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Personal Branding and Social Media Marketing is an essential strategy for today’s businesses. You have the potential for creating a powerful and clear distinction that captivates, fascinates, inspires, influences and engages others to become advocates of who you are and your unique promise of value. Social networking provides a powerful and unique opportunity to promote your brand online and it has significant implications for today’s entrepreneurs and professionals. Facebook currently boasts 300 million active members and Twitter is equally popular with traffic has grown almost 2000% in one year. This 3-day eCourse will teach you how [Read More...]

LinkedIn offers several options for getting the word out about your upcoming events. This blog post will share simple strategies you can implement today to increase visibility for your events and meetings.

Using the LinkeIn Events Application

This tool allows you to see what events your entire professional network is attending and find events recommended to you based on your industry and job function! Using this application, you can meet up with prospects at the next industry event or re-connect with old friends. I have used the tool to learn about events my connections were attending and also to find places to post details about my events. You [Read More...]

Your personal brand is made up of the thoughts, feelings, ideas and perceptions people holds in their mind about who you are. It is essential to first consider the brand you are building before trying to position yourself online using social media and social networking tools. Your website is the hub for your brand and it should powerfully reflect who you are and the value you have to offer.

To assist you with the personal branding discovery process, I invite you to take a 360 Personal Branding Assessment – [Read More...]

Social Media Marketing Notes Prepared for Attendees of the Be The Change Event.

Your personal brand is made up of the thoughts, feelings, ideas and perceptions people holds in their mind about who you are. It is essential to first consider the brand you are building before trying to position yourself online using social media and social networking tools. Your website is the hub for your brand and it should powerfully reflect who you are and the value you have to offer.

To assist you with the personal branding discovery process, I invite you to take a 360 Personal Branding Assessment – http://www.reachcc.com/360v4register. There is a premium version of this report [Read More...]

Often times clients will ask me, “Lethia, is my website a good website?” My response is always the same, “How much money are you making from your website?”

You see if your website isn’t bringing you more clients, then it is nothing more than an expensive business card used to share information with people who already know you.

When analyzing your website there are key things you must keep in mind:

1) Does your website accurately represent your brand?

2) Is your website easy to find via search engines? Is it search engine optimized (SEO)?

3) Do you have a powerful “Call To Action” (CTA) which leads visitors to your desired result?

4) Do you have a mechanism for capturing email [Read More...]

Personal branding and social media marketing strategy are hot topics for today’s business owners. Because these topics are so essential to effectively promoting your business online, I frequently encourage my friends, fans and followers to post their personal branding and social media related questions on my facebook fan page (http://facebook.LethiaOwens.com).

I am excited to share that last month (Dec ‘09) there were 49 questions and comments posted. The fan page was pretty active last month so thanks for taking time to stop by and engage with me. I would like to help even more people so please continue posting your comments and share the page with your friends.

You may have already heard how important Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to promoting your brand online but maybe you haven’t yet learned to leverage the power of Social media optimization (SMO). In order to understand the power of SMO, we must first revisit the definition of social media.

Wikipedia describes social media as…

The online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Popular social mediums include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs.”

As you begin to leverage social media as part of your online marketing strategy, you will increase your ROI by [Read More...]

When working with clients I teach a four-step process for using the internet and social media to gain increased visibility for their brand. The first step is to “Create” content and add it to your hub (website) and other sites connected to your hub. The second step is to “Connect” all of the content you have created and create accounts on social networks so you can connect with “Fans”, “Friends” and “Followers.” The third step called “Promote” focuses on your promotion and marketing strategy. The fourth step is “Automation” and involves configuring social media tools in such a way as to put parts of your social media [Read More...]

Twitter is a powerful personal branding tool that levels the playing field and provides an opportunity for you to connect with people you may have otherwise never met. Though the tool is powerful, getting the most out of it requires a strategy for increasing your followers within your niche market. Here are 5 simple strategies for increasing your Twitter followers:

1. Brand Your Profile – People will be more likely to follow you if you have a branded profile page. Taking just a few minutes to add a photo, bio and description will go a long way in helping visitors decide if they want to follow your updates. To make your profile even more powerful I [Read More...]