Start A Successful Home Party Plan Business.

Wow!!! It has been an amazing two months with Renegade Professional. I knew I needed to learn more if I was really going to grow my business, I just didn’t know how much I needed to learn!

When you join Renegade Professional they have you go through a 90 day plan, to make sure you are building your business the right way. So far they have walked me through (and I am following them, because they are the experts and I am paying them to learn).

• Building a Squidoo Lens ( I already had one but now built one to promote Renegade Professional)
• Creat an eZine article
• Bookmark my content using Digg
• Creat a Twitter account and begin networking there
• Begin a blog page (which obviously I already have) but they show your other blog spots where you can monetize blogs for free.
• Create a Hub Page (see more free blogs you can monetize)
• Watch videos (on everything you could imagine)
• Start book marking with other social sites, other than Digg
• Improve the content on your blog or website using what you have learned so far
• Study the Writing With Pull class (this is where I am now) of course I skip around and do other stuff too.

I am focusing now on the “Writing with Pull” class because It is an area I think I am weak in. How to really sell people on what you are writing without really selling people!!!! That is tough to do!

I have found myself obsessing over these classes, they are just so fascinating and I want to learn more and more about how to make my business better. Like today, I told myself I was not going to be on the computer at all today, but, here I am! It is almost a little insane.

I do love what I am learning, but I have always loved learning new things, that is why I am also a teacher and a coach to others who want to learn more. I guess I will always be in school in one way or another!

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What is Attraction Marketing? It is simply how you get people to come looking for you and your business services or product. It really is that simple, but learning Attraction Marketing is not that simple.

Renegade University is offering a FREE Webinar on July 2nd at 9pm EST. In this Webinar they will be teaching how you can make a Wordpress blog that will draw people to your blog like a magnet.

What they will go over in this FREE Webinar

• 13 keys strategies to build a super blog.
• 9 Killer tips for promoting your blog posts.
• Super Ninja tactics for Social Networking.

And of course they will go over much, much more but you have to sign up in advance for this course. You can sign up for this course right now ….. SIGN UP NOW!

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Is your business where you want it to be?

Mine wasn’t either!

So I got professional help.  I joined Renegade Professional about a two months ago.  WOW!! I am still amazed at how much they offer through their classes.

Renegade Professional is all about attraction marketing, or, getting people to come to you for your products or services.  It is comprised of maybe, a hundred classes in everything from Social Networking to Using Email to attract new customers.  Sometimes the amount of information seems overwhelming to me.  I have had to learn to just take my time and go through one class at a time and not worry about how many there are.

These classes are set up so that you can do them on your own time, at your own speed, and according to what you would like to learn more about.  I am working on all the different Social Networking classes right now.

I never wanted to get into the Social Networking side of things for my business and I have learned this was a HUGE MISTAKE on my part!  If I want to be competitive in this day and age, I HAVE TO LEARN SOCIAL NETWORKING! There is just no way around that.

So, I am working through all the way’s to start my sites at Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, you name it I am learning about what makes each of them different, how you go about getting people to follow you on them and about how they can grow my business in ways I never even considered!  It is exciting really!

You can go through these classes as quickly as you want or as slow as you want.  I am using my time off this summer from teaching to really delve into these classes.  It is amazing to me how much I really don’t know about growing my own business and how much I can grow my business if I learn some of these new techniques.

I will be writing more about my classes and what I am learning through the Renegade Professional and hope that you too will seek help from a professional (doesn’t need to be Renegade Professional) if your business is not growing the way you want it too.  Getting that help may just change your whole life.  I hoping Renegade Professional will do that for me.

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Come on, sing along with me, you know you want too!

As many of you know my side job is as a teacher.  The last month of school is always a tough month, as any teacher knows.  The kids are both ready to get out of school and not ready because it means they won’t see many of their friends for the next 2 months.

For some it is even more traumatic than just not seeing their friends.  For many it means they won’t have regular meals and will have no positive social interactions at all.  Many will have no discipline again and they actually crave that discipline (no matter how much they will tell you they couldn’t care less, they really do!)

For these children, it is almost like we are abandoning them and they act out badly during these last weeks of school.  Any teacher who has been around for any length of time, knows exactly what I am talking about and is very sensitive to these children and their feelings of abandonment.

When I was much (much) younger I worked every summer so these kids had a place to go, to feel like they were still important, where they could feel like they had a purpose to get up in the morning, to have a place where they could get something to eat (we would go through a whole lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in a summer).

Now, I am old an tired!  I need the summer off just to regenerate enough to go back in August and start it all over again.  Now is the time for the younger generation to step up and give these special kids a place to go and reason to get up in the morning.  And for goodness sake, a place to get a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

No matter what the gesture is, no matter how small, no matter what it is you decide to do with these kids during the summer, it will not be forgotten!  If it is just one peanut butter and jelly sandwich, if it is just one afternoon making beaded necklaces, if it is just sitting around reading them a book… IT DOES MATTER!

It can make the difference between  that kid shoplifting at the local quickie mart or them hanging with you and leaning about a whole new world through a story book.  It can mean a child eating a wonderfully delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich or nothing at all.

My Challenge to you.

I am putting out a challenge for all you to make a difference in ONE child’s life this summer, even if for just one afternoon.  Volunteer at a school to read to kids, to do arts and crafts, teach a sport or just offer to be a place for them to hang out and not get into trouble.

If you are a teacher, the sky is the limit what you can do with these kids.  Volunteer your time, or maybe you can even get paid for your summer help (it will help buy the bread, peanut butter and jelly).  Make a difference in just ONE child’s life this summer and it will come back to you tenfold.

You might even find that you like children a little bit more next year when you start up your school year (because usually, the kids that hang with you in the summer are your trouble makers).  You may find out the trouble makers really aren’t bad kids at all, they just need ONE person who they know really cares about them.  That just might be you!

Have a great summer and make a difference in just ONE child’s life this summer!

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When was the last time you had dinner with your family?

It is the meal we often skip because we work late, the kids have sporting events or we get tired from daily activities. But, skipping dinner with the family is detrimental to the family dynamic.

Family dinners are more than just a meal. It is about the only time that families have to share time through the week. Whether you sit down to the dinner table or enjoy a meal on tray tables and a movie in the family room, the important thing is that you are together.

There are some interesting facts surrounding family dinner time. For instance, teens that spend dinner time eating with their family are less likely to get involved in drugs, alcohol or other illicit activity. This is a point many parents will find interesting. Out of all of the things you do to try to keep your kids away from bad influences, the one thing that is the greatest influence is still the event that we skip routinely.

Why is dinner so important? For one thing, it is a time to share thoughts and feelings. All day, kids are influenced by teachers, friends and the outside world. At the dinner table, they get a chance to connect with their parents on tough issues like schoolwork, peer pressure, friendships and other things. They can each share and help one another with helpful suggestions. Parents can even talk about work or family finances over a meal.

The main point is that conversation is taking place. The average parent talks to their child less than 40 minutes a week. It takes a second to say “Hi” when you come in at night, but that isn’t effective communication. When dinner is shared by the family, you spend at least 45 minutes to an hour talking about everything and anything that may be on your mind. Even if you are watching a television program, engaging questions can arise from topics addressed in the program.

Young children learn how to communicate with their siblings and parents. They are the center of attention with questions about their day and it makes them feel happy. You know that kids always want to be in the limelight when they are a certain age and this helps them learn to share the spot with others.

For teenage girls, body image is everything. Learning to prepare and eat healthy meals with their families is a sign that eating right will keep their bodies in shape and not avoiding food. Teen girls are less likely to become the victim of an eating disorder but develop a healthy view of food and their bodies when they eat dinner with their families.

There are many benefits to eating dinner with the family. It is a time for meaningful communication that leads to stronger self-images that resist the urge of drugs, alcohol and other destructive behaviors in your kids and teens.

If you would like to find out more about families eating together and how you can work and still make a home cooked meal, please visit DineWithoutWhine.com

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