I am guest blogging today. Hope you enjoy! - Debbie Cluff

I was reading a recent post on twitter which said SAHM wanting to be a WAHM. I thought those were the strangest acronyms and quickly googled them to see what they meant. I guess SAHM means Stay at Home Mom and WAHM is Work at Home Mom. Having just gone through the program created on www.powerstrategies.tv I have now become a WAHM. Amazing that finding one program, a program that actually supports being a SAHM and will discount their program becuase they see value in who I am, can change my life. I know you have heard this a million times, but Kim Power Stilson is the real thing and she really wants Women, Small Businesses, and Stay at Home Parents to become successful and accomplish their dreams. So about the business I have…

I owned this site since 2005 called Links for Learning, www.links-for-learning.com and this was a great site for parents to come to and educate themselves and their children. Yet, I was missing a great aspect of online marketing that I knew I needed but was unable to figure out. Having just graduated with social media certification, I am able to take my company to the next level and truly support my family from the home. I think this is every mothers dream. So now I guess I am both, a SAHM and a WAHM… what more in life could I ask for? Maybe a dog.

I am guest blogging this site today! - Debbie Cluff

I was reading a recent post on twitter which said SAHM wanting to be a WAHM. I thought those were the strangest acronyms and quickly googled them to see what they meant. I guess SAHM means Stay at Home Mom and WAHM is Work at Home Mom. Having just gone through the program created on www.powerstrategies.tv I have now become a WAHM. Amazing that finding one program, a program that actually supports being a SAHM and will discount their program becuase they see value in who I am, can change my life. I know you have heard this a million times, but Kim Power Stilson is the real thing and she really wants Women, Small Businesses, and Stay at Home Parents to become successful and accomplish their dreams. So about the business I have…

I owned this site since 2005 called Links for Learning, www.links-for-learning.com and this was a great site for parents to come to and educate themselves and their children. Yet, I was missing a great aspect of online marketing that I knew I needed but was unable to figure out. Having just graduated with social media certification, I am able to take my company to the next level and truly support my family from the home. I think this is every mothers dream. So now I guess I am both, a SAHM and a WAHM… what more in life could I ask for? Maybe a dog.

People don’t really understand all that they are missing online!  It is more the fear of the unknown, in my experience anyway, and perhaps a lack of taking good old fashioned time to learn something you don’t know!

 

 

Today, after a week of trauma, puppy deaths, kids out for summer, on and on, I accomplished something I am proud of. Many of my friends, my family, my clients needed to know something they didn’t know, and I helped them with that.  The news is below, but I am so happy to have accomplished something grand despite all the demands and tools life takes of us.  I hope this Internet, Web and Online Social Communications Guide will help people successfully compete online.  I know it helped me, and I know I needed to know what I did not! 

 

The world is out there filled with people who like to define us as humans, I can only really attempt to define myself.  I needed to know this and know I know what I know but there is more to learn, more to know, more to come.  I hope someone out there agrees but you know it does not really matter.  As long as I am happy and those I care about our happy. 

 

To the ten friends so far who have learned something, and love it, thank you!  This is a landmark day for me, one I hope my kids, my dogs, birds, cats, siblings and friends will smile about.  Kim Power Stilson

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Blog? Ping? Pod?

Kim Power Stilson, A mom with 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and a cat

& Debbie Cluff, a zany little lady from Pasadena help Momprenuers

Unlock the mystery to the Internet, the Web and Social Media Tools with Power Strategies Education!

 

 

June 17, 2008, 2008— Pasadena, CA & Salt Lake City, UT   – Kim Power Stilson and Debbie Cluff partner with Planetary Streams and today announce the release of:

Get online and Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release,

Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter!

What is it and how do I do it?

An Education Guide to the Internet, the World Wide Web

and Online Social Media Communications!

This guide is available online and in a social media education training package on www.planetarystreams.com and www.powerstrategies.TV. 

 

Two work-at-home moms, both with hectic lives, decided life would be easier if they figured out how to succeed online like the Pro-bloggers and other online businesses.  They made two discoveries.  First, there was a lot they did not know, like what is a Wiki and Twitter.  Second, they realized it wasn’t as intimidating as it sounded.   They shared the information with their friends and other entrepreneurs who all insisted they needed it all down in a guidebook.  So, Kim collaborated with Debbie to research, write and present: Get online and Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter! What is it and how do I do it? An Education Guide to the Internet, the World Wide Web and Online Social Media Communications!

 

According to Kim Power Stilson, marketing strategist, the guide combined with her new 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide & Workbook is the culmination of 17 years of hard work, marketing while raising kids, dogs, etc. She believes the Internet and World Wide Web are a tremendous convenience for working moms, single parents and small businesses.

 

“Life online is easier! I’m positive they invented the Internet and World Wide Web for busy women,” says Kim.  “Everything I need to do, purchase, sell and find is all online!  How convenient is that?  I wanted everyone to know how to use the offerings and tool available online!”

 

According to Debbie Cluff, mother of three and master educator, founder of Links for Learning, having an online tutoring business inspired her to help women and parents find a comfortable way to use online tools to their advantage.  She sees that working, playing and learning online brings convenience and success and most moms, parents and people need that benefit.

 

“We could totally see us on the Ellen Show helping all the women in the world learn how to blog, ping, pod, etc., and we loved the idea of women using this knowledge to get better jobs, work from home, and succeed online,” said Debbie.  “As an educator I thought it would be fun to teach something everyone wants and needs to learn!”

 

The Guide, Get online and Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter! What is it and how do I do it? An Education Guide to the Internet, the World Wide Web and Online Social Media Communications! is offered in an online PDF  version, as well as, a robust video, audio, Internet, Web, Social Media & Marketing certified education course.   (Prices range from $240 - $2400 with certification. Huge Discounts for women, single parents and small businesses. Get your guide at www.planetarystreams.com and www.powerstrategies.TV) For Free Media trial contact:  Jack Brian or Anne Roberts Jack@powerstrategies.TV  or anne@powerstrategies.com or 801-473-9174. 

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About Kim Power Stilson:

Founder of Power Strategies, Inc.,  Kim Power Stilson, is the author of Women Buy Everything (Fall 200 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook and Get online Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag and Twitter!  What is it and how do I do it?

Kim is the weekly Internet talk radio host of “My Best Friends are Dogs and Bloggers” and “Women Buy Everything” radio shows on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com )  and the founder of the Bluebird Sisterhood.  She really does have 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and 1 cat and a very patient husband. She loves to watercolor, play tennis, snow ski and be near the sea. She divides her time between California, Utah & Ireland.  She blogs at www.bluebirdsisterhood.blogspot.com & www.twitter.com, www.mybestfriendsaredogsandbloggers.wordpress.com.

 

About Debbie Cluff: 

Debbie Cluff is the CEO of Links for Learning, Online Coaching and Instant Homework Help. She was born and raised in South Pasadena, California, USA. Debbie has taught in both the home and the classroom and has her Masters in Reading and Writing at the Elementary School Level. She is a reading specialist and an author. She has written over a dozen articles for online publications and has been a contributing author to such online companies as, earticle.com and ezine.com. Her first book 7 Easy Ways to Help Your Student Succeed: How Ordinary Parents can Make Extraordinary Students, can be purchased or downloaded free directly from her website, www.links-for-learning.com.

Debbie hosts two weekly talk radio shows on Planetary Streams called “The Debbie Cluff Show” and “Women Buy Everything” you can listen by logging on to www.planetarystreams.com.

Debbie loves to read any books. Her favorite books are anything by Mary Higgins Clark and Jane Austin. Debbie resides in South Pasadena, California with her husband and three children. She would LOVE to hear from you and your personal educational stories, please contact her directly at debbie@links-for-learning.com.

 

ABOUT PLANETARY STREAMS:

Planetary Streams International, a Social Media Communications Company, provides internet Radio & TV communications solutions for companies and individuals around the globe.   Launched February 2008 to meet the growing demands of audio and visual delivery on the internet, PSI operates globally from the “Broadcast Barn” in Woodland Hills using proprietary technology connects to deliver marketing messages from individuals and companies. Please visit www.planetarystreams.com, or call Chad Stilson at chad@planetarystreams.com or contact Jack at 801-473-9174.

I am impressed and excited to offer this — I hope it helps people take more time to market their company, products, services and selves on and off line!

Kim Power Stilson Launches 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide for Companies Who Want to Succeed!

 

June 13, 2008, 2008—Salt Lake City, UT & Dunmore East, Ireland – Kim Power Stilson, announced today, the release of her new marketing strategy training guide and workbook, 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook.  This guide is available online and in a social media education training package on www.powerstratgies.TV. 

 

As soon as they found out she had her own marketing company, people would ask Kim for suggestions on how to spread the word about their product/services.  Based on a success-proven strategy, Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh, created with 17 years of marketing success, Kim would suggest first creating a strategy or plan based on goals and then applying regular efforts to achieve name awareness and sales success. 

 

Most small companies could not afford her or other marketing professionals consultation fees ($30,000 strategy creation fee and monthly service fee $5 -10,000 per month) but they still needed the help and she wanted to assist them because she believes that marketing or not marketing a product/service makes the difference between success and failure.  She was inspired to write this step-by-step guide and which gave the power back to the company owners with marketing knowledge at a budget-

worthy cost. 

 

“Once you have a plan, a strategy and you know what you need to do then you run out of excuses to not take the time to market and sell,” said Kim Power Stilson. “With each marketing effort company owners gain a little more success.  With consistent efforts like even 24 hours a month focused on marketing, they will see real results in the areas of increased name awareness and sales.”

 

According to Kim Power Stilson, this is a great strategy guide for business owners and employees who want to impress their boss by helping their company increase their chances for sales.  “You may have a great product but if consumers don’t know about it they can’t buy it,” said Power Stilson. “Online and traditional Marketing is an essential component to business success. Entrepreneurs and small business sometimes overlook marketing because they don’t have the resources to hire someone and most don’t have the time to do it themselves.  Now they can be doing effective marketing in just 24 Hours for a fraction of the cost.”

 

To make marketing affordable, Power Strategies offers a “Monthly Marketing Service – 24 Hours” style to help companies keep marketing once they have a strategy.  The service includes Live chat, Social Media, Internet, PR 2.0 and Web 3.0 & Marketing instruction, tips, templates & advice from Social Media & Marketing Strategist Kim Power Stilson. (Prices range from $240 per month to a discounted cost for women, small-business owners and single parents of $24 per month.)

 

24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide & Workbook is offered in an online PDF  version, as well as, a robust video, audio, Internet, Web, Social Media & Marketing certified education course.   (Prices range from $240 - $2400 with certification.) For Free Media trial contact:  Jack Brian or Anne Roberts Jack@powerstrategies.TV  or anne@powerstrategies.com or 801-473-9174. 

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About Kim Power Stilson:

Founder of Power Strategies, Inc.,  Kim Power Stilson, is the author of Women Buy Everything (Fall 200 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook and Get online Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag and Twitter!  What is it and how do I do it?

Kim is the weekly Internet talk radio host of “My Best Friends are Dogs and Bloggers” and “Women Buy Everything” radio shows on Planetary Streams (Log on and listen at www.planetarystreams.com )  and the founder of the Bluebird Sisterhood.  She really does have 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and 1 cat and a very patient husband. She loves to watercolor, play tennis, snow ski and be near the sea. She divides her time between California, Utah & Ireland.  She blogs at www.bluebirdsisterhood.blogspot.com & www.twitter.com, www.mybestfriendsaredogsandbloggers.wordpress.com.

Her professional marketing background includes over 17 years experience and a proven track record of success. She has created marketing positioning campaigns based on her own copyrighted Make, Bake, Shake, Rake & Fresh marketing strategy to build name awareness and speed up the sales process hundreds of companies delivering award-winning campaigns to national and international audiences for at 60% savings over costs, with an 140% increase in name awareness and delivering ordered sales of $50 million plus.

 

About Power Strategies, Inc:

Power Strategies is a Social Media, PR, Web & Internet Marketing Strategies Company providing Education, Marketing Consultation and Public Relations Services to women and family owned businesses and corporations in the United States and Ireland. www.powerstrategies.TV

 

 

About the Power Strategies Education Courses: 

The “Power Strategies Internet, Web and Social Media & Marketing Strategy Education” includes 24 education sessions, 3 education courses, 32 learning components and one 24-hour workbook all Online to get you certified and marketing at your own pace in 24 hours to 24 weeks: 

1. Internet, Web & Social Media Training –  Learn Social Media, Internet and Web tools like Blog, Ping, Pod, Stream, Bookmark, Blast, Release, Wiki, Widget, Web, Link, Avatar, Tag & Twitter!  Includes EBook, Audio / Video training.
2. Marketing Strategy –Create and implement a traditional, Internet and Web marketing strategy for you, your company, and your products/services. Includes 24ZDM guide and workbook along with Audio / Video training.
3. Education Sessions – 24 Internet, Web and Social Media personal LIVE 15 minute educations sessions (powered by Links-for-Learning.com) online at your convenience.  Ask questions and get answers from a “live” marketing coach.

*Certification in “Power Strategies Internet, Web and Social Media & Marketing Strategy Education”  through this robust online course will give you the ability to create a traditional and Internet marketing strategy and the understanding to communicate on the Web with social media tools. Graduate from this course with Certification in Social Media, Internet Marketing and Marketing Strategy.  

Women, Single Parent and / or Small Business Owner Subsidized Discount Price - $2400* Corporate Price - $10,000* 

BONUS WITH EDUCATION PURCHASE: Monthly Marketing Service - 24 Hour Style
24 hours each month with Includes: Live chat, Social Media, Internet, PR 2.0 and Web 3.0 & Marketing instruction, tips, templates & advice from Social Media & Marketing Strategist Kim Power Stilson.

The Internet and World Wide Web give us so many opportunities to communicate and connect to people previously unreachable at all ends of the earth.  Communication on the Internet and World Wide Web is essential in everything we do from the social aspects to promoting a successful business.  Why would anyone ever put off learning something so essential just because it’s new and unknown? Even more than the knowing how to use the microwave, which I feel was fairly essential to eating regularly in college, ‘getting the hang of” the Internet and the World Wide Web gives amazing, informative, and lucrative opportunities for those who embrace it.  

Most of us are not educated in how to use the Online World to our personal and professional advantage. People who are able to successfully navigate online will not easily give away the secrets to how this is done. Yet, I have always felt the first step in becoming a great, is to gain education in all areas of what you want to achieve. In order to connect to the online world, you are going to have to educate yourself, as Debbie would say, in the 5 W’s which are Who, Where, What, When, and Why of this Internet and World Wide Web.

This guide was written from the perspective of a journey of how my grandma and I would have figured out this together.  It’s not technical and it may not be perfectly accurate yet because I wanted to learn enough to successful on the Internet and World Wide Web and leave the blank stares behind me forever, it works.  So, even though I can’t build a website I do know what to ask for and expect when I contract with someone to build one for me.  I don’t know as much as a “Problogger” (a professional blogger who makes money through the site he/she blogs) but I can talk intelligently with one. Probloggers seem to have the world by a string, but I have not read a Problogger yet who could have out blogged my grandma had she been around to blog today.  More of this from Kim Power Stilson on www.powerstrategies.TV and www.planetarystreams.com

 Excerpt from the new 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide found on www.powerstrategies.tv

We were the first people on our block to get a microwave. My grandmother came over and asked me to show her how to “get the hang of it” so she could tell all her friends. She said it was a mystery to her but she was determined to be the first of her friends to have one.   Having survived the great depression my grandma was not the kind to be afraid of anything but I could tell she was a little wary of the big black box capable of melting down plastic bowls in seconds.  As I was showing her what to do she told me she had showed her own grandmother how to work her TV.  We laughed while we burnt a cheese sandwich to a crisp.  Years later when I had to ask my kids to help me download a James Taylor song onto the iPod I received for Christmas I realized I was losing ground.  My kids laughed at me for not knowing how to download and it made me feel better to smirk at them for not knowing who James Taylor was.  Smirking was not enough, I felt like the world, indeed the World Wide Web was passing me by.

I could blame being an overwhelmed hard-working mother of 4 dogs, 3 kids, 2 birds and a cat for one of the reasons I wasn’t up on terms like Social Media, Live Web, and Widgets but there are a few women with the same description above perhaps with a few less pets who make millions of dollars every year knowing all the above.  That’s right millions.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are not some deep dark mysterious secret that you need a key or a brilliant brain to unlock, though some of the articles you have seen may seem to be written in another language, it’s simply a lot of new information and new information when you already have a lot on your plate can be overwhelming.

If you secretly wonder what a blog is then you are not alone.  My good friend Kristen Lamb, co-founder of Planetary Streams International, a Social Media and Marketing company likes to say, “You don’t know what you don’t know!”  Like my grandma and the microwave, her grandma and the TV and me and my iPod, we won’t know until we ask for help. The people brave enough to admit they have no idea what a blog or ping or any of the above in the title are the people who get to reap the rewards.    More on my site www.powerstrategies.TV  kim power stilson

24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and work book is done and available now.  You can’t believe how much work but how worthwhile the processs.  Please check it out it is on www.powerstrategies.TV

I remember when my parents brought home one of the first microwaves on our block.  My grandmother came over and asked me to show her how to “get the hang of it” so she could tell all her friends. She said it was a mystery to her but she was determined to be the first of her friends to have one.   Having survived the great depression my grandma was not the kind to be afraid of anything but I could tell she was a little wary of the big black box capable of melting down plastic bowls in seconds.  As I was showing her what to do she told me she had showed her own grandmother how to work her TV.  We laughed while we burnt a cheese sandwich to a crisp.  Years later when I had to ask my kids to help me download a James Taylor song onto the iPod I received for Christmas I realized I was losing ground.  My kids laughed at me for not knowing how to download and it made me feel better to smirk at them for not knowing who James Taylor was.  Smirking was not enough, I felt like the world, indeed the World Wide Web was passing me by.   More on this from me Kim Power Stilson, www.powerstrategies.TV and www.planetarystreams.com

For all of you who want to get marketing, you need to make a plan.  My “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing” will help you do that and in 24 hours!  No time to wait if you have a product/service and want to get selling!

So, it is all written and done just planned today to get to final proofs before filming! AND, Unbelievable.  I put my winter clothes away for the third time and “ta do” like magic it snows.  I woke up to see my fresh green leave and budding lilacs drooping over with almost an inch of heavy white icey frosting.  SNOW!  I checked my calendar?  It’s May!  To get my kids off to school I had to dig through the storage boxes for the usual boots and gloves.  Nice!  Will I ever get to enjoy the Iris or the Lilacs I usually see in April – will they skip blooming all together and shrivel in summer’s heat? Okay, I know I am complaining but really! Snow?!?!?!?

Thank goodness the World Wide Web doesn’t close down due to snow!  Of course, a well-placed bolt in a summer thunder storm could render access impossible, still!  So, finishing up the final 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing before I film on Wednesday!  So, exciting!  Monday is off to a cold but good start!

Over one thousand people have asked me to give them advice on marketing.  Many are paying clients, most people who see me, like they see any neighborhood lawyer or policeman, are strapped for cash and just want some quick advice to get them going so they can make some money so they can hire professionals.  I always feel happy to help but frustrated that I can’t do more.  Well, now I can.  I have taken my 17+ years of award-winning experience and turned it into a strategy guide to help people create their own marketing plan to get their companies marketing!  It’s called “24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing” and you guessed it, it takes 24 hours and may I say . . . it is a really comprehensive and positive plan.   I just turned it over to the editors last night and soon it will be available on my Website at www.kpowerstrategies.com.  I am thinking of charging what it is worth, what I would charge my clients, yet then giving a discount those family-owned businesses that need a little help!  My way of sharing the wealth!  I am very very very excited about this and as well spring is in the air!  Soon I will be moving to California, by the beach no less, no more long hard winters for me (or for my skin!)  Life is lovely!