. We provide these prints on a variety of mounts including canvas, acrylic perspex and aluminium. We try to provide some new and unique that differentiates our customers from their competitors.
Lately, we have entered the world of interior decoration and provide fine art prints encapsulated in Perspex which we design into furniture. My mentor Rachel Elnaugh has a picture of one of my desks on her http://racheleelnaugh.blogspot.com/2008/08/million-desk.html blog.
I am also an artist, I paint loads of figurative pictures based mostly on scenes captured from my native Ghana - you can find out more about these on my other website www.annesimages.com
I will be posting here on all aspects of life that interest me; the arts, politics, culture, business and children.
I would welcome your comments.
My name is Anne Herbert, I am 48 years old and I live in Northampton UK with my family.
I run a small business creating bespoke fine art prints for artists and photographers. We provide these prints on a variety of mounts including canvas, acrylic perspex and aluminium. We try to provide some new and unique that differentiates our customers from their competitors.
Lately, we have entered the world of interior decoration and provide fine art prints encapsulated in Perspex which we design into furniture. My mentor Rachel Elnaugh has a picture of one of my desks on her http://racheleelnaugh.blogspot.com/2008/08/million-desk.html blog.
I am also an artist, I paint loads of figurative pictures based mostly on scenes captured from my native Ghana - you can find out more about these on my other website www.annesimages.com
I will be posting here on all aspects of life that interest me; the arts, politics, culture, business and children.
I would welcome your comments.
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