If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m experimenting with some appointment scheduling software for my coaching services and I’ve discovered there is no shortage of contenders. The background is that, for all the years I’ve been coaching, I’ve offered people a no-obligation, complimentary consultation, so they…
I was feeling some self-imposed pressure recently because I knew I should be doing more with my LinkedIn presence and engagement – at which I’m supposed to be a bit of an expert – but it seemed other things kept getting in the way. “Aha!” sez I to myself “What if I committed to a…
One of the least obvious steps in optimizing your professional profile on LinkedIn is in fact one of the most important, in terms of being findable for the services you are offering. That’s what LinkedIn calls your Professional Headline. It’s the set of words that sit just below your name on your Profile page. If…
Last week the MYOB Pulse blog published my post Google Plus revisited: a social networking service you should not ignore. I included in that post a set of ten practical steps, to help readers capitalize on the benefits of the Google Plus service. The first three of those steps were about the user profile: setting…
Have you met any business people lately who weren’t interested in finding new clients? I certainly haven’t. But I have met more than a few people who don’t actually get how social media can help them with this challenge. And often enough, even among those who do have a sense of the potential of social…
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my friend and colleague, the dynamic young Australian communications professional Jamie Garantziotis. As Jamie wrote in his blog post with the interview video Getting the Edge with Des Walsh, “What we planned as a 10-minute chat turned into a half-hour discussion…” in which we covered a…