Julia Stewart Coaching Has Moved

We've consolodated our blogs and moved them to the School of Coaching Mastery site. Several new posts are waiting for you now. In fact, there's a lot more going on there. If you've subscribed to us in the past and liked what you read, then you'll probably want to change your subscription to the Coaching Blog. 

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Best Copywriting on the Planet

I sent today's "newsletter" from Woot! to my friend, Mattison Grey, just a few minutes ago, with the comment, "Best Copywriting on the Planet". Now I see that "Woot" is in the top ten keywords 

on Google, today. That sort of web status usually goes to people standing on airplane 

wings in the Hudson River and professional athletes who confuse Tic Tacs with steroids, not some lowly ecommerce 

site. 

I rest my case.

DO NOT DELETE, jscoach!

Read this Woot newsletter and watch your dreams come true - ignore it and you will meet terrible misfortune! Veronica L. of Riverdale, Ohio received this message, failed to read it, and died of natural causes a mere 58 years later! In contrast, Joe B. of Wilmington, Delaware read it voraciously more than two times, and soon received a promotion to Vice-President! Before you click "delete", ask yourself: would you rather be DEAD or VICE-PRESIDENT? Your future could depend on it!

Recessionary Wooting Report
Like everybody else, we're waiting for our business to collapse and force us back into exotic dancing. But to our immense relief, lately a lot of woots have been selling out way earlier than we expected. You've bought 10,000 Ion USB turntables, 18,000 LED booklight three-packs, 25,000 USB Bluetooth dongles, 7,500 Kodak Digital Picture Frames, 1,000 Recaro child car seats, and 17,155 Powersquid two-packs, almost all before breakfast on their respective days, according to the stats on the first page of each sale's discussion thread. Whew! Guess we can leave our pasties in the closet for now. Just goes to show, you have to get up pretty early to beat the hordes of slavering deal-psychos Woot attracts every single day. (And don't forget about Sellout.Woot, where the deals are just as good, but come with a little more elbow room.) In these tight economic times, we'd like to thank you for letting your debilitating shopping addiction go untreated.

Woot's Twitter Feeds: Now with ThumbSuck™ Technology! Are you following us?
Wondering what's for sale on Woot right now? Why bother typing a long, cumbersome URL likeifyouwanttoseewhatsonwoottodayitwouldbeeasiertojusttypewoot.com when you can just followtwitter.com/woot? It's your gateway to amazement, if you're amazed by a single-line post announcing each new Woot sale. You can get the same buzz in different flavors from the wootwineand wootshirt feeds, now with live updated avatars illustrating the current product. We call that ThumbSuck™, and it's especially useful for shirt shoppers. And don't forget the wootoff feed, which springs into action with product updates for every sale during Woot-Offs. Now all we have to do is settle on an awkward portmanteau name for our Twitter feed. Twittoot? Twootter? Twiot?

Shirt.Woot: One Millionth Shirt Sold
You sell a shirt, you sell a couple more, you sell another 999,997 shirts, and pretty soon you're talking serious numbers. Shirt.Woot just pushed its one millionth shirt out the door. The odometer rolled over at 8:25 AM on January 30, 2009, when Alberto of Houston, Texas ordered a single Sun Wukong shirt. That's one shirt every 48.24 seconds since Shirt.Woot launched on July 22, 2007. Hey, Guinness: who do we have bribe for you guys to add an Online T-Shirt Sales section to your record book?

Ever Bought A T-Shirt Designed By Somebody On Star Trek? You Wil.
Speaking of Shirt.Woot, noted actor, author, gambler, blogger, and android Wil Wheaton adds ''t-shirt designer” to his CV this Thursday, and it's all going down at Shirt.Woot. This is like a true-cross thing for hardcore geeks (like us), except that Wil himself will never have laid eyes on your actual shirt, much less hands. But still. As for the design, we don't want to give too much away, so we'll just thank Wil for rolling the DICE with us to release this to-DIE-for tee.

Just What You Need: Another Stupid Blog To Look At
If you've been by Woot lately, you may have noticed something new (besides our stylin' new site design, we mean). We're actually using our blog page to - get this - write a blog! And our literally dozens of loyal readers couldn't be happier. From our monthly greeting cards to our original Valentines, to our trips to the Consumer Electronics Show and Toy Fair ‘09, to our daily links to thesublime and the disgusting, the Woot blog is free to enjoy, but worth at least twice as much in entertainment value.

Wine.Woot Community Update 
While the other dot-woots bustle with the hustle of a million sharp-elbowed loud-mouthed plebeians, the mood over at Wine.Woot is entirely more refined. Our wine site continues to feature two winery- direct deals per week, in its own unhurried way. For a break from the greasy, sarcastic nerds (like us) who dominate the rest of the Woot empire, look for the weekly member-initiated Cyberpub thread in the Wine.Woot forums. And don't miss our new guest blogger, Scott Harvey of Scott Harvey Wines, as he takes you inside the grape. The (gasp) mature, intelligent conversation at Wine.Woot is almost as refreshing as the vino itself - and you can take part even if you're in one of the grinchy states that don't allow online wine sales.

And if you're still reading, congratulations! Your life will soon be blessed with an embarrassment of riches, mostly in the form of remaindered and obsolete consumer electronics! We'll let you run along and sign up for all of those Twitter feeds now. We have a feeling you're going to need them soon.

May every junk email in your Inbox be as awesome as this one -
Woot.com

Prosperity Affirmation

The following prosperity affirmation was sent to me by "Prosperity Guru", John Moore, and it's attributed to Joe Vitale. The directions say to "read aloud every day for 30 days", but why limit yourself to that? If economic news is getting you down, this is a nice antedote. Anyway, sticking your head in the sand is not a solution.

 

Prosperity Affirmation:

 

I am the source of all wealth. I am rich with creative ideas. My mind abounds with new, original, inspired thoughts. What I have to offer is unique, and the world desires it.

 

My value is beyond reckoning. What the world needs and desires, I am ready to produce and give. What the world needs and desires, I recognize and fulfill. The bounty of my mind is without hindrance or limit. Nothing can stand in the way of my inspired creativeness.

 

The overflowing power of God life energy overcomes every obstacle, & pours out into the world, blessing & prospering everyone, & everything through me.

 

I radiate blessings, I radiate creativity, I radiate prosperity, I radiate loving service. I radiate Joy, Beauty, Peace, Wisdom & Power. Humanity seeks me and rewards me. I am beloved of the world.

 

I am wanted wherever I go.

 

I am appreciated. What I have to offer is greatly desired.

 

What I have to offer brings a rich reward. Through my vision the world is blessed. Through my clear thinking & steadfast purpose, wonderful new values come into expression.

 

My vision is as the vision of the mighty ones. My faith is as the faith of the undefeatable. My power to accomplish is unlimited. I, in my uttermost God Source, am all wealth, all power, all productivity. I hereby declare my f i n a n c i a l  f r e e d o m , NOW and henceforth forever!

 

And so it is! - Amen

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Google Crashes: The Day the Web Stood Still

 Okay, I'm not proud of the fact that I Google search while I eat breakfast on a Saturday morning. Actually, I was reading the NY Times online when I came across a great quote by Pat Quinn, the new Governor of Illinois: "You want to know my philosophy? One day a peacock. The next day a feather duster." Naturally, I wanted to tweet it and then well, one thing led to another...

Today Google is the feather duster. Every site you search on Google this morning comes with a scary warning: "This site may harm your computer." Nobody would visit a site with that kind of a warning from Google! I suspected something was really off, so I searched a couple of other sites, including mighty Google, itself. Guess what? Google's site may harm your computer also!

I tweeted about it and got lots of feedback. Yes, everybody's getting the same message. Is Google broken or has it been hacked?

Is this the cyber version of the movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still"?

It would be a fun adventure if the message wasn't coming up for my sites as well. We can all watch our statistics hit the toilet today!

Anyhow, I want you to know that I visited my site www.SchoolofCoachingMastery.com and it didn't hurt my computer. Plus, our tuition reduction ends at midnight, tonight. 

Copyright, Julia Stewart, 2009

How To Get Me To Follow You on Twitter and Keep Me Following

Everyone's well, you know, all a twitter about Twitter these days.

Definitely it's the hottest social media for 2008. Why? Because it's quick and easy to participate in this massive online cocktail party, especially if you like accessing social media via you smart phone. Twitter works with SMS (text) in a way that email and Facebook just don't. It's a very very cool way to connect with your peeps, er Tweeps! 

Sorry, Twitter engenders lots of word play! Read entire post at the Coaching Blog.

The Rise of the Machines: How the philosophies of a physicist, a wizard and a serial killer warned us of this financial crisis

Is intuition the only tool we have with which to transcend machines? Read this NY Times Op Ed piece by RICHARD DOOLING: The Rise of the Machines