Wednesday, February 25, 2009

24 Hour Internet Talk Radio Marathon Celebrates Small Business Marketing Survival Series with Messages from Small Business Owners!Blog title...

During a 24 Hour Talk Radio Marathon to introduce the “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing”, Part 1 of the Small Business Marketing Survival Series by Kim Power Stilson, she and co-host, Tom Egan will share the messages of 50 small business owners.

Tom Egan and Kim Power Stilson, hosts of the new Web Campus World Wide (WcWW) talk radio show devoted to sharing 21st Century tools with small business owners who want to market and sell online will talk for 24 hours (2 days at 12 hours a day) as a launch for “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing and what it can do to teach small business owners a strategy in 24 Hours as part of her Small Business Marketing Survival Series!

They will interview small business owners 12 hours straight for 2 days in a row! Thursday and Friday, February 26th and 27th! You can join them by listening on www.planetarystreams.com.

Tresia Korich: Style Inn Motion
Suzette Caplin, Becky Cox: doTERRA Essential Wellness
Brandon Allen: Build Your Soul
Bob Craghaed: Intrinsic Motivators
Brad and Jillian Jensen
Roger Preble: People Skills In A Box
Darren Schmidt, Krust Buster
Caroline Updike: Feeling Fabulous
Jacqueline Edwards | Business Solutions Analyst
Shahar Boyayan: Buzz Boost
Carolla Blackham: Mainspring Day Spa
Donna: Busy BEEVAS
Vince Blackham: Primary Affect
Pam Robinson: Institute of Healing
Veronica Chapman: ProDigital Photos
Jana Dahl: ITEX
Rand Bateman:BATEMAN IP LAW GROUP
Lawrence Law: Advnatage Credit
Carroll King Schuller
Nate Stockard
Michael Andrews: a Robert Workman company
Bryan Bliss: Netmentor
Alex Bigney's Talking to Tesla
Jeremy Albrecht: Info Genix
Sally Witzky
Jerrilynn B. Thomas

The 24 Talk Radio Marathon is focused on giving Small Business Owners a chance to learn 21st Century tools so they can successfully market and sell.

“Business owners are interested learning how to sell their services online with tools like social media and Internet marketing,” said Kim Power Stilson. “So we decided to launch the new Small Business Marketing Survival Series with the premiere Social Media tool, Internet talk radio!”

This Small Business Marketing Survival Series is available online on www.powerstratgies.TV and the Web Campus World Wide online education site, wcww.com.

“Once you have a plan, a strategy and you know what you need to do then you run out of excuses to not take the time to market and sell,” said Kim Power Stilson. “With each marketing effort company owners gain a little more success. With consistent efforts like even 24 hours a month focused on marketing, they will see real results in the areas of increased name awareness and sales.”

24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Part 1 of the Small Business Marketing Survival Series is offered online as, a robust video, audio, Internet, Web, Social Media & Marketing certified education course on Web Campus World Wide.

For Free Media trial contact: Anne Roberts at chad@powerstrategies.TV or 801-691-4588.
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About Kim Power Stilson:
Founder of Power Strategies, Inc., Kim Power Stilson, is the author of 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing and the Small Business Survival Series.
Her professional marketing background includes over 17 years experience and a proven track record of success. She has created marketing positioning campaigns based on her own copyrighted Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh marketing strategy to build name awareness and speed up the sales process hundreds of companies delivering award-winning campaigns to national and international audiences for at 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of $50 million plus.
About Tom Egan:
Co-host with Kim Power Stilson on the new Web Campus World Wide talk radio show devoted to sharing 21st Cnetury tools with small business owners who want to market and sell online. Tom Egan is an eCommerce Multi Channel Leader with 16 years of Internet and eCommerce experience in the areas of Internet marketing and distribution using current technology, with an extensive background in the underlying technology as a consultant to diverse hospitality, computer system, telecommunications, military, and industrial organizations, with extensive

About Power Strategies, Inc:
Power Strategies is a Social Media, PR, Web & Internet Marketing Strategies Company providing Education, Marketing Consultation and Public Relations Services to women and family owned businesses and corporations in the United States and Ireland. www.powerstrategies.TV

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Happy Single Awareness Day

Or at least that is what my single daughter calls it! wWowowowowo!

Friday, February 13, 2009

We can lean on friends!

Last night I needed a solution to a tough problem. I thought of a friend I “used to know” someone I hadn’t talked to in a while, someone I knew who might help me find a solution. I looked for her in my phone address book and texted a note to her, “Is this you?” meaning I hoped it was the right friend. She texted, “yep it’s me!” and I shared my problem with her though we hadn’t talked in months. The next morning she texted back the solution to my problem, not just advice, but the entire solution. I was amazed! Grateful! I asked (as our polite moms taught us) what I could do for her and she texted, “Kim that is what friends are for! If we don’t have friends to lean on during these tough times we won’t make it, we won’t survive. I am happy to help!”
She then went on to share how tough things have been for her, her husband laid off and a failed business partnership. I asked what I could do for her and she said, “If I think of anything I will let you know!”
Now here is something important to note the solution she had provided for me was within her line of work, something she could charge for, and she did let me know that if I needed more than that she would charge me but she was happy to do what she did for me, gratis, for a friend this time, for free. “Why would you do that?” I asked. She said, it was simple didn’t take much time and she knew I needed help. If I needed more she would send rates, but again she was happy to help and (get this) glad I called or well texted.
I thought about her this morning, a friend I “used to know” was there for me, when I needed her, to support me without a price. I wondered if I was that kind of friend and I hoped so. I think her text words are so accurate now, perhaps, more than ever before in recent history with all the bad things happening around us. “If we don’t have each other to lean on how do we survive?”
I love her words, she is right. We need each other. Thanks to Social Media and the Internet and Web we can reconnect with old friends. We can talk like we used to when we met in the halls or at the store and say, “how are you?” “How’s work?” “cheer up” “I know someone who could help you with that!” in ways that were constricted by geography only a few years before. Now I can see what my “used to know” best friend from high school is having for lunch just be reading her Facebook wall. Thanks to Social Media we are all in contact again.
So, today, after that great experience with my friend, I want to make sure I am that kind of friend too. Whether you “used to know” me or whether we talk daily, I want you to know I am here if you need a friend to lean on. Whether you need a new recipe, advice on raising giant dogs, or a little marketing and advertising help! Here is what I can do to help, if you ever want or need it. Obviously, I do Social Media and marketing along with a weekly talk radio show about business. I once had a friend interview on the show, no cost to her, and she sold 12 of her quilt making kits. Maybe not a lot of sales, and I surely can’t promise, but it helped her pay that month’s bills. So, if you need a little extra help marketing, I can help in this way . . . I can share advice, I can give you Free advertising or interview you on my talk radio show, I can edit or write if you need a quick hand, you can lean on me, first time free.
Perhaps you don’t need that kind of help? I don’t have many other talents, certainly not singing, but I can put together tasty, inexpensive Crockpot meals or desserts in 2 minutes or less. I am a good listener. I may know someone who needs someone like you to hire. I may not be able to give you a solution but I probably know someone who can. In those ways and any other you may be able to think of, like my “used to know” friend, am happy to help! Now having written that I am going to challenge you, as a good friend would, to share your talents, if you want and if you can! What can you do to ease another’s burden? If we don’t have each other to lean on, how do we survive? It’s just a thought I came up with this morning, and it is up to you!
Either way, I want you to know I care, you can text me anytime and ask “Is this you?” and you can be sure of reaching a friend you “used to know” who loves you still and will help if she can!

If we don’t have each other to lean on, how do we survive?

Last night I needed a solution to a tough problem. I thought of a friend I "used to know" someone I hadn't talked to in a while, someone I knew who might help me find a solution. I looked for her in my phone address book and texted a note to her, "Is this you?" meaning I hoped it was the right friend. She texted, "yep it's me!" and I shared my problem with her though we hadn't talked in months. The next morning she texted back the solution to my problem, not just advice, but the entire solution. I was amazed! Grateful! I asked (as our polite moms taught us) what I could do for her and she texted, "Kim that is what friends are for! If we don't have friends to lean on during these tough times we won't make it, we won't survive. I am happy to help!"

She then went on to share how tough things have been for her, her husband laid off and a failed business partnership. I asked what I could do for her and she said, "If I think of anything I will let you know!"

Now here is something important to note the solution she had provided for me was within her line of work, something she could charge for, and she did let me know that if I needed more than that she would charge me but she was happy to do what she did for me, gratis, for a friend this time, for free. "Why would you do that?" I asked. She said, it was simple didn't take much time and she knew I needed help. If I needed more she would send rates, but again she was happy to help and (get this) glad I called or well texted.

I thought about her this morning, a friend I "used to know" was there for me, when I needed her, to support me without a price. I wondered if I was that kind of friend and I hoped so. I think her text words are so accurate now, perhaps, more than ever before in recent history with all the bad things happening around us. "If we don't have each other to lean on how do we survive?"

I love her words, she is right. We need each other. Thanks to Social Media and the Internet and Web we can reconnect with old friends. We can talk like we used to when we met in the halls or at the store and say, "how are you?" "How's work?" "cheer up" "I know someone who could help you with that!" in ways that were constricted by geography only a few years before. Now I can see what my "used to know" best friend from high school is having for lunch just be reading her Facebook wall. Thanks to Social Media we are all in contact again.

So, today, after that great experience with my friend, I want to make sure I am that kind of friend too. Whether you "used to know" me or whether we talk daily, I want you to know I am here if you need a friend to lean on. Whether you need a new recipe, advice on raising giant dogs, or a little marketing and advertising help! Here is what I can do to help, if you ever want or need it. Obviously, I do Social Media and marketing along with a weekly talk radio show about business. I once had a friend interview on the show, no cost to her, and she sold 12 of her quilt making kits. Maybe not a lot of sales, and I surely can't promise, but it helped her pay that month's bills. So, if you need a little extra help marketing, I can help in this way . . . I can share advice, I can give you Free advertising or interview you on my talk radio show, I can edit or write if you need a quick hand, you can lean on me, first time free.

Perhaps you don't need that kind of help? I don't have many other talents, certainly not singing, but I can put together tasty, inexpensive Crockpot meals or desserts in 2 minutes or less. I am a good listener. I may know someone who needs someone like you to hire. I may not be able to give you a solution but I probably know someone who can. In those ways and any other you may be able to think of, like my "used to know" friend, am happy to help! Now having written that I am going to challenge you, as a good friend would, to share your talents, if you want and if you can! What can you do to ease another's burden? If we don't have each other to lean on, how do we survive? It's just a thought I came up with this morning, and it is up to you!

Either way, I want you to know I care, you can text me anytime and ask "Is this you?" and you can be sure of reaching a friend you "used to know" who loves you still and will help if she can!

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Dawn Before the Storm

It is Saturday morning . . . the sky is that whitish back shade that let's you know the day is coming. My husband has left to take the LSAT . . . for the second time . . . and the kids and the dogs and my brother and his wife and baby are all still blessedly asleep. The house is quiet. The mountain hovering over our neighborhood of houses on the hill is motionless waiting to watch the bustle of the day. I am calm. There is no phone, no instant messaging, no emails. Only the written voices and posted faces of friends and colleagues on Facebook to distract me if I wanted to dive into social company at this early hour. I choose instead, for now, to write. Lately I have been in the school of hard knocks. It has been a period of time that has containted death , destruction and almost every trial in between. A period of time I have not been able to title til last night when my husband suggested that we were in some sort of training ground, not ulike a college education process . . . thuse the school of hard knocks came to my mind as a perfect title. A way to put a name of the un understandable fates that have plagued me. I won't bore you with the details of loosing loved ones, businesses, pain, and suffering, you have those details of your own. Maybe not in the time frame of the last few years but you have had them. And I am sure as you have struggled you have struggled with the faith to believe that there is and end. I have daily gotten out of bed, prayed for that day to bring a solution, a light, a reminder of miracles and still the suffering continues. On some days hope will spring in the form of a friends suggestion, a song on the radio, a positive opportunity, a hand out of love, and then some days there is nothing but the trudge through hours. People say, "look on the bright side" "the glass is half full" "there is a silver lining" and "the hour is only darkest before dawn." I hear this and I believe it was for them and others in this world, but I still wrestle with the hope that it applies to me. Does the Lord grow tired of listening to pleas? Did they call the line just before me? I guess I worried about that til we came up with the title for our period of duress. the school of hard knocks. If your life is almost unbearable and things for now are out of control and hard to understand then I suggest doing what I have done. I am pretending I am enrolled in a course, in my case a hefty college course. My education includes experience learning to turn grief, loss, scarcity, lonliness, sadness, rejection, being squased, effort resulting in nothing, hurtfulness of others, effort returning exhaustion and nothing else, pain (yes, all of that) into the title of education. Yes, I am experiencing a world class education from which I will graduate someday . . . soon I hope. As I go through the school of hard knocks I only advance each course as I do my homework, complete my assisgnments and pass the test. I learn what I learn and then advance. Each course is a hardship which I must live through and overcome. I must learn something and apply it to my life. My attitude as I go along affects the outcome of my grade, like the citizenship grades of the past. If I handle myself with good grace my grade is better. Some of my classes have lasted longer than a semester and some of my classes I have had to repeat. Obviously not learning the first time what I needed to learned I was flunked and sent through course D of hard knocks again. Some courses I aced immediately, painful or not I recognized the subject lesson and passed the test. Now as I write this the pink shades of dawn have stretched out over the sky turning it from whitish to pale blue and I see why so many people find the dawn worth waiting for. It is lovely. Lovely like graduation day from the school of hard knocks. Now, if you like me worried that that school of hard knocks was a life long education, never fear, it is not. Just like the series of educations you receive through life it comes in a time period which has a beginning and an end. Think of elementary school, high school . . . it seemed to go on forever but when you had learned what you were meant to you graduated, triumphed and gloriously went on to the next phase of your education or your life. The school of hard knocks come to those who need pass through a deep education before going on the next stage of their life. Unlike a college education you don't get to choose when you take it, the school of hard knocks enrolls you when it's time. Sometimes this education starts simply and almsot without notice and then sometimes you are enrolled into the toughest classes, like calculus was a nightmare for me, immediately. I was enrolled in the school of hard knocks a few years ago, the first lessons were loss and death. (Yes I started with the tough classes. I guess someone thought I needed to get those classes out of the way.) And I have gone on to take others in love, life, busimess, pain and stress. A few of my classes have been fun, like the elective classes you get to choose. I have learned sharing, art, and even scuba. Yet now somehow I feel my education is nearing completion. I don't know how I know but something inside me, like the beginnings of the dawn outside, tells me that this round of education in the school of hard knocks is nearly complete. I will graduate soon (I hope) to experience a time of joy, success, advancement. After school comes the application process, learning what I have applied and proving my teachers right or wrong about whether or not I was ready to graduate. When I graduate from the school of hard knocks there won't be a cap and gown, pomp and circumstance, no ceremony. I will know I have graduated when bit by bit I can breath again, when success comes my way and allows for relaxation from worry, and rooom for overflowing joy. Remember the heavy class loads of each semester in school and the relief that comes with passing the final test in each class? Now compare that to the real final relief of graduating! Leaving the education behind. When I graduated from high school I knew I had college ahead, but to finally be done with the series of lessons learned and some of the teachers was an incredibly freeing feeling. Sure I would miss the friends I made there, but I didn't have to leave them, I could take them with me as I carried off my diploma! Graduating finally from the school of hard knocks doesn't mean there aren't other education series' ahead of you. It just means you passed this one. It means you learned what you had to learn in that part of your life enough to graduate and move on! Like the dawn after a very dark hour, you realize again that all is right with the world and that you have the tools to live well with. You have the education that showed you that you could survive the experiences. You now can move on. You have graduated. If I have learned anything from the school of hard knocks I have learned to appreciate abundance. The abundance of opportunities to smile with you kids every day to the abundance of real financial freedom to the abundance of dawns that keep coming, morning after morning, enrolled in school or not. When I graduate I will let you know, because I am going to throw a really really big party! Kim Power Stilson

Friday, February 6, 2009

Successful Business tells story on Kim's radio show at NOON mountain

Tifie’s Robert Workman and First-time home buying expert Pam Montero on Power Strategies Social Media Radio

February 6, 2009 –The Internet & Provo, UT– Social media talk radio host, Kim Power Stilson, announced today that she will be interviewing Tifie Humanitarian founder Robert Workman and first-time home buyer expert Pam Montero today on “Power Strategies -- Talk with the best about how to boost your business to a better bottom line!” at 12:00 p.m. mountain and 7 p.m. in Ireland. (Log on and listen live at www.planetarystreams.com or www.myexpertsolution.com. To enjoy repeat Internet streaming casts throughout next week, see show schedule.)

Power Strategies’ first guest, Robert Workman, is nationally recognized for both his business and humanitarian endeavors. Robert began his career with a small business that is now the nationally recognized corporation, Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. In 2007, he formed the Tifie Humanitarian, a non-profit organization. Tifie operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help individuals form jobs in their own areas, ensuring a brighter future by eradicating poverty and creating thriving trade and commerce. The organization believes in lifting up the human spirit by supporting institutions such as orphanages, renovating and building schools, sponsoring youth activities, and encouraging other programs designed to strengthen the family and the community.

The second guest on today’s show, Pam Montero, with 25 years of customer services experience, is a real estate agent that specializes in finding single family residences, townhomes, condos for first time homebuyers. Today she will talk about the newest opportunities for first-time home buyers and their essential place in our new economy.

Power Strategies Talk Radio Show features the successes and challenges of small business owners, it was first aired in 2002 on KSTAR 1400 AM and has grown to include syndication to Internet radio. Re-launched in 2008, our Power Strategies Show will be broadcast to syndicate stations, re-streamed on the Internet and archived. Listenership is based on live and repeat archived, syndicated and re-streamed. Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com and www.myexpertsolution.com. Check their Website schedules or listen LIVE every Friday 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time and 7-9 p.m. in Ireland. To be a guest please contact kim@powerstrategies.TV. To see show information visit www.powerstrategies.TV or visit syndication sites at www.planetarystreams.com or myexpertsolution.com.

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About Tifie Humanitarian: Tifie Humanitarian is a non-profit organization formed on the idea that all individuals deserve the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. Our organization consists of people working together to create hope for a more prosperous future by teaching and providing the resources needed to enable long-term enterprises. For more information, please visit www.tifie.org or contact, tifiehumanitarian@tifie.org.

About Pam Montero: Pam has been a real estate agent for seven years. She loves working with first time home buyers. They are always so eager to learn the home buying process and excited about achieving the American dream. She strives to develop ongoing relationships with my clients. Originally from Houston, Texas Pam moved to Utah in 1996. Before venturing into real estate, Pam worked for Continental Airlines for almost 14 years starting out in reservations and on to various customer service positions. Pam also worked as a trainer, team leader, gate agent and ticket counter agent. In 2002, she got her real estate license and in 2004, she jumped into real estate full time after leaving Continental. Pam says she never regretted it!

About Kim Power Stilson: Kim Power Stilson has helped over 50,000 small and women-owned businesses promote their products and services online. Recognized as a pioneer of Internet Talk Radio and online social communications and marketing for women, Kim Power Stilson speaks as an expert to universities and associations about her award-winning Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh© a duplicatable marketing formula that now has delivered 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of over $150 million to global clients. The talk radio host for seven years of the Healthy Wealthy Wow (terrestrial and Internet syndicated) Kim is the new Internet talk radio, host of “Fresh Success radio!” on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com) and “Power Strategies . . . Market your business to better bottom line!” talk radio show on the global expert aggregator, MyExpertSolution.com. For more information please visit, www.powerstrategies.TV or contact kim@powerstrategies.TV.

Kim interviews Robert Workman and Pam Montero on Radio today

Tifie's Robert Workman and First-time home buying expert Pam Montero on Power Strategies Social Media Radio


 

February 6, 2009 –The Internet & Provo, UT– Social media talk radio host, Kim Power Stilson, announced today that she will be interviewing Tifie Humanitarian founder Robert Workman and first-time home buyer expert Pam Montero today on "Power Strategies -- Talk with the best about how to boost your business to a better bottom line!" at 12:00 p.m. mountain and 7 p.m. in Ireland. (Log on and listen live at www.planetarystreams.com or www.myexpertsolution.com. To enjoy repeat Internet streaming casts throughout next week, see show schedule.)


 

Power Strategies' first guest, Robert Workman, is nationally recognized for both his business and humanitarian endeavors. Robert began his career with a small business that is now the nationally recognized corporation, Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. In 2007, he formed the Tifie Humanitarian, a non-profit organization. Tifie operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help individuals form jobs in their own areas, ensuring a brighter future by eradicating poverty and creating thriving trade and commerce. The organization believes in lifting up the human spirit by supporting institutions such as orphanages, renovating and building schools, sponsoring youth activities, and encouraging other programs designed to strengthen the family and the community.


 

The second guest on today's show, Pam Montero, with 25 years of customer services experience, is a real estate agent that specializes in finding single family residences, townhomes, condos for first time homebuyers. Today she will talk about the newest opportunities for first-time home buyers and their essential place in our new economy.


 

Power Strategies Talk Radio Show features the successes and challenges of small business owners, it was first aired in 2002 on KSTAR 1400 AM and has grown to include syndication to Internet radio. Re-launched in 2008, our Power Strategies Show will be broadcast to syndicate stations, re-streamed on the Internet and archived. Listenership is based on live and repeat archived, syndicated and re-streamed. Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com and www.myexpertsolution.com. Check their Website schedules or listen LIVE every Friday 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time and 7-9 p.m. in Ireland. To be a guest please contact kim@powerstrategies.TV. To see show information visit www.powerstrategies.TV or visit syndication sites at www.planetarystreams.com or myexpertsolution.com.


 

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About Tifie Humanitarian: Tifie Humanitarian is a non-profit organization formed on the idea that all individuals deserve the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. Our organization consists of people working together to create hope for a more prosperous future by teaching and providing the resources needed to enable long-term enterprises. For more information, please visit www.tifie.org or contact, tifiehumanitarian@tifie.org.


 

About Pam Montero: Pam has been a real estate agent for seven years. She loves working with first time home buyers. They are always so eager to learn the home buying process and excited about achieving the American dream. She strives to develop ongoing relationships with my clients. Originally from Houston, Texas Pam moved to Utah in 1996. Before venturing into real estate, Pam worked for Continental Airlines for almost 14 years starting out in reservations and on to various customer service positions. Pam also worked as a trainer, team leader, gate agent and ticket counter agent. In 2002, she got her real estate license and in 2004, she jumped into real estate full time after leaving Continental. Pam says she never regretted it!


 

About Kim Power Stilson: Kim Power Stilson has helped over 50,000 small and women-owned businesses promote their products and services online. Recognized as a pioneer of Internet Talk Radio and online social communications and marketing for women, Kim Power Stilson speaks as an expert to universities and associations about her award-winning Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh© a duplicatable marketing formula that now has delivered 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of over $150 million to global clients. The talk radio host for seven years of the Healthy Wealthy Wow (terrestrial and Internet syndicated) Kim is the new Internet talk radio, host of "Fresh Success radio!" on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com) and "Power Strategies . . . Market your business to better bottom line!" talk radio show on the global expert aggregator, MyExpertSolution.com. For more information please visit, www.powerstrategies.TV or contact kim@powerstrategies.TV.