Glass Ceiling Crashed 1 year ago today

One year ago today I was walking down 6th Avenue to Bryant Park.  I had just spent 10 days in a hotel room amid a gorgeous New York autumn working on a huge project and wanted to take at least one carefree walk before catching my flight later that afternoon.  I was mid cross walk when I head a snap and looked up.  It seemed a huge piece of cardboard was wafting down on my and at the same time I realized it was a giant glass side of a skyscraper a voice in my head yelled run and I shouted “Run” and run me and other manhattenties did into oncoming traffic as glass and boards and nails shattered down around us.  As I ran all I could think of was that I had just spent 10 days away from my kids stuck in a hotel room and hadn’t finsihed my book and if this was it then I was really bummed.  I ran in heels and a suit and it was like I was in a time warp tunnel looking neither right or left just concerned about myself and getting out from under the hostile rain.  I vaguly registered shocked faces of drivers as I ran past their cars being showered by debry. I thought this is it?  My life ends like this under shattered glass on 6th avenue?   I landed under an over hang in a parking garage.  A guy who had been in the cross walk pulled me and said, hey you saved us! Thanks for shouting run!  I vowed then, having lived that my life would not continue in the same fashion and by January I was a WAHM (work at home mom) and by April I had written 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing by August two more guides and by September most were launched.  I have not been back to New York, My life has changed and my focus in more online and duplicatable. I can work from Ireland, California or in my jammies in the hammock.  I know my kids better, I know myself better and only my husband misses the money — but I know him better too.  The dogs sleep at my feet while I work and I make dinner for my family most every night.  I took up tennis, water color, Irish Wolfhound breeding and Scuba.  One year later life is different and in January I will launch my dream book   Women Buy Everything — how the hot pink crashed the glass ceiling!    If I had been in New York today and the glass window had crashed on me and I had had to run what would I have thought?  I would have thought hey my life is better than it was last year and I really want to live!  1 year later my life is my own and though it is fraught with challenges I hadn’t before yet the opportunities are amazing! I like it when trauma changes life for good, it warms the cockles of my heart, I am glad I listened when the voice yelled run!  Run! Change your life!  All in all a very good year for the right reasons.

My 14 year old daughters view on the economy

The other day I was driving my daughter to somewhere for something — she is 14 you know how it is.  Tough stuff in the news!  My daughter who I thought was listening on her earphones to her Ipod leans forward and says — after hearing the news about the very bad day on Wall Street –  “Mom, I love what you do, you can help these businesses sell even in tough times . . . because these are tough times but people do need to sell right, buying and selling and business will continue right? And people need a plan to market and sell even in these tough times, right?  Especially in these tough times, right?  You offer that right?  Everything is going to be all right, right?”  We talked for a bit, she is right though.  Everything is going to be alright! People will need to keep buying and selling, we my have to pause and take a breather but consumerism will continue.  Now more than ever businesss people need a plan.  I advocate the Three Steps to Success.  1. belief or passion = product or service.  2.  Plan or strategy — so you know who and how you are selling marketing.  3.  action = sales — implement the plan.

I guess Maddy has listened to my radio shows and seminars and she is exactly right.  If you are worried about the news, the state of the ecomony, you can do something about it by marketing your business so that it keeps or starts selling.  In 24 hours you can have a plan — a strategy.  24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook — will give you what you need in 24 hours or less.  No more worries, make a plan and Everything is going to be alright!  Thanks Maddy!  It is good hands our world will be in if a 14 year old listening to an Ipod can jump in with expert advice to the world’s latest crisis!  You can go to my site for the training course www.powerstrategies.TV  No worries, I will meet you there — Kim Power Stilson

Friends launching in Europe, sniff, sniff

I am so jealous.  Power Strategies client, MyExpertSolution is in Europe now . . . granted with all the kids, 10 total, but how fun!  I am stuck here in the 100 degree dry heat of Salt Lake City, Utah, praying for rain!  Next week I will be in Ireland though, for the Dunmore East International Bluegrass Festival so all is well!

MyExpertSolution.com Launches Introduction in Europe

CEO Kristen Lamb hosts Internet Talk TV & Radio Announcement from 17 cities

 

August 14, 2008—Orem, UT & Florence, Italy– MyExpertSolution.com, today announced the beginning of its global launch to introduce their universal expert resource site, www.myexpertsolution.com.  The launch begins in Florence, Italy and commences in London, England on September 10th. As part of the global launch, experts from Europe’s cities are being invited to share their resources with the global aggregation site in exchange for a positioning and profit sharing return.  In each city, the My Expert Solution team will introduce MyExpertSolution with an Internet TV and Radio broadcast live from each city hosted by MyExpertSolution CEO, Kristen Lamb and powered by Planetary Streams International technology.

 

MyExpertSolution.com is a site designed to be a global resource for individuals who want answers to questions which take time and cost thousands for experts to answer when asked individually.  The My Expert Solution site is an aggregate resource site that allows people to submit questions for expert response.  The answers then are stored to be shared immediately and with anonymity to other individuals who may have the same or comparative question in the areas of mental health, emotional health, physical health, relationships, business, and finance.  As part of the global launch experts from around the world are being invited to share their resources with the global aggregation site in exchange for a marketing and profit sharing return. My Expert Solution resources include an Internet talk radio network as a resource for its visitors.

 

 My Expert Solution will visit 15 different European cities this summer with the rest of Europe and the globe being visited in 2009.  The first phase of the global launch includes; Florence, Italy, Venice, Italy, Vienna, Austria, Berlin, Germany, Brussels, Belgium, Paris, France, Prague, Dublin, Ireland, Dunmore East, Ireland, Oslo, Norway, Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm, Sweden, Helsinki, Finland, St. Petersburg, Russia, Tallinn, Estonia, London, England.

 

 According to Kristen Lamb, CEO of MyExpertSolution.com, she is pleased to introduce My Expert Solution in Europe as a resource for Europe’s experts as well as its individuals. 

 

“Some of our favorite people are here in Europe so making an official introduction here was part of the plan from the beginning,” said Lamb.  “We hope the MyExpertSolution site will be a resource for people all over the world.”

 

MyExpertSolution.com offers access to the world’s experts through an online offering launching now through September in Europe.  MyExpertSolutions.com is a resource for answers from assembled online experts ready to help with answers. Users can submit their question about anything from education, finance, health and relationships and experts in those fields will share an online answer in 24 hours.  MyExpertSolutions.com is nationally available online at www.myexpertsolutions.com in August 2008.  For more information please contact Danielle at 801-373-9469.  Media Contact, Kim Power Stilson, Power Strategies, Inc. Kim@powerstrategies.TV, Skype: kim.power.stilson at 801-691-4588.

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ABOUT MY EXPERT SOLUTION:

MyExpertSolution.com gives access to the world’s experts through an online offering launching now through September in Europe.  MyExpertSolutions.com is a resource for answers from assembled online experts ready to help with answers. Users can submit their question about anything from education, finance, health and relationships and experts in those fields will share an online answer in 24 hours.  MyExpertSolutions.com is nationally available online at www.myexpertsolutions.com in August 2008.  For more information please contact Danielle at 801-373-9469.  Media Contact, Kim Power Stilson, Kim@powerstrategies.TV at                801-691-4588.

                              

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.

Power Strategies Ponders

What makes the difference between a successful business and one that you pour years, your money, your soul and your family’s soul into only to become another business failure statistic in 2-5 years?  Why do some people work like we do, out of the garage, basement or dining room, and end up a “million billionaires”, while you end up losing your house?

Why? My company had its shining moments, we had a good product/service and, in fact, the first four or so years showed we were headed for success.  So, what happened?  As much as I hate to ask why and less like to face the answers, I discovered the answer, the secret, the key to success while face down in the mud.

It was the day after we had to close the business and my world was dark.  Winter was turning slowly to spring and by that I mean the 8 foot wall of grey ice next to our driveway was finally beginning to melt. I had read every “power of positive thinking” book out there and some twice while trying to convince myself that there was a silver lining. I kept asking myself why I had failed.  All comparisons to Edison’s 6,000+ light bulb tries failed to cheer me up.  I was supposed to be successful.  I had watched others succeed and had confidentially joked with them that I would invite them to my castle in Ireland someday. Now, my hopes for someday seemed to be “never-ever day.”  What had I missed?  The answer would not come and the pain of failure was sharp making it difficult to even breathe.

I did what a lot of people do when they need to think.  I decided to go for a walk.  After all, I had no business to claim my time and nothing else to do.  I walked along seeing the beauty of the mountains forcing myself to be grateful.  Look at the positive side; I said to myself, finally after years of working 70 hours a week now at least I had time to take a walk. 

Suddenly, as if the world dropped off in front of my feet I fell, face down into a pool of post-thaw snow mud.  I just lied there in the mud and wondered why I should get up. When I was finished feeling sorry for myself and grieving my lost business I suddenly knew why I had failed.  It hit me right there in the mud exactly what the one strategy of success we had neglected which had caused the lack of success, the failure.  It was embarrassing.  We had a good product/service but it all had come down not doing this one thing.  I had gotten so busy that I had forgotten, put off, not placed the importance into “marketing” my product/service.   How many years had I wasted in doing the efforts of business only to find at the end that my product/service was worthless when not sold into the hands of consumers?  If consumers did not know about my product then I wasn’t selling and if my product wasn’t selling than I did not have a business.  Like me, I thought, as I started extricating myself from the tear and snow laden mud, with no business. Excerpt from 24 Hours to Zero Down Marketing Strategy Guide and Workbook by Kim Power Stilson, more on this at www.powerstrategies.TV.

Hooray for Power Strategies!

Everyone needs a little success now and then and if that success can be tempered with helping people all the better!  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 2008) 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.

Do we know what we don’t know?

 

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 this at www.powerstrategies.TV  Kim Power Stilson

WWW passing you by?

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