Nurse Healers by Kate Loving Shenk

The New Age Of Internet Marketing On Giant Squid Open Mike Monday 9/14

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--==-====-===-=-==-==-=-===-=-=-=-=-=- The New Age Of Internet Marketing may actually be going back to ancient teachings such as the Golden Rule: Treat others as you want to be treated and then step that up about 100 notches. Do what you love and what you are passionate about and the money will follow.

But we all know that there are many in the world who have made their fortunes doing exactly the opposite of what they love. Money can't buy you love. But does Love buy or guarantee you money?

Inspiration and passion is a magnetic force that draws to you the people and events that align you with your destiny. Promote yourself even as you promote your product. Much was said about people trying to make a fast buck on the internet today. But hiding behind your product with a fast talking rap about making thousands of dollars in 30 minutes has lost the interest of almost everyone I know on the internet.

Suffice to say that the new era of marketing in all walks of life is to share what it is you love, what inspires you and what you are enthusiastic about. Share what it is you have experienced. And by all means, have fun while doing everything that you do.

Chef Keem and Squidster were the guests on this show. They announced the future of Squidlog, the internet magazine that has become popular for Squidoo Lensmasters as well as those not affiliated with Squidoo. The future of Squidlog is to create a single membership hub where members can learn all things about Internet Marketing, at a place they already trust to deliver solid information.

This new hub will also be a community of people who largely know each other already, because of the relationships already established over on Squidoo, and elsewhere, on Internet forums and communities. This community will prevent many from giving up too soon in their pursuit of online business success. There's a learning curve involved with what we do online, and a danger of veering off the path you have chosen for yourself by following some "get rich quick scheme."

The community has great potential to keep a serious person on task with their goals and their business plan. Online marketing success is a process. A solid foundation can be built through the vehicle of a community that Chef Keem and Squidster envision. Instead of searching a hundred different places to find the information I need to build my internet presence, I will find it on the Squidlog Membership site.

Chef Keem wants feedback from his Squidlog and Squidoo friends as to what it is they would like to see on the membership site, but the idea so far includes tutorial screen captured videos that teach a series of skills, as well as built in one on one consulting and coaching services, and a forum where members can share their expertise and support.

What we learn here will apply to internet business in general, not just to the art of Squidoo lensmaking. The marketing trends of the future involve less affiliate marketing, and less Google ad word revenue, and more of a need to teach local business and municipalities how to streamline their efforts to achieve their community goals. This could be the new role of online marketers as they bring their virtual wares to the so called real world.

At the end of the show, Pot Pie Girl showed up in the chat room. And she said she would be a guest on Giant Squid Open Mike on 9/28. I look forward to meeting her. She had a great energy that I noticed right away, and everyone is excited to see what she has to say.

Thanks to Chef Keem and Squidster for being gracious guests on the show 9/14. We look forward to see what you have in store for us on Squidlog.

Kate Loving Shenk

Nursing Career Transformation

Cap Rob On Moon, Moo & You: The Collective Wisdom!!

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Captain Robert Lee was on "Moon, Moo and You: The Collective Wisdom"
4/28/9. Captain is a regular on the now famous Milagro World, Pat O'Bryan
forum. Cap has written five Electronic Books that are on sale on-line, plus
has other internet marketing enterprises he is involved in.

Captain Rob lives the life we can all admire because he walks the walk. He
simplified his life, got out of debt, lives on a beautiful sail boat, and does what he
wants to do, whenever he wants to do it, whatever the time of day.

Cap says the sail boat is a metaphor for freedom in his life. He doesn't recommend
that everyone live on a sail boat, but that if a person wants to be free in whatever
way she defines  free for herself, then his message will resonate with her.

Cap started out after college in Corporate America for three or four years, then was
led to the Homesteading Lifestyle and running his own home based businesses. He
was raised in a small family run business atmosphere, so his early life set the stage
for where he is, right now.

Disclaimer: we all agreed that there is nothing wrong with Corporate America, but for
those of us engaged in the Internet Marketing end of things, Corporate America is
antithetical to what or who we aspire to be in this life time.

In Rob's new EBook, "Living The Pirate's Lifestyle," he lays out the steps in logical
order of what he did and does to simplify and and get free of debt and dependence on
toys and things.

On the show, Rob used the example of credit cards, and getting rid of them entirely.

Or cleaning out all of the unnecessary things in our lives we have not used in 2-3 years.

He suggests taking time off to contemplate exactly what you want out of life, and how you plan to execute your vision.

Then Do It!!

Joan made a comment that in this current economic crisis, slowing down, getting rid of unnecessary "stuff" and thus getting closer to one's core values is perhaps the single most important thing we can "do!"

Joesph Campbell stepped back during the Great Depression and contemplated his life for the years it took for the Great Depression to begin and end, and came up with the famous "Follow Your Bliss" and his great contribution to the application of Myth and Heroic Pathways in modern society!

Rob said he has always been able to see a goal in his mind's eye and drive towards it relentlessly, in a Napoleon Hill sort of way.

He gave the example of driving to Disney World with a car load of kids, and coming up on a roadblock. Would you say, "Sorry everyone, we have to turn around and go home?"

No, you would take the detours and along the way figure out another way to get there.

At this point, Amanda Goldston came on the line, author of the newly published book entitled: "Developing Your Intuition Through Taro."

She said that you don't need a lot of money to live the life of your dreams. By scaling back, and simplifying, you can live on very little money.

This is indeed a revelation!

Joan said she realized she was never going to graduate from life: the "when" this happens, "then" I'll be happy mentality. That "Now" is the only time that there is.

Rob described his life as it is now.

He can work on his internet marketing endeavors, or go fishing all day with the kids. The life of freedom can be as simple as this.

Insightful NaNa came on the line, known for her website: "Better Living For Today's Women."

She said she loved the life of flexibility that the Pirate Lifestyle affords. She can take time off and work in the yard, or play with her grandchildren, then work until 3 am if she wants to.

And she doesn't have to ask anyone's permission!

We discussed some techy issues such as deciding to use Aweber vs 1 Shopping Cart, vs Click Bank vs PayPal, which was tremendously interesting to all of us but perhaps not so much for all of you!

All of us vowed to keep doing what we are doing.  Ebooks are a thing of the future that "Writer's Digest" recently validated with a cover story on the topic.

Don't allow the techy hurdles hold you back, the Cap said. Someone is always there to help you.

This show was great food for thought. I recommend that you listen if you want to live the life of your dreams, if you want to work from your home, if you want to escape the Corporate America strangle hold.

The online community is amazing and I am so happy we found each other in this tremendously supportive environment.

And as for all the pirates out there?

ARRRRRRRRR!!

Go Git 'Em!!

Our Portable Empire--Thank You Pat O'Bryan

Pat's Book

I just got a laptop computer a few weeks ago: my love machine!

The moment I purchased it, I felt free-er, my work more portable, like I can take
it (my work) anywhere at all: my yard or everywhere in my house or to a coffee shop,
accessing every corner of the world, directly under my finger tips!

I set up writing stations throughout my house and on these long winter nights, I
write articles and electronic books.

Pat O'Bryan is a mentor to many of us, first at the Portable Empire University, then
at Portable Empire Island at Second Life, at the Un-Seminar presentations, and now,
at the Milagro interactive forum.

All of it is fun! And it's been a great learning experience as well as a free flow odyssey
of inspired ideas, thoughts and possibilities that, when turned into products, will make
you money. First, do what you love and everything else will follow.

I have a picture of my avatar, Mooie Infinity, sitting next to Pat's avatar, Koan Ibanez,
surrounded by a huge rainbow Moo used to carry with her as a halo effect. We (they?) are sitting with many
others way up in the sky at Portable Empire Island.The short-lived Second Life experience
where we all gathered nightly soon after "Your Portable Empire" by Pat O'Bryan was
published was a great party and we all got to know one another  in a way that's difficult to
duplicate in Real Life.

Mooie Infinity As She Is Today

My friend Moon Vine and I, whom I met on Second Life then again at the "U", are now together
in a weekly Master Mind group which meets on the telephone. We discuss our
projects as we support each other in our individual endeavors.

Oceana, KK and Ostara are dear friends originally from SL with tremendous creative
and spiritual vision!

Magic Becky, loved by all, has recently joined the weekly Master Mind group and she is
searching to define her niche.

In fact, one of the ongoing discussions, first at the "U", then SL and now at the new forum is:
What is my niche?

Pat O'Bryan encourages each of us to see our experiences, talents and gifts as a
niche in and of itself.

Certainly Pat's niche is Pat himself.

What does this mean?

In Pat's case, he is outspoken, spiritual, practical and visionary in that he's always
one step ahead in the Internet Marketing world.

Pat taught all of us about social networking which is how we branched out and met so
many people all over the world through Face Book, Twitter and Squidoo among many others.

Pat teaches us how to clear our vision so we are not burdened down by limiting and false belief.

He encourages open discussion and has an eye on how he can advance to the next level,
taking all of his pals with him.

One of Pat's best friend and mentor is Joe Vitale. Every so often, Pat will tell us what
Joe says about business, spirituality, Ho'oponopono (the ancient Hawaiian spiritual
practice), and shares stories of the cigar smoking, blues playing inspired ideas that
spring out of the Master Mind he has with Joe and several other free thinking
individualists.

And then there's the hope that we all can accomplish in our own way, what Pat accomplishes
by building his Portable Empire, especially since he was broke and nearly homeless when he
started on this journey.

I'm sure there's a little bit of this sort of desperation in all of our stories.

For instance, I was once broke, and hung out with the homeless winos in Duboce Park,
San Francisco.

I listened to their stories and laughter from my apartment window--an apartment in the
Fillmore West, a hard earned place to live after three months of having no place to live at
all, except for the vehicle I traveled in.

We had no electricity, using only light from fires in the hearth, wood gathered from daily jaunts
to Golden Gate Park.

And food? I was never as skinny in my life!

Yes, we all have our stories.

And I know these experiences give us a fearlessness, an inner mirth in the face of great
challenges.

Other ongoing discussions include how to build a list, how to build Squidoo lenses, where to hire people
to do the techy tasks, how to balance discipline with self-care and rest.

The life of the entrepreneur is as much mindset as it is a labor of love.  It becomes what
you'd rather do than anything else.

And paradoxically, the hard work feels just like play and pure fun!

Compare this attitude with the people who exchange time for money. They punch time clocks and work
for people who uphold principles and values not necessarily in synche with their own.

People in these arenas are waiting--waiting for the end of shift, waiting for the future moment
instead of learning to enjoy the beautiful moment at hand.

People say to me every night I work: "I can't wait until I can go home."

I always say, "Why? It is what it is."

The mind set of time clock reality vs entrepreneurial mindset is 180 degrees removed.

One is slavery.

The other is freedom.

So thank you, Pat O'Bryan, for showing us a better way.

By following your lead, we cannot fail!

Kate Loving Shenk

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Kate Loving Shenk is a writer, healer, musician and the creator
of the e-book called "Transform Your Nursing Career and Discover
Your Calling and Destiny." The book is designed to stimulate
nurses to love their work and to prevent on-the-job-burnout.
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