Dotti Berry, iDigital Media Pro Empowering Entrepreneurs

Find A Professional…Market Your Business Card 2 for FREE at DottiBerry.com

Find A Professional…Market Your Business Card 2 for FREE at DottiBerry.com

That’s right. You can drop your digital business card on my blog for FREE! Don’t you love the opportunity to market your brand…your services…on my blog…for FREE?

Have you ever “dropped your business card” into a fishbowl many times throughout the years, whether that be a the local Chamber of Commerce meeting,  at your favorite restaurant, or during a raffle.

Well..no more!  That was yesterday.  BusinessCard2 is today! This digital web container allows you to have all of your professional and social identities docked in one place, as well as have links to your videos, websites, slidshares, and powerpoint presentations.

Your digital business card can be easily shared on Facebook with a link that shows up as “Expand my card,” allowing your web container (like mine at the end of this post) to open right there inside of Facebook!  You can take your personal brand all over the internet, yet makes changes in only one spot!

This is an amazing personal branding tool that enables YOU to share YOUR story.  Who, besides you, knows it better?

You can visit my BusinessCard2 at Ask Coach Berry.

To market yourself for FREE, all it takes is two easy steps.

1. Go to Brand You First and set up your FREE BusinessCard2.  The only commitment on our part is is a time one in setting up your details.
2. “Drop it” by clicking on the side side of my blog, where it says, “Find a Professional.”  Once you have your own BusinessCard2, you can drop it at multiple locations!

“Find a Professional” is a new BusinessCard2 feature I recently added.  And guess what?  This feature is also FREE! Just when you think it can’t get any better, it does!

If you like this and want to connect with me via mobile, just text “CoachB” to 90210. You will be able to upload all of my contact info directly into your phone and/or address book connected to your email program.  You will also be able to receive more cutting edge information about new school marketing tools and systems that can help you brand yourself, explode your business and take it to the next level!

You can also Sign up one time & receive reminders for a weekly “Ask Coach Berry” Training2Transform webinar that I offer FREE! You will discover cutting edge information each week. Why do I say that?  I will bet you were not aware about BusinessCard2.  I like finding the golden nuggets and bringing them to you!  Join us!

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Is Your Digital Business Card Still Blank? Shift to Business Card 2. Brand YOU First…Today!

Is Your Digital Business Card Still Blank? Shift to BusinessCard2. Brand YOU First…Today!

It’s about connecting…it’s about engaging…it’s about Visibility!  It’s about Personal Marketing, Personal Selling, Personal SEO, Personal Branding, Identity Management & Self Promotion.  It’s all about the Social Media Revolution. Isn’t it about time you filled in your blank card!

You must recognize that you don’t have your “branding house” in order if your online card is BLANK…and shift and discover a way to Brand YOU FIRST…today!

The initial question you must ask yourself is, “WHY is it blank?”

Then you must ask two more questions…

1. “WHAT do I need to do to shift in order to start creating a personal brand though a digital business card”, and…
2. “WHY is this important for my business success?”

The answer to the initial question is one that only you know.  I would suggest, however, that you, like many others, don’t know a problem exists; therefore, you aren’t looking for a solution.  You simply don’t know you don’t know.  If you aren’t thinking that a digital card that can hold EVERYTHING exists, you obviously aren’t seeking a solution.

On the other hand, if you have ever wondered and thought about how great it would be to have all of your information in one, tidy little on-line container, and are looking to discover it, then count this as your lucky day!

The answer to the next question about what you need to do to shift is based on your new understanding that an online, digital business card does exist!

At this point, you have apply the Kevin Costner thinking/philosophy from Field of Dreams…”If you build it, they will come.”

I like to give people, especially people in business, the benefit of the doubt, believing the equivalent in this case to the above statement, “If they it exists, they will use it.”  I truly believe that if you know a solution exists once you are aware of a problem, you will use the provided tool to solve it.

All I can say is “Stay with me.   There is a solution for you!”

The best part is that it is FREE. The only investment (albeit it an important one) is your time and energy for creating it. BusinessCard2, helping you Brand YOU First, is the only comprehensive digital business card on the internet.  There are other existing resources for exchanging basic information, such as name, email, phone number, and web/blog address, but nothing like this FREE digital business card that I discovered.

I previously blogged about it, but having now implemented it, I am amazed at what is possible!  Its uses are as unlimited as your imagination!

Lief Larson, President of WorkFace, and co-developed of BusinessCard2 says…

BusinessCard2 is a personal marketing and personal branding platform that enables identity management. Is allows you to create, control, and leverage your professional online identity via a portable and interactive business card.  With a BusinessCard2, you can build relationships with new customers, build visibility and raise your profile, and generate more business by receiving prospect leads.

Your Shift that is necessary requires taking action.  You must:

1. Throw away the old files!  Move away from thinking about a business card as you have in the past.
   
2. Install a new operating system!
   Pretend you have written a business plan.  You must now implement it.  In this case, it means utilizing a marketing strategy with Your Digital Business Card.  How do you accomplish that?  Utilize a link signature in emails and forums, or a hyperlinked icon in email, or embed it in your blogs and websites.  You can view mine at the end of this blog post, or in the side bar.

And…let BusinessCard2 search engine it for you.  Lief explains that,
“Owning your namespace in search engines is an essential part of your professional discoverability.  BusinessCard2 is designed to help you rapidly raise your profile in search engines such as Google, Bing, & Yahoo.

In many instances, they can help you ride to the first page of search results in 11-19 days.  The SEO (search engine optimization) benefits you receive are completely value-added.

Now…to consider the last question about why this online card is important to your business success.

How many times do you need to hear Brand YOU…First before you believe it?

This isn’t about ego.  It’s about practicality…and Personal Marketing…and Personal Selling…and Personal SEO, and Personal Brandng, and Identity Management and Self Promotion.

In today’s global marketplace, branding you first is both essential and critical to your success because

a) 30-40 year stints with one company are a relic of the past, and

b) more people will have their own small business in the future vs. having a J-O-B.

What am I saying? You must create a personal brand, even in the midst of working for a particular company because your status will likely change in the future, and change again, and change again.  You may, or I should say, probably will, at some point in your life, have your own small or home-based business.

This is the Age of the Entrepreneur & iPreneur Revolution…to the tune of 79 million joining in the next three years. At least that is what Forbes predicts. Your decision is whether or not you are joining it!

If you plan to marketing in any way via the internet,

The bottom line is that there is no one who can “tell your story” better than you!  That is the essence of the Business Card 2 web container.  In today’s digital, global marketplace, Lief has some ideas about that, talking about…

The Importance of Control

If you are like most people today, your digital footprint is expansive. Chances are that websites have inventoried your name, and search engines have indexed those instances of your name. However, having control over the way customers, prospects and partners find and see your online identity is difficult. Most social networks will expose your name, but hide your information behind a walled garden. This is cumbersome for people looking to learn more about you or reach out to you. BusinessCard2 is different. We enable you to fully control how people see you and complete transparency about your professional identity and reputation.

No matter where you are on the globe, decide that today, you will commit your time to developing your own personal digital business card through Business Card 2.  The time has come for you to create Your Digital Business Card. Outside of your time commitment, this opportunity to brand yourself NOW is FREE!  What a sweet deal! You simply can’t beat it.

I am offering a FREE webinar on Thursday, July 8 at 6 p.m. PST/7 p.m. MST/8 p.m. CST/9 p.m. EST. I want to help you get started on discovering all the exciting ways you can set up your BusinessCard2 & how you can use it to market your brand!

Be sure and go to Your Digital Business Card before the webinar, and sign up so that you can work hands on with this tool during the webinar.

Walk Worthy!  Coach B, aka Dotti Berry – Call me toll-free at 1-800-440-9780 or text “CoachB” to 90210 if you have any questions prior to the webinar!

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Want to Build Your Personal Brand? BusinessCard2 Digital Business Card, The Only One You Will Ever Need!

Want to Build Your Personal Brand? Business Card 2 Digital Business Card, The Only One You Will Ever Need!

YOU are unique, authentic and amazing…yes, each one of you reading this blog post!  Whether in your personal life or in your business, YOU have some special talent.  People love to hear one another’s stories.

That is really what BusinessCard2™ helps you create.  Your personal branding business story. It enables you to develop both your UPB (Unique Personal Brand) and your UBB (Unique Business Brand). Bottom line is that BusinessCard2 is your unique business card on the web…and it’s FREE MARKETING!

Branding YOU First is the process of marketing yourself and your career as a brand. It matters not whether you are a SOHO Mobile Professional (S mall O ffice/H ome O ffice)…a Fortune 500 company person…or an Entrepreneur who owns a local brick and mortar business (small or large).   The BusinessCard2 platform is designed to assist in your self-packaging, providing a web container built to hold all the things that make you digitally distinct (your name, your image, your knowledge, your collateral, etc.).  As a Global Digital Consultant in the Mobile Media & SOHO Revolutions, I firmly believe that being digitally distinct is important to YOU and to me, and that positively utilizing technology is invaluable to our businesses as we commit to personal brand market and management and relationship building through using state-of-the-art social networking technology and services.

The commitment you make in order to utilize the free marketing provided by this card is your time and energy, and this is not free.  The end result, however, can more than pay off, and is integral to your marketing. You must carefully craft your communication so that others grasp your uniqueness, vision and brand. My intention is to bring value by showing you how to utilize social media strategies to explode the impact of your PWC (Personal Web Container) and transform your entrepreneurial passion into profits…and success!

BusinessCard2™ provides your own UPB & UBB  ”branding” billboard. Just use the “embed” code and place it on your company website, personal website, or blogs.  I also enabled the “chat” feature so that I can communicate with people as they view my digital business card.

BusinessCard2™ provides badges for using on social networks, websites, and blogs.

Additionally, BusinessCard2™ provides a unique URL, (mine is http://DottiBerry.businesscard2.com), where your BusinessCard2 is located on the web, allowing you to use it in Email signatures, Forums and Comments, and Blogs & Social Sites.  Following are some additional ideas that will explode your business.

• Here’s a new twist. Use this unique URL, leading to an electronic billboard, and print it on the traditional physical business card! You can also take your unique URL and make it into a short url for using on FB & Twitter with your posts. I made mine into http://xr.com/DottiBerry . (Just go to http://xr.com and make yours…stats track how many times people click on it).  I use this short url system for creating short urls about articles, blog posts, and upcoming webinars.  The possibilities are unlimited.

• How about this? Talking to a potential client on your cell phone?  If it were me, I would text message them http://xr.com/DottiBerry after we hung up. Or…if we were texting, I would just send that link to them.  Remember, the possibilities are endless.

• Targeting customers with a mobile marketing campaign that carries a special offer? Lead with short url, taking them to your digital business card that contains the offer? Click here if you missed my post on power of the the mobile media revolution. The amount of information BusinessCard2™ allows you to store is amazing.   You can store all your professional information, making it accessible by thousands of customers, prospects, and partners.  You can connect with business partners, build relationships, and even find a J-O-B (if that’s what you want!).  Use your unlimited imagination to create unlimited marketing opportunities with BusinessCard2.
  
• Tired of your Facebook profile picture and not sure what new one to use? I employed my PWC as my profile picture on FB.  I’m sure you are wondering how I did that, knowing that html code can’t be used as a FB profile pic.  That’s true.  I used a tool called Snag-It to create a jpeg of my PWC along with my unique url http://xr.com/DottiBerry

BusinessCard2™ says. Here’s how we immediately help you with your personal brand :

1. BusinessCard2™enables you to frame your digital persona in a personal brand package. This is where YOU are a spokesperson for YOU.
2. BusinessCard2™offers you and your prospects a central point to control and access your clear, consistent and compelling message.
3. Self-promotion with BusinessCard2™
4. Although we all sell products and services, what our customers buy is US. Thus, great professionals know how to sell themselves.

I hope you are beginning to better understand the value available through utilizing your PWC  in communicating your UPB and UBB.

I was listening to Bill Rowland speak this morning about the future of mobile media and the beginning of a technology curve. . He sold his last company 2 years ago for $108 Million. They were the premier provider of high-quality professional marketing and contracting services to the telecommunications, cable and energy industries.  His remarks are great reminders and offer profound insights, connecting with me on a cellular level.

If you want to manage someone, learn to manage yourself. People aren’t drawn to authority, they’re drawn to leadership. A leader leads by example.

Here’s a real life example of using this BusinessCard2 to provide great content and value (an amazing video on how leaders inspire action) through posting it on Twitter and Facebook like I just did.

great video. http://xr.com/LeadersInspireAction.  check out free digital biz card http://xr.com/DottiBerry

BusinessCard2™ says…

It has become important that each of us becomes marketers of our own personal brands. However, it can be difficult promoting yourself without looking self-promotional or coming across as smarmy or selfish. BusinessCard2 enables you reveal yourself to prospects, customers and partners in a way that is both tactful and helps you achieve your professional objectives.

As a leader, I personally want to be transparent in my interactions and conversations with people as I connect, engage and collaborate…the three essentials of my coaching and consulting.  I call these “essentials” because it is these aspects that allow me to mutually leverage relationships. BusinessCard2™ offers me a compelling way of doing this by allowing me to be transparent with my business values.

Your PWC also helps me to ignite your business through utilizing precise and targeted social media strategies.  An effective PWC will assist me in transforming your passion into profits.  That spells S-U-C-C-E-$-$…online and offline. You can participate in this paradigm shift in business models (the first in my lifetime outside of franchising). Imagine utilizing the mobile media revolution by taking your unique PWC url, turning it into a short url, and texting it to the person with whom you are texting and speaking via phone!

I believe we are experiencing the first paradigm shift in business models (outside of franchising) in my lifetime.  I see the transformational changes happening in the world-wide economy as positive ones.  I believe that the Mobile Media Revolution is igniting the SOHO Revolution and offers unlimited opportunities for individuals.

Roby and I took a year-long journey across America in 2005/06.  Our intention was to engage hearts and minds, create authentic connections, and dissolve differences that separate us.  That core intention drives me in business as well. BusinessCard2™ helps me market my commercial authenticity by inventorying information about me and deploying that data to inform and educate my potential clients.  It can do the same for you.

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