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Bad Economy? Word of Mouth!

BadEconomy > fix > gosub=WordOfMouth. (geeks in the audience can laugh at will) There’s nothing like a personal recommendation. After all, you’d take your BFF’s recommendation over an impersonal ad, wouldn’t you?

If your business is running a tight marketing ship this year and your team is scrambling for marketshare, you’ll want to pay attention to “The Buzz Canuck” - a canny word of mouth supporter, I met on SWOM - Society for Word Of Mouth. Especially if you, like many of my clients, are a solo entrepreneur, or your larger company is downsizing its marketing budget (as many are) - you can still leverage the Law of Attraction by Word Of Mouth to build your outreach, visibility an market share. What do you want others to be saying about you? As Buzz explains below, know WHY moreover, WOM is important as a marketing, relationship and just plain good business strategy:

This entry was posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 1:22 pm and is filed under Business, Classes & Programs, Coaching For Leaders, Communication, Community, Confluences, Current Affairs, Entrepreneurship, Executives, Fun, Life Hacks, Networking, Tips 4 Making Do. Read/follow Comments through RSS 2.0. Or Comment, here.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-01-04

For BEST Visibility in left-side Twitter bakgrnd: restrict left colum to MAX 1 5/8″ OR 120px W and 550px or 7 5/8 H - see mine 4 example! #
New Year’s luck secured: made XLNT pot of Dad’s recipe blackeyed peas, ham & onions w/mom’s recipe pure corn (no wheat!) cornbread. Oh YEAH! #
Wish U Tweeples a Happy New Year! Join Me Jan 6, free: ETHOS Method 4 Transformation, Healing & Radiant Resolve: http://snipurl.com/9cld3 #
Kit-kat “The Tosh” making herself a complete silly by sitting in bidet and begging for water 2b turned on. Me: “You’re a cat” Her: “And?” #
just back from dinner with hubby & lovely truffled asparagus, brussels sprouts & spinach salad…oh & there was some kind of steak, 2… LOL #
Retweeting must-read pal & Networking/Branding Maven @krishnade: Twine & Twitter, Social Networking Tools For 2009 http://tinyurl.com/975md8 #
Check TOTALLY COOL & ever-puckish @Shermanhu “Half Hour Huddle” Soc.Netwrkng vids New: hthttp://is.gd/e473 Beautiful “twilight” @sarahu! #
back from mountains, lovely holiday, relaxing now for the rest of week - woohoo! If u emailed while i was gone, its *buried* - EM again pls! #

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 4th, 2009 at 11:59 pm and is filed under Maryam. Read/follow Comments through RSS 2.0. Or Comment, here.

Free ETHOS Method “Radiant Resolve” teleclass on 1/6/09!

party-horn-kids Hi folks, in case you’re not getting my newsletter*, here’s an important update:

I’m giving a FREE ETHOS Method teleclass this coming Tuesday at 6pm Pacific. The theme of this class is “ETHOS for Radiant Resolve” and will focus on teaching how ETHOS can be used for a variety of issues, and also addressing those New Year’s resolutions that never seem to go further than the end of February. Find out about this great new way to transform your life, heal yourself and even make money if you want to. Plus, heal the world and yourself, while you’re at it. Many more details plus:

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This entry was posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm and is filed under Alt Health, Bliss, Classes & Programs, Coaching For Leaders, Conferences, Consciousness, ETHOS Method, Stress, Teleclasses. Read/follow Comments through RSS 2.0. Or Comment, here.

You Need The Hu (video included!)

Oh, you know you need you some Hu. Social networking buddy Sherman Hu (on Twitter @shermanhu) is the most joyful - dare I say “puckish” - and amazingly generous webpreneur I’ve met in a long time. Plus which, he’s charmingly in love with his wife, the beautiful Sarah, and his kids. An all-around wholesome, decent fellow it’s my pleasure to introduce you to.

Stick with Sherman, and he’ll help you like he’s helped me to make sense of the sometimes confusing welter of Web 2.0 opportunities we’ve all been told we must take advantage of to maintain relationships, promote ourselves and create our web platforms with.

Leverage these platforms and win - clients, credibility and ka-ching. But dear Dorothy, that Web 2.0 yellow brick road is long, twisty and tricky. If you don’t know what you’re doing you can fritter hours, days, weeks away.

But it can be so much simpler with the right guide. Sherman Hu is such a guide and nope, he’s not paying me a cent to say this, I’ve just observed his offerings for long enough to know - he’s my go-to on this stuff. If you’re bamboozled by how to keep track of your WordPress, Twitter, FaceBook and other new “must do” social media platforms, I highly suggest you start watching Sherman’s every-Monday “Half Hour Huddle” on ShermanHu.tv. This broadcast simplifies and demystifies emerging new media (blogging, podcasting, video, social media) so business owners can profit. Which is way okay by me.

Slightly out of Sherman’s main oeuvre, but an excellent classic and back for the new year, is one of his episodes on creating a more profitable year in all ways by a little simple reflection and forward planning. It’s from 2007, but is still relevant today. Below the video is my interpretation of Sherman’s template you can use to plan your own year. Enjoy!

Here’s an easy recap of Sherman’s 2009 Vision & Goals form mentioned on this video. He suggests doing this with your spouse or significant other, which is a great idea. Print yourself out two and share with your partner when you’ve both filled them out. This will prevent potential mismatching down the road when you’re rollin’ and your partner says “what the heck? I didn’t know you were planning to….!”

2009 Vision & Goals

At the end of 2009, what would I realistically like to say has happened in my life?

2008 Recap:

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