My Favorite Entrepreneurial Tool—Deciding My SWOT

As the owner of four online companies, my job is to sit down every year and decide my SWOT for the next 12 months and then to consistently revisit my SWOT throughout each year and tweak as needed. I base my decisions on my experience and the emerging trends in the industries I serve.

I also network, engage in learning with mentors, and a lot of the time I simply go left when everyone else goes right. I am a rebel that way and it works simply because it helps my companies stand out in a crowded marketplace.

SWOT is my favorite tool to help me understand at the strategic level how to go left when others go right. Read more

Join Us on Our Free Preview Call Series!

Just a quick note to check in with you on this early October morning! We’re about 10 days away from Halloween and Fall is in the air!

To celebrate the new beginnings that fall represents (even though most people look at it like an ending, it opens up the new season and the chance for trees to renew themselves, people to get back on track after a summer of holidays and children to get back into the routine of school) we’re holding a series of free preview calls!

We’d like you, our valued follower, to be the first to know about our 2009 Online Mastermind Group and the first to be invited to our free preview calls. These calls have been set up so that you can come and learn everything you need to know plus ask questions of me directly.

http://www.smc-previewcalls.com

What we have launched and the program that we want you to get excited about too is The Ultimate “Learn To Leverage” Mastermind. This is a must for 2009 when it comes to your business. Not only that but you’ll also have the opportunity for plenty of personal growth too!

Here’s a quick and easy way to learn more… You can automatically jump on over to the information page to learn more about the mastermind group:

http://www.smc-mastermind-online.com

So, beginning Tuesday, October 21 and continuing for the following six Tuesdays, you can tune in to free, educational and informational preview calls to learn more about leverage and to learn more about our new mastermind group beginning in 2009.

Sheri McConnell will be live on this live, information-packed teleseminar, ready to share with you:

• Information about the types of leverage that can be used in business
• Why you need to be leveraging your time, knowledge and expertise
• How you can save time and money in your business

Why You Should Attend…

This group is an EXCLUSIVE online mastermind group that has been specifically created for women writers, authors, coaches and entrepreneurs at varying levels.

For 12 months, Sheri McConnell will teach you EXACTLY what it is that you need to know to grow a business in 2009. Sheri has been there and experienced business growth and wants to pave an easy to walk path for you so that you don’t need to experience the struggle!

During these FREE calls, you can find out about the subjects covered in the mastermind group and ask specific questions to find out if this is something you need in your business (and our guess is that you will!)

Yes! I Want In On the…

http://www.smc-previewcalls.com

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So, if you need a little motivation, inspiration or community in your business, join the free preview call series, attend live and see if this feels right for you. If so, we’d love to have you as one of our valued mastermind group members in 2009.

Thank you!

Sheri McConnell & Team
Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc.
http://www.sherimcconnell.com

P.S. – Attending is completely free and you’ll be sent the recording of the call even if you can’t attend! So, make sure to register and we’ll send out the audio download links after each event.

http://www.smc-previewcalls.com

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My Top Twelve HIGH ROI To Do’s For Your Business in 2009

By Sheri McConnell

Create a Timeless and Focused Marketing Plan for Your Business
As you probably have heard by now—you aren’t in the business of (fill in the blank here). You are in the business of marketing. Your marketing must be automated and systemized. Period.

Create Passive, Income Generating Information Products
Create your own advances and get paid to create information products. Many, many target markets are considered “information hungry”.

Build Your Most Important Asset… Your List
Success on the Internet is about providing high-quality information, solving problems AND the list.

Use Social Networking Sites Such As Facebook, Linked In, My Space, and Twitter
Used strategically, social networks extend your brand and funnel thousands of new leads into your business funnel each and every quarter.

Create A Very Profitable Internet Launch for Your Information Product or Book
Set up correctly, these launches generate thousands and tens of thousands dollars of income, new leads for you, and all your partners.

Create Your Own Certification Program
Certification programs aren’t just for large companies. Solo online entrepreneurs can also benefit from building and creating a certification program within their company.

Build Your Own Virtual Team
Learn how to find, build, and manage a virtual team. The key to “leverage” is the team. We all have weaknesses. Don’t make the most common entrepreneurial mistake: thinking you can do it all.

Approach, Create, and Solidify Long-Lasting Joint Ventures
All successful businesses are built on thriving relationships–on and off the Internet. And with all relationships, you should focus on who and how you attract partners.

Know Which Publishing Options Are Right for YOU
Learn what your publishing options are and make a choice based on the path that is right for you based on your personality, strengths, and weaknesses.

Double Your List Size With A Virtual Event
One of the best strategies for growing the list is an online virtual event with multiple partners or joint ventures. Give customers free access and structure the event correctly and it is a huge list builder.

Develop Your Intuition
Most entrepreneurs spend so much time focusing on all the “outside” stuff that they forget to get help on learning how to “think” like a CEO. Your success and ability to run a profitable company depends on your leaning how to develop your CEO intuition.

Use Visual Tools To Set Goals and Stay On Track
All successful entrepreneurs incorporate visual components into their strategy planning. They spend as much time planning as they do in the marketing, operations, finance parts of their business.

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Ready to Gain Access to me as I teach these HIGH ROI to do’s in detail in 2009?

Join my “Ultimate Learn to Leverage” Mastermind!

www.smc-mastermind-online.com

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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 Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. and the president and founder of two national organizations, the National Association of Women Writers-NAWW and the International Association of Web Entrepreneurs-AWE. Under the same corporate umbrella she is also the owner of two high-level product and consulting companies: Create Your Group and My Millionaire Friends. You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about all four 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.

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Are you ready… to allow yourself to learn how to use leverage in every area of your life?

My name is Sheri McConnell and I am the president and founder of two global organizations, the National Association of Women Writers-NAWW and the International Association of Web Entrepreneurs-AWE. I am also the owner of two high-level product and consulting companies: Create Your Group and My Millionaire Friends.

If you are an entrepreneur, a corporate employee, or a stay-at-home mom—honestly, it doesn’t matter who you are—I urge YOU to learn more about the exponential power of leverage at any of my companies below so that you can create a lifestyle that allows you to live more passionately and achieve financial independence at the same time.

Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. offers online educational services:

• To teach you how to leverage your knowledge through publication – visit the National Assn of Women Writers at www.naww.org
• To teach you how to leverage your website so you can receive the highest ROI possible  – visit the Assn of Web Entrepreneurs at www.aweconnect.com
• To teach you how to leverage the membership-based business model – visit Create Your Group at www.CreateYourGroup.com
• To teach you how to leverage your most valuable asset—YOU—go to My Millionaire Friends at www.My-Millionaire-Friends.com 

“My mission at Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. is teaching women how to achieve financial independence. I believe when a woman is financially independent, she makes decisions from a healthier place on behalf of herself and her family. She doesn’t feel compromised and she then teaches those around her how to live in a more powerful way. Teach women how to achieve financial independence and you are empowering many generations to come.”
To your success,
Sheri McConnell-CEO

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How to push past your limits in business…

Every once in a while, something comes along that “changes the game”…

…a disruptive technology, a new idea, a scientific theory.

It’s rare, but it does happen.

Well, one such item recently came across my desk…

…and I suddenly realized, “Wow this is unprecedented. This is new. This is groundbreaking.”

What is it?

It’s a brand new book (and teleseminar series… more on that in a moment) by my friend and colleague, Dr. Larina Kase, called The Confident Leader: How the Most Successful People Go from Effective to Exceptional.

http://www.ConfidentLeaderBook.com/sheri

The Confident Leader combines cutting-edge research and on-the-ground experience to give you a formula for…

…consistently and reliably breaking through your comfort zone — at will.

Larina has actually “cracked the code” to breaking through your comfort zone, predictably and with scientific precision…

…and backs that statement up with over 10 years of research (she’s a Doctor of Psychology and served as a clinical faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania)…

…and countless clients of hers breaking through to new levels of achievement that they previously considered impossible.

You’ll find interviews with business leaders such as Seth Godin, Tim Sanders, Joe Vitale, and 7 equally incredible authors and experts.

She’s also a giver. So today, when you pick up your copy of The Confident Leader, she’ll be giving you access to:

1. An unprecedented LIVE 11-part Confident Leadership Telesummit with world-class experts in business, self-development, and leadership.

2. A selection of exclusive bonus gifts that Larina hand-picked herself from highly qualified and respected experts – definitely not the typical overload of bonuses no single human being could ever actually utilize

I’m happy to say that I’m one of the bonus contributors. It’s wonderful to participate in promoting such an important and groundbreaking book.

This is truly too remarkable a book (and overall offer) to miss: http://www.ConfidentLeaderBook.com/sheri

You’ll be very, very glad you did (and a better, more confident leader because of it).

To your success,
Sheri

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The Big Shift

Hi Creators and Big Thinkers!

This week, I wanted to share a video called The Big Shift. With books like “The New Earth” being accepted by mainstream America, it is evident that The Shift is happening here.

This video is inspiring as it reminds us that people from all over the world are ready for more peace. And most importantly, people from all over the world are starting to understand that The Shift must happen from within each of us first before we can empower others to shift.

To your success,

Sheri McConnell
Mother, CEO, Activist

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