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		<title>The Dr is Back!  And she&#8217;s going to ROCK YOUR WORLD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Imagine having a steady flow of people you&#8217;d just LOVE to work with literally running to take you up on whatever service or product you have to offer! Wouldn&#8217;t that be something?  Well, have I got some great news for you today or what? If you are truly ready to step out of overwhelm [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_2030" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 242px"><a href="http://www.shiftspeakertraining.com/partner/14006/psuk"><img class=" wp-image-2030  " style="margin: 10px;" title="me and joey" src="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/me-and-joey.png" alt="" width="232" height="374" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Me with the amazing Dr Joanna Martin</p></div>
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<p>Imagine having a steady flow of people you&#8217;d just LOVE to work with literally running to take you up on whatever service or product you have to offer! Wouldn&#8217;t that be something?  Well, have I got some great news for you today or what?</p>
<p>If you are truly ready to step out of overwhelm and to create the ULTIMATE lifestyle business that allows you to live on purpose, doing what you love while enjoying more money and more free time (and let&#8217;s face it, who doesn&#8217;t?)&#8230; here is an amazing opportunity to actually make it happen!</p>
<p>My gorgeous mentor Dr Joanna Martin is running her one day event <a href="http://www.shiftspeakertraining.com/partner/14006/psuk">&#8220;Presentation Secrets&#8221; </a>in London on Friday 11th May, Saturday 12th May and Friday 25th May!  When I met Joey and started learning from her, things really cranked into overdrive for me and I started seeing the MUCH BIGGER picture.</p>
<p>Joey has changed the lives of thousands of business owners over the last few years&#8230; I&#8217;m very confident that she could do the same for you! Check out the videos on this page (you may recognise a few familiar faces) to hear from a few people who&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to come into contact with her.</p>
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<p>By applying what I&#8217;ve learnt from Joey I&#8217;ve been able to experience the amazing feeling that comes when you make an offer and people literally run towards you with their credit cards!  Yup &#8211; little me!  I&#8217;ve been there!  <a href="http://www.shiftspeakertraining.com/partner/14006/psuk">I&#8217;ve seen it myself and it&#8217;s ALL because of this lady&#8230;</a></p>
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<p>In the last 9 months since meeting Dr Joanna Martin I&#8217;ve gone from never having sold from stage at all to converting on average 40% of the audience into new clients and I can tell you now, I would NEVER have known about the ways to make that happen if I hadn&#8217;t stumbled upon <a href="http://www.shiftspeakertraining.com/partner/14006/psuk">Presentation Secrets</a> last year.</p>
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<p>Please <a href="http://www.shiftspeakertraining.com/partner/14006/psuk">don&#8217;t miss the opportunity</a> to learn from one of the most successful speakers and speaking coaches in the world.  I guarantee you will walk away having learnt a thing or 10 that will help you make more money in less time, to position yourself as THE go to expert in your area of speciality and to attract your perfect clients FAST!</p>
<p>This lady is one of the most heart centred, inspirational and knowledgeable people on the planet in terms of helping entrepreneurs make their difference while making MORE money and creating MORE FREE TIME in the process and the events are also some of the best I&#8217;ve ever attended.</p>
<p>During this mindset shifting event you&#8217;ll learn how YOU can increase your Sales by 30-50% almost immediately (yes really), what an &#8220;Elegant Business Model&#8221; is and how will it help you create the ultimate lifestyle (trust me on this &#8211; you NEED TO KNOW THIS!!) and you&#8217;ll meet some wonderful like minded entrepreneurs too &#8211; you just never know what could happen at Joey&#8217;s events because she creates such a fabulous energy where miracles really do happen.</p>
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<p>I wish I could transfer the &#8216;vibe&#8217; of these events to you through this post but the truth is, you won&#8217;t really &#8216;get it&#8217; unless you come along so don&#8217;t delay, reserve your place now by <a href="http://www.shiftspeakertraining.com/partner/14006/psuk">CLICKING HERE</a>.  I promise you, you won&#8217;t regret it!  This lady is ROCKING!</p>
<p>Seriously folks &#8211; grab this opportunity to take it up a couple of notches in your business and in your life and reserve your place right now.  You deserve to give yourself this gift.  One of the most important factors in your success is the people you have around you and when you have Dr Joanna Martin in your circle, trust me, you&#8217;re onto a winner!  <a href="http://www.shiftspeakertraining.com/partner/14006/psuk">Click here now and I&#8217;ll see you there!</a></p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been Nominated for a MumsClub Award!  Yay!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wowee!  I&#8217;m feeling sooooo happy! Not only did my business The Social Strategy win the titles &#8220;Most Loved Social Media Business in the UK&#8221; and &#8220;Most Loved Coaching and Mentoring Business in the UK&#8221; in thebestof&#8217;s recent 14 Days of Love Awards  recently but I&#8217;ve just found out that I&#8217;ve been nominated for a MumsClub Award [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2011-nominated-badge22.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-2024" style="margin: 5px;" title="2011 nominated badge2" src="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2011-nominated-badge22.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="425" /></a>Wowee!  I&#8217;m feeling sooooo happy!</p>
<p>Not only did my business <a href="http://www.the-social-strategy.com">The Social Strategy </a>win the titles <a href="http://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/croydon/business-guide/feature/the-social-strategy/88868">&#8220;Most Loved Social Media Business in the UK&#8221; and &#8220;Most Loved Coaching and Mentoring Business in the UK&#8221; in thebestof&#8217;s recent 14 Days of Love Awards </a> recently but I&#8217;ve just found out that I&#8217;ve been nominated for a <a href="http://mumsclub.co.uk/">MumsClub Award</a> too!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know which category I&#8217;ve been nominated for just yet but frankly, I&#8217;m just delighted to have been nominated at all!</p>
<p>I was going to post the image of my badge on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com">Pinterest </a>but after finding out what I did today, I&#8217;m not sure if I should or not&#8230; we&#8217;ll have to see how things develop I guess!</p>
<p>Gosh, I have to say, it all seems a bit surreal to be being nominated for awards and to winning lovely titles to be honest&#8230; when I look at the reality of my life right now &#8211; caring for my 87 year old nan AND my 2 little ones AND trying to stay on top of all the things I need to stay on top of to keep on growing my business&#8230; I feel a little bit like I should be a bit smoother around the edges and a bit more preened or something!  Not cleaning up quite the volume of poo that I am&#8230; or something??  Lol!  The reality is that I&#8217;ve not washed my hair in a week, I&#8217;m virtually living in disposable plastic gloves and I&#8217;m looking more than a little haggard, but hey!  Us Mumpreneurs have to decide on our priorities and focus on those right?</p>
<p>And my priorities for 2012 are absolutely family 1st, business 2nd&#8230;. and&#8230; well&#8230; my hair didn&#8217;t make the list this year unfortunately!  Maybe next year it can move a little higher up the list and if I&#8217;m really lucky I could add shoes???</p>
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		<title>Are You on Pinterest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Right now I&#8217;m busy creating a new module for my &#8216;The Social Strategy&#8217; members on using Pinterest from a Marketing point of view (naturally it&#8217;s all Relationship Marketing and not pushy &#8216;in your face&#8217; Marketing ) and I&#8217;ve got to say I&#8217;m LOVING learning more about the platform! I suppose it&#8217;s the fact that [...]]]></description>
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<p>Right now I&#8217;m busy creating a new module for my<a href="http://the-social-strategy.kajabi.com/sp/8165-first-100-special-offer"> &#8216;The Social Strategy&#8217;</a> members on using Pinterest from a Marketing point of view (naturally it&#8217;s all Relationship Marketing and not pushy &#8216;in your face&#8217; Marketing <img src='http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> ) and I&#8217;ve got to say I&#8217;m LOVING learning more about the platform!</p>
<p>I suppose it&#8217;s the fact that you get to learn about people in such a visual way &#8211; I&#8217;m loving seeing all the gorgeous things people pin and repin&#8230; it&#8217;s just lush!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re on my mailing list I will let you know the second the training is ready but for now,  I just wanted to share a great post with you to help get you started on Pinterest if you&#8217;ve not yet taken the plunge (by the way if you haven&#8217;t yet taken a look at Pinterest you really should, it&#8217;s totally fabulous!</p>
<p>Here are the <a href="http://nurturestore.co.uk/top-10-pinterest-boards-for-parents#more-9603">Top10 Pinterest Boards for Parents from Nurture Store</a> - enjoy!</p>
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		<title>Do you call yourself a &#8216;Mumpreneur&#8217; ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230; the word &#8216;Mumpreneur&#8217; does seem to ruffle a few feathers doesn&#8217;t it?  Even though it&#8217;s now been included in the Collins Oxford Dictionary there are a lot of women who wish it would be banished from our vocabulary forever&#8230; It&#8217;s an interesting debate: On the one hand I often find myself preferring to call [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well&#8230; the word &#8216;Mumpreneur&#8217; does seem to ruffle a few feathers doesn&#8217;t it?  Even though it&#8217;s now been included in the Collins Oxford Dictionary there are a lot of women who wish it would be banished from our vocabulary forever&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an interesting debate:</p>
<p>On the one hand I often find myself preferring to call myself an &#8216;Entrepreneurial Mother&#8217; but it has to be said that I probably wouldn&#8217;t have been bitten by the Entrepreneurial bug at all if I hadn&#8217;t become a mother&#8230; that&#8217;s what gave me my drive and allowed me to see things in a different way, from another perspective.</p>
<p>Before I became a mum it was normal to me that I&#8217;d spent hours commuting between my home in Surrey and London to work long hours for very little pay and then commute back home again&#8230;</p>
<p>Everything changed when I became a mummy!</p>
<p>So for me the &#8216;mum&#8217; bit came first and then the &#8216;preneur&#8217; soon followed (after a few years spent completely out of the game altogether that is)!</p>
<p>I think on one level the word &#8216;Mumpreneur&#8217; is actually a compliment and a pat on the back&#8230; it&#8217;s like saying &#8220;You go girl!  You&#8217;re earning a living on your own terms AND raising a family!&#8221; but on the other hand there is the argument that it&#8217;s also demeaning and makes us Entrepreneurial mums sound like &#8216;less able&#8217; business women?</p>
<p>The totally fabulous  Lilach Bullock is proud to call herself a Mumpreneur as she states on <a href="http://www.socialable.co.uk/mumpreneur-is-officially-recognised-and-entered-in-the-dictionary/">her blog here</a> which I have to admit makes it a pretty cool club to be a part of&#8230; but even so, Catherine at <a href="http://welshmums.co.uk/mumpreneur-or-not-a-mumpreneur/">Welsh Mums</a> is not so sure&#8230;</p>
<p>Personally (and I really can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m saying this as outspoken as I usually am) I&#8217;m afraid that for once, I&#8217;m in the middle and undecided on this one for now!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t find the word Mumpreneur offensive but at the same time I don&#8217;t actually refer to myself as one?  Yikes!  That&#8217;s a very &#8216;vanilla&#8217; standpoint for me isn&#8217;t it! <img src='http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts on this one ladies.  Leave me a comment below and let me know, do you like the term Mumpreneur or do you hate it?</p>
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		<title>How Work at Home Mothers can Create More Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Us mummies have a million things to fit into every day as it is&#8230; but when you add running a work at home business into the mix, things can get messy! As part of the work I&#8217;m doing with Dr Joanna Martin and The Feminine Way to Wealth right now, I&#8217;ve been &#8216;busy&#8217; restructuring the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BusyMum1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1921" style="margin: 5px;" title="BusyMum" src="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BusyMum1.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="180" /></a>Us mummies have a million things to fit into every day as it is&#8230; but when you add running a work at home business into the mix, things can get messy!</p>
<p>As part of the work I&#8217;m doing with <a href="http://joannamartin.tv/">Dr Joanna Martin and The Feminine Way to Wealth</a> right now, I&#8217;ve been &#8216;busy&#8217; restructuring the way in which I manage my time and the results have been pretty impressive so far so I thought I&#8217;d report back!</p>
<p>As a busy Work at Home Mother my time management skills have not always been particularly effective&#8230; I&#8217;ve often found myself rushing around like a headless chicken,  trying to CRAM as many activities and tasks into as little time as possible&#8230; that&#8217;s not a nice space to live in.</p>
<p>Everything felt panicky and I had the added guilt of NOT having enough time to spend with my family&#8230; and then of course, when I WAS spending time with them I wouldn&#8217;t be entirely present because I&#8217;d be thinking about my ever increasing &#8216;To Do&#8217; list instead!</p>
<p>However, by simply making a few little tweaks to the way I manage my time on Dr Joanna Martin&#8217;s recommendation (i.e. figuring out which 20% of the actions I take are actually getting me 80% of the results in each of my roles in my life and just doing those) I&#8217;ve started to move into a very different space where time is actually co-operative!  Yay me!</p>
<p>It all started at the beginning of the <a href="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/4-simple-steps-to-getting-what-you-want-need-in-2012/">New Year where I set my Goals for each role I have in my life &#8211; you can read more about that here.</a></p>
<p>By working out the things that it was most important for me to do, it&#8217;s meant that these days I&#8217;m getting a LOT more done, I&#8217;m able to serve a LOT more people AND I&#8217;m making more money in less time than it took before.</p>
<p>For me this has been an incredible shift &#8211; I&#8217;m getting to be more present as a mummy AND I&#8217;m even getting a bit of &#8216;me time&#8217;!    Remember that?  Well, you CAN get it back!</p>
<p>You can read a blog post from <a href="http://www.joannamartin.tv/business-strategies/how-you-can-find-more-time-but-get-more-done/">Dr Joanna Martin on this subject here</a> if you would like to explore it further, but for now, I want to leave you with the following questions&#8230; which 20% of YOUR activities are currently getting you most of your results?  And how can you do more of those things to get you more of the results you want in each area of your life whilst simultaneously getting rid of the other 80% of things that are only getting you 20% of your results?</p>
<p>Imagine having MORE time to Make IT Happen!  It&#8217;s not a pipe dream ladies&#8230; I KNOW it&#8217;s actually possible because I&#8217;m actually doing it right now&#8230;</p>
<p>Where are most of your results coming from in the following areas right now?</p>
<ul>
<li>As a Mum (which of the activities you do with your children have the biggest positive impact?)</li>
<li>As a Partner (which of the things you do with your partner have the biggest positive impact?)</li>
<li>As a Business Owner (which of your activities get you most of the results in your business?)</li>
<li>As You (which are the things you do that re-energise you and make you feel GREAT?)</li>
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<p>Leave me a comment below and let me know.  I will respond between nappy changes and cleaning the house!  Lol!</p>
<p>Have a fabulous day and Make &#8216;IT&#8217; Happen for you and your family!</p>
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		<title>Tax breaks for Mumpreneurs and Work at Home Mums!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mumpreneurs and aspiring Mumpreneurs could be in for a bit of good news if George Osbourne decides to OK plans to extend childcare vouchers to the self employed. It would mean that more Mumpreneurs and Work at Home Mums would be able to tailor their working hours to fit in around the needs of their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mumpreneurs and aspiring Mumpreneurs could be in for a bit of good news if George Osbourne decides to OK plans to extend childcare vouchers to the self employed.</p>
<p>It would mean that more Mumpreneurs and Work at Home Mums would be able to tailor their working hours to fit in around the needs of their children instead of having to return to work outside of the home!  Yay!</p>
<p>You can read more about it on <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/tax-break-to-encourage-mumpreneurs-to-start-their-own-businesses-6296341.html">The Independent Website here</a> but basically there could be an extra £900 in the pot for the growing movement of Work at Home Mums and Mumpreneurs if it all goes through.</p>
<p>Entrepreneurs are great for the economy and the government want to encourage as many new start ups to&#8230; well&#8230; start up which is great!</p>
<p>If you know anything about me at all you&#8217;ll know how passionately I believe that Work at Home Mums are among the most IMPORTANT entrepreneurs in the world in terms of the positive impact we have.</p>
<p>You see, every mumpreneur who sets up shop from her kitchen table or spare room not only impacts the economy in a positive way but she also shows her children (by leading by example) how they can follow her lead and do something they are passionate about, make a positive difference and be successful at it to boot!</p>
<p>Work at home mums rule!</p>
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		<title>The Power of Using Testimonials in Your Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just pre-launched my new product &#8220;The Social Strategy&#8221; and I thought I&#8217;d use it as a way to demonstrate to you the power of using testimonials in your marketing.  You see, I LOVE the system I&#8217;ve created and I could talk about it till the cows came home (whenever that is!) but NOTHING I could say [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve just pre-launched my new product <a href="http://the-social-strategy.kajabi.com/sales_pages/8165-first-100-special-offer">&#8220;The Social Strategy&#8221;</a> and I thought I&#8217;d use it as a way to demonstrate to you the power of using testimonials in your marketing.  You see, I LOVE the system I&#8217;ve created and I could talk about it till the cows came home (whenever that is!) but NOTHING I could say would speak as loudly in my marketing that a testimonial from someone who has already used the system.</p>
<p>Click on the video below of Stacey Myers from <a href="http://www.staceymyers.com">StaceyMyers.com</a> and you&#8217;ll see what I mean!</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qRFmGfbEPSQ" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p>
<p>Watched it?  Do you see what I mean?  If I&#8217;d said all that stuff it would really mean much would it&#8230; but when it comes from someone else it&#8217;s way more powerful!</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s more than that too!  It&#8217;s a great thing to show people how happy your customers are&#8230; and naturally, I like to get a bit creative with that wherever I can&#8230;</p>
<p>As an example just watch this 17 second video!  It&#8217;s just a bit of fun but unhappy customers don&#8217;t do this sort of thing and the energy in the video speaks volumes!</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-8Vtu1fd_Z4" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p>
<p>Do they look happy or what?  What does that say to anyone who might be thinking about buying The Social Strategy, but who are not quite sure?</p>
<p>Make sure you are using testimonials in all your marketing activity &#8211; they don&#8217;t have to be videos but if they are written, make sure they are accompanied by a smiley photograph of the person who wrote it &#8211; it will really bring it to life for your potential customers!</p>
<p>Use them on your website, your fliers, on your adverts in papers and magazines, put them on Facebook, ask for endorsements on LinkedIn&#8230; use testimonials EVERYWHERE from now on!  It will do wonders for your business!</p>
<p>I hope I&#8217;ve got this across to you because &#8216;word of mouth&#8217; has always been the most powerful form of &#8216;marketing&#8217; &#8211; that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so passionate about social marketing &#8211; and testimonials are a great way for you to get started with supercharging your word of mouth referrals&#8230; couple it with social marketing and you&#8217;re away! <img src='http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>As always, I&#8217;d love to see you on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mrswhizzypop">my Facebook Page</a> and actually&#8230; today you might like to nip over to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesocialstrategy">The Social Strategy Page</a> too &#8211; the first time you&#8217;ll visit you see a presentation on 21 Ways to get More Likes on Facebook as a special thank you too!</p>
<p>Enjoy!  And by the way&#8230; if you&#8217;d like to join the Social Strategy family and learn how to market your business online and offline in a more &#8216;social&#8217; way&#8230; it&#8217;s currently only £147 for a whole year&#8217;s membership and you can<strong><a href="http://the-social-strategy.kajabi.com/sales_pages/8165-first-100-special-offer"> find out more by clicking here!</a></strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget, I&#8217;m always here to help so post your business, mindset or marketing related questions on<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mrswhizzypop">Facebook</a> for me and I&#8217;ll be there in a jiffy!</p>
<p>See you soon for more mindset and marketing tips for Mumpreneurs and Work at Home Mums!</p>
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		<title>We Started The Chinese New Year With a WOW!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the start of the Chinese New Year and I&#8217;m VERY excited about it! You see my friend and partner at The Social Strategy (this is one of my businesses which teaches difference makers how to integrate social marketing into every area of their online and offline marketing to attract, connect with and go [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is the start of the Chinese New Year and I&#8217;m VERY excited about it!</p>
<p>You see my friend and partner at The Social Strategy (this is one of my businesses which teaches difference makers how to integrate social marketing into every area of their online and offline marketing to attract, connect with and go above and beyond what&#8217;s expected to WOW their perfect customers by spreading a bit of social happiness) Yvette Taylor is a bit of a pro in this area&#8230; she&#8217;s been studying this stuff for about 9 years and this is what she has to say about the new year!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><em>&#8220;This year is all about the energy of wood. It is about the new growth of spring. The Wood, which has been at rest during the winter, storing and concentrating its energy under ground, you will see come to life the with new buds of spring, This is all about a surge of rising energy, Wood is the energy of youth and growth: a new beginning, a vision of a whole new cycle. The Wood energy of spring is an expression of life at its strongest !! wohooo </em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><em>We will now emerge into spring “raring to go,” with clear vision and a sense of purpose. This is the season to plant seeds for a future harvest, to look ahead and make new plans, formulate new ideas, make decisions, and determine our direction for the coming year &#8211; and to take action so Get to it everyone there is so much potential this year.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><em>Spring&#8217;s warmth encourages us to stay outside more, but the warmth is not only from the sun but also from the interaction of friendships and relationships that will grow and develop. In this year, we want especially to take advantage of opportunities for growth through the observations and insights that come from others as well as from ourselves. So even though the energy of spring supports us and will challenge us to grow and change, it may not always be easy with the new recognition that we experience in this year the process of realizing our potential may be hard !! &#8220;</em></span></p>
<div id="attachment_1887" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/barking-box.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1887" title="barking box" src="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/barking-box-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Barking Box Co filming their Facebook Video</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">If you could create anything for yourself this year&#8230;. what would it be?</span></p>
<p>I&#8217;m feeling amazingly blessed right now &#8211; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesocialstrategy">The Social Strategy</a> is on a mission to spread social happiness, to encourage collaboration, to push people outside of their comfort zones so that they overcome the fear of SHINING and STANDING OUT &#8230;  to see it grow has been amazing!</p>
<p>We haven&#8217;t actually officially launched just yet but we&#8217;ve really set the stage for something incredible to happen!  We have around 100 members inside the programme right now&#8230; and yesterday some of us got together face to face.</p>
<p>You see, one of the things we teach at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesocialstrategy">The Social Strategy</a> is the importance of going above and beyond to show your customers / community how much you care about them by sharing relevant, valuable content and to WOW them.  It&#8217;s the big gestures that make people remember and talk about you and also consistently showing you care&#8230; so to lead by example, yesterday we reached out to give our members a BIG GESTURE&#8230; to create a BIG WOW:</p>
<p>We invited them along to create the ultimate social presence on Facebook and Twitter &#8211; we gave them a professional photoshoot so they are projecting the right image in their social networking profiles, we gave them a professionally scripted, recorded and edited video (thanks to Shane and Pete at <a href="http://www.businessconnect.tv/">Business Connect TV</a> who came all the way from Cornwall to film our members).  This video will sit on their facebook landing pages to tell people what&#8217;s special and unique about them and to start building relationships with their community.  They also received a facebook landing page professionally designed for them (for the video to sit on) AND a customised Facebook panel and Twitter background too!  Oh and they also got to have a one to one with James from top marketing agency Spiritas as well!</p>
<div id="attachment_1886" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/393962_214001792027589_100002533101817_448131_1281653360_n-1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1886 " style="margin: 5px;" title="The Social Strategy Founder, Michelle Holmes and Member Stacey Myers" src="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/393962_214001792027589_100002533101817_448131_1281653360_n-1-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Me and the fab Stacey Myers from staceymyers.com</p></div>
<p><em><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Not only did they get all this fab stuff to help their businesses grow and to attract and WOW their customers FOR FREE&#8230; but also the SOCIAL connections that were made were fabulous &#8211; friends were made, plans were hatched and business was done too!</span></em></p>
<p>Our members are supporting each other through the journey and Yvette and I have been soooo touched by the messages we&#8217;ve had from our members today about yesterdays event!   I&#8217;m focused on building this fabulous movement we&#8217;ve started in this new year AND to ramp up the work I do with Entrepreneurial Mothers too!</p>
<p>I&#8217;d absolutely LOVE to hear your goals for the year!  For a change, instead of joining me on my Facebook Page, why not <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thesocialstrategy">come and join the conversation with the wonderful &#8216;party people&#8217; on The Social Strategy page instead!  Click here to do that</a>!  You&#8217;ll find a fabulously supportive network of people to get to know&#8230; they really are fab!</p>
<p>Anyway &#8211; Happy Chinese New Year!  Make it a AWESOME one whatever you do!</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Mummy.  What is Your Job?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll tell you what, my 4 year old son Tate NEVER fails to amaze me! He came home from school the other day, popped his school bag on the sofa, looked at me thoughtfully and said, &#8220;Mummy, what do you do?&#8221; I said, &#8220;What do I do?  What do you mean sweetie?  I look after [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll tell you what, my 4 year old son Tate NEVER fails to amaze me!</p>
<p>He came home from school the other day, popped his school bag on the sofa, looked at me thoughtfully and said, &#8220;Mummy, what do you do?&#8221;</p>
<p>I said, &#8220;What do I do?  What do you mean sweetie?  I look after you and your sister and do the hoovering and clean the house&#8230; and &#8230; !&#8221; and he rolled his eyes and said&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8221;No mummy, that&#8217;s not what I mean!  I mean, what do you do to get money?  What is your work?&#8221;</p>
<p>I love it when Tate asks me these kinds of questions!  I just love the way kids think!  You see, in &#8216;show and tell&#8217; that morning they&#8217;d got onto the subject of what their mums and dads did for a living but Tate didn&#8217;t really know what to say!  He said &#8220;My Mummy and Daddy just stay at home.&#8221;</p>
<p>I had a bit of a giggle when he said that but the thing is&#8230; thats EXACTLY what &#8216;I do&#8217;!  (and my hubby has stayed at home to look after our daughter since I started my business) I  stay at home all day spending time with my family!</p>
<p>of course, I still work as hard as the next mummy&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; but it&#8217;s FUN!  I created my business because I never wanted to go out to work while my children were little and that&#8217;s what got me into social marketing in a big way!</p>
<p>I can now work from home, earning pretty good money&#8230; and it was all actually much easier (once I&#8217;d learnt all the stuff I needed to learn and made some mistakes along the way) than I thought it would be too!</p>
<p>Let me let you in on a little secret!  Mums are NATURALLY good at this stuff&#8230; we have certain skills that work really well in the business world&#8230; and when you know the things you should be doing to work smart on top of that, well&#8230; it can be an unstoppable formula for success!</p>
<p>&#8230;in the last 18 months I&#8217;ve learned, from scratch, all sorts of ways to market my clients online AND offline and as a result my lil &#8216;mumpreneur&#8217; / wahm home based business is going from strength to strength thank you very much!</p>
<p>For goodness sake, I was on benefits when I started and I had NO EXPERIENCE of  marketing, creating my own products, running a business or ANY of the things I do now for that matter!  That&#8217;s why I love working with other mums so much because I KNOW that YOU can do it too &#8211; no matter WHERE you are starting from!</p>
<p>Starting my business was kind of like becoming a new mum in many ways &#8211; I didn&#8217;t really know what I was doing but I committed to making it work anyway!   I wanted to be able to stay home with the kids and contribute to the family pot at the same time&#8230; and now I do&#8230; and here&#8217;s the thing ladies, if I can do this, so can you!</p>
<p>I would love to hear from you about your dreams and ambitions&#8230; what you would really love to earn and what you&#8217;d love to do to earn it!</p>
<p>Please leave me a comment below&#8230; you never know&#8230;  I might just have a super secret plan in place to help you to make it all happen! <img src='http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Teehee!</p>
<p>As always, don&#8217;t forget to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mrswhizzypop">come and say hello on Facebook </a>and in fact you can connect with me in TWO places on Facebook now as my friend Yvette Taylor and I have just <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">published our &#8216;<a href="https://facebook.com/thesocialstrategy">The Social Strategy&#8217; Facebook page</a> too!  Come and give that a like too! <img src='http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span><br />
Speak soon!  Michelle x</p>
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		<title>Am I in Labour?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh.  My.  Goodness!! Something is happening at my end and I wanted to reach out and tell you all about it! I’m going to apologise right up front as this is going to be a long post but, if you can stay awake long enough to stay with me to the end(!) I will be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1880" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 312px"><a href="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/M_44-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1880     " title="M_44 (1)" src="http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/M_44-1.jpg" alt="" width="302" height="202" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;I&#39;m getting all these messages... &quot;</p></div>
<p>Oh.  My.  Goodness!!</p>
<p>Something is happening at my end and I wanted to reach out and tell you all about it!</p>
<p>I’m going to apologise right up front as this is going to be a long post but, if you can stay awake long enough to stay with me to the end(!) I will be eternally grateful&#8230;</p>
<p>The other day I stayed up for 36  hours without even getting a teeny bit tired! I was cleaning like a crazy woman and ideas were popping out of me every minute! I felt like I was nesting! Like I was about to give birth and it was sooo cool!</p>
<p>That night I wrote the basic skeleton of a book and content ideas and strategies are written all over the place now too!! My whiteboards are covered, I’ve created a new vision board&#8230; the house is spotless&#8230; it’s like that night time stopped for me and all this stuff kind of HAPPENED!!!!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><em><strong>I felt like I’d been plugged into some kind of ULTIMATE power source and like I was literally downloading all this information without even thinking about it while simultaneously cleaning out the icky stuff and making it all fresh and new!!! LOL!</strong></em></span></p>
<p>Ok&#8230; so you already know, I&#8217;m a Social Marketer and my private clients have generated around £700,000 in additional revenue in the last 18 months&#8230; I seem to be pretty good at this stuff but I’ve taken the plunge knowing that it’s time for me to find ways to take myself out of the &#8216;trading time for money&#8217; scenario so I can still help people get results AND so I can put it all into practice for myself instead of making other people lots of money and not being able to make MY OWN difference&#8230; which is working with MOTHERS!</p>
<p>After my mentor Dr Joanna Martin suggested I take the Wealth Dynamics test and I realised I’m a Creator Profile &#8211; I took the first step and created my first product with my friend and partner Yvette Taylor.  So that now means anyone who wants to create a Social Strategy can now do so for £497 instead of anything up to the £2,500 price tag that it can cost to have a professional do it for you!</p>
<p>This will leverage my time, allow me to serve more people, hopefully make more money and make a difference too&#8230;</p>
<p>What I love most about what I do is showing people how to become that business at the centre of a community – like the old village sweet shop was in days gone by&#8230; I love recreating the energy from a time when your customers were not just people who spent their money with you but people who you considered your COMMUNITY – friends, family&#8230; people you’d do anything to support&#8230; I love creating a movement online!</p>
<p>But I’m still just a baby in the business world ladies!  And actually I&#8217;ve not done ANY of the stuff I teach FOR MYSELF &#8211; I&#8217;ve only done it for other people!!!  Now it&#8217;s time to get it working for MY MISSION IN THE WORLD! <img src='http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Rewinding a little bit here I only actually started this journey in business around 18 months or so ago while I was on benefits and living on beans on toast!! I had been living with my husband and our son and a very big pregnant tummy containing my daughter at my parents house in one tiny room struggling to makes ends meet after my husband was declared bankrupt a few years before&#8230; and we lost our livelihood, our home&#8230; and everything we had basically&#8230;</p>
<p>All we had was each other and things got really hard for a while.</p>
<p>My hubby had taken a big knock and became very depressed. We hardly saw each other and when we did we argued because we were both so stressed and unhappy. All the life had been knocked out of my hubby, he felt useless and unable to provide for his family even though he was working as many hours as he could. This was the only income we had as we have two little ones to care for so I was the ‘at home mummy’&#8230; trying to be strong and positive for my children AND for my husband but inside me something was stirring.</p>
<p>Things eventually completely fell apart and we ended up on benefits and I woke up one morning a different person. Like I did when I became a mother. I was just different.  Do you know that feeling?</p>
<p>I looked around me in wonder at the craziness of the situation we were in! Here we were,  two intelligent people with a positive contribution to make in the world&#8230; struggling to even feed our children and keep the roof over our heads!  And I knew I wanted to give our children a better life than this&#8230; I wanted to give our children the BEST life! We both did! This was not what I wanted their experience of early childhood to be!</p>
<p>So I just got up and started up my own business as a Social Media Manager and within 12 weeks I was earning around £4k a month. My services were in high demand which was great in one way but it also meant I ended up working too long hours and eventually it became very apparent that I had to change things because having an AWOL mummy was also not what I wanted for my children!</p>
<p>I wasn’t happy being in front of the computer all day. I’m a people and nature girl&#8230; I need to be outdoors lots&#8230; I need to be meeting people and talking and learning and growing in all areas of my life and I felt I’d hit a ceiling!</p>
<p><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Right now, I&#8217;m getting the feeling that the journey I&#8217;ve been on the last year or so has been the universes way of helping me change my way of thinking about what is possible.</span></strong></em></p>
<p>Coming from a background as an employee who never even considered the possibility of running a business, it was a big leap in thinking to realise I could make good money doing something I enjoyed from home at all! This is what the last year has taught me because now my thinking is MUCH MUCH bigger!</p>
<p>I have dreams of making the world a better place, I dream of creating a 7 figure business that makes people HAPPY within the next 3 years&#8230; and this is all stuff my mind couldn’t even conceive 12 months ago&#8230; so it’s been a big growth period. I’ve overcome a lot of limiting beliefs.</p>
<p><strong><em><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Also – I KNOW that being a mother has given me a certain something as an Entrepreneur. This is something I am just so incredibly passionate about! I talk to anyone who&#8217;ll listen to me about the creative power, resourcefulness and focus that being a mother gives you&#8230; as you probably already know being that you&#8217;re here on my site reading this!</span></em></strong></p>
<p>My dream is to help other mothers overcome their limiting beliefs too. Many entrepreneurial mothers feel that they can’t possibly have it all – they feel as though they have to choose between their family or their business but I TOTALLY disagree.</p>
<p>They also live with a LOT of guilt about being in business but actually&#8230; I see SHINING and fulfilling your true potential, living your passion as a DUTY if you are an entrepreneurial mother!</p>
<p><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;">My business journey is now completely integrated with my parenting journey. I have a very deeply held belief that if we want what is best for our children (and who doesn&#8217;t?) we have to teach them to live happy and fulfilled lives by leading by example and doing it ourselves! How can an unhappy, unfulfilled mummy bring up happy, fulfilled children who love themselves, each other and the planet?</span></strong></em></p>
<p>Anyway&#8230; I’m getting all these amazing signs from the universe and it&#8217;s really making me sit up and take notice!!</p>
<p>My website isn’t even really ready yet (those of you who are here with me from the very start will see lots of tweaks happening over the next few weeks&#8230; and I&#8217;ve not really started marketing at all) but nevertheless lots of ladies are starting to subscribe to my list and it&#8217;s starting to grow organically&#8230; which is forcing me to start communicating with the women on that list&#8230; and as I&#8217;ve started to do that&#8230; things have started happening&#8230;</p>
<p>I’m getting daily requests for help in finding the self belief to do what I’ve done and just go for it and set up in business&#8230; I am being asked how to find the strength and courage to put yourself out there and commit to growth&#8230; and the other biggies are questions about dealing with guilt and how to manage time effectively&#8230; and here&#8217;s the weird thing &#8211; the other night I literally wrote a book on all this stuff overnight!</p>
<p>Yeah sure, it needs a lot of editing and proofreading but it&#8217;s all there &#8211; a mixture of my own experience, women I&#8217;d love interview who have already been successful in balancing family and business life &#8230; and all the stuff I&#8217;ve learnt attending courses and seminars and investing in mentoring and reading books and going to conferences&#8230; just EVERYTHING I&#8217;ve done in the last 18 months!!!</p>
<p>I feel like I’m being called!! What is going on? I have NEVER felt like this before&#8230; have you ever felt like this?  I&#8217;d love to hear about it if you have!</p>
<p>This stuff just lights me up!!!!   I’ll be honest, I&#8217;d just not really factored this into happening right now&#8230; but it&#8217;s like I can’t stop! It has a life of it&#8217;s own!</p>
<p>But here’s my big thing though&#8230; the Devil on my shoulder keeps on telling me that I need to be more successful than I am now in order to be able to give any advice to other mothers. I mean, I&#8217;ve literally just peeled back all the layers of my business and I&#8217;m starting again in 2012&#8230; I FEEL like I need a 6 or 7 figure business under my belt before I start supporting other mums with this stuff&#8230;</p>
<p>The angel on the other shoulder says that’s a load of old Poop of course&#8230; but the devil is really having a go at getting under my skin I can tell you!</p>
<p>You see, with social media I’ve got the track record to back me up&#8230; but am I qualified to help other mums to Dream Big? I mean &#8211; yeah I can show them the processes I go through myself and I&#8217;m a BIG DREAMER I can tell you!  Am I qualified to help them to manage their time when this is an area I am still mastering myself? Is it enough for me to commit 100% to becoming the best resource available to Mumpreneurs and Work at Home Mothers in terms of ‘Big Thinking and Big Doing’ by learning from uber successful mentors in these areas and then passing on what I learn? Can I really do this?</p>
<p>I look around and see lots of big Entrepreneur Mentors basically passing on the knowledge they glean from Mastermind groups / conferences etc&#8230; and I wonder&#8230; can I be that person for Mumpreneurs?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m so sorry for the crazy length of this post&#8230; but I’d sooo appreciate your thoughts on this ladies.</p>
<p>If I&#8217;m out there investing my own money, time and effort learning and perfecting everything us entrepreneurial mothers need to know to make our difference &#8211; in all areas of our lives &#8211; Health &amp; Wellbeing, Wealth &amp; Contribution and Lifestyle&#8230; is it cool with you if I pass that knowledge and those learnings on to you?</p>
<p>I hope 2012 has started beautifully for you too.  I just know us mothers are going to rock it this year! <img src='http://www.michelleholmes.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</p>
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