http://blog.buzzoodle.com Employee Evangelism: Buzz starts with your Team Tue, 13 May 2008 13:39:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The idea that you can contact someone and they will drop everything they are doing to talk to you, write about you or even promote you it not a very realistic goal. Lets try it.  - Stop reading and promote me to all your friends and family for the next 30 ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/05/13/are-you-a-bullet-point-on-a-to-do-list/ The reason you communicate with people is to create relationships.  Maybe not directly, one to one, but connections none the less.  Before you dash off your next email, consider if you are just answering the question or building a better relationship. Email mistakes you may be making: Email too short: If you are ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/05/08/does-your-email-message-stink/ Steve Rubel has an interesting, if not shocking, post about practice and becoming and expert.  Read it and think about how that technique could be incorporated in your organization.  Each employee should understand online media and deliberately practice creating buzz a little bit each day.  No, not two hours - don't ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/05/06/deliberate-practice/ See an old post: here along with the comments.  Someone with the same name would like me to take this post down because people might confuse him with this person.  It was a person going around committing fraud. I got a lot of responses from people after that post about him.  I ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/05/04/care-to-give-me-your-thoughts/  Wink.com is special because it helps you create a great profile of yourself and integrate all your other web accounts and profiles together. If you have the feed from your blog, twitter account or other kind of RSS driven account, you can actually tell wink to display your last few ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/05/02/are-you-letting-just-anyone-edit-your-profile/ Yahoo Answers is a tool that you may not have heard about, but it is a good tool for some people to build traffic, develop more search engine visibility and position yourself as an expert. Saying that, 90% of the questions are not all that serious or professional.  But if you ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/05/02/yahoo-answers/ Years ago, I worked at a university where we created an online community (before it was super easy) and used it to help students get to know each other before arriving at the school.  It was a big success but with some unexpected usages.  Students were using the site to ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/04/29/are-you-creating-linkedin-love/ If you are a regular reader or know me personally, you know we have some very unique business cards that are shaped like bee hives.  They get great results and are well worth the little extra to pay for a die cut. Today I stumbled upon Super Hero Cards.  I am ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/04/22/super-hero-cards/ All too often, you sign up for a free webinar and you get an idea or two, but the majority of the presentation is a sales pitch.  It is actually very effective and as long as you know that going in, that is fine. Lee Salz wanted to find a place ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/04/21/want-meat-in-your-webinar/ If you only have one of the top 10 spots in Google searches for important key words - here is how to probably get some more. Here are three places that will let you (responsibly) publish information with links to your site.  The new thing you write ranks well quickly because ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/04/18/3-quick-places-to-gain-visibility/ We just started helping a new client with a great new website:  Showroom 411 I do not write about every client here, because I try to keep this blog relevant to buzz marketing.  However, showroom 411 has a very relevant story that could be an inspiration to you. Rick Maselli is a ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/04/17/home-improvement-buzz/ For years I have been saying, "You can do this."  and I stand by that. You can create buzz yourself, but you can create more buzz faster with an assistant that really focuses on buzz. I hear from people all the time that tell me they know they CAN create buzz, but ... http://blog.buzzoodle.com/index.php/2008/04/15/why-you-need-the-virtual-buzz-assistant-network/