Hi there! My name is Barbara. One group of friends calls me that. Another calls me Barb. Once, on a conference call, someone asked if the could call me Barb because they like shorter names. Why don’t you just call me B? I suggested. Is shorter better? After reading the latest report from LinkedInsights on success and names, you may be inspired to make a permanent name change. How do you think names impact career advantage?
Category: Social Media
3 YouTube & Video Marketing Tricks You Should Not Miss
Everybody’s making videos, but who really knows how to marketing them? For the answer to that question, I’m passing this topic over to a guest author.
The last time this special guest posted here, his post about keys to writing a press release for SEO and page rank landed in the top social media posts of the first quarter of 2010. In the course of working on some Instant E-Training video projects together, I asked Bob Tripathi if he’d like to guest post again. Lucky for us, he decided to share three YouTube and video marketing tricks he picked up in an interview with Greg Jarboe, a co-founder of SEO-PR.
Thanks for reading. After you read this post, please answer this question in the comment box: How do you use video in your PR efforts?
Social Media Club Chicago SOBCon to Host Cabaret at The Drake
Is the third time the charm? In this case, maybe. If you’re anywhere near Chicago next Thursday night, April 28, I hope you can join Social Media Club Chicago and SOBCon at The Drake. It’s our third anniversary of celebrating the opening of SOBCon, the Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference founded by Liz Strauss and Terry Starbucker. Check out 2010 Social Media Club Chicago SOBCon event images.
Consider this your official invitation to join us at the SMC Chicago SOBCon cabaret.
Read on to review the invitation, also posted at eventbrite.com . . . and get your Social Media Club Chicago SOBCon tickets.
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LinkedIn Checklist for Getting Your Next Job or New Client
You might call this week a LinkedIn hat trick. With two media interviews and a LinkedIn personal and corporate branding training session, this trio of events got me thinking about how it was time to update the checklist I use in my workshops. I’m sharing it with my readers – will you let me know what I’m missing?
How to Succeed in Business Play LinkedIn The Company Way
Why yes, that would be my name on the same page as the Wall Street Journal. Thanks so much to Marla Tabaka, a fantastic success coach for women entrepreneurs who writes The Successful Soloist column for inc.com, I got assigned to write How to Launch a LinkedIn Company Page. On Marla’s blog, this quick how-to guide has over 380 tweets to date.
In addition to inc.com, wsj.com, firebellymarketing.com and forbes.com, How to Launch a Stellar LinkedIn Page in 30 Minutes also appeared on BusinessInsider.com where it has 92 shares on LinkedIn and 81 tweets. While this guide is written for solopreneurs, many of the basic principles apply to companies and organizations of all sizes. Is your company’s page on LinkedIn? Read More…
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