Greetings!

Not sure about you, but I've been guilty with twice writing "19" still for 2019 on dates versus "20" for 2020. Now that it's a New Year, besides getting ready for taxes and Department of Revenue (those who are business owners know about the other tax we pay every January outside of the regular taxes), the time is now to consider determining what career path to take or getting that newsletter started for your business.

I've got 2 specials for you this month that can appeal to all my audiences. Please remember these can be purchased for yourself and/or someone else and make great gifts for anytime (not just a holiday), and can be used one year from the date of purchase. For any of the 2 "New Year Deals" listed below, you would just click the "BUY NOW" purple button at the bottom of this newsletter and pay with a debit/credit card and I do NOT see your card information, just receive an email with the amount you paid.

Hurry! These offers are good until 11:55 pm Pacific Standard Time Friday, 1/31/2020.
New Year Deal #1: Are you unsure what career path to pursue? What's your next move? Maybe you want to get out of your current job, but have no idea what careers to consider and/or have lots of interests, but can't clearly answer the question when someone asks, "So, what career field would you like to enter?" OR maybe you just want to take my proprietary career personality test to see if it confirms what you already knew were the career(s) you should be working in. These are all ideal client(s) for my 64-question proprietary career personality test which you can take in the comforts of your own home. You would choose the ONE BEST answer for each question on what YOU think about yourself (don't second guess yourself or think what OTHERS think of you, just what you think of yourself). My proprietary career personality test will provide you an analysis of your personality (very interesting and in-depth), at least 4 recommended career fields to pursue in order of preference, AND recommended training you can receive for the recommended career fields, i.e. if technology was one of the recommended career choices, you'd be recommended to attend DeVry University. The test is a $114 value BEFORE sales tax which I am forced to charge (Department of Revenue's ruling NOT mine) so the grand total of the test with sales tax is $125.30 if paying with U.S. cash, check, or money order and $130.46 if paying with a debit/credit card as I do NOT benefit from the fee to process your card). Please note that the sales tax I collect for the tax I do NOT benefit from and it gets paid along with all the other test(s) I sell throughout the year to the Department of Revenue which is OUTSIDE of the regular yearly taxes that I have to pay (like anyone else).

A FREE 10 minutes to de-brief at a scheduled consulting call is included in that rate to discuss any question(s) you may have after you had time to review your test results. Please be advised that the free 10 minutes will only be applied if you decide to pay for a consultation (it takes way longer than 10 minutes just for me to review your questions and provide my recommendations let alone try to discuss them in 10 minutes) . So, basically I tell clients if they aren't willing to pay my consulting rate of $2 per minute plus the 4% + 15 cent processing fee that I don't benefit from, again in the example of 10 minutes consulting billed at a rate of $20 plus the processing fee would be a grand total of $20.95 in this example, then there will be no follow up de-brief consultation call.

New Year Deal #2: Do you NOT have a newsletter for your business and have been thinking/talking about how you should get one? Did you know that you're actually leaving money on the table by NOT having a newsletter? According to Convince & Convert from an article in saleswingsapp.com, 44 percent of email subscribers made at least ONE purchase based on a promotional email they received in 2015. Also, people who make purchases marketed through emails spend 138% MORE than people who do NOT receive emails. According to that same article "8 reasons your business should send out newsletters," your customers are very busy people who are NOT thinking about you and your company, but when they receive your newsletters of content that applies to their lives, it engages them to think about you and your business and think of you as an industry leader, NOT just another company.

I've got 15% off PER MONTH for each of my newsletter packages below:

If you'd like one newsletter to be written per month which includes me researching (either online myself, by material you give me, or interviewing someone or just communicating with you to see what you'd like written) as well as writing the material and having you review the material one time for one set of edits (one set of edits is defined as you look at the material and inform me of the edit(s) you'd like made all at once) and then it is finalized to be sent out along with me providing you the statistics on the "open rate" of your emails per month (that's defined as the percentage of your emails that were opened), I've got the following newsletter packages below:

  1. 3 months for the above listed newsletter services with the 15% discount per month is a one time payment of $459 if paying with U.S. cash, check, or money order and $477.51 if paying with a debit/credit card. (I do NOT see your debit/credit card information when you purchase through the "BUY NOW" purple button at the bottom of this newsletter, just receive an email with the amount you paid). I have to charge the debit/credit card processing fee, as I am charged that fee to process your card so I do not benefit from it, it just nets me what I am charging. Contact me if you want to make payment arrangements.
  2. 6 months for the above listed newsletter services with a 15% discount per month is a one time payment of $918 if paying with U.S. cash, check, or money order and $954.87 if paying with a debit/credit card. I do NOT see your debit/credit card information when you purchase through the "BUY NOW" purple button at the bottom of this newsletter, just receive an email with the amount you paid). I have to charge the debit/credit card processing fee, as I am charged that fee to process your card so I do not benefit from it, it just nets me what I am charging. Contact me if you want to make payment arrangements.
  3. 9 months for the above listed newsletter services with a 15% discount per month is a one time payment of $1,377 if paying with U.S. cash, check, or money order and $1,432.23 if paying with a debit/credit card. I do NOT see your debit/credit card information when you purchase through the "BUY NOW" purple button at the bottom of this newsletter, just receive an email with the amount you paid). I have to charge the debit/credit card processing fee, as I am charged that fee to process your card so I do not benefit from it, it just nets me what I am charging. Contact me if you want to make payment arrangements.
  4. 12 months for the above newsletter services with a 15% discount per month is a one time payment of $1,836 if paying with U.S. cash, check, or money order and $1,909.59 if paying with a debit/credit card. I do NOT see your debit/credit card information when you purchase through the "BUY NOW" purple button at the bottom of this newsletter, just receive an email with the amount you paid). I have to charge the debit/credit card processing fee, as I am charged that fee to process your card so I do not benefit from it, it just nets me what I am charging. Contact me if you want to make payment arrangements.

Please note there is a $1 per minute charge for me to set you up with Constant Contact (which is the email management system I use) to create your account and input your contacts for you if you don't have an existing account. Once you get a Constant Contact account, you'll have to pay Constant Contact a bill (normally monthly), unless you opt other payment options and their pricing varies dependent on the number of contacts you have and the level you have (i.e. it costs more to have the payment option in your newsletter than to just send out regular newsletters). A basic and lowest level meaning up to 500 email contacts is approximately $20 per month before taxes (that's according to what I Googled earlier today) and note I input the BEFORE taxes comment (Google didn't), but I know there's taxes and even Constant Contact can't give an exact amount, since it's based on your zip code. I calculated the sales tax rate of 9.9% for Puyallup, WA for a $19.99 monthly plan and calculated $21.089 approximately per month with taxes.

There is currently a promotion going on with Constant Contact, where if you use my referral link here: https://www.constantcontact.com/features/signup.jsp?rc=-55141918&sru=1116636354785&fc=f&cc=RAF-REFLINK&pn=ROVING
to open a Constant Contact newsletter account you will get a $75 credit on your account and I will on mine as well as both of us receiving a $75 VISA gift card. Offer ends February 3, 2020 by 8:59 pm Pacific Standard Time. For more details, visit: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/refer-a-friend-promo

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,

Carly Calabrese
Career Coach/Business Marketing Consultant/Writer/Editor/LinkedIn Consultant
Cell:   360 981-7463
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