Sorry I have been missing in action … I can’t believe how busy I have gotten … trying to keep up has become insane!! In the past few months, I have added 4 Associates to my Multi-VA Business and I have taken on the role of VAinsider President at VAnetworking.com . All this while trying to find a way to keep up with all the social marketing that is out there.

Between Facebook, twitter, blogging and all the other social media markets and networks, it really is difficult to keep up, but I am determined to do it. I am going to try a lot harder to keep up with my blog and to keep up with all this social marketing!!

I am finding the most difficulty with twittering … I want my tweets to be informative and more than just … gone to eat dinner with my hubby … but I find it hard to know what my followers will find interesting. If anyone has any links with respect to twitter and how to know what to twitter about, I would love to know them.

I attended a great seminar the other night at vanetworking.com on facebook and how to use it for business so I set up a fan page. It is still a work in progress, but then again, like I said … I really need to figure all this social marketing out or I am afraid I will be left in the dust!!

This is so true in any business isn’t it? How many times have you dealt with someone in a bad mood and thought … “I can’t wait to talk to them again!!” …. NOT!! As business owners, it is important to remember that we are our business … what we say, how we say it, what we do and how we act are key!!

Even on the days when we are at our worst, it is important to project a great attitude. Here are a few tips for helping out on the days when we aren’t feeling our best!!

SMILE – even when you aren’t feeling your best, a smile shows others that things are great. Even smiling when talking on the phone will be reflected in your voice.

THINK – think about the best outcome a situation can have and go into the situation concentrating on that outcome … it’s called the power of positive thinking and believe it or not it works!!

SURROUND YOURSELF – with positive people!! On a bad day call up a friend and ask them to help you gain a positive attitude. Who better to pick you up then one of your supporters and cheerleaders!!

TREAT YOURSELF – to something you love to do. Immersing yourself in a hobby or pasttime that you enjoy is sure to give yourself a better attitude!!

Perhaps the most important thing to remember though as a business owner … if you know that you are having a bad day and will project a bad attitude, that may be the perfect day to avoid people (including in person, by phone and by email)!! Save that for when your attitude has improved!!

First I blamed it on the stress of trying to sell my house, then I blamed it on the children being home for the summer and finally I blamed it on being too busy, but finally I realized that no matter the reason it was time to pull up my socks and “smarten up”.

Yesterday at my BNI meeting our President said something that really made me stop and think. “You have to feel your way into a new way of acting not act your way into a new way of feeling”. In other words instead of acting as if everything is great, it is time to change the way you feel about things and other things will fall into place … so that’s just what I did.

I took some time to think about why I was feeling the way I was and decided it was time to stop “feeling sorry for myself” and start remembering that I am a successful business woman for a reason. I can put on whatever show I want to, but unless I start feeling better about myself and about what I am doing people will eventually see through the “veil” I have created.

So once I came to this realization I realized it was time to “brush off my goals”, re-write my schedule, and start working on all those ideas in my head instead of just leaving them there. So watch out world because I have a new attitude!!

Today the thing that I am most thankful for is the fact that I can form an opinion and others still respect me based on that opinion. Even more importantly, I can listen to others opinions and be thankful that we are each different and each have our own thoughts and views on subjects.

The person who goes through life thinking “it’s my way or the highway” will never have as rich of a life as the one that is willing to listen to others.

The ability to listen to others and consider their thoughts and opinions is a quality that we should all possess!! Wouldn’t life be boring if we all had the same thoughts and opinions on everything?

My dear friend Heather has just developed an e-book which is just awesome. For anyone thinking of starting a newsletter, this e-book tells you how to start a newsletter, how to find content for your newsletter and provides a number of invaluable tips and hints in how to market and publish your newsletter.

Newsletters are a great way to keep in touch with clients and other colleagues and everyone should have one. Please take a look and the best thing …. it is only $7.

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