Hi Everyone,

A great way to help you prepare for media interviews is to practice being interviewed by a challenging interviewer.

On Friday, May 31, I am offering an in-person, 4-hour Media Training Class is West Los Angeles, where I will conduct brief practice interviews with each participant to help you develop messages, answers and strategies to deal with any interview situation. I will also teach you relaxation and preparation techniques and provide you with a copy of my…

I made some of these for a local business.  Built it in in-design and had it printed by Vistaprint.

I talk more about it on my blog.

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Fun app works as announcement, countdown or invitation

Photo #1 - the feature graphic in Google Play

As a mother & hopefully a grandmother some day this app is near and dear to my heart.  It includes some very personal elements.  The knitted background image (one of 10 available choices) was actually knitted by my own mother!  I shot the photo myself (with a Sony AS10 macro setting), see image #1. Mom has always loved to knit & crochet…

Hi Everyone,

I am now offering a 4-hour, in-person Media Training Class on Friday, May 31, 2013, in West Los Angeles. During this class, I will draw from my more than 20 years of experience training clients for media interviews and presentations, to work with you to develop and clarify your key messages, provide preparation techniques to help you relax and focus. I will also help you form concise and memorable answers to the most common interview questions. In addition, you will…

You don’t need to hire a business coach for your online home business, right? 

Let’s take a look at 5 reasons you probably don’t need to hire a coach…

1. Who needs someone who understands that you are not on Facebook playing Mafia Wars and Words With Friends, someone who “gets” you and what you do on the internet all day, anyway?  You work at home all alone, isolated, every step of…

Development studies are a multidisciplinary branch of social science which addresses issues of concern to developing countries. It has historically placed a particular focus on issues related to social and economic development, and its relevance may therefore extend to communities and regions outside of the developing world.

Development studies are offered as a specialized Master's degree in a number of universities, and, less commonly, as an undergraduate degree. It has grown in…

 A profit oriented organization is called a business. A business man is the one that uses all the modes to increase its income and reduce its expenses. There are very few businesses which follow the terms non-profit oriented organizations.

A business (also known as enterprise or firm) is an organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Business plan and Business model determine the outcome of an active business operation. Businesses are predominant in…

WordPress security is a serious thing.

If you are not worried about the security of your blog, you should be.  It’s very possible that hackers are trying to get into your site at this very minute!  It’s never 100% safe, but you can sure make it very hard for those nasty bastages to gain access by doing a few simple things. 

1. Be sure…

Hi Everyone,

Are you creating effective videos to engage members of the media?

Videos are extremely important, as members of the media need to see how you will come across on camera before they will book you for an interview. In my new blog post, I share some great tips to help you create the right videos for you and your company, as well as how you can distribute your videos, so that you will reach and engage members of the media.

To find out more, visit…

The best gift for kids can be a toy that helps in the cognitive and mental development. Buying toys online is always the best options because it gives you more options to choose from. Shopping online can help you find the toys that are enjoy by both kids and adults alike. If there are lots of babies in the family, you can find cute toys for them.

For kids of age four and above, educational toys are the best options. They help kids to learn about themselves and about the world around…

Well, which is it, a serious online biz or a hobby?

I understand how easy it it to drag your feet, live in fear of success or failure

- so much that it paralyzes you and keeps you from taking action. Been there, done that – rode that roller coaster ride. Heck, it took me several years to become profitable.

It’s so easy to fall into the trap of learning, learning and then learning some…

To be honest,  Twitter isn’t my favorite social media network.  It’s too much like texting –  I just don’t have much to say that can be said in so few words.  To me Twitter is like that.  It’s not easy for me to engage and get to know people 140 characters at a time.  While it is not my favorite, it’s the favorite of many of my prospects and clients so I need to be there.

The Happypreneur gets a fair amount of blog traffic from…

One might argue that alcohol has been around for centuries, ancient scriptures contain accounts of drinking wine dating back to the before Christ era. Such a notion therefore would go on to prove that before medical science declared ethyl alcohol unfit for pregnant women, it was a norm for mothers-to-be to drink. However, the history of maternal alcoholism and its effects on development of the offspring goes back to the bible and to the early Greek mythology.

As recently as 1834 a…

1)  Primary beneficiaries of online shopping discounts are housewives and Moms. It is now quite common to do grocery shopping through virtual means like online shopping. Grocery shopping is on third number for the categories being bought mostly from internet. It indubitably has brought great comfort for the housewives. Housewives are quite busy in the house affairs and…

Buying latest appliances for your home can be quite difficult, especially if you are on a tight budget and looking for cheap ones. Everyone needs both small and large electrical appliances to make life easier and work efficiently without tiring. Whether you are looking for a television, refrigerator, DVD player, dishwasher or coffee maker, these tips can help you a lot in saving money.…

Underlying fears can cause you to sabotage your business success.  Fear of change is one fear that needs to be released. Here are a few tips and and EFT tapping session to help get unstuck and shift into action.
http://www.melodiekantner.com/eft-to-release-fear-of-change

Some of my coaching clients come to me before they’ve built a blog and others after they have they have one all set up and ready to go.  You see, to some the blog setup isn’t the problem, oftentimes my clients have problems filling that blank site with content.

While many turn to PLR to populate niche sites, that’s not really the…

Hiking is undoubtedly an expensive hobby and requires lot of things such as storage equipment, tents, lights, timers and cookware. Therefore, you need to be very careful while spending money on hiking equipment. These days, there are a lot of online stores that offer a wide range of good quality hiking equipment.  You can easily compare the prices of different stores and select the best one that suits your budget. By using Discounts and…

This post could have been more aptly named  (take deep breath here…) “How to dramatically increase blog traffic, page views, new visitors to your website, increase time spent on your site and lower your bounce rate really really fast with these simple strategies”.  But that was a little long for a title, even though that’s exactly what these strategies did for me in less than a 2 week period. Like I said, really really fast!

Just to give…

Yesterday I wrote about my identity crisis and in the "me" time I said I was going to take I tried to start at the beginning by looking at my different business verticals, my "personalities" if you will. I thought if I went back to basics and looked at everything with a fresh perspective it might help me focus. This is what I'm working with:

Laina Turner - author, blogger, marketing for other authors…