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Suzanne Falter-Barns and Jeffrey Van Dyk help anyone tap into their purpose in life … and package it into a compelling online business that works!
Contact Information
Suzanne Falter-Barns and Jeffrey Van Dyk are available for booking for interviews, features, articles and radio and TV appearances.
For immediate response, call or email
Suzanne Falter-Barns
(518) 569 6649
suzanne (at) spiritualmarketingquest.com
Jeffrey Van Dyk
(415) 990-4415
jeffrey (at) spiritualmarketingquest.com
BIO’s
Suzanne Falter-Barns and Jeffrey Van Dyk teach conscious business owners how to tap into spiritual guidance to develop powerful, soul-based niches and offers. Their website, The Spiritual Marketing Quest, offers participants a transformational business journey, in which they not only build irresistible platforms, they become the leaders they must be to fully live from those platforms.
Suzanne is a best-selling self-help author and former New York copywriter, marketing consultant and freelance writer. She has been featured in More, Fitness, The New York Times, Woman’s Day, New Woman, The Wall Street Journal, SELF, The Christian Science Monitor, as well as more than 100 TV and radio programs. She is known as the Web’s leading expert on platform building as she has built hundreds of enduring and successful brands online. Her clients have been called cold by CNN, 60 Minutes, PBS, USA Today, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal and many other major media outlets. Brands she has created with her clients include Pam Slim’s Escape From Cubicle Nation, and Shama Kabani’s Marketing Zen, among many others.
Jeffrey Van Dyk is a leader in the coaching industry and has helped thousands of people worldwide who ache to bring their gifts to the world find their higher purpose. Jeffrey has nearly two decades of experience in training and development, having worked in high tech before becoming a coach. While at Microsoft, Jeffrey worked personally with leaders such as Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Jack Canfield, Ariel Sharon and Jacques Chirac. Jeffrey has been chief facilitator and trainer at Tim Kelley’s True Purpose Institute and Marcia Wieder’s Dream Coach University.
Media Clips
Profile of Suzanne Falter-Barns; Insight Magazine, July 2010
“Tips on making New Year’s resolutions”;
The San Francisco Chronicle; December 31, 2009
“A Few Sales Tricks Can Launch A Book To Top Of Online Lists”; The Wall Street Journal; March 23, 2007 (Marketplace)
“My Technology Lawyer Radio”; March 21, 2007 (appeared on air with John Havens, podcasting expert on using podcasting to build platform)
“Market Online While You Sleep”, March 2006 Home Business Magazine
Article Ideas
How Even You Can Transition to Doing the Work of Your Dreams
According to studies, ¼ of all Americans want to start their own business directly as a result of this poor economy. Americans long for meaning and substance in their days – in addition to increased income. Suzanne and Jeffrey assert that this is possible on the web, and that there has never been a better time to start an online business. They can show anyone how to package and sell the work of your dreams so it succeeds powerfully online.
How Can Anyone Stand Out on the Web – a Conversation About ‘Naked Originality’
In a world that has 500 million blogs in it, it’s important to stand apart from the pack online. Suzanne and Jeffrey know this has a lot to do with expressing your uniqueness – which stems directly from your passionate purpose in life. They share inspiring but practical steps for listeners, readers and viewers to take, so that they stand apart – and become ‘nakedly original’ online. A feat that is simpler and easier to accomplish than it sounds, a yields big rewards.
Five Steps You Can Take Tomorrow to Do the Work of Your Dreams
Suzanne and Jeffrey share with listeners, readers and viewers 5 things they can do right now to build the business of their dreams. These steps include:
1. Determine what you long to do – even if you don’t know how to do it as a business … yet
2. Define your ideal target market – even if you’re not sure exactly how you’d serve them
3. Map out what you’d do for these people in more specific detail … allow yourself to daydream and brainstorm
4. Look at your current life and ask yourself what would need to be in place or change in order for you to start your business
5. Look at who’s currently serving them by using some free online tools that are really powerful
This gives listeners a way to start thinking of the business that may not seem real to them, but is in fact in their life for a reason. This is usually an intuitive/guided/from the gut idea that longs to be accomplished … which will bring them their greatest joy.
Did You Know You Have a Market ‘Sweet Spot’?
Every solo or small business owner out there has a market that is perfect for them. That’s a group of people who completely resonate with your message – and with whom you have a ‘date with destiny’. Jeffrey and Suzanne help listeners, readers and viewers tap into their inner knowing to locate this powerful market in detail, and then shape their offer to serve this market’s deepest cravings.
Are You Hiding From Your Greatness?
You no longer have to work to ‘battle’ your inner parts, or sit in judgment of your dark side. Did you know that you’re actually already great, and the parts that hold you back are, in fact, the keys to your greatness? These parts can actually be transformed to become your greatest allies. This informative article gives you a way to start that process.
Interview Questions
- What is this work you do – and why isn’t it just straightforward branding and niching?
- What makes this work different from other online business building approaches?
- What is the biggest problem facing those who want to start an online business?
- Why is it that people fight their greatness?
- You talk about ‘parts work’ … what is it and why is that necessary?
- Where does intuition/spiritual guidance/’gut feelings’ enter into this marketing work … and why?
- What is the biggest problem facing those who want to start an online business?
- Why do you say people actually know more than they think they do about the business they could lead … and how to get started?
- How can anyone craft their own unique offer?
- Can you share with us a few myths that trouble people starting their own business?
