3 posts tagged “social networking”
I've been talking with local small-medium size business owners here in the Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, and Huntington Beach areas of Orange County. Turns out the statistic that 34% of businesses still don't have a website up is quite accurate.
What is even more true is how many of them have websites up which are dreadful from any kind of an internet marketing perspective. No SEO, no Search Engine Optimization, no Social Media Marketing, no dominating Google page one, no long tail words. No nada nothing.
Now the thing is, some business owners were sold a bill of goods by some web design company and they have a website. And they know it's not doing anything for their business. But they're embarrassed to talk about their perceived failure when after all their great skill set and specialty is their business, not the marketing of it.
While PromoteYouOnline, Inc. predominately serves Orange County based business owners, because of the joys of webinar technologies, we do have clients in other regions of the United States. Typically customers are able to reduce their ad and marketing costs by 50% in the first 30 days and increase their revenues by 23%.
Not bad for saving some money, eh?
Happy Selling!
April Braswell
Happy Sunday!
As a further amplification of my Romance Coach and Online Dating Coach post from yesterday about DO Social Networking for enhancing Your Dating Life, tee hee. You DO still need actually to MEET F2F.
So, just like with the Online Dating Sites (either the Free Online Dating sites or the ones where you pay for your membership), the idea is to exchange a few emails and actually...
ARRANGE TO MEET F2F.
Otherwise it is a fantasy and you are wasting your time. I generally recommend about 3-5 emails to connect and segue to Let's Meet. When you live more than 35-50 miles apart, you might email for a bit longer. I'll address that in a forthcoming article at my website. More than about 5 emails and there's something wrong. Sometimes the other party is recently divorcing or divorced and may just be rusty in this area of dating and not know Online Dating Protocol and Online Dating Etiquette (like don't swear in an email to a lady before you meet or I would advise her NOT to meet you! Initially display your gentlemanly behavior. We all burp and expel gas, but let's be gracious and well-mannered, OK? And some of the blue collar men I know who you might THINK this would be more of an issue with are the ones who are MOST gentlemanly with Da Ladies. So, I'm conferring respect to all of you men, here.).
So, be a little forbearing. You may have a diamond in the rough. Remember, dating is to practice your communication skills of what you want and don't want and to practice your skills on How To Flirt? (you ARE flirting, right? OK. Good. phew!).
When my sweet friend Lisa from BabySitting World, Boston's HOTTEST Mom, and yup, sorry guys, MARRIED, doesn't understand how Social Networking would benefit her, well, it may NOT cause she is MARRIED. Of course, if you are PLANNING to go on a date, you might need her free Ebook on what to look for in a Baby Sitter. Do check out her website. This lady is truly an expert and amazing.
But for those of us who are SINGLE, it is a great additional component in your Dating Strategy.
Hope that helps in clarifying things.
For those of us in sales, my guideline about arrange to meet within a few emails, you may notice the Law of Sales Speed being applied here. There is MOMENTUM in Sales. Once there is an INTEREST EXPRESSED, we need to arrange for ACTION NEXT STEPS, not just general phone calls to keep things warm UNTIL there is a project ready. Same thing with Dating. Can you imagine if we said, "well, when you're READY to get married, call me, and we'll go on a few dates THEN!"
Dating is about BEING SEEN and KNOWN and about GETTING READY for a Romantic Relationship.
Enjoy!
All the best,
April Braswell
Romance Coach, Online Dating Coach
I'm SUCH a relationship building woman. Ergo I live and breath networking. It was something Kevin Hogan - Internationally Renowned Motivational Speaker noticed about me even during Boot Camp 2007 in Viva Las Vegas, Baby!
So naturally, with networking and relationship building... I gaggle. I gaggle my friends. I gaggle my girlfriends. I am KNOWN for this. In the business world, these are the characteristics of a Market Maker and Mover & Shaker (or M&S as some of us joke).
Innnnnterestingly enough, there is RESEARCH (I can just see Dr. Kevin Hogan, Leading Reading Body Language Expert smiling to read that I have leveraged empirical research!), about characteristics of Women Who Get Married. This is included in the quality book, "Why Men Marry Some Women and not Others." It's a good short read and has some helpful information. Others are meatier, but they are researchers, so the tone is different than some other dating books.
So, this RESEARCH... one of the characteristics is that women who get married have a group of other single girlfriends who are actively looking for a marriage relationship.
Well, I already did this. Indeed, I also vary the AGE of my gaggle. We joke about it. If the men we meet are late 40s and into their 50s, send them to April! OK, the minute they see her, they're already moving in that sparkling pink direction.... magnetically drawn. It's the Power of Pink Sparklies!
30s? J, T, maybe R. Late 30s, early 40s, R.
We get together about once a month for a Girlz Nite OUT! We do this on Thursday night so that our married lady friends can join us without problems with children or dear husband. Although, if they need a Baby SItter, Nanny, or Child Care, they could Ask Lisa.
And for us Single Gals, Thursday night doesn't interfere with Date Nigtz of Friday and Saturday evening.
We mix it up.
We mix up the VENUE! And when we started to get in rut of always somewhere downtown Palo Alto.... we shifted and went to downtown San Carlos one month (Town in downtown SC). We also rotate who PICKS the venue. We will TRY NEW THINGS. (you're impressed, I can tell already even before I post.). We will try a new venue, have even helped a fund raiser (The Princess Project - helping all girls be a princess for their prom who couldn't otherwise afford to go) by meeting there to start and adding friends who wouldn't have attended and contributed otherwise. We tried the venue for an hour or so, didn't really care for it, and shifted to one of our favorites. But we DID give it a try for more than an hour.
BTW, I donated a beautiful sparkley Rhinestone tiara. Naturally. And I hope the girl who wore it indeed felt that evening, "I AM a PRINCESS!" And she'd have been right.
So, least you feel I'm at it with my Romance Coach, Online Dating Coach clients on a daily basis with a whip and a chair (or whips and chains, whatever, your choice, I'm very accepting....) about these ACTIONS, here is one that is SO EASY. This is SUCH an Easy Dating Tips bit. "Go out for drinks with your girlfriends once a month.... Vary the bar. OK, if you must... and Have Fun.
Yeah, that's your TOUGH homework for the Thursday.
Go Have Fun and share it with others to magnify it.
We use Evite for org'g the invitation list, citing venue (address), and it automatically sends out reminders. Cool, huh? Yup, I DO live in the land of Web 2.0. As a Networking and Relationship MAVEN, I was a natural for all the Social Networking sites.
Have fun! I'll take a Belvedere Cosmopolitan (yes, I AM part of the SITC generation.) or a Pomegranate Margarita (discovered at Andale on University. YUM!) please! Thanks!
Cheers!
April Braswell
