Expanding Your Circle of Influence Increases Traffic
Posted by Melody Campbell on June 19, 2009 · 5 Comments
The key to building your coaching business online is being seen where your ideal client is looking, or at least hanging out, even if they don’t know they’re “looking” you can be seen – when the time is right.
So it started on a Monday, we both showed up and connected; then by Friday we both showed up and did a fabulously inspiring show.
What?
Two coaches showed up on each other’s Twitter stream on Monday. Actually we’ve probably been following each other for 6 months. I’m seeing her tweets but not really seeing her tweets. Not sure why. But then on Monday one of the tweets really get’s my attention and I reply. Back and forth we tweet.
Am I ready for the answer? Yes, I AM ready for the answer. She sends a tweet with a link to THE life changing video. Life Changing? Yes in 24 hours I had a major breakthrough because of this simple interaction.
I send her a thank you tweet and offer to write a testimonial in gratitude for her intuition and generosity to share. By Friday morning the blog post is prepared with the story (much more detailed than this) on her blog. We’ll all set to Tweet about it and share the power of Law of Attraction and Twitter.
On Friday, early in the morning another twist enters this story. My scheduled guest, Maritza Parra, emails me that her voice is gone and she needs to reschedule. The Get More Business Show will go live with no scheduled guest.
I email an invite to my new treasured Twitter friend but she never receives until much later in the day. Fourteen minutes before the show I announce I have no guest but I’ll open the lines for listeners to ask questions – guess who my first caller is?
If you guessed that it was my new Twitter friend who had so profoundly touched my life, you’d be right. We did an hour long show discussing how opportunity and the answers we seek are all around us but sometimes our thoughts and perspective do not allow us to see because there is no framework for reference.
The moral of this true story could be any or all of the following:
- Marketing can be much more effective with proper use of Law of Attraction
- It’s amazing what happens when you make your self available to opportunity
- Setting your intentions gives you the ability to see what you’ve been missing
Are you hanging out with your ideal prospect?
- Social Networks – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning groups
- On your own blog – how often do you post to be seen by those that are looking?
- YouTube – You have so much to show and say – Just do it! You’ll get better.
Here’s the link to much more details to this story over on @AffirmingSpirit / Nancy Barry-Jansson’s blog. The story will make much more sense if you read her story and she even share’s the links to the life changing video’s that impacted me.
I am looking forward to hearing how you are learning to “see” opportunities all around you by expanding your awareness.
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Hi, Melody,
For the longest time, I’ve been pondering that businesses need to understand that success is not just about the *doing* (strategies, marketing plans, articles, blogs, etc.) which is stressed by most business experts, but about completing the *inner work* first. As a solopreneur for that past 15 years, I have an intimate understanding that without completing the inner work, little of the outer work will matter.
Despite having hit the hay at 2am on 6/19, I woke right up at 8:15am on 6 /19 and sat up to meditate. In meditation, I kept thinking about my blog post (link above) and getting on Twitter. I’d set the thought aside and it would pop back up!
When I finally got on Twitter, I saw your tweet—just 5 minutes before your 9am Pacific live call—explaining the lack of guest and asking for folks to call in. I knew in that moment that I needed to pick up the phone and call. I did, and we ended up doing the very impromptu Law of Attwaction show!
It is my sincere desire that all of the listeners begin to understand the importance of their consciousness and feelings in creating a successful, thriving business! Let’s get business talking about how they can be more successful with greater ease than they ever thought possible!!
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Many blessings,
Nancy
@AffirmingSpirit
[...] UPDATE: I posted this in the early hours of 6/19, and later that morning logged back onto Twitter just 5 minutes before Melody’s live weekly Get More Business BTR show. Her guest was unable to join the call, and she was asking for folks to call in. I did, an here is the recording of the show we did an impromptu show about the “Law of Attwaction”. Please submit your comments or questions below or at TheSmallBusinessGuru.com. [...]
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.
Melody, thanks for this post. We all get so caught up in marketing and forget that we are indeed marketing to humans. I love this story. I had a similar experience with @AffirmingSpirit. When I asked her to be on my radio show, she took the time to talk to me on the phone for almost two and a half hours and it was sheer magic. She was so insightful. Literally, she started coaching me just by sharing so much wisdom and love.
She is amazing.
As a matter of fact. Let me go over to her blog right now and send her some comment love.
Thanks for doing a great job, Melody. You are such a remarkable resource and you show up fully for us coaches. Thanks.
Iyabo Asani.
http://www.AuthenticChangeCoach.com
Coach Iyabo! What a delight that you would bring your genius to share comments on my blog! We are indeed in such good company with Nancy (@AffirmingSpirit). What a treasured friend she has turned out to be – and she saved the day on my show. I have received wonderful feedback from that show topic.
Oh, my gosh! You get to do a show with her too! what a show that will be, huh?
Thank you very much for the compliment that I show up fully for coaches – makes me think of this very touching video that I saw posted over at one of my favorite smiling friend’s blog. You’ve got to watch this!