What puts you in a good mood? A bad mood?

Not sure if I buy this idea that a bad mood can put you in a good mood but I think I get the premise. I have some of my best family therapy when I didn’t feel like putting up with peoples game playing. What puts you in a good/bad mood? Tweet us a reply or comment below!

clipped from clicks.robertgenn.com You may have noticed the odd times when something is irking you, putting you into a bad mood, and you sit down at your easel and do good work. While it’s not as pleasant as when you’re in a good mood and everything is coming up peonies, it works to your benefit in another way. In my experience, a bad mood helps the attention span and the critical faculties–not necessarily to be more creative–but with a wider vision and a sharper focus. Professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales in Australia has now produced research that shows people in a negative mood are more critical and more attentive than regular happy folks. Sadness, he found, actually promotes information-processing strategies best suited to dealing with demanding situations. Other bad-mood benefits the professor found included less gullibility, improved assessment of others, and memory improvement. No human life is all joy, none is all pain. It may be necessary to have a bit of one to gain more of the other.

How do you Tweet? Use New TweetGlide!

I have been a long time fan of #TweetDeck but I recently switched over to using #TweetGlide. It is very similar in function and look to TweetDeck but with one very important difference: You can use it as an Internet Marketing Tool. Read below for some of the major features but pay particular attention to the section on “Earning Money” with TweetGlide. It looks like there are three ways to make money with it:

1. Refer it to others and get affiliate commission. You can get this only if people purchase the Premium Package. I will explain this later but for now, know that I immediately bought one of these.
2. Sponsored Ads/Tweets. For every five tweets you post, about anything, you get one ad/tweet posted in a special sponsored twitter account. No spamming your own list or any other list. It goes into a special tweet group. People click your ad/tweet and you make a sale. Simple! Become a premium member and get 500 to 1000 paid ads/tweets automatically into your account.
3. Referal

clipped from tweetglide.com The main, or Home Glide. @Mentions Direct Messages you can also create a Glide for Favorites, Filtered Searches, Groups and more. TweetGlide has a built-in short url system that allows you to select between several short url services, including a few of our own. Want tweetglide on your iPhone? No problem! Click above to download.

Who has encouraged you recently?

I rediscovered the web site Spirituality and Health. It is a great resource of information and spirituality building tools. This quote from their Daily Spirit Boosters really struck me. Who encourages you? Who have you encouraged? Share by tweeting us a reply! Pls RT.

clipped from www.spirituality-health.com Encourage More “Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.” –Elizabeth Harrison

Social Media Niches can help build success

This isn’t really anything new in the field of social media but you might find the refresher refreshing!

clipped from www.webadvantage.net Here are 5 tips we hope you’ll find useful for your social media marketing efforts: 1.  Thoroughly explore your options. smaller, lesser-known social media sites can be huge winners, especially if they cater to a very specific topic or niche audience.  For almost any given topic, you can bet there’s a social media site of some sort dedicated to it, even if it’s just a forum or message board. 2.  Vary your message and approach. customizing your message to the many different audiences and communities you come into contact with, or in other words, to “speak their language.” 3.  Track your efforts with custom URLs. There’s no shortage of free URL-shortening services.  Some of the most popular ones are bit.ly, owl.ly, and the longstanding TinyURL.  4.  Seize the moment. 5.  Remember to “keep it real.” Take advantage of the additional opportunities you encounter from day to day, even if it’s not a part of your initial marketing plan.  be genuine

Empathy as marketing tool

This should be a natural for mental health pros! We do empathy all the time but do we think about how to use it when promoting our practices? How have you used empathy? What is one thing you could do today to upgrade your branding efforts with this powerful force? Share…

clipped from sethgodin.typepad.com I have no idea what it’s like to be pregnant. And for most of us, we have no idea what it’s like to have $3 to spend on a day’s food, or $4,000,000 to spend on a jet. We have no idea what it feels like to be lost in a big city, no idea how confusing it is to go online for the first time, no idea what it’s like to own four houses. Marketers and pundits and writers and bloggers and bosses pretend they are empathetic, but we never can be. Sure, we can try, we can be open to cues and sensitive to clues, but no, we don’t really know. Empathy is a hugely powerful marketing tool if we use it gently, being sure to leave lots of room for error. When we say, “oh, you did that to make a quick buck or you did that because you hate that guy or you did that because you’re a man…” we’ve closed the door to actually allowing people to write their own story and you make it difficult to learn what actually makes them tick.

How to have Think Skin…

and 5 other ways to be more effective as an entrepreneur. What would you add to the list?

Get more tips on how to “love” marketing by sending an email to thirstyfish@getresponse.com

clipped from hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com 1. Analyze the why. Why drives you. Why is fueled by purpose. Why is what changes the world. Why is the architecture of vision. And the why is way more important than the how. Are your dreams debunked by the hopeless waiting for how? 2. Assemble the knowledge. You don’t even need to know that much. Just the bare minimum to be able to do something awesome. Once you have it, confidently plunge into the vortex of uncertainty. How little do you need to know before jumping? 3. Destroy the familiar. Unpredictable is the key. Unexpected is the secret. Unplanned is the answer. Are you willing to let go of structure? 4. Make the leap. You’re ready. Especially if you go to work everyday asking yourself, “What the hell am I still DOING here?” Are you willing to take it up to eleven? 5. Ponder the ramifications. Now that I have this, what else does this make possible? 6. Screw the reviews. Grow thicker skin and create something critics will criticize

POLL: Do you use public speaking to market yourself?

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10 Ways to Help Someone Grieve

There are few, if no, clear guidelines on how to help someone grieve in American culture. Here are some helpful how-to’s offered by an official grief counselor.

clipped from www.beliefnet.com When a person you care about is hurting, you hurt, too. When that person is grieving the loss of a loved one, there are some steps you can take to ease their journey as they go through the bereavement process. As an experienced grief counselor, I know you can actually help them feel better.  Here are 10 tips to help people who are grieving. clipped from www.beliefnet.com Stay in Contact with the Bereaved clipped from www.beliefnet.com Offer to Drive The bereaved will have many immediate chores to do–at a bank, a funeral home, or an attorney’s office. clipped from www.beliefnet.com Bring Comfort Food clipped from www.beliefnet.com Help Out with Paperwork There are many forms that need to be filled out after a death, and the bereaved may not have the patience. clipped from www.beliefnet.com Be a Good Listener clipped from www.beliefnet.com Post an Internet Memorial Putting feelings into words and pictures can be a healing endeavor. clipped from www.beliefnet.com Create a Keepsake Encourage the bereaved to create something tangible, something they can look at or carry around clipped from www.beliefnet.com Consider a Pet clipped from www.beliefnet.com Help Them Reach Out Offer assistance in finding a bereavement group clipped from www.beliefnet.com Look to the Future

5 Ways to Grow as an Artisit

clipped from painting.about.com So how would a Cassatt or a Henri or Picasso approach painting differently than we do today? How might this heartfelt fear of others controlling our painting process impact our self-understanding as artists? Here are five possible answers: 1. Making a successful picture is not the goal. 2. The painting process is always a beginning. 3. Ignore non-artist authorities. 4. Get into a prolonged creative process. 5. Furnish the world with your beauty, let the world see, touch and feel who you are. The life of Franz Schubert may suggest a model. He was so into the process of creating music that each of his new efforts was but an opportunity for little Franzel to become more Schubert. So, he would compose the work, let it go and move on. His students would then find the work, practice it and perform it for him afterwards, whereupon Schubert is reported to have said, “My, that is lovely. Who wrote it?” This is the way to make art. Move in the direction of the greatest pleasure and excitement.

Reviews are the Next Social Media Revolution

I love learning about trends and trendwatching is a great source of my addiction. It also helps you stay on top of the small business/marketing wave! This article looks at a coming (some might say already present) wave of reviews that will be powered by social media like twitter and facebook. Long gone will be the traditional advertising tricks. Yeah! Read on and rise up you social media, reviewing revolutionaries…

clipped from trendwatching.com “Recommendations by personal acquaintances and opinions posted by consumers online are the most trusted forms of advertising globally. The Nielsen survey shows that 90% of online consumers worldwide trust recommendations from people they know, while 70% trust consumer opinions posted online.“ While hundreds of millions of consumer reviews are already zipping around cyberspace, prepare for a deluge of truly biblical proportions. emerging markets are eager to jump into cyberspace with two thumbs: according to a UN report, there are now more than four billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide the proliferation of videocam phones, including Apple’s new iPhone 3G S which includes video functionality, geo tagging, and direct upload facilities for YouTube and Mobile, will be yet another push for video-reviews to take off. neutralize fake reviews posted by malicious consumers or desperate brands Scale is one thing. Scope is another. No B2C sector is immune to the review virus. Point & know