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Enhance Your Relationship Building Through the Power of Blogs by Fellow Chicagoan and Guest Author, Jason Jacobsohn
Enhance Your Relationship Building Through the Power of Blogs
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Personal branding is so important for your credibility and longevity in the business world. You want to resonate positively with others so they will remember you. Make sure you don’t get lost in the crowd. You need to spend time branding yourself around a particular area of interest. Examples of subjects include search engine optimization, networking, channel marketing and investing. Pick a subject you’re passionate about and enjoy talking to people about. By doing this, you will become more credible and will find it fun to share your expertise.
Blogs are a great way to extend your personal brand. As you likely know, they are essentially an online Web journal of your thoughts. Blogs are public and virtually anyone can read what you write. It can be a powerful way for you to share your knowledge with the world. Creating a blog was a perfect way for me to extend my brand. I started Networking Insight, which is a place for me to share additional perspectives and observations about networking.
Display Your Subject Matter Expertise
Another great tool for building relationships with other bloggers is to sign up at MyBlogLog.com, which allows you to create a blog profile. As long as you visit another blog that has signed up for this service, the blogger will know that you have visited his or her blog. Once you see who has visited your blog, you can then reach out to these people and view their blogs as well. It is similar to LinkedIn. It has had so much success that Yahoo! acquired it in 2006.
Final Thought
Take blogging seriously. It’s not going away. Whether they’re for business or personal satisfaction, blogs come in all forms.
They are a great way to connect with new people and to show the world that you have an expertise. As a result, you will have the opportunity to extend your personal brand.
Jason Jacobsohn
A blog about effective relationship building for business and life
From Waitress to CEO: The Rise of Carolyn Gable
Carolyn Gable graduated from beautician school in the early 1980s, and then found herself working as a waitress at the revolving restaurant atop the Chicago airport. She liked watching the high-powered businesswomen she’d see come through the door. “They used to come in carrying briefcases and wearing those power suits with big shoulder pads,” Gable recalls. “And I thought, “I can do that.’ ”
Carolyn didn’t have a college degree or a background in running a business, but as a waitress and mother of seven, she says she developed the skills of a CEO. Carolyn was on Oprah & Friends radio show today talking about now being the CEO of her $28 million company and her new book, Everything I Know as a CEO I Learned as a Waitress.
“I didn’t have any supporting family or education,” says Gable, who has overcome that and has been recognized for her entrepreneurial savvy — in 2004, she won The Right Award for workplace excellence from the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and in 2002, the Ernst & Young Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year award for outstanding customer service. “If I can do it,” she declares, “anyone can.”
Carolyn says waiting tables near Chicago’s busy O’Hare airport was “life school.” “What an education that was,” she says. “How do you teach someone to communicate? How do you teach someone to have a personality and be enthusiastic? You need to have all of those things to be a waitress.”
Carolyn shares ways that waiting tables prepared her to be a CEO:
- She says waiting tables helped her showcase her values of honesty, initiative and hard work.
- Carolyn says she is always upfront with her customers in the transportation business just as she was with customers in a restaurant. If something isn’t to the customer on time, she lets them know exactly what’s going on, rather than making excuses.
- While handling money is part of waiting tables, Carolyn says it was her experience of balancing her personal checkbook that helped her run her company. She says she followed the simple rule of balancing what comes in with what goes out every single day.
At a book signing last night, Carolyn reminded us, “Customers will tell us what they want…..listen to them. Don’t give them what you think they need. We sometimes forget that customer care is # 1.”
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The WEST SUBURBAN WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS have hired me to speak for them at an event around the topic of WEB 2.0.
What is so amazing about the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, is that the world has changed! The cheese has been moved! Think of it this way – when the Internet and web development first started, it was this huge cyberspace to post things to be read. There was no interaction. Web 2.0 is all about interaction! and sharing! and linking! It’s social now and everyone can play in the game! Everyone from IBM to my grandmother who lives on a farm in Flint, Michigan!
In the old days, you had to chase business; “push” business. Now you create a worldwide “pull” marketing strategy to bring prospects to you! The secret is knowing what new tools to use and how to use them effectively. So on Saturady, May 19th, the WSWE has invited me to speak to their group, and guests, about this new evolution of the Internet and what is called Web 2.0. We’ll explore the potential of what I think are the top 3 free online tools available – blogs, article hubs, and LinkedIn.
So mark your calendar if you would like to attend!
Saturday, May 19th, 2007, 10am-1pm, downtown Chicago at 200 S. Wacker.
Non-members of WSWE can attend for $80, payable at the door by cash or check.
RSVP to Karen Hanrahan, WSWE Program chair, programs@wswe.org –
for more info call 708-482-0678. Snacks and beverages will be provided and it will be a lot of fun!
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Mariachi Herencia de México, an ensemble of students from Chicago’s immigrant barrios, is mariachi music’s most exciting newcomer. The group scored a surprise hit with their debut album of traditional Mexican music, Nuestra Herencia (Our Heritage), which hit #2 on the iTunes Latin chart, defying a music industry trend and pointing to a revival in recorded mariachi music. The album scored a 2017 Latin Grammy nomination in the Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album category demonstrating that this group of students have the talent, training and bravado to hold their own with the best in the world.
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