Social Media Strategist by Christopher Barger @cbarger book review [video]

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The Social Media Strategist – build a successful program from the inside out by Christopher Barger a social media book club review. This book is for people that work in communications or marketing in a large organisation and that want to improve the organisation’s social media presence. Or if you are a PR firm that works for these organisations and still don’t get it.

Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Marketing

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Maximizing LinkedIn is a book by Neal Schaffer a LinkedIn expert. It has a case study in each chapter. You will learn about using LinkedIn to attract new clients and find prospects. Interact and engage in groups and answers.

Built to Sell by John Warrillow – book review

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This book was a tip by Becky McCray (thank you @beckymccray) a while ago and it was on my Amazon wish list for a while. The book: Built to Sell: Turn Your Business Into One You Can Sell (aff) The tips that I mention in the video: Specialize No clients that are more than 15%

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How to write a bestseller

You write every day for 8 hours, 5 days a week. Publish 3-4 books per year. You will have some books that will do mmmm, most of the books will do OK and some books will be bestsellers.

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

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Start With Why by Simon Sinek book review

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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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Attracting Clients

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At SOBCon 2010 I will be on a great panel; Strategy – A Business Is Born and Branded. A panel moderated by Sheila Scarborough, Becky McCray with Chris Garrett, Lisa Haneburg, Sharna Brockett and me. Woot, will be so good. For the visitors of this event I did something special. The 30 minutes version of

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Personality not Included published in Dutch

January 2009 I met Rohit Bhargava in Las Vegas at Social Media Diner. After a talk and video Rohit gave me 2 copies of his book Personality not Included since I offered him to help him to get it published in the Netherlands. Now it is available in the Netherlands Persoonlijkheid niet Inbegrepen is the

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Think a moment about success for you as an entrepreneur

What is success for you. What do you want to miss to gain success in another field. When you achieve success are you really happy or were you aiming for a picture of success that is not your own. A very interesting TED talk about success by Alain de Botton at TED in Cambridge (UK)

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Writing a book

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Today I have started writing my book. It all started with the idea to write a book about the subject I talk about a lot How to get clients via the internet for small business owners. Since I need some structure I thought it would be a good idea to find first a publisher and

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