Thursday, March 29, 2007

My Vital Statistics

This is on the back of my business card but I thought I would share.

Occupation: Master Certified Coach and Bestselling Author
Superpowers: Able to navigate the Universe with ease and flow, attracting what I desire
and showing others how to do the same
Hobby: Racing Forumla Dodge Cars
Ht. & Wt.: I fully accept and love my body.
Favorite Quote: "As one person I can not change the world but I can change the
world of one person".
I will help you "open up" your mind, body and soul and then show you how to rebuild, with
love and tenderness, to create the life you desire and deserve.

Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Prosperity Is Your Birthright

Prosperity is not just about money. It is about understanding you get to create a life by choice. I am not talking about buying more toys, or a new car or a new home. It means to me you are living a life that is centered and balanced and you have peace and calm in your life on every level. Prosperity is your birthright and you can live from that centered, connected place and know all is well, all the time, even when life tosses you something you can't understand. You still feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel prosperous.

Your thoughts and feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings are the only things that can hold you back from being in flow and being prosperous. You create your thoughts and you create your feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings. I hope you will choose prosperity today!

It has made a large difference in the quality of my life and my clients lives.

Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Out of Whack

I am on many pain medications for my RSD and Sunday I had a toxic drug reaction from the meds so bad that I had trouble speaking, could not spoke crying, cried over anything and didn't know why, had trouble seeing and was shaking and could not think. It was terribly scary!

My wonderful friend Shannon came to be with me and her being with me and talking to me softly calmed me down enough to get me in bed and to sleep eventually.

Monday I went to one of my many docs treating me for RSD and he had a fit over what others had prescribed and called my other docs.

Today I am starting to come off the meds and am already feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeling better.

Man it was frightening like I had a stroke or turned into some wild person!

Glad to back to "me"!!!!

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Monday, March 26, 2007

Laws of the Universe

If you've seen The Secret or What The Bleep Do We Know and if you've been reading about the Law of Attraction, hearing about the Law of Resonance or are familiar with the works of Abraham-Hicks, you are open to giving up struggle and creating ease. You've probably played with those laws yet still don't have what you want in your life.

What you have missed is the hand-on learning and exercises that open you up and allow you to do what was impossible before. Until you shatter and destroy your limiting beliefs, these laws will never serve you. In fact there are many, many Laws of the Universe you will learn with me after you shatter those beliefs - and not before.

If you feeeeeeeeeeeeeel you are capable of living a more EXTRAordinary life but are always held back, then it is time to learn to give up your past forever to live the life you are ready to create now.

When you change how you feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel, what you believe and you change your thoughts and patterns, you will create a new and beautiful life of your dreams. You will be living from who you really are. The beautiful person in and out will shine.

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Friday, March 23, 2007

It's All About Health

As I move through my life experience I realize that what is urgent in life is health. Healthy eating, healthy moving, healthy relationships, healthy body image, healthy relationships, spiritual health, healthy self-esteem, mental and physical health.

So really, when I am coaching people I am creating more health in an aspect of their life and the aspect is tied to so many other aspects.

My word for the day is: Health


Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Coach or Therapist?

There are many business coaches in the world and a lot of different certifying organizations. Some of these produce coaches with proven track records, while others, quite frankly, are a waste of time and money.

Then there are some coaching schools that stress the importance of having a basis in clinical psychology, saying that coaching is, in effect, behavioral modification, which is what psychologists are trained to facilitate. But is that true? Psychologists are therapists. They treat sick people, and they help people who are facing stress to stay healthy despite their circumstances. Is that what you want in a coach? No! That is a very different type of behavior modification.

Seems some people are still confused about what is and isn't "coaching". A driving teacher also facilitates behavior modification---so does a track coach or a ballet instructor. But this is not therapy. These are examples of someone who knows how to do something and guiding someone else as he or she learns to do it.

In many respects, a business coach is no different to the track coach. A coach guides a person in discovering how to self-coach. The coach does not change a person's behavior or delve deep to uncover hidden "demons", but helps that person to change his own behavior or attitude to motivate him to reach the limits of his potential… to reach specific goals… to achieve a joyful and balanced lifestyle… improve their career… build a business… move forward to a successful and happy future, as determined by the client. What does that have to do with clinical psychology? Nothing. (Unless you have a deeply troubled past from which you can't escape and it prevents you from functioning in the present and moving ahead.)

A track coach needs to know how to train a body to run efficiently and how to motivate the team members. Does a track coach need a medical degree to achieve this? Of course not.

A ballet instructor needs to know how to develop the strength, grace, and poise to accomplish precise dance movements and how to build self confidence and dedication in the dance troupe.

A business coach needs to know how to become an effective manager or executive and how to awaken the ability to self-coach in the client. A track coach's job is accomplished when the team rates first place, and the ballet instructor is validated when the troupe all become professional dancers. In contrast, a therapist has succeeded when a sick person becomes a functional individual, or when a patient can face psychological stresses without further therapy. A business coach has done well when the client's confidence, ability, and motivation have developed to the point that the coach is no longer needed, or they have achieved the goal they set out to achieve with the help of the coach.

The client has not gone from illness to health, or from floundering to coping. The client has learned a new set of behaviors from an expert teacher. That is the difference. Coaching is learning, yes. Coaching is motivating, yes. Coaching is building, yes. Coaching is not therapy! Do you see yourself as a prospective driver, a hopeful athlete, or a dancer with a dream... or as a patient?

Make sure you know the difference. If you hire a Coach who is a therapist or psychologist and they start delving into your mind in ways inappropriate to "coaching", then get yourself a new coach. The "psychologist's couch" has no place in coaching… only in therapy.

A coach is interested only in your future… of course, if you have issues from your past that are preventing you from doing anything, let alone moving forward, by all means, visit a therapist! If you are sick, see a therapist.

If you want to become motivated, directed, and efficient, hire a coach.

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Ok, this is nuts to me! If you watch American Idol (the only reality show I have ever watched) Sanjaya can NOT sing at all. His lack of singing ability has become a cool joke with a website pushing people to vote for him and Howard Stern with his large following backing Sanjaya. There are such talented voices yet he will stay and I guess he'll be the runner up because of this big joke to back him. How unfair to the very skilled artists out there.

I know America won't vote him off, and so does he! He came out last night all rock and roll and even sticking his tongue out frequently as if to say, "Ha, Ha, I can do anything and still be here!"

I have to say this bugs me!

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

FREE Giveaway

I am having some fun here! I am not sure how many people are connecting in with my blog and am just curious. If you are and you post a response along with your name and email address, (no ads!) I will send you a FREE gift. It is a way for me to give you value, to get to connect with you and to know who is here with me.

Come play!


Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Monday, March 19, 2007

Update on Health and Weight Loss

I am excited to share with you! I had my nerve blocker done on Friday and had some burning back pain after that which lasted just that day. I had no pain on Saturday and no pain Sunday during the day. I did get some pain Sunday night. Today I have pain again, but not like the pain I had before. So I am pretty excited and feeeeeeeeeeeeeling positive. I have another nerve blocker in April.

And I am thrilled with my weight loss! I started RESET and then went to the next phase called TRANSFORM and I have lost inches and pounds and in two weeks dropped a full size! I know I am getting back my body pre-injury!

If you want to know about RESET and losing inches, pounds an ending carb cravings, I am happy to share with you... drop me a quick line: Terri@CoachInstitute.Com.

All IS well!



Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Sharing A Personal Note

I want my life to be an EXTRAordinary one and since my Achilles rupture way back in September my life hasn't been as EXTRAordinary as I would like. I have RSD as a result of the injury and I have a lot of pain that I have been living with. Tomorrow I am going for my first of several spinal nerve blocks. I am hoping this will work and am expecting it will and that I will begin to be pain free so my life can be more juicy, delightful and EXTRAordinary!

I'll see you next week and let you know how I am doing!


Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

American Idol

I rarely watch TV but for some reason, every year, American Idol pulls me in. I was pondering last evening why I was so addicted to the show. I am not a fan of Randy Jackson nor Paula Abdul, so that couldn't be it. I don't care for Ryan Seacrest and yet I watch every show!

I guess what captivates me is what I feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel for the singers. How they give their all, and how much they really want this dream ,and I get caught up with them. As I get to know them more on each show, I become engaged.

Ok, now I figured it out.

I watch because the show is about people. People going for it big. People with a big dream. People with a goal, a vision, filled with desire and passion and feeeeeeeeeeeeeling.

Ah, I get it now.

People who are using the law of resonance to attract what they want!

Now I get why this appeals to me!

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

A Profession To Notice - Copywriting

One of the leading businesses you can start is copywriting. I have been following closely for about 7 years the business trends and this business has emerged like a rocketship blast off! I personally have used copywriters and I also learned to copywrite myself by working with Joe Vitale (from the movie The Secret). I am not talking about the word copyright which means a work is registered in the Library of Congress. I am talking about people who actually write copy such as ads, brochures, websites, papers, etc.

There is more info at http://www.TheCopywritingInstitute.Com



Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Monday, March 12, 2007

The Gold Friendshp

When I was a Brownie we sang a song "Make New Friends and Keep the Old, One is Silver and the Other's Gold". A Gold friend of mine had disappeared from my life for many years. I thought about her and spoke of her often and really deeply missed her.

Over the weekend she contacted me through my website! I was so thrilled and excited that if I didn't have a healing Achilles I would have jumped up and down! We connected by phone this weekend, picked right up where we left off and chatted for ages.

We are going to get together soon, too!

I am so happy to have this gold friend back in my life.

I always celebrate and honor all of my friends and am grateful to be sharing my life and work experience with others that I love. Bringing my gold friend back in my life adds more richness and dimension once again.

If you have a Gold friend you have drifted apart from, why not reach out to them?


Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Friday, March 09, 2007

Loosing Weight Through Intuitive Eating

Do you have a poor body image? Are you afraid to look at yourself in the mirror? I know that if you are bothered by your weight it interferes in your personal happiness. The cycle of dieting, over-eating, dieting, is not healthy and creates more difficulty in loosing weight. Notice if you look at others and compare your body shape and weight to them regularly. Observe yourself and your feeeeeeeeeeeeeelings and see if you feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel down or depressed about your body weight. Ask yourself if you are getting the amount of movement each day that your physical body needs.

If the above resonates with you, you do not have a healthy understanding of food in your life. If you are sick and tired of being in this situation I invite you to join me in the program that I found that helps you develop new strategies for success in creating a healthy lifestyle and releasing you from being overweight.

In my book, Create Your Ideal Body I talk about creating a healthy relationship with food. The book focuses on helping you to become an intuitive eater and a person who moves their body. It uses self coaching techniques where you create new scripts and new programs in your mind and you fully release old stories, old triggers and old patterns. By following this program you improve your self-image and body image.

When I recently discovered a book on releasing fat I felt it blended well with the message of Create Your Ideal Body and added a component of having you naturally end cravings and desire for carbs. For me, after day 3 of reset I no longer craved carbs at all and I have been a carb addict for years! I completed reset and then went on the the transform program which again is very similiar to my book as it doesn't restrict your choices (except for a small list of foods) and those foods are only restricted for 28 days.

I have become a raving fan of this product.

My entire story appears here and I invite you to check it out: http://losefatnow.usana.com/mystory_en.cfm


Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Thursday, March 08, 2007

10 Creative Lead Generation Strategies to Grow Your Business

10 Low Cost Ways to Generate Leads for Your Business

As a small business owner, it’s vitally important to continually generate high quality leads for your business. This report focuses on 10 low cost, highly effective lead generation strategies for your business.

1) A-Z List

The A-Z list is a creative technique designed to help you keep track of all the contacts you’ve made or would like to make. It helps you gather, in one place, a complete list of possible sources for well-qualified leads. Creating the initial list might take some time, but after this, you will have a continual source of people, places, and companies to connect with and with whom you can share your products and services.

In order to begin the list, you’ll need a three-ring notebook. You will label the first page with the letter “A”, and then place a few empty filler pages behind this letter, then label another page “B”, and add some empty pages, then label another page “C” and add some empty pages- continue this for the entire alphabet. Once you’ve set it up, it’s time to start filling it in.

Starting with any letter, begin to write down all the people, places, names of companies, cities, anything and everything that begins with that letter- aim for an exhaustive list.

For example, for the letter “A”, you might have: Acme stores, Alan (my cousin), AT&T, Adidas, Air Jordan… etc.

Generate a similar list for each letter of the alphabet. Once you’ve completed this, you’re ready for the next step.

Now, each time you meet someone new, add his/her name to your A-Z list. It’s wise to spend about 10-15 minutes, faithfully, each week, adding to your list. In this way, you begin to amass an ongoing, growing database of people you know, companies you might do business with, and people you’d like to meet.

Very soon, you’ll have an extensive list of potential leads.

The A-Z list is a wonderful, creative tool for expanding your thinking about how and where you might generate new business. In fact, in the process of explaining it, I had several new ideas, myself.

2) Mind Mapping

This is another creative lead generation technique to help you solve any problems or blocks around generating more leads. It can be a fun, inspiring process.

In order to mind-map a solution, you’ll need a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. You might want to save your mind maps in some kind of binder or folder as they are good resources to refer back to periodically.

Once you have a piece of paper, write the ‘problem’ or ‘question’ in the middle of the page. For example, “how can I bring more customers into my business?” You place a circle around this question, and then draw a series of spokes moving outward from this circle (like the sunrays in a child’s drawing). At the end of each sun ray, you quickly and easily write out a possible solution- or, in some cases, a word or phrase that comes to you. Once you have written a word or phrase, you then circle that and draw additional sunrays from that circle and repeat the process. So the page will end up looking like a series of suns, each connected by a line or idea.

Mind-mapping is a good technique for accessing your creative/intuitive possibilities and can provide a roadmap of next steps to take.


3) Email Newsletter/Ezine

Starting an email newsletter or ezine is both a marketing and a lead generation technique. In order to set up a newsletter, you basically need to figure out a name, find people to subscribe, and make it a point to offer relevant, useful, informative and valuable content.

An email newsletter is most effective if it’s sent out at least monthly- this enables you to continue to educate your current customers, potential customers, and new prospects about your business and the value you can provide them. Remember, your customer/prospect always wants to know- “what’s in it for me?”- so you want to keep the focus of your email newsletter on solving your customer’s problems. You don’t want to use the whole publication as an advertisement for your business. Instead, and much more effective, would be to subtly showcase your expertise. Use case studies, client examples, occasional testimonials, and your own expertise and knowledge to make your newsletter one that people eagerly sign up for and can’t wait to receive.

The advantages of email newsletters are that they are inexpensive to produce, easy to send out, and offer a means for customers to click through to your website or sales pages if they would like more information. The downsides, though, are that they can be seen as somewhat impersonal (maybe not good for businesses which focus on high touch service- like salons, spas, etc.) and people might feel overwhelmed by email and quickly unsubscribe. If you are providing good, usable content, though, very often your subscribers will stay with you for years. Be sure to highlight customer appropriate changes to your business- i.e. did you just recently
extend hours? Did you hire a new manager? Are you doing some charity or volunteer work that they might like to know about?


4) Contests/Giveaways

Contests or giveaways can be a really fun way to generate interest and excitement in your business. The majority of people enjoy obtaining something for free, and the higher the perceived value, the more excited people are to participate. A great way to use this to generate leads is to offer an item for free if people take a specified action (i.e. visit your website, sign up for your newsletter, know the right answer to a question).

Contests are most effective when there is some element of challenge- too easy and people quickly lose interest, too hard, and people don’t want to play anymore. Also, it’s best to kind of spread out these types of offerings. A contest every month might be too much, but a contest once a quarter (perhaps tied to the season, or a theme) might be just perfect. Be sure to get pictures of the winner and/or written testimonials about your contest. This will encourage more and more people to participate. Since they will be entering the contest to win a prize, you can also make some educated guesses about what kinds of products/services they might be interested in. Once you’ve held a contest or giveaway, you can also follow up with people and ask them what other products/services they might like to see offered for a contest or giveaway. This will tell you what your customers really want and need, and you can then step in to address this need.

These are really fun, and people love to win- so you might create a tip sheet or small product/package to give away and start holding contests/giveaways to increase your customer base.


5) Updates to Your Website

Updating your website is an important lead generation technique, and is a way to retain your current customers or clients. The main purpose of your website should be to educate and inform the consumer; to encourage him or her to stay aware of your business and to take the next step when s/he has a problem you can solve. The more current you keep your website, the more likely you are to have a flow of new leads and potential customers coming into your business.

Many people forget that people searching the Internet are often looking for information to solve a problem or answer a question. The more relevant content you have on your website, the more likely customers will come to you to solve their problems. You will want to continually update your offerings, sharing new, relevant links, resources, articles, products- anything that will serve your customer. You can announce these updates in your email newsletters and/or in any direct/print mailings. Give people a reason to visit, and they will. Give them frequent valuable updates, and they will keep coming back.
Of course, the more they come back, the easier it is to gain their trust, and to build your visibility and credibility. Once a customer has visited your website, s/he is more likely to sign up for your email newsletter. Once s/he has read your email newsletter for a while, s/he is more likely to attend a free informational call or seminar. Once s/he has attended a seminar or requested more information, s/he is more likely to purchase a product or service. Once s/he has purchased a product or service, s/he is more likely to purchase another. And so on.
So providing good, solid website content is a great way to generate repeat business and new leads- plus, it’s generally very cost-effective, and gives you a great deal of credibility and visibility with your target customers.


6) Storyboarding

Storyboarding is another creative lead generation technique which can aid those of you who are visual thinkers or visual planners. In this process, you will take a series of sticky notes (like Post-It Notes) and you create space on a blank wall in your office. At one end of the wall you put where you are now (Point A) and, at the other end of the wall, you put your desired outcome (Point B) - for example: 10,000 new customer names. Then, with the remaining Post It Notes, you chart out (map out) all the steps which go from Point A to Point B. It’s good, in this process, to just let the ideas flow- get as many sticky notes up on the wall as you can.

This is a great visual brainstorming technique because it not only allows you to generate many ideas of how to get from Point A to Point B, but it also then allows you to move the sticky notes around to define the next steps and the next set of actions you’ll take to move from Point A to Point B.

This works especially well for defining processes that are complex, and those which might involve input from other sources. It can also be a great tool for defining and diagramming your lead generation strategies and noting how/where each strategy will drop a lead into your marketing cycle, so you can plan how much follow up is needed and track time to completed sale.


7) Free (Tele)Classes or Workshops

Offering a free “sample” or “taste” of what you can do is a great way to showcase your experience and generate interest in your business. A free (tele)class or (tele)workshop enables you to easily make contact with many interested prospects at one time, saving you the time and effort of arranging individual meetings. These classes or workshops can be on any topic you feel is valuable and informative to those you wish to serve.

Use these classes as a platform for sharing your knowledge, helping build your visibility, and increasing your credibility among your target market. It’s a proven psychological fact that the more people know you, the more they will like you (if they are predisposed to do so)- so the more you have contact with people, the more they will like you, and ultimately, will buy what you’re offering.

It is very easy to arrange a telephone-based class or an in-person class. For telephone classes, you’ll need to obtain a teleconference line (also known as a phone-bridge) and these can be had inexpensively from various services providers on the internet. Once you have obtained the bridge, you will set the class date, decide on a topic, develop it, and invite anyone who might be interested in attending. Participants pay their own long distance charges into the phone line. Have some way of tracking who attends, and offer something valuable as a “thank you” for attending- this will activate prospects and move them further into the sales cycle.

To arrange an in person class, you’ll follow very much the same process, except you’ll need to reserve physical space- a location- instead of a telephone line.

Workshops and classes are a great way to create a fast inflow of new leads into your business.


8) Direct Mail

Direct mail refers to any promotional or business item you will mail out to prospects. It might include business cards, postcards, brochures, advertisements, etc. This strategy is especially useful for those of you who work in a well-defined geographic location and/or can tightly segment out your market population.

In this process, you directly mail potential customers/prospects and invite them to visit your store, visit your website, sign up for a contest, or give them something for free.

The action you want them to take is one that will bring them into your business- so, at minimum, you want to have a way to capture their interest level (like having them go to a special page on your website and entering a promotional code so you know they came from your direct mail piece), and some way of following up in the future. Give them some valuable information, invite them to a free class or workshop, have them stop by for a free sample, or join a contest or giveaway. Encourage them to leave their comments, to call you if they have questions. In short, start to build a relationship with them.

In this example, you’ll find that lead generation can become even more effective when you combine various methods. Most businesses would benefit from some combination of direct mail and another lead generation strategy.

9) Coopetition

Coopetition is a term coined to define a mix of “cooperation” and “competition”.

This concept refers to the idea that you can partner with your competitors to increase your leads and sales. There are various ways to accomplish this, but one approach might look like this: You have customers in your database who have not bought from you, or who have expressed interest in products you don’t carry- but your competitor does. Your competitor may have similar names in his database. In a coopetitive arrangement, you both agree to share the names of customers which would benefit the other business, and, in an ethical, appropriate manner, you begin to market to these prospects that your competitor could not convert.

So you cooperate to trade names, and then serve your own business by marketing directly to those people. Another way to apply this concept is to partner or link with a firm that works with a similar group- but not exactly the same. For instance, let’s say that you sell products/service to companies under $25million in sales- you might partner with a firm that works with companies over $25million in sales. You each agree to share appropriate leads- you would send all $25m- customers to them, and they would send all $25m+ customers to you. This means, essentially, that you each work together (cooperate) to build your own businesses (compete).
Coopetition is different from a joint venture (discussed below), because coopetition really encourages you to run your business for yourself and you won’t necessarily share the profits. Again, there are many other ways to use this strategy, but coopetition can be very powerful when used intentionally and thoughtfully.


10) Joint Ventures

Joint venturing is another way to team up with other businesses. In this model, you team up with another business which offers products that are geared to your target market. For example, a joint venture might be created between a company selling vitamins and one selling fitness equipment (based on the supposition that people who buy vitamins also exercise). Customers who purchase fitness equipment might be given a coupon for a free bottle of vitamins- or people who buy a particular brand of nutritional supplement (let’s say for joint pain) might be given a discount coupon for a piece of fitness equipment that relieves joint pain and/or strengthens your joints.

What separates a joint venture from coopetition is that, in a joint venture, people are partnering together and there is some compensation traded for the arrangement. In a coopetitive agreement, this might not be the case. A coopetitive agreement is, often, a “trade in kind”- I give you one name, you give me one name. A joint venture, however, is more of a partnership- where the participants split or share the profits resulting from the joint venture. An affiliate program might be another type of joint venture arrangement- affiliates sell for you, and you each share the profits. In essence, you have created a type of “joint venture” to sell the product.

Joint ventures are powerful because they use the concept of multiplication- when two people come together, each bringing their networks and spheres of influence, the synergy that is created can generate exponential growth for both partners.

Joint ventures are a great way to get out in front of a related, but separate, group and showcase your products and offerings. By joint venturing with another company, you are leveraging your marketing efforts and will be gaining more possible customers with much less effort. Some skilled joint venturers will create 3, 4, 5 way links- where each partner links to the 4 others. Again, joint ventures can be great lead generation strategies and their scope is limited only by your own creativity.


So then, this is a list of 10 very effective lead generation strategies for your business. If you want to build your business quickly, implement and follow through on as many strategies as you can. Get out there and happy leading!

If you want more tips like this go to http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com/swsk/selling-without-selling-kit.htm.

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Shake your way to be slim and healthy!

I am so excited to share with you how I used RESET to jumpstart myself back to healthy living! I really needed to get myself back to Creating MY Ideal Body after I got off the wagon with my injury. I did the 5-Day RESET every day for 5 days and am back to making my healthy habits a way of life. You can shake your way to a slim and healthy new you, too!

Take an important health assessment to learn more now: all at http://losefatnow.usana.com/
(the health assessment is one the left side).

Let me know how I can support you to RESET, Transform, Maintain a healthy weight!

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

The 12 Criteria of The Ideal Business

Paine Webber™ is a major American financial company that defines “The Ideal Business” as having the following twelve (12) points. If a business has just three (3) of these points it is considered to be a good investment.

The Coaching Institute receives a checkmark in all twelve (12) categories thereby making it "The Ideal Business"! [Note: P means that my company meets the following criteria!]

1. The Ideal Business sells the world rather than a single neighborhood. In other words, it has an unlimited global market. P
2. The Ideal Business offers a product, which enjoys an Inelastic demand. (Inelastic refers to a product that people need or desire almost at any price.) P
3. The Ideal Business markets a product that cannot be easily copied. This means that the product is an original or, at least is something that can be copyrighted or patented. P
4. The Ideal Business has minimal labor requirements. The fewer personnel, the better. P
5. The Ideal Business operates on a low overhead. It does not need an expensive location. It does not need large amounts of electricity, or advertising, or legal advice, or high-priced employees, or a large inventory. P
6. The Ideal Business does not require big cash outlays or major investments in equipment or product. In other words, it does not tie up your capital. P
7. The Ideal Business enjoys cash billing. In other words, it does not tie up your capital with lengthy or complex credit terms. P
8. The Ideal Business is relatively free of all kinds of government regulations or strictures. P
9. The Ideal Business is portable or easily moveable. This means you can take your business and yourself anywhere you want to. P
10. The Ideal Business satisfies your intellectual needs and promotes personal growth and excellence. There is nothing like being fascinated with what you do. P
11. The Ideal Business leaves you with free time. In other words, it doesn't require intensive labor and attention for 12, 16, or more hours a day. P
12. The Ideal Business is one in which your income is not limited by your personal output (Leverage). In the Ideal-Business, you can have 10,000 and more customers as easily as you can have one. P

A few additional categories not on Paine Webber’s list that are also met by The Coaching Institute…

a) Men and women are paid equally whether married, divorced, single, etc P
b) No background checks P
c) No mandatory drug tests P
d) No educational requirements or past experience necessary P
e) No preference regarding race, gender, nationality, heritage, social status, belief, etc. P
f) Provides huge tax write-offs P
g) Requires no employees P

For more information about becoming a student at The Coaching Institute call me at 877-401-6165 today. Don't miss your opportunity to have your own coaching business and to take charge of your life and work now!

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Monday, March 05, 2007

Re-set Your Weight

I was given a book a few months ago that I read with great interest about re-setting your body to loose weight more easily and loosing carbohydrate cravings. It was written by a doctor and was very interesting to me. He mentioned some products that support this way of eating and I kept them in mind.

During the radio show I do with Raven, we were interviewing someone who talked about this program and the products.

It was synchronistic, so I had to connect with the guest after the show.

I did and I got the products.

I just finished a 5 day re-set and lost weight and inches and feeeeeeeeeeeel really good and am not interested in carbs like I was at all!

If you want to re-set, email me directly and I'll get you some info: Terri@TerriLevine.com.

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Friday, March 02, 2007

Why Network Marketers Fail

Network marekting can be one of the greatest business opportunities. There is no other business that offers the potential for passive income with such a small investment. What people fail to think about is that network marketing IS a business! It is not a way to get rich quick. In addition to not taking network marketing as a business people also fail because they have limiting beliefs that they need to overcome.

Here are the top limiting beliefs I see as a coach to network marketing organizations and some tips on overcoming them.

The Top 30 Limiting Beliefs (And Their Solutions)
For Building Your Own Business


30 Doubting Statements Around Network Marketing

I don’t know how to sell
I feel better when I look at this as serving.

I do not have enough friends to build a team
We each meet an average of 3-5 new people a week.

I do not want anyone hanging up on me
I know I am offering a great opportunity and it is their loss.

I don’t know what to say
I have a few great, easy scripts I can use.

What if it takes too long and I run out of money
I can schedule this amongst other money making endeavors.

My leads want to be called in the morning and I can only call at night
I have an assistant who is able to make the calls or I can swap leads with someone on my team.

I tried something like this before and failed
This is a unique opportunity and offers a lot of support.

I already invited all my friends to another opportunity so I don’t have anyone to call
I can find one new person to talk to this week and I can place an ad.

I feel responsible for my team’s success
We are all in this together and my approach is to coach them to be successful.

I might get someone into this that can’t afford it and their debt will be my fault
The system, if worked properly, allows each of us to generate income fast. This is a great opportunity to build a successful business at low cost.

I’m worried my friends won’t like it and then they won’t like me
I will feel better if I share this opportunity rather than they learn of my success and that I could have told them.

What if someone gets angry that I called
I do not take such things personally. I do not waste time on those that do not appreciate my offer. There are many more that do want to hear about this.

This is more work than I thought
I schedule the amount of time on this that easily fits into my schedule.

This is hard
I can talk to my team and see how those succeeding are making it easy.

I’m afraid
I have the support of a team and can ask for help.

I’ve never been successful at my own business before
I can ask my team leaders and what they have done to create successful teams.

Most businesses fail in the first year
This is an opportunity with an established business that I am now part of.

I don’t like telemarketers calling me so how can I call people
I can call people at their requested time by using a form on my website and I can send out an email to my leads prior to calling.

I can’t get a hold of anyone on my team
If someone is not serious about being a team player I do not have time or room for them on my team.

I don’t want to bother my team leader
I want to support my team so they must too.

I had to find this opportunity myself so other people should find it on their own
I want to share this popportunity with as many people as I can. I want to make it easier for them to find it than it was for me.

If someone is meant to be a part of this it will find them
I can help facilitate their opportunity by helping it find them.

What if someone doesn’t like the products, will they blame me?
It is up to each of us to try the products and decide for ourselves.

I’m not good on the phone
I can look at this like a conversation with a friend and then it becomes easy.

I’ll just email my leads and if they are interested they’ll call me
What if they have some fears about making a call and I can make it easier for them.

I don’t like to work alone
I have the support of my team and can find a buddy to work with.

What if this is a hoax
This opportunity was created by a person of very high integrity who is very visible in the system and the company is a well established reputable company.

It can’t be that easy to make money
This is just a story of mine and I have evidence that many are already making lots of easy money through this process.

It takes 3 years to turn a profit in business and I don’t have that long
This opportunity is different in that it is built on a business that IS already profitable. Many members are already profitable.

The words Network Marketing turn people off
I will recognize the network serving that I am providing.

Bonus
It seems like no-one else on my team knows how to do this so I’m going to have to build their teams for them to build my own success
I will continue to coach my team for success and teach them the sure ways to easily create a large, highly successful team.


Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Empowering Learning

The Coaching Institute is the leader in the field of coaching. It is critically important that professionals learn a practical approach to coaching clients. Students we train view clients as comprehensive, complete and whole and they embrace them for who they are and know by coaching them they can empower them to make the changes they want in their lives and work. As coaches, our students put into practice the coaching core competencies they have learned and educate clients to use these same competencies in their lives and work.

Our model of training coaches is empowering and then our coaches empower their clients using a similiar model.

The Coaching Institute is unique in blending tools, curriculum, structure, support, marketing help, flexibility, focus, communication and and overall being a coach vs. doing coaching experience.

I firmly hold and strongly believe that our clients also need structure and curriculum and tools and they want our support and help. They also need to be focused yet flexible and learn to use the coaching by tapping into their own inner coach and their own inner guidance system.

To me, you know you are coaching great when a client uses coaching on their own!

Yours in Living an EXTRAordinary Life,
Terri Levine
http://www.comprehensivecoachingu.com
http://www.terrilevine.com
http://www.coachinstitute.com/