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Dreaming Big

Dreaming Big

If it weren’t for the kindness of one old man at a Burger Heaven many years ago, I might never have had the courage to start my own business. It was a very scary and exciting time in my life. I left my high paying corporate job to start my own business in my living room.

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Most people thought I was out of my mind to leave the security of a great job (with a son to support and parents in need), but I went with my feeling anyway. Besides I did think that someone “upstairs” was watching over me and telling me to take a chance. In order to win BIG, you have to risk BIG. Walking away from that fancy corporate job was the best decision I’ve ever made.

Dianna Huff, my dear Twitter friend, contacted me recently to tell me she was compiling an e-book featuring 23 stories of women (including me) who have gone after their dreams. The book was created to inspire women to overcome obstacles and fears in order to live their best lives.

This book will inspire you!

These extraordinary women are from all walks of life including accomplished entrepreneurs to a triathlon participant who experienced a debilitating accident. The commonality among these women is that they said “Yes” to dreaming big.

All of the proceeds from her book will be donated to the Girls Fight Back foundation. GFB provides personal safety and self-protection education to women and girls across the world.

Please support my friend Dianna and the Girls Fight Back foundation. To purchase the book, please visit her site: profitablefemaleconsultant.com

It will be the beginning of good karma for you too, as this has been a labor of love. To learn more about the extraordinary women featured in this book, please visit them on their websites linked below:

Sarah B Girrell Dianna Huff
Amy Clark Karen Jones
Carolyn Clayton Susan Nolte
Andrea Cohen Terri Rylander
Crystal Coleman Gwen Thomas
Mary Cullen Wendy Thomas
Maura Fine Belinda Wasser
Elle Draper Sandi McCann
Debi Hammond Erin Weed
Sarah Henderson Clare Hovan
Jamie Wallace Rachel Cunliffe

 

Wow, now someone will listen to my great story!

Wow, now someone will listen to my great story!

I was invited to hear our new Governor, Rick Scott, speak at a luncheon last week at the Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida.

I spend a lot of time at hotels and conference centers, because I speak often on marketing subjects, so I’m hard to impress. The Ritz on Vanderbilt Beach Road impressed me, though.

We pulled up behind a line of about 43 cars, and I figured we’d miss the first part of the program. I was wrong! The smiling valet attendants raced through the parking lot moving cars and waving to people at breakneck speed.

We got seated on time and the wait staff was charming, and efficient. The bathrooms were large, clean and stocked with fluffy towels, potpourri and lovely soaps.

The whole experience was “exemplary”. I wish I’d written down the names of the Ritzy people I met that day because when I got back home to the less civilized (but more entertaining) side of south Florida I read The Wall Street Journal and came across an article about a new website and mobile app called Tello (“Easy Ways to Gripe About (or praise) Service”).

On Tello (click here), you can find businesses near you, or you can do a search (let’s say for Italian restaurants), and it will name them and give you reviews.

You can write your own reviews too, and mention the people by name and give them a thumbs up (or down). It also enables the company to contact you if they want to have a second chance at your business or thank you for something nice you’ve said.

It’s kind of like Consumer Reports in real time.

If you get a chance to check Tello out, please let me know what you think. Is it a winner? loisgeller@loisgellermarketinggroup.com