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It’s Official! iZigg Launched & is LIVE! Text Coach B to 90210 & Join The Mobile Media Revolution!
It’s Official! iZigg Launched & is LIVE! Text Coach B to 90210 & Join The Mobile Media Revolution!
Get ready. Social Media is going to propel it! That’s why I refer to it as the Mobile Social Media Revolution. It goes together like a hand in a glove.
If you are a serious business person, you are going to want to do one or both of the following:
- Use Mobile Marketing for your Business – iZigg, offering the branding opportunity of combining 90210, the most memorable and researched five digit code in the global marketplace, with your unique key word ,gives you an equity branding position. No other mobile media company can offer this unique positioning!
- Carpe Diem – Yes, seize the day with iZigg as a business opportunity! iZigg has a binary compensation plan. You can watch a webinar on demand presentation at iZigg SMS. It gives you a tour around the back office, showing you how easy it is to set up campaigns and also gives a brief summary of the comp plan. To see a detailed outline of the comp plan, visit CoachB90210 and click in the middle section where it says “WOW” and you will see the Official Comp Plan symbol. Click on that for full disclosure & details.
The bottom line is that NOW is the time to join with our iZigg 90210 Dream Team! Remember “Where’s the Beef?” with Clara? I tell people, “Be sure and ask, ‘Where’s The Value?’ “Let me answer that question as follows:
- One KEY value point is that the closer you get to me, the more you benefit as I will be placing people under you! That delivers one essential component to you…LEVERAGE. Yes, your leverage is increased when you join us now.
- You will be joining the #1 Team in iZigg when you join our Dream Team comprised of many savvy internet marketers. That is a bonus added value! Why? We are already teaching our team how to succeed via internet marketing. Sure…this is a great product to share with family and friends who have businesses. They will literally thank you for helping their business move to the next level with this mobile, text message, permission-based marketing. AND…we also know that we don’t want to leave any stone unturned and miss an opportunity. We will simultaneously teach you how to reach individuals and businesses outside your current sphere of influence.
This second point is what I call Age of Influence Marketing. I do not subscribe to the either/or (offline/online) philosophy. My business approach is both/and. Why choose one marketing method over the other when you can integrate the two and have twice the success!
Click on picture below to be taken to my website. You have several options. You can:
- Personally utilize the product for your business by selecting a product (see below and text CoachB to 90210 about a creating mobile marketing campaign for your business!)
- Join at the $99 level and offer mobile products to your clients
- Join at the $448 ($349 + $99) – Build a Team & also have the ability to direct sale mobile products to your clients
Like my digital branding billboard below? Get yours FREE & Promote YOU at BrandYouFirst. Then drop at the tab on the right side of my blog that says, “Find a Professional!” It’s FREE marketing…sweet deal, huh? Pass me a hershey’s kiss!
Using iZigg – Text CoachB to 90210 – How Can a Text Campaign go Viral?
Using iZigg – Text CoachB to 90210 – How Can a Text Campaign go Viral?
This will be updated periodically as I see examples of mobile campaigns that do go viral. It will also highlight missed opportunities by companies and what they could have done to enhance a marketing campaign by combining it with a mobile campaign.
On that note, Chick-Fil-A missed a key opportunity when they had Cow Appreciation Week July 5-9, 2010, and didn’t combine mobile marketing with it. This video below talks about the power of viral marketing & what Chick-Fil-A could have done. The picture below shows it.
If if was good enough for Democrat Obama who now sits in the White House, Republican Meg Whitman figures it is good enough for her as she aspires to be Governor of California.
Politicians are understanding full well the opportunity that text marketing offers. Check out the California Governor’s race, and see how Meg Whitman is using a text campaign to foster goodwill and create volunteers for the balance of the race.
Meg Whitman, prior CEO of Ebay has her own short code: 46634
Meg Whitman’s CA Governor Race Text Campaign:
The campaign return text thanks the person who opted in and asks for their zip code to share when Meg will next be in your area for a public appearance. After you supply the zip code, you receive a request to volunteer. Because we like to work with friends, the potential for this Text to be forwarded is huge.
Matt Arndt with iZigg shares the following example of a viral marketing campaign, literally IN ACTION!
Join the Band! – TMobile challenged aspiring musician Josh Ward in the UK to ask “What would you do with free texts and internet for life?” Check out the result:
UPCOMING WEBINARS!
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Webinar Topic for Thursday, July 8 & July 15, 2010:
Is Your Digital Business Card Still Blank? Shift to Business Card 2. Brand YOU First…Today!
Thursday, July 8, 6 p.m. PST - Lief Larson, President of Workface and Developer of BusinessCard2, a free online digital business card, will present marketing tips on how to effectively utilize your BusinessCard2 for branding yourself and promoting your business and products. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS FREE WEBINAR.
Go now and secure your FREE DIGITAL BUSINESS CARD!
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iZigg. You Zagg. My clients text Coach B to 90210. You text funky numbers people cannot remember.
iZigg. You Zagg. My clients text “CoachB” to 90210. You text funky numbers people cannot remember.
iZigg hits the Bulls Eye. Others don’t. Why? The very reasons I am mentioning. They all promise your own CSC (common short code). Who cares? Nobody can remember the funky numbers. If they can’t remember it, they can’t use it.
The instant brandability of 90210 combined with your unique key word is missing from other companies I researched who offer mobile marketing. Obviously, there is only ONE 90210 CSC. As a life-long Marketing Strategist & Visionary Entrepreneur turned iPreneur, I can’t afford to steer you down a path that will NOT enhance your marketing. Period.
Do you want to GO WHERE THE EYES ARE? Text “CoachB” to 90210 and we can discuss!
P.S. WATCH THIS VIDEO FIRST! 
Plus…iZigg is going GLOBAL in the future!
P.P.S. I am offering a FREE webinar on Thursday, July 8 at 6 p.m. PST/7 p.m. MST/8 p.m. CST/9 p.m. EST. I want to help you get started on discovering all the exciting ways you can set up your FREE BusinessCard2 & how you can use it to market your brand!
Don’t know what a BusinessCard2 is? Check out this blog post and discover the most integrated personal branding tool on the internet…and it’s FREE! And my webinar is FREE!
Be sure and go to Your Digital Business Card before the webinar, and sign up so that you can work hands on with this tool during the webinar.
Walk Worthy! Coach B, aka Dotti Berry – Call me toll-free at 1-800-440-9780 or text “CoachB” to 90210 if you have any questions prior to the webinar!
Is Your Digital Business Card Still Blank? Shift to Business Card 2. Brand YOU First…Today!
Is Your Digital Business Card Still Blank? Shift to BusinessCard2. Brand YOU First…Today!
It’s about connecting…it’s about engaging…it’s about Visibility! It’s about Personal Marketing, Personal Selling, Personal SEO, Personal Branding, Identity Management & Self Promotion. It’s all about the Social Media Revolution. Isn’t it about time you filled in your blank card!
You must recognize that you don’t have your “branding house” in order if your online card is BLANK…and shift and discover a way to Brand YOU FIRST…today!
The initial question you must ask yourself is, “WHY is it blank?”
Then you must ask two more questions…
- “WHAT do I need to do to shift in order to start creating a personal brand though a digital business card”, and…
- “WHY is this important for my business success?”
The answer to the initial question is one that only you know. I would suggest, however, that you, like many others, don’t know a problem exists; therefore, you aren’t looking for a solution. You simply don’t know you don’t know. If you aren’t thinking that a digital card that can hold EVERYTHING exists, you obviously aren’t seeking a solution.
On the other hand, if you have ever wondered and thought about how great it would be to have all of your information in one, tidy little on-line container, and are looking to discover it, then count this as your lucky day!
The answer to the next question about what you need to do to shift is based on your new understanding that an online, digital business card does exist!
At this point, you have apply the Kevin Costner thinking/philosophy from Field of Dreams…”If you build it, they will come.”
I like to give people, especially people in business, the benefit of the doubt, believing the equivalent in this case to the above statement, “If they it exists, they will use it.” I truly believe that if you know a solution exists once you are aware of a problem, you will use the provided tool to solve it.
All I can say is “Stay with me. There is a solution for you!”
The best part is that it is FREE. The only investment (albeit it an important one) is your time and energy for creating it. BusinessCard2, helping you Brand YOU First, is the only comprehensive digital business card on the internet. There are other existing resources for exchanging basic information, such as name, email, phone number, and web/blog address, but nothing like this FREE digital business card that I discovered.
I previously blogged about it, but having now implemented it, I am amazed at what is possible! Its uses are as unlimited as your imagination!
Lief Larson, President of WorkFace, and co-developed of BusinessCard2 says…
BusinessCard2 is a personal marketing and personal branding platform that enables identity management. Is allows you to create, control, and leverage your professional online identity via a portable and interactive business card. With a BusinessCard2, you can build relationships with new customers, build visibility and raise your profile, and generate more business by receiving prospect leads.
Your Shift that is necessary requires taking action. You must:
- Throw away the old files! Move away from thinking about a business card as you have in the past.
- Install a new operating system!
Pretend you have written a business plan. You must now implement it. In this case, it means utilizing a marketing strategy with Your Digital Business Card. How do you accomplish that? Utilize a link signature in emails and forums, or a hyperlinked icon in email, or embed it in your blogs and websites. You can view mine at the end of this blog post, or in the side bar.
And…let BusinessCard2 search engine it for you. Lief explains that,
“Owning your namespace in search engines is an essential part of your professional discoverability. BusinessCard2 is designed to help you rapidly raise your profile in search engines such as Google, Bing, & Yahoo.In many instances, they can help you ride to the first page of search results in 11-19 days. The SEO (search engine optimization) benefits you receive are completely value-added.
Now…to consider the last question about why this online card is important to your business success.
How many times do you need to hear Brand YOU…First before you believe it?
This isn’t about ego. It’s about practicality…and Personal Marketing…and Personal Selling…and Personal SEO, and Personal Brandng, and Identity Management and Self Promotion.
In today’s global marketplace, branding you first is both essential and critical to your success because
a) 30-40 year stints with one company are a relic of the past, and
b) more people will have their own small business in the future vs. having a J-O-B.
What am I saying? You must create a personal brand, even in the midst of working for a particular company because your status will likely change in the future, and change again, and change again. You may, or I should say, probably will, at some point in your life, have your own small or home-based business.
This is the Age of the Entrepreneur & iPreneur Revolution…to the tune of 79 million joining in the next three years. At least that is what Forbes predicts. Your decision is whether or not you are joining it!
If you plan to marketing in any way via the internet,
The bottom line is that there is no one who can “tell your story” better than you! That is the essence of the Business Card 2 web container. In today’s digital, global marketplace, Lief has some ideas about that, talking about…
The Importance of Control
If you are like most people today, your digital footprint is expansive. Chances are that websites have inventoried your name, and search engines have indexed those instances of your name. However, having control over the way customers, prospects and partners find and see your online identity is difficult. Most social networks will expose your name, but hide your information behind a walled garden. This is cumbersome for people looking to learn more about you or reach out to you. BusinessCard2 is different. We enable you to fully control how people see you and complete transparency about your professional identity and reputation.
No matter where you are on the globe, decide that today, you will commit your time to developing your own personal digital business card through Business Card 2. The time has come for you to create Your Digital Business Card. Outside of your time commitment, this opportunity to brand yourself NOW is FREE! What a sweet deal! You simply can’t beat it.
I am offering a FREE webinar on Thursday, July 8 at 6 p.m. PST/7 p.m. MST/8 p.m. CST/9 p.m. EST. I want to help you get started on discovering all the exciting ways you can set up your BusinessCard2 & how you can use it to market your brand!
Be sure and go to Your Digital Business Card before the webinar, and sign up so that you can work hands on with this tool during the webinar.
Walk Worthy! Coach B, aka Dotti Berry – Call me toll-free at 1-800-440-9780 or text “CoachB” to 90210 if you have any questions prior to the webinar!
Want to Build Your Personal Brand? BusinessCard2 Digital Business Card, The Only One You Will Ever Need!
YOU are unique, authentic and amazing…yes, each one of you reading this blog post! Whether in your personal life or in your business, YOU have some special talent. People love to hear one another’s stories.
That is really what BusinessCard2™ helps you create. Your personal branding business story. It enables you to develop both your UPB (Unique Personal Brand) and your UBB (Unique Business Brand). Bottom line is that BusinessCard2 is your unique business card on the web…and it’s FREE MARKETING!
Branding YOU First is the process of marketing yourself and your career as a brand. It matters not whether you are a SOHO Mobile Professional (S mall O ffice/H ome O ffice)…a Fortune 500 company person…or an Entrepreneur who owns a local brick and mortar business (small or large). The BusinessCard2 platform is designed to assist in your self-packaging, providing a web container built to hold all the things that make you digitally distinct (your name, your image, your knowledge, your collateral, etc.). As a Global Digital Consultant in the Mobile Media & SOHO Revolutions, I firmly believe that being digitally distinct is important to YOU and to me, and that positively utilizing technology is invaluable to our businesses as we commit to personal brand market and management and relationship building through using state-of-the-art social networking technology and services.
The commitment you make in order to utilize the free marketing provided by this card is your time and energy, and this is not free. The end result, however, can more than pay off, and is integral to your marketing. You must carefully craft your communication so that others grasp your uniqueness, vision and brand. My intention is to bring value by showing you how to utilize social media strategies to explode the impact of your PWC (Personal Web Container) and transform your entrepreneurial passion into profits…and success!
BusinessCard2™ provides your own UPB & UBB ”branding” billboard. Just use the “embed” code and place it on your company website, personal website, or blogs. I also enabled the “chat” feature so that I can communicate with people as they view my digital business card.
BusinessCard2™ provides badges for using on social networks, websites, and blogs.
Additionally, BusinessCard2™ provides a unique URL, (mine is http://DottiBerry.businesscard2.com), where your BusinessCard2 is located on the web, allowing you to use it in Email signatures, Forums and Comments, and Blogs & Social Sites. Following are some additional ideas that will explode your business.
- Here’s a new twist. Use this unique URL, leading to an electronic billboard, and print it on the traditional physical business card! You can also take your unique URL and make it into a short url for using on FB & Twitter with your posts. I made mine into http://xr.com/DottiBerry . (Just go to http://xr.com and make yours…stats track how many times people click on it). I use this short url system for creating short urls about articles, blog posts, and upcoming webinars. The possibilities are unlimited.
- How about this? Talking to a potential client on your cell phone? If it were me, I would text message them http://xr.com/DottiBerry after we hung up. Or…if we were texting, I would just send that link to them. Remember, the possibilities are endless.
- Targeting customers with a mobile marketing campaign that carries a special offer? Lead with short url, taking them to your digital business card that contains the offer? Click here if you missed my post on power of the the mobile media revolution. The amount of information BusinessCard2™ allows you to store is amazing. You can store all your professional information, making it accessible by thousands of customers, prospects, and partners. You can connect with business partners, build relationships, and even find a J-O-B (if that’s what you want!). Use your unlimited imagination to create unlimited marketing opportunities with BusinessCard2.
- Tired of your Facebook profile picture and not sure what new one to use? I employed my PWC as my profile picture on FB. I’m sure you are wondering how I did that, knowing that html code can’t be used as a FB profile pic. That’s true. I used a tool called Snag-It to create a jpeg of my PWC along with my unique url http://xr.com/DottiBerry
BusinessCard2™ says. Here’s how we immediately help you with your personal brand :
- BusinessCard2™enables you to frame your digital persona in a personal brand package. This is where YOU are a spokesperson for YOU.
- BusinessCard2™offers you and your prospects a central point to control and access your clear, consistent and compelling message.
- Self-promotion with BusinessCard2™
- Although we all sell products and services, what our customers buy is US. Thus, great professionals know how to sell themselves.
I hope you are beginning to better understand the value available through utilizing your PWC in communicating your UPB and UBB.
I was listening to Bill Rowland speak this morning about the future of mobile media and the beginning of a technology curve. . He sold his last company 2 years ago for $108 Million. They were the premier provider of high-quality professional marketing and contracting services to the telecommunications, cable and energy industries. His remarks are great reminders and offer profound insights, connecting with me on a cellular level.
If you want to manage someone, learn to manage yourself. People aren’t drawn to authority, they’re drawn to leadership. A leader leads by example.
Here’s a real life example of using this BusinessCard2 to provide great content and value (an amazing video on how leaders inspire action) through posting it on Twitter and Facebook like I just did.
great video. http://xr.com/LeadersInspireAction. check out free digital biz card http://xr.com/DottiBerry
BusinessCard2™ says…
It has become important that each of us becomes marketers of our own personal brands. However, it can be difficult promoting yourself without looking self-promotional or coming across as smarmy or selfish. BusinessCard2 enables you reveal yourself to prospects, customers and partners in a way that is both tactful and helps you achieve your professional objectives.
As a leader, I personally want to be transparent in my interactions and conversations with people as I connect, engage and collaborate…the three essentials of my coaching and consulting. I call these “essentials” because it is these aspects that allow me to mutually leverage relationships. BusinessCard2™ offers me a compelling way of doing this by allowing me to be transparent with my business values.
Your PWC also helps me to ignite your business through utilizing precise and targeted social media strategies. An effective PWC will assist me in transforming your passion into profits. That spells S-U-C-C-E-$-$…online and offline. You can participate in this paradigm shift in business models (the first in my lifetime outside of franchising). Imagine utilizing the mobile media revolution by taking your unique PWC url, turning it into a short url, and texting it to the person with whom you are texting and speaking via phone!
I believe we are experiencing the first paradigm shift in business models (outside of franchising) in my lifetime. I see the transformational changes happening in the world-wide economy as positive ones. I believe that the Mobile Media Revolution is igniting the SOHO Revolution and offers unlimited opportunities for individuals.
Roby and I took a year-long journey across America in 2005/06. Our intention was to engage hearts and minds, create authentic connections, and dissolve differences that separate us. That core intention drives me in business as well. BusinessCard2™ helps me market my commercial authenticity by inventorying information about me and deploying that data to inform and educate my potential clients. It can do the same for you.
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Global Mobile Marketing Revolution igniting SOHO Revolution
Global Mobile Marketing Revolution igniting SOHO Revolution
Whether you are female or male, if you have a business, you’ll want to learn more about mobile marketing and how it can positively impact your business success. It can elevate your UBB (Unique Business Brand), allowing you to connect, engage, collaborate, and more effectively and efficiently leverage your business relationships.
Sign up for More Information about Mobile Marketing and discover how you can elevate your UBB (Unique Business Brand) in the Mobile Media Revolution…AND…as a BONUS, you will receive my new e-book….
Ready, Aim, Fire…Shots Heard ’round the World, Igniting the Global Mobile Media Revolution!
Discover more about this mobile media revolution! And then TEXT: CoachB TO: 90210!
I am going to use the businesses of my friends, real estate agents, Dan O’Donnell, blogging at House Bopper (Bellingham, WA) and Debra Catalano Gravelle at Team Up Real Estate (Soap Lake in eastern Washington), to illustrate how mobile (text message) marketing can EXPLODE a business, taking it to new heights.
Search for both Dan & Debra on Facebook, friend them, and say, “Dotti sent me!” Dan & Debra should connect for sure!
Call me at 1-888-440-9780 and ask me how you can join the Mobile Media Revolution and use mobile marketing to EXPLODE your business/es!
To better understand how this can impact your business, below are a couple of examples of text messages that could be sent to clients in the real estate industry, showing how they could target their data base with a message.
Both a mobile media marketing campaign and a SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) Communications System are essential in this Mobile Media Revolution. The toll-free number shown on the phones below do not reach them (it reaches me); however, it is there to illustrate that a toll-free number is important…and when you call me at 1-888-440-9780, you will understand the power of this communications system. Not only does it give you twelve (Press 1) options (allowing you to give a sizzle call about different properties) and take messages, it “follows you” anywhere, forwarding to up to six different phone numbers. Additionally, it allows you to have a FREE toll-free number or a local number in another city (if you want to have a local presence in a city in which you do not reside) and call toll-free to Canada and U.S. or from either. It also adds a second line for FREE if you have an iPhone or Blackberry (and to the smart phone droid series by the end of June), allowing you to reduce your cell phone plan. Because it has dual cell/VoIP capacity (an industry first), and it seamlessly switches back and forth between the two so that you don’t lose through call with A T & T if you have an iPhone. That particular app that gives you a free second line on your cell phone is the #1 app in the Apple iStore. Here’s link to previous blog post. If you see the value in this, click here for your FREE 30 Day Trial with the company, Toktumi, who was just named “one of ten Mobile Tech companies to watch” by Entrepreneur Magazine (June 2010 issue). Toktumi Line2 was also named one of Entrepreneur’s “100 Brilliant Ideas.”
(Note: I did an update to this post. Why? As if Line 2 capabilities weren’t already enough, what you hear Peter Sisson talk about in this new video is amazing. I pick up a new iPhone 4 on June 21. I was going to have to pay $30 per month for unlimited texting…no more! I can switch to Line 2 and simply do my texting from that…for FREE! Yes, Line 2 will now have sms! And…Peter announced that Line 2 will soon be available in top 7 countries which use iPhone!)
In Dan’s case, not only does he immediately communicate so that his clients can see his newly listed house on the market at www.HouseBopper.com, he gets an added bonus by reminding them about www.PositiveAtmosphere.com. (yea…go there now and join for FREE!…great positive environment!).
In Debra’s case, she lets clients know about an open house when she discovers that she’s been there an hour and no one has shown up. Real estate agents HATE when they have wasted their entire afternoon in that situation. The $20 Gift Certificate to a local restaurant? Hey…not out of her pocket. She gets several restaurants to donate a few gift certificates for advertising! And…since Debra is smart, she understands that the restaurant/coffee shop needs to reach their customers with specials and coupons, and asks me “Dotti, how can I benefit from offering that type of marketing to people?” (Great question, Debra!) And I know Dan is a marketing genius. Just look at the group he has put together at Positive Atmosphere. I know he would love to be able to have 95% of that group read his updates through a text message within 5 minutes! All of the business professionals on that site would probably LOVE to know of this Mobile Media Revolution underway, and how it can positively impact their business. It is cutting edge and ahead of the curve. They have the opportunity to catch the wave now.
Just an idea on how SMS Mobile Marketing (Text messaging) can help both Debra’s and Dan’s businesses. They get info out to their client base IMMEDIATELY (timely and efficiently can mean $$ in their pockets), AND they know that 95% of them will read it within 5 minutes. Everyone today has their cell phone with them. They aren’t always at their computer (even if they have the mobility of a lap top or iPad). When only 1/3 of people have internet on their cell phone, but 99% of the people have text capability, doesn’t it make sense to join the Mobile Media Revolution TODAY…and not wait until tomorrow?
I know each of you you can grasp how this scenario gives Debra and Dan an edge by allowing them to connect and engage with their clients and friends. Additionally, it gives their clients the edge, because they can more quickly jump on the opportunity to buy the home because they know about it sooner. Real estate agents who don’t have this mobile media marketing service are back at their office, still trying to simply put the listing on their website and “thinking” about getting out an email (which an average of 15% will read…who knows when…whereas 95% will read Debra’s and Dan’s text messages within 5 minutes!) BINGO! Debra’s got a sale because she gets someone to visit an open house (or they call/text their friend who they have just talked to and discovered are wanting a new home)… and Dan’s on his way to show a client a newly listed home! I LOVE THIS TYPE OF MARKETING, don’t you?
Remember…Sign up for More Information about Mobile Marketing and discover how you can elevate your UBB (Unique Business Brand) in the Mobile Media Revolution…AND…as a BONUS, you will receive my new e-book…
Ready, Aim, Fire…Shots Heard ’round the World, Igniting the Global Mobile Media Revolution!
NOW is the time to plan for Success Tomorrow!
There may not be tons of J-O-B-S available today, but you don’t need one because there are TONS of Opportunities. Indeed, there are Infinite Possibilities. Check out Mike Dooley’s book, and sign up for his free “Notes from the Universe.”
Here’s one I love...
Life itself – not your friends, partners, or peers – is your source. Dance with Life. Dance with Me. Dance, no matter what others may think, say, or do. You can have it all! 1, 2, 3, lean, dip, shake – The Universe
Entrepreneur Magazine agrees that Global Virtual SOHO Revolution is Your Future with Peter Sissons’s Toktumi Line 2 VoicePoint
SOHO is the acronym for Small Office Home Office…and the SOHO Revolution has begun! Forbes fired the shot that got people’s attention, claiming 79 Million people will start a SOHO business during the next three years. It’s also both global and virtual with San Francisco-based Toktumi CEO/Founder Peter Sisson creating the most affordable, full-featured virtual SOHO phone service available to help mobile entrepreneurs retain the flexibility, professional image, and proper home/work balance they need to lead successful lives. After unleashing Toktumi in 2006, he partnered it through his affiliate program with Dell and Staples, and then recently convinced Apple to approve his Line 2 app, creating a free second cell phone line for people who have an iPhone or Blackberry. Keep reading…the deal’s even sweeter than you can imagine!
First…A couple of questions to ask yourself…
Is Your SOHO Business Prepared for the Global Virtual Smart Phone Revolution?
Do you want to be a SOHO worker or a SOHO PROFESSIONAL?
Toktumi Line 2 was recently featured in the New York Times and in USA Today on April 29. The June issue of Entrepreneur lists it as one of “Entrepreneur’s Annual 100 Brilliant Ideas”!
Entrepreneur writers Kara Ohngren and Jennifer Wang say…
A bold concept perfectly in sync with the moment: It’s what great companies are built on. It’s what shapes the future. It’s entrepreneurship at its best. Where can you find that kind of thinking now?
You find that kind of thinking with Sisson. The article is timely as he launches VoicePoint in June to offer Toktumi Line 2 peer-to-peer.
Smart Phones are taking over. By 2012, Nielsen researchers say, they will be the most commonly used mobile devices in the U.S. And you know what that means: more apps–and tons of money–to be made. In fact, smartphone customers this year are expected to spend $6.2 billion on more than 4.5 million downloads.
The following in-depth analysis will show you why you can’t beat what Sisson’s offering…a Toktumi Line 2 FREE 30 Day Trial!
What have you got to lose? Nothing! What have you got to gain? Everything! Once you have the experience, you’ll have the “Toktumi” glow (oh…did I tell you that’s pronounced “Talk To Me?), and people will be asking you where you got your Global Virtual SOHO system. And you’ll have people joining our SOHO Revolution because you’ll have an answer if you want one, an answer that benefits them and you.
Sisson’s truly leading the way for the SOHO Professional by providing essential merged communications. Toktumi even turns your iPad or iPod Touch into a phone! Don’t have an iPod Touch? I didn’t either. I will soon. Look for a Key Bank in your area. (I live in Blaine, WA, but was presenting in Port Angeles, WA and worked with Key Bank Relationship Manager Robert Porrazzo after seeing an ad in the local newspaper. How perfect is the synergy of his “title” for those of us who are committed to attraction marketing? Email him at robert_c_porrzaao@keybank.com or call him at 360-452-4554).
Key Bank is offering a free iPod Touch for opening a new checking account. For $14.95 a month I can turn my iPod Touch into a third phone line (or you can ditch your expensive cell plan and just use the iPod Touch). I am purchasing an iPhone now that I can use the dual mode cell/VoIP and not have to worry about dropped AT & T calls, AND reduce my cell bill, AND have a second free line on my new iPhone.
Edward Baig of USA Today best describes why I am ecstatic…
While getting calls through when your cellular reception is lousy is Line2′s main reason to crow, there are others. You might actually save money. Toktumi’s service costs $14.95 a month for unlimited calling in the USA and Canada, which you have to pay on top of regular AT&T monthly rates. But the assumption is you’ll make a lot of calls when you’re near a Wi-Fi hot spot — and those calls don’t count against your regular AT&T voice allotment.
So you may be able to downgrade to the cheapest $39.99, 450-minute AT&T monthly voice plan vs. the unlimited $69.99 monthly plan.
Even after piling on Toktumi’s fees, you come out ahead. VoIP calls made over AT&T’s data (not voice) network also don’t count against your monthly allowance.
Line2 adds a second number to your iPhone or Blackberry that works over 3G, WiFi or Cellular networks using the same number; an industry first. Ideal if you have either poor cell reception or just want to reduce your cell bill…or…how about both!
Call my toll-free # on the phone and see how it works!
Entrepreneur Magazine looked at 10 areas that are growing fast and found 10 companies in each that bring jaw-dropping ingenuity to the table. Toktumi is listed as one of ten Mobile Tech companies to watch!
Speaking of watching. Check out this interview below with Sisson.
Toktumi Line 2 FREE 30 Day Trial and interest created by the articles in USA Today and the New York Times , you will understand why 80,000 downloads of Toktumi Line 2 happened almost overnight. You’ll also have insight into why David Pogue with CNBC (his video is after Sisson’s interview) is raving about Toktumi and why Line 2 is currently ranked as the #1 Business App within the iStore.
Watch David Pogue’s video below. He does a great job of explaining Toktumi’s features!
And guess what? Sisson recently announced that Line 2 will be available for all smart phones (the droids) in about 6 more weeks. › Continue reading
USA Today and David Pogue Rave About Toktumi Line 2 Utilizing Wi Fi Cloud
USA Today and David Pogue Rave About Toktumi Line 2 Utilizing Wi Fi Cloud. Toktumi Line2 will make you forget A& & T. Consider this too… it will make you forget Vontage…forget Google phone… forget Skype…forget conferencing calling. What? Yes, it may be just the solution for which you’ve been searching.
Toktumi Line 2 (pronounced “Talk to Me”…clever, huh?), is not a cell phone but an add-on product, giving you an additional line through wi-fi technology. It’s like the perfect widget for your blog, except that it’s the perfect tool for creating a professional phone system for your small or home-based business.
Wi-Fi clouds are already over major U.S. cities and will soon blanket the U.S. Bye-Bye cell phone towers…they will become obsolete, so DO NOT SIGN any two-year “special deal” you’re going to see cell phone companies offering if you buy a new phone any time soon. They’ll be hoping you’re in the dark.
Toktumi is the only one with this technology…they literally have no competition. Imagine you, the small business or home-based business owner, setting up a professional phone service in minutes with a FREE 30-day trial that allows you to try it with no strings attached. That’s right…one phone…2 lines (one for personal…one for business)…Free for 30 Days. What’s not to like about that? You can’t lose. If you don’t like it, drop it. If it works for you, you’ll join USA Today and David Pogue in the raving.
Toktumi lets small businesses set up a professional phone service in minutes.” - eWeek
Leander Kahney (cultofmac.com) says…
The app is true dual mode (VoIP/Cellular) for both inbound and outbound calling. That means it rings and makes calls wherever you have any kind of reception, making it very useful for people who live or work in dead cell zones. One of the reasons I got the landline for the office was because AT&T’s cell connection was dodgy in the building. But when there’s no cell, Line2 automatically switches to Wi-Fi — you don’t have to think about it.
Line2 rings the phone as normal whether the app is up and running or not. This is the big deal breaker for other VoIP apps like Skype, which have to be running to announce incoming calls. Line2 is also the first VoIP app that doesn’t quit if a regular iPhone call comes in. You just dismiss the incoming call and continue your conversation.
Pick up your phone right now, dial 877-883-8401 and listen to a short Toktumi Line2 Demo. I know you’ll then finish reading every word of this post. You won’t be able to help yourself! Why? You’ll want to make sure you get your FREE 30-day trial to check out Toktumi Line2 with no strings attached.
Note: If you cannot attend tonight’s webinar, here’s a recorded webinar from April 1 with Peter.
Also…keep reading…I embedded videos of Peter demonstrating the product in an interview and David Pogue demonstrating on CNBC.
Ok…back to A T & T cell reception. Yes…I have a problem. › Continue reading
Mike Dillard – What’s Working Now?
Mike Dillard – What’s Working Now?
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
NO! It’s not Building Magnetic Sponsoring.
IT’S BETTER!
Ok…Mike opened back up the opportunity to get What’s Working Now!
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Make your Own Vision Board
Make Your Own Vision Board? You may be saying “Are you Kidding Me? No…I’m not!
You may continue with…”I can’t afford the time…blah…blah…blah.”
Here’s the deal. You may not be able to afford NOT to take the time. This organic progress can ground you and is your key to attracting exactly what you want! Create YOUR Vision Board the Law of Attraction. You can make it offline/online…I’m a both/and person vs. an either/or. Why act like one way is better when both work! Decide which method best resonates with you.
A question to start you down your Visioning path…
Does Your Vision have the Midas Touch?
If you don’t know what this Midas Touch is or your answer is “No,” keep reading.
It’s take to time TAKE CHARGE of YOUR LIFE! I’m baring all about what is necessary for creating your Vision Board and your Vision Biography. A biography is an account of something. In this case, it’s an ongoing account of your Vision! Get your cup of coffee or glass of wine. This is a longer post…Enjoy!
I am asking myself this question as Roby & I “revamp” our Vision Board. It’s worth repeating…
Does your VISION have the Midas Touch?
Why ask this question? First of all, Your Vision...envisioned through your Vision Board illustrates your Vision Biography and is a part of your master business plan. Like a business plan, it is not static…it is ever changing and evolving. Our desires don’t remain the same. I am not the same person today that I was yesterday. Being personally in the midst of this process right now, I know that I want it to have the Midas Touch...I want it to be the set of wheels on my vehicle that takes me to my ultimate, massive financial freedom… affording me the options and flexibility I desire. I will forewarn you that this process does not come without a certain amount of angst. That will only continue, however, if you resist the inevitable chaos vs. embracing it in order to move through more easily and naturally in this process. If you feel overwhelmed, check out this prior blog post about how quantum physics can help you create your dreams. It gives you a framework for moving through your personal chaos!
So…here’s how you begin the process of envisioning and creating an offline Vision Board (meaning it is a physical one that you can touch and feel vs digital one) with the Midas Touch over a several week period. You will discover that you begin attracting some of what you envision IMMEDIATELY!
- MULL – Seriously contemplate your desires…both personal and business. Go through magazines and cut out anything that jumps out at you. This is an organic process. Do not censor at this point. Just cut and throw it in a big bucket or box with a lid (you’ve heard of a bucket list from the movie of the same name…that’s what you are creating!)
- INVESTIGATE – Imagine examining your desires & dreams under a microscope. It’s now time to pull those magazine dream catchers out of the big bucket. Allow this to be an evolving process. I suggest you do this investigative process on a different day than you do your “mulling” involved in the initial step. Analyze your desires, see them in your mind and then sit quietly with them to determine if they resonate with your core values. Take those that fit and throw them into a second big bucket. Don’t fret if several from bucket one just don’t “feel right,” after this investigation. That’s why you are doing it. Nothing goes in bucket #2 that you do not want to (at this point!) add it to your Vision Board. Remember…this is YOUR Vision Board. Don’t add something just because some hot shot guru added it to his or her board. You are unique! Live by it.
- DEVISE - Conceive, plan & design how you want to put together the pieces of your Vision Board to sync with the core of who you are – You can do it by sections. Again, use another day for this process. Pull the pictures and words out of the second bucket. Spread them around on the floor. This isn’t a race. This is about creating a Vision from which you will make your choices. You can add your Vision Statement (some call it a Mission Statement). Our middle section of our Vision Board is like our own middle of our body. It is a core foundation of who we are. It must provide a strong foundation. It represents our spiritual center, although that part also overflows to the left third bottom (as you are looking at the board below) while our real estate dreams are at the left third top. That is one of our properties. Some of these living words such as “DANCE” (something we do with one another each day before going to bed) are also a part of our spiritual core and connection.
- ACHIEVE - Ponder how you intend to bring about the results of your Vision. This is where you can now move to your Business Plan and start writing your detailed goals….ah, another post will have to give the outline for that plan.
- STRENGTHEN – This is where you continue to “erase and replace” pieces of your Vision that you no longer feel are empowering you. Remember, this is about evolving, not remaining static! Remove any part at any time. Once a quarter, give your Vision Board a good 2-3 hour session and overhaul. During the first week of the new year, devote an entire day to mulling, investigating, devising, achieving and strengthening so that you are fully prepared for being all that you can be in a new year!
Our Vision Board is a tri-fold one on black foam core. You are looking at it unfolded. Its normal full-time spot is one where it sits unfolded on top of the filing cabinet in our office so that we see it on a daily basis. I like the aspect of literally unfolding our Vision Board and placing it on our counter top. There is something organic about unfolding the board…perhaps it is analogous to the unfolding of our dreams. It also allows me to view the back. The entire front and back doesn’t have to be completed initially. Leave some open space into which you can grow. We started with the front and expanded to the back, Mulling, Investigating, Devising, Achieving, & Strengthening. The central picture on the back of the Vision Board is shown in this short video below. It about the connections between all of us…connecting and engaging…a central theme to my life! May it inspire you to Reach…Awaken2Life & Create Your Dreams!
Keep reading for more on new additions to our Vision Board and how we are Awakening2Life & creating our Dreams. Although our dreams contain some “things,” they don’t make it to our Vision Bucket List unless they equate to awesome experiences and resonate with our core. We already live in the home of our dreams. You’re probably thinking BIG, huh? No…just the opposite. SMALL…a dream of 1150 square feet with a sun room across the back leading to a deck with a hot tub with electric awning (yea…it rains a little in the Pacific NW, but not as much as people think…we rank 36th in the country in rainfall), look out over English gardens and a pond with Canadian geese, ducks and blue herons. It’s a healing energy place that also has a 400 foot cottage for friends and my coaching clients…both individuals and couples…who come for “Coach B’s Tune-Up” week-ends or weeks. (One 80 year-old retired executive from Texas who wanted to learn about internet marketing actually rented for a month and got his coaching!).
Yes, we’re into small. We took a year-long journey across America pulling a 13 foot trailer with an intention to engage hearts and minds, create authentic connections and transcend differences that separate us. Life was simple, and we loved it. We haven’t forgotten that journey and why we liked it!
Speaking of Small…I was at the Olympics in BC and saw something soooo small I had to contact the architect (who turns out to be from South Africa originally). We will be going up to meet with him in May to see about potentially securing the rights to market it in the United States. DREAM BIG!
Apple OS 4.0 and Line2 – Multitask Features Mean You NEVER use cell minutes!
Apple announced their new OS 4.0 operating system for iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads last week. One of the big new features is multitasking for specific types of apps including VoIP. This is great news for Line2 users! The bottom line is that multitasking allows you to run Line2 in the background while you use your email or another app. If you get a call on your Line2 number it will immediately activate the Line2 app so you can answer the phone. Set your default settings to WiFi VoIP or 3G VoIP and you will NEVER use any cell minutes for inbound as well as outbound calls! How cool is that?
Multitasking will also allow you to use other apps while you are on a Line2 call. Time to give a friend directions? Multitask to the rescue! Pull up your maps app while continuing to talk on Line2! Trying to figure out where to meet your friends for dinner? Start a conference call on Line2 and search on Yelp, Urbanspoon, or the Internet while discussing with your friends what sounds good.
Toktumi is excited about the possibilities that multitasking will provide Line2 users. It’s coming fast! OS 4.0 will be available for iPhone 3GS with multitasking and iPhone 3G without multitasking, iPod Touch 3rd generation with multitasking and iPod Touch 2nd generation without multitasking this Summer. iPad OS 4.0 with multitasking will be released in the Fall. You can get more details on Apple OS 4.0 here.
Check out this short video to see how to get your free 30-day Trial for Toktumi and Line 2!
Gadgets, Gizmos, the iPad & Line 2 with the Smart Phone Revolution
I have loved gadgets & gizmos since the first digital watch came out! Ok, I realize I am dating myself as a woman a certain age, but it was truly amazing at the time. Now you can have a watch with a video camera and media player at a price almost $100 less than I purchased that first digital watch! I just wonder what the gadgets & gizmos will be 50 years from now.
I remember purchasing my first little hand-held computer for inputting my addresses/phone numbers long before the iPhone & Blackberry hit the scene. Remember the pens that could record your voice for 20 seconds? You had to have your “to do” list concise for that! Now you can purchase pens that take video!
When I was a kid and we were taking vacations and had maps practically blocking any view from the back out the front window, I never imagined Zelda would be speaking directions to me on a journey criss-crossing America in 2005/06. Don’t know who Zelda is? Zelda was on the TV show Doby Gillis when I was growing up.
We named the voice on our GPS “Zelda,” and I am grateful that she guided us. Don’t know what we would have done without her. By the way, Zelda is now a California senator. Her name is Sheila James-Kuehl. We were supposed to be on her radio show when we were speaking in California back in 2006, but our schedules got crossed and we missed that opportunity.
The iPad is HOT! It can’t truly be classified as a gadget or a gizmo, but there is something intriguing about it that gives me the same type of feeling of “wanting it” that each of my gadgets and gizmos from the past gave me. If you are considering an iPad purchase and are interested in seeing how your blog or website would look on it, now is your opportunity! Just don’t purchase one and try to go to Israel. They’ve been banned there.
Ok…now to the latest and greatest. The Smart Phone Revolution is here, and it’s Line 2 for both the iphone and the Blackberry. The Droid? Well…sorry folks. You lost out here.
Toktumi and Line 2 is also useful — and potentially revolutionary — for iPhone owners who want to cut down on their monthly voice minutes by allowing them to place calls over Wi-Fi as well as over 3G Voice Over IP (VOIP).
Check out David Pogue’s review from the NY Times and CNBC. Below is a short video about this Smart Phone Revolution!
Now for the cool part…you can get a FREE Toktumi (Talk To Me… Get it!) 30 day trial. Once there, click where you see
Now Get the Power of toktumi On Your iPhone or BlackBerry with the new Line2 App.Nothing like the opportunity to test out the app for the revolution.
One more thing. In checking out some sites recently, I found one called Coolest Gadgets. It’s more than just about electronics. If you are a dog lover, you’ll love this one. There’s no doubt, I will be purchasing one of these for Rylee Joy. She will need one for our sailboat! Can’t you just see Rylee Joy in this?
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