Internet Marketing Tips from Denise Wakeman

LinkedIn Expert Chip Lambert Interview (video)

After a couple years of exchanging emails, I finally got to meet Chip Lambert face to face. Chip is one of the leading experts on how to effectively use LinkedIn, the business to business social networking site.

There's a lot of buzz about using Facebook and Twitter for social networking and building relationships to grow your business. But don't neglect LinkedIn. It's one of the earliest business networking sites and enables you to develop connections with potential referral partners, joint venture partners as well as clients.

Chip Lambert gave a terrific presentation at Increase Sales with Social Media. Here are some user stats he shared about LinkedIn:  30 million professionals, 1.3 million new members/month 750,000 senior execs, average household income is $109K.

If you're on Twitter, follow Chip Lambert. If you're on LinkedIn, make sure you connect with Chip there as well. If we're not connected on LinkedIn yet, then let's connect!

BlogWorld TweetUp on Friday

You probably think I'm obsessed with Twitter based on the number of posts I've written. Maybe I am. It's such a cool tool for creating really amazing relationships with colleagues and customers. They become friends.

And what's better than tweeting the night away? Meeting your Twitter friends F2F (that's face to face - see Mari Smith's great post on Twitter Lingo Demystified for the full scoop). That's what we'll be doing this week in Las Vegas.

On Monday I'm winging my way to Sin City for a week of meetings with our business mentor and then 3 days at Blog World and New Media Expo. There's been lots of tweeting about who's going to be there and @SpiritCoach has coordinated a TweetUp on Friday night.

My tendency is to introversion. Being at home, connecting via the Internet is generally just fine with me.  BUT, over the last couple of years I've come to appreciate how important it is to get out and actually meet the people I know so well online. It can totally transform the connection and relationship. Now, I can hardly wait to get to Vegas and meet all my friends!

Hey, if you're in Vegas for BlogWorld September 19-21 and want to come to the TweetUp, send me a DM and I'll get you the details.

Public Speaking Can Boost Your Business

As business owners, Patsi and I have learned over the past few years that one of the keys to our success has been taking the plunge and speaking at conferences and to niche groups. Speaking has boosted our credibility and extended our ability to reach more people. In a nutshell, speaking has helped us build a successful business.

Last week we were invited to speak at a 3-day seminar coming up in August, about how to using public speaking to build your business. It's not a seminar for public speakers though if you are one you would probably learn a lot; it's actually focused on business owners, entrepreneurs and service professionals who want to, and know they need to, add speaking to their marketing toolkit.

Our friends Arvee Robinson and Lee Pound have come up with an incredible kickoff offer for their Speak Your Way to Wealth seminar in August.

Drinking from the firehose

Saturday was an intense day of injecting information directly into my brain.  While Patsi was at the Mega Speaking Empire event, coincidentally in the same hotel, I spent the day with 25 others in a room with The System creator, Ken McCarthy at the System Intensive.

I started the day with a 7:30 breakfast with Patsi and our colleague Kathleen Gage of Street Smarts Marketing whom I had never met in person.  We jammed a lot of potential joint venture ideas in to an hour before we all moved on to our workshops.

The System Intensive was approximately 8 hours of Ken McCarthy giving the bird's eye view of marketing online and off.  McCarthy comes from a lineage of direct marketers and then transferred that knowledge to online marketing. The day started with an introduction to the direct marketing giants like Maxwell Sackheim, Eugene Schwartz, John Caples, David Ogilvy, and Gary Halbert.

Speaking Skills: Free resources for becoming confident

If you're interested in improving your presentation skills or overcoming the fear of public speaking, our colleague Dr. Larina Kase has some free resources on confident speaking for you.

1) Here are 3 articles on public speaking anxiety.

2) Here is a charisma quiz and some more articles on storytelling and speaking for business opportunities at.

3) The Blog Squad conducted a 30-minute interview with Larina and you can listen to it here (get more great tips on blogging while you're there too!)

To access more great resources to improve your presentation skills, visit Larina's blog at www.themindsetofsuccess.com.  And of course, we recommend the book, The Confident Speaker by Larina and her co-author Harrison Monarth.

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