January 2010 Dear Friends, Welcome to the first issue of Think Without Boundaries of 2010! I missed the December 2009 issue - I moved in November so I was still unpacking, and of course Christmas and holiday "stuff" so life caught up with me! But I think you'll enjoy this issue of "Think Without Boundaries!" Choosing to Smile Update In the last issue I told you about a group of amazing women - all three are cancer survivors who have written a book called "Choosing to Smile". The book is scheduled to be published March 8, 2010 and we are busy spreading the word about the world wide movement about dealing with adversity by "choosing to smile". Please join the Facebook group with now over 3,000 members! The goal is to get 5,000 by Valentine's Day. So, share this with your friends, family, associates and anyone else you know! Just log into Facebook and search "Choosing to Smile" and add your name! Want to find out more about these great women and their cause? Visit their website - www.choosingtosmile.com
Is Fitness YOUR Priority for 2010 .........but you just don't know where to start? Why not hire a personal trainer who has worked with some of the best? Carrie Light is a Certified Personal Trainer with over 20 years experience. She has worked with Olympic athletes, NHL Hockey players, sports teams and people of all ages from every walk of life. Her "Training 4 Life" program caters to YOUR specific needs as she creates a program as unique as you are. If you live in the Greater Vancouver area get in touch with Carrie to start your journey to fitness! Carrie - carrie@training4life.ca or 778.888.9117 778.888.9117 Tell her Wendy McClelland sent you. You can also find out more on Carrie's website - www.training4life.ca
Want to "Change the World"? "Free the Children" is an organization that was started by Canadian Craig Craig Kielburger in 1995 when he was 12. Today 'Free the Children' is the LARGEST network of children helping children with over a million young people involved in over 45 nations! Now - that's how one person - a child - CAN change the world? You can get involved and help make a difference by simply committing to 10 Acts of Change. Visit the website and sign up for YOUR "10 Acts of Change" www.giveyour10.com For everyone who signs up to make 10 commitments to change - sponsors donate $10.00 to Free the Children! Find out more about Free the Children - www.freethechildren.com
Want to keep in touch with people more personally than by email? BUT - you're busy and can't seem to find the time to write personal cards on a regular basis? SendOutCards Could be YOUR Solution! Profiled in 2009 as one of the fastest growing companies in the country today by Inc 500 magazine, when you need to send a card to someone, go online to the SendOutCards site where you’ll find 15,000 cards in 50 different categories. Or, make your own card out of a digital picture. You can upload a bunch of pictures inside of the card, too. How cool is that! Choose your card, write your personal message, and click “SEND”! That’s it!! SendOutCards then prints, addresses, stuffs, seals and stamps the card with a real first-class stamp and mails it for you at the Post Office, all for just over a dollar. You never touch a piece of paper, printer, stamp or envelope or have to drive to the card store or post office. Send one card or hundreds of the same card with a single mouse click. All this for about one-fifth the price of a nice greeting card at the store! The system keeps all your names and addresses and even tells you when someone’s birthday is coming up … 7 days ahead … so you’ll actually get a card to them on time. You can even include a Gift or send a Gift Card with your personalized card, and you get your own handwriting font and signatures with your account? It’s beyond cool! Check it out at www.SendOutCards.com/3193 FREE SAMPLE OF SEND OUT CARDS SYSTEM - To send your 2 FREE cards with postage you can go to www.SendOutCards.com/3193 and "Click to Send a FREE Card" on the Banner, have your speakers turned on and you will get 10 minutes of personalized instruction to send your cards. More info: - Mary Jean Schmunk Toll Free: 866.395.4389 866.395.4389 • Email: mjschmunk@shaw.ca
What Do You Know and How Can You Make Money From It? Ever thought of putting what you know into a book? Don't know how to write? How about writing Top 10 Lists? (e.g. Top Ten Fitness Tips for 2010, Top Ten Ways to Grow Your Business, etc.) Write what you know. Now - how do you get your information to make money for you? Make it DIGITAL? Create PDF files that people can download from your website, or create Kindle files. Don't know about Kindle yet? Get ready for a HUGE change in how people publish and read books. If you’ve heard of the Kindle reader then you know it was a HUGE seller over Christmas. Millions of books are now available for download and reading on the Kindle. You can now download Kindle to a PC for FREE so people are using their laptops to read books. Why not offer your book for download from the site in the Kindle format? It’s very easy to do, and another revenue source. Click here to read one author’s results with offering his books as Kindle downloads – it basically costs you only time to convert the files to Kindle format! http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/06/amazon-kindle-numbers.html Want to see how the Kindle works? Download it free for your PC here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311 Then download any of the tens of thousands of free Kindle titles and see how they look. Here are some sites to get free Kindles from: http://manybooks.net/categories/ http://www.bookyards.com/categories.html?type=books http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.planetebook.com/ http://www.bookdepository.com/free Why not try Kindle for yourself? Tell me how it works for you. I'm going to test it too! I'll tell you how it goes in a future issue of the newsletter.
An IMPORTANT Issue That Deserves Your Attention - Net Neutrality Net Neutrality means that ALL Internet users - big or small - have the same access to the internet. Currently large corporations have been able to "jump the line" and have their information hit the 'net sooner. Recent rulings by the CRTC move us closer to Net Neutrality. But we're not there yet, and we're not going to stop demanding a free and open Internet for all Canadians until we get it! Please make your views known to politicians in Ottawa. Find out more here - http://www.saveournet.ca - read the FAQ to find out more about the issue. There is also an online form you can fill in to make your voice heard by politicians. However, I encourage you to write an email from your OWN email address. Why? Knowing my local Member of Parliament on a first name basis, and writing to him often he told me that politicians respond better to letters from individuals - not mass mailings from websites. They will register all emails sent and do receive them, but your voice has more of an impact if you create and send an email from your own account, using your own words. Want to know who your member of Pariament is? Check here: http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E Your email should also be cc'd to: - Tony Clement (Industry Minister) ClemeT@parl.gc.ca - Steven Harper (Prime Minister) HarpeS@parl.gc.ca - Jack Layton (NDP Leader) LaytoJ@parl.gc.ca - Michael Ignatieff (Liberal Leader) IgnatM@parl.gc.ca Keep the email addresses handy - and when you feel concerned about another issue - WRITE YOUR GOVERNMENT! They do listen - and in a democracy our voices are the greatest weapon we have. A weapon that others in many nations do not have. Don't take it for granted.
Is It Time to RAMP UP YOUR MARKETING? Are you looking for some new, fresh marketing ideas? I'm offering a January special just for my newsletter readers. I will create a personalized business marketing plan for YOUR business with ideas, guides, web links and MUCH more. This type of plan normally costs from $500 - $1,000. BUT for the first 5 people ONLY who contact me I will create your plan for a ONCE ONLY price of $400.00. Since this price is so LOW I can ONLY offer it to 5 clients. Why am I offering such a LOW price? Because I'd like something back from you if you do order this package from me - I'd like your feedback. Tell me how the plan has worked for you and allow me to use your comments in my marketing materials. If you're interested make sure you ACT IMMEDIATELY. This truly is available to ONLY the first 5 people who contact me. Each plan takes from 5-10 hours to create, so I can only offer this very limited number of plans. If it's time for YOU to get the marketing plan that YOUR business deserves to be successful in 2010 then get in touch with me NOW. Click here to send me an email and tell me a little about your business and we'll get started. Enjoy the rest of January and watch for the next issue of Think Without Boundaries! Wendy McClelland B.C.'s FIRST Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach Think Without Boundaries Abbotsford, BC Canada Online - You are receiving this newsletter because at sometime you signed up for it online or at an event featuring Wendy McClelland.
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