Viral Storytelling with The Story Lady, Ronda Del Boccio

One of my friends is in the Blogging Idol Contest & has $30K of  prizes so far with more coming in all the time.  His blog is about marketing, so drop on by Big Jason’s Big Marketing Blog and sign up for his feed to get blog updates (at least while he is running the contest!).

I’ll tell you what a few of the prizes are in a minute, but perhaps you’re not sure what a feed is.

Don’t be scared of a feed.  It’s just a way to have the content you want delivered right to you.  What this means in terms of the contest is that you’ll receive his blog updates by email.

OK so what are the prizes?  Go to the site to read them all, but here are a few.  Some of my favorite people are offering a prize, and what Jason is about to find out is that I’m giving one too.  I won’t tell you what it is yet.

Here are some of many prizes from the biggest name dropper I know.

Quoting Big Jason on  his blog…”

Complete Website and Copy Critique with Million Dollar Copywriter Ray Edwards ($4500) - Ray is a Direct Response Copywriter, Speaker, Author, and Marketing Strategist. His clients include Jack Canfield, Alex Mandossian, Frank Kern, and Mark Victor Hansen (there are more, but jeez, then it would start to sound like name-dropping)Ray is going to give your website and sales copy a thorough critique and record everything on video for you to keep. And that $4500 value is the initial value. I’m not going to speculate on the long-term value of this prize because you’ll probably wet yourself.

Complete Website Copy Critique and 1hr Private Consultation with Rachel Rofe ($2000) - Rachel is a direct response “copywriter to the stars”. She’s been endorsed by some of the world’s top copywriters and has been responsible for the copy behind several six figure launches.Rachel is going to give your website copy an in-depth critique, as well as an hour consultation to discuss your marketing, call to actions, and overall message.

2 Copies of Word of Mouth Transformation from Mark Joyner ($997) - Mark is known as the godfather of internet marketing.Find out the difference between inspired and incentivized word of mouth. Then discover how to get more of the right kind of word of mouth for your products and services.

1hr Private Consulting with Ben Mack ($600) - Ben Mack is the author of the best selling business book, Think Two Products Ahead, a two-time American Marketing Association award winner and visionary online entrepreneur. Credited with taking Yomega Yo-Yos from $8 million in sales to $120 million in one year as a former corporate advertising executive, Ben Mack will teach you branding secrets the big ad agencies don’t want you to know and how to leverage those secrets for bigger profits.Forget everything you think you know about branding and prepare to have your profitable business mind ripped wide open.

1hr Blog Consultation by Ritu Pant of Axiium.com ($500) - You may have not heard of Ritu before now, but I found out about him from Ms. X..Ritu will help you take your blog to the next level.

1hr Facebook Consultation by Mari Smith of Facebook Fortunes ($500) - Mari is a facebook business coach.

You’ll work together with Mari in her private Webinar room where she’ll walk you through the entire process of setting up and optimizing your Facebook Profile and Facebook Page. You’ll implement the steps real time so by the end of the sessions you know what to do on your own to build a loyal following of people interested in your products and services.

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I am taking a class that is teaching me to turn everything I do for work into a profit center rather than a busines expense.  And before you say, “well good for you, why should I care?” let me first say that the reason I’m mentioning this is that YOU can still be there too.

The Guerilla Information Marketing Trainer Certification program started last week, but everything is recorded adn available in all formats for all learning types, video (webinar and the slides) audio, and printed transcripts.

My mentors for this training are Paulie Sabol, autho of The Quiet Networker,  and Dr. Ben Mack, author of Think Two Products Ahead,  plus some of their super friends, including Artemis Limpert and Donna Fox, author of Credit repair to Credit Millionaire  so far.

TOnight is a question and answer session totally focused on helping every student (future trainer) become profitable.  So far the class has been going on for just about 3 hours. 

This is a bonus session.

The first class went 4 hours and we didn’t get through all the intended material, so that will be moved to another night.

3 things I learned from the introductory report which is not now available::

1. It is possible for me to turn all of what had been business expenses into profit centers

2. Any type of business can make #1 happen, whether it is online, offline or both

3. Starting with an event that can be recorded makes for perpetual sales

These are 3 examples of information products taht are above and beyond the typical books, teaching DVDs, and so forth: 

1. The instruction booklet that came with the special containers that push out the air so food stays fresher longer.  The booklet explains how to use the product AND what else is available in the line, thus making it a guerilla information marketing product

2. My dad gave me the new DVD of 101 dalmatians.  Inside are 3 flyers. 1 is about the Platinum Edition of the movie; it talks about all the navigation options available to get the most from the product and it reminds you of the value of the special features and bonuses.  1 is a sweepstakes information flyer where you can win a trip to London.  1 is about other Disney products.  All are full color.  Then before you watch the movie there are not only ads for other Disney movies and products, but a public service quickie from QuitSmoking.gov.

3. This isn’t mine but it is a great example.  My friend bought her granddaughter a Build-A-Bear Workshop toy.  The whole store is designed to increase your purchase and create an experience for you.  A clerk helps you fill your toy with the perfect amount of stuffing that you want in it.  There are clothes and even accessories for the toys. 

Examples of clothes: ballerina outfit, baseball outfit, fairy outfit, also clothes to make your toy look like Snow White or other Disney characters.  Examples of accessories include:  Sunglasses, all sorts of hats, fairy wand, purse, cell phone, ipod, gym shoe, silver slippers, sandals, ruby slippers like Wizard of Oz, dance shoes, cowboy boots. 

They even sell underwear!  Also they give you a discount for enrolling the gift recipient into the club (don’t remember what it’s called) where they can register and  name their toy, give it a birthday, and buy more stuff for it.  Absolutely brilliant marketing!

Each purchase has a tag with the website and club info on it, and the clerk slips in a flyer which entices you to buy more.

So in what ways might you make things that you do into profit centers.

I’ll give you a couple examples of things I have coming up.  I am not being too specific on purpose.  I have a book coming out where you will be able to make money because it will have affiliate links in it where YOU can earn money.  Isn’t that cool?

I am considering “renting out” a monthly fee based service by offering to sell the opportunity of limited access to others (fee per use once a month).

So if you would like to learn how to get paid for yoru marketing, please join me in this class.  And also you will become - when you complete the homework and pass the test at the end - a Certified Guerilla Information Marketing Trainer, which means you can do presentations as well as use all the tools to get profitable.

When you become more profitable, you are able to support yourself, your family, and your most cherished charities more, right?  So this is one way to get profitable.

There is even a payment plan.  Put a Certified Guerilla Information Marketing Trainer into the search box and look for payments.  The post was last week.  I’m in the middle of a class, so I’ll let you look it up and show what an action taker you are.

If you want to get profitable, please join me and become a a Certified Guerilla Information Marketing Trainer

The Story Lady

Tags: entrepreneurial authoring, story, storyation, storytelling, spiritual tradition, folklore

I would like for you to take a moment to play a quick game of Let’s Pretend with me…all right?

Imagine that you are living your life as usual until one day you notice that it is very hard to breathe. You feel sluggish and you can’t function well…

And the next moment your lungs shrivel up and die.  How long do you have before you suffocate to death?

About 3 minutes.

This game of Let’s Pretend is brought to you by the world’s rainforests.  The trees are the lungs of the planet.  Kill the trees and you kill the lungs.  Kill the lungs and - well - you wouldn’t be reading this blogs if this had happened.

Maybe at first glance you may not think this applies to you or that it makes any difference in YOUR life that 1.5 acres of rainforest VANISHES every second!  

We Lose OVER 50,000 Species of Plants & Animals To Forced Extinction Every Year! 

• Fact: A typical four square mile patch of rainforest contains as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies.
• Fact: Rainforests provide many important products for people: timber, coffee, cocoa and many medicinal products, including those used in the treatment of cancer.
• Fact: Seventy percent of the plants identified by the U.S. National Cancer Institute as useful in the treatment of cancer are found only in rainforests.
• Fact: More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer properties.
• Fact: Less than one percent of the tropical rainforest species have been analyzed for their medicinal value.

Will You Help To Protect The Achuar People In Ecuador?

Please Donate Here.

Facts about the Threats to Rainforests, Indigenous People and Species:

• Fact: Rainforests are threatened by unsustainable agricultural, ranching, mining and logging practices.
• Fact: Before 1500 A.D., there were approximately 6 million indigenous people living in the Brazilian Amazon. But as the forests disappeared, so too did the people. In the early 1900s, there were less than 250,000 indigenous people living in the Amazon.
• Fact: Originally, 6 million square miles of tropical rainforest existed worldwide. But as a result of deforestation, only 2.6 million square miles remain.
• Fact: At the current rate of tropical forest loss, 5-10 percent of tropical rainforest species will be lost per decade.
• Fact: Nearly 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide depend on forests for their livelihoods.
• Fact: Fifty-seven percent of the world’s forests, including most tropical forests, are located in developing countries.
• Fact: Every second, a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is mowed down. That’s 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or over 31 million football fields of rainforest each year.
• Fact: More than 56,000 square miles of natural forest are lost each year.

Keep the abundance of health, vitality, medicine and all other good things from our rainforest and receive thousands of dollars in free business services and products from people like:

Ted Ciuba (The new Think and Grow Rich)

Stephen Pierce

Dr. Ben Mack.

The Passion Test

Yanik Silver

Michel Fortin

and many others.  See the full list and learn more here.

And if you are not in business, please feel encouraged to give a donation of $10 or whatever you may.

I hope you’ll join me in helping save our rainforests.

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady

Tags: MLM, storyation, Kama Sutra of Storytelling, story coach, BookWise, legend

I know I’ve been guilty of some of these… 

I was on a call tonight with Dr. Ben Mack and Paulie Saibol, The Quiet Networker - and the call was anything but quiet.  WOW what an exciting call.

I’m going to tell you where to listen to the replay and how to make the same decision I’ve made  to

Become a Certified Guerilla Information Marketing Trainer! 

 But first, these are some of the 7 mistakes.

Mistake #1 - Not realizing that Info Marketing is a business.  I bet there’s something that you do easily or that you know, and other people would GLADLY pay you for it.  I don’t know if you saw my recent post about valuing yourself, but this is related.  Actually, failing to value yourself and what you know is another of the biggest mistakes. 

Info marketing - or Recommendation marketing - is truly a business.  If someone can make it faster, easier, better, less painful, more fun, less expensive, more effective, or help you make money, this is a business for sure.

Say you have a hobby and you love tropical fish.  You can turn that hobby into a business by figuring out what people who also love fish don’t know as much as you do about and delivering services and/or products around it.  You only need be a step or two ahead of the person who buys the product from you.

The second biggest mistake is not following a proven recipe or system.  Dr. Ben Mack used the example of baking a cake.  If you guess at the ingredients you may come up with something, but it would take a lot of trial and error before you got a good cake.  You might not realize that a little baking powder is important, and you might fiddle with different amounts in an effort to figure out how much was just enough.

Someone who has done it before and has the recipe can show you, and if you follow the recipe, you get a good cake - or a great tropical fish tank - or whatever your passion and expertise matched with a want or need in the market can create.

The third biggest mistake is what I have been HUGELY guilty of in the past: Under-valuing what you know because you know it.  That means you’re REALLY good at making a cake or quilting or writing an article or figuring out some things that make Skype work more efficiently - but it’s so easy for you that you don’t think of how much stress or time it would save the person who doesn’t know it to have that expert guidance.  So you give it away for free.

Paulie Sabol talked about a client who had given away her expertise for 30 years, and on one 90 minute call made a lot of money.  Listen to the call and get all the details!

CLick the PodPress button below for the audio.  I’ll let you do your own homework to get the rest, but please do yourself a favor and –

Become a Certified Guerilla Information Marketing Trainer - and be at ease because you’re covered by THREE (3) guarantees! 

$197 PAYMENT PLAN

You get

• Six Live Learning Events Outlining The Step-By-Step (Value $482)
• Four Live Support Calls (Value $388)
• Complete Indexed Transcripts of Every Call (Value $200)
• Best Of I5 Gold Coaching (Value $499)
• How To Make Your BOSS Your First Guerrilla Information Marketing Client System (Value $197)
• Jay Conrad Levinson’s 7 Sentence Marketing Plan Event (Value $247)
• Instant Internet Marketing Library (Value $1697)
• My Name In Lights in a New York Times Bestseller (Value $39,000)
• Exclusive JV Privileges (Value $497)
• JV Mastermind Call (Value $197)
• Members Only Forum (Value $97)
• Optional Accountability Program (Value Priceless)

 Want a payment plan??? –>>> payments of $197 - click ==> here

  The Story Lady

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