How do you feel about products following you everywhere you go online?

My hubby hates it! I think it’s great… most of the time. Like today, I checkout a bunch a products; dresses, suits, coats that I was so inspired by and loved. They’re popping up everywhere now and I really don’t mind.

Times when I’m not so keen is when I’m searching for gifts for my teenage godson or a new baby gift, then baby products or tracksuit are following me… not so nice.

I guess I have time for it and I appreciate it because I’m a marketer and trying to learn from what I see and how it makes me and others feel.

What do you think? How do these ads make you feel? Comment below, I’d love to hear.

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Branding Yourself

June 22, 2016

How do you brand yourself?

I found it really challenging to;
– find an image that depicts me and what I’m about,
– a colour that brands me and
– a slogan that sums me up.

The key is focusing on now and your current goals. We don’t know exactly what our future holds so we can’t create a brand that sums up all we will ever be.

I had to resign myself to the fact that my brand will evolve with me, and that’s ok!

My current brand evolved when I spoke for the Federation of Image Professionals and realised I was going to be coming out from behind my House of ilona brand and be Camelle Daley on a stage and a platform. It was really hard. I chose to focus the image of the brand on how I looked at the time; full face and short curly hair. The yellow colour summed up my bright mood and I went with formal lettering.

If I were to update this today I’d go for a slimmer face shilloutte embossed, a more muted colour pallet and a slightly more quirky font, to make it more modern.

In three words how would you brand yourself today?
– image,
– colour,
– font style

Comment below 🙂

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A different perspective of the same thing

February 28, 2016

As I’m reading this book Imagine Big by Terri Savelle Foy, I’m partly reading as a reader to experience what she’s writing but I’m also reading from the authors perspective, because I love her message, what she’s about and would love to write like this. I’m dicecting in my mind;

why did she say that like that?
what has she experienced to say that?
what journey is she taking the reader on?

So I’m in the car (or this book) on a journey, as I read. But I’m not sitting back and enjoying the ride. No, I’m sitting forward, I’m looking up, looking around, trying to predict what’s next, I’m studying and understand the driving style of the driver (writer).
It may sound like lot but this is a natural thinking process for me.
Be aware of how your think. You could be reading the same book or watching the same movie as someone else but have a completely different perspective.
Be aware your perspective!

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Slow down and Savor this moment

January 22, 2016

A good friend is getting married tomorrow. I told her to savor the moment. Don’t get so caught up that the day passes and you look back and can hardly remember it. All the hard work and preparation has been for this day so don’t miss it!

I did the same on my wedding day. Mentally slowing down and savoring!
I have this advise to all brides and grooms to-be that I meet, but what about now? Doesn’t apply to me, I’m not getting married, or does it?
Driving and listening to an audiobook (as I always do), it hit me. I can slow down and savor the now! Mmm my breakfast was good! I really do enjoy sugar snap peas, salmon egg muffins and my olives. I really enjoyed my gym class too, nap was needed and now my drive to meet a friend for lunch. I’m even savoring writing this note, my perfum smells good. I feel happy. I’m excited about my future. But all I have is this moment. So I’m going to live in it, experience it, be very were of it and enjoy it.
So friend, slow down and savor! Life is so rich. Be aware of the present/present God has given you. Don’t dismiss the moment. Savor it. Who’s with you right now? Around you? Who did you last speak to? Where are you? What are you sitting or standing on? Who taught you to read so that you could be reading these words right now. Take it all in. Slow down and savor!

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God’s Reaction Time. Learning to wait.

December 2, 2015

Ok, so sometimes God answers immediately! Most of the time, to me, it feels like a delayed response.
I’m an instant kinda person, I like things done right away. If I have an idea I execute! ASAP. Peter is the more relaxed laid back, let’s wait, there’s no rush type of person.

So when I have an instruction from God and obey I expect an instant result. I pretty much never get that… I’m learning to wait.

When I do wait it’s beautiful to see how God works, it’s so impressive, so perfect, so gentle and so on POINT!

So, I’m learning to wait, rest, trust, chill OUT! Just like watching the plot of a movie unfold. Patiently watching, scene by scene, leaving clues and ideas, after 90 or so minutes, it’s finished, you made it. It was, hopefully, worth the wait.

SO when I pray and believe, sow a seed (money, time, a word), after I will wait. Wait with patience. Wait in gentle expectation. Watching God’s plan and promise unfold before my eyes.

If you have trouble waiting, I encourage you to do the same.

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Marriage is Constant Effort

November 18, 2015

Marriage takes constant effort so does our relationship with God.
Everything is vying for your attention and heart. That’s why praying and reading the Word refocuses your mind and keeps you and your partner close.

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Don’t just hear a person’s perspective but hear FROM their perspective

July 28, 2015

Don’t just hear a person’s words but hear their words (or advice) from where they are!

Are they in a blessed or bitter place? Either perspective understood correctly, can be powerful. For example, this is how things look and feel from the pit, from the Palace or from the journey to be get there.
People say you want advice from someone who’s “been there”. “There” maybe your ultimate dream but someone else “there” was part of the journey, not what it’s cracked up to be or really hard. Their story doesn’t have to be yours.

Perspective is a powerful thing! So don’t just hear a person’s perspective but hear FROM their perspective!

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Your addiction to food is a sin!

June 17, 2015

Yeah I said it! Sorry did I go too far? Did I touch a nerve? Have you never heard it out loud but questioned it somewhere deep down inside?

If someone’s addicted to porn, drugs or someone else’s wife it’s easy to say, that’s a sin, that’s wrong. But food? We all need it to live right? Yes we do, but I’m talking about an ADDICTION!!

I’m talking about:

Thinking about food all the time.
Obsessing about food.
Never being satisfied by food.
Always wanting more.
Fantasizing about food.
I could go on and on…

I feel like I can be so bold cause I’ve been there. I’ve fought the battle and yes, deep down, I’ve wondered if it was a sin.

What is sin? Missing the mark. Putting someone or something else before God!

I’ve been there; when I couldn’t talk, I could eat. When I found it hard to pray, I could turn to food. It didn’t judge me but it was insatiable and out of control.
Isn’t that how a drug addict feels?

I’ve heard billions of pounds and dollars are poured into research and tests to make food more addictive, then there’s the advertising!

I had to take back control of what I could control. I couldn’t control what they put into food or how an ad affects me but I could control my hands, my mouth and my mind.

I decided to educate myself. I decided my body IS the temple of the Living God and I would treat it that way. I decided to put God first and ask for His help to control and redirect my appitie.

Slowly but surely it worked and continues to work.

Top tips:

Speak life over yourself.
Don’t be controlled by outside forces.
Ask God for His help.
Prayerfully find something that works and stick to it.
Listen for God’s leading. He’s more concerned about your body and health that you could ever imagine.

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Live for today

June 16, 2015

Tomorrow isn’t promised.

Take no thought for tomorrow.

We’re literally trained and programmed to live in and for the future. Especially in business with goal setting and business planning, which all have their place.

My dilemma is that the more I read the Word of God is the more I see things like take no thought for tomorrow and tomorrow is not promised and generally living in the present moment and trusting God for the next, because we can’t control it.

So, my encouragement to you today is just that. Live for today. Tomorrow isn’t promised.

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Don’t just get ready be ready!

May 28, 2014

It was a year into my business and I had amazing feedback on my designs. Great comments and loads of social media love but hardly any sales. It didn’t match up. I wasn’t sure whether to continue the business or to do something else. I pondered, prayed and continued.

Within a few days sales suddenly picked up with all my new clients telling me they saw me a year ago, but only now decided to buy. What if I had shut up shop? They wouldn’t have found me.

Up to 8 months ago I was manufacturing and offering a lot of products. I kept feeling strongly that I needed to FOCUS.

I finally decided to take all my other product offerings away and FOCUS on my Clergy Collection. It’s unique and in demand.

I did a photo shoot, sent out press releases, looked for wholesalers. Knocked on
doors and seemingly not much was happening. Everything just carried on nicely and evenly for the next few months.

Suddenly, from one email request for a photo and press release (which I had from previous month’s work) my business has received unpresented media coverage. List of media below.

I encourage everyone:

– Focus on something that’s working and give it your quality time and energy

– Don’t be discouraged if your pushing doors and it seems like nothing’s happening, keep going, that next door you knock could be the opportunity of a lifetime

– Don’t complain, “be ready to press play” if you suddenly got everything you’ve been hoping and praying for would you be ready or would you be running around getting things together? When that company asked me for a picture and press release I had it, because it was prepared in advance. I didn’t know those very same pictures would end up around the WORLD!!

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Products following you everywhere you go online

Branding Yourself

A different perspective of the same thing

Slow down and Savor this moment

God’s Reaction Time. Learning to wait.

Marriage is Constant Effort

Don’t just hear a person’s perspective but hear FROM their perspective

Your addiction to food is a sin!

Live for today

Don’t just get ready be ready!

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