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Upcoming classes for November-December»

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

On November 12th, I’ll be participating in Leaving Procrastination Station, where I along with some other consultants will provide our expertise. This will NOT be your average workshop where you leave with an overwhelming list of marketing tasks and business ideas that you never get around to using! At Leaving Procrastination Station you bring your [...]

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Upcoming Classes in Oct and Nov 2011»

Monday, October 17th, 2011

The following is a list of upcoming classes I’m offering in October and November. I’m going to start posting an upcoming class post every couple weeks. Social Success in Social Media Webinar – Oct 20th 2-4pm PST You’ve got your Twitter, Linkedin, Google Plus, and Facebook accounts. You’ve even set up a blog and you’re [...]

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Lessons from my leadership class»

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

I just graduated from the 2011 Clackamas County Leadership Class. I started this class in September of 2010 and for the next 9 months I got to learn a lot about leadership, Clackamas County, the intersection of business with government, community, education, etc., and myself as a leader. I took this class as part of [...]

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My Achiever's Circle experience»

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Last Weekend, I attended Mark LeBlanc’s Achiever’s Circle, a weekend intensive on business improvement. And what a weekend it was. I learned a lot about my own business that I hadn’t been fully paying attention to, until I took that course. All of us got a copy of Mark’s excellent book Growing Your Business, which [...]

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Upcoming Social Media Webinars»

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Book Review: Understanding, Leveraging, & Maximizing Linkedin by Neal Schaffer In this book, the author spends a lot of time focused on the strategy for using Linkedin for job hunting and networking. To some degree the book is focused on technology, but the author manages to also get the reader to examine how s/he will [...]

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Upcoming Social Media Webinars»

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Introduction to Social Media Feeling overwhelmed by Social Media and not sure why you should be using it? In this class you’ll learn what social media is, why you need it, and develop your strategy for getting involved in using it. What social media is: It isn’t just Twitter or Facebook. Why social Media isn’t [...]

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I took a holiday»

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I took a holiday this last weekend…a few days away from social media, from running a business, from all the other things I’ve focused on. I really needed it and when I came back I didn’t feel like I’d really missed anything, though I’ll admit I do feel a little behind on a few projects. [...]

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Radio interview with David Tuck of Anvil Tax»

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Imagine Your Reality Radio interview with David Tuck of Anvil Tax about taxes and how your business can be compliant. Review of Tribes by Seth Godin Like the rest of Seth’s books there’s a lot of ideas here, but not a lot in the way of really useful practical ideas. The concept of tribes, of [...]

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Why you always do a dry run with your new classes»

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Earlier this week , I taught for the first time, a webinar on social media marketing. I’d never used a webinar before so I realized upfront that I needed to plan for that by offering a second date for the class. And while I already knew the material and was comfortable with it, I also [...]

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Latest Radio show up»

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

The latest episode of Social Media coach asks What is social Networking? Next week’s episode is on blogs. Upcoming Events I have two upcoming events. Social networking for Businesses 101 Already have your social networking profiles setup and optimized to market your professional identity? GREAT! Then PLEASE forward this message to your colleagues who are [...]

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