Kerri-Raluna’s blog

For anyone I haven’t spoken to yet, the RaLuna Dreams® shop will be closing late Feb, with the meditation classes moving to my friends place (3mins drive form the shop)

RaLuna Dreams® is not closing –we are just restructuring! It has become obvious that with changes to both John’s health & the economy that we are best to alter our direction at this stage.

Our various websites will be updated as soon as the shop is shut and the paperwork completed. Our phone number will remain the same. Our giftlines will be changing –or in the case of the incense-expanding! Readings, Healings and Meditations will continue.

Obviously ALL our current stock is 40% off (for many items this will bring them just below cost). ALL our fittings are available for purchase. If there is anything you want it may be advisable for you to grab it before someone else does I really would like everything tied up as soon as possible so I can get started on the new challenges

Hope to catch up with you soon,

J kerri-raluna

G’day & welcome

I like Ox years! I personally think it must be the Taurus influence as I wasn’t born in an Ox year. Still, I always find that by the end of the year I have made much more progress than in many of the “less domesticated” animal years, like the monkey year for example

Our home sold very quickly and settled less than three weeks before Christmas. I no longer get to enjoy Kangaroos in my front yard but I can walk to the car without getting covered in dust/mud, cow poop, vicious ants and bindi’s. Suburbia is proving to have advantages for my working wardrobe.

Despite the cleanliness of the suburbs, they must be a very dirty bunch! The real estate advised us that if we go over the 60 thousand litres of water we would need to pay for it. No big deal, until she said that was the allowance per Quarter (every 3 months) At one stage we had an above ground pool, a Clydesdale horse, two cows, two dogs, a heap of chooks, a teenager and a baby and we still used less water than that in a year! I am still at a loss as to where I am not using the water suburbanites appear to require…

The house move itself actually went quite well. My cunning plan to send the family down to my mother’n'laws in Sydney worked perfectly. They left four days after settlement and remained gone until the end of December. By the time they returned nearly everything was neatly unpacked and where I wanted them to keep it. Not a single word about “I don’t know where to put it” has been able to be uttered. Much more blissful than when we moved over from Western Aussie. We actually found boxes that hadn’t been unpacked in six years while we were moving. My big tip for moving house is obviously “send them away”, no need to cook, iron, and no-one to say you can’t finish work and stay up until 2am unpacking. Ok, it may have been better if they’d gone for an extra week

Update on the Hubby - seems he can’t go for a check-up on his eyes without being lasered but at least at the moment he still has a reasonable amount of vision. We’re off to the beach soon so he can have time away while he can still enjoy the scenery. (Apparently the time they spent at his mums wasn’t a ‘proper’ family break because I preferred to unpack…so looks like I still get to have a holiday as well as a smooth house move!)

Stay smiling,

Kerri RaLuna

Merry Christmas to all my loved ones………..As we leave the Christmas season behind for another year, I thought this sums up my view of Christmas & what it should be about……Dr Sueus says it so well. 
 

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?  
It came without ribbons.  It came without tags.  It came without packages, boxes or bags.  
And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore.  Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.  
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.  
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.  ~Dr. Seuss

G’day and Welcome

Less than five months ago my partner complained of sore eyes. He has been a diabetic for over 20 years and was not due for his check-up with the optometrist. He was also diving 12 to 16 hours a day, six days a week. Of course his eyes were sore! 

To be safe, and as they appeared to be deteriorating, he made an appointment at the local Gold Coast optometrist. Fortunately, he received a very knowledgeable consultant who immediately referred my partner to the Southport Eye Specialists.

My partners FIRST consultation resulted in an urgent appointment for steroids on one eye. This did not help and indeed went fairly badly. At the next appointment his other eye was lasered. Last week it was lasered again. In six weeks it will probably be lasered yet again. The long term prognosis is for legal blindness next year.

For anyone who reads this who has diabetes and sore eyes. Please see your optometrist as soon as possible.

Since his diagnosis (he is 44), he has met;

• A lady who reacted to the steroids by having two strokes. She is now blind.
• A gentleman who had the same major eye lasering as my partner. He is now fully blind.
• An aquaintance whose husband has just gone legally blind with diabetes. HE IS 27 YEARS OLD.

Last month I spoke with a business aquiantance who got diabetes last year as a result of a heart operation. He has the same eye symptoms as my partner did. He claims he has no time to make an appointment with an optometrist.

My partner had to walk away from his business at quite a substantial financial loss. He is now on a disabilities pension and we have just sold our home.

…Less than five months ago my partner complained of sore eyes…

Kerri RaLuna

G’day and Welcome

Everybody, including You & I know about the basic ideas behind what is called plageurism.

At school it was referred to as “cheating” by “copying” our assignment content word for word from the closest encyclopedia (or these days, Wikipedia).

Despite the publicity over the whole Napster thing (and perhaps due to the start of Limewire) there appears to be  a mental block at the idea of using other peoples music as background for video and audio presentations on the internet.

Metallica excluded, MOST muscicians are actually happy to receive the exposure. Especially those who (like you & I) are trying to make a name for themselves in their niches.

Just like us, these musicians have invested alot of time and money in preparing their product (cds & mp3s) for sale. That is how you got to hear Their Work in the first place.

Just like us, these musicians have organised to use JV partners (physical & on-line stores & wholesalers). They pay them to sell their product.

Just like us, they need to eat and pay electricity bills to live.

As I said before MOST muso’s are happy to have their music used WITH their knowledge. Most would love the opportunity to JV with you.

How?

Contact Them!

Let them know what you are doing. Let them see Your Work and Why you want to use Their Material.

Offer them the chance to “advertise themselves” through Your Product, Your Website, Your list.

Why Bother?

B.B.E or Basic Business Ethics. You are a professional, so are they. Help them to Help You and both your businesses will grow.

If You do not need their work enough to enter in a business arrangement with them, do NOT use their music. If you want kudos for your own product RESPECT the others who are helping you create it.

Musicians are in business too. They will badmouth your lack of B.B.E all over their social networking sites. Isn’t it better to have them promoting You on those sites instead?

Take the time, write them or phone them. JV partnersips will work for BOTH of you.

They may even offer to compose an exclusive score for your business!

kerri raluna dreams

G’day & Welcome

Yesterday I spoke with you about the new clickbank software developed by Dan Sumner, John Thornhill and Dave Nicholson. It’s now been released.

This software is so good that it will not matter if you are reading this today or next year. This software WILL benefit anyone who has an on-line presence. See it here now.

How?

Take a look at other websites. Many feature “paid for” ads/sponsors on their pages. This is how these sites supplement their income.  Everyone from my-space to neopets uses these ads to enable them to

1. Increase traffic by improving their content ratings with the search engines
2. Generate a passive income that helps off-set their web host fees
3. Improve their sites perceived proffessionalism by running sponsors

The most preferred method of doing this has been to use the advertising programmes run by Google and Yahoo. Not neccessarily because they pay a fortune BUT lets face it

1. It’s easy to ad them to your website
2. There hasn’t been a viable alternative that is as easy to use

The downsides of course are the reason some sites just do not bother implementing advertising. As you may know

1. You have no control over the content of the ads shown on your site. They may be a Direct Competitor. The ads may be in a foreign language or have no relevence to your sites demograph (if no-one clicks them you have no income from the ads)
2. No matter how interested YOU may be in an advertised product YOU cannot use the links on your site to investigate it.

This new software IS just as easy to implement and YOU get to choose the ads YOU run on YOUR site. Even better, this software gives YOU a rate of return that is higher than 10cents for YOUR clients clicking on YOUR chosen sponsors ads.

This is the 21st century. This is YOUR business. You don’t let strangers pick your stock, Why let strangers determine not only your sponsor content but your income from it.

Click here to learn how to take back YOUR control.

Kerri-Raluna

P.S, Yes, after e-mailing John yesterday I HAVE purchased the software and Guess What?

The instructions ARE easy to follow and WE CAN get answers to “silly” questions! So no, I am not recommending a software I haven’t looked at FULLY before letting you know about it.

P.P.S Actually that is the whole point. After this week, the sponsered ads I show here WILL be products I have tried and approve of.

Dan Sumner, John Thornhill and Dave Nicholson are about to release a very promising new software that is set to change the face of website advertising.

Why?

When these guys discover a problem or see an opportunity, They go all out to find a solution for themselves. Then They SHARE Their Discoveries with US!

Please check out Dan Sumners blog to stay in the loop with this.

At a time when every dollar counts, this software may be what you are looking for. I have already signed for the VIP list in order to look at it more closely when it’s released tonight (Aussie time)

Happy to share,

kerri-raluna

G’day and Welcome

Aha, now I understand what I have heard about the fun of adsense!

I was just looking over this little blog of mine and have discovered that I am running ads in Spanish.

Not bad, but my second language is French.

Quick tip, be careful if you use a common term that it is not foreign.  Otherwise, you too may have foreign ads.

Kerri- Raluna Dreams®

G’day and Welcome

We live on acreage in South East Queensland.

It’s nice. Quiet. Very much away from suburbia. We watch Kangaroos while we eat breakfast.

My guy is a typical, raised in the country, worked in the mines, type of bloke. He loves it. So does my “grew up in a mining town” first-born.

Tweenie, the baby Gemini is not so fussed. She likes people. She would be ecstatic if we lived in a Coronation Street environment. She loves to be at the shop.

It is school holidays here. I let her come to the shop. She ran around the somewhat dangerous carpark. She hassled the hairdressers (pink streaks aren’t that bad…). She helped the coffee shop girl clean the tables. She chatted to the vet. She got older kids to buy her lollies at the supermarket. She loved it so much that she is NEVER coming back!

Now, you need to understand that she was one when I opened this shop. She kept breaking stock and running off to “help” other shop owners. She was sent to day-care when she was two.

She is now five. She is at school. She assures me she is a big girl now. Everyone in the village believes she is adorable. Eventually her father came and took her home for lunch.

He let her sleep until 6:30 because she was tired. I got home at 7:30. I wanted to work on-line for abit. She eventually went to sleep around 11:30. I was too tired by then to go on-line.

You will find friends all over this wonderful on-line community. I have made many. I have Male friends and Female friends who lend me their “marketing” ears.

I know only a few who understand the difficulty of raising a family without the benefit of a wife. I do not have a wife because I am one.

I will not give in.

I will not wait until I am in a nursing home to wonder if I should have taken advantage of the Internet.

I can do this.

So can You.

We will succeed as Entrepreneurs and as Mothers.

kerri-ralunadreams®

G’day and Welcome

I recently received a mail from John Thornhill. Nothing unusual in that -I am subscribed to the Planetsms blog. The topic created some discussion both on John’s blog and around here in the office. Basically, John wished to know how we felt about Big Ticket marketing products that we bought for Big Ticket dollars being now offered as free bonuses.

I personally find that I would feel insulted.

Yes, the Internet does move fast. Yes, parts of the “bonus courses” are now out of date.

If they are truely now that worthless, Why offer them at all? Do these marketing Gurus believe that we need more crap on our desktops?

The point for me is that I have paid money on the day for similar Big Ticket items (fortunately from other Big-name marketers) because I was told I would not be able to get the info again. I bought courses that at the time I KNEW I would not have the technical expertise to implement until a later date because

1. I believed in the VALUE of the course material and that enough of that material would be dateless 
2. I believed I would be unable to have access to it at a later date
3. I knew I would want to implement the course strategies later

Essentially, I believed the marketers concerned were Honest and supported we, their customers by protecting us as their existing clients. So far, most of the marketers I have bought from have lived up to my Trust in them.

I am at a loss as to why the “Bonus Tactic” marketers do not update the courses and resell them in the way that Jeff Walker did with his ProductLaunch course.

How does this “Bonus Tactic” effect YOUR customers perceptions?

How does this “Bonus Tactic” effect YOUR customer conversions for YOUR products?

YOU are NOT silly, neither are YOUR customers.

The answer is obviously that it shouldn’t effect you too badly at all. Huh?

I would recommend that YOU learn from this Bonus Tactic and be Very careful of emulating it in your chosen Niche. Do not lose your existing and hard-won customer base over what is essentially a quick cash-up Tactic.

Understand that the current “Bonus Tactics” being used are a Timely reminder that Our on-line credibility will ALWAYS be more important to our customers no matter how well-known we become.

Understand that at the moment, many of us have absorbed what several marketers have done lately to their own customers. We need YOUR reassurance that You Care about Us!

Kerri Raluna