Monday, June 8, 2009

Promo 101 Virtual Blog Tours continued to follow Barbara Weaver Smith's Whale Hunting at these addresses: Thursday June 4 – Joyce Anthony shares her review for Whale Hunting Women on her blog http://joyce-anthony.blogspot.com/
Friday June 5 – 7:30 am PST - www.salesmanagement20.com

Ellen interviewed Barbara Techel at To the Max, where she writes about parenting and life, including her beautiful son who has cerebral palsy. These ladies explored Barbara's responses when her beloved dog, Frankie, was injured in an accident, and touched on the parallels between Barb's journey and the experiences of those of us who have children with "special needs."

Be sure to stop by and leave a comment for Ellen and Barbara. It will automatically enter you in a drawing for a gift from Frankie's store!

http://lovethatmax.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-inspirational-dog.html

Georgianne interviewed Dyan Garris live by Georgiann. Download the show later at www.blogtalkradio.com/breakingthrough

Lots more happening at Virtual Blog Tours. Enjoy and keep on the sunny side. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
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Promo 101 Virtual Blog Tours Stopped by to visit Dr. Kim Bloomer and her Neopolitan mastiff, Shadrach at Bark 'n Blog Tuesday. They are shared Shadrach's interview with Frankie and her human companion, Barbara Techel, author of Frankie the Walk n' Roll Dog. Find out how Frankie feels about being one of the animal ambassadors who help humans learn.

Be sure to leave a comment for Dr. Kim and Barbara. It will automatically enter you in a drawing for a gift from Frankie's store! http://www.bark-n-blog.com/2009/05/29/interview-with-barbara-techel-frankie-the-weiner-dog-authors-of-frankie-the-walk-n-roll-dog

Nikki Leigh interviewed Barbara Weaver Smith on Promo 101 Create and Promote Radio – 4 pm EST yesterday. Listeners were able to call in during the show and listen online at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nikkileigh You can download the show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nikkileigh/2009/06/02/Nikki-Leigh-Talks-With-Barbara-Weaver-Smith

Have a great day and keep on the sunny side. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Promo 101 Virtual Blog Tours spent a few minutes with Barbara Bonfigli at her book launch in New York on Thursday May 28th at the fabulous Greek Restaurant Periyali on 20th - http://corinescorner.com/blog2/2009/05/on-may-28th-i-attended-book-party.htm

Are you a book blogger? Are you a book lover? Are you interested in finding a book that will transport you to an exotic locale? You NEED to learn more about this book. We will be working with author, Barbara Bonfigli during the summer and we can't wait to share her debut novel and fictional memoir- Cafe Tempest. Get your "ticket" now for a summer trip to a Greek island.

Promo 101 Virtual Blog Tours also announced the Just the FAQs Blog Tour with MaAnna Stephenson from July 6-31. Join nationally acclaimed author, MaAnna Stephenson, on her blog book tour this July. Two decades of technical writing, web design and marketing for countless private clients and community groups have led her to produce a new instructional series titled Just the FAQs, the ultimate user-friendly guides to the technical aspects of internet marketing and promotions.
Barbara Weaver Smith’s article on How To Overcome This sluggish Economy on her blog - http://www.asuccessfulwoman.com/success/2009/05/29/overcome-this-sluggish-economy-by-barbara-weaver-smith

More lively blogs will be featured in June, please check back often, leave comments and keep on the sunny side. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Promo 101 Virtual Blog Tours has promoted a special story for youngsters this month. Check out the story of Frankie the daschund. Barbara Techel had just returned from vacation when she got some heartbreaking news. Her beloved dachshund, Frankie, had been injured in a freak accident. If Frankie lived, she might be paralyzed. Would Frankie survive? Could Barbara care for a severely disabled dog?

Frankie recovered and thrived, and she kept rolling with a custom-fit wheelchair. Her story is told in a unique picture book for children, Frankie the Walk 'n Roll Dog.

There will be a SPECIAL OFFER FOR VISITORS TO THE VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR. Each guest who comments on a post in Barbara and Frankie's tour will be entered in a drawing for some fun, unique gifts that will especially appeal to Frankie fans and other dog lovers. We will give away several items from Frankie's store. These include two Frankie t-shirts and two Frankie tote bags.

Julianne Moore is touring with her book. Julie Peterson shares her review (and her young son’s thoughts) about Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully - http://bookingmama.blogspot.com/2009/05/review-freckleface-strawberry-and.html


Trying to stay on the sunny side! Terry

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Selling is a Spiritual Service?

How can you say that selling is spiritual service?

Earlier we shared with you how Jim discovered the idea that selling is spiritual service. But that concept may seem foreign to you, even impossible. So what we've said bears repeating. Now we go more deeply into what we mean by Selling Is Spiritual Service.

This perspective on selling is based on the profound reality that we are all connected. We are all one interconnected web of consciousness. We all create together the experience of being alive, so we all need each other. That's a simple and profound fact of life.

As John Donne wrote in the seventeenth century, "No man is an island."

When someone has a problem they can't solve by themselves-and you have a solution in the form of a product or service-you have an ethical, even moral obligation to make your solution available to as many people as you can.

If you don't, you shortchange your own creative spirit as well as your business. You shortchange all the people who need what you provide. And you shortchange Spirit or God, or whatever it is you deem to be The Source of All.

This point of view is fundamental to your larger success as a soft sell marketer, and The Heart of Marketing is devoted to supporting you and the growth and expansion of your heart-based marketing.

So let's look at this more closely.


What Is Selling?

Selling is the process of converting someone from being a looker, a seeker, a searcher, a prospector into becoming a Customer.

It's the art and skill of helping your reader make the decision they know they need and want to make in order to solve the problem they're wrestling with. The selling process guides them to that decision for the benefit of both of you.

As a soft sell marketer, when you add the commitment to sell with respect and care, your priority becomes the well-being of the relationship between you and your buyer, which also includes the sale.


What Is Spiritual?

At the core, practical spirituality takes us to the fundamental connectedness that permeates and creates this world and the need we all have of one another. When you take in the emotional truth of our interdependence-and let it guide your business dealings-you begin to market and sell with consciousness and conscience.


Consciousness-with awareness of the co-creative life that joins us all together, the customer becomes not just someone who will buy, but a necessary partner in determining the best outcome for both you and your buyer.

Conscience-reflects the care and respect for ourselves and our customers as feeling-filled human beings, not just walking wallets.
Doing business with consciousness and conscience you advance the experience of being alive by recognizing and supporting the well-being of the whole-the whole of life on this planet through the whole transaction-that is, your awareness of both the seller and the buyer.

When you participate in a spiritually motivated sale you recognize the gifts you, the seller, bring to the marketplace as well as the need brought by your buyer. There is a unity of purpose and respect that is expressed through and manifested in a value-for-value exchange.


What Is Service?

Service is the assistance you offer as you put yourself forward to support and advance your prospective customer's buying experience. When in service, you contribute to the well-being of your prospective customer even if they never become a buyer.

However, when you come from service, you must avoid martyring yourself. To fully participate in the buyer/seller partnership you must make sure to serve your own self-expression, your own personal value, and your own economic well-being. Otherwise you negate the partnership and are thrust back into the every-man-for-himself mindset. It's essential that you respect and support both you and your customer.

When you take to heart that Selling Is Spiritual Service you are on your way to release from fear, shyness, embarrassment, guilt and any other internal millstone holding you back from marketing with passionate commitment. You are emboldened to use your marketing to educate your readers about what you know, what you've created for them, and you invite and encourage them to make the decision they already know they want to make.

You share your story, you outline the many benefits they can enjoy, and you provide testimonials from satisfied customers so that your readers know, truly know they are in the right place. Then when they buy, when they put money in your bank, their payment is a form of appreciation and gratitude.

That's the power of Selling As Spiritual Service.

The Heart of Marketing is a great resource for anyone looking for solid marketing strategies and tactics with a Soft Sell, heart-based approach to create real profit and long-term customer relationships. Order your own copy of The Heart of Marketing within the next 24 hours and receive over $8,400 in bonus gifts from experts around the globe. Go to
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Friday May 7, 2009

Yesterday Promo 101 Virtual Blog tours began a series of visits with Joyce Anthony on her blog http://joyce-anthony.blogspot.com/2009/05/whale-hunting-women-and-barbara-weaver.html. Joyce Anthony shared details about Whale Hunting Women and Barbara Weaver Smith

About Whale Hunting Women

Whale Hunting Women—how women do big deals in business and community. For inspiration, motivation, and direction, this book celebrates women as deal-makers and includes how to “break the minnow mindset” and how to create a fast-growth culture. It documents three cultural transformations that favor women’s leadership styles: the trend to replace competition with collaboration; the need to transform bureaucracy to entrepreneurship; and the value of perceiving a world of abundance rather than a culture of scarcity. The book offers advice on how small companies or organizations can manage their public presence to generate the whales’ confidence that they have the capabilities and professionalism to complete big deals with big customers and partners. The book incorporates a deal-maker’s journal; each chapter includes worksheets to prompt reflections and action plans.

Promo 101 offers customized blog tours for authors wishing to promote their books online. Look for new blog stops throughout the month. Want to blog your book? Contact Nikki at nikki@nikkileigh.com

Happy blogging and keep on the sunny side. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
"Travel Through Time With Terry"
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Thursday May 7, 2009

Promo 101 Virtual Blog Tours opened it's May tours with a couple of blog stops this week.

Yesterday, Lorraine Ball shared a guest post from Barbara Weaver Smith about the sales process for small businesses on her blog http://www.roundpeg.biz/2009/05/whale-hunting

If you are a woman in business, The Whale Hunters teachs you how to reach out and bring in big deals. This tour follows Barbara Weaver Smith as she teaches people how to excel in business. Barbara's advice: Never think you are too small to go after big business deals.

Also announced last week is a special tour for May 11- 15. This is a one-week campaign because the authors are doing an Amazon best seller campaign as well. Each person who buys the book on May 14th will also get thousands of dollars worth of free gifts from their joint venture partners. Virtual Blog Tours is coordinating a virtual blog tour during that week and you are invited to participate. If you would like to talk about being part of this tour, contact me at nikki@nikkileigh.com

I am looking for an ark. Has anyone seen one for sale out there? If not, try to keep on the sunny side. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
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