Our featured guest will be Shama Kabani–president of The Marketing Zen Group, a full service digital marketing firm that serves clients around the world.  She has been dubbed the “master millennial of the universe” and “an online marketing shaman” by Fast Company, and was listed as one of Business Week Magazine’s ’Top 25 Under 25′ entrepreneurs in North America.   

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Social media has the capabilities to take your business to new places, but you have to understand how social media interacts with your existing marketing plan. You might be posting to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube many times each day, but do you know eactly how this is benefitting your business? Are you sure that you’re using these powerful social media tools smartly and effectively?

Check out our next live Teleclass on Wednesday, July 28th at 8 PM EST entitled “Step Up Marketing Using Social Media” with social media expert Tia Singh and learn how to take advantage of this amazing technology. Tia has used social media to take her business from the ground up, and will teach you the tips that have made her a success. By the end of the call, you’ll be equipped with 3 social media steps you can implement immediately in your business! Click here to register for our next call.

– Oscar Wilde

Stay tuned for some upcoming A Red Bench teleclasses on Facebook and You Tube, but in the meantime check out this interesting article called Selling Services for the Price of a Tweet.

For more information on social media and marketing check out our audio recordings on a variety of related topics.

Tim was full of incredible information and was very inspiring.  You can learn more from Tim’s books Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends and The Likeability Factor at his web-site.

So…who are three people that you can introduce to each other?  Maybe you have a client who is moving and you can introduce them to mover and a custom closet company.  When you send the e-mail introducing everyone be sure to include the reasons why you thought they might be able to work with each other. 

Here’s to your new habit!

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We have over 50 Audio Recordings to choose from and many may apply towards your continuing education credits.  Click here to see our audio library. 

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My booth neighbors were Sandy Jenney of Organize with Sandy  and Linda Easton of Extraordinary Organizing .  That’s us pictured to the right.  Here is what I LOVE about conference…there are so many people doing amazing things!  These women are both doing amazing things and are pioneers in their own rights.  Sandy is very successful with her organizing business, Organize with Sandy blog, Chat with Sandy blog, product reviews, selling products, and more.   She recently had the opportunity to interview Peter Walsh on her blog, click here to watch the interview.  Sandy is a woman who is in the know and stays on top of products and trends. 

Linda Easton is also doing some amazing things.  Of course she runs her organizing business but she has also created her own line of workbooks, and she has started an organizing home party business.   To learn more about Linda and opportunities to becoming one of her consultants click here to visit her web-site.  

The take-away here is that when you look at Professional Organizers there are many different business models that are available.  In both the cases I described above and what I observe from many successful Professional Organizers is that they have multiple streams of income, they are doing something unique, and they have a passion for what they are doing.  Marrying what you love and what you have fun doing with what you are already good at, time and time again shows up as the secret to success.  Can you add a twist to your services?  Something new and different that might bring a little excitement to your business?  We’d love to hear what you’re doing. 

Angela

This year’s conference was bitter sweet for me, okay, much more sweet than bitter, but bitter non-the-less.  It was sad because my business partner Christa Wagner could not make it this year.  Oh how I wish she could have been there.  But it was exciting because this year I was going to be on the oh so famous Ask the Organizer Panel.  This was a true treat as I was on the panel with five amazing women!  New organizers and veterans alike asked some fantastic questions with many coming up about social media.  Yes, social media was definitely a hot topic this year. 

The Expo Hall had a mini face lift this year with the addition of the Market Place.  This was exciting as A Red Bench was able to participate in this new venue.

There is so much to talk about I will be posting several blogs over the next few days with my conference highlights.  Including highlights from the Ask the Organizer Panel, the Expo Hall, Opening Keynote with Tim Sanders, and more on trends I observed at conference including Social Media.  So keep checking there’s more to come soon!

Angela

What causes do you stand for?  How could you incorporate this into your business.  For more information on social media, listen to one of our many Social Media Teleclasses.  Topics include How to Plan, Build and Promote Your Blog, Secrets To Leveraging Facebook, Turn Followers Into Fans (and Leads!) and Be On Top Of Google.

This year’s conference was truly amazing!  I met the most amazing people and learned so much.  I met many people who have taken some of our Red Bench Teleclasses.  It was such an inspiration to hear so many good words about what Christa and I are doing.  We are thrilled that people like the classes and find them beneficial. 

I will be bringing you information in the coming months about products and tools I learned about.  We’ll also be bringing some fantastic guest speakers that I met with at conference.  We are still working with different speakers to finalize a few dates so keep an eye on our calendar for the latest details.

Three cheers for organizers!