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Your CoachVille Member Services team is delighted to announce the debut of “A Home For Help”, the one-stop place to visit for complimentary help, support and information at CoachVille.  Now, with one click of the “Help” button, you’re connected with the Member Services Team who is ready, willing and able to support you in every aspect of your participation with CoachVille.

Member Services is a must visit if you’re looking for:

• Someone to talk to
• Help locating something at CoachVille
• Someplace to report website troubles
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
• Advice on “where to start”
• The “Suggestion Box”
• A way to get more involved
• And much, MUCH more!

You can easily access these support services by simply “clicking” on, the “Help” button at the very top of nearly every page at CoachVille.

Member Services is here to assist ALL members so they can flourish within this virtual environment, locate and access the learning that’s most important to them and provide guidance in developing a personal CoachVille Strategy for success!  Please take a moment to stop by and get to know this group of dedicated Volunteers - they are professional coaches, widely knowledgeable in CoachVille resources and foremost, they’re members just like you!

In tandem with this major step forward in serving the CoachVille membership and in order to provide quality service to our growing membership, Member Services is looking for a few fresh faces and talents to join us.  Volunteering with Member Services is fun, challenging, and VERY rewarding. Member Service Volunteers are able to take advantage of special perks too!  Participation on the Member Services team truly allows you the o*pportunity to make a difference in the lives of thousands.

You can even exchange your perks for an upgrade to the TLC program!  That's right, if you've got the desire, skills and the time, we've got the way to reward you for showing off your talents with Member Services!  So, if you're a general member looking for a deeper connection with CoachVille, have a real desire to make a difference, and want a way to upgrade to the TLC program, we'd love to talk to you!

Please come on by and get to know us - and let us get to know you too.

Ready, Fire, Aim

With an attention-getting level of synchronicity that I am generally too smart to ignore, several newsletters that I have gotten recently are offering the same bit of wisdom: don't futz about polishing and tweaking your latest "baby" of a project until it's perfect - stop noodling and start selling it. Now. In fact, a few of these authors have made the point that you don't even need to be "pregnant" with that baby to begin sending out the marketing equivilent of birth announcements.

Instead, they suggest that you start selling your products beforehand, and then use the wave of sales to propel your otherwise interminably perfectionistic self into getting the pre-sold item out there into the waiting arms of your adoring fans. Scary? Hell yes. Effective? You better believe it.

The latest incarnation of this advice is an article in Early To Rise's newsletter by author and business expert Marc Charles, called Something Magical Happens After The First Sale (scroll down to the Today's Message section). In it, he describes several income-producing ideas he had and how he went about creating a market for them before delivering on the goods, in a process often referred to as "Ready, Fire, Aim".

As he explains, there's an inherent flaw in creating first, then selling: There's the rather uncomfortably large possibility that no one will want what you've got. And then what? You've just spent several weeks (if not months, or more) of your life invested in a product or service that no one wants, and you've missed the opportunity to use that time for something profitable and useful (which is, in fact, the main reason we keep polishing and fiddling until the idea dies of old age - if we don't put it out there, it can't get rejected).

Of course, sometimes we just have an idea that we need to get out of our heads before it frappes our brain with it's incessant whizzing about, market or no market. But for the most part, we tend to produce products and services with the dual intent to both share our wealth of wisdom, insight and experiences and keep the student loan guy off our backs for another few months. Thing is, unless you...

A) know for a cold, hard fact that there is an eager market out there pawing the ground to crack their wallets open at the sound of your starting gun, or

B) create that market yourself beforehand

C) get really lucky

...not only will you not be able to make nice with the friendly folks at the collection agency, you'll be unable to get your message out to those who may desperately need it, in a form that they are willing and able to receive it.

So set down that polishing cloth and pick up your thinking cap. Come up with a great product idea or grab up that cool project that you never got much more than started on and start putting out marketing copy. Take out an ad in the paper, send out some sales emails to your list, plug your latest "upcoming event" in your blog, your site and any online info-source that will take it and start generating some interest and, hopefully, some pre-paid orders (or at least some folks willing to take a number for when your offspring hits the shelves).

Because nothing motivates real action and live-or-die prioritizing like a hundred pre-paid folks standing around with presents waiting to see the baby pictures.

Soni Pitts, Personal and Spiritual Development Coach
Reclaiming the soul of living
http://www.sonipitts.com