Update your bookmarks! NEW blog address…

Hi Everyone,

First of all, Happy New Year. I wish each and everyone of you much success in 2011. This year I will continue to provide you with advice, articles and tips on WOW-ing in your professional and personal lives. As the volume and type of content evolves and the blog’s traffic ever-growing, comes the time of an upgraded blog. So I’m excited to announce that my blog has moved to a new server! Please update your bookmarks and e-mail subscriptions and point them to:

www.francescolejones.com/blog

I look forward to a fantastic year with you all.

Frances Cole Jones

A Holiday Message from Frances Cole Jones

As 2010 ends I wanted to take a moment to thank you all so very much for your interest, feedback, and suggestions this past year– and tell you a bit about what’s in store for 2011.

I don’t know if you had a chance to see my Forbes.com piece on why mixing business and pleasure is a dangerous cocktail but this column is an ongoing assignment and I would love to hear what you’d like me to be writing about in the new year.

I’m looking forward to speaking on The Art of Sales at the Spark and Hustle conference in New York in March.

Topics for upcoming Wows of the Week include:

• The importance of setting 3-day, 3-month and 3-year goals
• Why “No” is just the opening gambit in a negotiation, and
• How to use “quick wins” (not quick fixes) to boost morale for yourself and those around you

I’ll be adding a number of new items to the Wow Store—among other things, the search for the perfect women’s blue shirt appears to be drawing to a close– stay tuned.

I’ve been getting such great feedback from those of you who downloaded the Interview Wow app that I’m contemplating another. Details to come.

And “just so you know, FYI,” in the “upcoming future’ I will continue adding to my list of “core foundational” redundancies that drive me wild….Keep sending them along!

Most importantly, however, I would like to say how privileged I feel for the time and attention you have given this space this past year. I truly appreciate it.

With gratitude and joy,

Frances

 

10 Things Women Can Do Today to WOW Tomorrow

Register for my upcoming teleclass, “10 Things Women Can Do Today to WOW Tomorrow” presented by the Downtown Women’s Club.

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Event Details

Join author, corporate coach and career expert Frances Cole Jones and learn (at least!) 10 practical, immediately applicable changes you can make today to guarantee you are more effective tomorrow, including:

• How to ensure you are projecting your most authoritative self — in person, on the phone, and on the page
• The proven formula for selling anybody, anything, anytime
• Ways to gracefully handle interruptions, circumlocutions, and the occasional (preposterous) interjection

To view or download the presentation for this teleclass, visit the following link.

101 More Women Bloggers to Watch for 2010

I’m very proud to be on this list! From WE Magazine for Women:

This list of inspiring and aspiring bloggers is one of our best yet. Most of the women bloggers to watch that made this list have been blogging for at least 2 years, but we do have some relative newcomers to the world of blogging.  Each blog has a style of its own with substantive content that is both interesting and targeted to specific demographics. This list is different from the last few we have published in that many of these women bloggers were nominated by others who read previous lists of our women bloggers and left a comment in our comment section mentioning their favorite blogs.  Blogs about business, life, motherhood, finance, religion, sports, fitness, food, lifestyle, coaching, mentoring, the arts, crafts, wellness, travel, beauty, fashion, writing, careers, going green, technology, sex, work at home and more. We even added a few health-specific topic blogs to the mix this year.

I am sure you will enjoy reading about these women and checking out their blogs as much as WE had putting this list of Women Bloggers to Watch.

If you do stop by their blogs, please let them know you heard about them at WE Magazine for Women. Our Mission is to Showcase Women, their talents, treasures and expertise focusing on Busy Women on the Move.

Enjoy!

Heidi Richards Mooney, Publisher

See the List >

A WOW Special Event: Breakfast with Frances

Happy Monday!

I wanted to invite you to The Lamb’s Club for breakfast tomorrow morning (If you haven’t had the chance to go there yet, it’s BEAUTIFUL– guaranteed to take on the Four Seasons as the next, best place to plot and plan). I’m going to be speaking on “10 Things You Can Do Today to Wow Tomorrow.”

Mention you’re a “Frances referral” and pay only $40! Space is limited, so please be sure to RSVP.

I hope to see you there.
Frances

EVENT DETAILS

8:30am – 10:00am
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Lambs Club
132 West 44th Street between 6th Avenue and Broadway
www.thelambsclub.com

Ticket Price: $50 ($40 if you mention my name)
To Purchase Tickets, contact Rachel Murray at rmurray@thelambsclub.com

REMINDER: 10 Things Women Can Do Today to Wow Tomorrow Webinar TODAY

10 Things Women Can Do Today to Wow Tomorrow

Thursday, November 4, 4pm EST/1pm PST

Join author and WomenOnBusiness.com contributor Frances Cole Jones and learn (at least!) 10 practical, immediately applicable changes you can make today to guarantee you are more effective tomorrow, including:

• How to ensure you are projecting your most authoritative self — in person, on the phone, and on the page
• The proven formula for selling anybody, anything, anytime
• Ways to gracefully handle interruptions, circumlocutions, and the occasional (preposterous) interjection

To RSVP for this online event simply send an email to frances@target-marketing.org

Frances Cole Jones is the President of Cole Media Management and author of “How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Selling Your (Brilliant) Self in any Situation” and “The Wow Factor: The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today’s Business World.”

Attention Job Seekers: Frances has also created an app for the iPhone and iPad called “Interview Wow.” She is always happy to answer questions; and can be reached atwww.francescolejones.com

WOW– It’s a Paperback!

I’m proud to announce the release of the paperback of The Wow Factor: The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today’s Business World available today at your favorite book retailer. Please pick up your copy today!

WOW– It’s a Paperback, posted with vodpod

WOW! It’s a Store! Video

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WOW! It’s a Store

Hello, hello:

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Wow Store— a hand picked collection of items that I believe will help you present your best self in any situation.

For example, I mention in How to Wow that a blue shirt both photographs best, and is the color we trust the most, and now you can see – and perhaps buy– exactly what I mean; so whether you’re standing up in front of your boardroom, or tap dancing on a shag rug in traffic court, you’ll be sure to wow.

In The Wow Factor I talk about how you can actively create camaraderie in meetings by taking notes on what others are saying—and now I can show you my favorite notebook for the job.

I also mention that since your office is an extension of you, it really can’t look like the inside of a goat’s stomach; but since ideaphoric-types find this hard (because, for them, out of sight is out of mind) a very particular type of desk calendar is necessary to stay on track. And, voila, here it is.

(You may also discover that not only does the chargepod ensure you always arrive looking—and feeling—calm, cool, and collected, but its capabilities can forever endear you to others.)

I’ll be adding new items frequently, and would love to hear what you think I should be including.

Until then, happy browsing!

Frances

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WOW Videos on iTunes

I’m happy to announce my WOW video series is now LIVE on iTunes. Subscribe to my video podcast series direct from iTunes!