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Greetings from Connect to Success & Amanda Steadman - August News

In July I was lucky enough to speak to the editor of the Hammersmith and Fulham News, Geoff regarding publicising a Business Link London Ladies Event. He was very interested in what we are doing so later got Caroline one of his reporters to interview me. How exciting! Then we had our pictures taken in the office - more excitement!

I noticed she included my 'bread and water' comment - I meant very Expensive bread and High End water of course and a comfortable lifestyle!!!!! But we're gunning for a more luxurious (almost Monte Carlo!) Future too!


Thanks to this article we have received quite a few phone calls and new session bookings! Thank you Hammersmith and Fulham News!


Click here to read the FULL article!
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Women_in_business_WealthBabes.asp




Matched up: Amanda Steadman from WealthBabes

Everyone is aiming for the best work-life balance, but it can be difficult to achieve. A Hammersmith-based business-woman is leading the sisterhood to the heady heights of success, fortune and the perfect work-family balance.
Amanda Steadman launched WealthBabes two years ago, offering local women training on how to start their own companies, as well as tips on internet marketing and savvy property investments.
The indefatigable entrepreneur said she had specially tailored her business seminars and one-on-one coaching with a feminine market in mind. "I'm helping people to realise their own potential, and we particularly look at the areas of business, internet marketing and property and investments," she said. "I help a lot of clients to buy property in the US because that's a good way to start getting a second income on the side. It also allows them to spend more time with their family, which is a big thing for women."
Amanda, 36, runs WealthBabes from an office just beside Lyric Square. "We have clients all around the world, but 75 per cent of them are in Hammersmith or west London," she said. "I chose Hammersmith because it's reasonably priced, it's very accessible and I also love all the markets in the square - it's just a nice atmosphere around here."
The business offers clients individual 90-minute consultations for £150 and a number of regular seminars and a monthly Millionairess Club, offering business training, motivational tips and practical workshops.
Amanda employs five people at WealthBabes and regularly has between 50 and 120 clients on her books, ranging from struggling single mums to high-flying City executives.
"We have a few male clients, but I would say about 98 per cent of our clients are women," Amanda said. "I think women generally like to have another woman to talk things over with them. We can go through what is most important to them, and I think if you're talking to another woman you can be more open about it and get to the truth more quickly. Then we can draw up a business plan about what they really want. It isn't just about numbers and success - women also want to build on their personal life and spend more time with their children or partner."
Amanda, who is engaged to property buyer and marketer Franck Robert and lives in Chiswick, said she had struck on the idea of running her own business in 2007 after spending several years working in recruitment and training corporate headhunters.
"I spent a lot of time going round the world and training people to run their own business, hire people and make money as fast as possible, and then I decided I wanted to try it for myself," she said. "I left a £68,000 job to start my own business and the prospect of not earning anything for at least the first few months was quite scary."
So two years on, in the midst of a recession, just how successful has the WealthBabes founder been in her own venture? "I've got over a million pounds' property portfolio now, I've got five staff and we have between 4,000 and 5,000 people on our database, receiving our regular newsletters," she said. "I'm not a multi-millionaire yet, but I would like to think that in the next year to 18 months I will reach a point of financial freedom.
"If I stopped working now, I would probably still have enough income to live on bread and water and pay my bills, but to live the kind of lifestyle I enjoy it's going to take a bit longer."
And the entrepreneur believes the most important ingredient in success is incredibly simple: choose a job you really enjoy. "It's so important for people to be doing something they're passionate about - but in London a lot of people really don't like their jobs," she said. "Once people have identified what they enjoy and are good at, the rest normally falls into place. I really believe in doing something you love."

http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Images/45-49_hfbusiness_tcm21-128090.pdf

http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Images/02_60Sec_tcm21-128076.pdf

Social Media and Networking

Second Spearker was Penny Power founder of Ecademy.com:

Penny Power is the founder of Ecademy, website for Business networking and social networking. She left the corporate world in 1993, then she stared training and recruitment within Schools from 1993 to 1998 and she had two children. In 1998, she started a new venture; Ecademy website. Penny Power and her family lived through very difficult moments because she took risks and doing that has consequences, they lost all their money and they had to live in a caravan for a while. But now, Ecademy has become an international successful website through which they earn money; thanks to connecting people globally, advertising and selling information. They enjoy life by travelling with their children all around the world, according to Penny you shouldn’t separate family from work.

To create Ecademy, Penny Power needed 5 years to develop her website whilst working freelance, teaching and having children. It was difficult to have children and to maintain her previous lifestyle. Financially it was a hard choice – but worth it.

She explains that it’s not easy to make her family understand about running her business and to take risks. Also it takes lot of time at the beginning and we can’t take care and spend as much time with their family as you would like.

The World has changed, The Old World was closed, selective and targeted instead of the New World is opened us. One of the changes is thanks to Barack Obama’a election. There is an openess and transparency that did not exist before. Even if lots of things change, including technology, our needs are the same. At this point, we have to refer to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs:

- Physiological needs
- need of security
- need of belonging
- need of respect for yourself
- need of accomplishement of yourself

Starting a business is really difficult but you can be successful. There are two different ways to be a new entrepreneur, you can work at home or at the office. The home-worker should be adaptable for their clients, own values and contribution to success and he has to create a personal branding. Whereas a new entrepreneur should understand the world and its generations, so it’s better for him to collaborate on some projects with competitors instead of making ennemies.

For every entrepreneur, you’ll create an online brand in three steps:
- sharing knowledge with strangers and bringing it into the open
- sharing specific knowledge and making new friends
- creating opportunities with advocates

To conclude, I think the most important thing I learnt during this seminar is that you can be successful even if it’s difficult. It’s necessary to live through hard moments, be aware of the pitfalls and you should take risks, because it could be a real chance for your business to succeed. Penny Power, went from living in a caravan to living the millionaire lifestyle through all those good and bad choices as well as the risks: so go for it!

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I’m all for automation and ease in getting great information out to people using these types of systems. With this Tool you can post pictures, videos, documents, audio and polls to twi.tt by quickly filling out our super simple form on the home page.

How do I create an account?
If you have a Twitter account then you already have a twi.tt account,
just Sign in to twi.tt using Twitters’ preferred Sign in method without even sharing your password.
If you don’t have a Twitter account you can sign up for one for free at Twitter.com. If you want to see an example of what what we get up to follow us at http://twitter.com/Wealthbabes
Happy Friday!!

Online Podcasts vs Videos…

YouTube have 63% of UK market and Iplayer have 11% of YouTube market
(normally most of other provider get barely 2%).

It has unleashed a global demand to learn film-making and editing.

Tutorial is a big Podcasts & videos market.

For Videos use Flip`s new Mino HD @ £170 = very very ggod!.
Pocasting Is also big business. http://audioboo.fm/
Audio-boo for free audio up to 5mns.
Other mobcasts are good with Twitter meet podcast service.

2009 will be the year when mobile video takes off.

From Victor Keegan article:

www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Keegan


www.guardian.co.uk/profile/victorkeegan

Great Twitter RT via FaceBook – A must look at…

RT @obox Thank goodness for #pattentap http://bit.ly/38XCey
Pattern tap: Interface Design Collection for Inspiration and Fun

Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the one stop pattern shop for your next inspiration need.


RT @NatPerel: If you have a moment please help float our latest post! http://tinyurl.com/q2aj6p
Race the Race, not the Man – From The Couch | CSS Videos | Video Tutorials | Video Interviews – By drawing from their experience in sport, David and Marc recommend you start focusing on the bigger picture rather than your direct com…

RT: @obox: RT @jasonadriaan: Just got the coolest link http://correkthinking.com/ (via @guided1)

Correk Thinking – A Daily Thought to help you on your way

Internet Net Prophet Conference in Cape Town – Great Video: http://tr.im/lRL5

Net Prophet Conference – From The Couch | CSS Videos | Video Tutorials | Video Interviews

Video Blog of David and Marc Perel discussing their passion for Web, Formula 1 and cycling.


RT @NikkiPilkington Loving:
Man saves ducklings from ledge http://ow.ly/80Gt

Twitter Madness and Using Social Media to Grow your Business

Well its about 3 weeks now since we got reinstated on Twitter, our office internet Guru put some photos on a few of the accounts and we got banned instantly! Then they put up a page saying ‘if you want to know why they were suspended, click here for the juicy details’.

Now not all of spend time reading the terms and conditions of these sites.. and to be honest we have no idea you’re not to put same posts on at same time and that you’re allowed 3 individual accounts each…

I had about 2000 followers so lost quite a few as they only let us reinstate half the accounts!!

So what’s the moral of the story? Whatever you do on the Social Sites ( and we use them ALOT for business) back all your contacts up – or as many of the key ones as possible. I’d worked hard to get my 2000 new friends for over 5 months and I felt like someone had cut my right arm off! Sad I know but true. However, I am glad it happened at 2000 and not a 10,000. I want to continue to add value to all my followers with the best tips and info the internet has to offer! To save you the time doing it! My good friend Bobby Gill is also working hard at populating the internet and spreading the Social Media word! Go Bobby.

FREE COURSES!:

Mid June – Social Media

As for me, I will be doing a workshop/seminar for Business Link on Thursday 18th June so if you want more details drop me a note and we can send you lots more details!

Business Link in London are putting on another excellent event on Thursday June 18th. It will equip you with skills for networking, workshops and advice for female entrepreneurs and it is FREE.

Workshop topics are: Networking equals Business, Amanda Steadman will be doing a workshop on Using Social Media to Grow your Business and a special guest speaker Jo Fairly the co-owner of Green and Blacks will be discussing work-life balance, particularly around managing the stresses running a business can bring!. In addition there is even a Pamper Zone – so DON’T MISS OUT and ensure that you and your colleagues and business associates reserve their places for what will be a productive, enjoyable and worthwhile day.

http://wealthbabes.com/page23.htm
June 5th – 7th – FREE Business and Investing Training

We did this last year and also the advanced courses and loved it. Its complimentary so if you want to sharpen those skills and stay ahead of your competition, this course will teach some invaluable lessons and add to your bottom line!

CLICK HERE for more details:

http://tinyurl.com/freebusinesstraining
Have a groovy month and to your health, wealth and success!

Amanda

My Last Twitter Tips For Business

With (curtfrieden & Danny Whitehouse about Twitter)

Look at Alexa.com it is good for traffic ranking (you can see how twitter was before and his today) so do the same for your site, blogs, etc…

· Use Twitter Deck: is easier to use and manage.

· Use Tr.im: for making shorter links and hiding affiliate link and it’s good for tracking the traffics (it makes your long URL a short one).

· Use Tweet Later: is like an auto responder – it will tweet people right back but be cool on it because people could get scare. Set up Auto Replied: go to my Twitter account, then its easy to fellow the step automatically.

· Use Twollo.com: to help you finding targeted people via conversation subject / interests (like google keyword) – but go slowly as lots of people will tweet right back to you. You can use it too get more follower on you Twitter: (auto fellow up) via keyword like: work from home, Magnetic Sponsorship, MLM, Network Marketing, Home Business, etc…

· Use Ping.fm: to update your social network via tweeter to everywhere i.e.: facebook, Myspace, etc…

· Use MyTwitterToolbar.com: it’s from the guy from “The Secrets” its very good for twitter tips & twitter tools and all for free.

· Go to http://twitter.com/curtsecret to gets the best tips & video from the guru (create an account on Twitter to just fellow gurus – no friends and family) i.e.: http://twitter.com/francksecret PS: it’s good to schedule time like 15mns to get Gurus (fellow the list of gurus) then 15mns replying via your personnel twitter account. It can be time consuming so make it effective.

Note:

You need to create a relationship and the way to do it is by following your follower and its easier with Twitter Deckso you can reply directly, interact, etc…

Note:

You can Change your twitter background, go to setting, and then designed, change background image.

PS: You can also add flash widget to your blog and Social Network it’s useful too.



Try on Twitter:

1. by re-twitt other twitter friends (if they good article)

2. Reply to people,

3. Participate,

4. Answer question (if you know the answer)



See: barefoot_exec she twitt people and add other people twitt a lots



Click Search Technique, and then enter a search

i.e.: Iphone a result will be show; press control and scroll on your mousse field (to get all avatar field minimise on the same page) then click control and click avatar that will open all their profile avatar in different tabs, skip the no pictures on avatar as they normally like to stay anonymous so they probably will not come back to you anyway,



Select the one you like i.e.: look if they speak English, ratio, go for people who have a lots of following (that show they are pro-active) so they should follow me back, click control + W (to close window) keep doing it,



Tips new search: rt = retreat, then click control + W (to close window) keep doing it,

Follow limit is 2000 people so do 900 to start then do it again after few days to a week as people can get busy, you should get about 2 third of people who will come back to you (about 600)



New search: click your Twitter karma in google click whack, then your twitter username and password, it will load up. 5 options go for only following, click all boxes, then click bulk unfollow, you want to clean up your Twitter Stream as you can follow only 2000 people so make it worth, its easy and some people will say it’s a spam so go to:

www.socialtoo.com (Guy Kawasaki love this site)

Twitter Profile It is good for auto-response and other,

http://friendorfollow.com is good to find people then click control + W (to close window) and make sure you follow them or not.

Let’s say:

Monday your follow 999 people, few days later I unfollow the people who didn’t follow me then on Thursday

I do it again, keep doing it twice a week and you should get 1000 people a week on twitter,



Twitter Follower System (of Danny Whitehouse)



1. First thing to do is find a user on Twitter who has significantly more follows than you have, into the thousands. For my experiment I chose John Chow, a leading ‘Make Money Online’ blogger, because we share similar interests.

2. Once you have found a Twitter user who fits the criteria, head over to http://www.flashtweet.com

Enter your user name and pass to access the program. When you are presented with a navigation list click on ‘mass follow’.

When you are on the next screen enter the screen name of the user who we are going to copy their followers, I entered ‘johnchow’. Then just click on a page number, start from 1, and press ‘follow all’ and then hit go. It will take a few seconds to complete but after you have done that, you have added 100 followers just like that. Twitter allows a maximum of 1000 followers a day, so watch you do not go over. I always follow 9 pages each day just to be on the safe side.

3. So you have added almost a thousand followers to your account in just a few minutes. Logic dictates that 40% of users will follow you back within 48 hours due to all the follow back application like TweetLater http://www.tweetlater.com and so on. Head on over to TweetPular. This is another cool app that is in beta at the moment, but works very well.

4. When you are in TweetPular, enter your Twitter user and pass again, watch the funny bird do the moon walk and then you’re in. Click on ‘no follow love’. The application will then present you with a list of users who have not followed you back. Check ‘unfollow all’ and hit go. You may have to do this a few times to get all of them. Once this is done you will have about 40% of the original people who followed you, following you back

You’ll also want to monitor how many people you are actually adding each day, you can do this with Twitter Counter.

It shows you a graph of how many followers, following and other your account has been affected by over the last few days.

If you want proof that this system is working, check mine out:

http://twittercounter.com/Wealthbabes

My comments:

It was great stuff, thanks curtfrieden & Danny Whitehouse,

It is definitely worth it and I will fellow you and see if you fellow me…J

I learn lots but is more to learn as I understand and it’s a great Marketing tools too.

You need to participate to get result because it’s about creating a relationship.

Franck Robert (on behalf of Amanda Steadman)

http://twittercounter.com/FranckRobert