Erno Hannink

I help independent professionals (self-employed) use social media to get more clients. Attracting clients is the key.

Mentor, author and speaker on Attracting Clients.
Author of the book Attracting clients and Pick your niche.
Initiator and/or organizer of several events like SOBCon Europe, SMC Netherlands, SMC Amsterdam, WordCamp Netherlands, Social Media Event.

Balance in entrepreneurship and family is important. Married to Monique and father of our son and daughter.
Founder of Hannink Online Media a network company.
More on Erno at the About page


Homepage: http://ernohannink.com

Jabber/GTalk: erno.hannink@gmail.com

Posts by Erno Hannink

NEXT Berlin opens – morning sessions

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This morning Ole Tillman (@oletillmann) opened Next 2012 at the main stage.

Ole talked about how technology is dissapearing into the background. It is everywhere that we do not even notice it anymore and feel it is normal. But what is beyond digital?

A location based Micro blogging service Echofy – with this app only people that are in your area can answer your message and you can only send messages to the people in your area. Blogging with ‘close’ friends or Micro microblogging.

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Are you missing important messages on Facebook?

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When a friend on Facebook sends you a message you can clearly see it at the top left of every page. When other people, whom are not directly connect to you, sends you a message it ends up in a secret box.

While writing an article about Facebook lists I was testing my groups. Clicking through the updates of my groups in the favorites I clicked on ‘Messages’ and ‘Other’.

There I saw it, messages from the last 4-5 months that I had completely missed. People asking questions, one potential client, attendees of my webinars that asked me to join the group.

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See more posts you care about in Facebook

see less updates from friends you had less contact with lately

Earlier I talked about Do you feel you are missing updates? Add no more than 150 connections. When you want to follow more of your most important connections, you need to reduce the number of connections.

One of the reactions I got on this post was

“There is no information overload, only filter failure.”

move friends to the acquaitances list

Facebook is addressing this point and bringing the list of ‘Acquaintances’ to our attention.

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How can an event teach the self-employed to grow

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There are a number of things that drive me. I am deeply in love with my family and enjoy being with them. Working online, from home most of the time, helps me to do this.

Another important thing that drives me is, discovering ‘new’ things on the web and sharing it while adding my own thoughts to it. Here I have a focus on marketing and social media. More specifically, marketing and social media for independent professionals or the self-employed. For You.

Power woman grow

I love this so much I would do it for free. Heck, I am doing lots of it for free just because I love sharing this with you. I share articles on ernohannink.com and ernohannink.nl [Dutch], there are 2 active Facebook pages where I share tips fb.me/ErnoHanninkEN [English] fb.me/ErnoHanninkNL [Dutch], free webinars, newsletters.

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Finding your purpose and making a living at it

What you love

Overall I am really happy. It is in my DNA. However sometimes I wonder why am I doing what I am doing. Do you know the feeling?

On a day like this I just start answering these questions again.

Why am I doing this?
How can I attract a great community?
What is my strategy?

Find your purpose

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Do you feel you are missing updates? Add no more than 150 connections.

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  • How many people do you follow on Twitter.
  • How many friends do you have on Facebook?
  • How many connections do you have on LinkedIn?

Do you feel the need to keep on eye on their updates in these social network sites? Do you feel you are missing updates of friends?

You could be right.

A study by researchers at Indiana University pegs the maximum number of friends a user can truly keep in contact with on sites like Twitter and Facebook at 150-200 people.

LinkedIn connections

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Convert Traffic to subscribers with these 10 – Derek Halpern – tips

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Do you want to convert more visitors of your website?
Listen to how the expert reviews some very high traffic and effective sites to make these even more effective.

From the moment I listened to Derek Halpern in 2011 at SOBCon in Chicago I have been following what he does. I love what he writes and how you can learn so much from his blog socialtriggers.com.

Magnifying Glass Derek Halpern

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The perfect profile photo for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and more – 5 tips

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Earlier today I was reading Buy•ology by Martin Lindstrom and it reminded me of an article I wrote last year on ErnoHannink.nl. With Martin’s book I now found research to support my post.

In Chapter 3 of his book, Martin talks about mirror neurons (Mirror Neuron on Wikipedia). Interesting part of the book on how we experience feelings by looking at others doing something.

True Passion Duchenne Smile

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Becky McCray on small towns and making rural entrepreneurs prosper #30DTC

Becky McCray photo by Rebekah Workman www.rebekahworkman.com/

Inspiration on rural entrepreneurs, small towns and rural areas. How can you help small towns prosper? Make sure that the rural entrepreneurs prosper. This is Becky’s life goal. An interview with Becky McCray.

Becky McCray photo by Rebekah Workman www.rebekahworkman.com/

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30 best male bloggers #30bestof #30DTC

Neil Patel QuickSprout

In January I announced a monthly series of the 30 best of #30bestof. This is the second overview in this series. After the ladies beginning March it is now the gentlemen’s turn. An overview of the 30 best male bloggers on marketing, social media and entrepreneurship.

Here they are, in alphabetical order, the best male bloggers. Psst it is not 30 but 36.

30 best of male bloggers

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