Procrastination Lesson

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Need I say more : - ) Enjoy!

Big News If You Do Conference Calls

Here's a brand-new conference-call service that is going to
really make a difference in your business.

NConnects

I'm signing up (it's a free trial after all) and
I encourage you to do the same.

Here's that link again to click on:
NConnects

Finally, we have backup telephone numbers if there is a problem
calling in on the main number - AND can you believe this - REAL
customer support.

The online control panel is a breeze. I've been waiting for at least
a year to find a telephone conference that I can rely on.

Hope you try it, if not for you, for your client.

Warmest,

Kathy

Its the Teleconference Service you've been waiting for

I've been looking for a Conference Call service that works,
that you don't get dropped off, that you don't get "all circuits
busy," has good line quality, you can record and they don't
charge exorbitant fees for. I just got off the line with
Rick Raddatz who has come up with my solution and maybe
yours.

Rick Raddatz is launching another new service.
This time it's a conference call service with
features never seen before.

Check it out here:

NConnects

If you don't know who Rick Raddatz is, he's a
former Microsoft product designer who started his
own company. Every year or two he comes out
with a major new product that raises the bar in
a different product category.

This new service 'NConnects' is in pre-launch
phase. He's giving away $500k worth of free
service during the pre-launch contests he's running.

Again, check it out here:
NConnects

If you are frustrated with your current
service, you should give it a try.

Kathy

15 Ways to Use Assessments to Gather Information and Attract Customers

Assessments are being used in a variety of ways throughout the coaching, career, employment, health, and even to test employees’ knowledge about the jobs they are doing. Jobs like customer service, software knowledge, hardware knowledge, management style, and what type of career a person would be most suited for can be tested and analyzed by giving a simple assessment.

Assessments are used to determine the category or type of career, coach, fitness coach, relationship preference – if you have a service to sell, assessments can be used to engage your website visitors who will want to know more about what you have to offer. Having your website visitors “test themselves” without obligation is a terrific way to gain your respect and keep them coming back. Assessments are great tools for the initial opening conversation. If there is a form to fill out, use assessments and same yourself time and money.

1. Employers - create a personality assessment. Pre-hire personality screen assessments specially built for your company are most important when you are making a hiring decision. Make them fast, easy, and fun. Assessments are an easy tool to suggest that people with certain personalities are best suited to certain careers. See if your potential new hire will fit in your company culture.

2. Real Estate Agents - create an assessment to determine the type of residence that is best for the visitor to your web site. Assessments can be used to determine the price range a potential buyer can afford.

3. Customer Service – create an assessment to analyze how an employee is representing your company when he/she answers the phone for you.

4. Software Tech – create an assessment to determine the depth and type of software a potential employee will best fit into the company. Help employees demonstrate any new abilities by letting them take assessments several times a year.

5. Hardware Tech – make sure your employees and potential employees can address the problems that will be presented to them by your customers – re-assess their abilities a couple times a year. Assessments are appropriate when the knowledge, skill, or ability they measure can clearly be shown to be job-related and is not easily trainable once the person is on the job.

6. Coach Training – help your coach trainees determine their niche or coaching type they are best suited for or the type of clients they should pursue. Using the knowledge gained through assessments, the coach can encourage and support the development of the trainee and enable the trainee to connect more powerfully with others.

7. Coaches – use online assessments for your in-take forms – have your new client fill in the “discovery” form online. The use of assessments will make your clients and prospects think much deeper than before. Used appropriately, the right assessment is a key part of the coaching conversation. Many forms and types of assessments have been used for many years, in consulting and psychotherapy as well as coaching.

8. Employment Agencies and Temporary Agencies – give your clients assessments to determine the best job they are suited for and the depth to which they know the subject. Assessments are a great time to make initial contact with the career center online and encourage your visitor to come to you for help in finding a job. Having the results of the assessment in hand, a career professional can more intelligently discuss what the client’s needs are and how the career center can assist with meeting those needs.

9. Fitness Centers – Create assessments for new clients to determine the individual’s preferred styles of exercise, his/her motivation and communication preferences, and their fitness goals. A coach/manager account can be established for the trainer to manage and have access to the client assessments.

10. Athletic Teams – Properly designed assessments can determine a team member’s strength, as well as problem areas or emotional barriers that could prevent a player from achieving peak performance. Assessments can help determine the level of stress a player may be experiencing.

11. Clubs – Assessments can be used to determine at what level a person should be put into to properly balance competition, personalities and performance. Tennis Clubs, golfing clubs, even pool tournaments.

12. Business – Create assessments to help people determine the best business they may be suited for, i.e. a franchise, home based, day care. Results can then be linked to additional assessments to determine the type of daycare, for instance, the type of franchise is best suited for a particular person.

13. Relationships – determine where your web site visitors are in their relationships, what issues they are facing, what their goals are for better relationships.

14. Families and Parenting – assessments are a great self-study to help a person learn where they may need help in their parenting or family relationships – why they are experiencing unhappy situations and then offer materials for improving the problems.

15. Employees 3-Way Assessments – 1. Self assessments for each employee, 2. Manager’s productive assessment and finally the HR assessment – combine them for the final annual review.

Assessments are useful to figure out where a person is in his/her current situation to determine how to move forward. Assessments are unique in that they adapt to each person’s ability, accurately measuring what a person knows and needs to learn. In addition, good records can measure growth and progress over time.

Assessments are easy to administer and convenient to use using online tools. They are a diagnostic exercise, carried out by you, as the professional, to consider the current situation of your client, customer, employee or student. Although assessments can be any length necessary, a good rule of thumb is to keep it short enough to keep the participant’s attention and interest. Remember to always add your visitors name and email address to your “prospects” database when they take an assessment.

If you are currently having people fill in forms, you can easily transform those forms to online to complete assessments, have them automatically scored and analyzed, and you receive the results via email, print them out for your file, and view the results online. There are online tools available for creating assessment easily and quickly. I use Assessment Generator at www.assessmentgenerator2.com

Free Keyword Tool - Great Information

I've just been offered an amazing free keyword tool and took advantage of it. If you work with web sites - whether or not you are doing Google Adwords (that's what the keyword tool is really for) you can find some incredible information for keywords to use by getting this free tool. It will help you with knowing about why your competition ranks so high in Google - and that's good stuff to know.

Be sure to watch the videos to see how it works. Frankly, I don't see how they can get away with it and give the tool away for free.

Here is it again: Free KeyWord Tool

Having a problem getting people to stay on your web site?

Hi:

What is the time you have to grab someone's attention once they've landed on your web site - I think it is just a matter of seconds, right? Once you get them there, you want them to stay a while.

It's the age-old marketing issue - I think they call it making your site "sticky." Have you ever thought about giving your visitor something interactive to do the minute they hit your web site? Something fun, informative and something that will give your site a Unique Identity. You've put a lot of effort into building a site that emulates your personality and your product. Your logo, the colors, etc.

Think about putting some kind of assessment on your site to "show" your visitors why sticking with you would be a good thing. If your site is about coaching, check to see why your visitor was looking for you in the first place, or if you are helping with office organization, find out what kind of services they need, etc. An assessment can be the first "free" product in your marketing funnel. You can collect names and email addresses to build your list when you use assessments.

So where do you find such a tool? It's called Assessment Generator

There are samples on the web site, a free trial, ideas for how to use assessments - it's one of the only tools available of its kind.

Enjoy!

Kathy

Article Submission Tool

Hello!

Article distribution continues to be one of the best ways to promote your business and your products. And, article distribution is probably one of the most "not so fun" projects to do.

For the past year I've been trying out a few methods to get my client's articles out there.

The two I continue to use are:

Automatically submit your articles to thousands of publishers at Submit Your Articles

and

the other service I use is:

Unique Article Wizard

Why do I use these - they are fairly inexpensive, they continue to list your articles once they are distributed - they submit to sites that require logins - most article distribution services cannot submit to these sites and you have the ability to make one article into three - so you have triple the number of articles available.

The second site is the site I use to get into all of the other directories - the ones that don't need logins and accounts - so I have them all covered. I can also make the articles into three unique articles from just one article and control how many sites to submit it to each day - that way the Internet is not getting bombarded with the same article one time, but different article over a long period of time.

Give them a try - it'll boost your sales and visits!

Enjoy, Kathy