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The “Asking Productive Questions” series was designed by Diane Carter, sam101.com…’s founder, to help you change your life by changing the questions you ask yourself. You’ll find more than 3000 questions to help you dig deeper, start conversations, improve your critical thinking, network easier, test you limits and much more.

Each volume is ONLY $4.95

For a limited time you can purchase volumes one through three for $9.95 and we’ll GIVE you volume four FREE - our GIFT to you for having the desire to make change happen in your life today!

Author Beth Densmore is a Personal Life Coach and understand the power questions can have on your life. “Do you have a self-development toolbox? Do you have a standard set of instruments or mechanisms that you use to delve into your inner self? Just asking yourself those questions makes you think, doesn’t it? That is because questioning is the most powerful tool in your self-development toolbox. When we start on the self-development path it is usually because we have asked ourselves a question: who am I, what is it I want, why am I in this position, when can I change, where will this happen and how can I make it happen? Questions can be about us or about others and are used as identifiers. Who do I want to be? Who is standing in the way? Who will support me in this? Who can provide information?

We bring clarity to our quest by asking What. What is standing in the way of resolving this issue? What can I do about this? What is my next step?” Answering the What questions moves us another step forward on the path to change.

If you have ever been in the presence of a three year old for any length of time, you know that their favorite word is Why. The Why question brings them new information and helps them to understand the workings of a world that is new to them. It can be the same for us in the self-development process. Why do I feel this way? Why do I react like that? Why does this seem hard? Why can’t I get motivated?

To take action we need to ask the When question. When will I start? When will this happen? The answers to When questions create timetables and guidelines to follow. When putting a roast into the oven we need to know when it will be cooked. Knowing when the roast will be done moves us to have the table set and the vegetables cooked at the appropriate time. When questions motivate.

Where do we want our self-development quest to take us? If we don’t know where we want to go we will surely have a hard time getting there. And, if we don’t know where we have been how will we know where we want to go. Where questions raise our awareness. Where do I want to be one year from now…five years from now?

Once we know who, what, why, when, and where we need to know how. How can I accomplish this? How should I start? How will I feel when I am there? How questions help us to create a plan for action.

Trial lawyers always say, “Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.” It is exactly the opposite in the self-development process. Queries you don’t know the answer to are the ones that will bring you the most new information about who you are, where you are and who and where you want to be in the future. Questions can stimulate a deep thought process and can bring us to places of discovery and revelation we wouldn’t otherwise reach.

If you want to: make a change, find a solution, clarify your thinking, identify a goal or learn more about the real you, just delve into your toolbox and pull out the questioning tool. It works every time!”

Volume One $4.95

Volume Two $4.95

Volume Three $4.95

Group Purchase of all three volumes $9.95

About the author of the article
Beth Densmore offers support, inspiration and motivation to those who are in transition and want to achieve a goal. For more information visit her website.

Sam101, a renowned branding and digital publishing company based in Atlanta, GA, which launched in 2002, announced today the release of the MedicMinder Journal.

Metro Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) July 10, 2008 — The MedicMinder was created from the personal need to care for aging and ill parents. The stress of trying to keep their medical appointments straight, document their medical history, and constant struggle to remember what medications which one was taking and when, caused great anxiety.

The public is invited to review The MedicMinder Journal at the Companies web blog at www.themedicminder.com… and encouraged to sign the guestbook with your comments.

About The MedicMinder
The MedicMinder is an outstanding organizational and record-keeping system for caregivers to quickly access and share medical and drug history, including contact numbers for family and doctors.

We’ve created a proactive approach that emphasizes quick and easy access to medical and drug history. Reducing stress.

Simply stated: The MedicMinder is Trusted by Caring Families

About Sam101.com…
Diane Carter is the founder of Sam101.com…, a renowned graphic design studio located in Metro Atlanta, Georgia. With more than twenty-seven years of experience, she has spent 19 years of her career as an entrepreneur in sales, advertising, marketing and branding.

Sam101.com… makes it as easy to work with a designer. We make it our goal to explain the fundamentals during the process in terms that leave out the “techy talk” so client’s are comfortable with the course of action. No hassles. No red tape. No surprises. Promise.

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With our ever-growing morgue of unused custom logo designs, we’re happy to offer them at a deep discount for your project.

There are times when a custom created logo is essential and other times when a semi-custom design would do saving you money and time!

Sam101 realizes this and that’s why we’ve opened our morgue of unused custom logo designs to you.

Semi-custom logos from our morgue file are priced at $99!

Contact us and tell us about your project and needs. We’ll provide you with a PDF file filled with possible options. Once you chose a file and we receive payment via PayPal we’ll change the name and send you web ready files in both color and gray scale.

Turn around time generally ranges from 1-2 working days.

Logos are sent to you in file formats that come with our standard custom logos. This includes GIF, JPG and PNG. We are happy to provide additional file sizes, but such requests will affect the final delivery cost.

Unlike our custom logos, semi-custom logos are not licensed to a single client for use. Meaning they maybe sold up to five times before being retired.

Custom logo work in terms of ownership and provides the greatest value for clients. Once final payment is received, you own the custom logo and all rights to use it however and whenever you see fit.

If you need to have a unique logo designed and developed, sam101 is more than happy to design something special just for your project and needs!

Sam101 has offered custom designs for over six years for companies both large and small and we have more than 27-years of design experience supporting us.

Our testimonials are proof that we are dependable, professional, creative, dedicated, reliable, deadline orientated and more. Please review and read them for yourself. If you’d like a business referral contact me.

We invite and encourage you to visit our blog on subjects like branding, digital publishing, marketing and sales. One simply idea could change your business forever! Check out our archives. Peruse our testimonials. Look over our online portfolios.

Contact us and let us put our expertise in design to work for you today!

Diane Carter

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We all want more turkey and some taters but when it is all said and done remember to save room for pie!

Happy Thanksgiving
Diane Carter
Sam101.com…

Types of Taglines  Part Two

Descriptive describes the service, product or brand: UPS Moving at the speed of business

Provocative provoke thought: Dairy Council, Got Milk?

Specific establishes leadership in an industry: Volkswagen, Drivers wanted

Imperative demands action: Nike, Just do it

Superlative positions the company as best in its class: BMW, The ultimate driving machine

POWERAction:

• Begin writing your tagline.
• Brainstorm and write down what comes to mind.
• NO editing at this point.
• Organize them into the above categories.
• Start crossing off the taglines that do not meet your company’s criteria, strategy or style.
• Rewrite the tags that need power WOW! or definition to them.
• Narrow your list to the top three.
• Get a few opinions on the final three taglines but DO NOT use a consensus to make your final decision. Consensus brings mediocrity that will not help you stand out from your competitors.
• Finally make your decision and immediately move to implement it!

Our prices are NOT guaranteed to be the lowest, but our service is guaranteed to be 100% better than anybody else’s service! How will you know? Easy. Contact me.

Types of Taglines – Part One

There are different types of taglines for different types of company strategies and company styles.

• Descriptive describes the service, product or brand
• Provocative provoke thought
• Specific establishes leadership in an industry
• Imperative demands action
• Superlative positions the company as best in its class

POWERAction:
Ask yourself:
1. Does your tagline fit one of the above types?
2. Can it be tweaked to fit one?
3. If so, which one fits your company strategy and style best?

Our prices are NOT guaranteed to be the lowest, but our service is guaranteed to be 100% better than anybody else’s service! How will you know? Easy. Contact me.

Tagline Basics

A Tagline Can Extract The Heart of a Brand
1. It must be short
2. It must differentiate you from your competitors
3. It has to be unique
4. It should evoke an emotional response
5. It must create interest
6. It should be easy to remember
7. It should capture your brand essence

Taglines are also often difficult to create and have shorter life spans than your visual image.

POWERAction:
Ask yourself:
• Does it live by the seven basics above?

If you answered no it is time to revamp and/or recreate your company tagline.

Our prices are NOT guaranteed to be the lowest, but our service is guaranteed to be 100% better than anybody else’s service! Contact me today.

Did you know? A Tagline Can Extract The Heart of a Brand

• Target – Pay less. Expect more.
• eBay – The world’s online market place
• FedEx – The world on time
• Sam101.com… – Human’s are visual

A tagline is a slogan or guiding principle that describes or helps create an interest. The taglines of many companies have become part of our culture. When you hear: Just do it, Got Milk? Or Eat more Chicken who comes to mind?

POWERAction:
Ask yourself:
1. Do I have a tagline in place?
2. Is it unique?
3. Does it evoke an emotional response?

If you answered no to any of the above questions start working on a new tagline or revamping the one you have immediately.

Our prices are NOT guaranteed to be the lowest, but our service is guaranteed to be 100% better than anybody else’s service! Contact me.

What Are the Principles of POWERBranding?
1. Get more prospects
2. Make more sales
3. Be remembered
4. To build relationships
5. Increase awareness

What do you need to do to be explode your POWERBranding efforts?
a. Have a WOW! 30-second commercial, both personally and professionally.
b. Dedicate your time to the Three C’s - clarity, consistency, and constancy.
c. Have a Plan.

POWERAction:
Ask yourself:
1. Who do I know that can help me create a WOW! 30-second commercial?
2. Am I dedicated to the Three C’s?
3. What is my Plan?

If POWERBranding is so important, why aren’t you out there doing more of it?

Our prices are NOT guaranteed to be the lowest, but our service is guaranteed to be 100% better than anybody else’s service!

How Often Are You In Front Of Your Client?
Face-to-Face is always the most powerful but consider the other marketing messages you could be generating:
• Marketing literature
• Product bulletins
• E-Mail signatures
• E-Zine

These are just a few of the tools you should be using in your POWERBranding© efforts.

POWERAction:
Ask yourself:
Do I use them? Why not? How can I use at least one of them starting today?

Consider: We receive a minimum of 4000 marketing messages every single day. The right POWERBranding© image will help you stand out of the crowd; by not having or using one you’ll blend into the background unseen.

Symbols engage intelligence, imagination and the emotions of your clients!

Our prices are NOT guaranteed to be the lowest, but our service is guaranteed to be 100% better than anybody else’s service! Contact me powerbranding@sam101.com… />