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I’m a Happy Expat… New Beginnings & GutZy Visions NOW!

April 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Well… it has been a long time coming, but just take a look at the welcome the Universe gifted me with as I flew back to Sydney, Australia from Auckland new Zealand with my BRAND NEW Immigration Visa in hand!

I’m IN!

I’m LOVING it as my hubby, Joe, and I travel this beautiful country with its friendly people.

Soon I will have GutZy Women set up… It is eve-olving just as the world is evolving… at warp speed!

I turned Expat… leaving a life lived mainly in Colorado, USA, to manifest my 30 year dream of a life “Down Under” as well as to become a citizen of the world. I and my husband of 30 years, Jozef, sold or gave away everything but 100 sq. yards of our most valued possessions and moved to Australia. We bought a gently used 4 wheel drive and have been exploring the beautiful beaches, cities and hinterland of New South Wales, ACT and Queensland for the last 8 months.

The current trend of “housesitting” has allowed us to be of service to Australian homeowners and their pets while living cheaply and truly experiencing the sites of the country and the flavour of its people. It’s a mindset and lifestyle decision. One that coincides with a changing economy and the ageing of the population, along with globalisation and incredible new communication technology.

I created GutZy Women LLC in 2007 as a culmination of my passion for helping women achieve more equality and abundance for themselves and their families by using the power of computers, communication technology and the internet. GutZy Women has eve-olved as well from an education, mentoring and beginner oriented focus to the current orientation focused on using digital multi-media, social media marketing, mobile communication technology and authentic, spirit-based, community building strategies to create positive social and business change.

If you are into social entrepreneurship, heart-based marketing, BALANCE and SUSTAINABILITY in your life and the universe… but want to have FUN, BEAUTY and ADVENTURE while on the journey…you owe it to yourself to join in the GutZy Vision!

COMING SOON…

 Be sure to join our mailing list to keep abreast of this grand vision!

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So How DO You Get More Views on Youtube?

January 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I’ve been wondering for years now how to get more views on my Youtube videos, then along comes this Google Guru, Chris Lang, along with a new membership mastermind that zeroes in on that very topic!

Is that COOL or what!

Bummer he’s a guy, as I LOVE to support women experts when I can, but Chris and his community are really helping me out in getting my Youtube channel on the role for 2011.

If you click on the video I’ve posted above, you will see what I am talking about. Be prepared to watch it all the way through (it is 30 minutes worth) because this video will show you what mistakes NOT to make as I did.

Chris shows you 4 case studies, one of them being my Sydney New Years 2011 video.

Learning is painful sometimes, but experiencing ways  that don’t work as planned is essential to improving and getting it right!

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7 GutZy Women Ways to Make Money with Free Giveaway Events

June 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Here are 7 ways to make money with FREE Giveaway Events:

 

1. Become an affiliate of those who are selling products on the giveaway.

 

2. Once you get new people to subscribe, you can promote your products or services for them to buy, through email campaigns and relationship building activities.

 

3. After people subscribe, but before they reach your gift page, you can make them a onetime offer, but if you do this, be sure to give them the option to pass and to be able to download the free gift after they buy

 

4. When you send them the Thank You page or email, once they have retrieved their gift, you can offer them either the same product at a lower price or offer a brand new product.

 

5. You can follow up with a series of automatic messages with valuable tips and information without actually making them an offer, but the intent to build relationships. Once they learn who you are and how great your products are, they will naturally want to buy from you.

 

6. Co-promote with JV Partners in the Giveaway itself, like I did with the GutZy Women International Mastermind Alliance. Be sure to become an affiliate of theirs and send traffic their way using your affiliate link.

 

7. Run a Giveaway yourself: offer dollar incentives to contributors to upgrade their positioning on the pages of the giveaway. Get them to promote the product offered for sale by you in an affiliate arrangement. Offer services like consulting or webmastering to help your contributors who don’t have the time or skills or desire to do the work themselves.

 

These are just a few ideas you can use to make money while giving your product or services away. We would LOVE to hear more ideas from you if you have experienced success at using them in giveaway events!


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7 Favorite FREE Internet Tools GutZy Women Use to Compete and Innovate.

May 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment

 

“Free is such a powerful force in innovation”

 

Think about it…the financial risk is removed when something is free. Removing risk is powerful! We are much more easily motivated to take action when there is nothing to lose. But have you ever thought about how if something is free it encourages us to be innovative?

 

It intrigued me because although I know the word “FREE” is a proven motivating word in sales, I never looked at the fact that FREE is one of the great motivating factors behind the innovation of the Internet.

 

Now, FREE is one of those words that sets off the SPAM filters. The word is WAY over-used at this point and has become one of those words that sets off the skeptic in all of us…and yet:

 

FREE “giveaway” promotions are the latest and greatest in getting people to subscribe to your list. People sign up by the hundreds or thousands.

 

FREE information, free entertainment, free phone calls across the world, free software, free graphics, free hosting, free consultations, free samples…Just about everything that exists is given away FREE these days.

 

FREE helps “newbies” get started in the learning process of creating and interacting on the internet. FREE helps “intermediates” grow and start to compete with the “experts”.

 

FREE helps the Mom & Pops compete with the Mega Corporations.

 

FREE helps the “experts” create their Maven status, warp speed their viral marketing and position themselves as generous “good guys”.

 

FREE lets us spend our money on other things like gas & food

 

FREE makes us crazy when we’re on the other end of the deal…trying to make money.

 

Never-the-less, below is a list of some “freebies” I’ve used myself and like or have had other GutZy Women tell me they like.

 

Check them out! And if you get some value out of these FREE tips, feel FREE to subscribe to our FREE RSS feed, or our FREE newsletter, or FREE social networking site for more FREE tips, strategies and valuable information.

 

1. Website builders:

http://www.weebly.com

http://www.webnode.com/en

2. Resize & Optimize pictures:  

http://www.shrinkpictures.com

3. Public domain image resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources#General_collections

4. Cover generator for ebooks, CD’s etc. :        

 

http://www.groundbreak.com/graphics2.html

 

5. Internet Calling

http://www.skype.com

 

6. Live Video Streaming:

 

http://www.livestream.com

 

http://www.ustream.com

 

7. Podcasting:

 

http://www.talkshoe.com

Obviously this is a very short list compared to what’s out there, so why don’t you ADD to the list with YOUR favorites in the comments section below. I can just feel the Innovation coming on!

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