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Helping a friend in need Fire sale that helps you, too

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There are friends, and then there are friends who would literally do anything they could to help you when the going gets tough.

Kimberly Castleberry is that type of friend. While struggling to stay financially afloat herself, I’ve witnessed her dedication and determination and selflessness in helping others — the two- and four-footed alike, despite her own seriously debilitating multiple medical issues.

Like driving several states over to bring back to her own home an online business friend who had multiple disabling medical issues and living in increasingly dangerous circumstances. In addition to housing her for several months, Kim also worked tirelessly helping the friend connect with friends and relatives in other areas eventually finding her a better housing solution.

Like rescuing abused and starving puppies, and providing a forever home, veterinary care, or new homes.

Now it’s payback time … her friends have come together to help her. See, Kim lost everything in a fire recently. So this qualifies as “true” Fire Sale for her, only this fire will help her move forward. Plus, you get some terrific training and useful products for use in your own business.

This photo shows some of the damage. Kim also lost one of her rescue pups in the fire that gutted her home in the middle of the night.

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You can help Kim while helping yourself, too.

You can help Kim while helping yourself by taking advantage of this awesome (but time-limited) special bundle of products. For a small investment of just $27 you’ll get $1819 worth of training + PLR (Private Label Rights products). It’s a steal of a deal! You can read the details here.

BTW, in addition to proceeds from the Fire Sale itself going to benefit Kim (click here to read details on this page) just to be super clear, I’ll also be donating any affiliate income I, myself, earn when you purchase from my link.

By the way, I already own most of the products and PLR in this bundle so I can attest to the value of what you’ll be getting. Here’s that link again.

Stress Busters: 5 Tips to Living a Healthier Life with guest Cheryl Meyer

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Today’s Fast Action Fridays special guest is Cheryl Meyer, known fondly as The Health Muse. Seven years ago, Cheryl developed autoimmune disease. Her conventional doctor at the time ran a log of tests and declared she should take steroids, but also, “that I should seek therapy because there was nothing wrong with me.”

Today, she’s living a healthy, relatively pain-free life. A significant amount of her success is the direct result of Cheryl’s research and determination to find the cause behind her debilitating stress, increased body pain, leaky gut, and diminishing enjoyment of life.

Her efforts led to information about how a myriad of toxins can affect the body. Taking the lead in her own recovery, Cheryl worked to eliminate those toxins. Cheryl’s now on a mission to help others reclaim their health and their lives.

Click the image to watch our interview

More background about Cheryl:

  • I was an entrepreneur and turned my business over to my staff and started researching. I figured out that I had leaky gut and autoimmune disease. I eliminated hundreds of toxins and figured out how to reduce my stress (My cortisol was almost to Addison disease, but until diseased the response from my conventional MD was “what’s to do”).
  • I was in a toxic relationship which ended because of my sickness, but I met a man who wanted to join me on my get well journey. I married him 4 years ago.
  • Today I am relatively “pain free”. I am working with an amazing Functional MD.
  • My book, It Feels Good to Feel Good, Learn to Eliminate Toxins, Reduce Inflammation and Feel Great Again, has won 14 awards.

Get the Free Resource

Click here to get a free copy of Cheryl’s ebook: The Importance of Releasing Stress All Day Everyday.

Other ways to connect Cheryl:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cherylmhealthmuse1/
Her website: https://cherylmhealthmuse.com/

Your Turn

How’s your body holding up? Are you happy, healthy, and living pain-free? What health issues are you struggling with these days? What solutions have you found most helpful?

Please share in the comments below or in the Rocking Your Path Community on Facebook.

Join me in the 2019 Stretch Yourself Challenge this September

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Are you ready to join me in some stretching?

You can still get early bird pricing and bonuses if you sign up by Aug 8th but there’s great pricing even if you sign up late. Kelly McCausey’s 2019 Stretch Yourself Challenge runs Sept 3rd – 30th.

You get to pick the exact challenges you want to take on. Get great support, friendship and networking, and even some extra help where you may need it.

This is Kelly’s 10th Anniversary Stretch Yourself Challenge year. Don’t miss out on all the fun … and all that you CAN accomplish by challenging yourself this September.

Click here to see all the details and secure your spot.

2019 Stretch Yourself Challenge

How to Use Visual Content in Your Marketing with guest Stacey Myers

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Stacey Myers is today’s Fast Action Fridays special guest. Being the geeky techy gal that I am, I’m stoked. I have learned so much how-to-get-my visual-stuff-done from Stacey that I’m sure you’ll be eager to up your graphics and visual content usage, too. BTW, not all visual content is an image or photo. Just saying.

Here’s the thing about Stacey … not only is she a whiz at talking graphics, teaching graphics, and creating graphics, she can talk about visual content AND bring it all into perspective with facts and research statistics … without being one bit boring. She’s shared a lot so let’s get to it.

Stacey’s business is helping women turn their expertise into a business. One way she helps is teaching them to showcase their expertise with graphics.

Click the image to watch our interview

If you skipped listening to head straight to her free resource below just know you missed out on a lot of great advice and tips. Here’s some of what we covered:

  • Using Visual Content in Your Marketing — (Well, duh! But do you know why it’s so important to include or how easy?)
  • What Visual Content actually is — (it’s not just pretty pictures)
  • How you can easily start adding more visual content into your marketing, especially into your blog posts to entice your reader in and keep them reading to the end, then take the next step with you. — (That’s your goal, right? Yes? Yay! No? Why the hell not? You can’t rock your business if no one’s interested in taking the next step with you. Fact.)

Fun Facts about Stacey:

  • She used to drive a pie van to all the construction sites and they used to call her Racey Stacey as the name of the van was called the Road Runner.
  • She raised $100,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation and had over 5000 people shave their heads. (Wow! That’s a lot of shiny head awesomeness!)
  • Her favorite movie is The Princess Bride. (I’m not surprised. 🙂 )

Get the Free Resource

Stacey Myers Freebie 17 Ways To Add Visual Content To Your Blog Posts

Click here to get a free copy of Stacey’s 17 Ways to Add Visual Content to Your Blog Posts.

Links to Research Stats Stacey Mentioned

Click here for Jeff Bullas visual content marketing statistics. Here for 10 stats from PollEverywhere that show why 2019 is the year of visual content. And, here to read about the 12 Reasons Why You Should Implement A Visual Content Marketing Campaign.

Other ways to connect Stacey:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/staceylmyers
Twitter: www.twitter.com/staceylmyers
Instagram: www.instagram.com/staceylmyers

Who doesn’t want to make marketing their business easier? I sure do … and I happen to love marketing. (BTW, if you don’t, we should talk. I can help. Click here to schedule a no-strings-attached free 15 minute chat with me.)

Your Turn

Where are you on the love-hate spectrum on creating graphics for your business? You love it 10 … or you dread it 0? Or do you fall somewhere in-between?

Do you have favorite apps or tools you use? Do you hire someone to create graphics for you? Please share in the comments below or in the Rocking Your Path Community on Facebook.

How to Avoid Blank Screen Paralysis Using Content Creation Templates with guest Tim Maudlin

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When your work requires you to write and the reality of facing that blank monitor screen or sheet of paper turns your mind to mush, what do you do?

Some wanna-bee (or need to be) writers find the paralysis so debilitating they resort to food or alcohol or something … anything … in hopes of greasing the mental gears.

And some find that a day or two of melancholy procrastination stretches out across weeks, months, and years until the project dies, stuck in the recesses of a creative mind attached to fingers unwilling to put out a wrong word.

There’s a solution for that

Templates. “Never underestimate the power of a template,” says my guest Tim Maudlin. Discover just how much he loves templates and what they bring to the writing process in today’s Fast Action Fridays interview below. Scroll further for access to Tim’s free template resource.

Click the image to watch our interview

More about Tim

Something else Tim loves is T-shirts, not just wearing them (which he frequently does) or hanging them (see the quilt displayed behind him in the video). He loves them because T-shirts can encourage and inspire others.

Says Tim, “I love to encourage and inspire people with my T-Shirts. (T-Shirts are wearable content.) I love to write and create content that inspires.

I’ve gone from T-Shirts that Inspire to Content that Inspires. I call my content Inspire Points. As I created my Inspire Points, I have discovered how much I LOVE templates and what they bring to the writing process.”

Help One = Help Many = Help Many More!


“With my Inspire Points, I try to focus on helping ONE person. I believe helping one person is actually the recipe to helping many,” says Tim.

T-Shirts That Inspire The $89,000 T-Shirt

His love of T-Shirts was inspired by one particular incident involving his two boys and a tornado that swept savagely through his neighborhood. You’ll hear him relay the harrowing story in our interview. But if you’re impatient, head on over to Amazon and check out his book.

Click here to check out T-Shirts That Inspire: The $89,000 T-Shirt.
(yep my aff link 🙂 )

Tim’s mantra is simple:
Do what you can, Where you are, With what you have

Unusual Facts about Tim:

  • When Tim was in elementary school, he and a friend performed a saxophone duet at the Indiana State Fair. On the way to the performance, he met Lawrence Welk in the restaurant of the hotel. Mr. Welk and his orchestra were performing at the fair too. He told Tim to look him up one day.
  • After a tornado destroyed part of his hometown, Tim designed a t-shirt to help raise money for the victims. That one t-shirt raised $89,000.
  • Tim is an architectural Illustrator. He draws buildings before they are built. He has worked on projects all over the world. You might have heard of one his projects, The Mall of America. Tim drew it but has NEVER visited it in person.

“Never Underestimate the Power of a T-Shirt” – Fred Lebow

Get Tim’s Free Resource

  • Click here to access Tim’s free resource:
    3 reasons Why I Love Templates (eBook that includes 9 free templates) Also included in the e-book is the template I used to create all 9 reasons.
  • Other ways to connect with Tim:
    Join his Facebook group by clicking here.

Your Turn

Even the best, most prolific writers occasionally fight bouts of the Blank Screen Paralysis or its predecessor, the dreaded white sheet of paper.

Do you ever suffer from these frustrating conditions? What’s your go-to solution? Have you ever used a template to help you jumpstart the project?

Please share your comments and questions below.

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How to Keep Your Business Safe as Facebook Changes Again

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Posted: July 24, 2019

Keeping up with changes in business and marketing strategies is a never-ending necessity.

And just as Benjamin Franklin pointed out centuries ago, “… nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

These days it seems even truer when it comes to keeping up with Facebook changes. If Facebook groups hold as a strong spot in your current marketing strategy as it does for mine, then keeping up with those changes is vital.

The latest Facebook changes you need to know about

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I’m grateful for my Facebook business friend Stephanie Watson-Barry who shared a link to this post at The Admin Zone by a Lisa. It summarized in bullet-point list detail several key points about Facebook’s upcoming plans.

This is a list I highly recommend you read soon, if not right now. Don’t put it off thinking you’ll get to it later when you’ll be less busy. It’s not just someone’s willy-nilly jaded opinions and guesses about what Facebook may or may not do…has or hasn’t done. As you’ll read in the post itself, the info came by way of someone attending a recent Developer Conference where Mark Zuckerberg himself shared the company’s intentions going forward.

Click here to automatically open that post in a new tab. Then go read it right after you finish reading my advice below. You might even want to print out or save that list as I did to keep handy for quick reference.

5 Reasons Why You Should Care About Facebook’s Plans

  1. Being aware and responsible can help you improve your marketing, prospecting, and networking efforts on Facebook.
  2. Being irresponsible by ignoring guidelines and recommended practices will definitely work against you and your marketing, prospecting, and networking efforts on Facebook.
  3. It’s easy to forget some of the particular do’s and dont’s of Facebook’s TOS, especially ones that seem counter-intuitive. I’ve been guilty of that a time or two, especially when rules changed that I didn’t know or had forgotten about.
  4. Just because you’ve gotten away with breaking Facebook’s rules in the past doesn’t mean Facebook’s algorithms or live eyes on the feed won’t catch you and shut you down in the future. If that happens, and you’ve blatantly ignored guidelines and TOS, don’t cry and lash out at how terrible and mean Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg is and expect sympathy from those who played within the rules.
  5. Don’t be foolish enough to risk your business by relying on Facebook to hold all your business, marketing, and communications eggs in one basket. In business, this is known as having a single point of failure.
    — It’s a bad business model. I don’t care how tight you are on money, time, or know-how. There are plenty of ways to help build an online business without completely relying on free platforms, such as Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.

The Bottom Line

It’s not Facebook’s responsibility to grow your business. It’s your responsibility. Facebook is just one of many online channel platforms that provide you with free opportunities to gather and interact online.

Be responsible and grow your business wisely while you rock your unique path to success.

To solve two of the most common Facebook problems with your links and tags check out this post gleaned from the Fast Action Fridays archives with guest Maggie Lukowski.

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