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Radical LEAP – personal story on extreme leadership

This book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership (aff) by Steve Farber is a great book. It is easy to read because Steve tells a great story.

Along the way Steve meets a new friend Edg, who learns him about leadership and what LEAP is. An old friend calls Steve because she needs help with a problem at the company. Steve meets the great William G. Maritime. In the end Steve finds what he was looking for, no I will not spoil the ending for you. You will just have to read it your self…

Since the book is so easy to ready you learn almost without noticing important aspects about leadership: Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof.
Watch the video and my book review.

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User profiles are…. personal

Do you understand the term user profiles? It is a bit unclear, “user”. Is the user a person, employee, business owner, or all in one? Let me share with you, user profiles are personal. Social media is all about being social, talking with other people in social networks, and connecting with these people. It’s all about making real conversations and relationships.

You become friends with people, not with companies. You connect with people, not with companies. You connect with people in the company not with the logo or building it selfitself. However; you may want to follow or “like” a company so you can receive updates from them.

On social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn you have the option to create a special page or profile for your company. This makes it odd that people use their company details and logo to create a ‘personal profile’ on these networks.

Keep the user profile personal

So keep your ‘user profile’ really personal. The profile should state your first and last name. Make sure you upload a picture of yourself into your profile and not your company logo. The profile details should be about you. This way people can know about you before they connect and build a relationship with you. You can more easily form real relationships.

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Start With Why by Simon Sinek book review

About two months ago I watched a great TED video, it was a talk by Simon Sinek. Simon talked about How great leaders inspire action.From this video I was just blown away by the idea of the golden circle. In my next presentation I included the idea and diagram. A friend mentioned she had ...

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Blog buddies to grow your blog

Blogging is really important for your visibility. A report from Hubspot shows that websites with 300+ pages have a significant increase in leads. Companies that write more blog post get more clients. Companies that blog get 67% (B2B) more clients than companies that do not blog. If your blog has 56+ articles than this leads ...

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Attracting Clients via Social Media video

Just created this cool video on YouTube with 'Search On'. This video is about attracting clients with social media for independent professionals. The tools: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress. Your coach: Erno Hannink.Do you like it? Want to make your own? Go ...

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Happy 4th of July

If you are from the USA this is an important day. Happy 4th of July for my friends.Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence ...

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Why you should blog and become remarkable – Seth Godin

Seth Godin is one of my favorite writers. I love the way he sees things differently and makes me think. Most of his books are on my book shelf. Here is a video of the interview he did at the B2B Marketing Forum in Holland.

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LinkedIn vs Outlook

During a workshop one of the attendees, Patrick, was really skeptical about LinkedIn. It was clear that he was not going to use LinkedIn. He sat there with his arms crossed and listened. After 5 minutes or so he interrupted the presentation and asked a question."This is all great", he says, "but I still don't ...

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Fifth P of People in your Marketing mix – Hank Wasiak

At the last day of SOBCon 2010 we worked in groups on 4 charity projects. The first day was Hank Wasiak shared a great story with us about Asset Based Thinking.Just before we all departed on this last day of SOBCon, Hank did me this favor of a short video. He is ...

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Why do you want to Twitter?

This is post was inspired by Justin McCullough. Justin is building an ebook about Twitter, for new users to embrace Twitter. He is building it together with other contributors. So feel free to jump in on the Twitter eBook Project. My contribution is about why You want to use Twitter.At SOBCon 2010 ...

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