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Online Resource Roundup: August
Check out this awesome list of online classes, programs, and resources offered by entrepreneurial women to help you live your best life. If you have an online offering available in that supports women entrepreneurs please share in the comments. If you’d like to be included in the August roundup, please fill out this form for consideration. Thanks!
Spotlight
This month we are shining the spotlight on The PDF Workshop
The PDF Workshop
With: Christie Halmick (that’s me!)
Price: $250.
Description: Create a beautiful, branded PDF for your target market (in iWork Pages) that will increase engagement with your ideal clients and help you grow your list. Boost your online business confidence by learning skills that you must have to get noticed online (writing, design, content strategy, marketing & follow through). Save money learn the skills to create any kind of PDF document. Starts August 27, 2012
Sales Close: at 25 participants or August 23, 2012 (7 spots left)
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And now, on to the full list…have fun, grow, learn, explore, live!
~~~August~~~
Business Growth
Succulent, Savvy Business Design
With: Leela Somaya
Price: $297
Description: Custom-design your creative action plan for a wildly profitable, soul-full bizz. Double your Income in 6 months or less. More Info
Sales Close: August 3, 2012
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The eCourse Team Experience
With: Dayna House
Price: $249
Description: If you are ready to create an ecourse or program and need a little help getting started and staying on track you need this group coaching program. Over the duration of the 4 weeks we will spend together I am going to share everything I know about how to create inspiring, effective and professional training courses and programs. More Info
Sales Close: August 6, 2012
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Rocket Your Revolution
With: Erin Giles
Price: $595
Description: A 4 week group coaching program that teaches you how to go big and give back by building philanthropy into your business model just as I did with End Sex Trafficking Day. More Info
Sales Close: August 11, 2012
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Hustle Your Business Boot Camp
With: Erika Lyremark
Price: $995
Description: An 8-week Group Coaching Course (with TONS of individual attention) that helps women entrepreneurs ditch fear, doubt + excuses about selling and teaches them how to be confident world-class business hustlers that bring in the cash! Starts August 12, 2012.
More Info
Sales Close: at 25 sign-ups
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E-Book Brainstorming Sessions
With: Christie Halmick
Price: Free
Description: I’ll review your PDF freebie/e-book with an emphasis on content, design, audience, the bigger picture of your brand and the market. Then, we’ll meet for a 15 minute chat and you’ll leave with tips to take your e-book/freebie up a notch. If you don’t have an e-book/freebie, we’ll talk about audience, marketing goals and how an e-book fits into your brand, types of e-books and what best fits your particular marketing goals, writing, editing, design and PDF production issues. More Info
Sales Close: August 16 and 23, 2012. Limited spots.
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6 Weeks to Smart Systems for Solopreneurs
With: Samantha Leith
Price: 997
Description: Ditch It, Delegate It, Leverage It and Live It, by creating Smart Systems for your business. Imagine having more time, more money and more of your passions by having the business and life you want and deserve – not just a job that you have created for yourself. This 6 week online program will help you do just that.
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Sales Close: August 31, 2012, limited to 10 spots.
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Finances
Master Your Money
With: Amy M. Carbone
Price: $197
Description: Module 1: “Balanced Money for LIfe” This is a 4-session online class (all classes recorded) for women who are ready to get their personal money in order. We look at the Big Picture, and an easy formula that helps you know if you are on track to acheive your goals, or on the fast train to disaster! More Info
Sales Close: August 20, 2012
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Personal Development
22 Paths to Wholeness :: wisdom from the tarot
With: Jo Crawford
Price: $88
Description: In this 8 week online course (starts August 19) you will embark on a hero(ine)’s journey towards accepting your whole self with the tarot as your guide. You’ll enjoy weekly wisdom lessons inspired by the tarot, journal and creativity prompts, mindfulness exercises, ritual and altar work, and easy-to-implement tips on how to live a more fulfilling and present life. More Info
Sales Open: August 6, 2012
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Foundations for Unshakable Joy
With: Stephenie Zamora
Price: $395
Description: A 6-week group program that helps women take an honest look at their life, discover what they really want and create an easy-to-implement plan to make it happen fast. If you’re ready to experience fulfillment, passion and unshakable JOY, this course is for you! More Info
Sales Close: August 31, 2012
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Soul Work & Creativity
The Book Within
With: Amy Scott
Price: $447 / $747
Description: A remarkable 12-week journey to finish the book only you can write, with support from a professional book coach and editor (Amy Scott of Nomad Editorial) and a small community of writers just like you. Begins August 20, 2012.More Info
Sales Close: August 19, 2012
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~~~September~~~
Business Growth
Fearless Launching
With: Anne Samoilov
Price: tba
Description: Want to learn the step by step process of launching – and how to do it over and over again without fear or frustration? Fearless Launching will give you the confidence + teach you how to keep launching. More Info
Sales Close: September 14, 2012
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Health & Wellness
Clueless in the Kitchen
With: Sue Ann Gleason
Price: $397
Description: September 18 through October 9. A delicious online program covering flavor balancing, nourishing foods, and healthful eating habits that have nothing to do with deprivation and everything to do with the sensuous, sumptuous nature of the food you eat. More Info
Sales Close: September 16, 2012
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The Well Nourished Woman Inner Circle
With: Sue Ann Gleason
Price: $697
Description: A body wisdom approach to delicious living, September 19th through December 4. In this 12-week online program we’ll discover ARTFUL eating with a deep dive into the eating experience and what it means to prepare a sumptuous meal that nourishes body, eye, and palate. Then, we’ll move into ARTFUL living, as we explore our creative compass and craft the MAGNIFICENT LIFE of a well nourished woman. More Info
Sales Close: September 16, 2012
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Horrible Food Wonderful Food
With: Grace Bell
Price: $395
Description: 8 week telecourse to deeply investigate the painful beliefs about food and eating, using The Work of Byron Katie, a powerful form of self-inquiry. Taught by Grace, who recovered from bulimia, anorexia and a violent love-hate relationship with food. More Info
Sales Close: September 17, 2012
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Soul Work & Creativity
Walking with Ma’at: Seven Secrets to Finding Balance
With: Amy Auset Rohn
Price: $565
Description: Clear chakras never sounded so good… tune into your body and tune up! Having clear energy centers helps bring clarity, ease, and understanding in your daily life. New avenues for success in your life can be opened by activating these wheels of energy within your body. More Info
Sales Close: September 5, 2012
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Picking Up the Pieces Tele-Retreat
With: Alana Sheeren
Price: $248
Description: When grief strikes, it can feel like your world is falling apart. This 5 week tele-class will guide you into greater knowledge and acceptance of your experience, uncovering your inner strength and wisdom, and helping you find the gold in your grief.More Info
Sales Close: September 11, 2012 or at 22 people
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~~~Ongoing~~~
Business Growth & Personal Development
Be&Biz Sessions
With: Emmanuelle Lambert
Price: $299/$149 for applications received before August 9!
Description: A special 90-minute coaching session designed to give you tools and foundations as a solopreneur and integrate seamlessly your biz into your life and not your life into your biz. By the end of the session, with laser-focused coaching from me, you will define your message and how to communicate it effectively, your next steps to rock your biz YOUR way, and you will have a clear action plan designed for *you*. More Info
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Business Planning for the Average Human
With: Amber Goodenough
Price: $349
Description: The Business Planning for the Average Human video ecourse is an 8 week online course that covers all the stuff you need in business plan in a fun, creative, exciting format! Everything is in plain english! No confusing jargon, no complicated spreadsheets…just the essentials. And visual aids and templates galore. More Info
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Editor On Call
With: Lauren Forest
Price: Monthly Packages start at $97
Description: Make sure your online content is as professional as it can be – have it edited and proofread by your own “Editor On Call.” Send your weekly blog posts, guest articles, whatever you need…even Facebook updates and tweets and they’ll be polished and refined – usually within 72 hours (for short pieces); monthly package prices are based on word count. More Info
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Free 15 Minutes Pow-wow
With: Yvette Syversen
Price: Free
Description: Free 15 Minutes Powwow chats with Yvette Syversen of EZ Business Growth {on Skype}. These no-hold barred conversations will help you liberate yourself from the daily grind of your business, so you can finally OWN your business and not the other way around! Result, more freedom + more cashola. Available: By appointment throughout August. More Info
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more EVOLution
With: Leona Mizrahi
Price: $136
Description: More evolution sessions are personalized private one-on-ones that reframe the self-help concept. Your private session is accompanied with straight forward and provocative questions that are results-oriented to help keep your heart warm and mind calm. More Info
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Morning Whip
With: Erika Lyremark
Price: $595
Description: 30 days of whip-crackin’ action + luxurious support to whip UP your business confidence with Erika Lyrmark author of the forthcoming Think Like A Stripper: How to Hustle Like You Mean It! More Info
Sales Close: at 25 attendees
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Namestorming!
With: Victoria Prozan McGlinn
Price: $275
Description: You can’t sell it if you haven’t named it! Stop wasting time and start making money! More Info
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Pinterruption
With: Jessica Kupferman
Price: $199
Description: An online course that helps business owners get started using Pinterest for business, branding, SEO, website traffic, and more! More Info
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QuickStart Website
With: Loralee Hutton
Price: $97
Description: You can stop looking the “perfect” plugins and worrying about SEO. This program includes the setup of your WordPress site with the plugins & pages you’ll need to get you back to focusing on building your business. “Done For You” WordPress setup, with easy to consume 5 minute video tutorials to help you personalize the website, get your first blog post out & your sales copy in place. Followed by a mini website review.More Info
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Shift into Genius
With: Lauren Forest
Price: $1197
Description: A genius doesn’t fight her current situation: she shifts out of it and into a place that’s above & beyond it – she shifts into her own place of personal genius. This 6 week process teaches women entrepreneurs how to use this system to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and free themselves from self-defeating thoughts & feelings so that they can create the relationships, life, and businesses of their dreams. More Info
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Track This!
With: Brittni Mehlhoff
Price: $27
Description: Track This! is packed with actionable worksheets, charts, and questions designed to help you figure out what your true (and very specific) goals are when it comes to your business, and how to stay on track and accomplish those goals once they are set. More Info
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WordPress Play Day
With: Loralee Hutton
Price: pay what you can
Description: A light and carefree place to spend time with like minded people who are also working on their WordPress websites. It’s a great place to focus on this 1 project for a few hours with no other distractions. We meet every Thursday evening, and every 2nd Tuesday during the day.
Accountability + Support = WordPress Play Day. More Info
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Finances
Conscious Bookkeeping Method: Home Study Program
With: Bari Tessler Linden
Price: $300
Description: This self-guided, step-by-step and comprehensive online home study course is packed with Tools for Financial Transformation. Charged with practical action steps, teeming with deep reflection cues, and guided by a nurturing curiosity – you’ll be guided your relationship with money on every level, at your own pace. More Info
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Tools for Financial Transformation: Introductory Video Course
With: Bari Tessler Linden
Price: $45
Description: This 4-part video series presents Bari Tessler Linden’s Conscious Bookkeeping method in lively, bite-sized morsels of transformative genius. If you’re ready for a jump start into a more conscious and fulfilling relationship with money, you won’t want to miss it! More Info
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Wake Up With Mint Course
With: Bari Tessler Linden
Price: $65
Description: This multi-media training course has everything you need to start a money practice with the hip & handy web-based personal finance app, Mint.com. You’ll get a comprehensive video training guide to Mint, plus a soulful guide through the psychological, emotional, and spiritual considerations of tracking your finances. More Info
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Health & Wellness
28-Day Fat-Blaster Challenge
With: Shay de Silva
Price: $149
Description: A comprehensive program that will get you in tip-top shape in just 28 days. The challenge includes a workbook for changing your habits, three workout videos (each one less than 25 minutes long and requiring no weights or other equipment), a meal plan, a day-by-day guide, and a tracker so you can chart your progress. More Info
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The Cut The Crap 7 Day Guided Cleanse
With: Carol Galanty
Price: $45
Description: Cut the crap out of your diet, give yourself a big energy boost, improve your focus and sleep like a baby by cleansing your mind, body and soul for 7 days. (There is an optional juice delivery service or you can make your juices yourself). More Info
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The Deluxe Mix & Match Meal Chart
With: Lacy
Price: $9.95
Description: A PDF chart designed using the Mix and Match Rule to help solve or prevent a picky eating problem for kids. The chart contains almost 400,000 different healthy, balanced meal combinations!More Info
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Fast Fitness to Go
With: Shay de Silva
Price: $99/month
Description: Get fit and firm in 25 minutes anytime, anywhere…no equipment needed! This unique program delivers three new 25-minute workout videos directly to your inbox each month. More Info
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Inspired Running
With: Christy Lambert
Price: $10 a month
Description: Inspired Running is an online community of beginning runners/walkers, offering personalized support, motivation & feedback. The intent is to inspire as many people as possible to reach their fitness and life goals using inspiration to pave the way. More Info
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Paleo Power Lunch
With: Stormy Sweitzer
Price: $27.50
Description: Paleo Power Lunch: Easy, Filling & Delicious Workday Meals is a strategic cookbook with a set of how-to videos and quick guides designed to help you create meals that power your active and busy life. Recipes are based on Paleo dietary principles and are naturally free of dairy, grains, legumes, and processed ingredients. All resources are electronic so you can easily download and use them wherever you need them. More Info
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Season to Run
With: Jeanne Andrus
Price: $197/$347
Description: This program is perfect for you if you never thought you could be a runner, if you’ve tried and failed to be a runner, or if a 5k (or longer!) is on your “someday” list! Season to Run is a ZERO to 5k running program that teaches you everything you need to know to become a runner and supports you every step of the way! Minimum age – 9, maximum age – 95! More Info
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Sugar Recovery Program
With: Claudia Olivie
Price: $175
Description: This program is for you if you have struggled to end the cycle of sugar addiction in the past and are looking to make a permanent shift so you can get over your sugar addiction once and for all. It includes everything I used on myself and with countless others to effectively and permanently kick the sugar habit. More Info
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Your Health Path
With: Wendy Sailor
Price: $28, $98, $224 per month
Description: Three levels of coaching programs and classes: e-course and site membership, the aforementioned as well as email coaching, all of the aforementioned and 4 half hour coaching calls a month. Health and wellness coaching geared to the individual. This is not about what I want for you but helping you to decide what YOU want for you. More Info
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Soul Work & Creativity
Bling Your Brilliant Idea
With: Cara Moulds
Price: $275/$1500
Description: Are you stalled with a divine idea that wants to be born? Get individual coaching and consulting to get out of the muck that’s weighing you down. 1 Carat Bling and 6 Carat Bling options for creating an online program or retreat, branding or opt-in ideas, writing an e-book, crafting a speech or presentation, or whatever brilliant idea is swirling within you! More Info
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Breathe-Focus-Centre
With: Melissa Horne
Price: $55.00 (AUD)
Description: Breathe-Focus-Centre, is a beautiful soulful on-line program, all about connecting in with the breath, to reduce stress & become more self aware – all in the name of building a life that you actually want to live. More Info
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Introduction to Tarot
With: Eliza Fayle
Price: $40
Description: YA common sense approach to learning the Tarot, with no memory work involved. Tarot opens up your intuition and creativity to enhance not just your personal life, but your business life as well. More Info
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Read MoreDear Universe
Thank you for your kindness and generosity over the years! Especially the gift of my daughters.
I have a very special request that I need your help with. So here goes…Please help me find awesome online business ladies and gentlemen who can see very clearly in their imaginations how awesome their marketing materials (pdf e-books, freebies, info products, worksheets) should be.
Help me find the people who know that to reach this professional level with their materials, they need help translating these ideas into reality. And they are ready, right now, to get that help.
Then help me graciously invite them to The PDF Workshop.
They’ve been talking to you, Universe, and asking you to find someone like me to give them direction and support so they can learn all the skills they’ll need to be able to take their visions out of their imaginations and make them real.
This is so important to them because I know that gaining these skills will boost their online business confidence and change the way they look at themselves and their business opportunities.
They will more confidently promote themselves, gain followers, and grow their business.
Their businesses will transform from feeling empty to beautiFUL.
This is also important for me, personally. It will help me diversify my business and boost my confidence to continue creating more workshops like this.
I know that when I do my chores you can do your chores!
I will commit to doing the following to assist you:
1) Keep promoting The PDF Workshop
2) Post the templates I’ve created for the workshop, so that they will be inspired by the potential to create something beautiful of their own.
3) Write a series of blog posts to inspire and inform.
4) Find guest posting opportunities to expose my work to new audiences.
Thank you!
p.s. Universe… this is for you..
Business Sideways
I have a confession to make.
I came into online business sideways. No business plan, no SBA loans. I didn’t have a grand plan to have an online business.
I started after stopping. A full, complete stop. The “I’m absolutely sure I’ll never take on design work again” kind of zero. From a batch of local clients to zero.
It was a full stop because I had taken on the most important job in the world to me. I was a MOM. Responsible for two tiny beings.
It was all I ever wanted. Everything I’d been dreaming of since I was six years old and saw my sister for the first time wrapped up in a pink, striped hospital blanket, next to a bulky baby boy with wild black hair.
“That one?” I asked my dad point to the boy.
“No that one,” he said pointing. There she was, one basinet over, wispy blond hair and a pixie nose: my introduction to the yearning for motherhood.
I knew, knew, KNEW I wanted to be a mom.
When my girls came along 24 years later, even though I gave up all my design clients, I was perfectly content to be Mom.
Who would want to spend all day with this kind of cute?
Business to zero made perfect sense to me.
For a while.
Then it turned out not working wasn’t fine with my creative soul, with my must-help-provide-for-the-family upbringing, or with my brain, which was starting to exhibit signs of losing the ability for abstract thoughts, beyond choosing which muy bien Skippyjon Jones book to read next.
I needed a way to prove to myself that I hadn’t lost my creative skills but I was certain that I wasn’t ready to juggle meetings with clients, which often meant an hour drive to the city.
I didn’t feel like I could step straight back into business, so I went sideways.
Through Volunteer Match, I found a few nonprofit organizations who wanted help with marketing, virtually, no driving required. Around naps, I wrote newsletters, designed websites, and created flyers.
I celebrated each project. My brain, it seemed, still worked. Pro bono work rebuilt my confidence and the realization that I could work from home made returning to business seem doable.
This business had to grow slowly, though, and be flexible enough so that I could be the mom I wanted to be. Design had to be wedged around trips to the park, snacks, and crazy nap time schedules.
It could work. It did work. It does work.
I’m telling you this because we spend a lot of time comparing ourselves and our businesses to everyone else’s. Too much time spent thinking they must have had a straight line to success that is somehow alluding us.
But we don’t stop and look at our story and see the choice we’ve made, the winding, twisty, around-the-mountain-and-back approaches to business that we’ve taken because they allowed us to honor all parts of ourselves.
So, today I want you to look at your business journey and see what you can celebrate. Celebrate the starts and stops, the zero, the sideways, backwards, and vertical approaches that got you where you are today. And please share below. We all need reminders that it is o.k. to approach life sideways.
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