Business Success Roadtrip v1
Hour 1 – Gift Giving Increases Receiving
…Even When It Seems To Have No Monetary Connection

As part of my major road trip to Savannah, GA Wordcamp and visiting with various friends and favorite places  I documented my mindset and observations and how they relate to successful business development.

The video originally for Hour 1 was actually a victim of the road trip… having not survived something I tried to do to it to as part of creating it on the road… but this story belongs to the trip so I tucked it in here for your enjoyment. I apologize that the audio is a little crackly but the video  is only a handful of minutes long. Be sure to check out the rest of the BRS series.

Because “free” has become the new market, and “free” now often has so many strings attached to it in marketing, it gets easy to forget that free should mean free. Free of obligations, free of bribery, free of something owed back. Sometimes we need to give freely to the universe and let the energies at large free up the greater gifts we have yet to receive. Don’t under estimate the power of gifts you can not see the outcome of immediately in some kinda marketing funnel. Give freely… and the universe will reward you greatly…

You can find out more about my Business Success Roadtrip series as well as links to others in the series and eventually information on how to download the whole set as mp3s for your own listening over on the announcement page for the Business Success Roadtrip volume 1!

Like it? Love it? How are you giving abundantly to the universe? What cause, charity, foundation, idea, or concept is near and near to your heart and inspires you to give and give and give? What unexpected rewards have you gained from moving forward with abundance mentality when others might have pulled back? I look forward to reading your stories!

If you found this tip useful I hope you’ll share and bookmark the page for others to enjoy!

Here’s to your unlimited success!
Kimberly

PS: I invite you to check out the Locks for Love Foundation if you feel inspired to help next time you go for a haircut!

Business Success Roadtrip v1
Hour 3 – Use A Mentor or Leader To Cut The Resistance For Your Fast Run!

As part of my major road trip to Savannah, GA Wordcamp and visiting with various friends and favorite places  I documented my mindset and observations and how they relate to successful business development.

The visual/video of these came out poorly (what do you expect, its dark at midnight!) but I challenge you to just listen to what I’m saying. (Hour 1′s video was a casualty of the road trip, fortunately there’s plenty more where those came from!)

Being the “front runner”, breaking new ground in uncharted territory, can be long, hard, exhausting work. Fortunately for most of us there are leaders, mentors and coaches who have gone down a similar path before that can break that ground and make our journey easier. Success leaves clues… ground crossed bears footprints of those that have gone before. When we walk in the footprints of a mentor we save ourselves countless amounts of headaches, heartaches and confusion over which path will actually work. Sometimes these leaders are a lot further up the trail than we are… and other times they are nearly our level… but in either case they challenge us to dig in, keep up the pace, give our all, and show us what works.

You can find out more about my Business Success Roadtrip series as well as links to others in the series and eventually information on how to download the whole set as mp3s for your own listening over on the announcement page for the Business Success Roadtrip volume 1!

Like it? Love it? How are YOU staying fired up about your business in the face of the work required? If you found this tip useful I hope you’ll share and bookmark the page for others to enjoy!

Here’s to your unlimited success!
Kimberly

Dear Diane,

For too long perhaps, you and I have toed around each other, respectful at a distance, but so caught up in changing the lives of others that we have not had an opportunity to really connect.

You’re one strong, strategic, calculated woman and I love it to no end.  The fact that you have not lost your heart in a cold business world speaks volumes about you.

You’ve also as passionate as I am (possibly more) in beating the hounds off of the new guys that are taking such a assault from people who should know better.

That is a rare and wonderful passion that we both share. I willingly defend my community with teeth when necessary.

The readers here mean more to me than they may ever know.

I’ve been watching you for quite some time, mostly vicariously, as you are one of the few who garnered some of my attention and respect. Jacqui has not understood though why I have been slow to further an engagement with you, as she trusts you explicitly.

Me on the other hand – I know what power does to people and I smell power on you. I’ve given you the respect and caution that warranted but I’m fairly certain we’re on the same page. I’m not sure we share the same methodology but that’s not an issue when hearts are after a common goal.

Too many people out here are getting lost in a near blood-lust and building businesses off the back of new guys that no one is protecting. Many of these are MY new guys – and YOUR new guys – and we both harbor a internal rage against that assault on our community.

You have been here longer – know the strategies better – me I’m still learning my way and walking heart-forward and letting the people I piss off answer to themselves.

I’ve grown a large correctly structured self-supporting team before but not in a place it could be monetized. Finding a book that told me how I did it, that it was not just a fluke, what the key elements are that I have came on organically were, let me know I could build again. Then I set out to find the game – find the game we can all play to win – find the game that the newbies and the vets can play together without cannibalizing each other. I’m slowly coming to see the game, and the lights of my passion are coming on as I spy a game that can be played to win while helping others.

I am going through a huge personal transformational period and some of my moves out here don’t make “good business sense” but they are a product of that. I took a life that had grown hugely non-congruent and basically righted the ship in the last few months. Huge turmoil and chaos of course ensues when you do that. I am in the middle of an early stage (friendly) divorce, another relationship as well, loss of a family support network, loss of my original team network, having only the prior community I built to fall back on as I have worked non-stop to replicate the community here. Fortunately it has worked brilliantly and I have met some incredible people that have quickly become near to my heart and help me nearly daily me avoid drowning in the emotional tides of what I am doing.

Oh I am finding my wings again, and they may yet be wet, but they feel so damn good!

Business wise I’m growing slower than I could be, perhaps should be, but the me that is me as a person has to have time to come through this development as well. I can not let the business yet get ahead of my internal work or I wont have the strength to shoulder what is to come yet. In this way, I have given myself some personal patience and room to grow at the moment. Still moving forward, never stopping for more than a quick breather, but being more gentle with myself than I might otherwise be for I know that strengthening these wings takes a little time and that it is all coming together… quite rapidly in fact.

Background wise I have a background in small businesses, coming from a family of entrepreneurs, growing up in a mom and pop business and having others over the years myself. I also have a background in IT having grown up with my hands in them… and in holistics, energetics and medical research, having focused my BS in college on reproductive physiology/oncology with a emphasis on soy research (ick) while doing a pre-veterinary specialization through the college of ag. Oh yeah, I’m a farm girl too

I’ve rarely been without some sort of business in my name for very long because I lack the mindset of a “good employee” (gag!) Also, I have some semi-serious health concerns that make my regular attendance to a job difficult and have resulted in me being fired enough that I’ve grown more than a little distaste for the experience.

I joined Orrin Woodward’s Team MonaVie about a year and a half (going on two years) ago through a friend – and rapidly learned a ton of stuff about network marketing. Threw myself into their training program and did one of the things I do best – absorb information. Their system helped me start to pull my head around from the incongruence in my life – but also due to the strong political and religious tones in their system (Orrin’s, not Mona Vies) I was out of congruence there as well. I left them non-officially about last August….

…and last November stumbled into a social media, tribe syndication training course with Kary Rogney et al.

I enjoyed playing with the social media toys and unlike almost everyone in there had no business to build. I quickly became integral in the community though helping others get wordpress and such set up and positioned. I put my blog up in December casually and launched it in January still with no plan, goal, destination or business.

Everything you see has happened 100% organically, by the seat of my pants, running with my gut instinct and trying to keep up with how well its working.

I got all but kicked out of Kary’s club – they couldnt officially kick me, I would have rifted his community at the time they understood – but my views and theirs were coming into conflict too often and I did not believe what was being spoken always aligned with what was being done. They didn’t believe my negative attitude was good for the community.

I rebelled against it for a while, having had been hurt by the behaviors, and hurt by seeing others affected, and hurt by not being allowed to fully sound off to what had happened and be HEARD.

Fortunately I think they’ve grown from that little adventure and learned to connect deeper with their own community. Those guys touched a lot of lives and I commend them for that.

However I eventually picked up another course with Jodie Thompson, that turned out to be under my technical skillset (though not my marketing set), and found myself joining her Q&A calls and handling most of the technical Q&A and having a blast.

I did a free Facebook webinar about April or so that was very off the cuff and had great turnout and felt my heart start to light up. Oh I do so love teaching, particularly in open Q&A format.

I was later asked to join Jodie, teaching the foundation blogging section of her PBY (Profit Being You) course, where I am now a full joint partner and have worked to build on the small community there. I’m in the process of setting up a full tiered-membership/ sales/ drip-feed/forum/etc community for PBY since we left ning recently and that has quite a bit of work yet to go on it but the community is a gem, and patient. I teach wordpress, social media, basic marketing concepts etc – and then Jodie teaches the positioning, branding and anything thats new in the industry that week. Except for the 2 weeks every 8 weeks we take a break, our students get two calls a week, with mine usually being either recorded or pre-recorded depending on what I’m doing that week. Love love love teaching that course! I have some of the best students ever!

That is my small but primary income stream at the moment – small because my head has been away from it trying to emotionally navigate this separation. Getting my head back together, which needed some road time to THINK, was most of why I took the roadtrip. I’m still kinda reeling from it but I’m feeling better every day and starting to get back in the saddle with the new found increased independence that a separation brings.

I have a lot of work to do to get my marketing further together and get more properly set up to help more people. That is my goal.

I don’t really care about teaching people to make millions – I’m more interested in seeing a lot of people make their first real money out here. Seeing them earn the first few hundred extra dollars a month that can be life changing.

Anyone can sell them a how-to-make-millions product that they never make a dime from. I want to show them how to make their dimes back!

The work doesn’t scare me although what I wouldn’t give for some 72hr days I tell ya!

As I’ve come to further understand what I am doing out here, what I CAN be doing out here, and what others are doing sometimes erroneously out here, I’m just getting more and more lit up… and its becoming more and more “home” and “mine” and “my people”… and when momma bear is engaged… I pity the fools that fucks with my community… You know what I’m saying in a sense, for I see it in your eyes.

You’re going to make this happen. I’m going to make this happen. You are further along than I am but we share a common passion. And a common enemy.

You have heart, strength, skills and guts and balls.

I would welcome a friend, a partner, and a kindred spirit in this.

Lets help some people!

With love,
Kimberly

How To Change Your Facebook Fan/Business Page Category

The unchangeable nature of the Facebook Fan/Like Page Title and Category options has been a constant thorn in the side for many businesses!

During the page creation process there is no warning that these fields are completely non-adjustable later and a mistake during this seemingly easy step can have negative consequences for your long term use of that Fan Page for your business. This leaves businesses regularly asking how to change their Facebook Fan or Business Page Name or Category.

With the Title field never being changeable, it is imperative that pages are positioned in a way that they will not be impacted by a business change, business name change, or industry change. This is why simply self branding is still the most highly recommended option when it can be made to work. Unfortunately, changing your Facebook Fan Page Title still remains impossible.

The Category option may seem inconsequential as long as its approximate or “close” to fitting. However, different categories get different information fields to work with – and some of them are very very limiting.

Generally speaking, the “best” category for flexibility of fields has proven to the be the “Professional Service”. While this may not seem like a logical fit for some, generally you can find a way to explain it if you ever have to but odds are you won’t. The “Professional Service” field gives a lot of flexibility and is ideal for most businesses and even personalities/individuals.

Because of all of this, its easy to chose the “wrong” category and to dearly wish to move. In fact, some pages end up created with completely incorrect categories and desperately need moved.

However, the official answer from Facebook has always been … “Unfortunately, it is not currently possible to change the category of a Page once it has been created. If you wish to change the category, you will need to first delete your Page by clicking on ‘Delete Page’ at the top of the edit page. You can then create a new Page with the correct category. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. “

However, recently, although the official answer has not changed, a “Request for Page Category Review” form has arrived that allows you to submit a request for category review and repositioning. It does NOT however give you a drop-down to select your desired category, but when you fill in the explanation field explaining what the correct positioning should be, it is likely to get you the result you want.

The key here to realize is that become this is still not the official answer, you need to approach this as a privilege. While that may irk you, please understand the your approval is highly likely to be based on your tone when you contact them. Do not expect to be able to use this to move to a category that does not fit either. Be professional and forgiving as you work with the support staff to get moved to a fitting category. It is very very rare in Facebook to be able to get access to a real live support person and that is what this form does so please respect that privilege.

Now you have a way to change the category of a Facebook Fan or Business Page that was incorrectly positioned during creation, instead of deleting it! Yay! This is a marvelous improvement!

If you found this useful please tweet, digg, stumble and share this with your friends! I look forward to hearing about your challenges and successes with Facebook Fan Pages below in the comment section! Also, once you’ve commented, be sure to check out some of my other cool Facebook posts!

Make it a great day!
Kimberly

Business Success Roadtrip v1
Hour 2 – When The Why Doesn’t Come Easy

As part of my major road trip to Savannah, GA Wordcamp and visiting with various friends and favorite places  I documented my mindset and observations and how they relate to successful business development.

The visual/video of these came out poorly (what do you expect, its dark at 11pm!) but I challenge you to just listen to what I’m saying. (Hour 1 and either hour 8 or 9 are both corrupt and thus a casualty of the road trip, fortunately there’s plenty more where those came from!)

Staying fired up about what we’re building can seem hard when the future seems like a whole lot of of work. Give this video a listen to learn more about finding your driving force… particularly if you’re a person to which dreaming doesn’t come easy.

It should be noted that when dealing with dreads – although they make a strong driving force – careful attention has to be given to making their use a conscious choice and to staying in the forward abundant flow or they will cause one to behave in stupid, erratic manners. Fear is powerful but it can not be allowed to spin out of control if one wishes to harness it for leverage. I know many will not agree with its use at all – preferring only the dream building side – I merely present you with what has worked for me and often works if you are on of the few for whom dream building is difficult.

You can find out more about my Business Success Roadtrip series as well as links to others in the series and eventually information on how to download the whole set as mp3s for your own listening over on the announcement page for the Business Success Roadtrip volume 1!

Like it? Love it? How are YOU staying fired up about your business in the face of the work required? If you found this tip useful I hope you’ll share and bookmark the page for others to enjoy!

Here’s to your unlimited success!
Kimberly

Wordcamp, Southern Style!

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I had the pleasure to get to attend Wordcamp Savannah, GA on August 21 and 22nd! They actually had a all-day newbie event on the 20th that I was unable to get tickets to but I heard went really well! (Hopefully I can get involved and help with next years as well as a similar event in Chicago.)

(That’s my furbaby Lemur helping me pack while pretending not to be looking for dinner!)

I had attended Wordcamp Chicago back in June and while both events shared a lot of same core elements and features they were about as different as night and day!

As a quick recap, Chicago was a two day event, with about 500+ attendees, held in a rather posh hotel with dual-conference rooms. There was a lot of sense of formality and while Wordcamps are listed as an “informal” event, that event felt a lot formal in function. Continental breakfast was catered by hotel staff and all in all it had the feel of a “business conference” even though suits, ties and skirts were mostly absent.

The Savannah trip became an entire adventure for me with both a roadtrip and some much valued face-time with friends. You can find out more about my Savannah Wordcamp Trip Itinerary here, or follow along for the journey on my Facebook page here. It also gave me the opportunity to shoot some really cool recordings every hour of the roadtrip itself and I’ll be sharing those with you here and more videos available over the next week!

It was crazy hot this summer and the southern states were no exception. Here you see plenty of people in Savannah enjoying an opportunity to cool off. (Photo by Matt Mullenweg.)

My hotel was the Four Points by Sheraton in Historic Savannah, GA which is only about a block and a half from the venue so even while sunburned and in heels was in easy walking distance. This was fortunate since Historic Savannah is terribly lacking in parking. (I do mean terribly.) Its so bad that the hotels (well at least most I saw) have no public self-park garage and if you don’t use their valet you’re forced to feed the meter every hour to park on the street IF you can find street parking. The room was tiny but more than adequate for my needs and I had no complaining room since the room usually books for $117/night and I got it for $49/night on Priceline.com using their bidding service which Nile clued me onto while we were in Chicago. Staff was great, valets were polite, room service was tasty, but I’ve stayed in nicer places for around that price (but not in historic Savannah which probably makes all the difference in pricing).

I kid you not, my back was IN the bathroom taking this picture. Only smaller hotel room I’ve been in was my cruise ship cabin!

I went down a day early so I could enjoy the nearby Tybee Island Beach and catch some sun. The drive down in the heat however, with no AC in my car had been so brutal that I decided it was time to rush my every-couple-year Locks-for-Love donation with a sizeable haircut!

Here I am feeling about 12 inches (of hair!) lighter! It’s a tad shorter than I anticipated but SO much cooler. It frizzed badly in the humidity right after this picture was taken so going to be a while before I figure out how to style it successfully!

The beach was delightful! Just a wee bit overcast from time to time and a nice ocean breeze! Not too hot, not too cool and if I did get warm the ocean was just steps away!

I was only out there from about noon till 3pm, but I rapidly concluded that was plenty. I thought I’d gotten clear in time, expecting to burn lightly but to have not baked. I even had a grandma that was vacationing check my back and at the time her conclusion was just a little red around the shoulders.

However, by the time I got home, my winter-white skin was about as red as the Gatorade I drank to rehydrate in route.

I’m smiling here – but I wouldn’t be for long. The first night of that burn really wasn’t bad. It was throwing off a lot of heat, but wasn’t particularly painful.

However, I made some mistakes regarding some lotion (since I couldn’t find a Walgreens to get aloe) and aggravated it badly. (Just so you know, all lotion is bad, not just “greasy” kinds that some websites say.) It was very painful by Saturday and on Sunday it was so bad I was actually scared as to how I was going to make the drive (in the heat) up to Jacqui’s on Monday. Fortunately, a whole bunch of my friends came to my rescue on my Facebook Profile in a thread where I asked what else I could do for pain, and gave me some great tips on lotions (avoid), vinegar (try it with caution) and much more! You guys saved my burned ass! LOL

In proper southern style, Savannah Wordcamp (with about 175 in attendance compared to Chicago’s 500) was much more laid back and had more of the elements of a open source community “user group” (that it’s supposed to be) than a business meeting. Dress was about the same, a cross between business casual and nice jeans and button shirts. All the food was either catered by the event team, or from a local business (BBQ!) or the second day was a potluck! I must say though that there was some terrible atrocity that someone brought KFC fried chicken to a function in a state known for superb fried chicken and other comfort foods.

Here, Matt Mullenweg opens the Savannah,GA Wordcamp by blogging the event from his phone! He did this as a demonstration of how far WordPress has come in a measly five years and what technologies are on the horizon for WordPress yet!

The event was held at the SCAD River Club (Savannah Art & Design [Thanks for the correction by Chris Cree). They blessed us with donation of their venue since Matt is a alumni there. It was a two story building and from upstairs you could watch some rather impressive boats go up and down the river!

One INCREDIBLY big boat! It appeared to be from Sweden but I really want to know just what you haul in something that size. It was HUGE! [Chris also identified this ship as a Ro-Ro (roll on – roll off) where vehicles and machinery is driven on and off via a huge ramp at the stern. Thanks Chris!]

Like Chicago, day one was two tracts (sessions running at the same time) with a novice/blogger/user side and a developer/coder/administrator side and you could pick and choose which 30 minute sessions you attended, often switching between the two sides. The developer track was actually much more “developer” (code) based than in Chicago. In Chicago I found many of the developer presentations to be more geared at high level users rather than developers and I was rarely in over my head. Here, I needed some water wings and a life preserver to wade through the code on the developer side!

The sexy slingbacks I took to the event and ended up wearing both days! A very versatile shoe!

What I ended up wearing the first day with those slingbacks. A navy corduroy skirt, chocolate top and light brown with gold little sequence bits over-top. Not a perfect match but doctoring my burned back made me time short!

This is Matt Thomas a WordPress team member discussing what went into the development of the new TwentyTen theme. I’m pretty sure I didn’t give this theme enough credit and the things being developed on top of it as child themes are definitely causing me to take a second look.

This is me using the camera as a quick mirror! I wanted to see if all the mousse that morning had helped with the frizz and wave definition and it had. I definitely have some ideas now to work with (but am certainly open for more!) and was pleased I didn’t look like I stuck my finger in an electrical outlet!

The first day wrapped up with a great Q&A session led by Jane Wells with some of the WordPress Core Development team including (co-founder) Matt Mullenweg, (core dev) Mark Jaquith and (core dev) Andrew Nacin. Having the chance to ask questions of these guys was INCREDIBLY powerful and really helped build the sense of community. I also managed to get my picture taken with these guys which I was crazy stoked about!

Savannah, GA Wordcamp August 21-22, me with Matt Mullenweg ( co-founder of WordPress, right), Mark Jaquith (center left) and Andrew Nacin (far left). Oh yeah, I’m the one with the boobs in case you cant figure that out

Even though Chicago contained a lot more business marketing types, actively engaged as social media consultants helping businesses get online, I found that I got a lot dirty looks in Chicago for mentioning my involvement in the “four letter word” of internet marketing. Georgia was much more laid back and a lot of the bloggers were interested in basic monetization methods they could use without turning their site into a sales site, which is, as you may or may not know, relatively easy.

The first day I found networking kinda difficult because I knew no one! Kinda happens that way and I was blessed in Chicago to have Nile Flores around to point out interesting people and make a few introductions.

Here though the first day of sessions (coupled with with some severe sunburn I got while enjoying the nearby Tybee Island Beach on the day prior) kept me occupied and entertained enough that the lower level of networking wasn’t so bad. Unlike Chicago where I didn’t do as much networking as I could have, here I made a pretty good use of my opportunities but they were fewer in number than in Chicago.

The second day of the Savannah event was an “unconference” which Wikipedia defines as a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered on a theme or purpose. This let us work in smaller groups for “table topics” and to catch up on some topics that really interested us or to teach on topics we were fluent in. Russel (last name coming as soon as I find it!) lead a great table talk on the “concept” behind WordPress MultiSite (MS, formerly WP MU) and how he uses it extensively in his business.

I got to do some really great networking this day due to the late start and arriving slightly early and the whole feel of the conference being even more laid back than the previous day. Met some great folks that I’m excited to get to know!

Then the second half of the day was a “genius bar” where tech savvy developers and even users comfortable with basic questions such as upgrading made themselves available to anyone that had difficulties they needed help with. All I can say about this is it was brilliant!

Unfortunately, even with not one but THREE geniuses looking into the problem the memory leak issues with my main site (this one) were not solvable. Fortunately though, Nikolay was able to set up some logging (of “top” and memory use) on my vps that I should be able to correlate to downtime and get a better idea of whats going on (once I get home that is!). Much thanks to him and Russel (who’s last name I cant seem to locate at the moment) for the extensive amount of time they put into trying to track this down.

Here was a great picture of a few of the geniuses teaming up to work on some super-complicated (we can only assume) problem!

Left to Right that is Daryl Koopersmith, Beau Lebens, Mark Jaquith and Nikolay. One can only imagine what great wizardry these guys are brewing up!

This is me looking incredibly toasty Sunday night (and also incredibly thankful to be able to be out of a bra rubbing across that burn!).  Note the dubious expression on my face concerning how I’m going to not cry in the heat the next day! LOL

I had the opportunity to ask Matt Mullenweg what his big picture dream for WordPress is… perhaps something that the technology is not yet in place for but that he would love to see happen. After some thought he talked about how he would love to see WordPress have more of a market-share, be more easily available to everyone and be even easier to use. He mentioned ease of use ideas such as WordPress.com uses where they auto-push updates and the users do not have to stress over updating their software. It’s great to see that Matt is enough of a visionary to dream big and share the dream – its this kind of heart that keeps communities like this strong and active.

Just for fun, this photo was taken by Otto42 on Sunday, Aug 22nd in Tybee Island, Georgia, where a bunch of the main team went to dinner! Yes, that’s Matt Mullenweg with his head in the stocks!

All in all, I’ve seriously had a blast. It’s been much more low key, personable and – due to my more flexible travel schedule – relaxed than Chicago was for me. I’m giving some serious thought to returning next year!

If you haven’t had a chance to get to a Wordcamp and there’s one in your country you should really look at going! (Heck, this one had people from London, England and Paris, France attend so you really don’t have an excuse even if its NOT in your country!) If no Wordcamps exist for you, start by forming up a WordPress oriented Meetup group and take it from there. The face to face relationships are priceless!

Thanks for letting me share the journey and thanks to the Wordcamp Savannah folks for a great event. I hope you enjoyed this post and if you’re in near Savannah, GA I want to see you there next year!

Kimberly

Business Success Roadtrip v1
Hour 0 – Keeping Excitement In Your Business

As part of my major road trip to Savannah, GA Wordcamp and visiting with various friends and favorite places  I documented my mindset and observations and how they relate to successful business development.

The visual/video of this hour came out poorly (what do you expect, its dark at 9pm!) but I challenge you to just listen to what I’m saying.

Staying fired up about what we’re building can seem hard when the future seems like a whole l of of work. Give this video a listen to learn how to keep the powerful emotion of excitement driving you forward.

You can find out more about my Business Success Roadtrip series as well as links to others in the series and eventually information on how to download the whole set as mp3s for your own listening over on the announcement page for the Business Success Roadtrip volume 1!

Like it? Love it? How are YOU staying fired up about your business in the face of the work required? If you found this tip useful I hope you’ll share and bookmark the page for others to enjoy!

Here’s to your unlimited success!
Kimberly

Business Success Roadtrip
What Drives You To Success?

Recently I announced that I had a major road trip planned which included the Savannah, GA Wordcamp and visiting with various friends and favorite places. You can find more about that here.

This roadtrip provided (cough cough) me with the pleasure (cough cough) of a 13hour one-way road trip. Actually it was 13 down and will probably be more than that coming back due to stops.

Each hour of the trip I documented my mindset and observations and how they relate to successful business development.

These video (visuals) are very poor but I was pleased with how the content came out. I intend to take all the eventual files and render them back to .mp3s and provide them as a free downloadable mp3 set that can be burned to CD for your own road trips.

When I was with one of my prior companies, we used audio CDs extensively as a way to rapidly pump a ton of training into our heads that was easy to use in a variety of locations including our home, mp3 player and car. Most in social media have gotten away from this approach in favor of webinars but not everyone can remain tethered to the pc especially while running the roads!

That company actually had a culture within our team of insisting upon we getting 3 hours of these business, leadership, mindset, recruiting, sales, development and more into our heads every day. A little like brainwashing, and I loathed it at the time, but looking back I know just how very powerful that team culture was for us and how much I grew.

I came in with a lot of useful skills and theories already in my head but it really was this that made me ready and able to get out here and rock and roll and I find myself going back to those disks now to keep my head together (which is not easy out here!)

I hope you’ll enjoy these as videos even with the poor visual quality and let me know your thoughts on a audio cd. I cant work on those from here (I’m still on the road) but I wanted to start sharing these with you!

Each track is about 10 minutes long give or take:

Hour 0 – New Phases Are Key To Business Momentum
Hour 1 (coming soon)

Here’s to your unlimited success!
Kimberly

It’s Time For Another Wordcamp!

Wordcamp Savannah, 2010 is this weekend and I’m roadtritping! Woot!

Wordcamps are (semi)casual community sponsored WordPress events where the WordPress community comes together to network, teach, learn and share. They’re held throughout the world and if there isn’t one in your area there’s nothing to stop you from running one! You can learn more about them at the official Wordcamp Central site!

My first Wordcamp was Chicago in June and you can check out my recap and links to some of the presentations that totally rocked! Don’t miss the two quirky short videos at the end of that post!

Check out the official schedul here: http://2010.savannah.wordcamp.org/schedule/

Join me for all the roadtripping goodness! Stay tuned for updates throughout the trip!

Kimberly … who is now off to finish last minute packing…

Results Are In, How Did We Do?

The support I received from you throughout this entire challenge was AWESOME! Have I mentioned how much you ROCK?!

Full official results are now posted live over on the commentluv site! You can find them here!

It’s worth nothing that if you look at the scorecard on the official results page, that Kristi (@kikolani) and Donna (@DonnaFontenot) absolutely CRUSHED it! If you’re looking for some new people to get to know and bloggers to learn how to get results from, don’t miss these two ladies!

Also worth noting is that majority of the leverage for most of the competitors came from blog + twitter. Did you catch that? I didn’t say blog + facebook. If you’re bypassing twitter – stop making excuses and start giving it the respect its due! Facebook can actually be problematic for a blogger because it splits your commenting if not handled carefully.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…. YOU ROCK!

Love ya!
Kimberly