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 […]
Leveraging your time collecting information
This is a follow-up to Gini Dietrich’s excellent post on how to leverage your time in digesting all the information it takes to be an expert or authority figure – especially in blogging. I do it a little different than Gini – but accomplish similar results. First, I subscribe to over a 1,000 blogs on […]
Streamlining Online Information for Time Efficiency
Sometimes you have to hit me over the head with a 2 x 4 to get me to realize what I do every day A LOT of people would love to know. That’s what Robin Scott did when she direct messaged me about a comment I left on Julio Varela’s blog this afternoon (watch his […]
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 […]
How to Blog: 10 Tips
I was catching up on my Google reader and subscribed blogs and came across Jeff Bullas, a blogger in Sydney. His blog, JeffBullas.com, discusses ideas and tips for better Internet marketing, including using the social networks as part of your overall strategy. The blog post that caught my eye, however, is one that has 30 […]
Starting a Blog: Eight Tips
When I speak to Vistage groups, at least one out of every two of you tells me you want to start a blog, but you don’t know how to get started. I always caution that blogs aren’t for everyone and that, once you get started, you can’t stop. It’s a pretty big time commitment and […]

