Thank you to all those who helped out with the BIG BONANZA BOOK BENEFIT on June 8th. “Scrambled Leggs” made 2 Best Seller Lists and in Humor/Religion area it is still in the top 10 as I type.
As a huge BIG thank you I am hoping you will visit the link below and take advantage of all the FREE COOL stuff that you can download: 20 humor posters, greeting cards, 3 e-books (including my Rave Recipes-check out the Tortilla Soup). These were the gifts that people got who bought Scrambled Leggs. (Right click and Save as link)
ALL for FREE. If you want to buy the book go to:
www.ScrambledLeggs.Net (I promise you will laugh outloud!)
If you have some time and you live in the East, or will be traveling there this June. You must check out Joel Goodman’s Conference with the Humor Project. This is especially true for writers and caregivers. www.HumorProject.com/conference
NEWS FLASH: See BRAND NEW Scrambled Leggs YOUTUBE(S) SEE above # 26 and #27. Just more of the same hilarious rantings about being paralyzed and held hostage in a rehab hospital. If you’re up for a joint replacement…you might want to watch these/read the book. Hey FYI: thanks for the all new book orders at Amazon- awesome!
In like a lion.
Al Gore I really wanted to follow you. I really want to forgive you for your less than eco-mansion. But March is not warmer lo, it is not milder. It is colder than a witch’s…titilating subject this weather, eh?
I know global warming can really mean climate swings, but earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis…did my hair spray in the 60s really cause all of this? Drat you Bee-hive hair doo!
As I once again run outside and throw mulch over my exhurberant daffodils hoping I don’t lose every single blasted bloom out there to a rogue ice storm, I have to wonder how much of this is manmade, how much of this is just Mother Nature going through Menopause? Up-down, hot flashes-chills…it’s like one long year watching Ma Nature learn assertiveness training and getting it wrong. I think we have done the earthqauke thing. Not to mention the rain/ mudslide thing. Is it getting worse, or is the reporting just getting better, or at least more persistent. We do, afterall, have an entire channel dedicated to weather. Maybe they just have to dig up more gale force winds in order to get to the top of the hour.
In the south though, they bring weather dramas to a whole new level. “Artic Blast in the future…stay tuned!” Okay for the record dropping from 45 to 35 degrees is NOT, I repeat, NOT an Artic Blast. An Artic Blast starts at Zero degrees and goes way down and then you add wind chill. “When I was your age”…but really when I was in college it would be 10 below zero with windchil at 40 below or more. I cut classes once for 4 days. It was, with windchill, minus50 degrees. Most self-respecting penguins would ‘fly’ south (or north from Antartica) at 30 below.Gimme a break!
I had put on long underwear, a ski suit and a snowmobil suit and my nostrils froze together and my eyelids froze nearly shut. I went back to the dorm and lived off the hot chocolate machine and ate those orange peanut butter cracker thingies. I figured I was being sent to college to get smart and it was smart to stay inside.
It was also smart of me to have a genuis roomie who went to every class come hell or high water. She was the kind of kid who would have missed a great party on July 4th if it meant missing Sunday School and not getting her perfect attendance pin for 10 years. She got back from every class and transferred her perfectly written notes into a 5 ring binder on her desk. I rolled out of bed at 11 a.m., read her notes from her (our) 7, 8, and 9am classes. I got As, she got a Bs. Hey, she was a great note taker, but not much on recall.
So, Al, it may not be 50 below, only 30 below up yonder. I don’t see that range melting icebergs. I know they are melting…I saw them 3 years ago, just dropping off the glacier like that cake in McArthur’s Park icing flowing down (how stoned were we that, that song made sense to us?). But I’m cold right NOW even in the south.
So, please concentrate on why pollutants are killing my lungs and the higher rates of cancer and auto-immune diseases. Tell the masses to use local fuel, recycle, and practice using less hormones in chickens. Do that and I’m yours again. But DON”T tell me it’s getting warmer while I have to use a heating pad on my toes to get to sleep in March while I’m living just shouting distance from South of the Border .
CHECK IT OUT! Marilee Williams has done it again. This time it’s a hair raiser. See what I mean under the Rear View tab to the left (BLUE)!
ADVERTISEMENT: Scrambled Leggs book preview is now available at Amazon. FYI, YouTube reading is at: Scrambled Leggs, Sally Franz (or video #25 above).
ALSO, Check out New Book review at the Cool Stuff column (left on main page here- GREEN). Our own Ray Duarte is published once again!
Valentine’s Day Made EZ!
With celebs to politicians touting multiple mistresses, like a bad ad for Baskin and Robbins, ya gotta ask, “whazzup with that?” Dudes, love is a verb, an action verb. Don’t confuse it with a feeling or a body part. Love is as does.
But just to make it REALLY easy…let me give all you guys a handy little tool this Valentine’s Day.
This is what I call:
Ten Easy Steps to Multiple Sales and One Woman
The concept is simple. If you want to keep a woman happy and loyal ‘ya gotta’ treat her the way you would your very best clients. Apply these rules to your clients AND your lady and life will be sweet this Valentine’s Day.
1.If you’re going to be late for an appointment (and dinner at home qualifies) you call.
3.Gifts include: What CLIENTS like, their hobbies, collections. Think cigars, but more tasteful.
4.Review the benefits of going with ‘your outfit’ over your competition, and fulfill those benefits.
5.Take Customer Service issues seriously. Complaints need to be corrected with swift action.
6.Introduce new bells and whistles to your product line to keep them coming back to you.
7.Never share proprietary information with others. Especially if you have an exclusivity clause.
8.Do not secretly go after their competition as a contingency plan. Service the client you have.
9.Call them out-of-the-blue to see if there is any way you can improve their experience with you.
10.If you have to break off the business deal do so in person, with integrity in a win-win fashion.
See how easy this is?
Integrity, respect and a true concern for your client’s success is key. Relationship marketing guarantees commissions. No double dealing, no doubling dipping and no double crossing. Be your customer’s ‘advocate’ making sure your number one job is to service their needs (spoken and unspoken). Exceed their expectations. If you don’t know what that looks like, ask them. Take notes to catch the details and nuances. Use your body language skills. Your personality classes, your close-the deal course. The result is a loyal, harmonious and delightful client relationship (and most likely a pretty hot love life at home in the dividend column).
When in doubt just ask yourself this: If I wanted to gain, maintain, or retain a BIG client what would I be willing to do? Because, guys, a good woman treated well will not only deliver on the happiness, joyful and passionate side, she will probably help you win and keep your business clients too.
And for the record, if you screw over a client and the industry hears about it, kiss your career good-bye. And if that isn’t clear enough for you left-brained, literalist…mess with the love of a woman and everyone in town will know about it by noon. With the internet, it will be worldwide knowledge by close of the day.
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