Social Media Tips: Best Tools for Writers, Consultants, Coaches, and Speakers

February 3, 2010 by DrDaveHale
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Are you a Writer, Consultant, Coach, or Speaker? If so, you more than likely always find yourself in a mode of self-promotion. Social media networking sites are great tools to use for informing customers and potential clients of current events.

Here are just a few of the uses for such sites:

1. Letting people know where you will be appearing

2. What you are writing

3. Asking people to sign up for mailing lists

4. Posting pictures of jobs you have completed

5. Posting inspirational notes

6. Positioning yourself as THE EXPERT on your niche.

Great sites to use in order to implement the strategies are Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and WordPress Blogs as marketing tools. Integrate all of these sites and tips into your social media strategic plan and you too will see your sales up double digits in no time.

Freelancers even use social media platforms such as Twitter as a cyber water cooler, but also to target the people they follow to potentially grab freelance work from them or referrals. It’s a great way to get a inquiries.

Do you incorporate a membership platform into your website or off of your blog? If so, have a social media presence on your homepage directing your members and interested people to several outlets to interact with you: LinkedIn, Twitter, Second Life, Facebook, etc. Check out the value of YouTube in your PR efforts also.

So, in your planning efforts use a blog, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, possibly manage multiple Twitter Handles, Co-Tweet for management, have a “Personality” on Facebook as well as a company page.

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The Writing Professor, Now Offering Professional Writing Services

November 12, 2009 by DrDaveHale
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November 10, 2009 — COLUMBIA, SC - David Hale, PhD the start-up guru behind DHI-Communications and The Internet Marketing Professor (www.drdavehaleonline.com), announced today that he is launching a new professional writing, desktop publishing, and training company, The Writing Professor, the world’s first full-featured writing service client designed for mainstream users. The Writing Professor has quickly become the most popular solution for combining academic and technical editing, desktop publishing, resume, blog editing, and other professional communication projects, with the technical and tactical expertise of university writing professors, into one service.

While other writing services simply provide clients a finished project, The Writing Professor’s new service presents writing and document design that is university tested, industry proven, and government accepted. “Our writing services focus on a conversational tone, which makes it easier for a client’s audience to understand its value plus exceed academic and industry standards, ” said Dr. Hale, CEO of DHI-Communications.

The client services also includes a variety of exclusive features such as one-on-one consultations to better understand a client’s vision, writing for print and electronic media, executive resume writing and interview preparation, along with a full menu of training options.

“Our finished product reads and looks like a conversation, not a column of information to sift through,” said Hale, “Our solution presents the clearest answer to the question, who is this company or person and what value can they deliver?”

About DHI-Communications:

DHI-Communications was founded in 2008 with the goal of simplifying both online and offline communications through its flagship product, The Writing Professor. The first open industry solution for combining academic and technical document editing, desktop publishing, resume writing, blog editing, and other professional communication projects, with the technical and tactical expertise of university writing and communication professors, into one service.

About Dr. David Hale:

David Hale, PhD, is a serial entrepreneur, Internet Marketing and Communications expert, and founder of DHI-Communications, a business communications consulting and coaching firm with offices in Columbia, SC. Hale advises businesses, organizations, and individuals on how to integrate online and interactive media into their marketing mix to build market relationships and deliver value. He is also a professor at Webster and Northcentral Universities, where he teaches industrial & organizational psychology, communications, research writing, and Internet marketing courses.

For more information, visit www.drdavehaleonline.com.

Contact:
Dr. David Hale, help@drdavehaleonline.com, (803)-462-4802

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Free Stuff For Internet Marketers

May 20, 2009 by admin
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The Authority Black Book

Downloaded over 40,000 times and ranked the #1 eBook of 2007 by Mashable.com. The Authority Black Book is responsible for more Web 2.0 and social marketing traffic than any paid resource on the web. This is the book that put Web 2.0 and Social Marketing on the map.

FeedBurner Subscribers

FeedBurner Subscribers Firefox Add-On is a handy add-on for monitoring your RSS readers and hits to your RSS feed. Bloggers will find this add-on extremely valuable because you can track feed readers right from your browser. Free registration required for install.

Bending The Web

Bending the Web is a joint project between Jack Humphrey and Howie Schwartz. They are the two most published and accomplished social marketing experts on the web today. Bending the Web picks up where Authority Black Book left off and shows you practical application of the vast resources available from the Black Book.

Velocity Feeds

Velocity Feeds is a Wordpress plugin for creating custom RSS feeds. Instructions are included within the plugin, but Velocity Feeds will create custom RSS feeds based on keywords your visitors want to use.

Toggle Wordpress Editor

Editor Toggle - This handy plugin adds a checkbox above your Writing window to Toggle the Visual Editor in Wordpress. Why? Because you have to disable the Visual Editor every time you want to put video code or Javascript in your posts. This makes it one-step instead of three or four steps.

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Your Million Dollar Bonus Report, Free!

May 19, 2009 by admin
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Jeremy Gislason of SureFireWealth INC SureFireWealth.com has graciously allowed me to offer his special report to my readers. I have read this report numerous times and can honestly say that Jeremy has gone all out in providing indepth insight into pure success tips.

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This report really digs deep into the powerful psychology behind this common marketing tactic and once you know the truth you’ll see your profits explode!

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To download a free copy of the “Million Dollar Bonus Report” Click Here

You should save the file to your “Desktop” or another folder you can easily find. Once you have downloaded the file, go to your desktop or the file you saved it to and double click the file to open it.

Opening And Using Your Files: You’ll need the free Acrobat Reader program to read the manuals. If you don’t have a copy of the Acrobat program on your PC now, you can get a Free copy here - You’ll also need a zip utility to un-pack the zipped file. If you don’t have a zip utility on your PC you can get a free one here

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