Are you working with the real client, or with a stand-in? Drawing on my own experience and that of others of my acquaintance, I would go so far as to say that – in the professional services field – not knowing who the real client is could jeopardize your professional reputation and even your business,…
It’s taken longer than I had planned, but I’m finally about to launch my membership program for professional services practitioners wanting help with social media. The program is called Get the Social Edge Kickstart. In a free webinar early next week I’ll be explaining how it will all work, with a commencement date of May…
By way of a chance conversation after a Toastmasters meeting at which I was a guest the other night, I’ve found one way to share some information about social media in business without getting into lengthy and potentially confusing explanation. Namely to point people to a couple of videos of the amazing Gary Vaynerchuk, @garyvee…
My friend and colleague Lonnie B. Hodge, who is based in Guangzhou, China, doesn’t just “think outside the square” – he left the square thinkers behind long ago. And he is always coming up with bright ideas and often I find in the morning that he has implemented them overnight. I try to keep up,…
If a recent survey is anything to go by, blogging for dollars is not a way to instant wealth. Perhaps not even to long term wealth. Except for a few: there are exceptions to every rule. On ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick reports on a survey he undertook with a fairly small group of top “tech bloggers…