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Kick-Ass TeleForum: How to Promote Your TeleSeminars Using Joint Ventures

Nothing to do with social media per se... other than how I heard about this (saw Kick-Ass Karen Skidmore's tweet):

There's a new TeleForum which many of you will want to know about...

In How to Promote Your TeleSeminars Using Joint Ventures, Karen will be sharing, "What you need to know about using other business’ databases so you can get more clients registered for your own teleseminars."

Full information and registration can be found here:
http://www.kick-assteleclasses.com/how_to_promote_teleseminars.php

Twitter for Business: Is it a good place to promote a newsletter?

Had a very interesting question come in yesterday in this comment from DesignGuy. He asks,

"In your Twitter-experienced opinion, do you think it would be a good place for a newsletter drive?"

As I said in response to the comment, my answer would be 'yes' and'no'...  it depends... and I promised to elaborate in a post, so here goes..

Social networks are all about building relationships - most people use them to network and make new connections and keep in touch with existing 'real-life' friends. So ordinarily, I'd be saying that using Twitter for purely 'self-promotion' purposes is a bit of a bad idea - unless you are socially adept enough to do it in such a way that you don't abuse the trust people have placed in you and ultimately alienate people.

But this question is about a newsletter drive for an online magazine, so right there we're in a different space...

BusinessBlogAngel says Hello S.Africa, Mexico, Paraguay, Brazil & China!

I just spotted some new green spots on my Feedjit Live Traffic Map in areas where I've been wishing there were green spots, so I clicked through and guess what? BusinessBlogAngel just had its first visitors from South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and China! Yay!

Welcome! Bienvenidos! Bem-Vindo! Huan Ying!
Thanks for dropping by. You've made me very happy. :o)

WillMeOn.com - will you will on Will Maybanks to London 2012?

Before I go 'short and sweet', I have to tell you about one of the projects that's been keeping me busy over the last month or so - www.WillMeOn.com. 

William Maybanks is a talented, British table tennis player with an Olympian goal; to compete for his country at London 2012. Table tennis has had it's funding for 2012 drastically reduced, so if Will is to realise his dream and compete on the world stage at London 2012, he will have to raise the necessary £300k himself. Given the current economic climate, securing a large sponsorship deal from any one business or individual is no longer a realistic proposition... and so the idea for WillMeOn was born! 

I know nothing about Table Tennis, but my 'entrepreneurial spirit', thirst for all things 'personal development' and professional obsession with social media and personal branding meant that from the minute Chris Ogle told me about Will Maybanks and the WIllMeOn idea he was hatching, I was on board.

"Twitter sucks and so do you. Probably."

So Twitter Gold, my random series of Twitter-related posts... here we go... Was in Twitter yesterday for all of 3 tweets, but just happened to see my dear friend Rory Reid tweet that provocative headline from a post on his blog at CNET UK.  Naturally, I had to respond, but their comment function doesn't recognise page breaks so reading my response over there is a bit of an ordeal - hence I thought I'd reproduce it here as a post. Before you go on, read his "Twitter sucks..." article and then come back here.

"Rory, Rory, Rory!  I can't believe you still don't get Twitter!  Of course, some, nay... many of your points are indeed true, but it's not the whole truth 'cos the thing with Twitter is HOW you use it.

To address your points:

Who cares?  Well, a Nutritionist might have a great suggeston for what to replace cheese with... and may find themselves with a new client as a result. If people's tweets are mundane - don't follow them! Follow those who are interesting - or who have information which could be useful to you."

Otherwise engaged. How would you like your Twitorial?

As Business Coach @LouiseBJ commented, "For a BlogAngel, you are mighty quiet ;-)" and she'd be right. 'Til this moment, I hadn't blogged since December 11th - well not on this blog at least - I've been otherwise engaged, so please forgive me and accept my very best wishes for you and yours for 2009 and wasn't the inauguration uplifting and the snow fun!?

So we're in a recession... well, at the risk of being insensitive to others' alleged suffering, you could have fooled me!  I got back to work on the 6th Jan and haven't had a quiet moment since - so yet again, I find myself with plenty to say, but no clue where to start...