Social Media networking, sometimes (in the recent old days) referred to as New Media networking….
How to make it work in your voice over business.
Most of you know I'm a big LinkedIn fan. Of all the social networks, LinkedIn offers the most rich feature set for searching and researching your business prospects. Oh, and they've got hundreds of millions of members, too. ;-} One of the nice things about LinkedIn (until now) was the...
People give me too much credit. I admit I'm a social media geek, and a strong apostle of LinkedIn , but I felt like a novice when I read an article recently on an eclectic site called BOOLEAN BLACK BELT SOURCING/RECRUITING. I don't expect you to read it all, but I will say it appears to be the...
Online Social Media darling Pinterest recently stepped up their service to include two new features: 1) Secret Boards 2) Business Accounts (just announced yesterday) This is a natural progression for Pinterest. Although it's one of the hottest social network phenoms, it is still playing catch up...
#1 Question I get from people at VO Social Media seminars: "When do you sleep?" What they really mean is..."I don't have enough time in the day to be present on all those social media sites, and do it justice. How do you do that?" To be even more succinct, their concern is that: "I don't have...
A highly regarded local Speech-Language Pathologist contacted me the other day. I'm encouraged that my online VO profile brings people to my door, but even this advanced professional was in the dark about the current skills needed to make it in Voice Acting today. Her approach was intriguing: "I...
You can't sit still if you hope to keep up with the changes on the most popular Social Media platforms that may benefit your VoiceOver business. FaceBook: Following up on a service FB has already offered in 20 other countries, it's now offering "Promoted Posts". For a cost of $7, you'll get...
Why people think Social Media is a lost cause I don't understand. I get that it's a time-suck if you don't watch it, but if you're an info junkie like me, there's no better place to SPEND your time. Below are links to three sites from posts to my Voice-Over Friends FaceBook Page. If you're a...
I consider myself a STUDENT of social media. There are no social media experts in my POV. (OK...maybe Chris Brogan or Brian Solis). Not everyone in voice over land believes social networking is a valuable way to market, promote, find clients, or build valuable relationships. That's OK. I'm no...
Have you noticed how just about every online site you've ever signed-up for is becoming uber-social? Voice Over people seem to like social, so we fall victim about as much as anybody to the promise of social networking. Plaxo started out as a place to sync your contact list...now it wants to...
(1) Love love love LinkedIn for it's powerful, deep, and broad search tools, but LI has just a fraction of the population of FaceBook. What if you could do similar custom searches on FaceBook as you do on LinkedIn? You can with the techniques explained in the Boolean Black Belt...