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Are you interested in workshops that can help your website and IT skills? These workshops will empower you to do a little bit more yourself and understand more about the web, your business and your customers.

Please let us know if your interested in coming on any of our courses:

• Web Workshop: “Attracting more clients using your website”
• Business Brain Storming: “Think out of the box, creatively!”
• Branding: “The importance of branding to drive your business forward”
• Email Marketing: “Understand it, do it yourself and look professional”
• SEO (Search Engine Optimisation): “How to get Google to notice you”

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The first Koogar workshop went VERY well! We got fantastic feedback and have planned for more workshops in 2009. For a list of 2009 workshops please download our PDF.

On the second evening of the Web Workshop, Carol Tinsley of “on message” came along and took photos for a newsletter she is producing for John Hains of Liverpool Coaching Academy. Carol is using Koogar as a case study for this newsletter, so keep logging onto log to find out more information.

Photographs of Amanda Daniels training

Koogar presents a 3 week evening course at..

Egerton House, Birkenhead. CH41 1FN.

Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Dates:
Monday - 27th October
Monday - 3rd November
Monday - 10th November

Subjects Covered:

- Branding

- Copywriting

- What to avoid

- How to choose a Web Designer

- SEO : Search Engine Optimisation

- Top Tips

- Useful Tools

and much much more…

This is also a great opportunity for Networking!

£100.00 per person

Limited Spaces! You need to book early!
ONLY 10 people per workshop

Benefits of coming along!

- Target your customers correctly

- Improve your brand, credibility and create an opportunity to sell your service/product

- Gain new knowledge about website best practices

- Meet new people and network you and your business

- Every attendee will receive a FREE SEO website review!

Can you afford to miss this web workshop?

To book yourself on this web workshop, please contact Amanda at amanda.daniels@koogar.co.uk

You will also receive an additional FREE gift once you have
completed this workshop!

P.S: If you know anyone who would benefit from this web workshop, please pass it on.

Last night was the final session to the "Attracting new Clients and presenting your Business" course and it was brilliant!

After telling everyone how we have been getting one for the last week with what we have achieved and playing a game about finances, one of the group members Josie Airnes gave a talk/session about "Resonance Re-patterning" and how it effects everybody.
Josie basically reset the groups negative feelings to become positive and as everyone had different feelings, we did it as a group and took on board other peoples feelings of being positive.

I haven’t ever experienced anything like it before but the only thing I can compare it to was when I did Hung Gar Kung Fu. I got really into the training and went 5 days a week for at least 3 hours. The feeling I got during and after training was "oneness"… if that makes sense?

Its a feeling of confidence, knowing, being and becoming centred, but without arrogance. The feeling is amazing! I highly recommend anyone having a session with Josie as this experience has changed my perception of alternative therapies.

In terms of the actual course, to begin with I was skeptical about strangers being able to help me with my business and wondered what they knew that I didn’t, but again my opinion of the whole thing has change and recommend you have someone who is outside of your business and let them look in to see what could be done differently or what new thing could be done.

The people on this course not only helped motivate me to get things done on a weekly basis they also gave me ideas, comments and support. People who are close to the business wouldn’t have been able to give me that information.

If you would like to go on this course there are more happening in the very near future and again I highly recommend it if you want to:

move your business forward

get out of a rut

learn something new

meet new people

or just see what happens if you commit yourself to doing something different once a week

Please speak to Marie Claire at the following site: http://www.marieclairecarlyle.com… Let her know I sent you and have a great time… I did!

I got the opportunity to go on a course called “Executive Business Coaching“, held by a guy called John Hains.

I didnt know what to expect from the course, apart from giving up 2 days a month for the next 3 months and this included a Saturday.

Today is Sunday and at the begining of the course I was sceptical, but after completing the first weekend, I have realised I have learned A LOT in the last few days by being taught through Accelerated Learning. My head is now competley full of new information.

Going on these courses and holding mentoring evenings are pushing me personally and my business forward, getting me where I want to be quicker. So if you ever come across an opportunity of going on a course or helping someone out, do it and try it out. Comment back on the Koogar Blog, letting me know how your getting on and if you are enjoying it.

“Executive Business Coaching” is going to give a new service to my current clients and new clients. Im not going to give any more away by giving you the secrets, but watch this space and keep up to date with Koogar’s progression!

Always have the courage to going forward, never go back.

Zulu, (people of Africa)

While being on a course for “Attracting new clients and presenting your business” I have met a new friend. Her name is Ida Moos a Chiropractor in Birkenhead. We have been talking lately about the animals within our lives. By that I mean the business name “Koogar” and Ida’s Last name “Moos” (spelt like the animal but without the “e”)

She recently sent me an email introducing me to Animal Spirits which I hadn’t heard of before and gave me the following paragraph about Cougar the Mountain Loin:

Using leadership power wisely and without ego

Balancing power, intention, strength

Gaining self-confidence

Freedom from guilt

Cunning

For the Zunis of Turtle Island (Southwest United States), Cougar was the Master Hunter, known for its high intelligence, its knowledge of other animal and life forms, its physical prowess, its strength of will, and its intuitive ability. Cougar sees the maintenance of its territory as essential for its survival.

Poshaiankia, the father of the Medicine Societies, designated Cougar the duty of carrying messages from humans to the higher spirits, because of this animal’s personal power, superior knowledge, strength of will, and steadfastness.

Therefore, Cougar represents the link between ourselves and the most powerful spirits in Zuni Mythology: Mother Earth, Father Sky, and the Originator of All.

Went I read this I couldnt beleive it, not only does it describe my business but also describes me as a person!

If you have an animal within your name, business or personal. Check out what values and traits the Animal Spirit is for you.

I recently put myself onto a course that a friend of mine is holding called “How to Present You and Your Business to Attract More Clients”

Marie Claire Carlyle is a fantastic coach and inspiration to not just me but a lot of other people too and to show you her willingness to help her friends out, here is the reason why she started the course in the first place:

We were walking back from a local networking event and my friend Christine turned to me and said “I need to learn how to present my business”.

Christine is a cranial sacral therapist who like many small business owners, is brilliant at what she does but is shy about getting out there in the marketplace. “OK Ill help you” I said , and less than two weeks later I invited a select group of just ten local entrepreneurs to a 6 week class on “How to Present You and Your Business to Attract More Clients”

Today business is more about co operation than competition.

Once a week this group of entrepreneurs meet and support each other as they learn how to be clear about what they do and how they can add value. We learn what to say to that dreaded “and what do you do?” question. We get a chance to practise the “One minute to Win it!” speech within a safe environment. And we share best practices as we look at the messages we are giving in our branding and the way we present ourselves and our respective businesses.

Over the weeks we get to know each other and how each of us can help one another. In this way we are setting up a natural network of potential referrals. In fact, some of us are already swapping services! We act as a support network as we brainstorm ideas for each other and most of all we show that you can do business and have a laugh at the same time!

You should have heard the laughter last night as our local “Tantric Sex Expert” joined the group,…but then that’s another story !!

So how has this helped me so far?

Week two has just passed, we talked about branding and tag lines. Being a designer, branding is what I do so this wasn’t a problem for me at all, but what the discussions did do was make me think of new ideas for the other members of the group.
Our homework for the first week was to describe your business to a stranger in one sentence as a new member was joining us for week two, and I came up with:

“Koogar can help you make your mark and create the face to your business”

The new member guessed at the type of business I was in and said Marketing which I supposed graphic and web design does for a business. I was also please with the feedback from the other group members too.

I shared a lift with another member of the group and on the way home I said that creating this sentence was worth going on the course already as this helps me tell people what I do without saying the normal “Graphics and Web Design” reply.
This is more creative and this single sentence prompts people to ask me a second question of “so…what exactly is it you do?”

So in conclusion, I would recommend this course to anyone who needs to be taken to the next level. I know this is only week two, but this week has made me think about my business, how I want to conduct business and where I want to take it. See what it can do for you…

For more information, visit www.themiraclecoach.co.uk

How strange, in the last few days I sent out the latest of Koogars eLetters which was about Networking and how it works for you and you business. I noted in the eLetter that I’m not very good at standing up and introducing myself in from of people.

Today I have received an email from a lady called Evelyn.. and its to do a course on effective speaking! Its a sign and this means I have to do it, its an opportunity that cannot be missed and luckily its at the times I can make it too!

Fantastic! Thanks for listening and reading my eLetter!