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As a Dating Expert who has both lived in a few different metro regions (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles/The OC and Las Vegas) as well as worked with singles in a number of different cities both within the United States as well as around the world, one of the considerations a number of singles have is they want to meet, date, and mate with another single in their local area.
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Yes, you will see on some of the online dating niche sites, like those which are faith based for Muslims, Christian or Jewish Singles, is that the single will often make some statement like, “Distance is no object.” They think the are open to loving and partnering up with another single from any where in the country.
And in a manner, they are open like that. They are open to love coming to them from just about anywhere.
And then reality kicks in.
In order to really fall in love, to attract your Soul Mate and build a relationship, you actually need to open up and share each others lives together. Courtship which leads to marriage requires that you share your lives and actually BE with each other. So much of the dating style of the “Single – Never Married” folks is to either “hang” on the sofa and watch movies, while fun, eventually becomes boring, or to go do the consumer single dating style of going “out” all the time. Neither of these models is actually what we DO in the normal LIFE of a married couple/life partner relationship. When I coach singles who are divorced or widowed and we get to that part of my coaching system, they say, “OMG, April, you are brilliant! This is so true!” (I heard this today from one widowed lady.) And they can see how I approach relationship attraction and building form reality and not from some pipe dream which will never happen.
Real relationships are between human beings. There are some crass metaphors for describing this which I will refrain from using to illustrate my point.
When you are looking to attract love and build a life partner relationship, generally speaking, to do so you need to be in person. In order to experience that, this means you want to date another single who is local to you or at least in your metro area region. That can still mean that they live a few hours away from you. However, unless you travel to certain metro areas repeatedly for business, you want to keep your targets on another single who lives within a few hours of you, and not thousands miles away, which would be just fooling yourself.
Then you actually have a chance of attracting, meeting, and mating with your Soul Mate and developing the kind of lifelong love relationship which you are craving.
Happy Dating and Relationships,
Las Vegas Baby Boomer Dating Expert
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With my work as a dating and relationship coach, I have the fun privilege of seeing a lot of happy brides and grooms connect and hook up and get married. My mother had her Wedding Attending Dress. I have this sparkling coral crochet number which is starting to become MY Wedding Attending Dress.
Well, don't blame it on President Obama because he has only been in office for 9 months. But we really ARE in a down economy.
And a lot of brides and grooms want to have a Budget Wedding and keep things Frugal and Cheap for their nuptials. Yes, you can just bop over to the Justice of the Peace or wing it in Vegas or Reno (Have you seen "The Women"? the original? that is my FAVORITE Reno, NV tribute!).
What about the rest of you who want to celebrate your special day on a show string budget?
Well check out http://www.weddingplanningontheweb.com/
Resources for the Frugally minded bride who is more interested in investing her buckage on her house than on a 1-Day party (however fabulous)
Happy Dating and Relationships!
April Braswell
When you are looking to plan your ideal wedding....
you will want to be sure to check out
http://www.weddingplanningontheweb.com/
For all the online internet wedding planning resources for the modern bride....
In fact, what is very cool about this wedding planning resource is it is about how to do a frugally planned wedding. Cool, or what? With the downturn in the economy, I ask you, who DOESn't want to save a little (or a LOT) of money when they are planning their wedding? The average wedding costs over $15,000 (think over $20,000, but I'm trying to reflect that more brides and grooms are doing this on a budget anyway, so I'm deflating the price now from what it was a few years ago for wedding, ok?)
Happy Dating and Relationships!
April
Some of my latest friends here at at VOX have additionally created some new websites.
Some people are even PRAYING for Google to find them
A lot of Baby Boomers are very concerned about their health, vitality and longevity, and will love: GetHealthyHQ.com
A new Steve in my life. Mr. Steve Chambers will still hold the first Steve place of affection in my heart. No detraction from the New Mrs. Chambers! http://www.stevebt.com/
Yes so many people are concerned about their horrific energy bills. All the Las Vegans have HUGE air conditioning bills and will definitely appreciate the green energy wisdom offered at: http://www.championgreenenergy.com/
www.smallbusinessdesigncenter.com
Hello, I am at heart, a LOVE coach. Who does not LOVE, get a touch verklempt, and reach for a hankie at the sight of a beautiful bride as she enters to meet her groom, seeing her bestowed in all her beauty, giving herself to him? Alrightie then, need I saw anything more. All things for the Bride: www.bridalthreadshq.com
A man with fitness passion: www.terrytom.com
Many women are still looking for Mr. Wright. He is Write here! http://www.martin-wright.com
http://www.businessandmarketingmakeover.com/blog
Now I just want to say to some of my old (don't you just love having that label applied to yourself? ack!) Vox social media buddies where the Google gods aka The Spider has already discovered your existence, I'm not repeating myself here. However, please don't feel neglected or that you are any less LOVED by me or ... The Gooogle gods.
The Grief Recovery Group, which most grieving people think of as a bereavement support and counseling group is just wrapping up in the Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa area of Orange County. Yes, I know it sounds a little goofy to cite all those cities, but if you actually live or work here, then you know that they are all within a few blocks of each other. I always have to describe the area and workshop location to grieving clients so they can load it into their Garmins and get here without getting too lost. Because of course, many people grieving the loss of a loved one have a tendency to get a bit distracted. Some of us describe it as not being fully present, not 100% present. That is just to be real about WHAT Grief looks, acts, and feels like.
One widow who worked with me described the work as "Priceless!" when she completed it, she had found it so helpful.
I have been fielding a number of inquiries from a variety of grievers, those dealing with a suicide in the family, parent death, Pet Loss Bereavement, as well as Divorce Grief. Indeed, I do take one-on-one clients to give people more personalized attention and more time.
Next week I will be in Las Vegas right after the Labor Day weekend and meeting with some grievers in the Pahrump, NV area.
Until then, stay well.
April Braswell
Widows Bereavement Counseling, Henderson, Las Vegas
As a certified Grief Recovery Specialist, one of the loss events which often seems to be almost shunted to the side if the death of a beloved animal companion. When our pet dies, indeed, often our relationship with our animal companions are often ones of unconditional love. There was all the time, affection, love, licks and cuddles. And we miss them. Pet Bereavement for a griever is another loss event. In the Grief Recovery Process (from the Grief Recovery Institute), we do not compare losses. Each relationship and loss is unique.
Indeed, grievers want the loss acknowledged. However, often the bereaved are looking for is a compassionate and knowledgeable person to help them practically with the emotions surrounding the loss event. The Grief Recovery Program provides a compassionately supportive environment and sequence of practical action steps in a seminar workshop format (typically 7 sessions for One on One, and 12 two hour sessions for a group workshop)
Grievers who are grappling with Pet Bereavement and who find that they really can't talk about it elsewhere are welcomed compassionately and with open arms at the Grief Recovery Seminar. Pet Loss Grievers approach me both via the internet as well as in person. They are almost dismayed to find how much the loss of their beloved pet affected them. Grieving over a loss event is natural and normal.
This summer 2009, is made available in Orange County, including serving the cities of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Long Beach and the surrounding areas.
Best regards,
April Braswell
Now that I am in Orange County in the Huntington Beach/Newport Beach/Costa Mesa area, as a certified Grief Recovery Specialist, I am being asked if I am offering the Grief Recover Process here locally. Yes I am. Many grievers are searching the internet under such topics as bereavement, grief support, and bereavement support groups. And I am always find widow support groups.
Below please find The Grief Recovery Institute's co-founder, John James, talk about how the Grief Recovery Seminar (he refers to it as the Grief Recovery Outreach Program) differs from "Support" groups whose focus is solely to talk about the loss and the grief.
Best regards,
April Braswell
I've been talking with local small-medium size business owners here in the Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, and Huntington Beach areas of Orange County. Turns out the statistic that 34% of businesses still don't have a website up is quite accurate.
What is even more true is how many of them have websites up which are dreadful from any kind of an internet marketing perspective. No SEO, no Search Engine Optimization, no Social Media Marketing, no dominating Google page one, no long tail words. No nada nothing.
Now the thing is, some business owners were sold a bill of goods by some web design company and they have a website. And they know it's not doing anything for their business. But they're embarrassed to talk about their perceived failure when after all their great skill set and specialty is their business, not the marketing of it.
While PromoteYouOnline, Inc. predominately serves Orange County based business owners, because of the joys of webinar technologies, we do have clients in other regions of the United States. Typically customers are able to reduce their ad and marketing costs by 50% in the first 30 days and increase their revenues by 23%.
Not bad for saving some money, eh?
Happy Selling!
April Braswell
Today June 9, 2009 (or 9 June, 2009 if you're outside of The States!) is the BONUSES day for Dave Lakhani's Hot New Sales Success Book, How To Sell When Nobody's Buying.
You'll want to go grab your copy of Dave's book here at Amazon (not even an affiliate link, I'm just so impressed with Dave as a Applied Persuasion Sales Guru that I'm amping this so others benefit as well): How To Sell When Nobody's Buying
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To your great success!
April Braswell
There's a new kid in town, and I'm doing him a special favor to amplify his website presence.
Plastics Extrusion & Recycling Machinery
Their background is they sell capital machinery to the Plastics Manufacturing industry in an eight state territory. They are in our tenth year!
