"How to Promote Yourself and Your Colleagues Using Blog Nets"
All material contained within this PowerPoint Presentation and accompanying audio recording of the live presentation are protected by Copyright 2008-9 Dr. Ron Capps
and the School of Social Marketing
As You Attempt To Attract Clients, Build your Practice, Establish Professional Credibility or Share Your Message, Are You Wondering…
• Where do I begin?• How do I get noticed and stand out?• Is it possible to compete with other
professionals and still be supportive of them and the profession?
• How can someone like me use this stuff?• Can I justify what I do to others?• Can I have a potential impact on the way a
potential client views me and my observations?• Why should I listen to Dr. Ron Capps about how
to productively use Social Media?
Some Comments From Some People You May Know Talking About What I Know About Social Media
Cindy Locher, C.Ht.Create a Better Life With Hypnosis
• “Ron,
• What a testimony to your Economy of Action method!
• I've been on Twitter for close to a year, but it was kind of just "there." I wasn't using social networking to it's full potential, I can see that. One WEEK into using your system and I got my first #FridayFollow! I'm picking up followers daily, too.
• Can't thank you enough for your part in helping me become "an obvious expert." (June 8, 2009)”
• “Now that I'm into this, it's fun! BTW, I got another @cindy_locher on Twitter from someone I don't even know listing me with her "Awesome Tweeters." And I owe it all to you, LOL! You're a great teacher, so thanks.”
A Key Thing to Remember...
“It’s not who you know. It’s who knows you.”
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Importance of Critical Awareness and Creative Use of Social Media to Getting Noticed
So What Are Some of The Blogging and Social Media Tools You Can Use To Make Yourself the Obvious Choice In A Down
Economy?
WordPress.com
Blogger.com
LiveJournal.com
Thoughts.com
ClearBlogs.com
PostLater.com
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What is Social Media and How Can it Benefit You?
• Social Media is a Fancy Term for Something that We’ve Done Since the Beginning of Time.
• Current Technology gives you the tools that you need to connect, succeed and prosper!
• Social Media Platforms are the fields that you have been given to sew the seeds for a crop of potential abundance.
• Humans aren’t Elephants and you don’t have to wait 22 months for your results…IF you DO IT NOW! Results can be virtually instantaneous!
What Are the Social Media Platforms You’re Talking About?
What Are the Social Media Platforms I'm Talking About?
• Blogs – Both Stand Alone Blogs and those attached to Social Network Sites and traditional web sites
• Micro-Blogs – Twitter, Rejaw, Plurk, Jaiku and Tumblr
• Social Bookmarking Sites – Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon, Diggo
• Social Networking Sites – MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, etc
What Are the Social Media Platforms I'm Talking About?
• Authority Platforms – Squidoo, HubPages, Gemzies, NetVibes
• Video Sharing Sites – YouTube, Google Video, Photobucket, Veoh
• Audio and Video Broadcasts – Podcasts, BlogTalkRadio, Ustream, Moglius
• Teleseminars and Webinars - SlideShare
• Entertainment & Photo Sharing – Flickr, Fotolog, Slide, Pandora, iLike, NetFlix
• Media Releases, Media Rooms and PR
I Don’t Have the Time to Tend All of These Social Media Fields!
Discover How to Farm Without a Mule and a Plow
• Why they call it Farming
• The Role of Farming in the creation, nurturing and growth of your Social Profile and your online and offline business presence.
• I’ll show you tools that run better than a “Deere” and eliminate the need for a Mule and a Plow
The John Deer AlternativesPing.FM
Shareaholic
PixelPipe.com
Social Aggregators
Other Social Aggregators
• SecondBrain• Iminta• YoSooy.com• Lifestream.fm• Profilactic.com• SuprGlu.com• MyBlogLog
• The Traditional Family Farm has given way to the Corporate Farm, however, there are still some very profitable niche farms and groups of farmers that have bonded together in collectives and co-operatives and are thriving!
• Learn to become part of the “Spider” Buffet• Without the Farms and our ability to grow
crops, we will cease to exist!
As Stephen Pierce Once Reminded Me:Everything in life goes through a process.
If you have a baby in 3 months instead of 9 months, it is a problem and not a blessing
Don’t Take Your Possibilities to Heaven!