New Client

A year ago I was at the Women’s Information Network in South San Francisco when I met Dinah Lin. She stuck out in the crowd for a couple of reasons. First because she is so present, poised and gracious and secondly because she was 70 years old.

I admire those who are always learning and have so much to offer those they come in contact with. She told me at the time she was going to do something with me. She made a couple of attempts at attending my classes, but for one reason or another, she wasn’t able to make it.

They I got a call from her and she asked if she could attend the next class. Unfortunately, I don’t do the classes any more.

So I told her I’d meet her on Saturday and we’d do the class one-on-one.

We met at a coffee shop we knew would have wifi and started working. I had asked her to register her website before we met and she had, except she had changed her mind and decided to launch a new site once we arrived.

It definitely slowed us down, but we got through the majority of the lessons by the end of the four hours. I also told her I would help her work on her blog by setting up the Plugins and Widgets just to help her out since once they are set up, they usually don’t have to be adjusted.

I’ll be looking forward to tracking Dinah’s progress.

Author Blogging Program

I have been talking with Simon Treselyan for about four years. We met on Facebook and have kept in touch all this time. We have not shared much more than an occasional check in message.

Then Thanksgiving week Simon Skyped me and asked if we could talk. Since Simon lives Australia we managed to find a time we could talk on Thanksgiving morning. We decided to map out a program for authors in Australia to help them get published and teach them to market their books.

It was a great conversation and we have a pretty good plan for a program that we will launch in March starting in Sydney then Melbourne and Brisbane. We’re going to target about 200 authors at each location, but then we realized I wouldn’t be able to guide that many new authors, there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

So now we’re going to create a program to teach coaches how to work with the authors. It will make it better to have a coach work with ten or twelve new authors and have about twenty coaches trained. It will be great to be able to provide a new income resource for the coaches.

I am very excited about helping that many authors launch their careers. Of course the blogging program will play a big role in helping them get good traffic to their websites.