Over the past month or so I have found a couple of things that I know will really help my business Grow. First is Twitter. I have figured out how to get a lot of followers as yesterday i got into the top 100 Twitters in Austin. Which is pretty good. There are 12,000 people twittering in Austin. I should be in the top 50 By Mid October and into the top 20 by Mid December. One thing that is pretty cool is there are over 100 other twitters finding me everyday.
Archives for 2009
General Conference
I didn’t get to watch all of the conference sessions. But I am Excited that I will get to read and listen to all of them again. It is so great that the church is up on the technology that makes all of that available. Something I started doing last conference was typing out all the conference talks. I wanted to read and re-read all the talks. And as a benefit I would get to practice my typing. I am closer to 70 wpm know which is the fastest I have been in my life. I still would like to be much faster. I would like to improve about 1 wpm a week. but it is goind slower than that. Maybe 1 to 1.5 words a minute per month. I am still improving though.
I will probably comment more on the talks when they are available and I get to read them.
I got to see my daughter score a goal in her soccer.
This past week I went over the 9000 followers on twitter mark. I am reading a bunch of blogs and looking at what other people have to say about business. it is good because I am not seeing any that are saying that same thing about business that I am saying. I do think it is going to be a long ride to get to the point I want to be. I will just keep pluggin away until I get where I want to be. I have been sporadic at best with my sleeping and working schedule.
I am also trying to get a merit badge workshop going for scout. There are just so many scheduling conflicts. So many people going in so many directions. We’ll see how this works out.
I wish I was more inspired on what to right that may inspire someone. But today is not that day.
Not going to be able to write on Wed or Thurs
There is just way too much going on to write anything decent. I would like to write more but that with all that I have going on; Work, Scouts, Family and trying to get my business going is making things difficult. I am just going to need to write more on other days.
Plus I am not feeling inspired to write very much right now.
LDS Career Workshop
This past weekend I spent about 6 hours at a career workshop. With a couple of friends. I picked up a couple of new things from the workshop. The first is that I need to come up with a better. “Elevator Speech” Here is what I have come up with:
I am a business consultant with over 15 years of successful leadership experience. I am successful because I can fix problems and motivate employees. With my skills I have been able to raise profits and increase employee productivity. I am passionate about learning something new everyday. Because of this I have been able to identify and adopt emerging technologies. This has help me to better manage risk and design innovative solutions to problems
We also learned about power statements. I need to work on more. I am creating a google document with more of the power statements. But here is one for an example.
I can work hard and smart. for example I was given the responsibility of turning an office around that was missing deadlines. I worked 12 hour days to design and implement a system that paid people more to produce more. Within two months were were beating our deadlines by two hours. and the average production for each employee had doubled.
I will continue to work on more of these statements.
Social Media – Really, Not That Social
Here are just a few quick observations of the new social media.
1. Most people are just watching or maybe don’t have time to be involved.
I had one friend on facebook that took over 6 months to respond to question. I have had many that have taken over a month to respond to a question. I have over 300 friends on face book which is not very much. But there is only about 10 15 that I interact with on a regular basis. I have 3500 followers on business twitter account and I have only had a conversation with about 15 to 20 of those folks
2. Some people are broadcasting.
I have a few friends that are constantly posting stuff all the time, where they’re going, what their eating for lunch, pictures of places they are visiting. But when I try to start a little conversation. nothing in response. I realize people are like that and so life goes on. Twitter is the worst right now. There are so many people constantly broadcasting they know the secrets to the universe, about money, products, philosophies. Also one of the problems with twitter is their are a bunch of automated tools that allow people to abuse the broadcasting.
3. Only a few are engaging.
This is the part that I really enjoy. I have always been social, I can blame that on my parents. My mom is always trying to visit and engage with people. I am the same way. So the social media is alluring to me. I love to have conversations and engage with people. I am becoming more efficient at doing this. It’s fun for me I realize there is a bunch more giving and a not much taking. My hope is that I can make a difference. My hope is that with this social media we will all engage more.