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	<title>Cathy Fletcher &#187; passion</title>
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		<title>Not Talking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Random thought: are you being paid to talk at work? Not talking to a growing number of people outside work in odd inverse ratio? Currently not talking to the owner of a call center, potential business venture...that didn't work out. Turns out he wanted more than my voice!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/empty-thought-bubble.png"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-553" title="empty thought bubble" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/empty-thought-bubble-150x150.png" alt="pink bubble thought" width="150" height="150" /></a>Which doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re listening. Hearing what you say is a high-level skill and I use it at work but this blog has no comments because I haven&#8217;t learned how to say &#8220;no&#8221; to spam.</p>
<p><em>Turn it on soon</em> to see if anybody is out there.</p>
<p>There are lots of people out there, of course, but until you stop confusing Google bots and find your passion, fix your funnel, and write your ebook&#8230;well, you get the idea. Broadcasting your thoughts is a way to start with social media, and cheaper than finding out you have nothing to say with paid ads.</p>
<p>Watch for new avenues to connect to a partner. Find out what fits you.</p>
<p>My friend is taking an early retirement soon and together we have a wealth of &#8220;pet life&#8221; stories and practical know-how. This I say to you because stepping stones are not where you end up&#8230;did you know that big-time marketers found their start in the wonderful world of pets? The market is so large that it can take more products&#8230;people need help!</p>
<p>Random thought: are you being paid to talk at work? <em>Not talking</em> to a growing number of people <em>outside work</em> in odd inverse ratio? Currently <strong>not</strong> talking to the owner of a call center, potential business venture&#8230;<em>that</em> didn&#8217;t work out. Turns out he wanted more than my voice!</p>
<p>Keep looking, keep listening. Who are you <em>not</em> talking to?</p>
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		<title>Private Lending Made Easy</title>
		<link>http://www.cathyfletcher.com/private-lending-made-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mention of 1. Private lending sales page 2. Auto dialer all-in-one system + online business training 3. Review of real estate private lending]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/handshake.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-434" title="Business handshake" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/handshake-150x150.jpg" alt="private business deal" width="150" height="150" /></a>1. Really love training and this sales page&#8230;<em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">long</span></em>&#8211;is like a <a title="private lending is better than the bank" href="http://www.privatelendingmadeeasy.com/advanced-and-wealth-management-systems/" target="_blank">preview of the training</a> for private lending.</p>
<p>It has a Canadian &#8220;Add to Cart&#8221; which is nice, considering that we&#8217;re America&#8217;s hat. Just kidding&#8230;if we were American&#8217;s hat, or rather toque, then what does that make Alaska? It&#8217;s pom-pom?</p>
<p>2. All kidding aside, today I spoke to two men that had an actual product for a &#8220;one up&#8221; (not the one from the previous post) that pays the first qualifier (auto-dialer all-in-one system). So you end up paying for the product, which happens to be <em>training for setting up your online business</em>. Strictly for MLMers. Others won&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; it. Admin fee, but no monthly fees.</p>
<p>Now, I was holding back until I heard this, and then I heard myself getting excited. Gary Vernerchuk&#8217;s Crush It! impressed me and I&#8217;m always on the lookout for what will sustain my passion long term. Apparently I&#8217;m passionate about training and fun. Probably from my 11 years in a training institute working with 400 volunteers.</p>
<p>3. Here&#8217;s a <a title="Real estate, private lending, trust deed investments" href="http://hubpages.com/hub/privatelendingtrustdeedinvestments" target="_blank">review</a> you may find helpful on private lending for real estate.</p>
<p>My interest in real estate is pretty much surface level: took a correspondence course years ago (after business intro in high school), attended a seminar (buying, fixing, flipping), sold my condo for profit. with help!</p>
<p>Funnel, funnel, who&#8217;s got the funnel? Private business deals. Goes on all the time.</p>
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		<title>Online Marketing Passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate webinars. This is part of the funnel that I positvely hate. Problem is, I already like Leonardo. This, my friends, is where the passion begins: people.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fortune.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-416" title="Stock Reports in Fortune Cookie" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fortune-150x150.jpg" alt="fortune" width="150" height="150" /></a>Sometimes online marketing passion turns out to be a surprise. And it doesn&#8217;t exactly come in a format that fosters trust. Kind of like a fortune cookie.</p>
<p>An auto telephone call starts the funnel and you have a moment so you answer.</p>
<p>Ooohhh&#8230;it&#8217;s interactive so you start pressing buttons, a little further down the funnel, and you&#8217;re waiting. The voiceovers are pretty good, and you pretend &#8220;what if it were my funnel, is it good?&#8221;</p>
<p>You leave your name and telephone number, then forget it.</p>
<p>The next day you get a phone call from a nice Cuban called &#8220;Leonardo&#8221; and he&#8217;s connected with the auto dialing software that you forgot about. I really ought to just pay this month&#8217;s $27 on my <em>own</em> auto dialer. It&#8217;s not much.</p>
<p>I love the way he starts off: he finds something flattering to say about you from the message you left.</p>
<p>We talk and he gives me a website.</p>
<p>The website was slick = boring.</p>
<p>But I like Leonardo.</p>
<p>He calls me and leaves a message the next day. I find it but don&#8217;t call. He calls me later and I pick up.</p>
<p>We talk and he finds out that I don&#8217;t love it, and I&#8217;m divided. He&#8217;s really good about asking why&#8230;and I&#8217;m sucked a little further down the funnel to listen to a webinar tonight.</p>
<p>I hate webinars. This is part of the funnel that I positively hate. Problem is, I already <em>like</em> Leonardo.</p>
<p>This, my friends, is where the passion begins: people.</p>
<p>At this point I don&#8217;t even <em>care</em> that it&#8217;s a gifting, one-up system.</p>
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		<title>Lip Gloss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would the man just make up his mind? Right in the middle of this humour post he called me and says he can't get me off his mind and would it be alright if he sent me periodic money to buy clothes? And did I say "no"? No.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Lip-gloss.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-397" title="Lip gloss" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Lip-gloss-150x150.jpg" alt="exploring your passion" width="150" height="150" /></a>Follow your passion. (from Escape All These Things forum)</p>
<p>Would somebody just turn the sin off so I could make sense?</p>
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<div>My trip was  funny&#8230;here&#8217;s stuff he said to me:</p>
<p>He wanted to send me home because of  my lip gloss.</p>
<p>Yup, this is the entire reason. It all comes down to the  lip gloss.</p>
<p>Now about the lip gloss: it&#8217;s cheap, has a wand, and it smells  like bubble gum.</p>
<p>Apparently I was disrespecting him by not throwing it  out and letting him buy me acceptable lip gloss.</p>
<p>Every time the lip gloss  came out (after I ate usually) it was a flagrant act of rebellion.</p>
<p>He  told me it was &#8220;Nissim repellent&#8221;. I kid you not.</p>
<p>I told him I&#8217;ll throw  out the lip gloss when it&#8217;s finished.</p>
<p>He&#8217;d actually sit downwind from me  because of the lip gloss.</p>
<p>Ever tried to use olive oil in place of lip  gloss? It doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>The lip gloss was a symbol of a disobedient North  American woman.</p>
<p>A spoiled brat with lip gloss.</p>
<p>Would I be willing  to give up the lip gloss for his pleasure? Not really.</p>
<p>Not until it was  gone. I paid five bucks for this thing, ya know.</p>
<p>The lip gloss was a  point of contention, the lip gloss was the cause of being kicked out of  Israel.</p>
<p>From the first encounter with the lip gloss the struggle was on.  &#8220;That&#8217;s it. She&#8217;s going back.&#8221;</p>
<p>It cost him $500 to send me back early  with my lip gloss.</p>
<p>Now, the thing that&#8217;s got this man hooked is my  voice.</p>
<p>About the voice: once a year or less I might yell. And here&#8217;s the  deal with my voice&#8211;it is so soft and feminine that even if I yell I sound &#8220;cute&#8221;.  Therefore no one takes me seriously, even if I happen to transcend the moment  and say something intelligent.</p>
<p>So I yelled at him on the telephone after  I returned because, well, I was so mad. Call me, don&#8217;t call me, email me, don&#8217;t  email me. Apparently no matter what I do I turn him on. And for some reason that  makes him feel out of control.</p>
<p>Would the man just make up his mind? Right  in the middle of this humour post he called me and  says he can&#8217;t get me off his mind and would it be alright if he sent me periodic  money to buy clothes? And did I say &#8220;no&#8221;? No.</p>
<p>So, now I&#8217;m on a  retainer.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m smelly. Deal with it.</p>
<p>Okay the hated lip gloss is  done and in the garbage now. Oy vey.</p>
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<div>*note: we&#8217;re off again, like pulling the last petal off a daisy.</div>
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		<title>Passion for Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You drive in, then walk through Jerusalem, then walk through the Jaffa Gate and the old city on worn shiny stones enclosed by high walls but you don't feel closed in.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Jerusalem.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-386" title="Jerusalem" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Jerusalem-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>You drive in, then walk through Jerusalem, then walk through the Jaffa Gate and the old city on worn shiny stones enclosed by high walls but you don&#8217;t feel closed in. First the Armenian quarter, then the Jewish quarter.</p>
<p>You come out in the open and you over look the Western Wall. This is a Jewish man taking his prayers seriously. The men have more room to pray, and the women are all squashed up on the other side. Maybe they have more to pray about? Or do the men pray quicker?</p>
<p>My friend and I didn&#8217;t go all the way down there. We figured God could hear us fine, and we had a little prayer together.</p>
<p>I was wearing a sleeveless shirt so was given a bright peacock blue nylon covering to borrow for the large open courtyard. We walked around a bit then gave it back, and started walking back, took a different way and could walk right beside the old wall touching it.</p>
<p>Real rubber bottom sandals for grip are what I recommend for doing all of this, rather than cheap plastic bottoms because everything is a bit slippery even on bright sunny days.</p>
<p>I loved exploring this passion for Jerusalem with my friend.</p>
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		<title>Exploring Your Passion</title>
		<link>http://www.cathyfletcher.com/exploring-your-passion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 03:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take off from Toronto airport in a little more than a couple of weeks and be up in the air for about 11 hours, then land in Tel Aviv, which one New York editor called "Mediterranean’s New Capital of Cool".]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Exploring-Passion.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-375 alignleft" title="travelling woman in airport" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Exploring-Passion-150x150.jpg" alt="business woman pulling suitcase in a modern airport" width="150" height="150" /></a>Okay, so this is going to be like a movie.</p>
<p>Travel to Israel for a month, and every day something is getting done to get ready for it.</p>
<p>Ticket received, location decided, room paid for the whole month.</p>
<p>Never really been anywhere, and even a car ride is an adventure for me, so this&#8217;ll be way more fun.</p>
<p>Take off from Toronto airport in a little more than a couple of weeks and be up in the air for about 11 hours, then land in Tel Aviv, which one New York editor called &#8220;Mediterranean’s New Capital of Cool&#8221;.</p>
<p>With the Prime Minister of Israel visiting our Prime Minister in Canada, Jews are exploring their passion about being citizens here. God bless &#8216;em, everyone.</p>
<p>So, when exploring your passion take a look what ignites your very soul.</p>
<p>Can hardly wait to get there!</p>
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		<title>The 3 Step Guide to Being Pale &amp; Sickly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wellness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, and don't take Vitamin D supplements because they make it from sheep wool.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sun-in-blue-sky2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-431" title="sun in blue sky" src="http://www.cathyfletcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sun-in-blue-sky2-150x150.jpg" alt="sunshine for Vitamin D" width="150" height="150" /></a>Here&#8217;s your honest to goodness guide:</p>
<ol>
<li>Be afraid of the sun and base everything you know about it from 2nd-hand hearsay</li>
<li>Avoid tanning beds, especially the UVB types that help you make Vitamin D</li>
<li>Tell everyone  that tanning is the worst thing you could do for your health</li>
</ol>
<p>That&#8217;s it. Whatever you do, <em>trust</em> Big Pharma, the lotion industry and the media, and stay indoors, or in your car, plus <em>don&#8217;t</em> be a snow bird.</p>
<p>You might get sand in your bathing suit. And don&#8217;t come crying to me about your passion.</p>
<p>Oh, and think twice about Vitamin D supplements because they make it from sheep wool.</p>
<p>Especially don&#8217;t check any true resource.</p>
<p><a title="Be Healthy With Vitamin D" href="http://be-healthy-with-vitamin-d.com/" target="_blank">http://be-healthy-with-vitamin-d.com/</a></p>
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