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I have to say, I really do enjoy working on the internet because you never know where you will find some great valuable or just neat information that makes you stop and think for a moment.
Here is how this journey began:
Today I was reading the “tweets” (the small posts on Twitter) and came across this one from Jenn Givler titled, “The best thing about niches I’ve found in a long time”. She talk about a post from her friend Gina and how Gina discusses about even though business owners (she is talking more specifically for healers) would like to be helping everyone with our products or services that it is better to help the amount of people we can successfully help at any given time. Because if we are helping too many, we lose the importance of what the meaning of helping others is….we exhaust ourselves and we begin to fade.

Well, after reading the post, I noticed that Jenn had written another post called “So Many Ideas…So little Time” in which she talks about her conversation with Marcia Francios about organization.

In Jenn’s post she was talking about this great organizational seminar Marcia is having in July called the Virtual Organising Seminar. You need to check it out (here) because she is going to help you organize your office DURING the seminar…how cool is that!

Then while looking at this page I noticed a tab on Marcia’s navigation bar labeled Meet Marcia. I read the beginning of the story and it was nice to know more about her. Then I read something I will be doing on my site today and that is 25 things I never get tired of. Great way to end an about page.

Add a “Things I never get tired of” piece to your website or blog “About Page”.

Last Friday, I had a pleasure of meeting some ladies whom I have communicated with via email however, most of them I haven’t heard their voice.

Well, one of these lovely ladies is Terri, The Pop Art Diva. I heard Terri’s voice last friday at the Boomer Diva Day event and there were a few things I truly enjoyed—
1) The confidence in her voice – She knows who she is and she really likes who she is—Yes, I could hear that over the web conference room
2) The passion in her voice – She enjoys what she does and shares the joy with others – she was talking about her art and showcased her many talents.

Today, Terri, twittered about her post on creativity and how it was featured on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch!

Terri mentions how those whom are creative have a hard time believing the value of their creativity —the art, music, painting, sculptures, etc.

To me, when you create something from scratch, you have created something unique and special…there is definitely value.

However, if you don’t value yourself, how can you value what you bring to others?

So, I believe it starts with yourself and how you feel about who you are and then it can expand to others around you.

Remember you have great value and thus your creativity and art has value.

I have to tell you, Friday at the Boomer Diva Day was quite a wonderful day. Not only was a surrounded via a web conference room, with friends and support by lovely business women who were online to celebrate and have fun. (We almost sang in unity “Happy Birthday” to Beverly).

We started a bit late due to a few technical difficulties however once the ball got rolling it kept on going!

We started with a vendor presentation with Kathy Porter with Mia Bella Candles – hmmm, smell so great and they are good for the environment because they are made from soy.

Then we had our guest speaker, Heidi Richards, founder of WECAI, talking about “30 tips to increase your social media presence in 30 days”

**A few of her tips include:
–>start a blog and keep blogging on a fairly consistent basis
–>leave valuable comments on other’s blog in your target market
–>start a profile on other social media networks such as Linked In, Facebook and Twitter

We then heard from Donna Borque from Passion Partiesabout how to spice up our lives.

Then we shifted gears and Rosie Horner chatted with us about her Blog Management System. She comprised a compilation of forms to help the beginner or even the most advanced blogger organize their blogs.

Afterwards, Terri, the Pop Art Diva, showcased her businesses and artwork – Her artwork is so BEAUTIFUL you need to check these out!

We moved onto talking with Debbie Mormino about Breast Cancer Awareness Don’t forget that men can get breast cancer too.

Barb Ireland from The Sample Cake then chatted about these great business promotion tool!

Heidi Caswell showed us how to utilize Send out Cards for our home and business.

Heidi is also wanting to see if we can send 1000 cards to the troops in Iraq. If you want to help her in her efforts, go here http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/remembering-loved-ones-iraq/

Stephanie Fish, owner of BuckeyeVA, talked about how she can help other business owners with their administrative tasks.

Dr. Sally Witt joined us to talk with us about her many business ventures such as video and audio interviews along with her consulting services.

We talked about the Product Seller’s Seminar in September that Michelle Waters is hosting to showcase experts and speakers in the industry.

Special Note to Yana Berlin and Fabulously 40.com. Thank you for your continued support.

I am excited to be a part of this wonderful online event hosted by Beverly Mahone, founder of Boomer Diva Nation and author of Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey into Middle Age.

The event is the 2nd Annual Boomer Diva Day celebration in honor of Baby Boomer Day will be on June 20th from 10amEDT-3pmEDT in the WECAI web conference room at http://www.wecai.org/ewednesdaychat.exe
This is a time of celebration and fun for boomers all over the world who are (as the motto of Boomer Diva Nation) “On the Move and Making a Difference”.

I hope that you will join us for the wonderful event and join in on the fun, community and support for Boomer Divas everywhere!

Also, we are so excited and honored to have Heidi Richards, founder of WECAI, to be the speaker of the day to talk about Blogging for Business.

Here is the updated schedule (times and vendors may change):

Time (all times are EST)
10:00-10:15 Welcome/Greeting

10:15-10:30 Kathy Porter – Mia Bella Candles

10:30-11:00 SPEAKER: Heidi Richards – Blogging for Business

11-11:15am Passion Parties rep, Donna Bourque

11:15-11:30am Dortha Hise – Avon

11:30-11:45 Break/Networking

11:45-12pm Rosie Horner – The Blog Management System Organize Your Blogging Today!

12-12:15pm Terri – Pop Art Diva

12:15-12:30pm Debbie Mormino – The Breast Cancer Diva

12:30-12:45pm Lisa Fredette –BeautiControl Rep

12:45-1pm Sharon Williams- The 24 hour Secretary

1-1:15pm Barb Ireland The Sample Cake

1:15-1:30pm Heidi Caswell (http://www.connectsimply.com)

1:30-1:45 Stephanie Fish, Buckeye VA http://www.buckeyeva.com

1:45-2pm pending vendor

2pm-2:15pm Dr Sally Witt (http://www.drsallywitt.com)

2:15pm-2:30pm Michelle Waters , Product Sellers Seminar

2:30pm-3pm Networking/Giveaways

In honor of Effective Communications Month for June, I decided to do one of my weekly post at Sparkpluggingabout just this subject; Effective Communication for the Virtual Assistant.

Do you have a website that is frustrating you because you are just not seeing the results you want? Have you done everything (or you at least thought) you understood to do on your site, but the traffic isn’t were you think it should be?

Well, Michelle Waters, owner of Watersweb Solutions, LLC would like to have the opportunity to help you out during the summer when things may be running a bit relaxed for you and you have time to slip it into your schedule.

This is the time to get your site up to snuff and ready for those customers (just out sunning themselves, they will be back)

Are you ready to get this going?

Michelle is ready to work with you to revitalize your website or blog, built with marketing principles that will make the sales process easier for your customers, with a website that’s easier for you to work with.

I have teamed up with Michelle to offer some of my virtual administrative and online promotional services for some of this SUMMER “reconstruction” service packages.

Follow this link to find out the details about these summer packages from Michelle Waters and I to help you boost your business over the summer

Heidi Richards posted 73 Bloggers to Watch in 2008 by Heidi Richards on her Virtual Women’s Day blog

So, I thought I would check out a few of these lovely blogs and share my thoughts:

Bad Ass Ideas by Samantha Warren – First of all, how could I resist with that title, right? But seriously, once I did get on the blog, she has some really neat stuff on there. Coming from her web designer perspective she has posts about events, resources, businesses and such that she is interested in but things I hadn’t even known about and I feel that is what blogging is about. Sharing things that mean something to you and you would like to share with others.

Customers Rock! by Becky Carroll- This is a topic near and dear to my heart (as it should be to everyone in business. Becky gives right tips and advice about customer service, retention and loyalty. Here is a great post I found on her blog What Makes Great Customer Service?

Business Golf Blog by Suzanne Woo – Now I am not a big fan of the game of golf (please don’t hit me with a 9 iron), however, I like the uniqueness of this idea and see how it would be of help for business owners. From what I do know of golf (my ex husband was engulfed in the game), it does take a tremendous amount of patience and strategy to make your game better. The game also demands persistence amount of consistency. Here is one of her blog post I liked Are You in Control on the Course

Real Words from a Real Writer by http://kathrynvercillo.com/blog/ Kathryn Vercillo. As a writer myself, I am interested (obviously!) in what others have to say about the written word. That is probably why I love to read as well.
Kathryn wrote this post,My writing on the web and it contains some great tidbits of information about different subjects. Right up my alley!

Heidi, thank you for sharing this list with us because you allowed me to add a few more blogs to my blogging community.