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April, 2010
Dear customer,
I was talking recently to a couple of people in one of my networking groups. After listening to their concerns and problems with using Twitter I came up with an idea to organise a series of webinars to show others how to use the tools and to share the knowledge, tips and best practice I've acquired over the past year. However using Twitter should be a part of your wider marketing and personal branding strategy. Read on to find out what personal branding is all about!
Twitter Webinars (plus your profile set up for free!)
Have you got a Twitter profile set up? Have you been wondering how to use it effectively? Not sure what to say in your tweets? Do you feel as if no one is listening to you, so there's no point in tweeting? We've got a solution for you!
In May and June we will be running a series of webinars on Effective Twitter Strategies.
During the 1 hour session you will learn
- how to use Twitter website and set up your preferences,
- how to reply to messages and retweet,
- where to look for interesting content and people to follow,
- Twitter tips and don'ts,
- increasing your Twitter efficiency with tools like HootSuite.
Plus you will get the following bonuses:
- 3 months email support with any questions or issues you have
- a personal #followfriday message for you
- your basic Twitter profile setup or your existing Twitter profile checked and optimised
The cost of the webinar is £39+VAT. We will only have a limited number of spaces available for this training so PREBOOK NOW and we will notify you when the dates are finalised.
News from the Blog
What is personal branding?
Did you know that you already have a personal brand? Everyone does and it's very important to leverage the power of your brand to succeed in sales, career, personal life or marketing of your business,
according to the leading expert on personal branding and NLP coach Alexia Leachman.
As Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon says "Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room". But, most people don't do anything with theirs; they leave it to chance. They work really hard, hoping that things will come good and they will get noticed. They might be damn good at what they do, but no-one knows about it; they have a poor personal brand. You can choose whether yours is positive, negative or neutral. So, if you're going to have a personal brand, why not make it a great one?
Alexia runs regular workshops in London and Nottingham for those who have heard about Personal Branding and want to know what all the fuss is about, want to know how to stand out and be distinctive or have got big ideas but don't know where to start.
During this Personal Branding intro session, you will learn:
- What personal branding is
- How to develop your personal brand
- What personal branding can do for you
- The elements of your personal brand
- How to understand what your personal brand is
- What should be in your personal branding toolkit
You'll leave this session with a clear understanding of how you can begin to actively manage your personal brand to transform your professional life. So book now - click here for further details.
The new voicemail generation is here!
HulloMail is a free app that lets you access your voicemails with just one click of a button - there are no menus to drill though. You can see your messages and missed calls at a glance, listen to your messages directly from your phone - it notifies you of any voicemails and sends you an MP3 file so you can listen to it.
Facebook 'Like' button replaced 'Become A Fan'
In April Facebook has unveiled a host of new features to its site, which include replacing the 'become a fan' terminology with a 'Like' button, launching 'Community Pages,' and revamping its privacy controls.
To introduce users to the 'Like' button, Facebook has posted an alert that appears on users' Facebook pages and directs them to a FAQ section with information about the new feature. Facebook explains that it scrapped 'become a fan' for 'Like' in a bid to improve users' experience and promote consistency across the site, it believes this change offers a more light-weight and standard way to connect with people, things and topics in which users are interested.
The new 'Like' button will help users take advantage of and connect to the Community Pages Facebook is introducing - pages that are to serve as the 'best collections of shared knowledge.' (more about Community Pages here.)
'Liking' a Facebook Page isn't the same as 'Liking' a link, video, or status update. Liking a Page means you are connecting to that Page. When you connect to a Page, it will appear in your profile and you will appear on the Page as a person who likes that Page. On the other hand, when you click "Like" on a piece of content that a friend posts, you are simply letting your friend know that you like it without leaving a comment.
The 'Like' button that appears on Facebook may be just the first step: there are rumours that Facebook plans to introduce a 'Like' button for the web.
The New York Times outlines the concept: the Like button will allow Facebook to keep a record of what a user linked to, providing the company with ever more data about people's preferences. Facebook, in turn, plans to share that data with Web publishers, so that a magazine Web site, for instance, may be able to show users all the articles that their friends like.
(based on resources on Facebook, Mashable and The Huffington Post websites)
Sincerely yours,
Tamara and James
TJConsulting - Your Virtual Assistant
http://www.tjconsulting.co.uk/ |
