SHOUTING!!

I'm totally freaking out!!

Janelle Elms put my business card in her newsletter today!! Whoohooo!! I'm so excited!!!! What a thoughtful person, she took the time to write about a few business people she met at the Crave Show...her comments were complimentary and sincere...thank you very much Janelle!!!

A little background (I'll try to be brief).

I've been "inventing" web-businesses for a couple of years...and since my sister is very talented and extremely creative, I've been excited to get her on the bandwagon because I'm having so much fun. Fast forward, she is taking a leave from her job and I was telling her about Ladies Who Launch, StartupJunkie, and CRAVE...turns out she signs up for a Ladies Who Launch incubator and then invites me to her last meeting as her guest (I was in HEAVEN with all of these super-women in her incubator with great ideas)!!!

Without dragging this out, we attended the Crave Show in Seattle this weekend (yay, Melody!) which was fantastic! I can't believe it is this event's FIRST YEAR! It was SO well done, even the directional signage was absolutely FIRST CLASS! Anyways, there were AMAZING speakers and I noticed my sister was talking to (gasp) THE EBAY LADY, Janelle Elms!!! I couldn't help myself but shake her hand, she is so DARLING and actually invited the handshake (no stuffy snobbiness about her!!)

Anyways, that's how I got in the newsletter.

Wow. That made my day! (That and the wonderful day I had with my daughter today!!)

Here's the text from her newsletter: Having a really long post like this makes me look really important, so I'm including it...ba ha hahahahaahaaaaa! Besides she gives REALLY good advice that could benefit someone out there!

Four Seasons Fragrance - This amazing woman handed me her business card after one of my sessions. Her best entrepreneurial feature? 'Shouting' about her business. I have a great newsletter ½ completed that I need to get out to you guys about shouting from the mountaintops to everyone who will listen (and a few who won't) about what you sell. You never know when the person in front of you will be a buyer or they'll know someone who should be your buyer. Lesson #3 - always be 'shouting' about your business. I was delighted to find a well-thought out, eye-catching business card that was 'pitching' on both sides (as you can see in the photos). Her beautiful website consistently matches the look and feel of her cards...and as I got more into the site I loved all of the little wording details that really enchants t he buyer. (She) has done a great job at 'allowing me to give her money' - lol.
The only thing I would change about how she is doing business is to get her to buy some of the other 'spellings' of her website. (another one who I couldn't find today to tell her which url's to buy). Lesson #4 - don't let your competitors get traffic from YOUR hard work.