Welcome to the blog of Spiritus – the Spiritual Marketing Directory
Hello and welcome to the blog of Spiritus – the Spiritual Marketing Directory.
I am Shelagh Jones, and I have created Spiritus as a place for businesses to attract the customers they really want – with ease.
And as a place for customers to get to know something about the people and philosophy behind a business before starting the business relationship.
So a Search in the Directory produces a list of matching businesses. But this is not just a list of contact details. Each business answers three questions:
- What does "Marketing from Spirit" mean to us?
- How is that reflected in the way we run our business?
- What three values are most important to our business?
Visitors look through the list, then click to get full contact and business details of any business that attracts them to start the business relationship.
In this way, Spiritus aims to connect businesses and customers in a manner that is for the greater good of all.
All about Apps for iPhones and iPads
Tom Evans is already well-known as an Author and as a source of information and help for other authors through his website The BookWright.
But he’s also an expert on creating Apps for iPads and iPhones and will be sharing his knowledge with Spiritus members and friends in a teleconference on Wednesday September 8th at 8pm UK, 3pm EST (US), 12 noon PST (US).
Some of the questions I’ll be asking Tom:
1. What makes a good app?
2. What’s the process for building one?
3. How do you go about promoting apps?
4. What’s the difference between an app and an iBook?
5. Will the iPhone and iPad get taken over by clones?
If you’ve got one you want to ask, and can’t be on the call, email me in advance.
For more about Apps, see these two articles by Tom:
Call details:
Call (001 outside US) 218 632 4816, code 774748.
The recording will be available to Spiritus members in the Business Information Call Library.
(Tom’s a fascinating man!
He’s a 21st century Renaissance man. He has been described as being something between a polymath and a jack of all trades and master of none.
Throughout his career he has been a serial entrepreneur always working at the leading edge of technology. He has been living and breathing Light Bulb Moments since he was a child.
When not writing his own books, he mentors other authors and creatives on how to banish writer’s block and tap into their Creative Muse. He also acts as a catalyst, visionary and a seer [see-er] for businesses looking for new ideas and strategies.
As a boy, he was fascinated by the magic of TV and radio and used to take them apart to find out how they worked. Sometimes, to his parents’ chagrin, he had a few bits left of over. After taking a degree in Electronics, he embarked on a career as a broadcast engineer with the BBC. By the time he was 25, he was working with Sony Broadcast and recognised as one of Europe’s leading experts on camera and imaging technology .By the time he was 30, he had his own company manufacturing innovative widgets to broadcasters worldwide. He’d also received two Royal Television Society awards for his inventions and had several patents to his name.
In the 90’s, when the Internet came along, Tom built a new business providing innovative ecommerce and epublishing solutions for dot.com startups and established corporates.
Like many authors, he ended up being one sort of by accident. Like many people in his mid-forties, he paused for breath, took a holiday after giving up a perfectly good job without another to go to. On holiday, he wrote some poetry, made into an ebook and to his surprise people started downloading it – and paying for it. He had become an unexpected author – and got the bug.
A year later, the 100 Years of Ermintrude became a trilogy of interlocking stories and ended up in print. Somewhere along the way the downloads also raised loads of money for Walk the Walk breast cancer charity and Tom ended up walking round London in a bra for 26 miles. Now that same book has just been published on as an iPhone app. As an irrepressible technophile, Tom has also developed many iPhone and iPad applications.
The process of writing of this book by accident fascinated Tom and he started to research the true nature of thought, where ideas actually come from and what stops them in their tracks.
He has become a student of both the esoteric and exoteric and switched his personal research direction from technology to the magic of the human mind.
He has now trained as a hypnotherapist and specialises in past life regression and future life progression techniques. He is able to see all possible futures and helps clients manifest the ideal one for them – at the same time clearing past accumulations of karmic issues.
He is also a Master Trainer for Tony Buzan’s Mind Mapping software and teaches both Whole Brain and Whole Mind Thinking.
He started working with other authors on a one-to-one basis three years ago and he has helped many authors get in print. He has also delivered many creative writing and ideas generation workshops.
His second book, simply called Blocks, shows the enlightened way to clear writer’s block and how to connect with unlimited creativity. Removing blocks of course is a natural precursor to having unlimited light bulb moments on demand.
Later this year he has two new books being published. The first by O-Books called the Art and Science of Light Bulb Moments. The second will be self published and simultaneously published on the iPhone called The Flavours of Thought: Recipes for New Thinking.
His writing project for 2011 is to finally deliver the novel he started four years ago. You can download a free sample for the iPhone – just search for Soulwave in the App Store.
He lives in the Surrey Hills with his life partner and two Labradors who are the best friends any writer could wish for.)
The very special month that is August
I was talking with a friend who was finding it hard to get people’s attention for a new project she was starting in September.
It made me realise that I’ve seen this same pattern year after year.
For women in particular, August is a time when we nearly all end up spending a lot of not just “Mummy-time” but “Daughter-time”, “Cousin-time”, “Partner-time”.
Often we’re hot, which slows us down. Our routines are disrupted because others are on holiday- we have to cover for their work, water their plants, entertain them when they visit. In lots of ways things are different from the rest of the year.
So stuff doesn’t get done.
Then, ping – September arrives. And I find it the most exhilarating, exciting, productive month of the year.
Suddenly, everyone seems to realise that there are still 4 months of the year left, and if those goals for 2010 are to be reached, now is the time to get into action.
All that seemingly dormant time is often a bit like a month of quiet meditation, and ideas and projects seem to pop up, almost perfectly formed, apparently out of nowhere.
Nearly every year, after the frustration of August, I’ve seen this in myself in September.
This year, I’m helping things along a bit!
We’re planning some really exciting events here at Spiritus in September, October and beyond.
The first change, to the format of our newsletter, starts this week -and there’s lots more to come!
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Posted by spiritus on August 23rd, 2010 filed in Spiritual Marketing |
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Spiritus Business Information Call – with Stephanie Wood
How I took my new Playbook: Body Knowledge System (R), an Awesome Intelligence from being an idea to being published.
Stephanie Wood talks about how she did it!
So if you have a book inside you waiting to be written, come along and learn from her!
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AND – you can get a 10% discount at http://www.bodyawe.com/
Wednesday July 28th 2pm Eastern (US), 7pm UK
Call (001 from the UK) 218 632 4816, access code 774748#.
Do I REALLY need all this social media stuff??
“I’ve got a website -isn’t that enough? Do I REALLY need this social media stuff?”
We’ve all heard of Facebook and Twitter and YouTube, and maybe even Squidoo and Hubpages and more..
But are they really relevant to our business? Do they really matter?
And if they do matter, what are the most important things I should be doing?
In this Spiritus Business Information webinar, accessed through your computer (and either a headset or on the telephone using a local number in your country), Julieanne van Zyl of Infinite Marketing Consulting will take us through the labyrinth of the brave new world of social media and show us the most important things to be doing for our businesses right now.
Social Media is changing incredibly rapidly; Julieanne is really up to speed with it all, so I stronly recommend this call to all Spiritus members.
UPDATE:
Julieanne is also making a very special offer to Spiritus members of the chance of a free 30 minute Marketing Evaluation. This is something she normally charges $240 to complete for her clients.
Julieanne’s particular niche is what she calls “local businesses”, which are those that operate in a particular locality rather than right across the world using the internet – businesses like chiropractors, or restaurants, or accountants.
To make sure you fit her niche, she’s set up a page with a short form for you to complete, and if you do, she will contact you to arrange the date and time for your Evaluation.
Go to this page and fill in the form:
