woo hoo i've got a virus....

Oh joy of joys my laptop's at the laptop doctor & I can only hope the pesky little critter gets a good fumigating. Can't work from home, can't work from the various bars & cafes I frequent to get decent wifi connection... basically my late-september 21st century working life is at a virtual standstill!!
OK got that over with.
Basically Iḿ still tweeting & twittering willy-nilly, waiting for ANYONE to notice this blog, wondering how to make sense of Amazon's sales figures, (mind you we're definitely selling some, because the AuthorHouse website shows the numbers!!)
I'm googling all former journalist contacts to get email addresses where possible, and waiting on next week's press launch in London to be able to get more UK coverage. Tweets etc are global now, so the word's definitely spread.
Anyone out there____?

ALL GUNS NOT YET BLAZING... BUT WE'RE TRYING!

So 24 hours after being on Good Morning America and the sales have increased significantly (though of course how much who knows, Amazon's listings being incomprehensible to the average bod in the street).
Tweets a-twittering, followers a-following, waiting to see what gets serialised & with whom (watch this space).
All exciting stuff. Just have to establish whether or not we're being ripped off by a website we didn't know about with our book on sale as an e-book; and of course sort out the (whisper it) tax issues of our HUUUGE income-to-be !!!!

GOOD MORNING AMERICA!!!

First the bad news. We didn't get a mention for the book. But the good news? The therapy got a couple of webpages and over five and a half minutes primetime breakfast tv coverage from ABC & Twitter's ablaze... well at least those interested in health/weight loss etc !
Roll on improved Amazon ratings!

Imitation sincerest form of flattery?

Firstly, what a day! As other pixel friends will know - and real ones! I had my bag snatched while talking with Martin yesterday. Thankfully with the speed of a gazelle !!! I leapt to challenge the perpetrator & her accomplice, got the bag back complete with purse, keys, etc., and after a bit of cussing at her in Spanish in the main square I returned to the conversation! We'd been discussing Martin & Marion's promotional visit to New York - great stuff. Hours being interviewed with huge profile TV anchors with footage in the can to be shown on Good Morning America this coming Wednesday and their evening programme the same night. Both about the new clinic over there but also all guns blazing to push the book, which of course for some might be the easier first step to taking the plunge and having the one to one therapy.
There are also US Psychology mag and another whose name I admit I've forgotten (watch this space) also with interviews ready to be published.
Then of course in a couple of weeks - amazingly enough, on my birthday - there's a press launch in London complete with one of the success stories, who I met at the clinic yesterday, lined up to join the throng telling his tale. There London clinic will be opening sometime soon, but again the book's getting spotlight - we've got our fingers crossed one of the biggies who covered Kay Lindley, Joh, & others - will decide to serialise. More fingers and toes crossed BBC Breakfast and/or The One Show will be on board too.
As I said, watch this space!
Anyway, to my title. When Martin & Marion started there was only GmB. If you Googled any combination of keywords like weight, loss, diet, hypnotherapy, CBT, NLP, treatment, you name it, they were the only ones out there. Didn't take long to find more when you ran a search, though...
Still, as Martin says, as long as his clients are satisfied (and they are!) why worry?

AT LAST!

Frid Sept 17 11.10am

OMG how can someone 'lose' their own blog? Hands up I did. Anyway the book's published & selling & the blog's re-found & will hopefully become somewhere to look & add snippets of interest surrounding Gastric mind Band therapy & clients & book comments etc.

Being in the clinic hearing about people losing weight is a real boost knowing how much Martin & Marion's words can help. Not only appearance, self esteem, (less puffing & panting up the three flights of stairs too!) but also little changes like shoes fitting better, which successful loser A told them today..... another client, B, came for a weigh-in & was chuffed to find she'd not put on weight on an overseas trip. Stayed the same weight but that was so much better than she'd become used to that she left with a big smile on her face!

Both M & M so busy it's hard to get time with them to discuss marketing the book, but such is life when you're in demand.

Look forward to comments as and when!

F