Category: UncategorizedMany of you know of me because of LinkedIn. It’s really the place to be for now and the next few years. Last night Rich Fiene came over to my place and we shared some refreshments and had a nice long discussion about LinkedIn. If you don’t know who Rich is, he’s currently the #1 LinkedIn guy for Minneapolis/St. Paul. I met Rich last summer while we were both attending a LinkedIn workshop held by Mike O’Neil from Integrated Alliances. If you don’t know who Mike is, he’s a LinkedIn rockstar! I don’t know his current stats with LI, but he was #41 in the world and does have 21,000 contacts at this point. If you think I’m a LinkedIn maniac, you should meet this guy.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoneil (feel free to invite him!)
Rich and I discussed many topcis in regards to LinkedIn, how we got to our levels of expertise and where we want to see LinkedIn go. As the manager of LinkedMinnesota, I see many opportunities for LinkedIn to grow and help our group. Rich is also the Director of the Project: Link It Forward that I founded last December. We are in discussions for the 2nd round of PLIF to be called PLIF 2.0. Watch for details, this is an exciting project!
You can invite Rich at http://www.linkedin.com/in/richfiene
As the conversation flowed from one issue to another, Rich and I have learned that we both are well connected on LinkedIn and both are using it in 2 totally differents way. We also discussed how there are so many other folks out there that are in our positions doing it their own way too. It’s almost crazy to think of the value of LinkedIn, if you make it work for you! Not everyone can do it the same way, you have to figure that out for yourself and your comfort level.
While I was ending the evening, I got my 4th client call that day, he was the 3rd client from Linkedin. It’s working for me as an advertising and marketing tool, but it took well over a year to finally see weekly results. Using LinkedIn takes time and you have to put time into it.
Just sayin’ 🙂
Happy Tuesday everyone!
The Truck
I put the bling on the truck right away when I put CTG into action, outside of referrals…it’s one of my top marketing ideas that work!
So many of my clients think that because they have antivirus protection, that they are protected against spyware. This is so far from the case I can’t even tell you about the horror stories I have seen in the past few months.
Can you purchase a spyware detection program that is stand alone from your AV products? Yes, but they are not even fool proof. I have seen clients with Windows Defender from Microsoft fully loaded with hundreds of spyware. Trend, Norton, etc….they all are not spyware proof.
I recommend that you learn how to not get the spyware in the first place, that will help immensely. Here are a few tips I took off Microsoft’s site and will add my own on…
Remember to consider Calling That Girl if you notice your computer is being pudgy and is newer than 3 years old…more than likely it needs a computer cleaing/spyware clean up and we will get it blazing fast again!
Morning y’all!
Nothing too exciting happened yesterday. I had an office day for the most part, then I ended my day/night with a facial from Jungle Red Salon. OMG, does my face feel awesome! I got a chemical peel too, which I can’t believe I got. I’m 40, so I guess I should expect those “recommendations”. Desiree did a great job! If anyone wants to book an appointment, make sure to mention “Lisa” and I will earn $10 in credit, that will be helpful for the chemical peek #4 I need…ouch. That one burns I guess. I had the #1 yesterday, can’t even see burn marks LOL.
Today is a busy day, back to back clients, then ending with a short happy hour to celebrate the intern’s birthday.
The Tips and Tricks:
Many of us have been using computers for so long now, that you assume everyone knows all the little easy shortcuts on the keyboard. Not the case! Everyone tends to use the computer how they are taught or learned by reading/training or by accident (which is my favorite discovery).
A few keyboard shortcuts for the rookies and gentle reminders for the seasoned keyboarders…
**OMG, my computer froze and I didn’t save that huge word doc!
Hit the Alt key + tab key = shows you all the programs you have open.
This is super handy when one application freezes and it appears to be your whole computer. Many times the Alt Tab trick can get you to a document that you don’t have saved and “woo hoo” save the day!
**Hey, every time I type, it deletes what I just typed!
Hit the “Insert” key.
I honestly don’t know what the insert key does nor have I ever used it, I just know this trick works.
My computer is running, but it won’t come to life! It’s in a computer coma!
Stop using the “sleep” function.
Computers like to sleep as much as we do and when you put them to “sleep” they can sleep really deep and not wake up nicely.
Whoa, my website just totally changed and I lost all my menu bars!
You hit the F11 key probably.
Hit it again and the website will go back to normal with the toolbars
Remember to keep Call That Girl in mind for your next computer repair to!
SHAMWOW! I love my new tires! I got the Firestone Destoyers (I think that’s the name) and do I feel like a new woman! Driving around yesterday was like flying an airplane. Loved it!
Ok, enough happy happy. Yesterday was a good day, hit the Bloomington Clients and got them both squared away. Then raced back to the office to interview an intern from Hamline. I liked her, I think she will make the cut. I’m working an “intern academy” right now. What is that you ask? It’s a team of students from St. Thomas, Carlson School of Management and Hamline who will be my business developers, office managers and marketing team. As a start up business, I have alot to offer interns and in return, they will learn and help me too. They will get to work on many hands-on projects, be decision makers and actually have something worth some weight in their portfolio. I love helping as much as I can, so this will be another worthwhile project.
Speaking of projects…the Project Link It Forward is coming to a close. With so many folks out there doing workshops, the market is saturated and marketing was getting thin. We helped literally 100’s of people learn how to network with Linkedin, it was great experience and so worthwhile doing. I have heard so many success stories, it’s incredible.
Ended my day last night totally exhausted. Felt like a coma would have been a good idea…Today I am refreshed though and am ending my day with a facial and some time on the treadmill. Today WILL be a great day! It’s awesome outside, skirt day too!
I was thrilled to have an office day for once, just me…all day, all day. I didn’t even turn on the music, I just worked like a maniac. Got caught up on tons of “little things”. I took my puppy to downtown dogs so he could have a good day too. After work, I picked him up and dropped him off at home and then I went and did something I have been needing/wanting to do since last fall..I bought new tires!
While the tires were being installed, I headed down to Bryant Lake Bowl for a glass of wine and some downtime. While I was chilling out, I happened to meet a couple of people and they were discussing jobs and resumes and such. Turns out the guy in the group was just let go and of course…I had to chime in of course. I gave him my 2 cents on the job market and then he in turn said he was going to start freelancing. Excellent! I love the new entrepreneurs. With how things are going now…if you have a skill and the desire to do it on your own, you might as well.
I’ll be conducting workshops starting towards end of May for the rookie entrepreneurs and the seasoned vets. I have learned so much in the past almost 2 years, it’s time for me to share that knowledge. I’ll post the info here on the blog.
So today should be a good day, now that I got the new tires on, I can BLAZE around Bloomington again! Back to the folks out there to finish up. Then off to look at a new office space..I’m very excited to get moving on with that.
Happy Hump Day!
Lisa
