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Yes, You Can Easily Create a Compelling Sales Page Filled with Heart. Here's How...

Over my ten years in business, I've become more and more clear that "my movement" is to help women be more successful in their business! That's why I work with women entrepreneurs to blend the smart business tactics with the more feminine and spiritual way of being in the world.

For heart-centered, women entrepreneurs, it's easy to get caught up in your passion and purpose, and maybe not spend so much time on the business and marketing side of your business. To help you bridge the two with ease, grace and more success, I'm creating the Business Goddess's Guide to.... series of information products to give you practical tools to help bring your message into the world in a bigger way with authentic marketing.

I am pleased to announce my newest product to help you: Business Goddess's Guide To Creating Powerful Sales Pages with Ease, Authenticity, and Heart.

Business-Goddess-Binder_3D-Book-CoverCreating sales pages will help you get your work in the world in a bigger way, and they are the foundation of online marketing.

Sales pages don't have to have an "ick" feel or be overwhelming. I can teach you how to create sales pages easily that are full of beauty, connection, and realness AND will showcase your service or product in such a way that people want it and will be compelled to buy it.

The best part is that the Business Goddess's Guide To Creating Powerful Sales Pages with Ease, Authenticity, and Heart is a system, which means you can use it over and over again. For every program, preview teleclass, teleseries, telesummit, package, info product, self-study system, you name it that you offer... you need a sales page.

If you want a system to easily create sales pages so you can create trust, connection, and authenticity - that have a greater impact than what you're already experiencing - you'll want to check this out.

Just the bonuses are already getting rave reviews, and women entrepreneurs are putting the information to use all around. When you pre-order now, you get INSTANT ACCESS to my 45-point Checklist for Sales Page Success, my Guided Visualization, AND MORE!

To find out more and how you can get your copy of the Business Goddess's Guide to Creating Powerful Sales Pages with Ease, Authenticity, and Heart AND SAVE $100, visit www.authenticsalespages.com.

I can’t wait to share this with you and make your business more successful!

EN-Joy

Laura
 
P.S. There is no product out there that helps women create sales pages to promote their business authentically and with heart. Get your copy now! You get INSTANT ACCESS to the valuable checklists, my visualization, and interviews with experts in the field. You can get started applying this information and these tools RIGHT AWAY.

Visit www.authenticsalespages.com and start creating your own sales pages with ease, authenticity, and heart.

Free Teleclass: Yes, You Can Create Powerful Sales Pages With Ease, Authenticity, and Heart

Does the thought of creating sales pages make you shudder?

So much so that you don’t even create a sales page? You just put some information about your product or service up on your website and hope people are compelled to buy it? (This works fine for catalogs where you are buying "stuff," but it doesn’t work well at all for transformational products and services.)

Maybe you dread the process of creating a sales page and feel confused about what to put on your page – wondering all along if you are either "selling your soul" in your marketing or "not embracing selling enough." And you worry you won’t be successful in selling your products or enrolling in your programs. What a catch-22! D- if you do or D-if you don’t!

Or perhaps you’ve made peace with creating sales pages, but you feel exhausted just thinking about all the components and wish you just had a system and a checklist to make it easier and faster!

What is a conscious, spiritual entrepreneur who wants to change the world to do?

The problem is that most heart-centered entrepreneurs feel that sales pages are, well, too sales-y. Too masculine. Too in-your-face. Not in alignment with the passionate, purposeful business owner you are.

It doesn't have to be that way. In fact, I am committed to a way that combines being conscious with being practical. Join me for my newest, FREE teleclass:

Yes, You Can Create Powerful Sales Pages
With Ease, Authenticity, and Heart.

Tuesday, May 4
1:00pm eastern / 10:00am pacific / 6:00pm UK
REGISTER NOW

 In this teleclass you'll learn:

  • What is possible for you when you embrace creating heart-based sales pages for the sake of helping your potential clients - sales pages that work are no less spiritual than slapping up your information and playing small. In fact, I'd say that playing small and NOT learning how to create sales pages with integrity is not coming from your divine power.
  • 5 traps that heart-centered entrepreneurs fall into which stop you from even creating a sales page or creating ones that are boring, lifeless, and small and that don't attract clients or make you money.
  • How your Feminine Qualities can actually help you create a "kick-skirt" sales page - it's not all about the traditional masculine in your face and aggressive sales tactics.
  • My biggest secret for jump-starting your sales page creation process to put YOU on a successful path
  • 3 Things You Can Do Right Now To Get Better Response from Your Sales Pages - all with integrity and heart!
  • A new product I've created about Creating Sales Pages that …. and this is true… my clients begged me to create! (Literally, over and over they said, "Laura, please create a checklist for a sales page…please tell me how to do this!") You'll want to hear about this as I'm offering a special launch pricing and bonus classes! Imagine the sales page process being easy and even fun!

Register Now and Join me and other heart-centered entrepreneurs to shift into your power in your business - starting with sales pages!

FREE Teleclass:

Yes, You Can Create Powerful Sales Pages
With Ease, Authenticity, and Heart.

Tuesday, May 4
1:00pm eastern / 10:00am
pacific / 6:00pm UK
REGISTER NOW

What if creating sales pages was not only easy, but a delightful way to connect with your potential clients and give them access to the products and services you've developed to help them? That's how I approach my business, and I want to share more with you!

I look forward to "seeing" you on the 4th while I show you just how easy and delightful it can be!

EN-Joy

Laura
 
P.S. You won't find this type of "spiritual meets practical" marketing information anywhere. Which means you can sell your programs and products and bring your message to the world in a bigger way. And isn't that why you're a heart-centered entrepreneur in the first place?

Just Let Go

If you are like me, as a woman entrepreneur I know there are times in your business or in your life when you get yourself in a bunch, you start going in circles, chasing your tail, second guessing, doubting…. It still happens to me but with practice it doesn’t happen as much anymore.  I can get myself out of the “tailspin” quicker and usually with more grace. 

Letting-go-of-butterflies There are times where people have told me over the years. “Laura, just let go.”  Let go.  Let go and what?  Note:  If someone is telling you to let go – that means you are holding on tight.  It can be hard to just let go.  There needs to be a second part to “let go and ….”.   And then what do I do? (I know, you enlightened souls will say…let go and just be….but sometimes when you’re “in it” you need a more specific redirect). 

So here’s mine…( I share it so that it might help you..should you ever find yourself in the need)

Let Go AND…

*Stop Doing what you are doing

*Do Something Different

*Breathe – In and Out

*Do the Opposite of what you think you’re *supposed* to do

*Do Something Crazy, Fun, or Creative

*Go for a walk, take a nap or a shower (my 3 favs – insert yours)

*Ask your Higher Self:  “What would ______ Do” (I’ll ask Jezzie - she’s my Spirit Doll)

*Do what you think you can’t possibly do

*Take a Step and Lead

*Love Yourself

I hope this list will help you …in those moments when you need to let go and….

En-JOY!
Laura

DARE to Live Your Dreams, Passions & Indulgences

This can be the year you take your Joyful Business to the NEXT LEVEL!

Join me and Francine Allaire, Founder of The Daring Woman™ and The Daring Woman™ Global Alliance for a Free, Yet Priceless Teleseminar.

What You Need to Breakthrough to the Next Revenue Level
in Your Passion-Based Business!

Tuesday April 20th, 2010
5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern

You’re a passion-based entrepreneur, which means you’ve created a business you love, that feeds your soul, fuels your passion, and gives life to your purpose.

And for that business to be viable – to *really* make a differenceitand you need to be profitable. What most entrepreneurs don’t understand is that there are revenue plateaus. You reach a certain level. You stay at that level.

At any level you can’t keep doing the same things you’ve been doing and expect to double your sales results. TThere are only so many hours in the day.

During this information-rich session, you will learn the essentials to breakthrough to the next revenue level in your passion-based business." with Laura's sentence below: "During this information-rich call, Francine Allaire will interview *yours truly* as I share with you the essentials you need for you to breakthrough to the next revenue level in your passion-based business.

This event is NOT to BE MISSED! Easy, FREE Registration yet priceless information. Don't worry if you can't make the call live, there will be a recording. But you must register first!

For more information or to register:
http://www.thedaringwoman.com/teleseminar/laurawest.htm

FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast - It's Your Choice!)

I’m giving a Special Bonus Gift to The Daring Woman Success Circle Members – SECRETS TO A SUCCESSFUL JOYFUL BUSINESS AUDIO GIFT PACKAGE which includes:

* Immediate Access to my 3 Favorite Teleclasses Audio Recordings (not available to the general public)

**The Key to Thriving in Any Economy- Isn’t What You Think!

*** My 5 Most Powerful Law of Attraction Strategies to Help You Create the 6 Figure Business of Your Dreams

**** What You Need to Know about Money, Marketing and Spirituality

Get access to My Special Bonus Gift by joining The Daring Woman Success Circle for only $57.00 for an entire year. Plus you’ll have access to a complete audio library of 40+ Interviews with Success Experts and Special Bonus Gifts from other Success Experts just like me valued at over $1,000.00.

For more information or to Join The Daring Woman Success Circle click here:
http://bit.ly/DaringExpertLaura

Don’t let your busy schedule prevent you from joining us on Tuesday April 20th at 5:00pm Pacific / 8:00pm Eastern.

I hope to “see you” on the call. Francine and I invite you to Take on THE DARE together.

EN-Joy,

Laura

Business Goddess Marketing Tip #3: What Is It Going to Take for You to Be a Highly Sought After Expert?

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Audio Marketing Tip Series

Helping you market
like a Business Goddess...
from the inside out

Welcome to the Business Goddess Audio Marketing Tip series - my free gift to you to help you market like a Business Goddess - from the inside out.

Today's Business Goddess Audio Marketing Tip is about what it's going to take for you to be a highly sought-after expert.

Business Goddess Marketing is not just about the actions you take, but connecting to that deeper power inside that leads great marketing actions.

To listen now, visit http://www.joyfulbusiness.com/audiotip/tip3.html

EN-Joy

Laura

Invite in the Voice for What's Next in YOUR Business!!

I just got back a couple of days ago from my own personal creative retreat on St. Simons Island at an amazingly beautiful hotel. As soon as I walked in the door of the hotel room, my DNA shifted, ideas were buzzing, and new possibilities opened up! It’s amazing what ocean and a beautiful environment does for you and for getting out of your normal, habitual routine. I felt myself being the Business Goddess Millionairess!

Business Goddess Millionairess?

Yes - to me that metaphor is about being so filled with abundance and possibilities where I know - I can feel - I can do anything.

Now that I'm back home, I am full of confidence and a sense of purposeful expression. I have been in a place of asking for what’s next in my business – not just from an idea place, but from a soul-nourishing place. I really feel myself finally opening up and feeling excited about what’s possible. Getting out of your familiar environment and routine really helps, especially when it's beautiful.

Here’s where I stayed AND where my upcoming NEW retreat is also being held: www.OceanLodgessi.com. It’s truly amazing, beautiful and inspiring at every turn!

I would love for you to be here with me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business retreat coming up in April. This retreat is for six women entrepreneurs only, and I already have one spot taken out of the six. I am so excited about the potential that these six amazing, heart-centered, passionate female entrepreneurs will create with me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business retreat.

I’m envisioning and setting the intention that these six seasoned women opening to the voice of what’s next in their businesses.

Imagine getting clear about what’s next. Stepping into your soul’s purpose in a big way with grace, ease and life nourishing prosperity! You will be supported and inspired to create what’s next for you here with me, these kindred spirits, and this delicious location. I know I was - and still am, even back in my "normal," everyday environment.

To find out all the juicy details and to apply for one of the five spots left (one is actually already taken - and I'm just announcing it to the public today!), visit www.joyfulbusiness.com/deepretreat.

Breathing deeply... feeling expansive and grounded - and wishing that for you!

En-Joy

Laura
 
PS: When was the last time you fell in love with your business? Remember it again. Join me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business intimate retreat.

The Global Business Goddess Movement ...

Celebrating Success!

Business Goddess Manifestos reach 1000 women entrepreneurs around the world!

Entrepreneurial Business Goddess InspirationToday we hit over 1000 women entrepreneurs downloading their very own Business Goddess Manifesto!  We have women from New Zealand, Australia, Romania, Italy, Sweden, UK, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, Canada and from points all over the U.S. download their inspirational package.

I truly love hearing the stories of how you love the manifesto, your rituals, I’ve seen photos of it hanging in your offices, and more stories of how you have shared it with your business girlfriends.  I am truly honored and equally inspired!

Just last weekend I was on St. Simons Island on a creative retreat and met a friend for tea.  She introduced me to two new entrepreneur women and we got to hear their creative business ideas…then one of them exclaimed “YOU’RE the one who created the Business Goddess Manifesto!”  I just loved hearing how it inspired her day!

If you haven’t received your free Business Goddess Manifesto and eCourse – please join in: 

http://www.joyfulbusiness.com/manifesto/

EN-Joy

- Laura

Tap Into Your Personal Power and Transform Your Life and Business Tele-Summit

If you've been following me in my articles, on Facebook, and on Twitter, you know that I feel we all have unique gifts and passions - and that it's those gifts and passions that allow us to do our great work in the world, and to truly make a difference.

Wilma Allan of Community Soul is holding a tele-summit called Tap Into Your Personal Power and Transform Your Life and Business. Isn't that what we all want? And because I'm co-sponsoring this tele-summit, you are able to attend as my special "VIP" guest FREE of charge.

This special arrangement gives you access to a carefully selected panel of some of the world’s most successful online women entrepreneurs as they share their closely guarded secrets to their own success including me! I spoke today and Wilma Allen will be interviewing the specially selected panel to talk about exactly how they have overcome obstacles, kept life and business on track, sometimes against all odds, and how they have tapped into their own personal power to achieve and maintain that success.

According to Wilma, it really doesn't matter what business you're in. She believes that if you have a passion and you adopt the right mindset, you can become successful. Achieving success is all linked to how effectively you are able to tap into and harness the phenomenal power that we do all have inside us. And this will all become much clearer when you listen to these unique women and what they will be sharing with you on this tele-summit. Only then you will begin to understand how you can also do this for yourself!

Register below and save the date for the kick off interview with Lisa Sasevich! Lisa talks to Wilma Allan about why she wanted to put together this free event for YOU.

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To claim your VIP invitation, click this link:
http://nanacast.com/vp/95008/56186 
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--->> Here’s What You'll Discover When You Join This Unique Tele-summit and Listen to These Exceptional Women<<---

  • How to make CONSISTENT, ON-DEMAND TRANSFORMATIONS in your life, no matter what stage you are at now, regardless of what’s gone before

  • How to take a NEW LOOK AT FAILURES and how that can transform HOW you achieve

  • You will learn how to really UNDERSTAND PERSISTENCE and what it can do for you and your business

  • All the things you DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT TAKING DECISIONS and how that will open doors you didn’t know were there

  • How to DISCOVER YOUR ‘BURNING DESIRE’ and why you need one

If you’re wondering whether this is really possible, or whether harnessing personal power is a rare gift given only to a select few, that’s exactly why you should register for this tele-summit. As you listen to these 16 exceptional women, you’ll realize that they started out, quite possibly where you are now, and that you also have that same unlimited power. Then you will begin to understand how you can tap into that power, too!

As my VIP guest, you can register for this tele-summit, schedule your favorite calls into your week and benefit from the wisdom shared in these fascinating interviews.

Below is a brief glimpse of what you can expect to hear from these extraordinary women:

  • Their own personal stories that have shaped their success

  • What has been a stumbling block for them and how they overcame those obstacles

  • The key factors that they believe have ensured their success

  • What it is that drives them and how they have harnessed that

  • And each of these women will reveal to you how they have taken life-changing decisions that have moved them to the levels of success they now enjoy

  • And much, much, much more!!

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To claim your VIP invitation, click this link:
http://nanacast.com/vp/95008/56186 
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If you are one of the dedicated minority who REALLY want to learn from those who have already been where you are now, treat yourself to the benefit of the accumulated wisdom that is being offered to you and register now for this tele-summit.

And remember, because I'm co-sponsoring this tele-summit, you can attend as my special "VIP" guest at no charge!

Grab your FREE access to this unique tele-summit which will reveal how you can tap into AND harness the phenomenal power that is inside you, and THEN transform your life and business...

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En-Joy,

Laura

Free Joyful Business TeleEvent! The Real Secrets for Platinum & Premium Program Success

If you're thinking about adding a Platinum or Premium program to your own business (and adding a significant source of income to your business), then you won't want to miss my upcoming FREE teleclass, The Real Secrets for Platinum & Premium Program Success on Thursday, February 18, at 2pm eastern / 11am pst / 7pm UK.

In this teleclass, you'll learn:

    **What platinum style and premium programs are and how they are different from your regular services
    How you know if you are ready to offer a premium experience

**What you MUST have in place before offering your program (or you'll launch and no one will notice - talk about frustrating!)

**What they don't tell you in training schools, which keeps your business small and unprofitable and keeps YOU feeling like you are running on a hamster wheel!

**The top mistakes service professionals make when launching a new premium group program or private coaching experience

**The 3 secrets driving your potential premium level clients, which you need to know in order for them to feel confident in engaging you at higher financial commitment

Join me for this inside look into Platinum and Premium program world:

Thursday, February 18: The Real Secrets for Platinum & Premium Program Success
Time: 2pm eastern/ 11am pst / 7pm UK

Click to read more and to sign up now!

This is a free teleclass, and you won't want to miss this inside look into the world of platinum and premium programs.

I look forward to busting the myths floating around on the Internet about premium and platinum programs! And giving you the REAL truth about these programs and how to run them successfully.

EN-Joy

-Laura

PS: I'll also give you a peek into my own SpiritRICH™ Private Platinum program. I only have enough room in my business for one new client, so this isn't a hard sell teleclass. You'll get plenty of content, and for the right person who is ready to step into her business success in a big way, you'll get your questions answered!

5 Creative Planning Tips for a Joyfully Successful 2010

A couple of weeks ago in December, I offered five Creative Planning Tips for a Joyfully Successful 2010. In case you missed them, here they are again in one place. If you like these tips, check out the sale on the Joyful Business Guide at the bottom.

Tip #1: Schedule a creative planning day on your calendar
This time is important. It isn't an urgent fire you have to put out, but it will be some of the most important time you will spend on your business. This time will shape the success of your business, your focus, and the outcome for your entire year! It can be a half day, whole day or a weekend. It will be worth it to focus on what's possible.

Make sure you spend the time planning. Don't use it as a clearing house for all those daily to-do's. Use it to actually plan 2010.

Tip #2: Get out of your home office
I find that creativity, sparks, ideas, and inspiration don't usually come when I'm sitting at my desk. Going to a new environment like a café, a friend's retreat house, the lobby of a beautiful hotel, or even renting a lovely space for the day will shift my energy. What does shifting energy mean? Instead of having a "head down - what needs to be done next" focus, I'm able to have a "heads up and looking at the horizon" type of perspective.

By shifting your location, you are able to shift your perspective, and then you shift what's possible. New ideas come to you. Just the act of planning to go on a creative retreat outside of your office will subconsciously start pulling new ideas and thoughts toward you. Suddenly you will find that you are making notes of ideas to explore when you have your retreat time. Your commitment will cause your creative momentum to start moving in that direction.

Tip #3: Bring creative supplies
You don't want to develop your marketing strategies, creative ideas, and inspiration with a boring yellow legal pad. Pack your favorite markers, pens, or pencils, add some colorful, fun sticky notes to capture spontaneous free flowing ideas, bring paper or a tablet for making mind maps of ideas (a great way to access your right-brain creative thinking before your left-brain logic kicks in).

Do you have stickers or a favorite pen that you love writing with? Do you have cool big planning calendars or pads that you can't wait to dive into?

I find that the more I can support my creativity around planning for making more money, rolling out big marketing campaigns, or committing to a big project or that new platinum program - then the more tapped in I am to my creative flow, ideas, inspiration… And it's so much easier this way!

So - whatever makes you giggle with delight - bring with you on your creative planning day.

Tip #4: Set the stage for inspiration
I find that inspirational ideas don't always just happen when I say it's time. It's better to prime the pump. When I go on creative retreat time, I bring an inspirational book. Something by Wayne Dyer or Marianne Williamson works well when I want to be called into my purpose and passion; SARK books work well when I really want freedom to express my joy.

Bring along your favorite magazines like O, Ode (an entrepreneur type magazine which will help you get you sparked), Inc Magazine (with stories of other entrepreneurs and small business owners). Read a few pages to get the creative juices flowing and ideas moving.

I also find that connecting with my mastermind group or a coach will open up my inspiration in all new, big ways that I would have never thought of on my own!

Tip #5: Bring your Joyful Business Guide™ system
The Joyful Business Guide system provides the smart business tools you'll need - for getting clear about your ideal client, marketing system, team planning, and vision story, along with the attraction tools for setting your intentions and focusing on your projects.

I hear stories all the time from entrepreneurs all around the world using their Joyful Business Guides in cafes, libraries, cabins in the mountains, and at oceanside retreats and having a surprisingly wonderful time planning for their business. (It's like they are breaking all the rules! Planning and joy working together!)

And to help you more joyfully plan your successful 2010, I'm offering $50 off the Joyful Business Guide system.

The Joyful Business Guide usually sells for $249. Through Friday, January 8, you can get it for only $199. Use coupon code JOYFULLYCREATE to save $50 off the Joyful Business Guide. Click here to learn more and get your Joyful Business Guide.

Do you have the tools you need to plan an amazing 2010?

En-joy

Laura
 
P.S. This isn't just a product I sell.... The Joyful Business Guide is a system of tools for right-brain creatives, and I use it myself - everyday. It's helped me grow my business and double my income in 2009. What can it do for you and your business?

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Laura Howard West

Laura Howard West is a certified professional coach, writer, speaker and the President and Chief Creative Officer of The Center for Joyful Business. She is the creator of The Joyful Business Guide™, a business attraction system blending law of attraction principles with smart business designed for solo-entrepreneurs and business owners.

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