Internet Marketing Tips from Denise Wakeman

@DeniseWakeman has been suspended and I have no idea why

UPDATE: It seems that as of about 8:00 p.m. my twitter account was restored as were most of the thousands of others that were "accidentally suspended" due to human error. That caused quite a commotion in the twittersphere!

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This afternoon, I was working on a project and was checking out a client's blog. When I tried to retweet one of her blog posts I saw an alarming notice on my @DeniseWakeman twitter profile:

What the ??? Only a few minutes before I had sent a tweet.

I immediately went to Twitter's support page and submitted a support ticket. I got an auto reply with the following info:

Video Isn't Just for Blogs and YouTube

Today on a teleseminar, Terri Levine, one of my mentors, talked about how she's using video to create closer relationships (and as a result a lot more business) with people she meets: prospects, clients and other people in her life.

She's shooting about 100 (!) very short video greetings every week and sending them via email to her contacts. This isn't a revolutionary new idea...it's a reminder that there are many ways of connecting and by far video is the most powerful.

When you deliver a video greeting that has no hidden agenda, no sales pitch, just a heart-felt sincere message, then you create a connection that will stick with the recipient. You make someone feel really good!

Now that I think about it, I actually did this a few weeks ago.

How to Leverage Your Expertise and Attract More Business

There's no shortage of professional development opportunities. Every day I'm getting emails about this training or that training. Heck, I'm working on developing my own training programs too. This week there are two that stand out for me and that I'll be attending:

Marketing Strategies With White Papers - featuring Michael A. Stelzner
July 2 at 12 pm PT (3 pm ET)

Michael Stelzner (author of the bestseller, "Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged" and the man behind huge summits like Social Media Success Summit) will be leading this free online class.

Go here to check it out.

In this free class, Michael will reveal:

• What marketing techniques bring in ongoing leads at no cost?
• What are the five deadly marketing mistakes most businesses make and how can I avoid them?
• How can I effortlessly get my information in front of prospects?
• What are three proven techniques that greatly improve the quality of leads generated?
• How can I find prospects actively looking for the products or services I sell?

5 Step Formula to Add 6 Figures to Your Business THIS YEAR & Re-Ignite Your Passion While You Do It!
July 3, 12 p.m. Eastern Time

Dave Dee and Alexis Martin Neely help business owners, like you, who've already figured out how to bring revenue into your core business, leverage your business systems, processes and intellectual property into a 6 figure (or more) sideline profit center within your business by packaging the way you do things in your own business and licensing your way of doing things to non-competitors in your industry.

They chose July 3rd to host this teleclass because it's independence weekend in the United States and it could be the start of REAL independence in your life.

Dave & Alexis have the step by step, rock solid, PROVEN blueprint for helping you turn your business experience into a six or seven figure a year cash flow stream that will allow you to go part-time or even retire from your core business completely (if you want to) in short order.

Personally, I'm intrigued by this system and I'll be there. Click here to register for the free teleseminar.

Dave Lakhani on How to Sell When Nobody's Buying

As a quick follow up to my previous post about Dave Lakhani's book How to Sell When Nobody's Buying, here's a short video of Dave speaking to the crowd at a booksigning. There were at least 80 people in attendance (really good for a booksigning!) and Dave spoke about how to sell in an "inconvenient economy."

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Note: I shot this with my Flip Mino HD. I used the Flip software to combine two short clips into a "movie." It was so easy.

Video on Twitter is Getting Easier

Sometimes 140 characters is just not enough. Sometimes you need to connect with your followers in a more intimate way. That's where the power of video comes in.

Over on Build a Better Blog, I've been writing about using video on your blog. But what about twitter? More and more tools are popping up that make it simple to post your videos on your twitter stream.

A new one I just found out about is Twitvid.io which I read about on Twitip.com. You may remember that I did a series of 12 second videos some time back. What I like about Twitvid.io though is that you're not limited to 12 seconds. You can record a video straight from your webcam on the site or you can upload a video. Then, the link to your video is automatically tweeted out to your followers. 

There's also Twitvid that does much the same thing and uploads your video to YouTube at the same time, if you choose. YouTube also now includes the option to automatically tweet your video uploads and post to your Facebook profile.

For efficiency's sake, I use Tube Mogul to upload and distribute my videos to multiple video sites AND I have my blip.tv account set up to then automatically post the video on my video blog AND to twitter. So it's one stop job.

So many options. Pick the one you like best or feel most comfortable using and go for it. If you know of other twitter/video sites (and I'm sure there are more!), post them here in the comments so we all can benefit. Thanks!

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