Jul 23
Are you interested in gaining favor with other people online? There are many reasons to develop relationships with people online and a simply way to build goodwill is by creating social currency. Social currency is created when you do something positive or favorable for another person through social media. For example, if you spotlight someone …
Jun 17
Did you realize that most business owners struggle with communicating a clear, consistent message with customers and prospects? It’s true! For one reason or another, they fail to follow up and reach prospective customers. As a result, they leave money on the table. Some assume that they are communicating too much.What they forget is that …
Apr 09
I love quotes from Jim Rohn and this one is both inspiring and educational… “Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.” ~Jim Rohn What can you do to …
Nov 11
Michele Jennae is Founder of influenSPHERE, a company dedicated to helping people strategically expand their sphere of influence. I first met Michele through Twitter. I liked her posts on Twitter and started retweeting her posts. She retweeted some of my posts too. Social media makes it easy to share someone else’s content. I share other …
Sep 18
Do you have goals for social media? It’s unfortunate that most business owners don’t take the time to set goals that could substantially improve their results on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Getting clear on your goals is the first step to determining your strategy to leverage social media. If you …
Aug 23
One of the challenges people have when using Facebook is that they post generic messages that are not customized to a specific audience. As a result, they don’t really get the results they want. Learn a very powerful technique which will allow you to reach a targeted audience with your message. Watch the video below …
Sep 09
I received the following message today and thought I would share it. I have been a participant of multiple Meetup groups. I also launched a local networking group using the Meetup site called the Roseville Growth Network. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I thought this was amazing story of how Americans …
Aug 09
Jerry Kennedy, the Blog Whisperer recently wrote about Gary Vaynerchuk’s book Crush It. Jerry says, “He writes about the importance of building your personal brand as it relates to major markets. A lot of Fortune 500 companies are still quite wary of allowing their employees to share their connection to the company online along with …
May 12
GoogleDocs is a great tool for writing and tracking blog content. I have used a lot of strategies to write blog posts. I’d like to share some of these methods so you can learn from them. Methods to write blog posts: -Typepad/Wordpress The disadvantage of this method is that you end up with a lot …
Apr 20
Drive Traffic by Commenting on Blogs
There are many reasons to become a blogger. One of the best is simply to generate leads. And yet, the challenge is always to get people to your blog. You can’t generate a lead unless someone lands on your web page. So, once you are in the habit of blogging and you have the ability …
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