Kind request with a kiss gift from me

Dear Kiss business too (2) reader.

Have I told you lately how much I appreciate to see the blog-reader counter showing an average of around 190 - 205 readers ? Daily! For a simple small business owner who ponders about being in business on this 'dynamic website' (aka blog) it is an astonishing but welcome sight. I know most of you have added the feed of this blog to their blogreader, a small minority receive email notifications as soon as I publish a new pondering.

I'm a great fan a AWeber (aff) and I'm in the process of adding dynamic website (blog) number 7 to my list. It's still hidden from the cyber-world, but hopefully I can reveal all in the very near future. It will cover combinations of experts, be it persons or software and some online products (combining experts too) I'm creating at the very moment. AWeber will feature there prominently.

The AWeber webform on the top right corner of this blog allows you to receive blog-alerts by email. Simple and straight forward. Fill in your name and email address and AWeber does the rest. Now, my request to you, my dear Kiss 2 blog reader, is to change the way you notice a new business pondering has appeared on this blog. Can I very kindly ask to pop in your name and email address in that little box?

As 'reward' or appreciation for doing so I will gift you the E-book version of my debut business novel

"The Kiss Business - the Keep It Simple Sweetheart principle in business"
Normal price of this E-book £ 6.95 - subscribe to my blog-alerts and it's yours for free.

Why do I gift you this? It took me 3 months to write; two months of kind attention from my friend Peter to change the worst double Dutch phrases in proper English; I'm darn proud of it too - and so is my mother. It tells you (part fiction, part fact) about our trials and tribulation when starting out as Wood You Like - 5 years ago!, our ups and downs, the help and advice we received from various kind and very generous persons.

When I wrote it I knew it would never be a 'best-seller' but I just had to write it at that specific moment in time. We were, slowly, succeeding in what we had set out to do. And I know/feel that blog number 7 is what I need to do now at this specific moment in time. Blogs, webmarketing have become not only a great hobby of me, it is slowly turning into a second career. If you subscribe to the Kiss 2 blog-alerts I will keep you posted on blog number 7, its contents and products and will be able to offer you - if you like of course - special pre-views of things to come.

And besides, a good read is never lost ;-) This is what some of my novel readers say about it:
Richard Calderwood (bizRichard - who coincidently wrote the foreword in my novel)
"The rough road from 'start-up' to successful business, this debut business novel by Karin Hermans is a good read. Her philosophy of keeping things simple certainly works"

Ed Rivis - author of the Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy:
"Excellent and highly original business book"

Fred Holmes - Brick Sand Mortar:
"...everyone who is in doubt about their business success should at least read the part where you listen to John and actually call around about finding a showroom.  Beyond that, the accounting advice and other valuable business tips should be heeded by anyone in a serious start-up mindset."

My E-book (worth £ 6.95) for your name and email address - a fair trade? I hope you'll see it like that - and I promise never to use your submitted details for any other purpose than I've explained above.

Comments

[Cindy King]

I followed you here from Ed Rivis, I wanted to see what your book was about and will be trading my name for the book.

Cheers

[Karin H.]

Hi Cindy

I'm honoured. Hope you enjoy it.

Karin H.

[Beth Kanter]

Thanks so much for your advice about personal networking. I started blogging in 2002 -= and it takes a long time for your technorati rating to increase.

Best of luck to you

Beth

[Karin H.]

Hi Beth, welcome

Technorati is a strange 'beast' but does somehow reward you for blog networking.
I feel the real persons in the commentbox are more valuable than any ranking ;-)

Karin H.

[Easton Ellsworth]

You've got me hooked too, Karin! :)

[Karin H.]

Hi Easton

Welcome and thanks. Hope you'll enjoy my 'novel' and my further ponderings.

Karin H

[Steve Roesler]

Karin,

I'm popping in the subscription info today (even though you have been in my RSS reader for a very, very, very long time.

Keep it simple while you expand...

[Karin H.]

Hi Steve

I can but try ;-) (both the keeping it simple bit as expanding)

Karin H

[Ari Herzog]

I wonder how many of your (new) readers come from MyBlogLog which appears relatively active in the side widget.

I stumbled here via Liz Strauss and your 25-word post on time. I figured, since I'd never been here before, it was time to say hi.

So, hi!

[Karin H.]

Hi to you too Ari! (Very typical Dutch name if I may say so ;-))

MyBlogLog does give me some new readers indeed - I always think they're coming to check me out because I've landed on their widget too.

I hope you stay around for a while.

Karin H.

[Rick Grant]

Glad to comply with your request. Looking forward to learning more about you and your business. Thanks for visiting my blog. All the best.

Rick.

[Karin H.]

Hi Rick

and a warm welcome to you too.

See you around, I hope.

Karin H.

[Marsha Keeffer]

Nice post, Karin - thanks for your wisdom!

[Karin H.]

Hi Marsha

Welcome here and thanks for the thumbs up

Karin H

[bets]

I followed you here from Ed Rivis, I wanted to see what your book was about and will be trading my name for the book.

DogruTahmin

[Karin H.]

Hi best

Thanks for joining in, hope you like my double Dutch English ponderings in the book. Do let me know ;-)

Karin H

[Tyrone]

Thanks for sharing. Experiences have always been inspirational for me as this reminds me of the times that brought be to the ups and downs of business and how I was challenged now to save more time planning and creating more projects in the business. :)

[Karin H.]

Hi Tyrone

Care to share your experiences on how you saved more time?

Karin H

[Tyrone]

Thanks for the reply. I have saved more time since I learned about the outsourcing secrets which I also knew from the ideas of some of the experts like Jeff Mills, John Jonas and Tim Feriss that brought me into their lifestyle of having that 4-hour workweek.

Firstly, I had this opportunity to plan on a new business mindset to divide projects and staff skills through the 80/20 principle: 20% is for non-dollar productive projects yet the routinary ones and those will affect more time such as the admin and customer support, while the 80% goes around the money-giving projects such as the sales, promotion and marketing. Secondly, I hired staff to run the business on my behalf and do the 80/20 activities. That way, I can have more time to spend personal time during weekends and also have more time to plan on business opportunities like meeting the suppliers, talking to business partners, joining ventures, etc. Though I honestly invested time training them, it's still an advantage once they already know the processes in your system using your project management tools and then leaving them off.

Even if I'm away, I can already expect that earnings do come in with their help and that more projects are done in less time. The 4 hours then in a week will be about checking on their daily accountability even at least once a week, looking at the accomplishments and then also checking if there are few urgencies that needs my presence. All in all, my life's been easier.

[Karin H.]

Hmm, read Tim Feriss' book too a while ago. Not sure if his method agrees with me (not that I'm an work-alcoholic, just that my work is already my hobby, or vice-versa ;-)

But if it works for you it works for you.

We use the 80/20 principle (Pareto) to focus on the 20 percent that brings in (roughly) 80 percent of the turnover and increase those type of clients through out pipe-line marketing.

Karin H