Your Likeable Email Marketing Expert
I offered a webinar on Monday, 1.27.14 – Getting Started with Email Marketing (and Facebook/LinkedIn tips & tricks). If you’re curious – here’s the link – have a watch! Btw, it’s 2.8.18 – and most of this information is still very accurate and useful to this day! 4.2.2021 – Still relevant now.
If you’d like to take advantage of the website/email template offer that I mention in the webinar, start here.
In the spirit of sharing our creative energy and knowledge with one another. I have gathered together with Michele Brooks, David Franklin and Noelani Rodriguez to bring you part one of Our Community University. We all have interesting and important skills to share and I intend to create a series of gatherings for that purpose. Since many of us have daytime hours free it makes sense to use that time to learn, compare notes, network, and grow ourselves and get better at what we do. Here is the first offering. I hope you will join us. If you’re not able to come, please pass this invitation along to others who might benefit from 4 hours of interesting information-sharing, networking and skill-building. Also, if you’d like to become a presenter in this series, please let me know. Here’s to our emotional, spiritual, and mental growth and thriving, in a changing world!
Day 1
Thursday, July 22nd, 10am-3pm (1 hour for lunch)
Cost: $10 per class or $35 for all 4. (come for one talk or all four) (checks and cash accepted)
Location: 1823 NE 13th Ave. (close to the 8, 9 bus and Red and Blue Max lines) (just north of the Lloyd Center, parking is easy)
Wi-Fi available
Tea available
Please RSVP to albertkaufman@gmail.com
Class 1: 10am-11am Albert Kaufman: Albertideation:
The Who What Where When How and Why of using Social Networking and Email marketing to promote yourself, your ideas and your business. Albert teaches businesses and individuals how to use social networking to organize and promote ideas, causes, and improve your bottom line. With 14 years of high-tech business he is familiar with a variety of software and how they can be networked for greater success. To see what Albert is up to on a given day, find him @ work thinking @ https://albertideation.com
Class 2: 11am-12pm Michele Brooks:
The life and times of an economic refugee or how to make money in South Korea. Michele Brooks: https://abundancecompany.com/michele_brooks.htm
Lunch: 12-1pm (please bring your lunch, or there are many places nearby to pick up something to eat)
Class 3: 1-2pm: David Franklin: Radical Presence: Creating Authentic Community in the Midst of Global Change
In these rapidly changing times, we are being called into deep integrity. We have an opportunity to move beyond the addictions, distractions, and suffering that keeps us in separation, and to learn how to love one another.
Our modern times call for spiritual practices and lifestyles that serve both the self and the collective. It is time to move beyond our individualistic, fear-based ways of living, and come together in community to support one another. In order to do so, it is essential to learn and engage in practices that create relationships that are sustainable, co-creative, and call forth our gifts.
In this experiential presentation, we’ll talk about the shifts that are occurring in our society, and how they are creating an opportunity for us to show up more powerfully and thrive. We’ll also learn and practice ways of being in authentic presence and community with one another. You’ll leave with a sense of new possibilities, hope, and connection.
David Franklin is a spiritual activist devoted to creating a new paradigm for masculinity that includes living the embodied path of spirituality, sexuality, leadership, and presence. As an experienced facilitator and ordained minister, he is masterful at creating and holding safe space for transformative experiences that utilize practical, body-centered modalities and down-to-earth spirituality. For more information, visit https://www.RadicalMen.com
Class 4: 2-3pm Noelani Rodriguez: The Quickest Way to Double Your Sales
These days, businesspeople are resorting to new strategies to attract customers in the New Economy–many are promoting Classes and other Promotional Events. The quickest way to double your sales is to double the effectiveness of your “Irresistible Offer,” or the way you describe your business. Whether you want to promote a class, a service or a product, you can sell yourself with an irresistible offer that no one can refuse.
As a Google Certified Consultant and $1M selling marketer, I have a proven track record with over 1 million ad clicks in the top 1% of ad profitability. Let’s have some fun as I show you how to double the effectiveness of your “9 second elevator speech,” honing it into an irresistible offer. Let’s play at doubling the effectiveness of your offer to double your sales!
Lani’s website: https://ebooks.thebestever.net/
3pm: schmooze, network, talk, compare notes, over tea, wine and bisquits
Billboards and Oregon bywaysThe Oregonian editorial board appropriately calls attention to a deceptive and weak-kneed bill currently making its way through the Legislature (“A weak makeover of Oregon billboard laws,” May 9). Senate Bill 689 appears on the surface to be pro-beauty, by creating a program in the Department of Transportation that would “encourage voluntary removal of outdoor advertising signs from particularly scenic areas of scenic byways.”
In reality, the bill does little to encourage removal of signs along scenic roads and would in fact increase the total number of billboards in the state, by granting a sign owner two permits for removing a single billboard in one of the so-called “scenic areas” of a scenic byway.
The bill states that the DOT will establish the standards for what constitutes a “scenic area.” One has to wonder whether the makeup of that standards committee will be similar to that of the sign task force behind Senate Bill 689, a task force largely made up of members with interests in the outdoor advertising industry.
For decades Oregon was renowned for having some of the toughest billboard laws in the country, laws that helped preserve relatively unobstructed views of the state’s breathtaking natural beauty from its roadways. All that changed in 2006 when the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the state’s statute that placed restrictions on billboards in commercial or industrial areas violated free-speech protections. The statute, originally enacted to comply with the Highway Beautification Act, effectively capped the number of billboards in the state at just under 2,000.
After 35 years without a single new billboard, the state has seen over 200 new signs go up since the 2006 ruling. Senate Bill 689 also fails to address, perhaps intentionally (given the makeup of the sign task force), the emerging trend of billboard companies toward erecting digital or LED signs. These new signs are essentially televisions-on-a-stick, and are a growing safety concern along the nation’s roadways.
The Federal Highway Administration is currently conducting a massive study on the safety of these new signs, and the results are due late next year. The citizens of Oregon are deserving of strong legislation that protects their treasured landscapes and the safety of the motoring public. Senate Bill 689 accomplishes just the opposite.
Max Ashburn is online communication manager for Scenic America in Washington, D.C.
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My LTE: To the Editor:
Thanks to Max Ashburn for his article about the threat to our landscape via more billboards in “Billboards and Oregon byways”. I too have noticed the sprouting of more view-blocking billboards along Oregon highways and it saddens me. Oregon is so beautiful – I often imagine I’m passing through the Irish countryside. But instead of recognizing our treasure and doing everything we can to protect it we seem to have a habit of despoiling it and blocking the view with billboards. When I see a billboard it generally makes me less likely to buy a product from whoever is represented there because I become angry that a company would spend money to advertise in such a manner. Billboards are advertising where the viewer has no choice in the matter. In a TV ad a person can change the channel or turn off their TV. With a billboard, the viewer is forced to view the ad which I think is an infringement on my rights.
One of the largest cities in the world, Sao Paolo, Brasil, has taken the step to outlaw all billboards in that city of 17 million people. I can imagine that it has improved morale and certainly made architectural beauty more visible along with other social benefits. Would that we had the foresight and political willpower to outlaw billboards in Oregon. Something is wrong when corporations like Clear Channel have more of a right to pollute the viewpoints than people have to stop them from doing so.
I agree with Mr. Ashburn that Senate Bill 689 should be reworked to strengthen our protections against billboards and encourage my fellow citizens to contact their State Senators immediately on this issue.
Sincerely, Albert Kaufman
A Lesson from Geese
Have you ever wondered why migrating geese fly in formation? As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. In a V formation, the whole flock adds at least 71 percent more flying range than if each bird flew alone. Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly alone and it quickly gets back into formation.
Like geese, businesses that share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier than those who try to go it alone. We are no longer living in the age of the lone wolf entrepreneur, independent and proud of it.
When a lead goose gets tired, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies at the point position. If business owners had as much sense as geese, they would realize that success depends on fusion marketing partners, working as teams, taking turns doing the hard tasks, exchanging leads, and sharing their marketing budgets.
