It is finally time (Yippee!) for an Official Back-to-School Happy Dance 25% Off Sale!

Yes, it is true. In an effort to celebrate (meaning actual “Happy Dancing!!!) all children heading back-to-school, our 25% off Sale has begun…

For 7-days only, we are holding a special Back-to-School Sale on all of our products for business and personal success.

This is our gift to you, to thank you for being a SMART WOMAN and playing with us as we all work towards creating more positive change in the world through entrepreneurship!

The sale begins TODAY, Monday, August 23, and is available only until Monday, August 30th at Noon Pacific.

To claim your discount, use the special promo code BONUS2010 at checkout and receive 25% off all of our best-selling products!

Click here http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/products to shop our catalog this week and save!

Here are just a few of the products you can save on this week!

To your success,

Sheri McConnell
Smart Womens Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

Welcome to all of our new Smart Women Members!  I hope you are having an amazing week so far.

I read Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh last weekend and I was so excited to read these words in the last few pages: “If you keep asking yourself ‘WHY?’ enough times, you’ll find yourself arriving at the same answer… happiness.”

Having just written a bestselling book myself on the question of WHY and why it is so important, I was delighted to see that Tony proposes the same philosophy for life and business.

You’ve been asking for it and now it is here…  Learn more about Marketing 2.0 now!

This is a brand new marketing course detailing all of the latest Marketing 2.0 Strategies and how to use them efficiently and profitably.  This comprehensive and truly unique course even comes with a brand new 100 Marketing 2.0 Ideas Workbook and much much more!  Learn more about this new course here and if you early register and save, you even get a free ticket to our November Smart Women Business Conference and Expo when you early register.  What ARE YOU waiting for?

Smart Women Business Conference and Expo – Speakers
This week’s Featured Event Speaker is Kris Carr, a best-selling author, filmmaker, and motivational speaker. She is the subject of the inspirational documentary, Crazy Sexy Cancer, which she wrote and directed for TLC and Discovery Health.

Her awarding-winning books, Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips (foreword by Sheryl Crow), and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor(foreword by Marianne Williamson) are must-have manuals for triumphing over disease while shattering stigmas and embracing a holistic approach to recovery.

As an irreverent foot soldier in the fight against disease, Carr inspires countless individuals and their families to make the link between personal and planetary health by adopting a plant-based diet and improving lifestyle choices. Her witty anecdotes, and tips for tackling adversity motivate her audiences to become empowered wellness activists.

Check our all of our amazing Smart Women Event speakers here: http://www.smartwomenevent.com/speakers

Have a great week,

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

PS – This “intro” was taken from our latest newsletter.  Not getting our newsletter?  Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

Welcome to all the brand new Smart Women Members this week! I love the summer because of all the extra family time and beautiful weather… but I love back-to-school time a lot too because everyone gears back up to get ready to finish the year out with some real results. If you find yourself having a hard time getting motivated for Fall, then take a peek at this news segment when I was on Memphis CBS. I spoke about how asking WHY can really help you shift whenever you need to, especially when the economy shifts. You can see the video and some of the other suggestions I made on http://www.smartwomentv.com

Smart Women Business Conference and Expo – Speakers

This week’s Featured Event Speaker is Rhonda Britten – Emmy Award-winner, Oprah guest – is the Life Coach on the highly successful VH1 reality show, Celebrity Fit Club, and founder of the Fearless Living Institute, an organization dedicated to giving anyone the tools they need to master their emotional fears, as well as the author of four national bestsellers including Fearless Living which features her groundbreaking work called the Wheel Technology. During her three seasons on the hit daytime reality drama, Starting Over, Britten was named “America’s Favorite Life Coach” and was dubbed Starting Over’s “Most Valuable Player” by The New York Times. She is a globally recognized expert on the subject of fear and fearlessness. Rhonda has written several national bestsellers based on her principles, including Fearless Living (translated into 12 languages), Fearless Loving, and Change Your Life in 30 Days. Her latest book, Do I Look Fat in This? Get Over Your Body and On With Your Life, alters the way we see, and our relationship to, our body.

Check our all of our amazing Smart Women Event speakers here: http://www.smartwomenevent.com/speakers

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

PS – This “intro” was taken from our latest newsletter.  Not getting our newsletter?  Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

Dear Smart Woman,

So many of you have written us over the past few weeks after listening to our Create a Network Preview calls at http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/teleseminar
asking for a “self-study only” way to learn how to Create and Grow A Profitable Network.

Even though we highly recommend the Create A Network Course that starts tomorrow at http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/createnetwork because you will be able to take advantage of live Q & As and hotseats, we did want to provide you a cozy way to learn since you are requesting it. But you have to act quickly because our best-selling product is finally being updated and rebranded…

Since we are in the process of rebranding our current GIA Blueprint and Tool Kit program to the Smart Women’s Institute, we are offering a huge 50% liquidation pricing on our best-selling GIA Blueprint and Tool Kit for the next 5 days!

After Friday, August 6th, you will no longer be able to purchase this comprehensive program and it will be gone forever.

And don’t worry, everyone who purchases the GIA version of the Blueprint and Tool Kit this week, will also receive the future updates as downloads. So you can print out the new information on your own and add it to the manuals you already have… but at a much lower price than the new version.

So if you are ready for a cozy way to learn at your own pace, take action today and make sure you grab this exclusive program at the lowest price ever at:
http://www.gia-connect.com/blueprint-kit

If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to contact our team.

To your success,
Sheri McConnell-CEO

PS
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to the preview calls we offered on a few weeks
ago on this program, just visit http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/teleseminar

We covered:

Preview Call #1 – Why A Network?

This call has already happened…  Download Immediately After You Register Above!

•Learn Why the Network/Membership-Based Business Model Is More Powerful Than Any Continuity Program
•Learn My Easy Formula for Choosing the Perfect Association Name So that the Search Engines Love You and Your Future Members Get It
•Plus More!

Preview Call #2 – Let’s Talk Money and Mindsets

This call has already happened…  Download Immediately After You Register Above!

•3 Ways To Make Six Figures In 12 Months With My Network Model
•The Single Most Important “Strategy” You Must Understand or You Will Not Be Successful
•Plus more!

Preview Call #3 – Freedom and Leadership Leverage

This call has already happened…  Download Immediately After You Register Above!

•5 Ways The Association Model Allows You To Maintain Your Freedom
•Why You Should THINK BIG and CREATE AN ASSOCIATION Now
•Plus More!

www.sherimcconnell.com

PS – Smart Women Business Conference & Expo now open.  Did you know that a free VIP Ticket is included in offer above? Check out the event at http://www.smartwomenevent.com



Title: A Smart Women’s 4 Simple Steps For Building a Foundation for Business Brilliance

with Jessica Eaves Mathews

On this call, you will learn:

(1) Make it a Brilliant Beginning (entity choice, how to prevent losing that entity status, handling business funds, etc….):
(2) Protect Your Brilliant Ideas (copyright and trademark basics, NDAs, etc…)
(3) Setting up A Brilliant Website (what to have on your website, including Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Earnings Disclaimers; following FTC rules on affiliates/testimonials, etc…)
(4) Working Brilliantly with Others (how to use contracts to protect yourself and your relationships, working with independent contractors, hiring employees, etc…)

Date: July 13th at 2 pm Central (Noon PST, 1 pm MST, and 3 pm EST)

Jessica Eaves Mathews’ Biography
Jessica Eaves Mathews is America’s Advocate for Women in Business. She is passionate about helping women launch wealth-building businesses infused with authenticity & passion.
Jessica is a seasoned business lawyer, advisor and coach for business owners and entrepreneurs. She is also a multi-passionate entrepreneur herself, having launched a number of successful
ventures of her own throughout the past 15 years.

Jessica has had a wonderfully successful career as a lawyer. She has spent her career representing businesses and business owners, from solopreneurs, to mom and pop stores and restaurants, to professional service-providers to Fortune 500 companies. She has even represented some of the most successful and most wealthy entrepreneurs in the world. She has been there in every phase of the business life cycle from start-up on.
She has also been a successful entrepreneur in her own right for almost a full decade.

However, she has always suffered from entrepreneurial ADD because she has never wanted to be defined as “just a lawyer.” Her heart has always been drawn to creating businesses out of her creativity and passions. And over the years, she found that her clients, friends and family regularly sought her out for advice, support and guidance on how to launch and run their own businesses. As a result, Jessica shed her role as “just a lawyer” and realized her own dream of devoting her time and energies to helping women business owners reach their own dreams and goals through their own businesses.

Her Business Brilliance™ brand is dedicated to empowering women with the tools they need to create a life of personal and financial brilliance through entrepreneurship. Through her dynamic Business Brilliance Blueprint™ programs, books, live events and ezines, Jessica guides women entrepreneurs through the emotional and practical steps toward a rock solid business that empowers and liberates women to have a brilliant business and brilliant life on their own terms.

Jessica’s professional activities include:
• Expert blogger for StartupNation (www.startupnation.com),
• Adjunct faculty member for the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning
(http://www.sherimcconnell.com/faculty/),
• An eLearning expert for MOMeo, the online community for mompreneurs
(http://www.momeostore.com/index.html),
• An expert on the up-coming reality life makeover show for women on the Oxygen
network, 180: Life and Style Makeovers,
• Author of the soon-to-be-released book, Brilliant Business, Brilliant Life: A Woman’s
Handbook to Having it All! (release date: August 2010).
She also has a successful golf clothing line for women called Grace & Game Golf,
www.graceandgame.com.

In her free time, Jessica loves spending time in her Corrales, New Mexico home with her daughter, where they ride and show their Arabian horses, play with their three, silly, large doggies, and enjoy the New Mexico sun.

How do I Register?

This is a monthly bonus teleseminar for Smart Women Members. If you are a member already, call in details are on your Member login page. If you need your password, e-mail us at support@smartwomeninstitute.com

Not a member yet? You can join now and enjoy this teleseminar and so much more at Membership Benefits.

Welcome to all the new Smart Women Members this week!

I just returned from one of my favorite masterminds ever (see pic below). We had such a great time networking and mapping out the next set of concrete plans for their businesses. After the mastermind, my family joined me in Marina Del Rey, CA and we went to the beach a few times and Disneyland while we were there. (You can check out the family pictures on Facebook if you would like.)

And please keep an eye out for our big book launch next week (June 30th!) of Smart Women Know Their Why. We will have a lot of bonuses for you from the Smart Women Institute when you purchase the book on that day.

Have a great week,

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

PS – This intro was taken from our latest newsletter.  Not getting our newsletter?  Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

Leaders, Creators, Big Thinkers, Coaches, Teachers, Authors, Writers, Conscious Business Owners, Spiritual Leaders, Emerging Entrepreneurs, and Successful Entrepreneurs

“The world will be saved by the western woman.”

Dalai Lama (September 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit)

Are you ready to do your part?

Hi Beautiful Soul,

My name is Sheri McConnell and I am the founder of two global networks (the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning and the Global Institute of Associations) where I have been inspiring women and men just like you to live their passions and create positive change in the world through entrepreneurship.

I love the Dalai Lama’s quote above.  And I personally believe  it will be the “entrepreneurial” woman that saves the world! I know, it is a bold statement for sure.  But bold statements lead to bold action and to much needed positive change.

To make sure you are ready to do your part in saving the world, I am hosting what will be a life changing magical 3 day event this Fall!

The Smart Women’s Business Conference and Expo is designed to empower and encourage growth from within—which is exactly what our society needs right now!

Join me and over 300 other women and men as we reconstruct what it means to live on purpose, live in passion, and live profitably!

During Day 1 you will learn about the Most Powerful Business Models that exist in the world today!

• Learn the most important strategies for the fastest growth of your business online and offline
• Learn key strategies that position you and your company for the highest payoff
• Learn how to leverage a top notch business image that allows you to graciously lead with purpose
• How to create boundaries and structure your company processes for more balance and freedom
• Plus so much more!

During Day 2 you will learn about the Most Powerful Mindsets you should have on your Entrepreneurial journey!

• Learn how to think like and act like a CEO so you can leverage the highest ROI on all of your future joint venture partnerships
• Learn the core behaviors of visionaries and why and how these behaviors allow you to adapt to A New Way of Being that invites even more high-level success
• Learn how to structure your Funnel for strategic long-term growth
• Learn multiple marketing strategies and completely map out your core marketing campaigns for 2011 before you leave event
• Learn how to plan the “Big Picture” and understand the micro processes
• Arm yourself with knowledge on “Equity” and future “Exit Strategies”
• Plus so much more!

During Day 3 you will learn about the Most Powerful Behaviors you should have to Attract Health and Wealth Into Your Life and Business!

• Learn how to use the powerful “why” question in your business and in your life
• Learn how to tame the high-energy entrepreneur into a focused and graceful leader
• Learn how to build and empower a virtual and local teams that allow you to run your global company from your home office or an outside office
• Plus so much more!

*Agenda Subject To Change

The Smart Women’s Business Conference and Expo will be held in Los Angeles, California at the beautiful Sheraton Gateway.

The Sheraton Gateway offers complimentary shuttle service to and from the Los Angeles International Airport.  And as a benefit of being a registered attendee of our conference, we have secured a special room rate of $109 (plus taxes).

VIP Champagne Networking Party

During the you will also have a chance to network and listen to our talented and dynamic speakers! Be one of the 1st 100 people to register and attend our VIP Champagne Networking Party and meet some of them in person!  All VIP Attendees will receive VIP seating and special recognition of VIP status during conference.

Only for 1st 100 people–Register now!

Smart Woman Box of Goodies
from our Smart Women Office Supply Store
(Receive upon registration at conference!)

Visual Smart Tools
(Receive throughout the Conference!)

We love visual tools because they anchor the lessons you will experience during the conference.  When you get home, you can use your conference visual tools to stay focused!

Smart Women Business & Marketing Planner
Shipped as soon as you register for conference.

This Bonus is only for 1st 100 people–Register now!

The Smart Women’s Think, Take Action, and Grow Rich Guide

Go Behind the Curtain of a Multi-Million Dollar Mastermind of Female Entrepreneurs

(Learn How They Think and What They Take Action on to Grow Their Millions!)

Shipped as soon as you register for conference.

This Bonus is only for 1st 100 people–Register now!

Create a Timeless and Focused Marketing Plan for Your Business
As you probably have heard by now—you aren’t in the business of (fill in the blank here). You are in the business of marketing. Your marketing must be automated and systemized. Period.

Create Passive, Income Generating Information Products
Create your own advances and get paid to create information products. Many, many target markets are considered “information hungry”.

Build Your Most Important Asset… Your List
Success on the Internet is about providing high-quality information, solving problems AND the list.

Use Social Networking Sites Such As Facebook, Linked In, My Space, and Twitter
Used strategically, social networks extend your brand and funnel thousands of new leads into your business funnel each and every quarter.

Create A Very Profitable Internet Launch for Your Information Product or Book
Set up correctly, these launches generate thousands and tens of thousands dollars of income, new leads for you, and all your partners.

Create Your Own Certification Program
Certification programs aren’t just for large companies. Solo online entrepreneurs can also benefit from building and creating a certification program within their company.

Build Your Own Virtual Team
Learn how to find, build, and manage a virtual team. The key to “leverage” is the team. We all have weaknesses. Don’t make the most common entrepreneurial mistake: thinking you can do it all.

Approach, Create, and Solidify Long-Lasting Joint Ventures
All successful businesses are built on thriving relationships–on and off the Internet. And with all relationships, you should focus on who and how you attract partners.

Know Which Publishing Options Are Right for YOU
Learn what your publishing options are and make a choice based on the path that is right for you based on your personality, strengths, and weaknesses.

Double Your List Size With A Virtual Event
One of the best strategies for growing the list is an online virtual event with multiple partners or joint ventures. Give customers free access and structure the event correctly and it is a huge list builder.

Develop Your Intuition
Most entrepreneurs spend so much time focusing on all the “outside” stuff that they forget to get help on learning how to “think” like a CEO. Your success and ability to run a profitable company depends on your leaning how to develop your CEO intuition.

Use Visual Tools To Set Goals and Stay On Track
All successful entrepreneurs incorporate visual components into their strategy planning. They spend as much time planning as they do in the marketing, operations, finance parts of their business.

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If you want to learn more about your 12 Hightest ROI’s, please check out
The Smart Women’s Blueprint for Growing Your Business Online – Fast & Easy.

http://www.sherimcconnell.com/products/growingonlinebiz

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Want To Use This Article In Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete blurb with it:

Sheri McConnell is the CEO of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. and the president and founder of two national organizations, the National Association of Women Writers-NAWW and the International Association of Web Entrepreneurs-AWE. Under the same corporate umbrella she is also the owner of two high-level product and consulting companies: Create Your Group and My Millionaire Friends. You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about all four of her companies at www.sherimcconnell.com. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a weenie dog, and two cats.

All Four Kiddos in Mom and Dad’s Bed

Seth and Hannah before they went to an Aggie Game