Archive for July 2014
Printable: August Calendar
15 Minutes Per Day = Progress
What tiny step can you take each day (think 15 minutes of focused action) to move one (or two or three) of your business projects forward in August?
Download this printable (PDF) calendar and tiny steps tracker, commit to take one tiny action to take per day, and see how much progress you can make.
Imagine the Possibilities
Fifteen minutes of focused action, 5 days per week throughout August = 5.25 hours of work on one or more of your most important projects!
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If you thrive on accountability: share the project(s) you’ll be focusing on in August over at the Jewels Branch Facebook page!
Answers to 5 DIY Branding Resource Questions I Get Asked Most Often
Many of the questions I get about DIY design and branding center around what resources, tools, and software to use. Here are answers to 5 questions I get asked all the time.
PDF Design Software
Q: What software should I use to create my pdfs (freebies, worksheets, ebooks)?
A: Short answer: Word, Pages, InDesign, or Canva. Read 4 Software Options for Creating Beautiful PDFs and Documents for full details.
Fillable PDFs
Q: How can I create pdf worksheets will fillable forms?
A: Short answer: Acrobat Pro, PDFPen Pro, PDF Escape, Nitro Pro, CutePDF. Read How Can I Make Interactive and Fillable PDFs? for full details.
Stock Photos
Q: Where can I find inexpensive stock photos?
A: Short answer: Creative Commons, no-cost commercial use sites, Little Visuals, PicJumbo, Death to Stock Photo. More resources here under “Images” category.
Brand Colors
Q: I found a color I love online how can I get the color codes I need to use it on my site?
A: Short answer: Digital Color Meter (Mac) or Instant Eyedropper (PC). Read What’s That Color? for full details.
Brand Fonts
Q: I found a font I love! How can I figure out the name of the font?
A: Short answer: What the Font or Identifont. Read 2 Free Tools to Help You Identify Fonts for full details.
Have questions about branding, design, and software resources?
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Online Resource Roundup: July 2014
A roundup of online classes, programs, and resources offered by entrepreneurial women to help you live your best life. If you have an online offering available that supports women entrepreneurs please share in the comments. If you’d like to be included in future roundups, please fill out this form for consideration. Thanks!
Spotlight
This month we’re shining the spotlight on …
Click Love Grow Photography Courses
With: Louise Glendon
Price: $197
Description: Click Love Grow offers beautiful online photography courses for women who want to take gorgeous photos to share their own creativity and offerings. Our class teaches how to get the most from our camera, and how we can use images in our business to tell stories about ourselves, our business and clients through images.
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Sales Close: July 29, 2014
Congrats, Louise!
And now, on to the full list…have fun, grow, learn, explore, live!
~~~JULY~~~
Business Growth & Personal Development
What’s your type? Learn the 7 Archetypes of Time Management for Busy Moms
With: Flesche Hesch
Price: FREE
Description: Do you know your Time Management Archetype? There are 7 and they hold the key getting more productive and understanding your internal blocks to getting things done at work and at home.When you understand your relationship to time and you can finally move your business & your family forward!
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Sales Close: July 2, 2014
Your Great & Gorgeous E-Course
With: Dr. Kelly Edmonds
Price: $497
Description: A full spectrum course on how to build and deliver a gorgeous e-course that serves your learners so well. Includes modules on planning, understanding adults learners at a distance, structuring a course, adding engaging activities & learning communities, working with technology & quality multimedia, and clever marketing.
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Sales Close: July 13, 2014
Lyremark Business Design
With: Erika Lyremark
Price: $1250
Description: I am seeking 12 women who have had a lifelong obsession with success, are learners, are hard-working, believe in what they are doing, value growing – not just as a business, but also as a person and are open, creative AND sensible for Lyremark Business Design – a premium program where we will design your world-class business.
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Sales Close: July 13, 2014
The Straightforward Revolution 19 Days to Conquer You
With: Lane Kennedy
Price: Free
Description: 19 days to becoming more confident, bold and You. You will receive prompts through email with conquer steps that you will tackle with ease! There are four videos in the program. A workbook to help you through all the steps and a calendar to keep you on track, but 19 days is quick!
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Sales Close: July 14, 2014
Centre Stage Spotlight
With: Chantelle Adams
Price: $597
Description: Ready to own your story, write a standing-ovation-worthy speech, rock the stage and get booked as a speaker? Then you need to check out Centre Stage Spotlight, a 6 week program that will help you do all of that while gaining more credibility, clients and cash in your biz. Let’s get this party started!
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Sales Close: July 21, 2014
Canva Basics for Online Business
With: Christie Halmick
Price: $99
Description: Learn the basic Canva skills you need for your online business. When you’re done with this course you’ll have a firm grasp of all that Canva offers and be ready to jump into specific branding projects with confidence.
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Sales Close: July 31, 2014
Summer Strategy Sessions
With: Megan Flatt
Price: $147
Description: Good business decisions don’t have to take a vacation! Even with the hectic summer, you can still move your business forward. In one 45 minute session, we’ll get clarity around a sticking point, solve a problem you’ve been debating, or create actionable plan for the next step in your business. .
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Sales Close: September 2, 2014
Health & Beauty
Summer Slim Down Detox
With: Carla Holden
Price: $67 individual, $97 two for one
Description: A 21 day detox of mantras meditations and movement. Kick off your summer with glowing skin, radiant health and a lighter body, mind, spirit.
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Sales Close: July 6, 2014
Nourish Your Way Home
With: Marita Rahlenbeck
Price: $297
Description: A 21-Day guided journey that incorporates Conscious Eating, Mindful Food Choices and observing your connection to the Divine. Lose inches and pounds, curb cravings and shift mindless habits – and watch how your ability to connect more clearly and deeply with God is enhanced.
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Sales Close: July 11, 2014
Eat Your Way to Gorgeous
With: Sue Ann Gleason
Price: $57
Description: Does your food life feel a little uninspiring at times? I’d like to shower you with inspiration for ten straight days. Come play with me this summer and ‘Eat Your Way to Gorgeous.’ This is an online program running two weeks in July and then again August 11-22. Register now and you can do it twice at no extra cost.
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Starts: July 14, 2014
Healing From Within
With: Jenn Hand
Price: $697 basic, $997 bonus package
Description: Ready to transform your relationship to food? In this 8-week online program, you will learn to kick the diet/overeating cycle, deal with emotional eating, listen to the body, curb compulsive eating, banish the “perfection” mindset, and so much more! Group coaching calls, a Facebook group, and lots of fun bonuses!
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Sales Close: July 21, 2014
Life & Relationships
Receiving School
With: Michele Lisenbury Christensen
Price: $198
Description: Receiving School is an 8 week course that transforms your relationship by expanding your receptive capacity so you can experience – every day – more pleasure, help, adoration, and rest… or anything else you desire.
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Sales Close: July 14, 2014
Jumpstart Your Joy
With: Ilesha “CoCo” Graham
Price: $99
Description: Do you find yourself in a place where you are overwhelmed, overworked and overcommitted. Have you been feeling a little run down and out of sync with who you are and what your true desires are? The JUMPSTART program will support you in reconnecting with your passion, redefining your goals, and recovering your joy!
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Sales Close: July 20, 2014
~~~AUGUST~~~
Health & Beauty
Repair the Earth, Heal Yourself
With: Chara Armon
Price: FREE
Description: You can improve both your own wellness and the Earth’s. Learn here how self-care is related to Earth-care, and how to engage in both in simple ways. Your result? A healthier, more peaceful you, connected to a natural environment that can support your flourishing!
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Sales Close: August 15, 2014
~~~SEPTEMBER~~~
Soul Work & Creativity
Tribal Bliss, Dance and Vision
With: Paulette Rees-Denis
Price: $49
Description: An online movement journey with Paulette Rees-Denis and Lynea Gillen. Bring on your dance with bliss and fun, internal questing and external dance juiciness!…welcome to our four week e-course! This is a course for you if you want to dance, move your body with freedom, write, sparkle, stretch, shake it out, dig in, breathe!
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Sales Close: September 10, 2014
~~~OCTOBER~~~
Retreats
Women’s Soul Retreat in the Redwoods
With: Laura Gates
Price: $1,250
Description: From October 2-5 nestled in the Redwoods we explore our deeper calling and how to remove obstacles to living our fullest lives. Gorgeous cabins, abundant nature, healthy food and the company of 9 other women. Join us for a rejuvenating weekend with yoga, creativity, rest, time in nature, and fun!
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Sales Close: September 1, 2014
~~~Ongoing~~~
Life & Relationships
Create Your Nomadtopia: Home Study Edition
With: Amy Scott
Price: $97
Description: Create Your Nomadtopia is an online program designed to help people reach location independence and create the ideal life for their nomadic soul. Through six modules of audio lessons, checklists, worksheets, and resources, experienced nomad Amy Scott guides you to identify what your ideal life looks like and make it a reality.
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The Free 21Day OooCamp: make orgasm your rocket fuel
With: Michele Lisenbury Christensen
Price: FREE
Description: What would your life be like if you experienced a whole lot more pleasure? What would become possible with consistent play and turn-on in your body and your day? LET’S FIND OUT. I designed this free 21-day experience to give women a glimpse of who they’re meant to be. You were born for pleasure. I’ll help you prioritize it.
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Happy & Healthy is a Choice: A Spiritual Workbook on Radical Self-Care and Self-Love
With: Rosa Conti
Price: FREE
Description: People often ask how I stay inspired; this workbook shares my how. This 47-page FREE guide explores 8 meaningful self-care areas, and offers practical, loving, and useful examples for protecting your time, your choices, and your personal world.
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The Wedding Ceremony Workshop
With: Amanda Brown
Price: $97
Description: This DIY workshop helps brides create a wedding ceremony that truly reflects their relationship, values and personal beliefs. Whether the ceremony is inside, outside, at the beach, or on top of a mountain, this video course guides step by step through creating an unforgettable ceremony that will live in your hearts forever.
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Soul Work & Creativity
Kakadu – a journey into country in image and small word
With: Narelle Carter-Quinlan
Price: $27
Description: Photo E-book. 56 pages, full colour. During October 2013 I travelled to Kakadu. The end of the dry, what I found was water. And rock. An echo of my own terrain, of bone and fluid. The land etched itself into me, searing my tissues. A visual and visceral encounter. Of Country. Lush vibrant images to take into your heart.
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Sensing the Spine – an Audio for you
With: Narelle Carter-Quinlan
Price: free
Description: Sensing the curving river of your spine changes everything! This is the first of a free Audio series, embodying your inner landscape. Come home to your interior wilderness. Sensing the spine -10 mins
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Business Growth & Career/Personal Development
4 Week Business Success Bootcamp
With: Uchechi Ezurike-Bosse
Price: $298
Description: 4 weeks of modern marketing training, plus strategic plans to help you grow your business, build lasting connections w/ your customers, and get real results. This program will help take the guesswork out of what is needed to grow a successful business. Get lifetime access to: video lessons, MP3 files, worksheets, & transcripts.
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5-day Loving-kindness Meditation Course for Women
With: Sita Chopra
Price: $10
Description: Do you give up on meditating because you feel like you get too distracted, don’t make it a priority, it’s a chore, don’t know how to start meditating, it’s hard to shut out all your thoughts, and making it a daily habit is just plain hard? Then this course is perfect you!! You will receive tons of support and guidance!!
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Awesome Business Community
With: Renee Shupe
Price: $97/yr
Description: Let’s take the technical mumbo jumbo and makes it easy for you to understand so you can get moving in your business, find your groove and bring the fun back! Technology should help you in your business not hold you back, an empowered business owner. The Awesome Business Community helps you figure it all out!
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The Blissful Mama’s Three Month Coaching Biz Plan
With: Kathy Stowell
Price: $147
Description: Want to know the next actionable steps to take to build your coaching biz or online wahm operation over the next three months? This is a five day ecourse that will build you a schedule to follow to zoom in on an area of focus, find more work/mama life balance and self care for this bliss quarter!
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Chaos to Clarity
With: Cindi Schultz
Price: Free
Description: Chaos is part of the entrepreneur gig. You don’t need to face it alone. Turn chaos into clarity with this free conversation with Cindi. In business for 11 years I have experienced the highs and lows, all while raising 3 kids and working with an international client base. Use my experience and turn your Chaos into Clarity.
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Class Wrangling e-Course
With: Christen McGee
Price: Free
Description: If you are struggling to keep up with all the awesome online classes you sign up for, the Class Wrangling e-Course will help you set up a system in just 7 days. I take you step by step through the process of creating a list of your classes, deciding how to organize everything related to the classes, and more.
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The Confidence Boost Project: 21 days to build confidence from the inside out
With: Joanna Byrne
Price: $60
Description: The Confidence Boost Project is a 21 day self-study program to help you learn about your own self-confidence, tools to build and develop it, and how to make it resilient.
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Content Tamer master class
With: Cindi Schultz
Price: $279
Description: This is a unique course. A combination of personalized attention, self paced work & step by step instruction for you and your team if you have one. You come out of the course with your customized content tamer.
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Crack the Code to Your Professional Brand & Create an Awesome Online Presence
With: Vatsala Shukla
Price: $60
Description: This 6 Module program is based on tools that I use in my Career Coaching Signature Program but meant for self-help seeking professional who want independence in achieving their desired result – creating an awesome brand that reflects their true value and not get branded by others.
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Creative Direction
With: Melissa Burkheimer
Price: $500-$2400
Description: Sometimes you don’t need a full design or marketing overhaul. You just need a creative director to have in your virtual back pocket – someone who can offer high quality design AND quick turnaround without any hidden fees along the way. (Spoiler alert: That talented designer is me!)
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Dive In Lite, Pro or Deep End
With: Crysti Caro
Price: $197, $397 or $697
Description: You get five days of a deep dive into what brought you to wear you are today with your career and your children (or future children), you get to dream up your future. Then we’ll get clear on how to grow at work or start a new path all while staying connected to your kids.
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Jewels Branch Creative Community
With: Christie Halmick
Price: Starting at $49/month.
Description: As a creative member you get access to a growing library of self-paced digital courses and the Jewels Branch creative community. Learn graphic design software, branding, content strategy, and more at your own speed (no more overwhelm!). Get support from other entrepreneurs on the same journey as you. Get constructive, helpful feedback from a professional graphic designer.
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Journal in the New You: 2014 Edition Version 2
With: Kendra Kantor
Price: $18
Description: Over 60 pages and 70 prompts in this PDF, self-paced e-course for creative women. This course is about journaling, diary keeping, photo taking and reflection. This isn’t about goals and resolutions, failures and successes…it’s about living with joy.It’s about learning to live with confidence!
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Qpractice NCIDQ Exam Complete Study Plan
With: Lisa League
Price: $197
Description: The Qpractice NCIDQ Exam Study Package is a complete plan to prepare interior designers to pass the grueling IDFX, IDPX, and Practicum exams. Includes lifetime access to online content and videos with multiple choice practice tests and a private study group.
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Unleash Your Life Purpose Hand Analysis
With: Leanne Chesser
Price: $197
Description: Want to build the right business and attract the perfect clients to you? You can do that by building a solid foundation of being your authentic self and knowing and living your life purpose. Discover or clarify your life purpose, life lesson, life school, gifts and personal characteristics through a hand analysis.
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Finances
Money First Aid Kit
With: Yiye Zhang
Price: $50
Description: Release your most immediate money blocks at your cellular level through guided meditation and healing technologies. Practical guidance to manifest money (your next $1k, 5k, even $200k+) + move your divine business forward. Develop a loving & healthy relationship with money, stop being scared of numbers, bills or paying suppliers.
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Health & Beauty
Closet Clarity
With: Alexandra Greenwalt
Price: $150
Description: Closet Clarity: Edit your wardrobe in 8 easy steps. Do you have a crazy overwhelming closet but feel like you have nothing to wear? From closet chaos to clarity with ease!
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From Burnout To Bliss
With: Rachael Roehmholdt
Price: $47
Description: From Burnout To Bliss is the revolutionary step-by-step online course designed for at-home mamas to rid your guilt, leverage your time, and put yourself at the top of your priority list – so you can get back to being a stress-free, healthy, and blissful mama.
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From Doritos to Kale Chips
With: Connie Trowbridge
Price: $24.95
Description: From Doritos to Kale Chips is a BEASTLY resource on health and wellness. This ebook provides you with everything you could possibly need to go from sickly to healthy, from uninformed to wellness pro. More than just a food guide, it’s a lifestyle makeover, a health transformation, a second chance.
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Revamp your life 4-week E-course
With: Connie Trowbridge
Price: $95
Description: As we transition through the stages of our lives, there are 4 main areas that the majority of people continue to try to improve. This E-Course will help assist you in these key issues. Best part? You don’t have to do this alone. I am here to help you become the person you want to be and achieve the most optimal life balance.
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Xen Strength 28 Day Love Your Asana Program
With: Danielle Diamond
Price: $149
Description: 28 Days to: A tighter body, a positive attitude, and more energy than you’ve ever had! You’ll have access to 24 videos to get flexible and strong, meal plans, lifestyle tips, and guided meditations- with access for LIFE- for less than the cost of one month at the gym.
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