Crystal Thies - LinkedIn Expert

Growing your business or personal brand requires a solid networking strategy. However in today's busy times it is often difficult to make the time to do it. However the popular professional social media networking service, LinkedIn can be a real time saver in developing key relationships if you know how to use it properly.


Crystal Thies is one of the leading LinkedIn expert in the world. through her website Crystal Clear Buzz she helps businesses and professionals leverage the power of LinkeIn to build a contact and referral base.

A former non-profit executive and financial services professional, Crystal draws on her broad experience and knowledge of technology to help nonprofit organizations and small businesses maximize their online presence.

I was fortunate to get some time with Crystal to do this interview when she was in town for a speaking engagement. The result is a 40+ minute conversation full of tips and advice than any of us can use.

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To learn more about Crystal Thies visit her at Crystal Clear Buzz.

Crystal's LinkedIn Profile

On Targeet #7 Interview with Julia Kline - Social Media Expert

This week I interview social media marketing expert Julia Kline who gets down to basics about how best to use social media to market your business and yourself.

Julia's company,Green Island Marketing, offers a wide array of social media, blogging and video marketing products and services, including training videos, private consulting and done-for-you monthly packages.

Julia first made a name for herself in the online marketing world several years ago with her innovative traffic strategies on eBay. She became the only eBay Titanium Power Seller to successfully sell high-end real estate via auction on eBay. Her success was largely because her online marketing strategies brought as many as 10,000 page views per month to each one of her listings - and 95% were from outside of eBay.

Why interview a marketing expert on a podcast about time management? Several times a month clients ask me if social media is a good investment of their time and if so how can they free up time for it. Who better to ask than than someone who does it for a living.



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Show Notes

For more information about Julia's  workshop in Cleveland, Ohio on August 30 visit  http://ClevelandSocialMediaWorkshop.com  and use the registration code 2733.

 You can also use that link for other information about Julia and her social media services.

Julia recommendes Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day by Mari Smith and Chris Treadway. For more information use the link below:

How our WishList Membership Site Works

I've received a number of inquires about how we created the membership web site that is home to Master Your Workload with Microsoft Outlook.  It seems a lot of listeners produce content that would be a good fit for online delivery.

Workload Master is a WordPress powered content management system using the WishList Member membership site plugin.  It was created and designed by our sister company WishList Master, which is a consulting company that specializes in creating membership web sites for trainers, consultants, publishers and other content creators.

The WishList Master web site contains a number of articles and training videos about the membership business. If you have an interest in this area please drop by the site of contact me anytime.  I love talking about this stuff.

  - Bob

On Target #6 - Interview with Chuck Frey

In today's episode I interview Chuck Frey who is the  founder and publisher of InnovationTools.com, the world's largest website focused upon innovation, creativity and brainstorming. He's also the publisher and author of the The Mind Mapping Software Blog, the definitive source for news, trends, tips and best practices for visual mapping tools. He has also written several popular e-books about mind mapping software and creativity.  His newest book is Creativity Hacks.



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Here is a list of resources recommended by Chuck Frey:

Speech recognition software: Dragon Naturally Speaking
Remote thought capture: Jott
Note:  Here's a recent review of Jott on the WorkloadMaster.com blog.
Web Capture Tool: Evernote

Mind Mapping Blog: Hypershifters.com
Marketing: Marketingprofs.com
Twitter tools: Tweetdeck  Hootsuite

Where to find Chuck:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/chuckfrey
InnovationTools
The Mind Mapping Software Blog 


Photo by Sarah Grice

On Target #5 - Interview with John Kypriotakis

In this episode I interview Tampa, Florida entrepreneur John Kypriotakis about his new venture, LinksNet, that combines business networking with Golf. John also talks about some techniques he uses to stay organized and focused on the things that drive his business.

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John's Websites:

LinksNet
Lysis International Sales and Management Consultants

On Target #4 - Productivity Tech Tools

In this episode we will discuss three technology tools that can keep you on track, help you capture thoughts and to-dos while working remotely and help you streamline your routine e-mail management. Two of the tools discussed are Jott Assistant and SpeedFiler.

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Show Notes:

Read our review of Jott Assistant to help you capture thought while on the go.

See our recent blog post aboutt how SpeedFiler can help you reduce e-mail overload.

Photo by JanneM

On Target #3 - Why CEOs Are Good At Managing Their Time

In this week's episode we discuss some traits and attitudes that CEOs and other successful executives have that make them so good at managing their time. This is a continuation of a few posts I wrote about this subject on my blog at WorkloadMaster.com.  Links to those posts are in the show notes.





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Show Notes:

For more information on this subject please some recent posts on the WorkloadMaster blog:

Background articles from our web site:
Post from October 6 about 5 things you can to manage your time like a CEO.  and how successful executives value their time.
Post from October 13 about one reason we tend to waste time..

For an even more in depth discussion of successful people see this post from Henrik Edberg's excellent web site The Possibility Blog.