Member of the Week: Deborah Bouziden

And member since 2002!

Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a writer?
A: I think I have always had a desire to be a writer. When I was young I read Jack London’s, Call of the Wild. In second grade, every month, I’d check the book out from the school library and read it. Finally, my grandmother gave me the book for Christmas. That book was the very first book I owned. (I still have that book BTW.) I loved London’s descriptions and the way the story unfolded. As a teenager, I wrote articles and won trophies locally, state wide, and regionally for them.

Then after my children were born, sometime in 1982, I wanted to do something so I could stay home with them. One day, while I was lying on the couch, the sun came shining in through the front door. Like a spotlight, it illuminated one of my writing trophies sitting on the fireplace hearth. I thought, maybe I could do some writing.

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Three Ways To Use The Most Important Business Strategy That Exists

Did you know that there is a under the radar strategy that exists that you can take advantage of right now and it can immediately catapult your success.

That strategy is positioning.

Positioning is the process by which marketers try to create an image or identity in the minds of their target market for its product, brand, or organization.

Re-positioning involves changing the identity of a product, relative to the identity of competing products, in the collective minds of the target market.

At its core, positioning empowers you to take control of your business and use leverage exponentially by leveraging others expertise. The following are three ways you can start changing the way people relate to your company.

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Seven Things Freelance Writers Must Do to Make 2010 Your Best Year Ever
with Janice Campbell

19 August 2009
1:00 p.m. CST

What can you do now to prepare for 2010? For many freelance writers and editors, 2009 was a challenging year. Others are on track to double their income by the end of the year. What makes the difference? There are Seven Core Practices that help the Lucky Freelancer succeed. Join us for this practical seminar, and discover how to make 2010 your best year ever!

You’ll learn the Seven Core Practices of the Lucky Freelancer:

Some People Get All the Breaks
Practice #1: The Lucky Freelancer learns the mindsets needed to spot and seize “the breaks.”

You’ve Got To Be In the Right Place At the Right Time
Practice #2: The Lucky Freelancer Learns How to Grow a Business Through Niching, Positioning, and Branding

You Don’t Want to Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
Practice #3: The Lucky Freelancer Learns How to Create Passive Income and Multiple Streams of Income

It’s All In Who You Know
Practice #4: The Lucky Freelancer Learns How to Build Business Through Networking, Joint Ventures, and Affiliates

You Have to Make Your Own Luck
Practice #5: The Lucky Freelancer Learns Effective, Low-Cost Marketing and Promotional Strategies

You’ve Got to Give to Get
Practice #6: The Lucky Freelancer Learns Smart Ways to Attract Ideal Clients

A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
Practice #7: The Lucky Freelancer Learns Client Retention Strategies that Really Work

Bio: Janice Campbell, the Lucky Freelancer(tm) Coach, has been a freelance writer and speaker for over two decades. She is noted for providing concrete, step-by-step guidance for writers and editors who want to live the freelance life– profitably. Janice is Director of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors, a unique, success-oriented professional organization for freelance professionals. In her mastermind and coaching programs, she teaches motivated freelancers how to apply the Seven Core Practices of the Lucky Freelancer. Janice writes daily, exploring new techniques and topics, and loves living the Lucky Freelancer lifestyle.Visit Janice at http://www.NAIWE.com or http://www.LuckyFreelancer.com

How To Register for This Event:

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