If you want a social media recommend, you will have to give a recommend. Don't wait for others to recommend you. Recommend others and they will recommend you. A great place to start recommending people is Twitter on a Friday: #FF "Follow Friday"; or on LinkedIn as an actual recommendation What ever you do, don't wait for recommendations to come [...]
Great thoughts can just pop right into your head. Do you have a plan for capturing them and using them for your business? Here are some thoughts to help you do better. You need some way to capture those thoughts when you are out of the office as well as when you are in the [...]
Leaders are readers. They learn and expand their thinking by reading the thoughts of others. Social media is no different. If you want to be a leader, you are going to have to be a reader as well. As you read the thoughts of great leaders, you will develop great thoughts for yourself. If you want to [...]
Like a ship captain checking to see if his ship is on course, you need to check your social media to make sure your are heading in the right direction to achieve your social media goal. It is important that you stay on course with your social media. To check my progress, I used to [...]
Like everything else, you need to clean up your social media to make sure that you are building a great community of people around you. There is house cleaning and then there is social media cleaning. To monitor my Twitter follows, I use a website called Crowdfire App to keep my Twitter as vibrant as [...]
One of the most frustrating things I see around social media is that lack of ability by many to use the devices necessary to do social media well. Many struggle to use their computer, tablet or smartphone. If you need to get training to use your devices better, plan to include some training into your [...]
One of the questions I get asked a lot deals with the amount of time one should use social media throughout the day. Join me by watching this video as I share some thoughts on social media usage. Things to think about regarding social media usage: You need to be visible throughout the day at different times. [...]
YouTube is one of the top search engines in the world. You need to have videos there to increase your visibility. Video can also help people get to know you better. One of the great things about video is that it can introduce you to others and help them feel safer in doing business with [...]
This social media minute video asks you if you are taking a wait and see approach to your social media or are you being proactive. A wait and see approach is the slow way to build your social media community. What can we learn from this video? A wait and see approach to your social media is a hard [...]
Social media minute video 8 gets you thinking about what really makes a good follower or fan. Do you know what to look for or how to create a good follower? What can we learn? Once someone followers us or connects with us, we need to create some interaction with them. If you want advocates and people [...]