I just started a new site that is going to discuss the ways that I went from zero followers to over 15,000 while only following less than 100. Check the proof at my twitter account @MattJavit – the numbers don’t lie. My new site is at http://www.howcanigetmoretwitterfollowers.com/ – I know, origin, right? – I will discuss how I did it using this software. You can find a video there as well. Good luck.
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Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. The first of a multi-book deal for Gary Vee, as he is known within internet and marketing circles, has been well-received by novice internet folks and big business owners alike. Fortune 500 companies are now fighting for Gary’s time to help them build their brands by utilizing the same tools that propelled him to online success.
If you have a passion, hobby, interest, or something that you are just damn good it – you need to read this book. Gary’s passion was and still is entrepreneurism. In particular, his passion for his father’s wine business, using the Internet as his platform, grew the business from $3 million a year to over $70 million a year in a few short years. Crush It focuses on how Gary took this “case study” and used it to build his own brand – Gary Vaynerchuk.
No matter what your passion – arts, coin collecting, makeup, web design, your networking opportunity, dish washing – you can make money online! Crush It will have the reader all fired up with ideas on how they can cash in on their passion. Even for those that are already making money online, the ideas from Gary Vee’s experiences will have you on track to make even more. He tells how he came about his successes that led him to being featured on many of the news and business outlets on TV, Web, and print around the world.
Gary Vaynerchuk is a very talented individual with his business sense, marketing ability, and “chops”. He is a great talker and excellent on film. But he points out that not everyone can do well in front of a camera so he also teaches the ideas of writing blogs or doing audio. His main point is to create great content but, more importantly, work your butt off to market that content using the free social media tools that the Internet provides to build a following. As you give away great content to your followers, the money will follow.
Gary Vee “got it” before most and Crush It will help the reader understand why they too should be in the game of cashing in on their passion. Gary is transparent in the idea that it will not happen over night. His success was not built that way nor will yours. Building an online business around your passion, like any business, takes time, effort, and sweat – lots of it. But you can do it.
If you have not read Crush It! Get it here – I highly recommend it. If you have read it and feel like you still don’t have a great direction on how you can cash in on your passion or just really have not identify something you want to build –
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Building and exhibiting your brand online is critical in helping your business grow and expand as online users multiple throughout the world. Whether you are looking to do website marketing, blog marketing, personal branding, or simple brand identity it is important that you understand why and how your brand will stick with your potential clients. Telling your personal or company’s story through the website will help the visitors identify with what it is you stand for and what you are offering.
1. Be Transparent – Make it clear to the visitor what it is you are trying to sell, serve, or offer. Video Marketing is great with this as you can give that message through a video that a visitor can quickly understand. Be clear and precise on what you are attempting to offer the visitor in the hopes that they will dig deeper into your website.
2. Be Real – Let the visitor see who you are. Show photos, tell your (or your CEO’s) personal background, share videos. This brand identity will give the visitor a feel that they are looking a real company and real people. Brand Me (as it is sometimes labeled) shows that the person in charge is “just like us”.
3. List Growth – You must find a way to get the casual visitors’ basic contact information. Have a newsletter that gives valuable information so they will want to sign up in order to read the latest and greatest tips within your niche. By building a list, you will have an opportunity to build a relationship with that list which in turn is the key to Brand Marketing.
4. Give Value – When someone visits your website they are looking for value. You have to give them that value very fast or they will jump off and search for your competitor. By giving real value within your niche, they will look to use as their expert in the future and come back often for the answers to their questions.
5. Ask for Referrals – This is big in the real world and it is even bigger and growing online. Sharing information through social media is the fastest way to grow your follower community quickly. Ask your users to ReTweet, Facebook post, or Linkedin post your valuable content to their network. By asking it shows that you do care about your growth and makes the visitors think about who else could use this expert advice.
6. Be Focused – When someone visits your website you don’t want their head to spin trying to figure out what it is you do or represent. Have a clear niche identified with your brand. You can’t be all things to all people. The more focused that your niche is the deeper the relationships you can build with your clients.
7. Go Talk – Find the forums online where people are looking to discuss your topic. Listen, add your advice or point, listen, listen, listen. These forums will really let you in on what is front of mind for your potential clients. This valuable information will help you focus on your offerings, services, or products.
Have you been looking for a way to get in front of a few hundred or even a thousand like-minded professionals who may have an interest in your product or service? Or are you in a place in life that you are looking for a new opportunity to spend your free time developing? Do you enjoy being around the truly motivated entrepreneurs in your community? In that case, Chocolate Blues produced by Shelly Rice is the answer for you!
Chocolate Blues is not the typical trade show or networking event. It focuses on the real business to business networking that propels businesses to the next level. Chocolate Blues is one of the largest, and definitely most productive local networking events in the country. Included in the event is live blues music, free chocolate, open networking, vendors, networking games, door prizes, brainstorming circles, breakout sessions and a giant business card exchange.
The environment is energizing, entertaining, and relaxed enough to have solid conversations about your opportunity with like-minded individuals that are motivated to improve their businesses and yours. The participants have a great chance to walk around and discover potential partnerships, explore new opportunities, and understand the hottest trends. The brainstorming from the connections made is worth the visit as a guest or a vendor.
Chocolate Blues attracts decision makers from multiple industries of business. The attendance varies around the country but is usually around 1,000-1,500 professionals. If you have a business that you are trying to promote then you definitely want to take advantage of the vendor opportunity. The benefits of the event are extremely high compared to the costs which vary by location so be sure to check the website for update fees.
Shelly Rice does an excellent job putting on this event, as she understands that the vendors are looking for highly qualified participants along with strategic partnership and networking opportunities. Shelly has achieved this goal along with making it a fun and entertaining atmosphere. Her 21 years experience has led to making the Chocolate Blues event one of the best in the country. Recent expansion has led to events in Dallas, Austin, Iowa, Louisville, and others. I am especially excited about the upcoming Indianapolis and Fort Wayne events since I live in Indianapolis.
Be sure to bring plenty of business cards, fliers, educational information, and anything that will leave the participants remembering you once the event ends. The key to these events is to make a solid impression on anyone you meet, give them something valuable to think about, and have a followup topic to discuss in the upcoming days. Set up appointments when you are there! Don’t leave it as “I will call you later” if you can get them scheduled now. Take advantage of these networking events to grow your business!
Check out the Chocolate Blues schedule and vendor sign up here and be sure to sign up for my newsletter and 3-day training course to discover how you can take your offline business and build it into an online brand. Good luck.
As you are constantly looking at ways to improve your business both online and off, you have to keep in mind two important factors: cost vs. value and time vs. value. Many entrepreneurs will take the cheap and easy way out early in their ventures only to realize that they continue to throw away money and waste precious time.
The best way to get the most out of your time and money is to take the initial price tag out of the picture and focus on value. If you know that you will get more value out of the item than the price represents in the long run, SPEND THE MONEY. By making the value purchase, you will save yourself countless hours, days, and even months, which alone can be more important than the money. This is especially true for those that are building another stream of income, which a full day’s work cannot be dedicated to.
I considered the information above when analyzing my potential purchase of Mike Dillard’s Traffic F
ormula 2. It did not take me long to pull the trigger because I knew the value would far exceed the price tag. I just didn’t realize at the time how FAR it would exceed it.
The information contained within Traffic Formula 2 (TF2) will not only set you on your way to building your brand, business, and/or full-time income, but it will do it in a way that will propel you to think about alternative ways to maximize this information on a daily basis. The teachings from the various leaders (all tops in their dedicated fields) come across in a business savvy sense, not a geeky nerd approach. They know that the users of their program are in it to make money, not to code and build programs. By packaging their tutorials in this manner, your notebook will fill with notes that you can use with any business. Although their focus tends to lean towards the Network Marketing community, I took ideas that I can apply within multiple industries using various strategies.
TF2 takes the user from Market Discovery/ Brainstorming to building your Nerve Center focusing on Automation (which goes back to my earlier points on time vs value). Maximizing content creation through copy writing, blog marketing, article marketing, video marketing, social bookmarking, and social media are all covered. Again, leverage and automation, using the best tools, websites, and resources, are stressed, listed, and documented in PDF’s so the user walks away having a clear understanding of their direction.
Even more advanced topics like paid traffic strategies, screen capture video editing, and split test marketing are covered in later segments that will have you pausing the videos, rewinding, and adding more notes. No matter where you are currently at in your Internet business lifecycle you will benefit greatly from these teachings.
Cost vs. value. So few courses offer the value that comes with this program. When I hear “hobbipreneurs” talk about costs like they are pinching pennies, I always say to myself “how did that 100K college degree work out for you?” And as you know, I have an MBA. This course can set you on a path that your degree could not. And I say that with 100% honesty. There are college graduates that just walked the stage, who would be better off spending their time learning TF2 than looking for a dead-end job. This course will set you for life.
Finally, it all comes down to a simple idea – working SMARTER than your competition. The ideas, focus, and direction that Traffic Formula 2 lay out in an easy-to-follow format is what your competition hopes you never find.
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