Today is Go Red for Women Day

Did you know that today, February 6th is Go Red for Women Day? That’s right. Go Red For Women is the American Heart Association's nationwide campaign to wipe out heart disease, the #1 killer of women. This effort celebrates our power to band together and fight back. One in three women dies from cardiovascular disease—and that number is simply too high. The good news? There's something we can do about it. It's time to take charge and give your heart the love it deserves!

Companies and individuals are going red for women today by wearing red (Macy’s is a major sponsor and has a huge Wear Red Sale today), joining the Go Red for Women movement www.goredforwomen.org, and more. When you sign up as a coordinator/ host you'll get free, downloadable tools to help you plan and execute your Wear Red Day. They're available on your registration confirmation email. Get your company involved and host a Go Red for Women Reception. Give every woman who is wearing something red a small gift from your company or a sponsoring company.

By joining the Go Red For Women movement (it’s free), you become part of the fight against heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women in America. Your involvement in the movement can help save lives of mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters, grandmothers, best friends, and other women just like you!Here are some of the things you receive when you join the Go Red for Women movement:

♥ A red dress pin you can wear proudly to show you're part of the movement

♥ A monthly e-newsletter (opt-in below) filled with heart-healthy tips, events and programs, news, recipes, promotions and more

♥ Access to exclusive merchandise on Shop Go Red with proceeds benefiting Go Red For Women

♥ Access to the American Heart Association's message boards, where you can connect and share the ways you Go Red, including favorite motivational tips and recipes

♥ Free subscription to Heart Insight magazine, the American Heart Association's quarterly publication that gives you authoritative, practical advice on cardiovascular health

♥ There’s also Conversations from the Heart: A Go Red For Women Discussion Guide to get the conversation going about heart health. Share it with your HR representative, employer, coworkers, family, friends.

♥ You can read personal stories & share yours

♥ Take the Go Red Heart CheckUp


By wearing red and making a donation, you'll help the American Heart Association support ongoing research and education about women and heart disease.

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Internet Marketing and Minding Your Manners

Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing two experts, one spoke about Protocol and multicultural manners and the other spoke about Using the Internet to Grow Your Business.

Lisa's program was geared toward doing business globally and international protocol. She is an expert in protocol for the business and corporate environment and had some great global business resources to share. You can reach Lisa at GetGlobalized.org.

Access Lisa Finan's interview here: Lisa Finan of GetGlobalized.org ~ Minding Your Multicultural Manners.

JB Glossinger is an internet marketing expert and motivational coach. He focused his program on Internet Marketing and spoke about viral marketing, social media and how he has used it to become the number one personal development website in the world. You can learn more and join JB's community at MorningCoach.com.

Listen to J.B. Glossing founder of MorningCoach.com here: Viral Kung Fu: Is Your Business in the Game? The Future of Internet Marketing.

Each of these experts shared a variety of tips, and ideas to help you in the global marketplace.

If you have any ideas for future interviews, would like to be notified of upcoming shows or have an expertise you’d like to share with the members of the Women’s eCommerce Association, please email me.

I’d be delighted to hear from you.

Heidi

Heidi Richards Mooney, Founder & CEO – The WECAI Network - http://www.WECAI.org
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Using Social Media to Grow Your Business

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Debbie Weil, author of “The Corporate Blogging Book” about how to use Social Media to Grow Your Business.

Debbie was an engaging, interesting speaker with a wealth of information. In her interview, Debbie answered questions about the definition (and misnomers) and future of social media, as well as what tools are hot today.

She talked about who is effectively using social media in business giving great examples such as Dell’s success on Twitter and how they can directly relate $1 million dollars in revenue to their guy Richard@dell and how he has effectively engaged twitter fans to drive business. Debbie talked about Southwest Airline blog ~ Nuts about Southwest, how Jet Blue uses Twitter to notify their followers of flight updates, changes, cancellations and delays.

Debbie gave several tips including the importance of our Digital Footprint and how we must be providing useful content if we want to reach and engage our circles. She also talked about how blogs are now replacing traditional websites and actually becoming websites using blogging platforms.

Debbie gave some great resources including books to read and shared her own free ebook ~ 7 tips to Write a Great Blog, which you can access at www.DebbieWeil.com.

To listen to Debbie’s interview, visit: http://www.redheadmarketingblog.com/audio/DebbieWeilSocialMedia.mp3.

To learn more about Debbie, visit her website: www.DebbieWeil.com.

To join us for our next interview (Wednesday January 21 at 11 AM EST), Mind Your Multicultural Manners with Lisa Fanin, send me an email at heidi(at)wecai.org with Mind Your Manners in the subject line and you will receive instructions on how to attend this free event.

And on that same day at 1pm J. B. Glossinger will be talking about ViralKungFu: Is your business in the game? The future of Internet Marketing. J.B. is the founder of MorningCoach.com, an online community that has quickly blossomed into the world's largest personal development Website. From Argentina to Zimbabwe, loyal listeners in more than 80 countries tune in daily to hear his podcast, skyrocketing it to the top spot on iTunes Health. In addition to his work on MorningCoach.com, J.B. also founded the innovative media-marketing firm ViralKungFu, Inc., a company specializing in social and traditional media. JB is a personal development coach, a well-regarded keynote speaker and the author of Get Out Of Neutral. He has an MBA and a PhD in Metaphysics. You can no longer rely only on your traditional marketing plan. The Internet continues to explode with new and proven methods to target your market. If you want to continue to attract and retain customers, you need to have an effective Internet marketing strategy. During this interview, J. B will show you how to lay a strong foundation for your Internet marketing plan and more.

JB’s session is $27 to register. To join us for his session, go to this link and sign up PAYPAL. Once you do, participant instructions will be sent.

Everyone who registers for J.B’s Viral Kung Fu will receive a link to his session afterwards.

CYBER Monday and Specials

December 1st is Cyber Monday ~ Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States that falls between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. "Cyber Monday" is meant to encourage consumers to make purchases online they could not make during the previous weekend which started with Black Friday. Cyber Monday sponsored by the National Retail Federation's Shop.org division, has evolved into a significant marketing event, in which online retailers offer low prices and promotions. (Source: Wikipedia)

In recognition of Cyber Monday, I too have some “special offers” for my readers.

They include:

#1 Grow Your Business Audio Program on sale for only $39.95!
Sign up for How to Grow Your Million Dollar Business? Audio program, based upon the Summit which took place September 18-20 and 23rd is available at $97 now only $39.95. The complete audio program now includes 20 interviews, a 90+ page workbook and several bonuses. And over the next few weeks we will also be offering additional sessions on “Attracting Million-dollar clients,” “How to get Million-dollar Publicity” and more. You don't want to miss these. Here's what one person had to say about these sessions:- Heidi I was blown away by the huge names that you managed to gather together on the one teleseminar series. Just one of these speakers would have made the entry price a great deal. I have learned so much from these speakers (and how wonderful is it that most of them are female!) I feel that they have opened my eyes to a big new world and I am implementing right now some of the suggestions that I heard. Very inspiring! Now what shall I spend my first million on...? Katherine Reschke, Business and Mindset Coach ~ http://www.passionsthatpay.com

To get your copy of this program and attend the upcoming interviews go to http://www.GrowaMillionDollarBusiness.com today. Unadvertised BONUS: Purchase this audio program and you will also receive a complete set of your choice of one of our other popular audio programs. Visit: www.WomensSuccessSeries.com for more information


#2 MOVING SALE ~ Heidi has a limited number of copies of Life Compass for Women available – Now thru December, grab an autographed copy for $4.95 (plus shipping) ~ Regular price is $14.95. This Indispensable Guidebook on Life Management for Busy Women features 16 of the top experts on Life Strategies. Every copy you buy, I will also include a copy of her “What’s Your OccuPlaytion” Motivational Book (value $6.95). This book makes a great holiday gift. Need several copies?

Send a message to Heidi@speakingwithspirit.com with Life Management book in subject line. And you will get and additional 25% off four or more copies. For more information and to grab your copy ~ Visit: http://speakingwithspirit.com/books/life-compass-for-women/ (FYI we are moving our offices January 1st and won’t have the space to store them. If you take all 29 copies we have left, I will make you an offer you can't refuse!

Have a wonderful week... and may the specials be yours!

Heidi

3 new events Friday November 7th

10 AM Eastern ~ How to Live the Good Life on Zero Ca.sh with Simone Kelly-Brown CEO of Own Your Power Communications, a company dedicated to personal growth and business development www.ownyourpower.biz. In this session Simone will discuss how to Leverage Bartering in Today’s Economy including when it’s appropriate to barter, things you have readily available that you can use to barter for those things you want and more. Heidi heard Simone’s program at the Own Your Power Retreat in Miami in September and that very week created her very own barter opportunity saving her hundreds of dollars. We are delighted to bring Simone to you so you too can learn How to Live the Good Life on Zero Cash.




11 AM Eastern ~ ”How to Create a Follow-up System to Save You Time AND Grow Your Business” featuring Heidi Caswell and Heidi Richards Mooney (The Follow-Up Divas).

In this teleseminar, the Follow-Up Divas will talk about the importance of staying in touch with your clients, and how to effectively follow up with them without spending a lot of money. They will talk about a variety of stay in touch mechanisms such as email, telephone and greeting/postcard and other direct marketing ideas. You will learn new strategies for following up with leads that can save you time and money and create loyal customers and clients for life.



5PM Eastern ~ How to Create an Effective One-page eCommerce Website with Ginger Marks Founder of Documeant Designs www.DocUmeantDesigns.com. In this session, Ginger will discuss the steps necessary to create an effective one-page website, The type of questions we need to ask, and what we need to do to prepare to work with a designer. What information we need to provide, etc. Should we have a contract? All this and more. Ginger is the creator of the Grow a Million Dollar Business Sales pages ~ she did such a fantastic job, Heidi had to share the experience with our members.

To RSVP for any or all of these sessions, send a message to Heidi@wecai.org with 1st Fridayz™ in the subject line.

Note: Elite and Lifetime Members of the Women’s eCommerce Association receive access to the audio files of all these events (pre-registration required). Everyone who registers for Ed Peters’ event will also receive access to the audio files.