U.S. Won the Game in Extra Time – How to Score Your Own Goals with Extra Time

Some people work overtime because they have to, and some because they want to, and some people avoid it at all costs.  Putting in extra time can help you and be a smart career move – if done wisely!  The secret is balance and getting recognized for your extra efforts.

Depending on who you ask, you will get varying answers to the question of whether working overtime is worth it or not.  The general consensus of opinion is negative, with research finding that working overtime has been linked to anxiety and depression. Yet clearly, not everyone who works overtime suffers either of these conditions… so what gives? (more…)

Buy a Book – Win an iPad!

Want to win a free iPad?

Are you interested in having more income?

Review my book Sell Without Selling on your blog, personal or company web site on June 29th or June 30th and provide this link for people to get it at http://tinyurl.com/28ykazd and get one entry into the iPad contest.
Do You YouTube?
If so, you can get two more entries by simply doing a YouTube video review of the book and posting it June 29th or June 30th along with this link for people to get it at:  http://tinyurl.com/28ykazd.

Odds of Winning? 1 in 1000!
I am limiting this contest to 1000 unique entries, however, each unique entrant can have up to 5 entries based on the number of activities they complete .

 You MUST send the URL where your online, live review can be seen to admin@terrilevine.com upon which your name will be entered into the draw.

Good luck!

How you & 2 friends can earn free tickets to a special 2-day seminar with Terri.

I have been brought out of seminar ‘retirement’ to do an exclusive, two day promotional business building seminar – but only for certain, special people.

 To find out how you can earn free tickets, read on… 

There is no registration link for tickets to this special 2-day event because there is no registration fee being charged AND it will include admission for yourself and up to 2 adults. Think how useful this alone will be. You can “gift” admission to two friends, associates, staff members or business colleagues or you can impress two special clients or customers – because their tickets will cost you nothing and you can afford to offer them this special 2 day seminar.

This seminar, which I am personally conducting, will not be a thinly or otherwise disguised sales presentation for anything. You will receive 100% value from my 30+ years business building experience.

I will be discussing key issues for getting more customers, building sales and increasing profits in today’s competitive marketplace, and presenting you with a variety of proven strategies and techniques. You will learn simple, practical solutions for maximizing sales and profits with little or no increase in marketing expense.

Having helped companies in a wide variety of industries increase their sales and profits, many of the most effective techniques I will teach you are the result of “cross-pollinating” highly profitable techniques from one industry to another.

So it doesn’t matter whether you are a coach, consultant, accountant, chiropractor, dentist, hairdresser, masseuse, private investigator, butcher, baker or candle stick maker; it doesn’t matter whether you own the company, whether it’s a franchise, whether you are a solo-preneur, whether you are a small business with several employees, whether you work from a store or office or work virtually from home – I know what marketing and business building techniques and strategies work best for your business.

Testimonial:
“After spending a few hours consulting with Terri Levine, I made an extra $15,000 2 hours later! $15,000 from the ideas she gave me…”
~ Jemila Williams, Jemstone International

Of course, we’re not suggesting you are going to leave this 2-day seminar and make $15,000 immediately – but it is possible. You will leave with so many ideas to put into action, any one of them can make you money.

If your business is at the point of needing to know new and effective ways to stimulate sales, then this is a seminar you can’t afford to miss.

  • Maybe your business is already doing well, but you want to do better and all the marketing guru advice you have tried so far just isn’t getting you there. Maybe you just need help wading through all the expertise available to make it work for your business?
  • Maybe you have the time, money and energy to work on your business and you just need help putting together a strategy?
  • Maybe you have the strategy but don’t know how to find new customers?
  • Maybe you work too hard and have no work/life balance and need to learn strategies that will enable your biz to run on autopilot so you can take time out to enjoy your newfound profits?
  • Maybe you spend far too much time ‘plate-spinning’ – the urgent gets in the way of important – and you’re not always sure which is which.
  • Maybe you don’t have anyone to discuss ideas with. You can’t ask your staff, suppliers or customers and the phrase ‘it’s lonely at the top’ is familiar.
  • Maybe you just want some unbiased advice on how to grow your company and take it to the next level? At this seminar, you’ll meet and exchange ideas with people just like you – all keen to grow their businesses, all frustrated that things just don’t happen fast enough.

There’s no question about it – bad marketing kills your profits and costs you clients. Your ‘loyal’ customers defect. And they never come back. Bad marketing lets even inferior competitors steal the business you’ve fought so hard to get.

My 2-day business-building seminar could put thousands on your bottom line over the next 12 months.

You don’t have to take my word for it – here are more testimonials from people who have taken my advice and knowledge and really run with it for amazing results: http://www.terrilevine.com/testimonials-3

My charge for such a comprehensive 2-day seminar is usually around $1000 and the only reason I am doing it for free is to show my appreciation to those who take part in a special “Sell Without Selling” book promotion I am doing at BN.com on June 30th ONLY – not before or after, but ON June 30.

Book Review: Extraordinary! Quick read with a powerful new perspective on sales!

Posted May 18, 2010, 5:37 PM EST: Terri Levine is a brilliant marketing expert who teaches only proven strategies that she uses in her own outrageously successful business. She has written a wonderful parable in which she shares her most powerful selling secrets. Her methods are easy to learn and easy to implement. Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of the ideas; they are more powerful than you can imagine! This book is a must read!
~ Amber Dupois

This is where you’ll go on June 30:  http://tinyurl.com/28ykazd

So what do you have to do to gain access to this 2-day business building seminar and admission for 2 friends or biz associates?

On June 30, through BN.com only, (NOT Amazon!), buy 35 or more copies of my book Sell Without Selling – each must be purchased individually, separately, one at a time. Please make sure you understand that important caveat!!!!!!  Then you must email those 35 individual book receipts as per below…

What will you do with 35 copies?

  • Give to clients
  • Gift to friends
  • Use as holiday gifts for biz associates and customers
  • Include in your own special “packages” you sell
  • Donate to local charities to help teach people how to get work and gain valuable recognition for yourself
  • Use as special giveaway prizes to your mailing list

And check with your accountant – it could well be this is a tax-deductible business expense for you!

The 2-day business-building seminar will be held July 15-16 in the Philadelphia area at a venue to be advised.

Information will be sent to you regarding the seminar once you send your 35 BN.com receipts to admin@terrilevine.com.

Remember – you must buy 35 or more copies – individually (one by one, NOT 35 bulk in one order)( of Sell Without Selling from BN.com ON June 30th – not before or after, but ON that date only.

This could well be one of the best investments you ever make in your business success. If you are in business, why wouldn’t you?

Go ahead, grab your copies right here on June 30th: http://tinyurl.com/28ykazd 

Then you email your 35 receipts to admin@terrilevine.com and you and 2 friends whose names you will need to advise will be registered.  Considering what you will gain, the little extra time it takes to order individual copies and email the individual receipts will be well worth your time!

Terri

10 Quick Tips to Make Money

1. Build a mailing list of customers and potential customers. Do you ask for contact information on your website when people sign up for a newsletter or free product? Do you ask for contact info from people who contact you for information? Do you ask for contact info from people who attend your seminars or teleclasses? Do you encourage referrals from existing clients?

You don’t have to manage your list yourself, manually, although that is possible via email programs and online forums such as Yahoo Groups (free). You can use online services such as http://www.1shoppingcart.com and http://www.shoppingcartforcoaches.com, and http://www.constantcontact.com – all services that help you manage your client databases and also provide other services.

It is cheaper, easier and quicker to sell to an existing database of interested customers than have to continually seek out new customers.

2. Establish a newsletter – this can be an online ezine or a paper newsletter mailed. Of course, the online ezine is much cheaper to employ. A newsletter provides valuable information for your existing and potential clients, and establishes you as the expert. It also makes it easier to sell your valuable products and services. You can send a newsletter from your own email program until your database grows and as with any other database, you can find free as well as paid for services. You can send a newsletter via Yahoo Groups, www.1shoppingcart.com, www.topica.com, www.constantcontact.com and various other professional newsletter service providers.

3. Promote yourself! A press release that promotes you, your service or product is worth its weight in paid advertising, whether it be on line, in print, on radio or TV. It gives you and your product instant credibility, and with that comes new customers willing to trust you and give you a try. You can use a paid service, such as www.prweb.com or you can list your press releases on various free sites yourself. Another way to promote yourself is by writing articles, which can be distributed on many free sites providing another source of credibility. Make sure you also upload some of your articles on www.ideamarketers.com which will enable others to use your articles in their own newsletters – you won’t get paid, but you will get a load of free publicity!

4. Another way to earn extra income is to hold seminars and teleclasses. Record them so you can sell the recording. If you have valuable information, people will pay for it. You don’t have to use expensive paid for services – services such as www.nocostconference.com will provide you with a teleclass number and record it for free. You can take registrations manually but it is easier to use a service such as http://www.shoppingcart.com which will handle payments, etc. (Yes, this is the same service that handles your database, your newsletter, autoresponders, etc.)

5. Make sure your website is user friendly and access to your products and services and ways to pay are user friendly. Promote your products and the direct URL to your shopping page to your newsletter, in press releases, articles and social networks.

6. Leverage your time and resources – find ways to make one thing go further. An e-book can become several articles and press releases, special reports and bonus giveaway docs, and a seminar or teleclass, for example.

7. Upgrade your skills and widen your service/product base. The more you have to offer, the more clients you can attract. Maybe you can partner up with somebody who offers complimentary services and products and offer each other’s lists your services. That way you don’t have to know everything, but being able to offer the extra services is attractive to customers and a win-win for you.

8. Do joint ventures – for the same reason as above. Joint ventures are designed to be a win-win for both partners. Which businesses could you do a joint venture with?

9. Can you automate some of your regular tasks thus saving you time and money? Are you doing something manually or paying somebody to do something manually that can be done in half the time by a new program?

10. If you are a coach or consultant, consider offering group coaching programs whereby you coach several clients at the same time in a group format rather than individually. You will still earn the same money, but you will save a lot of time which will enable you to explore other money making ventures. If you are in some other line of business, what can you do in your business that will enable you to achieve the same in less time while enjoying the same or higher income?

Dealing with the Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

The Humpty Dumpty Syndrome: Putting Yourself Together After the Great Fall?

How many times have you heard someone say, “Losing my job was the best thing that ever happened to me!”  Does hearing this sentiment make you scratch your head in puzzlement?  How could something so negative be so positive?  What’s the person’s secret?

Few of us begin our careers with the intent of doing something else.  After all, we’ve invested quite a bit in getting to where we are.  Much like Humpty Dumpty, we proudly sit atop our wall of achievements and accomplishments giving little thought to doing anything else.  However, with today’s winds of change, it’s pretty likely that sometime in our working lives we will find ourselves tumbling from our safe perch. For most of us the great fall occurs when: (more…)

Ways to Find, Sustain and Share Happiness

We focus so much of our lives on finding success in our careers and finances, establishing material wealth, building our businesses, caring for our families, etc. that we often overlook the most important person in our existence – our self – and the most basic tenet for a truly successful life – achieving true happiness.

 Something as simple as happiness should come naturally to us, like breathing, but thanks to the stresses and challenges in life, many people have become confused.  They’ll be happy “when”… They put conditions on being happy that makes it difficult to achieve in the here and now. Some people have forgotten how to be happy! 

 If this sounds like you, here are some helpful tips to bring joy back into your life… (more…)

Terri Levine’s “24 Smiles A Minute” Video

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Avoid these 5 Common Mistakes for Entrepreneurial Success

A large percentage of new businesses fail within the first five years. This failure is usually attributed to incompetency and lack of preparation – in other words, it doesn’t matter if the product of service is brilliant in every respect if the business owner lacks business savvy!

It’s not all bad news, however, because there are businesses that flourish and rake in high profits regardless of the economy.  Some of these entrepreneur owners didn’t know what to do either, but they learned. It doesn’t matter what you do in life, if you want success, you do have to put in some effort. It isn’t handed to you on a plate.

You can be successful too, if you avoid these 5 mistakes: (more…)

Success is an Attitude

Notice how some people give up when push comes to shove… when the going gets tough… when life dares to push them around a little? They sit down and stop. Or they run the other way. They grizzle, complain and blame. Notice also how those people are always avoiding and never going anywhere or achieving anything?

Then there are those who tackle life’s challenges head on, who don’t run and hide, who refuse to sit down and quit… one way or another they are determined to taste success.

It’s not about opportunity – they can both have the same opportunities and challenges – that’s not what creates success… it’s attitude.

The right attitude is behind all successful people. When the going gets tough, the right attitude is what keeps them up on their feet, looking for new open doors, new opportunities, new paths around their obstacles, new ways to reach success.

Successful people look at a grey cloud and know there is a silver lining and are determined to find it and don’t stop until they do. Unsuccessful people see the grey cloud and figure it’s probably going to rain so may as well stay home and do nothing.

So if you aren’t tasting success yet, how’s your attitude?

Stuck in a Rut? Here’s 8 Tips to Help you Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

Doesn’t hurt to be reminded to step out of your comfort zone every now and then and now is time for a reminder…

We are creatures of habit. We also like to feel safe and secure. This is why many people stay in their comfort zones. This is also why many people never truly experience their full potential, and success and excitement eludes them.

If sticking in your comfort zone interferes with your growth and development and if it hinders reaching your goals, and if very little has changed for you in the past 5 to 10 years, it’s time for a change! Imagine if you chose to crawl all your life because the risk of standing on your own two feet was too scary… some people live their whole lives this way. But not us, right? So here we go with 8 tips to help you out:
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