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15.March.2010
Volume 5,
Issue 9
ISSN 1942-0048
Empowerment for
Every Facet of Life
Opportunities, News, Resources & Insights

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Hello and Welcome to EditCopyProof's outpouring of valuable information to propel your business and inspire your soul.

Every edition contains an eclectic compilation of empowerment tools. Whatever happens during the week ends up in this empowerment-based newsletter.

You are in the yawn-free zone when this publication arrives in your mailbox because I promise to deliver the best of the best. Take what works for you and discard the rest.

Business and pleasure. Pleasure and business. The lines cross so frequently for entrepreneurs, it's often impossible to separate the two. They blend so beautifully, why even try?

That's the basis of this publication. You get a full dose of empowerment; business-related topics as well as content having nothing at all to do with business. You will find something to enhance and enrich your life. Enjoy!

In This Edition
by 'Conscious' Copywriter and Empowerment Mentor, Charlon Bobo   CharlonHeadShot2





Another inspired week is upon us. Empowering you with direct resources to conscious business principles, real-world processes, cutting-edge developments, and personal inspirations, this week's features include:

  1. PROFESSIONAL EMPOWERMENT - Getting paid what you're worth takes many forms
  2. AUTHOR EMPOWERMENT - Everything you need to know to write your own eBook
  3. PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT - What do a question and a funnel have in common? YOU!
  4. FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK - St. Patrick's Day is NOT just another day



Charlon Bobo is the best-selling author, and founder and team leader of EditCopyProof | Wordsmithing Solutions for Conscious Entrepreneurs. Proficient in many diverse writing roles, her expertise spans more than 25 years. This solid foundation offers you a single and final destination in your quest for extraordinary press-ready services.

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Engage and enchant your audience with heart-focused copywriting by implementing the 7 Elemental Facets; a 21-page compilation illuminating everything you need to easily create captivating marketing materials. Download this complimentary feature and your bonus audios/eBooks/articles at EditCopyProof.com

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Professional Empowerment
original article by Charlon Bobo   Get paid what you're worth... with creative payment methods and terms

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There are many ways to be compensated for your time and expertise. If you are a service provider, you may meet a new colleague, have a strong mutual desire to work together, but need to be creative in terms of being paid.

The possibilities are limitless. Combinations are myriad. Here are a few options to get you started:
  1. 15% discount for prepayment in full
  2. Purchase 3, pay for 2 (1 free)
  3. 50% deposit, balance paid in products or services
  4. 50% deposit, balance paid in marketing efforts to promote your business
  5. 50% deposit, balance due in two payments instead of the usual full balance due at project completion
  6. 50% deposit, 50% of all sales until the balance due is paid in full
  7. 50% deposit, balance paid in products or services by someone they know (e.g. I provide you services, you provide your products/services to someone you know who offers massages. I receive a message! Yay! It's a beneficial triangle of services.)

You'll notice a theme: 50% deposit in cash.

Because money is the culturally agreed-on method of exchange, that is a solid foundation for your business relationship. The 50% deposit represents your commitment to start projects with a universally-understood practice. The rest is negotiable.

Keep in mind that your intent is to create a win-win scenario. Each party must contribute to the workability of the exchange. If you find you're the only one giving or compromising during the negotiations, it is not an energetically balanced interaction. If you proceed, you will unnecessarily set other dynamics in motion-even if they are subtle-regarding unclear or unspecified boundaries.

The last place you want to find yourself is feeling compromised. Your services have value. Treat them that way by continuing to massage the details until you both have what you need to make it a dynamic, workable arrangement.

When both parties give, both parties benefit.

Author Empowerment
  EditCopyProof launches new eBook

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Did you get your copy yet?

Write Your eBook Using a Trusted and Proven System While Maintaining Your Busy Life is a comprehensive step-by-step guide and workbook to ensure a marketable and income-generating eBook using reliable insider copywriting, ghostwriting & online marketing techniques.

Even before its official release, it was referred to as, "Much more than an eBook, it's a full course in eBook writing." The word is out in the mainstream: see the news coverage.

Whether you use the eBook writing system for personal expression or business growth, the information in its 150+ pages is easy to follow and implement. If you've carried around the idea of writing an eBook, now is the perfect time to bring that dream to reality.

Listen to a 48-minute audio interview highlighting the merits of Write Your eBook.

To purchase your copy click here.

Personal Empowerment
original article by Charlon Bobo   Y: The question and the funnel

The Question

We often ask ourselves "Why?" Why this? Why that? Why now? Why me?

These wonderings usually involve extreme impact of some kind:
  • Why did I lose my job?
  • Why did my child get sick?
  • Why didn't I foresee losing my retirement money in the stock market?
  • Why was the timing of the auto accident so soon after the death of my father?
  • Why does my longtime acquaintance seem disinterested in continuing our friendship?
  • Why have there been a string of circumstances that have evaporated the solid foundation of my life?
  • Why has my business so completely changed that I have no reliable monthly income?

Although it's common to wonder about the whys of life, this exploration is the ultimate distraction. In the end, if you had the answer to the question, would it matter? Does knowing change anything? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Why is it a distraction? Because it only prolongs the inevitable: taking the next step toward regaining your soulful stability; your groundedness; the conscious creation of that which positions you securely in your personal power.

I submit that the only why question worthy of your attention is: Why not?

That leads me to...

The Funnel

If you go outside, turn your face toward the heavens and lift your arms, your body forms a Y. This is the ultimate representation of surrender, willingness, openness or welcoming, depending on your mindset and heartset.

Do you realize that this is also the shape of a funnel? From this position, the Universe can pour its very essence directly into you: all that is goodness, abundance, opportunity, joy, etc. Amassing in the ether and narrowing into a direct stream, if you are open and allow this influx directly from Source, you can be transformed.

When you look at the vastness of the sky, and allow yourself to be engulfed, you are too transfixed by the magnitude to wonder why this? or why that? You don't have answers to the questions of why me? or why now?, but you don't need them. When you really think about it, all of that is irrelevant in the grand scope of all that is. Besides, you may never know anyway, so why even pose the question? Why invest the time and energy in something that simply is? Instead, allow whatever is to be okay as-is.

The next time your mind naturally goes to the question of why?, consciously shift it to why not?:
  • Why not embrace what is?
  • Why not allow myself to surrender to my current circumstances?
  • Why not operate from a position of knowing that all is well, regardless of external situations?
  • Why not pursue my biggest dreams?
  • Why not give myself the gift of all that is accessible?
  • Why not be grateful for the events in my life, especially when I don't understand why?
  • Why not try something new?
  • Why not completely change my perspective to view life as a process?
  • Why not admit I don't know everything?
  • Why not treat myself with the kindness I gladly give to others?

Why not, indeed!

From the Editor's Desk
Charlon Bobo   Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

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I don't know why, but I don't question it. I just raise my arms to the heavens in gratitude for Irish dancing, corned beef and cabbage, and Irish coffee with homemade Irish Cream!

Come St. Patrick's Day evening, I will be nestled comfortably in the front row of my favorite local music hall, watching Irish dancing and listening to my favorite Irish band; in my absolute bliss.

I hope you seek out your own bliss today!

In Sisterhood, Light & Love,




 

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