Make a Commitment

To Finish Strong Every Month in 2019

Make a commitment to finish strong every month in 2019. Do it for yourself and you’ll grow your business to infinity.

As I was purging files today here in my home today, Saturday, February 2, I thought about how happy I was to know that I finished out the first month of January 2019 super strong.

I am happy to share with you that I accomplished every single goal on my daily/weekly and monthly to do list for the month of January. I was determined and committed to do something different every day and I did just that.

With dreams of leveraging, propelling and succeeding in business better than ever this year, I worked from sun up to almost sun up again, loving and enjoying every second working towards building my dynasty.

Here’s the thing; I love all that I do. I love the designing aspect of my business as well as the writing component of my business. I have written, in detail, all that I plan to achieve this year. In my cell phone I have pages of notes pertaining to my business goals and you should too.

You should have a pen and journal by your bed so that when an idea flows into the creative side of your mind, no matter the time, you can write them down immediately so that you never lose that bright bulb moment.

If you want to grow your business and you have mustard seed faith, you can take your business to a completely new place into a whole new space that you yourself have the ability to create.

You should be focused on ways to grow your business and making sales every day. This is your business and this is what you love to do. This is exactly why I don’t mind staying up late when my house is quiet and my guys are sound asleep. I find myself in a therapeutic place of peace creating and designing.

Here are some ways that you can take your business to new heights:

Write down your thoughts as they come to you. Use them wisely and apply your knowledge.
Plan out what you have written down making it a goal you can easily achieve.
Make it plain, crystal clear and easy to understand.
If it’s a small goal, set a deadline for yourself; date and time.
If it’s a large goal then go with the best solution in terms of when you want to attain it and how you can implement it into your business to take the next step to ensure your success.
Incorporate this new goal into your business and plan to accomplish it with confidence and faith in your skill set and great abilities.

If this goal requires you setting up another website, as it may be an extension to your existing business, be sure that you use the right platform for your business. This will be a part of your plan as you make a commitment to finish strong.

WordPress is an awesome platform great as is Weebly. They both offer great features. WordPress has all the tools and resources you’ll ever need to build an amazing looking website. They have a ton of free themes to choose from. Weebly is spectacular too. It all depends on what it is you’re planning to do in terms of your business.

Both are really great platforms. Please know that WordPress has a very steep learning curve, but if you’re savvy in building websites, then you can do this easily, not quickly, but fairly easily and be on your way to inviting visitors to your website.

Remember, you’ll want to get traffic flowing into your site in order to make sales. You can do this by blogging. Blogging is a terrific way to drive traffic to your website.

Today, I want you to make a commitment to finish every month strong in 2019. This will help you to stay focused on your goals. It will also ensure that your business thrives and stays afloat because as you know, things in this world, change from one second to the next. So be sure that you keep up with all of these changes by being your authentic self and doing what you love and by doing what you were created to do.

I hope that you are enjoying working your Christian-based business Women of Excellence and being a blessing to women and young girls who are elated to walk in your footsteps. I also hope that you will make a commitment to finish every month strong in 2019.

May God continue to bless the works of your hands.

Be blessed,

Cynthia G. Boyer

God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs

How To Write A Blog for Your Online Store

How to write a blog that generates not only traffic, but also sales, for your eCommerce or online store?

Is it even possible?

Maybe you’ve tried your hand at blogging and heard crickets!

Maybe you’ve labored over a blog post and felt that it’s just TOO hard.

Maybe you’ve thought about starting or writing a blog but you already have a million things on your plate.

How can you write and maintain a blog that brings readers and results?

In 5 easy steps.

Read on to find out what they are and how you can use them right away!

How to write a blog

How to Write a Blog for Your Online Store… in 5 Easy Steps

Step 1: Create a List of Topics Your Customers Want to Know More About

Start by first making a list of all the possible topics your customers want to know more about.

If you sell t-shirts, for example, they may love to know more about fashion trends, how to wear t-shirts to work and get away with it, how to add a custom feel to a mass produced t-shirt and so on.

If you make handmade jewelry, customers may want to know about accessorizing tips, how to care for jewelry, how to wear jewelry without going over the top, and so on.

You get the picture, right?

Sometimes, the questions your customers may have or want answers to would have nothing to do with your core business. They would be related to what you do.

How do you find out what questions your customers have?

Study the emails you get and identify common questions in them.
Hang around in forums, groups and on blogs where your ideal customer is. Listen {in a non-stalkerish!} way to their conversations. What are they asking about?
Survey your customers. Yes, send them out and email asking them what are some of their frustrations with {insert name of niche} and what would they like to know more about it.

Once you have this list of questions, it’s just a matter of creating topics from them and putting them into an editorial calendar.

You don’t need anything fancy. An excel sheet with dates and days can be enough. The idea behind this is for your to plugin your topics on a regular schedule so you can batch writing your posts and stay ahead of the curve.

Say, you come with only 12 topics. Don’t worry. At 1 post a week, you’ll have enough content for 3 months. See?

Step 2: Write Your Post

The next step is writing your post. I recommend batch writing your posts. As online store owners, we have a lot on our plate. Fitting in 10 minutes here or 20 minutes there to write a few sentences for your post doesn’t make any sense.

It’s more productive if you schedule say an hour, every Tuesday to write. Block off distractions.

Shut down Facebook and Pinterest. And just open your editorial calendar, check out the topic… and write.

Step 3: Optimize it for Search Engines

Now that you know how to write a blog, your next step is to optimize it for search engines.

While a well-written post will be awesome for your readers, you do want it to be found by search engines too, right? That will ensure that your content gets picked up by targeted customers easily!

How can you get started with optimizing your content? What tools do you need? Would you need to fork out hundreds of dollars for them?

I know. I can hear those questions whirling around in your head.

Luckily, for you, we have rounded up the best FREE SEO tools to make this job easier.

Step 4: Drive Traffic to the Post

Now that you’ve published your post, you need to drive traffic to it. Luckily, you can automate this part, too.

Once your post is published, fire up a social media scheduler like Buffer and set up the post to be shared on social networks automatically. I’d recommend sharing it all through the week at different intervals.

Next, copy the first half of the post, plug it into your email marketing system, personalize it, add a subject line and whiz it away to your list.

Step 5: Rinse-and-Repeat

The final step is to rinse-and-repeat the 4 steps above. Before you know it, you’ll be blogging like a pro and enjoying the attention that your blog is getting and best of all, the sales that it’s driving up.

So, there you go… your 5-step guide on how to write a blog that brings sales for your online store.

Article written by Andrea of Launch, Grow, Joy.

www.launchgrowjoy.com

Investing

God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs Presents Investing

Investing In Your Business Begins with Investing in Yourself

As a female entrepreneur you should be investing in your businesses everyday. This is how your business thrives. By making small deposits of thankfulness, knowledge, wisdom and understanding, you as a woman entrepreneur, can enjoy high profits that can alter your lifestyle and change the scope of your business. In order to enjoy a lucrative business there has to be some form of investing.

You possess a great wealth of knowledge. You are a source of great energy. Gifted with the tools that make your business thrive, you are a resource filled with all the components necessary to lift up your business and send it soaring out into the world of social media networking and making real connections. You need to take your knowledge as you tap into your reservoir of wealth and apply it where your business needs it the most. If your business is in need of a solid marketing plan, you should invest in making it your own unique marketing plan that has never been thought of or used before. Create those attention grabbing marketing materials; postcards, pens, buttons and t-shirts that will bring you new customers. Think of a killer ad and commit to investing it into your business a little everyday!

To really leverage, propel and grow your business you should be investing in yourself by committing to be consistent and doing things the way you know will sky-rocket you to success. As entrepreneurs you possess a great wealth of knowledge, a reservoir that you can tap into whenever you need to grow certain components of your business. You are wealth and you have all the riches you need simply because you’re you. Now t’s time for you to invest in yourself make a deposit into your business and watch the return on your investment. You will be pleasantly surprised at just how your business will sky-rocket.

You won’t fail. You can’t fail because you are God’s Virtuous Woman Entrepreneur and you love doing business God’s way. It’s never complicated. It’s just plain and easy the way God intended for it to be. Now go and make that investment. There’s an enormous return waiting for you!

Speak Into Your Heart

Affirmations for Women

Because They Work

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Affirmations for Women. I wrote them because I really need(ed) them and because they work!

Stuck in a place where I didn’t want to be for far too long, in my opinion anyway, I was lost, scratching my head, down, wondering and praying for miracles to happen. Listen, I wasn’t even going around in circles. I was just plain stuck. I was doing the same exact thing every single day from one hour to the next with no significant results to journal.

Something Had To Change;

My Way of Thinking and My Way of Speaking

I knew if I was going to start enjoying working my businesses more than ever, something had to change and that something had to be me. I am glad that I realized the fact that I didn’t have a choice; I had to change. I had to change my way of thinking and speaking. That’s when I told myself and my husband that it was time to make a positive change for us and my businesses.

I Welcomed Positive Thinking Into My Mind and It Warmed My Heart, Body and Spirit and Changed My Life!

I was ready for things to change in my life and when I began the practice of positive thoughts and saying to myself, I am a success, all kinds of opportunities, ideas and possibilities knocked down my door.

I had all the tools and resources available to me, but because I was focused on all the wrong things, which was not going or getting anywhere in my life, I became discouraged. Instead of me encouraging and believing in myself, I was thinking just how desperate I was to make money. I now realize that you cannot be desperate for anything. It is important that you relax and confidently believe in yourself, your unique skill set and great abilities.

The Manifestation Begins

Even though my creativity was thriving and I was creating all kinds of unique and powerful designs and writing beautiful masterpieces that I had hoped would be a blessing to women everywhere, I was lost.

When I finally pieced everything together in my life and in business I began to gain momentum. I then started reading about affirmations and how they work. Believing in myself and now speaking these empowering transformational affirmations daily they helped me to become a more powerful magnet for the things I desired. When I began speaking affirmations every morning and evening and truly believing while taking inspired action in my businesses, I began manifesting a lot of things my heart longed for. And here’s the thing, when I started to use these phenomenal affirmations I spoke/speak them from my heart; this is where my treasure chest of gratefulness can be found. My mind played an integral part in manifesting as well, but the heart is where everything is rooted because it is true.

If you’re reading this and you want to change your current circumstance(s) or situation, be it in your life or in your business, Personalized Affirmations can start you on the road where you’ll discover that in you there is great power to get wealth. If you want money flowing into your life like never before then you must get this book. If you want to wake up to emails that read, you have $100 in your PayPal account every week or even everyday, then Personalized Affirmations is going to change your life in a profound and amazing way and possibly even quickly depending on your level of vibration. So get excited and be grateful. If you believe, you shall receive.

Now go and start speaking your affirmations with feelings of elation and watch!!!

When you add these affirmations to your daily list of things to do and with continued use, you will be amazed at how quickly things will begin to flow to you and you’ll be saying I can’t believe this is happening!

Personalized Affirmations for Women because they work and change lives!

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Be blessed,

Cyndi

The Delivery

Beautiful and Phenomenal

Beauty and the Face Butter for the Body

When I started Beauty and the Face 15 years ago as a blog I had no idea that I would be making not just Body Butter, but luxurious body butter and Sweet Love Body Scrubs in addition to designing gift boxes for those special occasions that people love to celebrate.

Once a gift basket creator and after 4 months into the business, my partner decided she wanted to go solo because she said she could make a lot more money on her own; we parted ways.

Our gift basket business was an enormous short lived success from the very start. And now here I am making gift boxes for those heart occasions that people can’t find in stores.

Every gift box I create is exclusive to my customer and different from the other. I only put the most beautiful and superior products in my boxes giving it an elegant presentation. Every gift box has an element of surprise that my customers have adored and now treasure.

The Presentation

For me, it is important for the delivery to be absolutely breathtaking and beautiful. I refuse to do anything less.

When I prepare to make a gift box for a customer I pour my heart into every ounce of the creation by giving each gift box a lovely heartwarming theme. This brings me an abundance of joy knowing that I am to create something of value and beauty for someone else.

There is one thing that I make sure not to place in any of my gift boxes. Would you happen to know what that might be? If you said Dollar Store items then you guessed right. Now listen, I love the dollar store as much as the next lady, but I refuse to add items from Dollar Tree in my gift boxes because that is not who my target audience is. My target audience do not mind paying the high price of my gift boxes which start at $50 and they go as high as $150 and more depending on the customers need.

And so I say this to say that both my delivery and presentation have to be simply spectacular and I love to do spectacular. I also love to add a few extra sensational touches to my gift boxes such as a free gift along with a white fabric bag of chocolates or mints and a thank you note that speaks from my heart because truly I am grateful for the opportunities to create happiness and joy for others.

If you have a gift basket business or something similar don’t forget to wow your customers and you’ll be their go to person for every occasion when it comes to gifting. Just make sure that you tap into the right clientele. This can make a huge difference in your business. Knowing exactly who your target audience can help to ensure your long term success while making your business model stand in a gift basket business or whatever your business may be, in ten football fields all by itself.