How to Create a Heart and Money Mindset

 

Do you run or are you thinking of running your own business? 

Do you have the emotions and mindset to attract success?

Come to this fundraising webinar on How To Create a Heart and Money Mindset with Alisoun Mackenzie on Monday 12th August, 7-8pm BST.

My friend Alisoun is the creator of The Heart Centered Network and is off to Rwanda in six weeks time. She would love to raise enough cash to send one of the kids she works with to university for 4 years (approx cost of $2,000).

Alisoun's running this fundraising event next month and I wonder if you'd be kind enough to share it with your friends, in your groups, through your facebook pages, or to your list, to bring benefit to as many people as possible.

The event is being recorded so people can listen to it at any time - so for only £10 people will get a recording that could significantly change their financial future and that of a young genocide survivor.

Here's the link to the event: http://heartmoney.eventbrite.co.uk/

Or if you know anyone who'd like to donate, here is the link to Alisoun Mackenzie's fundraising page for Create Global Healing / Project LIGHT - http://bit.ly/gKcGpS

Create Global Healing / Project LIGHT is a charity helping young orphan genocide survivors from Rwanda cope with the trauma of genocide, teaching business and leadership skills to build sustainable businesses and create better futures for themselves.

Alisoun is also my own fantastic business mentor. So I can personally highly recommend her heart felt and practical trainings first hand!

Amazing value and life changing content for just £10 that also benefits others. Win win! 

I will be attending and would love to share experiences and insights afterwards with you :)

Thank you!

Wishing you love and prosperity,

P.S. You can find out more about Alisoun's work on her website: http://alisoun.com/

And, here's that link again to share with your friends and colleagues...

How to Create a Heart and Money Mindset - http://heartmoney.eventbrite.co.uk/

Feel free to cut and paste any of the text above to help get the word out. 

image courtesy of http://alisoun.com

Fiona Morris helps heart-centred creative professionals and health practitioners explore new dimensions in holistic healing, who are ready for expert support in building a firm foundation of self care and healing methods for flourishing health and wellness. 

Fiona is a Medical Herbalist promoting optimal well being through holistic health and herbal workshops and courses, wild remedy walks, wellness consultations and programmes. For more info and free report on Fiona's Top 10 Tips to Nourish and Flourish visit: http://www.fionamorrisherbalist.co.uk

Growing Your Community 1 – How To Get Over 2500 Likes On Your Facebook Page (Part 1 – How I Grew My FB Page)

I particularly enjoy helping heart-centred creative professionals and health care practitioners like myself to flourish in their life journeys. Lately, I have had several requests to share how I have so many likes on my facebook page.

I have been asked: “How have you got so many followers? Have you been going a long time? Do you pay for advertising? It's amazing that you have so many here and a real credit to you!”

So, in this article I would like to share with my lovely readers how I have attracted over 2500 likes on my facebook page, and then share 8 top tips for how you can do the same!

If you have a group, business or subject that you are passionate about, you may have created a facebook page as a platform to connect and interact with like-minded folk.

After enthusiastically setting up your page, inviting everyone you know to join, and sharing some great content, you may soon find that you have reached the limit of your contacts and now struggling to build your community and getting little or no response for your efforts.

As much as your nearest and dearest love you, other than a few select loyal pals, the majority of your personal facebook friends are not that interested in herbal remedies and inspirational quotes from your favourite personal development gurus (in my case any way!).

After several frustrated efforts to boost your numbers, you get despondent and wonder how exactly do people get so many followers?

Here’s my growing facebook biz page story…

At the time of writing this post my page has 2651 likers. I set up my Nourish and Flourish facebook page in February 2011, almost two and a half years ago now. I did this partly just to jump on the bandwagon. Many businesses seemed to have their own facebook page by then so thought I'd better join in.

I also saw it as a great way of sharing my passion for all things holistic natural health and herbal mind-body wellness in a more focused way and reaching more people than through my personal page alone.

What I did initially was to go to similar themed pages (eg. holistic health and wellness) and liked and shared their pages, visiting as my Nourish and Flourish page, saying hello in a post and what I like about their page and posts, inviting them to share their content on my page, commenting on and liking their posts.

I have never yet paid for advertising. I think all my followers used to get all my posts before, whereas now only about 10% do. I set my page up before FB changed the viewing limitations in the past year so, compared to setting a new one up now, I think I was fortunate in getting a head start with page and post exposure to my existing community. 

So it was easier for people to get all my posts before, and 'like' them which encourages their communities to visit the page and 'like' as they will sometimes see pop ups of what their friends like.

But that was then, and now is now! I am now getting more likes than ever before, and you may think how can you do the same?

So without further ado, visit Part 2 to see what you can start to implement right away to grow your facebook community…

Click here for Part 2 of Growing Your Community – How To Get Over 2500 Likes On Your Facebook Page (Tips 1-6)

Fiona Morris helps heart-centred creative professionals and health practitioners explore new dimensions in holistic healing, who are ready for support in building a firm foundation of self care and healing methods for flourishing health and wellness. 

Fiona is a Medical Herbalist promoting optimal well being through holistic health and herbal workshops & courses, wild remedy walks, wellness consultations and programmes. For more info and free report on Fiona's Top 10 Tips to Nourish and Flourish visit: http://www.fionamorrisherbalist.co.uk

Growing Your Community 2 - How To Get Over 2500 Likes On Your Facebook Page (Part 2 – Tips 1-6)

Welcome to Part 2 on how to grow your facebook community to over 2500 likes!

If you missed Part 1 with my story of how I grew my Nourish and Flourish facebook page, click here first and I’ll see you back here shortly…

Here are my tips to growing your facebook community to over 2500 likes:

Tip 1. Send friends personal invites.

I sent auto invites to all my FB friends to ‘like’ my page, but I think only 10-20% of them did as not all my pals are into natural health, and are probably as bombarded with requests for their time and attention as you are!

If you send personal friends a private message with a link to your page and a friendly personal message, they may be more likely to give you a ‘like’, but don’t take it personally if they don’t.

You can ask them to share your page on their walls too and if possible come to visit your page and say hello and give feedback. It may help if they have a page that you can promote for them too!

Tip 2. Search for like minds.

Visit and ‘like’ similar pages to yours and ones that you feel personally drawn to. Connect with other pages with a similar theme ie. holistic health, herbal remedies, nutrition, natural living, wellness, heart centered, etc. in my case.

Search with relevant keywords and view the pages that your favourite pages like for more inspiration and connections. The more the merrier, like away! It makes for good content in your page news feed for sharing on your page later.

Tip 3. Join the discussion.

Go to other pages as your page and get involved! To do this, click on the cog wheel in the top right hand corner of your personal page and select your business or community page. Leave complimentary and engaging comments on their pages, and ask questions, particularly on threads with a lively discussion and lots of likes and comments.

If people like your comments and posts on others pages, it increases your visibility and encourages regulars on their page to click through to visit yours.

Others in the same thread get updates on their personal page when someone else has submitted a response and if they like your reply or interested in your page name, other people in that thread may notice and may click through to your page and like it!

Tip 4. Be friendly.

Leave a private message and wall post to let them know what you love about their work, posts, and feel of the page. Visit their website links on the About Me tab to find out more about them and make it really personal.

Invite them to visit your site and share their content on your page in a personal message with a link to your page. You will get a far better response and form genuine connections than cutting and pasting a generic response.

Tip 5. Credit where credit’s due.

Like other pages’ posts and share them on your page, with a credit to the page where you sourced it with a hyperlink to their page. To do this, type @, followed by their page name and select it when it appears below to create the link (note: not all pages do depending on their settings).

The more you do that, the more people will repay the favour if their theme is somehow in sympathy with yours. Not everyone will, but that's ok.

Doing this helps also to increase your visibility. Your post will show on their page too in the ‘posts by others’ section (again, depending on settings).

Tip 6. Give shout outs!

If you really like a page, share not only their posts, but their entire page with your community. This is a huge compliment that gets you noticed by the page owner, who may choose to engage with you by sharing your posts and leaving kind comments in return.

To do this, go to their page and click on the cog wheel next to the ‘liked’ button under their main picture banner on the right hand side. Then click ‘share’ on the drop down menu.

These 6 tips above should help you get the ball rolling… 

If you are ready for even more tips, click here for Part 3 of Growing Your Community - How To Get Over 2500 Likes On Your Facebook Page (Tips 7-8 and Bonus)

Fiona Morris helps heart-centred creative professionals and health practitioners explore new dimensions in holistic healing, who are ready for support in building a firm foundation of self care and healing methods for flourishing health and wellness. 

Fiona is a Medical Herbalist promoting optimal well being through holistic health and herbal workshops and courses, wild remedy walks, wellness consultations and programmes. For more info and free report on Fiona's Top 10 Tips to Nourish and Flourish visit: http://www.fionamorrisherbalist.co.uk

Growing Your Community 3 - How To Get Over 2500 Likes On Your Facebook Page (Part 3 - Tips 7-8 & Bonus)

Welcome to Part 3 on how to grow your facebook community to over 2500 likes! 

If you missed Part 2 with my first 6 tips on growing your facebook (FB) page community authentically, click here first and I’ll see you back here shortly…  

Ready for more? Check these out…   

image courtesy of Crystal

Tip 7. Join or start a liking party!  

From your personal page, you can search for and join groups in your area of interest. See if you can find any threads or attached notes where they are sharing group members pages and doing ‘like’ swaps.   

If not, just go in and start your own FB liking party! Do respect any ground rules, some groups prefer to share personal links in a separate document. In general, people are delighted to have a chance to get more page likes and members on their lists.   

You can also find or create FB like parties in forums outside FB, such as Linked In, Yahoo groups, etc. It can be helpful to clarify that posting a page for others to 'like' implies that the poster will also 'like' everyone else’s page in that thread and encourage them to leave comments and share others' posts on their own pages as much as possible.   


Tip 8. Be patient and consistent.  

Yes, it seems slow at first, but just let go of results, and get into the habit of doing combinations of these regularly. Doing any of the above once a week or more, you will gradually get out there and you will surprise yourself one day by reaching one milestone, then another, then another...   

I was asked, “How much time have you spent on your page to get so many followers? 3 hours daily?”  

I spent more time on it when I first set it up, never as much as 3 hours a day though! I got those numbers by genuinely connecting with other pages I liked and interacting with them. I have never had much of a strategy, perhaps I'd have a lot more if I had! I may have spent as much as an hour or so every day or two in the past - more or less.   

My page has just been drip dripping with likes over time, there are times I don't post for ages now, but semi-regular posting, ideally daily (at least in the beginning) works well and I now just post at least once a week, but probably should be doing it more!   

Do limit the amount of time you spend on this! It can be easy to fritter a lot of time on FB and get frustrated that you are behind schedule with your other tasks.   

Little and often will get you there as does time and infusing your page with your own genuine passion, heart, soul, and good energy.   


Bonus Tip…  

I found I got good feedback on posting pics from my live events afterwards. This intrigues people to consider attending themselves afterwards. 

You can start off sharing others’ posts for your page content, but creating your own pictures and posts generates the most interest, and therefore more likes!  

"Cheers to your growing FB community!"

This was my Medicinal Summer Cocktails workshop at Neal's Yard Remedies, Edinburgh. 

Click here to check out more pics of the workshop!

In a Nutshell…  

Can’t quite believe how I have such a large group now, it grew really naturally, but my advice would be just make connections, interact and be consistent - share what you love. Let it be an organic process. 

Simply visit pages you like, leaving personal heart-felt messages complimenting what you like about their work or page. 

Share the link to their page on your own page, and share your page link in a message, asking if they would like to visit your page and connect through FB. 

When things seem a little slow, you can stir things up by attending or throwing a FB 'like' party!  

I do hope these tips help your facebook page and business to grow and flourish! I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on how this info is of benefit to you. 

If you have your own tips and resources to share on growing communities on FB or just want to say hello, I welcome you to do so in the comments below and feel free to leave a link to your own FB page ;)

When you’ve done that, do come back and share the love at http://www.facebook.com/NourishandFlourish :)  

To your flourishing facebook community,  

Fiona Morris helps heart-centred creative professionals and health practitioners explore new dimensions in holistic healing, who are ready for support in building a firm foundation of self care and healing methods for flourishing health and wellness.   

Fiona is a Medical Herbalist promoting optimal well being through holistic health and herbal workshops and courses, wild remedy walks, wellness consultations and programmes. For more info and free report on Fiona's Top 10 Tips to Nourish and Flourish visit: http://www.fionamorrisherbalist.co.uk