Join Sheri McConnell, CEO of the National Association of Women Writers as she shares how to use visual tools to set goals and jumpstart your creativity.

Title: How To Use Visual Tools To Set Goals and Jumpstart Creativity

Date: November 18

Time: 11 am Pacific,  Noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, 2 pm Eastern

You will learn:

- Sheri’s favorite tools and resources and where to get your own
- How to visually set up your surroundings to support the emergence of your brilliance
- Why information must flow through you to make your “right brain” happy

Bio:

Sheri McConnell is the CEO of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. and the president and founder of two national and international associations. She started her first association, the National Association of Women Writers-NAWW in 2001, and founded the 2nd association, the International Association of Web Entrepreneurs in 2006 and cashed out on it 2 years later.

Her latest association, the Global Institute of Associations-GIA was launched in late 2008 and produced multiple six figures within a few short months. Sheri is known as the Leader to Leaders™ and consults with big thinkers and creators from all over the world in multiple industries teaching them how to leverage the association model.

She is also the author of Smart Women Create Membership-Based Businesses, The Smart Women’s Book of Powerful Quotations and Smart Women Know Their “Why” – A How To Memoir on Discovering Your Life Purpose (Pub Date Fall 2009). You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about her and all 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.

How To Register for This Event:

If you are not an NAWW member yet, find out more about NAWW Membership Benefits by clicking here: http://www.naww.org/blog/benefits

If you are already a member, you can find the call in number on your Member Login page. If you no longer have this information, please e-mail us at support@naww.org

Making Work-at-Home Work for You: Secrets for Raising a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Writing Business

• Are you frustrated with trying to manage your writing business at home and still enjoy time with your family?
• Wasn’t having more time with your family one of the reasons you decided to work from home?
• Are you struggling to get things done and make money?
• Are you overwhelmed by all the information and advice about how to build our business, and you don’t know what to do next?
• Do you feel like you’ve just traded in the frustration of a job for a frustrating business?
• Or, have you hesitated making the leap from a job to a home-based writing business because you’re not sure you can make a go of it?
• Are you wondering if it’s really possible to go from burned out working mother to happy career-at-home mom?

Debbie LaChusa began her work-at-home journey 20 years ago, well before serious career women worked from home and personal computers and cell phones were a commodity in everyone’s life. She’s been a corporate executive, a non-profit vice president, and a stressedout, burned-out working mother. Now she’s an author, speaker, coach and association owner. In her talks, she shares the totality of her life and business experience to help others avoid the very challenges she’s faced on her path from burnout to bliss.

On this NAWW Member TeleSeminar, you will learn:

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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:

If you are not an NAWW member yet, find out more about NAWW Membership Benefits by clicking here: http://www.naww.org/blog/benefits

If you are already a member, you can find the call in number on your Member Login page. If you no longer have this information, please e-mail us at support@naww.org

Everything You Should Know About Publishing, Publicity and Building a Platform with Arielle Ford

You will learn:

• What are the biggest mistakes “wanna-be” authors make?
• How much money can an author earn?
• So, What good is a book?
• What are the 3 most important skills a bestselling authors needs?
• What are publishers looking for?
• What is Publicity and how is it different from advertising?
• You always say “do every interview you can.” Why?
• What are some easy ways I can begin to get PR for myself BEFORE I have a book?
• I can write a coherent sentence, can I still become an author?
• How can I begin today to create a career as a speaker and an author?

How To Register for This Event:

If you are not an NAWW member yet, find out more about NAWW Membership Benefits by clicking here: http://www.naww.org/blog/benefits

If you are already a member, you can find the call in number on your Member Login page. If you no longer have this information, please e-mail us at support@naww.org

Bio:

Arielle Ford has mastered the art of making things happen. A nationally recognized publicist and marketing expert, producer, author and consultant she has catapulted many authors and celebrities to stardom and enormously facilitated the rapid growth of the self-help and human potential movement in the US.

Arielle helped launch the careers of Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen creators of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and Neale Donald Walsch author of Conversations With God. She has also handled publicity for myriad best-selling authors including; Wayne Dyer, Dean Ornish, Debbie Ford, Gary Zukav, Marianne Williamson, Louise Hay, don Miguel Ruiz, Kenny Loggins and many other notable authors, 11 of whom became #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Arielle is the author of seven books herself, including the popular Hot Chocolate For The Mystical Soul series. Her latest book; The Soulmate Secret: How To Manifest The Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction was release 3 months ago and is already in a 4th printing and will soon appear in more than a dozen languages.

She is one of the founding partners of the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a DVD club dedicated to movies about love and compassion, Arielle is also the co-producer of Deepak Chopra’s Happiness Prescription, a new PBS pledge show that aired nationally in March 2008.

Arielle has compiled her knowledge and expertise in the industry to create a 25 audio CD and resource guide, Everything You Should Know About Publishing, Publicity and Building a Platform, www.everythingyoushouldknow.com. It is a favorite among first-time authors and has received rave reviews.

She lives in La Jolla, CA with her husband and soul mate Brian Hilliard. In her spare time she raises money for www.justlikemychild.org, reads historical thrillers, loves traveling to India and exotic locales and truly believes there is enough love in the world for everyone.

How to Write the Ultimate Book Proposal with Julia McCutchen

Are you looking for an agent and/or publisher for your book? If so, you probably already know that the best way to inspire publishing professionals to take you and your book on is to write a stunningly good book proposal. Even if you are self-publishing, compiling the information which a book proposal requires is well-worth the time and effort because it empowers you to approach the market successfully yourself.

On this informative call for both fiction and non-fiction writers you will learn top tips including:

· What a book proposal should include (and what to leave out!)
· How publishers use the information you present to make their final decisions
· The best way to make sure your proposal stands out for all of the right reasons

Bio:

Julia McCutchen is the author of The Writer’s Journey: From Inspiration to Publication and the creator of the How to Write the Ultimate Book Proposal Online Masterclass Course. A former managing director and publisher with a track record which includes UK # 1 and international bestsellers, she now works as a writers’ coach, mentor and professional publishing consultant. She is passionate about opening the way for writers to find their true voice, discover themselves in the process, and write consciously, creatively, successfully and with soul! Visit www.JuliaMcCutchen.com for more information plus free articles, audios, and more on a soulful approach to creativity, writing, publishing and taking your message to the market.

How To Register for This Event:

If you are not an NAWW member yet, find out more about NAWW Membership Benefits by clicking here: http://www.naww.org/blog/benefits

If you are already a member, you can find the call in number on your Member Login page. If you no longer have this information, please e-mail us at support@naww.org