Our Embrace Social Media, a  TeleSummit Audios and Transcripts will be available soon, so stay tuned or email us at info@aredbench.com to be the first to hear of their release.  But in the meantime, here are a few of my own takeaways from the event. 

• Start with a blog first.  If you are heading down the path of social media, the first step is to get a blog so you own all your intellectual property.   If everything you write is on Facebook or Twitter, you don’t own your material.  Create a blog and then link your blog to the various social media tools.  For help getting started purchase and listen to our class called How to Plan, Build and Promote Your Blog with Blog Expert and 2 Time NAPO Conference Speaker Rich Brooks. 
• Add Value:   If you are using social media solely for the purpose of personal use, then sure post that your child just pooped himself.  But if you are using social media for your business think about how you can add value and what would attract people to your.  What problems or challenges do your followers have and how can you provide some help and solutions. 

It’s up to you if you want to participate, but there is a lot of opportunity out there and the world has certainly become a lot smaller with so many friends waiting for more information.

We will launch the Embrace Social Media, a  TeleSummit Audios and Transcripts one at a time or you can get all eight very soon!  More details coming soon!

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Thursday, June 11th
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The reason TeleSummits works so well is your get expert information without having to leave your office.  No need to fly anywhere, stay in a hotel or pay for meals on the road.  Just sit in your office and call-in at the scheduled time to hear each one of our amazing Social Media Experts.  How awesome is that?  

Register nowto take advantagse of earlybird pricing which ends May 20th.

Rich was an A Red Benchexpert last year and his teleclass, How To Plan, Build and Promote Your Blog, was awesome.  We expect his contribution to the TeleSummit to be just as outstanding. 

Angela had a leadership meeting with the board members of each NAPO  chapter and then off to the Ask The Organizers Panel. This panel is always fantastic; everyone has so many of the same questions and they get answered by veteran organizers who have paved the way and learned a great deal over the years. We are so proud of Lauren Halagarda, an A Red Bench member, who is a panelist and a NAPO Conference speaker this year. I was a panelist in 2005 and I can remember how nervous I was so be sitting in front of my peers. Lauren did and amazing job!  You go girl!

Our opening keynote speaker was Scott McKain, author of “What Clients Really Want.” He was amazing and he actually brought me to tears in his presentation.  One of the comments he made was “If you have not done everything you could possibly do to build your business, your problem is not the recession, its business development.”  Wow! 

I excitedly went to my first education session which was 7 Proven Steps To Designing Workshops Participants Will Love.   It was outstanding.  I got a few little nuggets I will be sure to use in my next workshop.  When its not 1am, I will write more details, but its too late now and I have to be at the booth in a few hours. 

After the session, it was back to the Expo Hall, a cocktail reception with all the CPO’s and then…. well…. yeah…. it was back to the bar.  It’s Orlando and conference…… hey THE RICH BROOKS was in the house. 

Good night!