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Dear Smart Women,

Welcome to all the new Smart Women Members this week! So happy to have you as part of the Smart Women Family.

Would You Like To Be Published In Our Next Book?

The Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning is proud to open up the opportunity for you to participate and be an author in the 4th book in the Smart Women SERIES(TM).

This year’s book title Smart Women Live Their Why – How Women Entrepreneurs Are Living On Purpose and In Passion will be a compilation of tips, advice, inspiration, and stories from successful women who live all over the world.

The mission of our latest book is to empower women who are just starting their entrepreneurial journey as well as those women who have been in profitable businesses for decades. We want to remind people to never negatively compare the beginning of their journey with the middle of another persons. Instead, we want them to feel the potential and the possibilities in front of them when they read our stories.

Find out how to participate in the book and our next event and virtual expo at:

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/authorlivewhy

Take Care!

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

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 Women,

Welcome to all the new Smart Women Members this week! So happy to have you as part of the Smart Women Family.

Just in case you haven’t seen the emails about this opportunity, we wanted to let you know that we have just a handful of spaces left. We did extend the submission deadline to the 22nd because so many of you were writing and wanting to do it, but only just saw the opportunity. So now you can, if you act fast and get over to this page and secure your spot today. And then you have over 10 days to write 3 pages. No problem!

You can find out how to be in the book as well as all the authors so far who are slated to be in the book at the link below. Many of you wrote and asked for tips on the writing process. Make sure you check out last week’s article on just that. There are so many benefits to this book project, please make sure you read the entire page ASAP so you don’t miss out: http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/authorlivewhy

We only do a compilation book every few years. And remember, the difference between successful people and those still on the path trying to get there–successful people say “yes” faster so they can move to the next great opportunity!

Take Care!

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

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!

Watch this brand new Pricing Mindset video now! This one can “change everything” if you really listen and then take an honest inventory of your own beliefs systems.

(Chapter 15 Excerpt of Smart Women Know Their WHY)

Your relationship with money and how you feel about it determines your success. Period. If you feel shame when you have debt or if you are paralyzed when making a certain investment because of a relative number, then your money mindsets are affecting your results. To be successful, it’s crucial to begin a lifelong study of healthy mindsets and behaviors where your money is concerned. Mindsets are energy, just as money is energy. And you can literally attract money by learning how to experience money in a healthy way. Here are three money mindsets you can learn that will help you grow your business.

Customers Want To See You Invest In Your Business Before They Are Willing To Invest In You

Have you ever visited a website and subconsciously decided this website wasn’t worth your time or money? Of course you have! Internet visitors do it everyday. Yet, many business owners think they can convert website visitors to members without putting their best foot forward. They expect visitors to log onto their less-than-stellar site and invest in them when they first aren’t willing to find a way to invest in themselves. Trust me, I know cash flow issues. But if you understand the basic rule of “invest in your website and your customers will invest in you,” then you’re ahead of at least 75% of businesses existing on the Internet today. And it doesn’t cost as much as you would think. The costs have come down substantially over the last five years as innovative new companies have popped up to serve online businesses. There are three core areas I have my clients invest in to get the highest ROI on their websites. They are:

• Invest in the latest technologies, such as WordPress.org, that allow you to integrate multiple innovative plugins and blogging software.
• Invest in professional copywriting or invest in learning the skill yourself.
• Invest in a good designer who understands converting visitors to paid customers and/or members.

Spending Money Creates An Energy Flow And Customers Are A Form Of Energy

Money loves speed. People love speed. Since money is energy, it likes to flow. Business expenses literally create a flow of money going out and create a space and vacuum for money to flow back in. If you aren’t spending any money on your professional development or your business, you are literally turning off the faucet to the flow of money in your company. If it doesn’t flow, it doesn’t come in or go out. Of course the goal in business is to create a positive cash flow. Cash is “queen.” As in all laws of the universe, it’s your job to find the right balance of high ROI expenses to allow revenue to flow back in. Some high ROI places to encourage positive customer energy (or customer conversion) are:

• Marketing and advertising
• Customer support
• Development of tangible passive income infoproduct

Business Debt As A Leverage Tool

Another area that almost all business owners struggle with at one time or another is the shame they have when incurring debt. Know this: a healthy business has debt during many phases of business growth. Debt is a growth tool and a form of healthy leverage you use to move yourself and your business forward. To leverage business debt exponentially, plug into passive income producing business models (see examples in Chapter 10). Cash will then flow back into the business even when you aren’t working.

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 the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning (formerly the National Assn of Women Writers-2001). You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and grab lots of free stuff at http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a weenie dog, and three hermit crabs.

The Global Institute of Wealth for Women shows women entrepreneurs how to create personal financial freedom in a new, fun, and easy way. The mission of the Institute is to revolutionize the way women are taught about money and building wealth and to show them a step-by-step system to financial freedom. “The 8 Steps to Wealth” is a step-by-step process to build wealth discovered by founder Linda P. Jones. She believes it is the reason why some people are rich and others aren’t, and that building wealth is simply a matter of the right habits, mindset, and knowledge and can be taught to anyone!

About Linda P. Jones

Linda P. Jones describes herself as a “Wealth Advocate” and believes her mission in life is to bring more wealth to the world and to show others the roadmap to financial freedom. She is CEO and founder of the Global Institute of Wealth for Women. Linda grew up in a middle class family in an affluent Seattle suburb, the youngest of 5 children, and at a young age she began to question and search for the answer to why some people were rich and others weren’t?  Linda read Think and Grow Rich when she was 10 years old.  Over the years, she read many investment books, books about positive thinking♠, and biographies of wealthy people. In her quest to understand why some people were wealthy, she earned a Business degree from the University of Washington, became a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), and worked in the investment industry over 25 years, representing many of the industry’s best money managers and overseeing an 8 state territory with over $200 million of investment sales annually. While in her 20′s, she discovered an 8-step process that she feels is the reason some people are rich and others aren’t. Putting “The 8 Steps to Wealth” into practice made her a millionaire at age 38. At 39, she made $1 million in one year. Linda writes a financial column for the Examiner.com in Los Angeles and StarLee magazine for women entrepreneurs, and is the financial expert for Star 101.5 FM radio in Seattle. Linda also donates her time as a member of the Board of Directors of SightLife, an international non-profit organization which facilitates sight restoration through cornea transplants and as a member of the investment committee of the Sunset Club.

Get your FREE “Wealth Action Plan” and video mini-course online at:

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Connect with Linda:
Phone – 425.922.0991

Email – Linda@VisionaryWealthNow.com

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The Power of Focusing on Transformation by Sheri McConnell
(Excerpted from Smart Women Know Their WHY)

Want to know my favorite business building secret?

Focus on transformation. The true way to create positive change in the world is to focus on the transformation of others. When you help other reach positive results in their lives and businesses, you also win.

Money is actually not the reason at all that people do or do not buy something. Money becomes relative in business when you focus on transformation.  Said another way, when people really want the transformation you are selling, the price melts away.  They will actually pay whatever you tell them to pay if they need the transformation you provide.

Most people will never believe the paragraph above. The have too many emotional attachments to the value of money and what it means for them. Yet, this concept above is what I know to be the truth for myself and hundreds of one-on-one clients I have coached and consulted with over the years.

The next time you sit down to create a product or service in your business, ask yourself the following questions so that you can focus in on WIIFT (What’s In It For Them).

• What is the transformation?
• What is the outcome or result of investing in the product or service?
• What are the consequences of your clients not investing in the product or service?
• What do they (your target market) want already?
• What have they already asked you for?
• What is their biggest source of pain?

Your job is to focus on making sure your products and services provide the tools for the  transformation you promise. Now you can’t promise transformation itself. It is a journey that only your customers can take on their own. And many of them won’t take it. Do not have attachments to their results. They have to do the work to grow… but it is your job to provide the tools to allow them grow faster and easier.

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 the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning (formerly the National Assn of Women Writers-2001). You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and grab lots of free stuff at http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a weenie dog, and three hermit crabs.