A lot of chairs have raised their hand and expressed interest in our 30-day Chair Course for Finding Members Through Social Media. Many Chairs have asked “How do I determine or measure whether what I’m doing to find and attract new members is successful?” We’ve created a Self-Assessment Scorecard to benchmark and rate yourself on […]
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More Tools for Leveraging Time
Here are some other interesting tools that a number of Chairs have told me they use on a regular basis and consider to be among their favorite tools for managing information and social media interactions. You can read more about each of these tools under our Social Media Tools Tab. Evernote – a tool that […]
Promoting and Publicizing Your Blog
Promoting and publicizing your blog content is easy, but it does take about 15-20 minutes every time you publish, after you’ve set up the accounts on the different networks. This is the process I follow every time I hit publish: 1. Go to Delicious and create an account, if you don’t already have one. Save […]
How to Write Great Blog Content
Based on the feedback from “Tips for Starting a Blog,” it sounds like you’re ready to attract readers. So let’s get started! My friend Jeff Lipschultz commented on Monday that he was going to be brash and suggest quality is key to attracting readers. And he is 100 percent correct! Quality, value, and “what’s in […]
Advanced LinkedIn: Using the Polls Application
What do your connections think? Let’s assume you have all your current potential new members as 1st degree connections in LinkedIn. Have you considered conducting a short poll among them and then sharing the information? Perhaps, you could do a poll with the current members of your group? Jan Vermeiren, in his Networking Coach’s Opinion […]
What Should You Blog About?
We’ve beaten to death the idea of blogging as a valuable tool in erecting “sign posts” on the Web to guide people to you. I’ll continue to beat this drum until you’re sick and tired of hiring it. Why would I do this? All Social Media studies and research now indicate that the most viable […]
Are You Putting Up Sign Posts in Social Media?
A common phrase used in social media marketing is “erecting sign posts”. You’re “directing” and “leading” your prospects to you through all the sign posts you’ve put up on the Web. The idea is to create profiles and content that guides your prospects over time to like you, to trust you, to want to follow […]
What Are Those Buttons At the Bottom of Each Blog Post?
At the bottom of each blog post are a series of little icons that enable you to share various blog posts that you’ve found particularly useful. Brad, our expert guest bloggers, and I all appreciate your sharing our content with other Vistage Chairs when you read something you thought worthy of sharing. At a fundamental […]
Navigation Around the Vistage Chair Portal Site
In this blog post, I’ll describe how to navigate around to some of the key areas on this portal site for Vistage Chairs. We’ve already discussed the tabbed content of Best Practices in Finding Members. At the top along the header you’ll see three links for “home”, “contact us”, “meet the experts”, and “why am […]
Welcome to the Vistage Chair Portal on Leveraging Social Media
Welcome to our first blog post for the Vistage Chair Blog on how to LEVERAGE social media and social networking to find, acquire, and develop relationships with potential members for your group. This blog represents an extension of the work Barry Deutsch of IMPACT Hiring Solutions has done with his LIVE Chair Training Program, where […]
