What’s Magik For You?

I had the pleasure of being able to catch up with my best mate this week – we live interstate from each other.

She commented that when Reid & I are together, my pupils change to love hearts in the style of Looney Tunes’ Pepe Le Pew.  And try as I did to deny it, I have to confess that she is probably right!!  Reid & I are blessed to have the ‘real thing’ when it comes to our love and I unashamedly adore him, as he does me.

But it got me to thinking about other people and their relationships and what is right for each of us individually.  Reid & I are particuarly mushy and celebrate our anniversaries each month, not just each year.  But what is it that makes your heart skip a beat?  Or if you are without a significant other, what are you looking for in a partner/lover/spouse?

This is just part of what makes up our What’s Magik For You FREE e-course.  Over 2 weeks, we will send you an email every couple of days to guide you through creating some goals for all the various areas of your life.

So, what’s stopping you having Magik in your life?  What do you want for your life?  Click here to sign up today and start creating your goals.
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Magik Blessings, Sharon

Gratitude for an opportunity….

We were talking over a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast with our 13yr old daughter yesterday and she started asking us more about Send Out Cards and the business side of it.  So I thought, well, I will give it a shot at explaining how it all works to her.

So, I explained that we send cards and show other people how to send cards.  We get paid for training others and help them to get paid to train others.  We explained the breakdown of the compensation plan and she got it in an instant.  Then she started making comments along the lines of  ‘Now I can see why you love it so much’.  ‘You get to make people feel good with the cards you send, and then help other people build an income doing the same thing’.

As we were discussing it, I noticed something in myself.  Recently I had lost my ‘mojo’ a bit when has come to the cards as I have been so focussed on building breastANGELS.  But in explaining to her how it works, I rediscovered how much I love this business, how easy it is and how much I love helping other people derive an additional income in these uncertain economic times.

We have the foundations of a really great team, with quite a few women in direct selling.  They are using the cards to help build their other businesses whilst gradually working on their card business.

So, today is a day for gratitude (as are all days).  Appreciation for my daughter for helping me to reignite the flame for loving what I do; appreciation for being reminded how simple this business is and appreciation that someone took the time to make me aware that Send Out Cards exists and offers me a great opportunity.

I would love to do the same for you.  A friend of mine had a post up the other day – in direct selling, if you don’t ask, the answer is always a no.  If I do ask, I have a 50/50 chance that it is a yes, so I have nothing to lose by asking.

So, can I show you the opportunity to either use the cards as a fantastic tool in your existing business or show you how you too can start supplementing your income?  All I need is 30 mintues with you in front of a computer.  If yes, send me an email sharon@MagikWithin.com

Magik Blessings, Sharon

Abundance of Happiness

I don’t want to get out of bed.  I don’t want to do anything.  I don’t want to see or talk to anyone who knows me – they’ll know there’s something wrong.  How I hate that the whole world knows what I am feeling at any particular moment!!  I just want to stay in bed and sleep, and cry, and sleep, and cry.  I just want to be wrapped in my husband’s arms – that’s the only place that feels OK.

That’s what my world used to be like – my world was ruled by depression.  I wasn’t really functioning as a mother to my beautiful daughter, my wonderful husband Reid picked up all the slack – and there was a lot of slack to pick up.  At the time, we were self-employed, running a successful bed & breakfast in Victoria’s Yarra Valley.  If I had to, I could bring myself to deal with customers – strangers were OK as they didn’t know what I’m like normally.

To read more of how I overcame my depression and also read some other amazing stories about Living An Abundant Life, buy the book – Living An Abundant Life.  48 stunning stories including contributions by Jack Canfield, Neale Donald Walsch, Mark Victor Hansen, Brian Tracy & Dr Wayne Dwyer.

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Magik Blessings, Sharon

Client retention and appreciation 1.01

In these challenging times and current economic climate, the single most cost effective and productive strategy you can implement to ensure your business rides this storm is to retain your current customers.

Sounds deceptively simple doesn’t it?  Stop and think about it for a minute.  Put yourself in your customers’/clients’ shoes.  Do they know you appreciate them?  Do they know that you value their business?  If so, how do you communicate that to them?  If not, why not?

Turn the picture around and think about the businesses to who you are a customer.  Why do you continue to do business with them?  Do they let you know how important you are to their business?  If they do, do you let them know that you appreciate them looking after you as a customer?

According to The Bain Co. – it costs 5 to 6 times more to acquire a new customer than to retain a current customer.  Yet, most marketing is directed at attracting new customers.  Also according to The Bain Co., businesses can boost their profits by almost 100% by retaining an additional 5% of their existing customers.  Retaining an additional 2% of existing customers has the same effect on the bottom line as reducing costs by 10%.

So, how do you do this?

I’m sure we all know that in business you need to have a USP – Unique Selling Proposition/Product.  But it goes further than that these days.  It’s just not enough.  You have to make your customers want to be loyal to you through their own challenges.   A lot of businesses believe that sales and customer service are 2 entirely separate & independent functions within their business.  But that mind set is from a bye gone era.  Today, the 2 are absolutely dependent on each other.  Imagine how much easier a sales persons’ job would be if the customer knew that they were valued and appreciated?  That’s customer service – which in reality is everyone’s job.  If you want your business to thrive and not just survive, it is imperative that your customers feel appreciated and valued by your business.

Bill Gates said that if you lose a customer, you lose 2 ways.  1 you don’t get the money and 2 your competitor does.

We are members of the iLearning Global Community which has some fabulous resources for not only improving your business, but also for your personal growth.  According to Brian Tracy, there are 7 things that customers value over price when making a buying decision.  Number 3 on that list is Support – that you look after your customer.

So how do you accomplish this without huge expense either in money or time?  Quite simply actually.  Maya Angelou said “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Make them feel important and valued.  The method we use to achieve this is using Send Out Cards.  I’d like to share some stories with you that capture the essence of why this works so well.

We had a local real estate agent who had been sourcing some particular properties for us.  He had been really diligent in following up without being over the top and pushy.  I really appreciated the way he was treating us, so I sent him a card to say Thank you.  No ulterior motive, just wanting to genuinely express my appreciation for the job he was doing.  He phoned me up to thank me for the card.  And I said to him that I really wanted to just Thank him.  He said that he might have a couple more opportunities coming up, so I asked him to keep me informed.  His response was “I’m going to look after you – you sent me a card”.

A friend overseas was having a birthday, so of course I sent her a card.  But I also sent her some of the truffles from the gift section.  I received a call from her – she had just been to the post office and picked up the present.  I didn’t know, but truffles were her favourite food indulgence!!  She was totally blown away and could not get over how I knew to send her some truffles.  She had really been wanting some, but just had not got around to getting them.  Mission accomplished.

So what will you do?  Will you make your customers a priority?  Will you make sure that your customers know how important they are to your business?

You can try this system for FREE on us.  Simply go to www.SendOutCards.com/magik , click on the banner at the top and follow the video prompts.

To find out more about iLearningGlobal, go to www.ilearningglobal.biz/magik

Magik Blessings, Sharon