In Which Promotion Happens on the Blog

I was just tweeting with my dear sister-friend Pam Slim about promoting on the blog. I was saying all like how comfortable I was sending emails to our list telling them about what we’ve got, but I’ve been a little more… shy? hesitant? forgetful? about posting the promotions to the blog.

It’s like I’ve got some kind of ping-pong match in my head: “but you’re in business, and this stuff is really great, and you worked really hard, and people have told you again and again that they want it,” and then, “But who wants to hear more about you? And your stuff? And take off that silly robe and put down those beads and dress like a normal person.”

And then I decided to get quiet in my heart and do Remembrance.… Much better. Back to center. Ahhh..

Come to think of it, what I just did was very similar to an exercise in class four of the Heart of Business Momentum. So let me be very clear, what I’m about to do is give you what I feel are very good reasons to buy something from us. If you agree with them, maybe you’ll buy. I’d like that.

A Tough Eight Hours

Once upon a time I taught a marketing course. This was back in 2001. It was called “Holiness in Business.” I know, a weirdo name. Still, a few people came. It was eight hours long, and I spent all eight hours sweating bullets with a stomach cramp of nervousness while a big-time corporate VP who had been dragged along by his wife, whom I knew from my Sufi community, challenged me on every point I was trying to make.

Oh, how I hated that workshop. The other participants all said nice things to me about it, and I’ll never know if they were just being nice to me.

Here’s the thing: I actually did know a thing or two. I had been teaching marketing and fundraising for a while already at that point, which started by accident when I helped some friends who were holistic practitioners and they actually got clients and made money from my advice. Strange. Odd. Weird.

The new strangeness was just my early attempts at mixing Sufi spiritual healing bizarrity in with the business stuff. Let’s just say I wasn’t too smooth with it yet.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzssssshhhppppppp! (That’s what fast-forwarding eight years sounds like.)

The Heart of Business Momentum Homestudy

Eight years later and I’ve had a lot of time under my belt. A lot of time with my Sufi teachers integrating it all. A lot of time with the business teachings. And thousands of individual sessions with clients. And facilitated dozens of courses.

In other words, we’ve worked out quite a few of the bumps.

We’ve got your spiritual teachings. We’ve got your practical, detailed, nitty-gritty how-to’s. And we’ve got the Big Picture so you don’t feel like you’re assembling a pastel puzzle in a dark room.

I’m teaching all of this right now to over 100 people in the Heart of Business Momentum. We’re recording it with high-quality, non-fuzzy audio. We’re creating a beautiful, full-color book. We’ve got interviews with guest experts who know more than I do.

In short, it’s meant to be pretty darn good.

The Pre-Release Special

I’ll give it to you straight up: the regular price on the home study will be $270 once we release it. But from now through Friday, October 30 the price is $195. That’s $75 off.

It’s a big bite. And it’s even bigger when you realize that we are making this a physical product–a full color book of probably about 200 pages with a CD that will hold all the mp3 and pdf files. It’s not cheap to print those-even a short print run of a couple hundred copies costs several thousand dollars.

We’re offering the pre-release special for a couple of reasons:

1. It’s much more inspiring to work like a dog putting a product like this together when it’s for real people. If you buy it, and Kate and I know we’re doing it for you, that feels great. Much different than working towards some arbitrary “launch” deadline and the nameless people who “might” buy it.
2. We’re going to be eating take-out food during this time. Who’s going to pay for all of that Chinese food and burritos? Seriously, it’s kind of like an advance that a publisher pays a writer. The advance is so the writer doesn’t starve before the book gets written. Kinda similar here.
3. It helps out environmentally, because we know how many to print. With advance orders, we won’t end up with a stack of unsold copies in the basement. Of course we’ll get extras for future sales, but it won’t be a complete shot in the dark.

So, that’s me laying my cards on the table. I don’t know if it’s helpful for you or not, but I hope it is.

Now, if you want the actual details on the product, what it includes, what it will do for you besides the general “help you make a different and a profit” there’s two things to look at:

One: The Heart of Business Momentum Homestudy Sales Page

Two: Comments from current participants in the live class.

Three: Sales Page for the Opening the Moneyflow Year-Long Program

(You’re not supposed to promote more than one thing on a sales page, but since the Momentum Homestudy is the foundation for the year-long program, I figured you might want to know about that, too, if you were already interested.)

If it already sounds good to you, go to the sales page, click “jump right to the price” (it’s in the side bar on the left) and you’ll jump to the bottom.

If you’re curious, then please read the sales page and check in with your heart.

And, as usual, if you have any questions, please ask.

(Is it okay? Did I do okay?)