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Um, never mind. I figured it out. ;-)

Tshombe, this is showing up as a free event. which is not the case. I entered the fee when setting up the retreat, but it didn't take. The actual fees are shown clearly on the event page. http://www.authenticpromotion.com/authenticwealth.html

Tshombe, that's super. Thank you!

Glad to help, Gaylena.

BTW, I'm doing a free teleclass on this called "Why You Don't Need a Niche to Succeed." It's on July 31 and it is sponsored by a new teleconferencing platform, MaestroConference, that enables unprecendented levels of interaction, including breaking up into small private groups, multiple choice polls, and other goodies I am just beginning to explore.

Please spread the word both to folks interested in the topic and to people who use teleconferencing in their work. http://maestroconference.com/specials?p=Shaboom&w=gordon

Thanks Marianna. One advantage of trusting your body and heart is, indeed, the ability to hear that voice.

Ahhh!

Great input and questions, guys. Keep it coming!

You are welcome, Cara. Here are several additional articles on defining a niche.

Thanks, Carrie!

Love "the chalkboard of the soul." Thanks for commenting.

Love the Rumi quote.

Here's another one:

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house. Every day a new arrival.

A joy, depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

From the Coleman Barks translation

Thanks, guys.

It was good for me to reread this one. It's easy to fall into the belief that because I have a negative thought I must be defective. And it just ain't so!

Great comments - thank you for taking the time to write.

This morning I was discussing Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers with a client. Gladwell talks about what it takes to be truly great at something: lots and lots and lots of practice.

There just isn't time for most of us to be truly great at more than one thing. The more we define what that one thing is, the narrower and more profitable our niche will be.

:) Thanks, Joe.

I love the notion of applying this to social media. Real value is created from collaboration, exchange, interaction.

I am so turned off by the hype about using social media to market. Not that I think it can't work -- and not that it can't be useful. But unless the emphasis is on mutual benefit, social media is degraded to one more source of self-interested noise.

Listening increases the quality of the signal and decreases our vulnerability to noisy distraction...

As I read your comments, I feel a little thrill of excitement - realizing that the desire to bring authenticity to everything we do, including business, is alive and well.

Dan's post of a few weeks ago shows that he and Lara are keeping teleseminars and webinars in mind. And, for now, he makes a good argument for not integrating them into the Biznik networking structure.

That makes sense to me, given Biznik's local emphasis. Though some folks (me included) will prefer, for a variety of reasons, a virtual gathering over a physical one -- even to network with locals.

All that said, there are plenty of ways to get the word out about virtual events. Please correct me if I am mistaken, but it seems we can offer them in our special promotions posts and/or start a biztalk on a topic and organize a telecon to deepen the conversation.

In other words, we don't need to add to the Biznik to-do list when this network already provides so many ways for us to connect.