New Class: How to Create Passive Income
Join us on August 3rd for “How to Create Passive Income”. You can join us over the phone or via the web.If you miss the call, you can get the recording from the Inner Circle Audio Library.
But you must be a member of the Inner Circle
How to Make Passive Income
OK, we’ve had a lot of requests for the How to Make Passive Income class with our survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AQ3Y73czGtkLy0_2bfsnNZ7Q_3d_3d
Vote yourself if you haven’t already.
We’d love your feedback. Sheri@birthingbusiness.com
Sheri Menelli
Avalanche of Referrals
Did you miss the call on how to Get an Avalanche of Referrals?
If you are an Inner Circle Member you can listen to it or download it from the audio library.
If you are not an inner circle member, you can try a 28-Day Free Membership now.
http://www.birthingbusiness.com/innercircle.htm
Free Advertising for Your Birth Business – yep it is true!
Jen Aliano of Natural Baby Pros just announced that the temp website is up. What does that mean? That means that if you have a business related to birth, fertility, pregnancy or the newborn you can get a free listing on www.naturalbabypros.com.
I’ve been working with Jen for months and I can tell you that she is doing some very impressive things with this site. She has hired a SEO company to make sure that the website and all of its listings will rank very high in Google.
If you list your service now, you’re bound to get noticed by potential customers.
I’d highly recommend that you sign up for a free listing at http://www.naturalbabypros.com now before it goes live.
Birthing Your Vision for Your Business
Inner Circle Members: Next call on Friday, June 26th at 2pm Pacific (5 pm Eastern and 4pm Central). Check your inner circle website for the call in and webinar information.
Not an Inner Circle Member? You can still get the 28-Day Free Trail at: http://birthingbusiness.com/innercircle.htm
Yes, it will also be recorded and put on the Inner Circle website to listen to if you miss it live.
TOPIC: Birthing Your Vision for Your Business
You’ll Learn:
- What keeps us from going after our vision:
- What keeps us from succeeding with our vision
- 3 simple exercises that will help you overcome adversity
- How to create a plan to get you to that vision, that dream.
Free Classes for YOU!
VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
In just a few minutes, I’ll be running over to Allie’s school to pick her up.
I can’t believe that she still has this week of school left nor can I believe that this little baby in the picture below will be going into third grade soon.
Sheri with Baby Allison
Before I get back into mom mode, I really wanted to make a special announcement. Yes, we had another birth here. (We labor and birth a lot at The Birthing Business Institute!)
This time we’ve birthed a program that is unlike anything we have ever offered before.
How would you like to get two free live teleseminars/mp3 recordings?
Well, you can! We are giving a free 28-day trial membership so that you can try our the Inner Circle.
What is the Inner Circle? Well, all the information can be found here. But I can tell you that we have the first free teleseminar (if you are a member) coming up this Wednesday, June 17th on Blogging For Your Birthing Business.
I hope you will join us!
I must run – my mom duties are calling.
P.S. If you feel so inclined, please let your friends know about the Inner Circle free trial offer. Thanks!
FREE marketing teleseminars
Are you associated with a group of birth workers who’d like to learn more about marketing?
The Birthing Business Institute would love to give a free marketing teleseminar to help you get your businesses growing.
Send us an email at sheri@birthingbusiness.com if you have a group!
Ultimate Guide – Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions on
The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Successful Birthing Business
1. I took your Birthing Business 101 course back in 2006. I am wondering how your new course is different from Business 101 and specifically what new content is in it.
Excellent question!
Marketing has changed a bit since 2006 when I wrote the program. Now we have some even better tools for connecting with colleagues and clients. We have social network marketing (Facebook and Twitter for example). We also have blogs which are so easy to use that a 6 year old can set it up and use it in 5 min (Yes, I tried it with my daughter last year to prove it!) I just had to cover some of that in the Ultimate Guide.
Business 101 and the Ultimate Guide couldn’t be any more different. The content in the Ultimate Guide is completely different from Business 101. It takes a completely different approach.
In Business 101, the class was focused on a creating a business plan, how to do a website, newsletter and the flyers, brochures and business cards. I also covered baby fairs.
Business 101 was a great foundation for learning about those areas. Now you can build on that knowledge.
I’ve realized in the last few years that one of the biggest problems was the limiting beliefs that my students held about money, clients, etc. So, I talk about limiting beliefs and then I’ve included a bonus CD to help clear any negative beliefs (It works very very well!)
Limiting beliefs is really only a small part of the first CD. We go into Holey Business Syndrome. Basically taking a look at your business so that you can figure out why you aren’t getting enough clients, referrals, etc. Figuring out where the leaks are in your business and how to fix them.
You’ll learn how to make yourself visible to your clients and how to attract clients once you become visible.
In the Ultimate Guide we spend a lot of time working on Educational and Relationship Marketing. Forget the hard selling. It doesn’t work. These are techniques to get people interested in talking to you about what you do in a natural way.
Ever get someone getting that glazed-over eye look when you talk about what you do? You won’t after this class. They will be chasing you to ask you more questions.
Referrals is another big part of this program. If you aren’t getting as many referrals as you’d like from colleagues and past clients, you’d definitely want to listen in to the 9 step process where I take you step by step through the “Menelli Method of Referrals” to get an abundance of referrals.
There is so much more in this course it is even hard to list it all. We talk about how to form your marketing messages, using benefits versus features to reel in prospects, leveraging resources and time and so much more.
There are 21 worksheets to really help you to “get/understand and use” what is taught. (143 pages total in the worksheet – it is also partially transcribed for those of you who love to read.)
On top of the material covered in the 6 CDs, you’ll also find the Bonus Success Circle very helpful. It is basically 4 more classes on 4 different subjects. It is 2 classes per month for 2 months.
You can find the Ultimate Guide at http://birthingbusiness.com/Ultimate/
Kim Wildner had a chance to take this entire course. Listen as Kim explains what she got out of the class:
| “The Marketing Message – that is the clearest way it has ever been explained to me. I’m taking a class on the same thing – but you laid it out so clearly and concisely.
The leveraging has been huge for me. It has created It feels like doors are opening up just because of that. This one speaks to the way I would want to relate to people. This augments what you taught before.” |
 Kim Wildner |
2. What are the payment options?
You can pay in full or you can pay in 4 payments. Go to the bottom of the Ultimate Guide page and click on the 4-pay link. http://birthingbusiness.com/Ultimate/
3. If I pay in 4 payments, when do I get the Ultmate Guide?
You’ll get The Ultimate Guide mailed to you within 5 days of the order. We trust that you will pay the second payment 30 days later and the third payment 30 days after the second payment is due and the fourth payment 30 days after the third payment.
Our system will automatically bill your credit card every 30 days.
4. Tell me more about being rewarded from having my friends buying The Ultimate Guide.
You can become an affiliate of The Birthing Business Institute. Basically, you sign up for free on the web, you get a speical link that allows our shopping cart to track who referred them.
Weekly we will send out checks or money via paypal. To become an affiliate go to http://birthingbusiness.com/affiliate.htm.
ONE MORE NOTE, We haven’t really had a chance to work on the affiliate pages. In less than a week, if you are signed up, we will send you a lot more details and information that you can post on newsgroups or email to your friends that will help you to get more people to check out our products and hopefully get you some rewards!
5. How does this course come? Is it digital (mp3s) or CDs or on Paper?
We’ve made the course entirely physical.
You’ll receive 6 CDs plus a beautiful Binder that has over 140 pages of notes, resources, study guides, checklists and worksheets. You’ll also get a bonus CD that was recorded with AnaMaria Herrera.
In addition, you’ll get an email in Mid May about the 2 months of the Success Circle. There will be 2 live calls per month and you will get an email with the recording. The success circle is only digital and live.
6. When will I receive the Ultimate Guide?
We will ship within 5 days of receiving your order. All packages are shipped by US Priority Mail. In the US, you’ll probably receive it within 3 days of it being shipped. If you are international, it all depends on customs.
We will send you the Limiting Beliefs mp3 over email as soon as you register so that you can get started immediately.
7. Tell me more about the Success Circle Calls
You’ll automatically be enrolled in the success circle for 2 months. This is another special bonus. We will have 2 calls per month. Each call we will focus on a particular topic.
Call 1 is “Time Management”
Call 2 is “Building your Marketing Plan”
Call 3 is “Limiting Beliefs That Are Holding You Back”
Call 4 is “Websites for Your Business”
We have not chosen the dates and times yet. We will send more information to you in mid May.
8. How do I know if this class is for me?
If you are a doula, midwife, childbirth educator, pregnancy massage therapist, lactation consultant or most other small birthing business owner, who wants to attract more clients this class was designed for you.
If you are brand new and want to start your business faster this class will save you years of trial and error.
If you have been in business for months or years and you are not generating the type of income, type of clients or amount of clients that you’ve wanted then this program is for you.
9. Why should I take the class now?
Not only is it the ONLY class geared to BIRTHING PROFESSIONALS like YOU that will teach you how to attract more clients while working less hours. But it is RISK-FREE! Take the class. Try these strategies for 90 Days. If you are unhappy with the class for any reason, I will gladly refund all of your money – 100% of it!
Our mission is to teach you to BUILD YOUR SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS. It we aren’t helping you, we aren’t fulfilling our own mission and will happily return your money.
If you don’t have a birthing practice that is filled to capacity then you are LOSING MONEY, TIME and your SANITY! The amount of business that you get WILL NOT CHANGE until YOU LEARN MORE. It isn’t worth the lost income to wait any longer.
4 Tips to Make Work and Home Life Easier
Have you ever gotten to the point where your entire home and office seems to be in a perpetual mess? Do you feel that it is just too overwelming to tackle? Pretty soon you start losing important paperwork, not returning emails or phone calls in a timely manner and you just get stressed out!
I’ve been there. I used to feel that way too. With my three little tornadoes (twins age 2 1/2 and 6 year old) that live in my house, I was beginning to think that the mess was hopeless.
I feel like I’ve finally gotten an upper hand on the mess and disorganization. I won’t claim to be perfect yet but I am pretty happy with what’s been happening. I feel that it is a great topic to talk about and share some things that have helped me. If you have tips you’d like to share, send them to us at sheri@birthingbusiness.com or post them as comments.
Tip 1 – change what you are saying outloud and to yourself. Are you constantly saying, “I’m so disorganized” or “This house is always a disaster”? Perhaps you tell yourself that you just aren’t good with paperwork. One of my students, Vivian Giles, a midwife and hypnobirthing educator told me that she now tells herself that she is very good at paperwork. Just that statement has helped her tremendously. She is no longer losing papers and behind in paperwork. Change what you say outloud and to yourself. You’ll be amazed at what transpires.
Tip 2 – make organizing your office and home something fun. I’ve put on music and danced around while getting the house reorganized and I have to say that I did get it done a lot faster. Or, if you are social, invite a friend over to help you then help her at her house next week.
Tip 3 – Get the kids involved. I promised the kids a trip to the park but first we set a timer and everyone including my husband and I had to clean up as much as we could in 30 minutes. My 6 year old is pretty competitive so this worked out fairly well. My toddlers weren’t too helpful but at least they like to mimic my 6 year old so it minimized new messes.
Tip 4 – Declutter! I’ve been consistently cleaning out drawers, closets and cabinets for the last several months. Reducing the clutter sure makes it easier to keep things clean. If it is overwhelming, just start with one bathroom drawer as your challenge for the day.
