365 days to 7 figures

Duct Tape Marketing I´m checking it out and doing a test

drifaulfars — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:35:38 +0000

So I recently bought Duct Tape Marketing. I am going to try it and tell you all about how it works for me. I read the sample a few months ago but didn´t buy the Kindle version until on Friday. As some of you know I have a Kindle and love it. I have actually been playing with an IPAD and will have to do a serious comparrison of the reading features soon but until then its all about Duct Tape Marketing.

365 days to 7 figures its been a long time but I am back

drifaulfars — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:18:32 +0000

So yes it has been a long time but I am still here.

I have been reading a lot of books, listening to audio books and today I have spent most of the day creating a blog to support my mother in creating a blog for herself called Inga Torfadottir. I decided to do this because explaining how to do things over the telephone and Skype is almost impossible when you have someone on the other line that barley understands the concept of cut and paste. granted she is an artist so really she should be delegating that type of stuff to someone else. I decided to make it very simple a picture diary essentially because anything more complicated would be to complicated for her. I am sure that some of you out their can appreciate it because when you haven’t played with word press it can seem overwhelming. I think it would be great to hear from you, your comments thoughts and opinions. Is it to complicated, perfect or to simple?

I need some input so CHECK IT OUT!

365 days to 7 figures day 100

drifaulfars — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:53:55 +0000

It is 1101 pm and I have decided that the motivation has hit me again. Hence the post. I have actually been doing a lot of work lately for instance I wrote a HUB PAGE called Need more time. Start scheduling yourself like a pro. I also wrote The 10 commandments of work life balance.

Here is a SNEAK PEAK

1. I will hold myself accountable for my actions and life situation and by doing so I will be my greatest supporter.

2. I will take a path in my life that is in alignment with my values. Every decision I make from this day forward will bring me closer to leading a life that I choose.

3. I will not take myself for granted, but will celebrate myself, appreciate what I do and treat myself with the respect I deserve by taking care of my body, mind and soul.

The rest will be available on Find Work Balance shortly. Just register as a member and I will send it out to you as soon as it goes LIVE:

I have been working on a few articles as well but they are not finished yet. I will publish then once they are and put the link on my blog.

I am currently reading 2 books. Escape from cubicle Nation which is good. It made me realize a few things for instance that when it comes right down to it I would rather sink and fall on my own merit and that it is really easy to get sidetracked .

The other book is called s. Drive. It is interesting because it explains what drives human beings. Guess what it is NOT money or power. LOL it is amongst other things autonomy.

So I am off to read more from Drive. I can feel an inspirational article comming on. It wont be on this blog though so watch for it on DrifaUlfars Blog

My computer is literally shaking. Too much work for today. Goodnight good people.
By the way if you like this blog please Share, Digg, comment and spread around.

Drifa

365 days to 7 figures day 99

drifaulfars — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:05:24 +0000

Hi I’m blogging today from my htc desire heyI think sometimes the words aren’t coming up the way I saythem . I keep getting a server problem hey funny sometimes I’ll say a word and something else is spelled instead. I Am off to work I will try again later.

365 days to seven figures

drifaulfars — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:53:34 +0000

Today I am blogging from my buddies house. I just got home from work and have sat down to talk to you about the last few days of blogging on the phone. It has been an iteresting experience. I blogged on the phone and was able to insert a photo and video but the video didn’t work. I think I need to convert the videos first in Camtasia Studio first in order to optimize them first. I tried blogging by using the voice app on the HTC Desire but it didn’t work,… well actually it worked but I had to add a subject and also had quite a few spelling errors which I dindn´t fix because I wanted it to be real. Tomorrow I am going to creat a video for Coaching Cognition and one for http://www.findworkbalance.com and hopefully I can upload my NEW HOME PAGE on Sunday. Tell you what if I don’t please comment make me ACCOUNTABLE! That would be awesome. Because I am on an apple computer right now and I am somewhat apple dyslexic, I wont add photos or videos today but in the future I will fix it.

Have an awesome day.

XXOO

Drifa Ulfarsdottir CPC

365 days to 7 figures day 98

drifaulfars — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:05:27 +0000

Today I am blogging froman HTC Desire. I am using the EPISTLES app that I got from market the Google app store. How cpol is this? This means I can blog from bed or pretty much anywhere I want. Tomorrow I will try using the voice app to blog by email which should be interesting.I type with one finger and the keyboard guesses what I am typing and spell checks it on the spot and automatically corrects. Let’s see if I can add some pictures.
The picture uploaded so now I can see I need to add videos and pictured on my phone. Should I try a video? That worked well except I have no idea which video it is so let’s cross our fingers. I am going to publish. Wait I can link to so here is that attempt
Drifa Ulfarsdottir CPC

I THINK THIS IS TO QUOTE. BY THE WAY THE LINK GOES TO A REVIEW I DID OF THE HTC DESIRE

365 days to 7 figures day 97

drifaulfars — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:20:05 +0000

I woke up MOTIVATED this morning!!! I am feeling GREAT: Today I learned something. Well it was a culmination of something I read in Inbound Marketing by Dharmesh Shah

This is the thing, you learn all types of things from all kinds of places but its only when it comes to-gether that it really counts. It’s that AH HA moment that pulls it all together and makes it make sence.

I was reading my Glazier Kennedy newsletter last week , as I usually do when it drops into my mail box, but this time was different. This time something clicked, something seemed to actually stick a little better than usual. He was talking about marketing as usual, and was discussing how it is easy to have other companies link to you if you use something like Amazons Mechanical Turk to promote yourself by having others link to your site for instance. What a good idea! i was thinking about doing something like that for my practice but had not gotten around to it.

A little later I began to think about it again, around the same time as I went to be, . I have a kindle so I picked it up and went into my home page and chose a book to read. Inbound Marketing by Dharmesh Shan was the flavour of the night so I settled down for some Jucy marketing tips.

I am reading from the middle of the book because I tend to read a chapter then put it down for a week or two. One of the things things that caught my attention was that its not enough to comment but you need to comment when the item is FRESH!

That means add blogs to your reader or IGoogle and keep an eye on them . The first few comments are the most important so why not place yourself there. Genius! Next is that the blog must be popular.

Of course. I know it is a simple idea but sometimes those are the ones that pass you by. I went on google yesterday to find popular blogs in my niche. I put in 100 best blogs about entrepreneur parents and voila. Now I have multiple blogs on my reader and my IGoogle account that I need to figure out how to best follow. That is the mission today. I also added an RRS feed top my 365 days to 7 figures blog. I used Feedburner.com it was relatively easy to use. So by all means add my feed to your reader. The more the merrier.

So now I am going to learn how to distinguish which post deserves a better read on my Google reader and I Google.know how that I will let you know how that goes.

Drifa Ulfarsdottir CPC

The Work Life Balance Coach for High Achieving Parents.

IF THAT´S YOU then check out my web site www.findworkbalance.com or www.twitter.com/drifau

365 days to 7 figures day 96

drifaulfars — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:24:59 +0000

NEVER LOOSE A PASSWORD OR USERNAME AGAIN!

Today was insanely busy, I think I must have sent 25 email or more today. I am sitting here trying to remember an interesting site I read about the other day. It drives me crazy when I find a good site and forget to E vernote it. I obviously did not Evernote this site. It is an occupational hazard especially when I have at least 10 windows open at any one time in each browser that I use, typically Opera, Explorer or Google Chrome of course. I recently tried using Remember the Milk which is a universal reminder site. It helps to make sure nothing is forgotten. It will remind you by sending IM sms, Skype reminders you name it.

Here is the thing I have discovered. I tend to forget what username and password I use on the many sites I use to help me remember things. It is a crazy predicament that I think I have gotten sorted out pretty well. Here is what I do. This my friends is genius. I have Windows 7 and use one note a lot to organize my life. I find it a bit messy when writing but love the search options and password options. This is what I do I use the snipping feature in One note Windows key and S at the same time then draw a ring around the area I want to save or use a handy little tool called Snipping without them I don’t know how I could remember all my usernames and passwords. The key though with one note is to have a designated area to drag the unified note to once it has been selected. leaving it in unifies notes is not a good idea.

Now all I need to do is go to my personal notebook and go to usernames and passwords and Voila! Everything I need is there at my fingertips, and to think I didn´t even need to type it. All it took was a few clicks of the mouse. Now thats what I´m talking about.

Drifa Ulfarsdottir

Certified Professional Coach

www.twitter.com/drifau

365 days to 7 figures day 95

drifaulfars — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:15:27 +0000

I have notbeen a dilligent little worker. Not for a long time. I was thinking about it last night and it occurred to me not that I didnt already know it that it is because I sit down to do some great work but dont have a plan. Planning is everything. Without aplan you cannot reach the same goals as with a solid plan.

So This is what I did.

I decieded to map everything on a calender. Yes everything. If I go to the gym its because it is on the clendar. If I schedule a new client it is because there is room on the calendar. The calendar is my bible, best friend and companion.

When I was getting my CPCP ( Certified Professional Coach) from ICA I managed to do it in less than half the time just by great planning and then by sticking to the plan.

So here is the accomplishments of yesterday. I decided to take some refresher courses from ICA for motivation and to stay current. They have increased and added allot of new material since last year that I want to learn more about. You have to feed your soul as well as your mind regularly if you want to be a whole balanced individual. This took some planning because the courses are either while I am at work or when I get home. I chose a few time slots and factored in Daylight Savings time in November and booked them in. I now have 2 appointments per week where I can take a refresher course. I also booked in time to do the Renigade Professional courses. I was talking to a friend of mine who is in Renigade professional as well and he said something that stuck with me. You see we were talking about our blogs and how to increase readership and the conversation went to Mike Klingler Renigade Pro and Marketing Merge are his babies. He knows allot about marketing since he started out with a simple blog and built it up into an empire. What he said to my friend was ( aproximatly) that he taught what he learned when he was learning it.

I have been so hesitant to write lately because all the ideas are milling about in my head but after hearing this I decided to let them out on paper.

Back to the organizing. Now I have room for

Work

clients

ICA

Renigade Pro

Time to blog, comment, tweet and generally work on my business.

I also put the gym in there and factored in meal times and down time. Today the plan is to put in time with my boyfriend, time with friends and now as I write this I can see that I forgot grandma. She will have to go in the lunch hour slot.

Today the plan is to add grandma, add time to read, time to research and time to plan for the next week.

The above calendar is not mine, mine looks a bit busier than that.

So have a great day and here is to 5 full hours of working on my business scheduled into my week. Thats it 5 hours! Clients are not includes this is marketing time only.

5 hours well spent should be ample to make real headway.

Drifa Ulfarsdottir CPC

www.twitter.com/drifau

I have revamped my web site so if you want to take a look it is

Work Life Balance For High Achieving Parents

365 days to 7 figures day 94

drifaulfars — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:05:46 +0000

Today I am posting from my cell phone so please excuse the type o’s and spelling mistakes. I have been pretty busy latley doing all the littlr things that need to be done. Mind you I have been and am still sick with a flue I caught from a 5 year old earlier this week. I am also injured. I stubbed my toe last night and after a sleepless night have determined that it is broken. I am going to a Sex in the city party on Saturday and will not be able to wear high heals. Oh the shame of it all. I will have to suck it up I suppose. So I purchaced the URL http://www.findworkbalance.com which I will use as my main URL for my web site. My goal this week was to optimize the site for SEO but while reading the tips on SEO I quickly discovered the it needs to be outsourced. I found a great personal assistant site called http://www.asksunday.com where you can hire a PA for under 50 bucks a month to do pretty much anything. http://Www.elance.com is a great place to outsource as well so I may have to give it a go. I found a good place for customer contact as well but cant remember the name. I will have to check my computer once I get home and let you know later. It looks quite promising for 15 dollars a month. Their police is no spam and customer friendly so thats in line with where I am going. As you can see I have been busy but unfortunatly have not been a good blogger. That is in the works as thay say. Cherrio for now its time to put my sore foot up.