About Me

  • I help Coaches, Trainers and Independent Professionals with their marketing, sales and product development needs. email me at kirsten@kirstenfarris.com

Special Delivery! Want updates in your email?

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Hot off the press...

  • Click here to go shopping!

  • Bulldog Marketing: How to Blog and Podcast using a Topic Specific Approach is now available as a PDF Download for 29.95. This workbook will walk you through How to connect to your vision, create a Topic list, and then slowly but simply take you through the steps to get a blog up on TypePad and a podcast with Hipcast using screenshots and non-technical language. If you want to start blogging, but consider yourself 'technically challenged' than this is for you. If you already understand how all of this stuff works, I have one comment... Where were you when I was trying to figure all of this stuff out???!!

It's a Girl! It's a Boy!

  • Whew! Tamara has been busy since having a litter of puppies right before Christmas. Congratulations to Eric and everyone at Mubev Bulldogs, and thanks for once again taking some great picutures!

Bulldogs are:

  • Tenacious! Did you know that they were bred to fight bulls that are more than 10 times their size? They could do that by hanging on to thier noses and and not let go. Now that's focus!

Meet Tamara


  • Thanks to Erik at Mubev Bulldogs for sharing his awesome pictures of Tamara! Check out his website for more great photos.

Go Ugly Early!

  • Going Ugly Early means from a content standpoint, get your stuff out there, and let the market tweak and fine tune it for you. Blogs are a perfect way to do that. Be willing to set yourself up for both positive and negative feedback and roll with the punches. A picture perfect manuscipt that has only had your critical eye on it's pages isn't doing anything. Get your message out, and see what happens!

Who is Brutus?

  • Brutus is a bulldog that I adopted and had for about a year. At the time I got him, I was working from home, not traveling so much, and was able to take care of him the way dogs deserve to be taken care of. After about a year, my lifestyle changed drastically, and I was out of town alot. Sure, Brutus had his doggie day care person, but it wasn't the kind of life I thought he should have. One of the hardest things I did was let Brutus be adopted by another family that really loves him. They had just lost one of their dogs, and had the kind of situation that would be great for him, so he lives with them now, and has a great life. I learned a lot from Brutus, and one of the biggest lessons he taught me was non-attachment. Thanks Brutie! ;)

Want to hear the bulldog podcast?

  • Click below to subscribe to my podcast.
  • View RSS XML

Technorati

« Are you a Giver or a Marketer? | Main | Step 1: Define your Market Segment »

September 14, 2007

Building a new business?

How many of you are just starting out with a new business, or a new product or service? How many of you have been thinking about doing that for some time, but have not taken any real action? How many of you feel like your current business needs a shot in the arm to really get going? Well, if that is the case, then maybe we can all work together for the next several weeks.

Are you interested?

As you may know or not, I have been an avid equestrian for most of my life, and have ridden competitively over the years. For the last 5 years or so, I have not had the time to ride and show, and have really missed it. During the time I was riding, I was motivated to start a business called The Equestrian Athlete, and I had a pretty unique marketing approach. I have always had an uncanny ability to communicate with animals- yes, you read that right- and I am also a certified Master Practitioner and Coach of NLP, which basically helps me work with people to help them find their resources. Anyway, what I would do is 'Talk to the Horse' and then work with the rider to help them make the most of their relationship. Kind of like couples counseling.
I had a real great track record, working with people to help them win world championships and increase their overall confidence in their abilities. I even wrote a workbook which has gathered dust inside my computer files. So why am I telling you all of this?

I want to get this business up and rolling, and figure that now that I understand how to market on and off- line, I will be able to do it. I have other commitments, so just like many of you, this is a part time start up kind of deal. I will outline the key steps and action items, and fill you in on how to complete them so you can do the same. I will share each key step with you, and give you a week or so to get it done, and then you can move on to the next step. But remember this, I am a bulldog at heart, so it won't be too much work, I promise.
Step 1 is on its way...

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c7c6e53ef00e54edd9da38833

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Building a new business?:

Comments

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them.