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I met Carrie Lower when I was discussing my work with another potential client and she told me to get in contact with her marketing manager…who happened to be Carrie.

Carrie inspires me because she not only is a mom…she is ALSO going to school to get her doctorate! Talk about inspiration—woohoo…you go girl!

Please see below my blessed interview with Carrie Lower of CL Consulting and Administrative Services:

When did you start your business? I can’t remember the exact moment I went from being an avid reader to author support. But about 2001, I started helping friends create their own business plans, as well as connect them to the resources they needed to make those businesses successful. After working this job as a hobby for several years, after a divorce and my 4^th layoff from corporate America in almost as many years. I realized that I didn’t need to look for a new career, I had already been doing it.

Please tell us what your business CL Consulting? I do marketing and business consulting for small business owners and Entrepreneurs. Mostly I find myself working with authors and others in the media and entertainment industry, working with them to get their marketing and promotion plan formulated and implemented

What made you wish to start your business? I have been doing this on a volunteer basis since 2001. After being going through my forth corporate layoff/reorganization and buy out in almost as many years, I realized that I already knew what I wanted to do with my life. I love helping people

What would be your 3 top tips to let others who are new in business for themselves?

Find something you are passionate about. What makes you want to get up in the morning. Make sure you have a solid plan about how you are going to make it work, don’t forget about the money side. Hope for the best, plan for the worst. and Most important… JUST DO IT!

What is the one subject that you would like to know more about either in business or in general?

My 7^th grader’s Honor’s algebra and advanced math classes just absolutely fry my brain.

What is next in the upcoming year for you and your business?

I have started to branch out in helping businesses attract corporate sponsors. Working on proposals, and approaching companies to sponsor events, websites, blogs, book signings or even print runs for an author’s books. I am also working with PIVTR to start setting up virtual book signings.

Here is a fun question just for fun sake. What is your favorite color and why? Purple, Not just any purple, but the electric purple. It is a bright color that cheers people up. The first coat that I was given when I got out of the Army was from my mom. She decided I needed something other than camo, olive drab and black. So she gave me a full length bright purple coat. The coat is almost 14 years old and I just haven’t found any other that I like as much. I like how I feel when I wear it, and now that my mom has moved on from this world, sometimes when I need to feel closer to her I grab a purple quilt that my daughters and I put together and curl up in it.

How can people get in contact with you? My website is www.clconsultingsvcs.com I spend my days working on the computer. So Email: clconsultingsvcs[at]sbcglobal[dot]net, Yahoo IM clconsultingsvcs or Skype me at carlower1

Thank you so much Carrie for your patience and understanding (we had a bit of technical difficulty the morning of this interview. Also, at the time of this post, I am still needing to find out how to get the audio to play on the blog)
Also, thank you for your connections to help me fill up the schedule for Moms Coffee Break with some incredible guests for Dec and Jan.

It is my pleasure to introduce you to a lady who inspires me because she thrives on sharing her creativity to others through her songs, drawings, paintings and her writing.

Here is my interview with Pam Sargent. Thanks Pam for the honor of interviewing you.

Please tell us a bit about yourself.

My name is Pam Sargant. I am an artist/writer/singer/songwriter and the owner of Delaney Imaging where I create original images for websites, print books and e-books as well as music for podcasts. I am the mother of 4 children and stepmother of one and have run a daycare off and on for over 20 years. I am the oldest of 5 children and grew up in a small village in northern Ontario.

When did you start writing?

I always enjoyed and excelled at writing compositions all through my school career and of course, I was always telling some story or another. When I got married and had children of my own, I set aside writing as well as my dream of singing on the stage for a while, but some things you just can’t stay away from.

 

Please tell us what your inspiration for writing the book?

My children and the children have provided me with a lot of inspiration. The necessity to occupy so many of them and keep some semblance of order in the house was another source of inspiration, especially when I started my business.

Can you tell us a bit more about the books?

Mother’s Survival Kit, and Christmas Survival Kits are just that, a survival collection of crafts, games, cartoons, songs, and coloring pages with a recycling theme, to help entertain and occupy children when they are full of the “Mommy I am bored!” complaints. This is a selection of activities that are easy for kids to do, with products that are around every home. Projects that can be done together as a family.

For others out there who wish to write…do you have any advice for them?

The first bit of advice I ever got and hold dear is from one of my favorite books, Little Women, and that is to write what you know. Write what you are passionate about. Also, research your topic thoroughly. Take what you know and expand on it.

 

What is next in the upcoming year for you regarding your writing?

I am starting plans for an Easter Craft book. I also have a cartoon series that I have started. Right now they are available online at my website http://www.pamsargant.com.

Here is a fun question just for fun sake. What is your favorite color and why?

Every time someone asks me that, I automatically think red. I think because it’s bright and cheery and was always my favorite color to color with when I was young. However, I have a great affinity for dark green. It’s so natural and reminds me of the evergreens from back home where I grew up.

How can people get in contact with you and to purchase your books?

Anyone can get in contact with me by writing to delaney2@sympatico.ca. You can purchase my books through my site at http://www.pamsargant.com

To listen to the podcast

Last month, I attended a Law of Attraction Intensive Seminar hosted by Kim Emerson and Jenn Givler.

Now, this is the 2nd time I attended their seminars and you may wish to know why. I will tell you. The reason I attend is because each time I go, I learn something VALUABLE to use with my business and once I incorporate even one technique or method….I see success in my life and my business.

At this session at the LOA Intensive Seminar the main focus was about being deliberate and bringing on focus. You may say to yourself, “Geez, Teresa that is easier said then done.” Well, I may agree with you normally, HOWEVER, I have to tell you that by taking ONE, just ONE thing they told me to do, it has changed my business for the better. No kidding.

Register NOW: The 3rd LOA Intensive Seminar on November 28th.

Here is the one thing that I took away from the seminar (and this is ONLY one of the subjects they talked about).

Jenn and Kim were talking about not getting wrapped up in the mindset of being stuck and why is this happening to me or why don’t I have more clients or why isn’t such and such a person calling me or emailing me back? Jenn called it “the white-knuckled grip” on our business. Some business owners or entrepreneurs focus on what is NOT happening and either continue to focus on that or just stop dead in the middle of their business path.
She used an example of setting the goal of receiving 5 clients each week (I swear she was reading my mind!) Well, instead of concentrating on the why they don’t call or email…it is best to concentrate on positive ways to bring them to you. By sending positive energy and being deliberate in your actions by doing and focusing on them becoming your client any second or day then you are placing POSITIVE and celebratory energy.

Jenn said she combats the “white knuckle” feeling by journaling every morning and writes down her intentions for the day.

That statement got my attention. At first I was thinking about writing a to-do list HOWEVER, then I replayed the statement in my mind. What she said was WRITE DOWN MY INTENTIONS for the day. She didn’t say write down ALL the things I WISH I could get done in one day. But WRITE DOWN MY INTENTIONS for the day.
I really liked that statement of writing my intentions for the day.
Well, then I thought, that I can and WILL do.
So the next day, that is what I did first thing. I sat down at my computer and while it was starting up for the day, I wrote down my intention for that day (work on promoting and marketing my services). Then I thought to myself…ok, that is good. Now, I am going to write down “all” the things I need to do in order to get those clients I want. WAIT!! STOP!! That is not what I heard the night before and all that was going to do was to frustrate me because at the end of the day I wasn’t going to be able to do ALL the things there was to do in order to promote and market myself to get more clients.

Promotion and marketing in any business is a continuous action, so thinking these tasks only have to be done one time or every once in awhile, you would be mistaken.

So for me to think that I was going to hit every site and person I could spread the news about my business in one day…well, that is plain silly. And on top of that. It wouldn’t be effective either.

Then I decided to write down 5, yes, just 5 tasks that I really wished to accomplish in my day. I also decided that if I completed those tasks before I was done with my day, I could then continue and write down one or two more items to complete.

Here is the outcome – Since I have started to write down each day just 5 things and been deliberate in completing them, I have accomplished ALL of them AND completed more. By doing this, there isn’t any more feelings of disappointment or frustration.
Each day I feel successful and fulfilled because I COMPLETED my intentions for the day.

Now, being deliberate in my actions…let me explain how I did this too. One thing I may have on my list is to call a bill or setting up an appointment. Before I would have put this task off because in my mind I would be thinking, “That is only going to take me 2 minutes so I can do that later”. HOWEVER, by the end of the day, this wouldn’t get done and then I would have to remember to do it again and it will have to be written on my next day’s list of things to do.
And where did that lead….GUILT, FRUSTRATION, DISAPPOINTMENT.
Now, I put it on my list and I DO IT. Right then…and it is DONE. It doesn’t have to appear on my list again.

That is taking deliberate action.

Of course now, being a part of the seminar doesn’t mean you the business owner or entrepreneur do not have to do anything. YOU do need to DO the action and MAKE the steps to GET to where you want to go.

So, as Kim might say…if you would like to “retrain your brain” and I am adding, “and not strain your brain”

Sign up to be a part of this 90 minute seminar
Believe me, you will NOT regret it!