You’ve got a passion to help others – but do they know about you? In this special challenge assignment from Kelly, you’ll be stretching yourself and sharing your passion with as many around you as possible.
Stretch Yourself Audio Part One (Excerpt from Episode #305)
Stretch Yourself Audio Part Two (Excerpt from Episode #306)
Stretch Yourself Audio Part Three (Excerpt from Episode #307)
If you accept this challenge, you will:
___ Spend some time considering your goals & dreams.
___ Write a simple mission statement for your business.
___ Identify three primary points you want to make and be known for.
___ Build this mission statement and primary points into your ‘About’ page.
___ Also build them into your mailing list welcome email.
___ Write a 600 word article about point one.
___ Write a 600 word article about point two.
___ Write a 600 word article about point three.
___ Distribute these three articles to as many directories as you can.
___ Write a blog post on your own blog about point one.
___ Write a blog post on your own blog about point two.
___ Write a blog post on your own blog about point three.
___ Offer to be a guest blogger about these topics on relevant blogs.
___ Inquire about being a guest about these topics on relevant podcasts.
___ Combine your articles & blog posts into a free report to give away.
___ Record your free report as an audio to give away.
___ Create a video that expresses this information in two minutes or less.
___ Keep track of all remarks, feedback & questions received.
___ Write a ’next level’ 600 word article about point one.
___ Write a ’next level’ 600 word article about point two.
___ Write a ’next level’ 600 word article about point three.
___ Distribute these three articles to as many directories as you can.
___ Write a blog post on your own blog about point one.
___ Write a blog post on your own blog about point two.
___ Write a blog post on your own blog about point three.
___ Inquire again about being a guest about these topics on relevant podcasts.
___ Offer again to be a guest blogger about these topics on relevant blogs.
___ Create an expanded video that expresses this information in five minutes or less.
___ Combine your articles & blog posts into a report to give away—or sell!
___ Record your free report as an audio to give away—or sell!
Grab a Printable Checklist (PDF)
We’ll be talking about the {Stretch YOURSELF} challenge on WAHM Talk Radio and in our Monday Morning Breakthrough sessions over the next few weeks.
If you’re participating, please leave a comment here on this post AND come back to share your progress and results.
Who is this challenge for? Anyone with a passion to help others.
What is the point? To share who you are and what you’re passionate about with as many people as possible.
What’s the deadline? There is none. Everyone works best at their own pace. Just keep working through the list and sharing your progress.
What if I feel like I need some extra help? Join Mom Masterminds, you’ll find support and encouragement there.
What do I get if I complete the challenge? Amazing self confidence and a wider circle of influence. (And a $100 gift certificate to Mom’s Talk Biz!)
To claim your $100 gift certificate, you must post steady updates here on the blog and send a ‘mission completed’ email request to support@momstalknetwork.com with a complete rundown of your challenge accomplishments.
Kelly’s Challenge Updates: (Yeah, I’m doing it too!)
- Wrote a mission statement for ‘Become a Blog Consultant’.
- Picked my three points I want to emphasize. 4-20-10
- Finished my first article & submitted to Ezine Articles & Lady Pens. 4-21-10
- Finished my second article & submitted to Ezine Articles & Lady Pens. 4-24-10
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Good work Nikki!
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You're powering through Monica!
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Great Genesis!
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I'm so glad you've been motivated by it Nikki!
Just wanted to let you know I got my goals and dreams down, my mission statement (needs work), my 3 main points, my about page and my welcome email message done. :) I'm tracking it all in Google docs. Here's a link if you'd like to see it: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/provbs.com/cc…
So far I have identified my 3 points, I have put those into my mission statement. And I have written 2 articles.
I can't believe that I'm going to do this, but, count me in. Now off to dream about my goals.
Okay, so I have mission on about page, I have submitted 3 articles to ezines.com and selfgrowth.com and I have scheduled 3 blog posts. Now to find a place to guest blog on…Whew!
I will do it.
I finished my goals and dreams. I just want to fine tune my goals with some deadlines and so I'll do that as I get more realistic with timeframes and potential.
I also finished my mission statement. I kept if simple and easy to understand. No “Big” words to confuse anyone.
I never updated you guys. So far I have written one article and have submitted it to ezine and go articles. I will submit it to one more place. And I received 2 comments on my article. One over at ezine and one on a friend of mine's facebook page. Whew whoooo!!!!!
http://stagedragon.com/blog/?page_id=2
needs work though – going to work in the points and mission statement today :)
Hi Everyone! Well, I'm stretched for today ;) I think its missing something? http://www.buckeyeva.com/testimonials-2/about-b…
My challenge update:
Considered my goals and dreams
Wrote a mission statement
Identified three points I want to be known for.
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Okay, after many weeks of thought and three pages of edits that only I can read, I've landed on my mission statement and three points about my business I want to emphasize. It is all reflected in my about page here: http://www.smallbusinessstudy.com/about/
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Thanks for the update Mary! Way to go!
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Great! Are those articles distributed now?
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Hey Michele! Welcome to the group!
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Hurray! Want to guest post on WTR?
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You're in? Great!
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LOL! Good to hear it!
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Great! People are learning about your passion!
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Hey there – that's a great bit of content and a wonderful story – but it's not a good fit for a VA about page. Your about page should focus in on your as a VA professional – what you do, who you serve, etc. Does that make sense?
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Hurray Lois! Now you can get to writing :)
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Hi Genesis – I'm glad I found you again, I use to follow your expat blog :) Anyhow, I clicked on your comment link above and was taken to your At Home Mom blog and have to tell you it's one useful blog for writing tips (my interests) and one woman's perspective on working at home (love your recent vacation story).
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Last week I just joined Mom Masterminds and listening to one of the first audios suggested. You talk about staying focused to prosper in a virtual business. So at this time I just wanted to share I'm not turning the challenge down but finishing the projects I started. My challenge will come.
It's really important people get to this point of recognizing when it's time to stop creating but completing tasks. Interested in hearing how everyone else does.
Collette Schultz
yes, yes I'd love to.
Working on 3 key points not sure what they could be for a decorating site. I wrote some didn’t think they were quite right. wrote some more but put them in about page seemed fine but now I have to write articles about them and they really aren’t something that I want to have an article on. Example: I want to be known for having how to decorating videos. But how is an article on the importance of having a how to video going to promote my site of how to decorate??
Any suggestions please.
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Michele, I responded to your post at MM with some feedback :) Basically, there’s a difference between ‘what you do’ and ‘what you stand for’.
Ok, here it is the about page with the mission statement and three points worked in.
http://stagedragon.com/about.htm
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now on to writing articles. I got my welcome email done and my about page. Yay!
I love that I only have to inquire about being a guest on relevant podcasts. But I WILL stretch myself.
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Ok I know I'm really late in joining in but I'm in. I have to admit this is definitely going to be a challenge that takes me outside of my comfort level and…well STRETCHES me! There's lots of things to do here but what 'scares' me the most is all the writing I'll be doing! lol
My goal is to start & finish this challenge in 5 months. July 27 – Dec. 27th by the end of 2010, as you shared in #2. Listening to your audios is helping me Kelly, thanks!
Twitter: ponnsabra
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Still challenged by this STRETCH Challenge, I left a comment last month saying I finished the first 5 steps. I plan on reporting again at the end of this weekend as I’ve set myself up to do 5-10 more at week’s end.
Thank You for the insight of starting online networking.
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Just finished my 1st ebook, posted my blogposts, just need to get the articles into the article directories.
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Submitted 5 articles to ezinearticles and goarticles.com. Found 10 niche podcasts to pitch. Have secured 3 guest posts on other blogs. Researching how to make a slideshow video, otherwise may just ‘wing’ it. ;-)
Determined to finish in 7 days to meet my Jan. 30/31st goal! ;-)
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Yay!
Here’s my free ebook: http://americanmuslimmom.com/ebook
My debut Podcast (which is all the above steps with the ebook) http://americanmuslimmom.com/american-muslim-mom-debut-podcast
Here’s my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E72SUDZD6V0
I have all the other steps either hand-written or organized, guest blogs posts all the way to the last ebook. The only trouble was finding podcasts in my niche to be a guest on. I found a list of 10, but not all of the them are shows that interest me.
Thanks for the direction Kelly!
I am doing exactly that. I opened a website muslimtoysanddolls.com around my passion love of Allah,love of our most precious resource our children and wanting to make a statement about Islam. I researched for two years and than wrote about it and than put it online.It is now about four years later and I am enjoying every minute of it and you can do it to.Find what your passionate about and make a business around it and you can be a stay at home mom and run an online business at the same time.I believe in you.fee aman Allah,Sister Debbie muslimtoysanddolls.com