What are your 6 Sweet Spots for Christmas Eve?

Slice that pie, slide into the mall to grab one more present and slip into your holiday pj’s – Don’t start your holiday without taking a moment or two and think of the sweetness of the year. You have accomplished many things this year. You’ve made many mistakes. As the year ends and another begin, focus for a minute on your sweet spot. Were you able to secure purpose and meaning in your professional life? Did you learn a new skill? Were you able to get certified? Did you get fired? Yes, getting fired is indeed a sweet spot too!

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7 Things to read in 2013 to enhance your 2014 job search

7 Things to read in 2013 to enhance your 2014 job search

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Fear – Overcoming Fear

Fear is awesome because it energizes you to move ! You are too scared to sit still with your talent and too scare to move! So you put one foot in front of the other, open your mouth and move your pen and before you know it, you are working with a customer! And then you breath a sigh of relief and get scared all over again! ~ Debra Ann Matthews, Founder @Letmewriteit4u

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Join the Women’s Empowerment Workshop Series

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The Tennessee Alliance for Progress in conjunction with The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee encourage you to attend the 6th Annual Nashville Women’s Empowerment Workshop Series, “Unleashing the Entrepreneur Within”. This January 25, 2014, from 9 am to 3 pm, women are invited to come toThe Nashville Entrepreneur Center, located at 41 Peabody Street, Nashville, TN 37210.

Participants can expect a series of workshops that will aspire entrepreneurs with the tools they need to start or grow their businesses. Women will be assisted and trained on such topics as:

• CEO’s and how to create an economic impact.
• Tapping into personal professional passion and turning passion into a profitable business.
• Creating a strong support system and network with successful women already in business.
• 10 Steps to starting and growing a business.
• Creating a workable business plan.
• Effective strategies to conduct market research.
• Finding your perfect customers.
• Building your business brand.
• How to create your lean machine team.
• Pulling together your support team.
• Selling 101: Making money with your product and services.
• Creating the buzz.
• Launching your online and offline campaign.
• 10 strategies to business success.
• How to work in and on your business daily.
• Ready-Set-Launching the business: 5 Steps to a Successful launch.

For more information, please contact Renee Bobb @ email: bobbrenee@yahoo.com or by phone at 615.753.5647.

Early Bird Registration is $45 – ends January 5, 2014.

Registration $75

You can also attend via virtual $75

Company’s can serve as vendors $125

Take a look at the included video on leadership from a series entitled, “Women We Love: Aja Brown”.

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8 Questions to ask in 2013 to get ready for 2014

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9 Days to set a goal

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10 Days Until You Re-vamp Your Job Search

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Do yourself a favor: 5 Things to do in 2014 to change

Do yourself a favor: 5 Things to do in 2014 to change  http://shar.es/OIGTC 

It’s almost a new year, a new chance, a new beginning to revamp your sad, sorry and ill-advised life. So you vow to change! To write that book! To schedule that interview with the press and to make that move! 

1. Do yourself a favor and sign up for DropBox to save your documents. You will be able to share docs via social media and also to hiring officials. The good thing is that the service if free, safe and reliable and very common. Click on this link to sign up:  https://db.tt/Wm0VD4Um.
2. Get professional ! Help ! Assistance ! Collaborations ! Buddy Up ! You will help meet any goal that you have, from weight enhancement to better English, French, Spanish or Russian, if you get help to do it. As a professional, you can’t afford to go at it alone anymore. Join relevant groups on Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter and other groups such as Stumble Upon, Reddit and more ! 
3. Pay for something ! Stop shying away from good investment opportunities because there is a fee associated. As I like to say, “Ain’t Nothing Free”. Buy one get one free, ain’t free! Check the reputation of leading local and national and international organizations and join! Motivated persons understand the value of investment!
4. Change your hair style and make-up! That church suit ain’t gonna cut it. If you are over 50 or under 49, you need a refresher in all things image! Go to Dillard’s, Macy’s, or JC Penney and seek out an image consultant who can help you outside match up with your inside. See Melissa Watkins @ http://youtu.be/HizD4cThbK0 to help you shape up so that you won’t be shipped out in the 1980’s or 2011 look. After all, you will never get a second chance to make a first impression.
5. And speaking of impression, re-define your 30 second spill. Make that your 15 second spill. If you do not prepare to update what you will say to people as you network, you will tend to tell too much, or too little or ramble on. Practice how you will speak about yourself. 

And like always, is you can’t say it, Let Me Say It For You! We, at Let Me Write It For YOU are available to help you with you press releases, one page bio’s, speeches for special engagements and training resumes. We hope that you have found this information useful. Please email us at letmewriteitforyou@gmail.com. 

How to Answer the Question “What Was Your Last Salary?”

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Job Hunting during the Holidays

Job Hunting During the Holidays

A pen-pal of mine (we are a mutual-admiration society) Dave Kerpen wrote about how my book impacted his life. I love these stories. http://tinyurl.com/Kerpen