How does this relate to being a Chair and finding new members? What does it mean to be an expert or thought-leader within your niche? Is there any value in being perceived as an expert? How much time does it take to establish yourself as an expert? Do you have the tools, system, process to […]
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Featured Blogger: The Networking Coach - Jan Vermeiren
Jan is one of the most popular and well-recognized bloggers on networking and the use of LinkedIn as a networking tool. I’m very happy to feature Jan as one of our core experts here on the Vistage Chair Blog for Leveraging Social Media to Find Members. You can subscribe directly to Jan’s “The Networking Coach’s […]
Course Announcement for Finding New Members
I’m looking for Chairs who want to learn how to efficiently find new members. In my last blog posting, I mentioned that I would be creating a virtual course for a small group of chairs to find new members. This course is based on my decade of experience working with chairs, improving the chair interview […]
Stop Being Invisible to CEOs in Your Community
Are you invisible to the vast majority of CEOs in your local community? Why do Chairs struggle to find members? I’ve spoken to a lot of chairs over the last few years through my Chair Group Program on How to Find Members, Chairs that are struggling to build their groups, Chairs that consistently have full […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]

