We are so pleased here at the Obvious Expert to be sharing another excellent teleseminar /podcast with you…
Elsom Eldridge Jr. talks with Dr. Ron Capps about using social media to grow your business or brand as a message to your community and perhaps to the world.
Elsom starts with the very real question, “How can we as busy coaches, consultants, entrepreneurs, and businesspeople possibly get involved in Social Media, considering the time it will take?”
To answer this question, Elsom takes us to NicheProf Ron Capps, who addresses the “Economy of Action” a plan to efficiently use your time and still get your message to the marketplace.
(To hear the full audio, visit this link.)
In the podcast, Ron explains that to effectively use social media, you have to have a plan. To the excuse of lack of time, or the idea that social media sites (like FaceBook, MySpace, and others) are just hang-outs for kids, Ron says, “WRONG!”
And from this, Ron Capps tells you how to spend as little as 15 minutes a day to use social media and social networking to spread your message. Social media is also an important tool for learning what your market (and your competition) are saying about you.
Here are some of the social media tips, and how to use them, that Ron Capps explains:
Google Alerts and Google Reader
Firefox as a browser
Shareaholic
Stumbleupon
Budurl.com — how and why to shorten URLs
Ping.fm — distributes to more than 40 social media services at once
Pixelpipe —the importance of distribution channels.
Social aggregators like Friendfeed, Iminta, Secondbrain, Lifestream, my Bloglog, and more resources that “scrape” just like a search engine.
Microblogs, including Identica, Twitter, Jaiku, Quippy, Tumblr, and others
Tweetlater and Postlater as autoresponders for your social network, your web 2.0
What to post
How to build and maintain your audience
Why you should repeat your message in your microblog
Where TextPad, NotePad and other basic word processors fit in
The Next Important Step in Using Social Media to Become Known as an Obvious Expert
Interested in these social media topics? Want to know more, want to really understand how these systems work and how they can help you with your coaching, consulting, or business effort?
Then go to this website and LISTEN to what NicheProf Ron Capps has to say. He knows … and if you are planning to be an Obvious Expert, you need to know, too. http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=7318425
