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March Roundup - Top 5 Social Media Moms — Social Media Mom — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:24:00 +0000

[...] Wendy Piersall – aka eMom – Wendy is very passionate about helping parents achieve success. She uses her awesome social media skills to maintain her blog, raise 3 children, and teach people [...]

By: Devin

Devin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:35:58 +0000

I love the idea of “failing forward”. It puts the process of success into perspective. We all fail at times and it’s important that we use it as a stepping stone and push forward. Great post.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:30:59 +0000

We had our first lesson in marketing right before we even got our first customer over five years ago.

A year before the company I worked for went bust, my wife and I knew that we had to do something fast. We had to take control of our lives. After lots of talking, we finally decided to start a home based food delivery business. We had ZERO experience but we knew one thing for sure, and that was my wife was a fantabulous cook.

Anyway, our first flyer was beautiful. It was a masterpiece in clever marketing copy and design. We distributed close to five hundred of them around our neighbourhood and what did we get? Nadda. Zilch. Not ONE call. We took a critical look at our flyer and realized that our flyer was possible TOO fancy for our potential customers. After all, the ones who would need our service were housewives (many of whom had very little schooling), and busy mothers who didn’t have time to read our fabulous copy.

And so our next batch of flyers were simple. It read “Good Food. Cheap. We deliver”. And the phone calls started coming in!

Lesson : Keep it simple, stupid (me… not you)

Andrew

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:40:51 +0000

Boy are you right on the money.

Getting over the fear of failure is the first big hurdle you must be willing to climb. If you can’t do it, no need spending your time & money on anything else until you do it.

I have a little one too, and she will take a little time ‘doing it herself’, but unlike me at times, she actually will ask for help when she realizes she doesn’t know how to do it.

Keep up the great posts.

By: Making Sales Making Money

Making Sales Making Money — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:48:28 +0000

I never thought about failing although I have, more importantly I have never failed to get up and try it again. Making Sales Making Money's last blog post..Monika Mundell Joins the Team and More

By: Jai

Jai — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:02:53 +0000

hey Wendy, Indeed an inspiring post! The saying, Failure is the stepping stone for all the success to come up in one's life. It's no different for entrepreneurship. We need to take in risk and explore lot in order to emerge as good entrepreneurs. Jai's last blog post..Smart HTC S730

By: Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert)

Barbara Ling (aka Owlbert) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:03:10 +0000

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

Nothing is ever a total failure; there’s an infinite number of facets through which you can analyze a situation. The key is recognizing what not achieving the specific goal taught you…and then applying it to your future endeavors.

You just have to give yourself permission to park your ego at the door and learn. Alas, sometimes that’s quite tough indeed….

Enjoy,

Barbara

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By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:38:21 +0000

Hey Dawud - sorry. I didn't notice your name until I pressed submit. Cath Lawson's last blog post..Business Partnership - Is It Financial Suicide?

By: Cath Lawson

Cath Lawson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:37:25 +0000

Wendy – this is so true. Just when I feel like I’ve made every mistake in the book, something else goes wrong. You name it I’ve screwed it up and not just little things.

But, it’s not a failure if you just get back up again and keep trying.

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By: LaGina

LaGina — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:03:42 +0000

Thank you Wendy for the reminder that it is not only natural to fail but a necessity. But I agree with Aruni, I wish it didn't come with a price tag. LaGina's last blog post..Outdoor Lighting Perspectives - Warranty

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:38:48 +0000

I call it learning what doesn’t work.

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By: Aruni

Aruni — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:27:29 +0000

So true Wendy. Entrepreneurship requires a lot of trial and error. I wish the error part didn’t come with a price tag. To me, the money spent in trying things is the hardest part. Wish I could get some of that money back and spend it on stuff I know works now.

Thanks for the inspiring post!

By: Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:38:39 +0000

Ah, we did a similar exercise in improv. What we did is having someone in the center of the circle. That person can walk up to any one in the circle and try to come up with weird of funny ways to say "I love you" to make the other person laugh. The person on the outside have to try to keep a straight face and say "I love you too, but I just cannot smile." When someone on the outside cracks up, he switches the center person out, and repeat. Now that's kind of off topic. "Ready, fire, aim" is kind of like playing Battleship. You just fire aimlessly first and then you'll gradually figure out where you should be firing. Kelvin Kao's last blog post..LCC presents: I’m Feeling Lucky!

By: cory huff

cory huff — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:32:45 +0000

How’s this for failure: When I was in clown class (yes, clown class) we had an exercise called The Ring of Fire.

One person stood in the center of the circle with 15 others watching. You had to stay in the circle until you could make every single person belly laugh at the same time.

I’ve never looked at failure in the same way since. I’ll try nearly anything once, just to see if it’ll get me the result I need.

Don’t believe me? Try me.

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