Pick your Niche tips from Stephanie Ward – Firefly Coaching

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Every 2 weeks we do video-interviews with people that have great tips for, solopreneurs, solo entrepreneurs and independent professionals. This is broadcast live on regioz.nl and you can also look at all the interviews here. Often these interviews are in Dutch, I also like to do interviews in English for an international audience. This is our first interview in English.

This interview with the lovely Stephanie Ward, owner of Firefly Coaching is about pick your niche. A very interesting subject. It is also the subject of my next book that will be published January 2011.

So it is great to have Stephanie in this interview and share her tips to Pick your Niche. She talks about picking your people and problem and ideal clients.

Pick your Niche tips from Stephanie Ward – RegioZZP from Erno Hannink on Vimeo.

You can find Stephanie on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn… and of course on FireflyCoaching.com

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WordCast Conversations 9 – WordCamp and social media

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WordCast is a blog and podcasts about blogging, social media and WordPress. Every week Dave Moyer (@davemoyer) and Kym Huynh (@kymhuynh) interview experts for WordCast Conversations. It is broadcasted live and published as a podcast for about an hour.

Via Lorelle Vanfossen (@lorelleonwp) I was invited to join WordCast Conversations. Lorelle is the founder of Bitwire Media, the company that hosts podcasts like WordCast conversations.

In the interview I answer questions on how I started as an independent professional, my work, WordCamp Netherlands and more.

This week on WordCast Conversations, we’re heading to the Netherlands one more time, to chat with Erno Hannink, an independent social media consultant and the lead organizer of WordCamp Netherlands.

It was a lot of fun to do, although I feel that I was talking a lot…

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Erno recommended Darren Rowse’s Problogger as inspiration for those aspiring to a career in social media.

As a WordCamp organizer, Kym discussed the WordCamp format with Erno, who also shared many of his own experiences and tips for up-and-coming WordCamps.

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LeWeb, Not For Independent Professionals?

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For independent professionals LeWeb is not the conference to go to. LeWeb is a tech conference. So only if you are interested in tech you should go visit this event in Paris in the cold (last year we even had snow). Or is this incorrect?

Le Web is an international event, with speakers from Europe and the US. You can meet and connect with 2.000 attendees from 46 countries. The presentations do cover a lot of tech stuff, but there is more. For example, last year we were inspired by a conductor, a live winelibrary.tv, Chris Anderson and more. LeWeb is about people, meet the speakers, entrepreneurs meet investors and lots of networking.

In the Demo Zone you can learn about some great new products and services that you can use in your daily business. At the startup competition you can learn from the entrepreneurs how to pitch or maybe how not to pitch.

This year LeWeb will help you to see how you can use the Real Time Web to make friends. To help your potential customers on the web. To see them more as friends, connect on Twitter or Facebook.

Do you need to be constantly on both platforms or is one enough for your business? Do you need to build your own network on Ning? Can you use live video like ustream to connect? Is LinkedIn more than an online rolodex? Questions that will be asked during LeWeb.

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