Social Media Strategies - Social Networks - Giovanni Gallucci

I have been recently watching the work of Giovanni Gallucci on You Tube - his account is here http://www.youtube.com/user/ggallucci

He did 3 short video training clips about Social Networks which people might find useful.
They will also be useful to the people I have been asked to talk to about social media and networks on Tuesday night. 

The 3 links to the clips are located below.  Over to you now Giovanni!







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Wearing the "Right" Hat - Six Thinking Hats (R) - Dr. Edward de Bono

I was reflecting recently on the powerful work done by Dr. Edward de Bono and his Six Thinking Hats (R).


Imagine it. Your team has the skills and techniques they need to make the best decision.
Fast. Smart. Efficient.



It's not impossible.

 Dr. Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® is a simple, effective technique that helps them become more productive. You and your team members can learn how to separate thinking into six distinct categories. Each category is identified with its own colored metaphorical "thinking hat." By mentally wearing and switching "hats," you can easily focus or redirect thoughts, the conversation, or the meeting.


The difference between brilliant and mediocre teams isn't so much in their collective mental capacity, but in how well they can tap into their collective wisdom and how well they function together. After your team learns the skills behind the Six Thinking Hats® system they'll:


• Hold critical meetings without emotions or egos making bad decisions


• Avoid the easy but mediocre decisions by knowing how to dig deeper


• Increase productivity and even more important -- be more effective


• Make creative solutions the norm


• Maximize and organize each person's thoughts and ideas


• Get to the right solution quickly and with a shared vision

The Six Thinking Hats (or modes)


You can read more about Six Thinking Hats (R) here  http://www.debonothinkingsystems.com/tools/6hats.htm


Which hat do you tend to gravite to?

Marketing Wisdom from @malfletcher on Twitter

Here is a snappy summary from @malfletcher on Twitter.

This is great wisdom:

In #marketing you can either interrupt total strangers or win permission to speak from friends

Get past ppl's mental #spam filter: 1)be relevant to NOW 2)invite feedback/ideas 3)add a SPECIFIC kind of value

Get past ppl's mental #spam filter: 4)open up decision-mkg 5)affirm how ppl's ind/l gifts can meet a wider need

You can check out more from the London-based Mal Fletcher on his website http://2020plus.net

How do you get "Raving Fans?"

Ken Blanchard, author of the One Minute Manager, has written a book entitled, “Raving Fans – A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service.”

A summary of Blanchard’s three secrets to developing “raving fans” is below.


3 Secrets To Developing Raving Fans

1. Decide on a very clear vision.

Have a very clear picture, a clear vision of the ideal. The ideal is the clear future you envision. Make sure this ideal is centered on the people you serve.

2. Discover what the customer needs.

Discover what the people you serve want and need, and then fill in the gaps from your vision. You will only discover what the people you serve want, in small nuggets. Everyone you meet has a different focus and need, a bit. Fit that into your own vision. If you meet people’s needs, you will never lack customers. For those people who you just can't satisfy, quickly learn emotionally to let them go.

3. Discover what the customer needs -- deliver plus one percent!

After you discover what the people you serve want and need, then deliver, plus one percent! The rule of one percent is to just keep on consistently improving what you do, one percent at a time. Go the extra mile in your service, and you will never lack for a crowd of “raving fans.”

Warner guides Aussies to Twenty20 win - from ninemsn

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You are a Marketer, not a just a Product/Service Provider

Here is a great business key -  to continue to grow your business you have to realize this important fact: you are a marketer, not a just a product/service provider. 

Let me quickly show you the difference between a marketer and a product/service provider.


A Product/Service Provider:

Has products and services

Talked to prospects

Has customers

Owns a business

Hopes they'll stay in business


A Marketer:

Sells products and services

Continually talks to a list of prospects

Builds relationships with customers

Grows their business

Is building their business future

 
See the difference?

Have You Thought About Your Environment? It's Linked to Your FUTURE!

If my thinking determines the course of my life, then what does my environment predict about my future?

Check out this quote.... and do the maths:

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted - Napoleon Hill

my environment influences my thinking = my future.

Do you need to change anything?  Seriously!

Napoleon Hill Quotes - Selection #3

Here is my selction #3 of Napoleon Hill quotes:

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.



When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.


Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

You give before you get.

Do you have a favourite?

How's Your Stretch? Because It's Linked to Your Effectiveness!

I came across this great Steve Penny quote in one of my blog posts from 2009

"I find that a leader must reinvent themselves at least every 7 years and do the same with their team to continue going forward and expanding."

Nice one

You can read my full blog entry from July 2009 here.

Napoleon Hill Quotes - Selection #2

I recently did a post on Napolean Hill - described by many as one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time.

Here is my selection #2 of Napoleon Hill quotes:

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.



Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.


Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.


Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Have You Got a Life? Or Even a Clue of Where you Would Like to Go?

Everything first begins as an idea.


You have to develop a dream of what you really want.

We create everything twice. First in our head and then physically. First we imagine, then we do.

I heard a story of someone who met billionaire, Rupert Murdoch for lunch, and they asked him what his original vision was. Murdoch replied that he literally imagined holding a globe of the world in his hand and his message spreading to every corner of that globe. This was the beginning of his huge media company.

Vision precedes goals. You have to have a big vision before you set a goal.

Developing a clear vision is so powerful.

1.  Do you dream of the future and see possibilities for yourself and your work?
2.  Can you see it clearly

Napoleon Hill - Success Linked to the Power of Personal Beliefs

I have been inspired for some time by the writings of Napoleon Hill. 

You may have heard of some of his powerful quotes:

A goal is a dream with a deadline.


Action is the real measure of intelligence.


All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.


Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.


Think and grow rich.

Here is some of what Wikipedia says about him:

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became the advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933-36. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions.[1][2] How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books.

Hill later called his personal success teachings "The Philosophy of Achievement" and he considered freedom, democracy, capitalism, and harmony to be important contributing elements. For without these foundations to build upon, Hill claimed throughout his writings, successful personal achievements are not possible. He contrasted his philosophy with others, and thought Achievement was superior and responsible for the success Americans enjoyed for the better part of two centuries. Negative emotions, fear and selfishness among others, had no part to play in his philosophy, and Hill considered them to be the source of failure for unsuccessful people.[7]

4 Types of Clutter that You MUST Strive to Keep out of Your Life

Yesterday I exposed the enemy of Being Organised and Effective - the enemy of being organised is CLUTTER!!

I said that I would identify 4 types of clutter that you must strive to keep out of your life.

Well, here they are!

The benefit is that you will be much better able to concentrate on that which you do best.


1. Emotional clutter.

This is the relational baggage that can accumulate when we don't forgive those who have wronged us, when we hold a grudge, or when we carry a chip on our shoulder because of a grievance long past. The price of holding on to emotional clutter is too high. Not only will it steal energy from your focus, but it has serious emotional and spiritual consequences as well.

Exposed! The Enemy of Being Organised and Effective

The enemy of being organised is CLUTTER!!


One of the common denominators of successful people is a single-minded focus that allows them to concentrate on first things first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in "The Conduct of Life",

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all of human affairs."

While many people squander their physical and mental abilities, successful people learn how to focus, concentrate, persist and be organised.

Yet even those with a clear sense of purpose sometimes lose their focus and their ability to concentrate on priorities. Why? I've found it is usually the result of too much internal clutter.

I've identified 4 types of clutter that you must strive to keep out of your life. The benefit is that you will be much better able to concentrate on that which you do best.

Stay tuned in my next post tomorrow morning.

The Top 10 Time Wasters - Get out the Blowtorch!

The Top Ten Time Wasters


According to a Priority Management Systems survey

1. Shifting priorities.


2. Telephone interruptions.


3. Lack of direction/objectives.


4. Attempting too much.


5. Drop-in visitors.


6. Ineffective delegation.


7. Cluttered desk/losing things.


8. Procrastination/lack of self-discipline.


9. Inability to say "no".


10. Meetings.

Of these 10 which one/ones are an issue for you right now?

Planning Needs Wisdom - Better Get Some Here!

20 Bible Verses to Dwell on When Engaged in Planning


Note what God's initiative appears to be and what responsibility He seems to expect from us in planning.

1. I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Psalm 32:8


2. For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11


3. Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3


4. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it shall be done for you. John 15:7


5. Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort? Galatians 3:36


6. For the Lord watches over all the plans and paths of godly men, but the paths of the godless lead to doom. Psalm 1:6


7. May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. Psalm 20:4