Show Up tell The Truth and Don’t Be Attached

Seems like a simple statement. Let’s take a closer look.

1. Show up
We are talking physically , emotionally and spiritually.

a) Physically, means on time and dressed for the part. If you are house painter where painters clothes, if you are professional dress like one. Casual Friday has morphed from slacks and a dress shirt without a tie to “guess who ruined casual Friday” It is your job to be the part and look the part.

b) Emotionally,  means you must leave your problems of the world out of the appointments. Again we are the pros and we are there to help people with their situation, they really don’t want to know about ours.

c). Spiritually, now I don’t mean asking for an amen or anything like that. I mean you are there for them and them only, it is an extension of emotionally.  You cannot be looking at your watch wondering if you need to pick up milk on the way home…

2. Tell the truth
I am not suggestion that we lie to people BUT we sometimes are not comfortable with telling the whole truth.

For an example if you are a real estate agent and you are on an appointment with a seller, they have several dogs, many cats and they smoke. Most people don’t want to hurt their feelings, I don’t either. I mean don’t tell them their house stinks to the high heavens and you think it is disgusting. But you have to tell them they have issues with odors.

They know it does, so handle it like a pro something like. Not everyone has a love for pets they way you do, we are going to have to work on the odors, it’s not about what we think, it’s about what a potential buyer thinks. They must be told.

We all have heard the expression “call a spade a spade” then once I heard an ending that said “not a dirty rotten shovel”

3. Don’t be attached
This is one of the tougher ones. The things that cause us to be attached is ego, the need for money and the fear of rejection.

Ego, we don’t like to lose, we want the deal bad, so we start competing for it.

The need for the money, needing the money can cause folks to compromise themselves and do things they may not other wise do. People know when you are full of it, they know when you have their best interest at heart.

The fear of rejection is a very strong thing. One of the most basic human needs is to be loved and rejection can really hit a nerve.

I am not saying to be insensitive to people. Just don’t allow the outcome to influence what you say, do or think. Stick to your principles and have a genuine desire to help them.

How to Automate a Social Media Campaign

Social media can be a great tool or it can make you wonder where the day went.

Have you ever wondered how you could automate some of that?

There are tools to automate the process. You can create a campaign and schedule it.

One of my favorite solutions is called HootSuite, there are others

From a simple dashboard you can follow multiple social media streams such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkeIn and more.

But more than follow multiple streams of social media. It is a social media marketing machine.

You can schedule postings for a future time to multiple accounts. There is analytics, team collaboration, custom themes, browser extensions and much more.

Like a lot of SaaS (Software as a Service) products, they are a Freemium. The free account has up to 5 Social Profiles, 2 rss feeds and is ad supported.

The Pro version is very inexpensive at $5.99 per month. Unlimited Social Profiles, with Google analytics and Facebook insights integration, you can bulk upload campaigns in a csv file, those tools are more for larger companies.

Once you create an account you add your profiles such as your personal Facebook profile, Facebook pages, LinkedIn, Twitter.

Scheduling is very simple, you ad the content, select the profiles, click the calendar schedule the time and date, that simple.

Here is a screen shot.

Starting at the left Twitter, Facebook, Twitter Mentions (if someone mentions my twitter handle @Rob_Aubrey) LinkedIn and then to the right off the screen is twitter direct messages.

Normally the message composer is not dropped down like that I dropped them for the image.

Click for Large Image

First you need to have full administrator rights.

Log in to your email account, then to go to manage domain.

See image to the left.

Once you are in the domain manger go to Organization and Users, click on the name of the user that you want to modify, then select change password.

OK, you are convinced that Google Apps is the way to go.

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On November 17th from 10AM until 5PM MST
will be the first of its kind,
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You can watch from the comfort of your home or office or you can come to our office and we will have 3 large screens and some individual computers for viewing.

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