How to establish and maintain a strong client base

 

This is the third edition of How to Establish and Maintain a Strong Client Base, a greatly expanded and revised version of the popular handbook that has been used as a textbook on business building in many professional trainings. One of its special features is a new, empowering section on navigating the confusing world of digital marketing. Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, Vivien shares her knowledge to inspire all client-centered business owners with a systematic way – a blueprint – to earn a living doing what you love. Vivien explores both the mental and entrepreneurial aspects necessary to success, in 13 chapters, giving you an insightful tour of how to generate a client base. The 188 pages include a detailed Table of Contents and multiple charts. Don’t be fooled by how enjoyable it is to read this book! Packed with illustrative anecdotes, this reference is dense with practical, tried-and-tested information, that will demystify and explain how you too can build a thriving business or private practice doing what you love.

What is a client-centered business? This book is written for anyone who needs to draw in customers or clients. From massage therapists to fitness instructors, accountants to landscapers, photographers to interior decorators, and even specialty store owners – How to Establish and Maintain a Strong Client Base is applicable to the whole range of privately owned businesses, professions and services fundamental to our society. If you want to work with or for people, adding your contribution to our world, this book was written for you!

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Blue Lace Agate: Stone of Self-Expression

 

Welcome back to The Schapera Show, where Viv and Neil explore this big adventure called Life. This is the part of the show when Vivien speaks to crystals, and today, I am in conversation with Blue Lace Agate.

I first encountered crystals when I was 10 years old, and Blue Lace Agate is one of those stones that I grew up with. I knew that Blue Lace Agate came from South Africa, but I didn’t realize it only comes from Southern Africa – actually Namibia – except for a very few small deposits in other localities like Brazil and the USA.

Blue Lace Agate is a chalcedony, and chalcedony has a host of healing properties. But what is remarkable about Blue Lace Agate is the color – the shade – of blue, and the nature of the banded pattern. I was lucky enough to acquire a Blue Lace Agate egg many years back, that taught me all about the significance of this pattern.

The information came forward when I asked my guides: “What is the best stone for the throat chakra?” And my guides responded with another question: “For developing the throat chakra or for supporting the throat chakra?” It turned out that the best stone for supporting the throat chakra is Sapphire, and the best stone for developing the throat chakra is Blue Lace Agate. Of course, this is a big generalization, because for any particular individual, the individual need can be different with regard to what’s “best.”

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Guest Post: Balancing Mood Disorders Through Crystal Energy Alignment

 

A person is, at any given moment, an arrangement of forces. Chemical, neurological, electromagnetic. A body conducting itself. A mind arranging itself. The result? Mood. Something that settles in and lingers, shifting slowly or not at all. When it misaligns, you get mood disorders: depression, bipolar disorder, a whole hefty clinical lexicon of imbalances. The conventional arsenal – medications, therapy, lifestyle adjustments – covers the usual ground. But beyond the pharmacological and psychological, there are other methods. It is more ancient and less charted. One of these does its work by balancing mood disorders through crystal energy alignment; it suggests that the right stones, correctly placed, might harmonize a person’s internal resonance and nudge them back toward equilibrium. Let’s take a closer look!

What are mood disorders?

Before discussing mood disorders, we must first define mood, this time with more precision than the introduction above allowed. In simplest terms, mood is a prolonged emotional state that colors how we see the world. Moods shape our perception for days, weeks, or more while refusing to dissipate. Now, if these moods become persistently negative or interfere with daily functioning, we step into the territory of what medical professionals, including Sekhon and Gupta, categorize as mood disorders.

According to their research, we can label a variety of conditions as mood disorders. The most common are major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. Each condition has distinct characteristics, but they share their ability to distort emotional regulation. Depression can flatten the world into a black-and-gray Rothko painting, while mania can exaggerate feelings and turn the mundane into the unbearable or the euphoric. There is a biological basis for these disorders, certainly. On the other hand, there is also an increased interest in how the body’s energy systems interact with these emotional states – a cue for crystals to enter our modest discussion.

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Azurite – Don’t be Afraid of the Truth

 

Hello and welcome back to The Schapera Show where Viv and Neil explore this big adventure called Life. This is the part of the show where I, Vivien, talk to crystals and talk about crystals. Today, I’m talking to a long-time favorite of mine, Azurite. Azurite is the most astonishing, intense blue color. Perhaps this is why Azurite is one of my favorite stones – because its color is one of my favorite colors.

It’s a good thing that Azurite is so attractive because it is quite the taskmaster. When you first read what Melody has to say about Azurite, you think: “Oh, that’s fantastic!” For example, Melody says: “Azurite is known as a ‘stone of heaven.’ It stimulates the pursuit of the heavenly self, providing for guidance via the third-eye and allowing for precise verbalization of psychic experiences.” (p. 128) She then goes on to say that Azurite provides for insight into all areas of one’s life.” (p. 128) Sounds fabulous, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not so much. Here’s the rub – getting insight into all areas of one’s life is darn confronting. Yes, Azurite does do all that, and more, but at a cost – the cost of self-awareness. And in case you haven’t noticed this yet, self-awareness can be very, very demanding, plus, self-awareness comes with a big responsibility – the responsibility to do something about it.

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Build a client base from scratch | Get new clients | Grow a customer base

 

How To Establish And Maintain a Strong Client Base by Vivien S. Schapera (New 3rd Edition)

“a handbook for people who want to earn a living doing what they love”

This is the third edition of How to Establish and Maintain a Strong Client Base, a greatly expanded and revised version of the popular handbook that has been used as a textbook on business building in many professional trainings. One of its special features is a new, empowering section on navigating the confusing world of digital marketing. Written in an easy-to-read, narrative style, Vivien shares her knowledge to inspire all client-centered business owners with a systematic way – a blueprint – to earn a living doing what you love. Vivien explores both the mental and entrepreneurial aspects necessary to success, in 13 chapters, giving you an insightful tour of how to generate a client base. The 188 pages include a detailed Table of Contents and multiple charts. Don’t be fooled by how enjoyable it is to read this book! Packed with illustrative anecdotes, this reference is dense with practical, tried-and-tested information, that will demystify and explain how you too can build a thriving business or private practice doing what you love.

What is a client-centered business? This book is written for anyone who needs to draw in customers or clients. From massage therapists to fitness instructors, accountants to landscapers, photographers to interior decorators, and even specialty store owners – How to Establish and Maintain a Strong Client Base is applicable to the whole range of privately owned businesses, professions and services fundamental to our society. If you want to work with or for people, adding your contribution to our world, this book was written for you!

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Are We Cruel or are We Kind?

 

The March 2024 issue of The Relatable Voice features Vivien’s “Are We Cruel or are We Kind” article explaining the that we can exhibit both the very worst and the very best traits of what it is to be human.

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Spirit Report: To Meet a Spirit in Tree Form

 

Sharing with you, my Shamanic Journeys to the Spirit Realm, and reporting back on the guidance I receive directly from the Spirits

The purpose of this journey is to travel to the Spirit Realm of the Lower World to request the Spirits that they have me meet a Spirit in Tree Form

I’m going to travel to the Lower World and my usual entrance way to start going to the Lower World is actually by going into a hollowed out Tree trunk. I step in and on the floor is where I find this energy portal opening that I go through, and immediately find myself floating, down in the darkness of space, to the Lower World.

I land in a familiar lake which has many hippos in it, and I’m able to get on the back of a hippo, and it swims me to the shore. I’m looking into a woods, a wooded area. I walk towards it putting out my request that I meet and interact with a Tree Spirit.

There’s a pathway that’s created by small stones or small rocks, that are guiding me in a certain direction, and I’m reminded that stones or rocks have an intelligence, and a consciousness, and they’re doing something helpful here, That’s a bit of information that’s given to me to understand and appreciate that the Spirit World is a helpful place – it’s a place of assistance. The Spirits are saying don’t be dumb, the Spirit World is there to help, to assist, to guide.

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