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0 Am I Crazy or What?

As if I’m not busy enough with the promotion of The Youth Empowerment Telesummit CDs and launching my new book and completing and launching my new coaching program, The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business, I ‘ve taken on a new project.

I am participating in a Coach’s Give Away.  That’s right, I’ve just taken on more promotion.  Just what I need.  But hey, when the opportunity presents itself, if it makes sense, you just have to do what needs to be done.  I’ve joined some other coaches in the Epic Coach Give Away.  If you are interested in obtaining a free copy of my first book, 31 Powerful Lessons Empowering Teens and Young Adults to Develop an Entrepreneur Mindset, you can find it here along with free gifts from other coaches.

This is called “practice what you preach.”  Opportunities like this don’t come along all the time so I thought that in the name of list building, I need to do this.  After all, I am committed to doing whatever it takes to keep building my business.

What are you committed to?

Only 2 hours left to be eligible for the VIP Upgrade at The Youth Empowerment Telesummit.  Take advantage NOW, before the prices increase dramatically!  Own this amazing content filled series that will provide you with practical, easy to implement strategies to engage the tweens, teens and young adults in your life to improve communication, build trust, and empower them with life skills.

2 Praise for Pick from the Passion Tree – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business

I am very excited to share with you some of the wonderful comments I have received for my new book, Pick from the Passion Tree – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business.

This book was born during an Ultimate Blog Challenge last year and it is scheduled to go to the printer this coming week and I will begin promotion shortly.  The book will be available only on my website for a while and then on Clickbank.  I might also list it with some of the larger book sellers, however, I will not list it on Kindle again.  I was not happy with the Kindle experience and the fact that you cannot do any other thing with your book while it’s on Kindle for 90 days.  The free days were a huge success, but there were no Kindle sales after that.  I did much better on my own.

Without further ado, here are the wonderful things being said about the book.

Julia is the sweetest person I know with an amazing heart and a fierce dedication to young people having the opportunity to live their dreams.  This book she has written empowers young people to get into the right mindset about becoming entrepreneurs and starting their own business.  Every young person in high school should have a copy of this book so they can have choices about their future and the opportunity to have the lifestyle they dream of.   

Rich German, Epic Coach Academy, Author, Monetize Your Passion, follow your hear and create life’s ultimate win-win-win

The world is changing at an unprecedented rate.  The old adage of “get a good education, get a good job and you’ll be set for life” no longer exists.  The time is now to chart your own path and start your own business that will set the world on fire.  Julia Neiman’s, Pick from the Passion Tree, provides some great information to get you thinking and moving in the right direction.

Bob Proctor, best-selling author, You Were Born Rich

What I like about Julia is that she marches to her own drum.  She doesn’t tell young people what to think or what to do, she empowers them to think for themselves and hands them all their own drums.  I love that she is empowering young people to become entrepreneurs.

Adam Urbanski, The Millionaire Mentor

Julia Neiman is on a mission to make dreams come true! Her powerful book for teens and young adults is chock-full of provocative questions, inspiring stories, uplifting quotes, and most importantly—action steps. In this easy-to-digest and enjoyable-to-read book, Julia takes potential young entrepreneurs on a journey from picking their passions to promoting their products. Her holistic and thorough approach is a must-read for any young person who is considering starting a business. (Heck, a budding entrepreneur of any age will love it!)

Sherry Richert Belul, founder of Simply Celebrate and former editor for Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect.

Entrepreneurs may think big, but they know that small focused simple shifts and daily actions are what make them successful. The step by step approach of Julia Neiman’s, Pick From The Passion Tree creates an easy to read and easy to follow path for the young entrepreneur. Julia has a way of challenging young people to think big while guiding them with questions that will empower them to make decisions as they set off towards their own success.

Alisa Ugalde, Entrepreneur, Claim Your Clients.com.

In today’s fast pace and information overload it’s enough to give anyone a serious case of overwhelm and procrastination.  Julia helps you get your breakthrough by giving you a thorough overview, plus totally breaks it down to the basic level.  The core statement which really brought it home for me was, “When you’re searching for your passion, it’s important to pursue things that you enjoy for one reason…to find your passion, you need to dedicate yourself to a cause”.  I highly recommend this book to anyone, especially teens and young adults who need to “work out what’s important in their lives, follow their passion and set out on the entrepreneurial path, today!”

Keith LeBlanc RPh.  Social Media Strategy Consultant

One of the challenges of the next decade is how we’re going to create enough jobs -especially for young people. Recession or no recession, the nature of work is changing, workforces are shrinking in the major companies, new patterns are emerging.

The most important is the growth of self-employment and new start-ups.  Already numbers in the US and across Europe are at record highs, and that’s where most of the growth in the employment market is coming from.  Some commentators predict that half the US workforce could be employed in micro-businesses by 2020.

It’s for them that Julia Neiman has written her book, Pick From the Passion Tree – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business.  She challenges young people to work out what’s important in their lives, follow their passion and set out on the entrepreneurial path … today!

Alan Miles, Human Resources Consultant, Achievement Management Specialist

Only 33 hours left to be eligible for the VIP Upgrade at The Youth Empowerment Telesummit.  Take advantage NOW, before the prices increase dramatically!  Own this amazing content filled series that will provide you with practical, easy to implement strategies to engage the tweens, teens and young adults in your life to improve communication, build trust, and empower them with life skills.

5 Ask and Ye Shall Receive – A Mindset

I’m a big believer in the saying, “ask and ye shall receive.”  It works for me every time I need it to.  I also believe that this saying is about the law of attraction and the law of attraction is alive and well in my life.  It’s a mindset that you can develop by making it a habit.

Here’s an example of how it works:

I was talking to someone the other day about listing my books and the CD package from The Youth Empowerment Telesummit on Clickbank.  I’ve tried to list things on Clickbank twice before and messed up both times.  It’s a complicated system with a lot, a lot of rules.  It made my head spin and I let it go.

So after my conversation with my colleague, I said, “I need to find someone who can add these to Clickbank for me.”

Today I was catching up on reading the posts here in the UBC and lo and behold, Shawn Snyder has a post on using Clickbank.  She’s offering a free video she made on how to use it. 

Well, I have no desire to even try it, ever again, but I want to list these products there.  So, I emailed Shawn and said “let’s talk about this.”  I’d rather hire her and have her maneuver through that maze than try to tackle it myself, at least at this time.  I’m learning to outsource, it’s only money after all.

If you are really serious about needing or wanting something, just putting that thought out into the universe will bring it to you.  Have you had this experience?  What do you need that you need to ask for right now?

Only 36 hours left to be eligible for the VIP Upgrade at The Youth Empowerment Telesummit.  Take advantage NOW, before the prices increase dramatically!

6 Ask and Ye Shall Receive

I had a big win today.  I got a quote from Bob Proctor to include in my new book, Pick From the Passion Tree – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business.

Someone asked me how I was able to manage this.  The truth is I just asked.  A few months ago I asked if I could include an excerpt from Bob’s book, You Were Born Rich about attitude.  Bob said what I wanted to say and probably better than I could have said it.  I blindly reached out through his website and connected with his assistant who was able to get permission for me to use the excerpt.

They wanted to see how the piece was being used and what else was with it in the chapter.  I sent it to them immediately and within a short time I received permission to use the excerpt as long as I quoted it properly.

Once that book was finished, I sent the entire book so they could get an idea of what they agreed to be included in, and it was well received.

When I started collecting praise and testimonials for the book, I again reached out and asked for a quote.  I sent a suggestion, a sample really, of what I was looking for and told his assistant when it was scheduled to go to the printer.

Lo and behold, I received an original quote for the “praise” page of the book this morning.

I am a big believer in “ask and ye shall receive.”  If you have don’t ask, the other person doesn’t even have a chance to refuse.

This is a great empowerment lesson for young entrepreneurs and for anyone for that matter.  I learned a great lesson on my first job when I was 18 from a fabulous mentor who was the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation who told me that everyone is approachable except for maybe middle managers as they often have ego issues.   No offense meant to anyone reading this who is, who knows or who was a middle manager.   I think my mentor was referring to the fact that some middle managers are afraid to make the wrong move because they are insecure.

We can see that in coaches and internet marketing in the folks we approach for joint ventures who see us as competitors rather than co-creators so they refuse to be a part of whatever program we are creating.

I would like to encourage you to ask so that you may receive.  Asking often requires suspending your disbelief, being courageous and just going for it.  It gets easier, believe me.  And so what if you get rejected?  Just move on and ask someone else.

Thank you for reading.

If you are interested in hearing some of the speakers from the telesummit, there are a few more days left and the replays will be available until until April 14^th.  We are also pre-selling the recordings with three options at discounted prices.  After April 14^th, the prices go up significantly.  The CD package would make a great unique gift for anyone parenting (Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are coming up), teaching or otherwise working with tweens, teens and young adults.  It would also be perfect for counselors, therapists and coaches who work with families.  You can find out more at http://TheYouthEmpowermentTelesummit.com.

In another note, I am offering a deep discount on my coaching program “The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs” for anyone registered at the telesummit.  That discount is good through April 14^th as well.  Contact me via email at julia@julianeiman.com if you’re interested in more information.

4 More Lessons Learned From Holding a Telesummit

In my last post I talked about learning that I should have been more focused – laser focused on my theme.  While all the interviews were top quality, some were a bit off topic.

The next lesson I learned was that for a first event, it was too big with too many speakers.  I chose to air three calls a week so with 18 speakers, the telesummit ran (is still running actually) for six weeks.  That’s a long time.  It’s is a real challenge to keep people coming back for that long.  On the other hand, it’s a selling point for them to purchase the recordings.

I chose to run three calls a week because I was doing most of the work alone.  With having to conduct the interviews, scheduling them to air, uploading the recordings after each interview, sending out the many emails involved in an event like this, including the daily emails with the replay number, and doing all the promotion, I felt like it was more work than I could do.  (Taking a deep breath here).  I do have other projects I’m working on simultaneously.  That’s why it stretched out to six weeks.

Perhaps for the next one I could either have less interviews or run more than one per day.  If I can afford to hire help to manage this part of it, I can run two interviews a day, five days a week for two or three weeks.  That would be ideal because the more interviews there are the better value for those who purchase the recordings.

At least now I know what is required to have an event like this one and I’ll be able to make better choices next time.

If you are interested in hearing some of the speakers from the telesummit, there are a few more days left and the replays will be available until until April 14^th.  We are also pre-selling the recordings with three options at discounted prices.  After April 14^th, the prices go up significantly.  The CD package would make a great unique gift for anyone parenting (Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are coming up), teaching or otherwise working with tweens, teens and young adults.  It would also be perfect for counselors, therapists and coaches who work with families.  You can find out more at http://TheYouthEmpowermentTelesummit.com.

In another note, I am offering a deep discount on my coaching program “The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs” for anyone registered at the telesummit.  That discount is good through April 14^th as well.  Contact me via email at julia@julianeiman.com if you’re interested in more information.

8 Self Reflection on Lessons Learned

Today I want to talk about the things you need to think about when considering putting together a telesummit.  First of all, if you have done a telesummit before, you know, but if you have never done one, you may not have a realistic picture about how much work this involves.  I went into The Youth Empowerment Telesummit knowing that it would be a lot of work, but oh boy, was I surprised at just how much there was to do and how many things could go wrong.  Perhaps my experience can help you make a good choice in the future.

The First Step:  Finding clarity.

You must start with being clear about the following things before you do anything else: your purpose for the telesummit, your topic or theme and who your target audience is.  Everything else is built around these three questions.

I would have done things a bit differently for The Youth Empowerment Telesummit if I had known what I was doing.  My purpose, which I am happy with, was to bring current trends, strategies and action steps with regard to training life skills to teens and young adults.  That will remain my purpose for the second annual event next year (yes, I am going to do it again).

What I would do differently is to stick more closely to my theme – to be laser focused on it.  I ended up with too many parenting experts talking about parenting strategies rather than life skills strategies.  The guests were all fabulous and I love each and every one of them, however, I allowed the telesummit to get off track by adding the parenting topics.  Well, it was a good lesson learned.  I believe the outcome of that is that some of the content wasn’t that interesting to the life skills professionals in the audience and the life skills professionals are my main target audience for my business, at least for now.

Had I stuck to my topic like super glue, I would have brought in less parents and more life skills professionals and perhaps increased my list much more than I have or at least in a more advantageous way.  And while I have new names on my list, I am concerned that some of these people will never be my clients as they aren’t interested in teaching entrepreneurship to teens and young adults from a life skills perspective.

On the other hand, I did attract some fantastic life skills professionals and a few coaches, one of whom is interested in my coaching program and we have sold several recording packages because after all is said and done, the interviews were really good and had great content, even if they were somewhat off topic.

My advice, if can’t already guess, is be clear on why you are doing a telesummit, what you hope to accomplish and who you are doing this for, and what will it take to get them to come to the event.

More on lessons learned from the telesummit tomorrow.  Thank you for dropping in.

If you are interested in hearing some of the speakers from the telesummit, there are a few more days left and the replays will be available until until April 14^th.  We are also pre-selling the recordings with three options at discounted prices.  After April 14^th, the prices go up significantly.  The CD package would make a great unique gift for anyone parenting (Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are coming up), teaching or otherwise working with tweens, teens and young adults.  It would also be perfect for counselors, therapists and coaches who work with families.  You can find out more at http://TheYouthEmpowermentTelesummit.com.

In another note, I am offering a deep discount on my coaching program “The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs” for anyone registered at the telesummit.  That discount is good through April 14^th as well.

2 Success is Relative

Day Two of the UBC.  No need to leave a comment today – that function is still being fixed.

Currently, I am hosting The Youth Empowerment Telesummit.  It’s a gathering of 18 parenting and life skills professionals who are talking about current trends and strategies in parenting and life skills training.  The interviews have been great and the information shared is fantastic.  In that aspect, it was a huge success.

However, success is relative – relative to what the goals are.  Obviously the overall mission was to get this information out to the people who need it – parents, teachers, coaches, mentors and anyone really who works with tweens, teens and young adults.   One of the business objectives was to add 1000 names to my list.  That didn’t happen.  There was a gain for certain, but not anywhere close to 1000.  Considering some of the speakers, that was an entirely obtainable number.

So what happened that we didn’t have a lot more registrations?  After all, the event was free and we offered replays.  Well, some of the speakers may not have promoted as much as they could have, I think that much is obvious.  Some simply clicked like every time I put something on the Facebook page.  I started posting on the speakers’ Facebook pages and that always got one or two more registrations.

Could it have been the copy?  Very possible.   I used to be a great writer, now not so much.  My coach and fellow classmates have been great about feedback and suggestions.  I sort of have to march to my drum because my business isn’t about helping others break through to seven figures or get more clients.  I am trying to attract the people I mentioned above.   Maybe I didn’t make it interesting enough.  Most days, it was all I could do to get those emails out with the call in information and replay links.

The event isn’t over yet and I’ll continue to analyze the numbers and figure out why there wasn’t more participation.  I can say I learned a lot of lessons so far and there are more to be learned before this over.   The feedback from those who listened to the talks was very positive and that makes me feel great.  The Youth Empowerment Telesummit website turned out great – the art work was from Fiverr, and the graphic for the CD package we’re selling looks great.   All the systems I need to do this again are in place so there will be a lot less work involved for the next time.  I’ve developed some great relationships from this project and added to my professional network and support system.  So all in all, I think this was a huge success and there will be a next time.

So what does this have to do with empowering young adults to develop an entrepreneur mindset?  I’m sharing my experience so they can see what is involved and how to look at things that don’t work out the way you want them to.  There’s success even in things that don’t work out exactly the way you want them to and it’s all about attitude.

I will be blogging more about the event and may even turn this into a Kindle single entitled How To Have a Telesummit Without Exploding Your Head.

If you are interested in The Youth Empowerment Telesummit, you can find the link here – http://TheYouthEmpowermentTelesummit.com.  And you can also reach it from our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Youth-Empowerment-Telesummit/158566284296005.

If you’d like to purchase the recording of the event, you can find that information on either one of those pages and be eligible for our VIP discount through April 14^th when the price will increase by a lot.

0 Introducing Myself on Day One of the Blog Challenge

  So, here I sit on day one of the new blog challenge asking myself why I am doing this.  Why did I take on this challenge again and commit myself to write a post every day when I have too much to do already?  I’ll tell you what I told myself,

“You are about to launch your dream program Julia, you need to get the word out, you need to create activity on your site.  You need to raise awareness about the program, you need to be in massive action.  What better way than the blog challenge!”

Well, the blog challenge is only one way I am using to spread the word.  Some of you may not know me, maybe this is your first challenge or you didn’t see my posts the last time around.  So please let me tell you a bit about myself and my program.

I am a change agent, a youth empowerment coach whose mission it is to have a significantly positive impact on the global youth unemployment crisis.  With the permission of one of my coaches, Rich German of Epic Coach Academy, I adapted his program, Monetize Your Passion to create a youth version, The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs.

The program is designed to help young people develop an entrepreneur mindset and empower them to start a business either on the internet or using internet marketing.  It’s a no brainer for our current economic and unemployment situation.   I am a life skills professional and this program contains many life skills that can be applied in many areas of a young person’s life.  With the proper guidance, they can actually start a business within the time frame of the program.

You can learn more about the program by visiting my home page for now.  I am in the process of creating a new page just for The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs.  It is for life skills professionals, nonprofits that service teens and young adults, teachers and coaches who have youth clients, coach adults who work with youth, or who want to have a youth-centered business.

Included in the program materials are my two books, 31 Powerful Lessons Empowering Teens and Young Adults to Develop An Entrepreneur Mindet and Pick From the Passion Tree – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business (the printed versions), a client workbook, a trainers guide and several interviews with business folks meant as inspiration and information.  Two of the interviews are from people you know – Michele Scism and Michelle Shaeffer, our lovely hosts for this challenge.

I wrote both of those books using the posts from two blog challenges.  That’s right, I did.  As of the July 2012 challenge I had no desire to write a book, I just wanted to create the program.  After fifteen days into the challenge, I realized a book was writing itself and within forty-five days of starting the challenge, the first book, 31 Powerful Lessons was published and being sold on my site and on Kindle.  We were a top seller on Kindle for a while with over 400 copies downloaded on the first day of the free download period.  I’ve since taken the book off of Kindle because I don’t like their policy that you can’t use the digital book for ninety days.

Aside from the new program, I am wrapping up The Youth Empowerment Telesummit that includes 18 speakers talking about current trends and strategies in parenting and life skills training.  The telesummit is available until April 14^th and we are offering deeply discounted prices on the pre-sale of the recordings from that event.  After April 14, the prices increase by quite a bit.  If you are interested in The Youth Empowerment Telesummit, you can learn more by clicking here.  If you request a Free Pass to the telesummit, you can download 31 Powerful Lessons (wink, wink) for free by clicking on the gift icon next to my name. By the way, all the speakers are offering a free gift so you can download those as well.

As if all that wasn’t enough, I am co-hosting the August 2013 Global Presence Humanitarian  Dinner Event in Los Angeles.  This is a global organization founded by Marlaine Cover of Parenting 2.0.  I am very proud to be a part of this amazing organization that changing the paradigm for teaching life skills.

So, now you know what I’m up to.  Busy, busy, busy.  Yet here I am, blogging for the blog challenge, committed to submitting a post a day for the month of April.  I may focus this month’s posts on how to have a telesummit.  How does 28 Steps to have a successful telesummit sound to you?

What have I done to myself???

6 Inspiration Sunday Part 2

So I just realized that I posted Sunday’s article on Saturday.  Well, it was Sunday in other places in the world already.  Anyway, I decided to use this mistake to catch up as I was a post behind schedule in the blog challenge.

Rather than write a new article, I’m going to go with another Sunday inspiration and that will put me back on track.

This one highlights the differences between successful and unsuccessful people in a way that makes sense in a basic way.

I want to apologize to the creator of this graphic.  I found it on Facebook and didn’t realize that it didn’t have a credit on the graphic and now I can’t find it again to see who created it.  Sorry.  I’ll be happy to provide the credit when I find it.

6 Inspiration Sunday

I’m starting something new for my blog – Inspiration Sunday.  Posts will include quotes, or photos or stories or something meant to provide inspiration for entrepreneurs.

I hope you enjoy this picture and are inspired by it.