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Online Resource Roundup: May 2013
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 May 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!
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Sacred Me Time
With: Jo Crawford
Price: $40
Description: Sacred Me Time is a 21 day self-guided program to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself and find joy in your day-to-day. Treat, nourish and express yourself with self-care that’s meaningful and do-able.
Congrats, Jo!
And now, on to the full list…have fun, grow, learn, explore, live!
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Business Growth & Personal Development
Jewels Branch Creative Community
With: Christie Halmick
Price: Early bird specials: 4 months/$256 or 1 year/$480 through May 1
Description: As a creative member you get access to a growing library of self-paced digital courses and the Jewels Branch creative community. Learn Photoshop, graphic design software, branding, content strategy, and more. Get support from other entrepreneurs on the same journey as you.
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Sales Close: May 1, 2013 (early bird)
Healthy Business
With: Anna Long
Price: $397
Description: What: 1 on 1 goal-oriented coaching, How Long: 3 Months, For: Women in Health and Wellness Industry, Takeaway: Uncover areas that are holding you back, get profit plan in place, get clear on niche and ideal clients, uncover money mindset issues, make profits!
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Sales Close: May 1, 2013
How to be a Guilty Pleasure
With: Melissa Cassera
Price: $149
Description: A class for business owners who want to create content so good + juicy, it’s totally addictive! You’ll learn how to write blog posts + newsletters that get your ideal clients flipping out + hanging on your every word, and you’ll learn how to make writing feel like a guilty pleasure for you.
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Sales Close: May 5, 2013
Video In A Weekend
With: Bianca Filoteo
Price: $597 (or 2 payments of $397)
Description: Create a complete video that’s ready to publish on your website – in a matter of days. Video In A Weekend is a virtual workshop for entrepreneurs who are looking for ACCOUNTABILITY & IMPLEMENTATION with video. After creating just one, you’ll now have a blueprint and system to use, giving you the momentum you need to keep going.
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Sales Close: May 7, 2013
Collaborative Course Creation
With: Angela Lau
Price: $277
Description: An intensive, action oriented 4 week course for business owners who want to create a short 2 week program in a supportive and collaborative environment. At the end of this course they will be able to deliver that inspirational course that connects and inspires their clients!
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Sales Close: May 10, 2013
Coaching Business Jumpstart
With: Rebecca Tracey
Price: $199
Description: Coaching Business Jumpstart is a one-day interactive + results -oriented program to help you learn and implement the key factors that lead to a successful coaching business: Find Your Niche, Create Your Packages, Get your business booming online, Get clients. JUMPSTART your coaching business with this one-day intensive.
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Sales Close: May 16, 2013
The Supergirl’s Moneycure
With: Anja Schuetz
Price: $77
Description: Improve your relationship with money in order to earn, save, create and manifest more, so you can do more good in the world!
We will keep it fun, informative and a little magical, with a harmony of practical and inspirational exercises. Course starts in June. Get on the early interest list now to benefit from the low price.
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Sales Close: May 31, 2013
Professional & Career Development
The Change Room : Custom Career Design in 4 Weeks
With: Kacey Crawford
Price: Runway edition is $149 and Bespoke edition is $299
Description: The Change Room is a self-paced online learning program and community to help you find the career you always wanted, but could never describe. Using fun, creative and thought-provoking techniques, The Change Room is your safe haven to learn, discover and design your perfect-fit career – and wear it with confidence.
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Sales Close: May 20, 2013
Soul Work & Creativity
Online Spiritual Book Club
With: Julie Geigle
Price: $19.95/mo or $97.00/yr
Description: Do you typically read a book & move onto the next without truly absorbing & applying the principles to your life? Join us for a spiritual exploration of Marianne Williamson’s new book “The Law of Divine Compensation.” We offer chapter summaries & weekly recorded Q&A sessions to help you process and apply the concepts learned.
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Sales Close: May 17, 2013
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Health & Beauty
Three Day Smoothie Challenge
With: Paige Lysaght
Price: $25
Description: Join Health Coach Paige Lysaght for a three day smoothie detox to jumpstart your healthy lifestyle! Paige will provide nutritious smoothie recipes, tips, and support for the entire challenge. You’ll boost your energy, overcome food cravings, improve your digestion, and more. Challenges taking place in May, June, and July!
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Sales Close: July 5, 2013
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Business Growth & Personal Development
2013 Create Your Incredible Year in Life and Business workbooks
With: Leonie Dawson
Price: $9.95
Description: Create your incredible year in life or business with the 2013 Create Your Incredible Year workbook + planner. Massive miracle-inducers, these workbooks will make your life + business dreams come true over the next 12 months!
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Body Loving Homework E-Course
With: Mara Glatzel
Price:$127
Description: The Body Loving Homework E-Course is a powerful compilation of lessons, writing prompts, and tools that invite you to become an active participant in your life. This E-Course is designed for anyone who is ready to invest in themselves by taking the time to truly get to know themselves, and start to build a life that they love from the ground up.
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Coaching Practice in a Box
With: Sarah Yost
Price:$247
Description: This is a comprehensive guide to starting your coaching practice. It’s designed for coaches in the first 6 months of their business and will save them at least $1000 and a year’s learning curve.
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Delegate to Accelerate
With: Alyssa Middleton and Amy Wright
Price:$247
Description: A 5 module, go-at-your-own-pace e-course to find, hire and train a virtual assistant to take tasks off your plate and let you enjoy your business again. Videos, handouts, checklists and fill in the blank templates teach you to delegate tasks to your team to accelerate your business growth and profits.
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Ebook Kickstart Kit
With: Kris Emery
Price: $49
Description: The Ebook Kickstart Kit holds the all the tools you need to start writing your ebook. When you’re tired of rewriting your plan & have deleted more draft chapters than you can remember, learn where to start & how to move forward. With a beginner’s self-publishing resource & 12 weekly follow-up emails to keep you motivated!
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Get Social Weekend
With: Karen Yankovich
Price: $297
Description: Weekend of Online Social Media Training. Through six power-packed live online workshop sessions, I’ll help you set up your entire social media presence, step-by step. In just 48 hours, you will: set up and optimize accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ for your business, and more.
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How to Be More Productive Online: Blogging & Social Media Tools to Save You Time
With: Leanne Chesser
Price: Regular $197,
Description: Tips, tools and strategies to help you save time online with blogging and social media.
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iCoach Digital Magazine
With: Stacy Nelson
Price: Free
Description: iCoach Network is an International Network of Life & Business Coaches built on the principles of collaboration, cooperation & support. As one rises, we lift each other up. Each month receive a beautiful digital magazine written by our Coaches specifically to inspire your Life & Business. Different theme each month!
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The Inner Circle for Health Coaches
With: Cathy Sykora
Price: $517.00
Description: Inner Circle for Health Coaches offers Health Coaches tools to grow their businesses and present themselves to the world in a professional way. It includes the exclusive 3-6-9-12 Month Program for Health Coaches, supplemental specialty modules, how-to tutorials for health coaches, a mastermind group, a collaborative recipe book
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Letter of Virtual Sympathy
With: Kayla Peikes
Price: FREE!
Description: A letter of virtual sympathy in the form of an autoresponder for the days when all you want to say is ‘Eff My
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Love Potion: Creating Wild Customer Attraction
With: Stephanie Peterson
Price: $39
Description: The messages your business projects out into the world determine exactly what you get back. Learn how to demonstrate the true, unique value of your products, and you can realistically have the profitable, fun, fulfilling business you signed up for.
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The PDF Workshop ~ Self-Study
With: Christie Halmick
Price: starting at $180
Description: The PDF Workshop is a digital workshop that will teach you how to conceive, write, design, and produce your own short PDF documents in iWork Pages (Mac) or Word (PC). Learn the graphic design skills you need to make beautiful, on brand e-books, worksheets, recipe books, digital products, and more.
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Restore Your Heart
With: Claire Gillenson
Price: $225
Description: Are you feeling lost? Heart broken into a million pieces? Appear to be thriving outwardly but grieving and feeling frustrated inside? I believe loss is not just about life and death, it is about every disappointment we’ve ever held onto. Learn how to heal past loss and find your way back to a life you were meant to live.
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Share the Love
With: Meg Appleby
Price: $1 for first month, then $10 month
Description: Share the Love is an online community that helps women entrepreneurs build their influence, build their confidence & build their business!
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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.
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Superluxe Naming Experience
With: Victoria Prozan
Price: $397
Description: Conjuring the unexpected into branded stories that tell and sell. Communication is everything.
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Take Flight with Facebook
With: Sophie Bujold
Price: $197 CAD
Description: An online program designed to help travel professionals kick their Facebook shame to the curb and start engaging like a pro.
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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.
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Tech Quickie Session
With: Jessica Williams
Price: $15
Description: Instead of spending HOURS researching on Google, you can jump on the phone with me and get major clarity around your tech problem in 15 minutes.
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Finances
7-Day Money Made Easy Mini-Program
With: Leah
Price: FREE
Description: With one email per day over the course of a week, I’ll guide you through creating a set-it-and-forget it system for your money. You’ll get access to my secrets for conscious spending, saving on autopilot, getting out of debt, and earning more money
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Getting Started With Conscious Spending
With: Mindy Crary, MBA, CFP
Price: FREE
Description: The single-greatest indicator of your future wealth is clarity around cash flow. Since budgeting SUCKS, find out the little-known steps to getting more satisfaction from every dollar.
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The Path to Profitability
With: Yu-Fen Chang-Pett
Price: $388
Description: This is a 30-day 1:1 business financial mentoring program. This program is specifically designed for start-up and solo entrepreneurs who are ready to get their business finances organized and create a profitable business model.
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Health & Beauty
12 Day Detox
With: Cathy Sykora
Price: $49
Description: You will… Lose up to 5 lbs. Have brighter skin. Have a lighter mood. Experience carb & sugar cravings disappearing. Have a body that is cleansed of old toxins.
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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.
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Boost your Body Image
With: Jennie Carlson
Price: $75-$280
Description: Become that bodacious babe that you KNOW you are and Kick the negative self-talk to the curb for good! Health, mind, an soul coaching for women!
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Clean Foods Diet Method
With: Jovanka Ciares
Price: $67
Description: A method of incorporating new, clean foods to your lifestyle for easy, natural weight loss. The Clean Foods Diet Method will help you:
Lose 3-5 pounds in the 1st week; Get rid of up to 10% of toxic fat in 4-5 weeks; Nourish your body; Look younger and sexier; Keep the weight off for the rest of your life.
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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).
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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!
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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.
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Kick It Kickstart :: Be a Smoke-Free Hottie
With: Cara Citrowske
Price: $275
Description: I offer an ongoing 30 day 1:1 coaching program for women who want to end the pack mentality and become smoke-free hotties. Each woman will receive personalized support via four 1:1 coaching calls, Smoke-Free Hottie Success Secrets workbook, unlimited email support, and membership in a secret Facebook group for extra support.
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MINDSET Alignment Program
With: Jennifer Sparks Berthelot – SWIFTKICK Fitness and Lifestyle Coaching
Price: 14.95
Description: A 12 week Journal and Planner with Companion Workbook and WEEKLY Video Support Series that takes your through an alignment process to create the life of your dreams. Wellness tips, quotes, tools, videos, coaching all combined in a Planner
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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.
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Recovering Beauty: Sacred Rituals To Clear Emotional Weight
With: Lisa Claudia Briggs, MSW
Price: $47
Description: Digital Home Study program/retreat (145 pages) for women who feel everything and take it “all” on.. a completely different approach to heal emotional eating and body related issues.
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Reinvention Session
With: Paige Lysaght
Price: $25
Description: Feeling stressed, stifled, and stuck? Schedule a Reinvention Session for a powerful week-long coaching experience to learn how to upgrade your routine for health and happiness.
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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!
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Sexier You: styles for your silhouette guide
With: Hanna Ashbaugh
Price: $25
Description: Sexier You: styles for your silhouette guide is a how to dress for your body type. If you want to look 10 lbs lighter in 10 seconds, know exactly what to wear for your silhouette and know your must have wardrobe piece, you’ll love Sexier You. If you’re on camera as an entrepreneur or want to stop looking for wardrobe that “works.”
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Xen Strength Yoga with Weights Teacher Training
With: Danielle Diamond
Price: $599
Description: This online teacher training program will certify you to teach a level 1 Xen Strength Yoga with Weights class. It contains a membership site with 20 videos and a manual with descriptions of every pose, and instructions on how to teach them. Yoga with Weights is emerging as the hottest new hybrid class, why not be the first to teach it in your area?
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Professional & Career Development
Qpractice NCIDQ Study Plan
With: Lisa League
Price: $37 – $247
Description: Courses, online multiple choice practice tests, and 1-on-1 coaching sessions to help interior designers pass the NCIDQ Exam the first time. Free 10 week study plan by email.
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Life & Relationships
The Busy Parent’s Guide to Photosanity
With: Alethea Fitzpatrick
Price: $397
Description: Stop taking disappointing photos, and start capturing the fleeting moments of your children’s lives, so you can save time, be more present, and more fully experience every precious second! Includes 12 video lessons and a 200+ page e-book.
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The Dr Laura Ciel Show
With: Dr Laura Ciel
Price: $0
Description: Join us for inspiration and motivation in getting through crises, transitions and difficult moments in your life! Live show with opportunities to ask your own questions and hear others’ personal stories about surviving and thriving through divorce, death, job transition and other challenges. Archives available www.drlauraciel.com. Live show Thursdays at 12 noon Pacific.
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Gentle Sleep Coaching Package
With: Kate Gardes
Price: $325
Description: Help your baby or child learn to sleep peacefully through the night, in a gentle, family-friendly way. A 90 minute coaching session to develop an individualized plan that works for your family and your parenting philosophy. Six 20-minute follow-up calls to tailor the plan to your child’s progressing needs and to support you as you help your child learn this essential life skill. Get your family the sleep you need to be happy and healthy!
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Live in Love in Laugh in
With: Claire Wade
Price: £54.99
Description: Live in Love in Laugh in is an ongoing programme for those who are facing health challenges that mean they’re stuck at home or in hospital and are missing out on life. I create fun virtual events including parties in your pyjamas and virtual vacations to help them escape reality, make new friends and look forward to life.
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Soul Work & Creativity
1st Monday Morning Dial-Up Love-Ins
With: Andrea
Price: Free!
Description: I’m inviting fellow lovebugs to love-in with me, loving-kindness style, on the 1st Monday of every month. It’s a guided meditation that only takes about 20 minutes. Since emotions and moods are contagious anyway, let’s shift the balance towards ones that make us more open-hearted and open-minded!
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40 Days to Shizzle and Shine
With: Stephanie Culen
Price: $40
Description: 40 days to Shizzle and Shine offers an opportunity for growth and paradigm shifting every day! Each day, receive 3 Shizzle and Shine Gems to create magic and intrigue in your every day. Sassy, smart and sexy. Turn an Ordinary Day into an Extraordinary Life. Starts June 1st.
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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!
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Create-YOUR-Story Brand to Design Workshop
With: Amy
Price: $500
Description: The ‘Create Your Story’ brand-to-design workshop is a heart-centered, mind-elastic kind of creative experience, carefully sculpted to help you make sense of your inspirations, craft your great unique story AND translate all this into a boutique-level brand concept that gets your Mary-Jane heels clicking with excitement while accelerating your business momentum to fun-fair giddy levels.
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Healthy & Happy Is A Choice: A Spiritual Workbook on Radical Self-Care and Self-Love
With: Rosa Conti
Price: $24.95
Description: A 47-page spiritual workbook designed to celebrate our personal selves, and remind us of our important and purposeful place in this space and time. It offers practical, spiritual, and loving guidance on finding our way back to ‘center’ through inspiration, self-reflection, and reuniting with our human-spiritual connection.
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What the Hell is Energy, Anyway?
With: Limitless Megan
Price: Free
Description: A free 4 week class with short video lessons that get right to the practical on what the hell “energy” is and how it works. The class is designed to help take energy from the Woo Woo to the Real World.
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Read MoreWomen Branching Out: Victoria Prozan
Very happy to welcome Business Storyteller Victoria Prozan to the Women Branching Out interview series.
I’ve been biz crushing on Victoria for about a year now, since I first heard her say, “Creativity is our superpower.” Music to my ears!
Victoria uses her own creative superpowers to help entrepreneurs brand their businesses and build beautiful customer experiences.
Here’s Victoria …
Tell us about you and your business. Who do you love to serve and why?
My turn-on in life is creative expression. Not simply my own, but diving into how others imagine, create, and communicate. And to me, that is what being an entrepreneur is all about. To express our message and passion. My business focuses on two ways we can communicate our vision and value. Branding and Customer Experience.
I love to serve entrepreneurs who are in this business-building thing for the long haul. Those who understand that every day in business is an adventure that can best be measured, not only in profit, but in relationships and experiences. Ambitious women who know patience, persistence and self-acceptance are the foundation of success.
What is The Superluxe Naming Experience?
It’s my unique branding process based on my own personal creative methods. It’s a series of prep exercises to look at your business from both a creative and an analytical point of view. Then I use my brainstorming powers based on your homework, before we have our session. And then, when we are both ready to haul-branding-ass, we come together in a 90 minute session in which we create tons of names, tag lines and other branded language that will move your business to the next level. The goal is for you to walk away *on fire* about your business, brand and the future they will create for you.
What’s the biggest myth about brand names, tag lines, and product names that keeps entrepreneurs spinning their wheels?
There’s a lot of conventional knowledge out in cyberspace that says “yes, do this” or “no, no, no, never!” in regards to building your brand. And while there are definitely smart practices and tried + true advice that needs to be considered, the most important part of branding is that it MUST turn you on first!
If your names, tag lines, websites, logo, copy etc. light you up every time you say, read, or introduce yourself, THAT is super powerful! There is nothing more irresistible than someone who is enthusiastic, right? So find that message, vision, raison d’être within your business, then build a brand around that! Ooh la la! 😉
One key piece of advice:
The more meaning you can pack into the fewest words, the more accessible your business becomes. Clarity is important, but over describing for fear of not getting your message across can dilute your power. Simple is harder than it looks because it means you need to edit, edit, edit. Sometimes we get overly attached to what we’ve created and editing it back can be painful. But when you can bring out the inner editor in yourself, your entire business will profit.
And don’t think of editing just in relation to words. Everything in your brand — visuals, images, copy, tag lines — keep pruning it back, season after season. Just like the trees and bushes in your yard. Getting rid of the riffraff allows room for new growth and ideas when they come up.
You’ve helped tons of entrepreneurs name their businesses, products, and services. How does it feel when you and the client create just the right name?
Delicious! Spine tingling! But, truth be told, it’s not always a lightening bolt kinda moment. We each have a different way of creating, processing and deciding.
So, I like to remind people when we do run into frustrations — an unavailable domain, words on the tip of our tongue that just don’t come on demand, whatever is blocking the entrance — to breathe deep and remember getting to the finish line is a *when*, not an *if*. Creativity is not a linear process and those loops we sometimes have to run, are just as amazing and imaginative. I’m a big believer in everything happens for a reason. Those blocks will lead you to your right branded language, without a doubt. Trust the creative process.
What is customer experience (CX) and why is it so important for online businesses to embrace it right alongside marketing and branding?
CX is a macro view of your business through the eyes of your customers (and potential customers). So branding is part of Customer Experience, but there’s so much more.
I’m looking to start a conversation online about the importance of quality and excellence as we produce our offerings and communicate with our audiences. And when I say quality and excellence, I *do not* mean perfectionism. No ma’am!
At the heart of good CX is seeing and acknowledging your customers, every step of the way. Knowing what they need before and better than they know themselves. Anticipating how you can make your business delight them at every turn.
Commerce online is evolving. I think most of us are burnt out on more, more, more. More content, whistles and bells in info products. More weeks, modules, hoops to jump through in group coaching. Simple is the new black. Being able to hone in on exactly what we need in the moment, digest it and move on to the next focus.
Strip down to the core value and knowledge you offer and then polish the hell out of that. Make what you offer accessible, engaging and mind blowingly great! Like Seth Godin says “Be remarkable!” Customers are sacred, act accordingly.
What brands are great examples of customer experience done just right?
Some of my favs these days are:
- Method. Never has soap made me so happy!
- Chipotle. “Life is Burritoful!” is the messaging on their receipts. Such a little detail, but it sums up my love for their brand, ethics and business model.
- Moo. Just got another round of business cards printed and every step was a delight.
- Mailchimp. I love that cheeky monkey and his sassy messages.
- Zingerman’s. A small business in Ann Arbor, Michigan that does *everything* right. Seriously. They are my CX heroes. When I visit or order online, it’s like going to Disneyland. Sigh.
How has having your own business empowered you?
Where I once allowed others to define who I was, on a personal level, I now understand that I need to lead myself to success. I was waiting for permission to speak up and shine. And all that leads to is more waiting, doubts and frustration.
My mantra this last year has been “other people’s expectations are none of my business”. That is crazy liberating!
I’m more confident than I’ve even been. I no longer surround myself with negativity — my own or others’. I wear my ambitions proudly. I want to impact the world, in my own unique way. If someone doesn’t get it, puts it down or mumbles about it behind my back, no worries. My world keeps turning.
If you had to pick just one book from the resource lounge to be required reading for all business ladies, what would it be?
Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind rocked my world. Go read it now 🙂 It will give anyone lots of insights into the importance of stellar CX, in addition to tons of other important business insights. He lays out the future of business and how creativity is the key to making money. Hot stuff!
Finish this sentence. I believe…
I believe that we already have everything we need for success baked into who we are. Our job as entrepreneurs is to learn how to best showcase and communicate that value. Simple, but not at all easy, but we’re all up for the task!
Victoria Prozan is a Business Storyteller who helps entrepreneurs bring an honest voice to both their brand and customer experience. When you raise the bar on your own business, offering and brand, you eliminate the competition. Strip away the whistles and bells, stop trying to keep up with the Entrepreneurial Joneses and redirect that energy to making the your quality — in every way that can be measured — stellar. You can find Victoria at her website and on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
Have any mind blowing customer experiences lately? What made them so good? Share below!
Read More3 Sites for Color Scheme Exploration
As you’re developing all the elements of your visual brands you can start with one main brand color (mine is orange) and then expand out from that color to create a larger scheme or palette. If you’re still looking for that one main color go here for some inspiration.
You can use basic color theory (stuff you learned in high school art): color categories (warm, primary, secondary, cool, etc.), common color schemes (like complementary, analogous, triad), and shades/hues (adding white, black, and gray to that main color), to create these color palettes.
In my site redesign, for the launch of the new Jewels Branch Creative Community, I wanted to add a wider range of colors to my palette and freshen things up a bit. So I turned to the following color scheming sites to help me quickly add some new colors to my palette that would match my main brand color.
Color Scheming
1) Color Wizard
You can see my primary color, orange #CD5928, and “complementary” colors that I could use in my brand color palette.
2) Color Scheme Designer
You can see my primary color, orange, and the “triad” colors that I could use in my brand color palette.
3) Color Schemer Online
You can see my primary color, orange, and many color choices that I could use in my brand color palette. Color Schemer lets you lighten and darken the scheme, too.
Give these sites a try and expand your brand color palette!
P.S. If you get all excited about color palettes, that’s a sign that your inner graphic designer is yearning to be set free. Come join the creative community and give that gal her wings. Early bird specials are good through May 1.
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