Monetizing Your Passions: The Truth About Making Money with Teleseminars

If you’re like most people, you have a wealth of information that your customers and clients would benefit from learning. Information that can change the lives of your customers and make you lots of money. So what’s wrong? Why is that some people make tons of money with their information while others struggle to do so?

Find out when I interview Kathleen Gage, Internet Marketing Advisor. Learn the very strategies she has been using to generate thousands of dollars every time she hosts a teleseminar.

Here’s what you will learn…

-Discover what you need to know BEFORE you develop a teleseminar in order to be wildly successful.

-Find out how to effectively market your teleseminars for practically nothing while attracting lots of listeners.

-Attract hundreds (even thousands) of eager buyers.

-Avoid the 3 major blunders …Learn what you must and must not do in developing and delivering teleseminars to avoid the mistakes most people make that prevent them from making lots of money from teleseminars.

-Avoid costly mistakes …. Discover what works and what doesn’t when it comes to making money from teleseminars.

-Plus! Find out one thing Kathleen does that guarantees she always fills her sessions and makes thousands of dollars with every FREE teleseminar she hosts.

-And much more!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday has always been a special day in my life. I can remember as a little girl in school how we used to always write essays about his life and his legacy, and our school would usually host a special program with music and dramatic readings and reflections on his contribution to the life of our nation. I was always the only Black child in my class until college, so I was especially proud of the one day that we celebrated the most famous Black person in American history.

For me, Dr. King stands as a living testimony to the fact that indeed one person really can make a difference in this world. In his case, it was a monumental difference. This year the celebration of Dr. King’s birthday seems to have taken on a special significance because if falls on the day before we inaugurate the first Black president in the history of the United States. President-Elect Barack Obmama is the living embodiment of Dr. King’s dream that we would be judged not by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character.

Now that we have a federal holiday set aside to honor the life of Dr. King, it has become the custom to use this as a day of service rather than being just another day off. This year in addition to joining in a community service project, people are being asked to skip lunch and donate the amount that they would have spent on lunch to a local food bank. Here’s a link to the national day of service project where you can sign up to participate in a service project in your area.

I am thrilled at the progress that we have made as a society in my lifetime. We still have far to go before we can enjoy true equality in this country, but we are taking important steps in the right direction. I hope that as he looks down on us from heaven, Dr. King is pleased with how we have handled his legacy. I am teaching my children that they can be and do and have whatever they want in life, and that the color of their skin or the fact that they were born a woman should have no bearing on their aspirations. My grandmother always said that our reach should exceed our grasp. And so I will ask you, what are you doing to honor the memory of one of our greatest heroes? How are your actions teaching those around you that we are all equal in God’s eyes? We don’t all have to live heroic lives and become martyrs for the causes that we believe in as Dr. King did, but each one of us has the power each day to take actions that will change the world for the better in small ways.

Google Friend Connect has been out since last summer, and I’ve been hearing a bit of the buzz surrounding it lately. The other day I decided to go ahead and install it on my blog and see what happens.

First, I should begin with a quick explanation about what GFC is all about. GFC is google’s attempt at providing data portability. Meaning, google is working with pre-existing standards like OpenID, OAuth, Open Social, and Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. SO, when a user logs in to a GFC widget on a blog or web site, they can do so using their user name and password from any of the above-mentioned sites. Having a GFC widget on your site allows you to bring aspects of a social media site to your own blog.

I’ve added just the widget that displays friend’s pictures, but there are other widgets that allow members to leave comments, add video and snippets of audio. I’ve only had the widget up for a few days and already I’ve seen a tiny boost in traffic. As GFC becomes more popular I am sure that traffic from it will increase and the community building aspect will also develop as well.

I’m not usually an early adopter, but I’m giving GFC a whirl and we’ll see how it goes.

A friend of mine named Sydney Chase, hosts a fabulous podcast called, the Indigo Room. The tagline of the show is, “It’s a spiritual thing you would understand” This podcast has a spiritual focus, and Sydney interviews guests who do energy healing, teach about law of attraction and things of that nature.

Now Sydney has come up with a wonderful new service to help people start the day off feeling positive and getting a reminder of their intentions before they dive into their busy days. It’s called The Good Rising Program. I am personally recommending this service because I am familiar with Sydney’s work and I know that you will enjoy getting a taste of her brilliant spirit, her energy and her enthusiasm to help inspire you each day and fuel your progress towards your life’s goals. BTW, I am not an affiliate of hers I’m simply trying to give her a bit of exposure on my blog. Please take a moment to look at the Good Rising Program.

I’m always on the lookout for creative ways to re-purpose and monetize my content. I found another web site where you can either share or sell your content, and network with other writers. Whether you create written documents, photos, videos or audios, youpublish.com provides a place for you to share your knowledge and expertise with the rest of the world.

In addition to the revenue that you can earn by selling your own digital creations, you can also earn a commission when people that you refer make purchases.

Here are some links to a few of the publishers I found on youpublish.com :

Christian Eric Hoffman

Michelle Yozzo Drake

Mr. Answer Man

So, go check out youpublish.com and create your free profile. Then find some digital content to share or sell and you’re ready to go.

Colleen Slater, an Aussie blogger, has laid down a 30 Day Blogging Challenge. If you want to participate, you simply need to join the challenge and then commit to writing a blog entry every single day for 30 days.

She has arranged for some cool prizes, and everyone who enters the challenge will get a copy of her new video blogging ebook. Each blogger who blogs daily over the 30 days will get a free blog critique from Colleen.

Sounds like fun and there’s nothing like a friendly challenge to get one’s butt in gear and fingers clacking away on the keyboard.

I will be the first to confess to love of books and an unbridled addiction to buying books. I have loved books for as long as I can remember. Reading widely helps to inspire me as a writer while it also feeds my spirit. As a consequence of this love of books, I have always been surrounded by a vast collection lining my walls and stacking up on every available surface. But, since I currently live in a small apartment in the city where space is at a premium, I have to maintain some kind of control of the inflow of books into my home. There is no more room for bookshelves, so I have resorted to putting some of my books in boxes. Those boxes are now stacking up and, well you know where this is going. At the end of last year I came to the obvious conclusion that it’s time to let some of my beloved books go. I began sifting through the boxes ruthlessly editing down until I had gathered a few nice stacks of books that I was willing to part with.

I spent the whole afternoon on Saturday on Amazon listing them by describing their condition and setting a price. When buyers search for a book title, they can purchase it new from Amazon, or buy it used from second-hand book dealers or individuals like me who are selling from their private collection. I managed to find a couple of jewels that made this process that much more rewarding. I found one first edition hardcover book that is OOP, Designing Knitwear, by Deborah Newton. I also found a softcover book that I picked up from a box of free books that a neighbor had set out on the sidewalk one summer afternoon. The title of the book is, Frogs Into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. I’m not an NLP practitioner, but the book caught my eye because John Grinder came and gave a lecture at my college when I was a student. I remember that his speech had quite an impact on me, although at the time I had no idea of who he was. Anyway, when I was listing it, I discovered that I have a rare first edition that was published in 1979. There are two other copies listed used on Amazon in the $90. price range.

The exciting news is that by the end of the day I had already sold one of the books I had listed. So, while I won’t grow rich selling off my surplus books, it feels good to be able to recoup some of the money I spent on them. It also feels good to know that these books will be moving on to the hands of someone who will make use of them.

I was listening to the audio replay of the ‘Ask the Blog Squad‘ Q&A teleseminar call, and I picked up an easy to implement productivity hack that I have already put into place today. (How’s that for taking fast action?)

The first step in the equation is your blog. Keep it updated on a consistent basis with content that, “educates, engages, entertains and enriches the lives of your readers.” (The Blog Squad)

The next step is to go to the ‘Notes’ application on Facebook and enter the URL for your blog’s RSS feed, so that when you update your blog with a new post, your Facebook profile will be updated as well.

Finally, the third part of this dynamic little triad is a fabulous little twitter application called twitterfeed.com. You simply enter your twitter name and password and the URL for your blog’s RSS feed, and it will send a tweet whenever you update your blog.

So, now your Facebook pals and your Twitter peeps can be the first to know when you’ve added fresh content to your blog. Easy peasy, no?

Happy New Year! I begin the new year with an exciting announcement and shameless promotion. One of my new writing gigs is writing the new ‘Healthy Living Forum,’ on the From a Writer’s POV Network. Take a look at this fabulous online magazine that has some great writers and lots of good articles on a variety of topics. Please go take a look and let me know what you think. Feedback is very valuable to me because it helps me to keep on improving the quality of my work.

For the writers out there, you’ll want to join the From a Writer’s POV Network. It’s a great place to meet and interact with other writers. I have started a group on the network called, Twitter for Writers. This group will have lots of ideas that writers can use to make the most of twitter.com for gaining exposure for their work, and engaging with your audience.