As someone in the woo-woo world, I share your feelings. One of my teachers, Andrea Hess (at empoweredsoul.com) really does walk her talk with regard to money and is very transparent with all her stuff. She wants to help release the rather widely-held idea that those whose calling involves work with Spirit shouldn’t be concerned with money. Her Money Manifesting Mastery program is excellent. I’ve used it with great success and she’s the first teacher that I’ve seen really make the connection between the energy and the action.

Love your blog – you really offer a great deal to someone like me, a newbie just getting into this whole thing. Thank you for all you do.

And yes, when we work from a place of “how may I be of service”, things really do start flowing and everyone benefits.
.-= Lisa at Practically Intuitive´s last blog ..Adventures of an Intuitive =-.

Manipulation, bad; authenticity, good. For me, the context is much less important than that simple principle.
.-= Laurie Foley´s last blog ..We Don’t Need No Spiritual Gangstas =-.

Laurie, it seems to me people drawn to offer spiritual business methods are responding to an aversion of the old, traditional methods of marketing online. (Has internet marketing been around long enough to have “old” methods?)

Anyway, I think what’s calling spiritual marketers is a recognition that the traditional ways aren’t ideal any more – and we (yes, I guess I feel it as a “we”) are looking for something more authentic AND effective. Not because of an allergy to money or success, but an aversion to manipulative techniques that just don’t feel good or fly these days.

But I haven’t spent any time with “spiritual marketers” who are hesitant to embrace financial success, so I’m not coming from the same perspective you wrote this post from, I suspect.

I AM looking forward to the day when a new breed of online marketers gets this right once and for all. So I can copy them. lol (Which is why I’m staying closely tuned to people like Mark and Tia.)

.-= Jeannette´s last blog ..The Watched Pot Syndrome =-.

Never met anyone as generous and giving as her, and at the same time she’s wildly successful, has a devoted tribe of peeps like me in love with her and makes a great income. She’s honest, transparent, open with her processes and hugely inspiring.

I LOVE how she just opens her heart, follows her gut and gives, gives, gives.

From gifting away her products to sharing the profits from her LOA University with members, she’s the embodiment of spirit, love and prosperity and continually astounds people with just HOW generous she is.

It comes back to her 100-fold and that’s just a bonus for her, not the reason she does it. Can you tell I want to be her when I grow up Tia @TiaSparkles

ps: Also 100% with the people you mentioned, they’re rock solid and awesome!
.-= Tia Singh´s last blog ..Mac vs PC – A Social Media Revelation. =-.

I think that woo-woo-ness is best packaged as a definition of the type of person you want to work with – not necessarily what they are selling. I would prefer to work with a person (in any capacity) that is “spiritual” rather then someone who is not (what is the opposite, anyway??). However, unless they have something of value to offer, the woo-woo means nothing to me.

I have to give you an example – cause, you asked for it Elizabeth Genco Purvis (The Marketing Goddess http://marketinggoddess.com) is a fab example of combining her passion for the spiritual with awesome advice for marketing and selling – being ok with combining materialism with spirituality. There is a balance – and she puts it into perspective for many of those woo-woo folks out there.

My 2 cents.
.-= Victoria Potts Keale´s last blog ..When accomplishment is relative… =-.