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“IZigg Me” will translate to “Text Me” in Mobile Social Media Revolution
“iZigg Me!” replaces “Buzz me!” in the Mobile Social Media Revolution!
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I wrote a recent post with a headline, “iZigg…you zagg…I text CoachB to 90210…you text funky numbers I can’t remember!”
I have said it before and I will say it again. iZigg is a game changer!
Understanding WHY this is true is essential to making the best choice for marketing your company in the future.
In the past, we said to people “Buzz me,” translating to “Call me.” There was no company that branded in such a way to take advantage of that.
Social media has changed EVERYTHING!
People today say, “Tweet me” for Twitter, and “Friend me” for Facebook.
In both cases, the verbal comment translates to branding the company.
In the past, it was symbols that created a brand. The Nike swoosh is one example. Today, they don’t have to put “Nike” beneath the swoosh for people to recognize that it is a Nike product.
iZigg is going to change EVERYTHING…again!
The branding of iZigg 90210 through verbal comments means that, in the future, ”iZigg me” will translate to “Text me,” and people will be able to remember 90210, the most famous short code in the global marketplace!
Instant recognition…instant branding. They will be the first “Verizon, Sprint, or AT & T” in mobile marketing. There is currently no recognized BRAND in the mobile media industry.
IZigg has truly fired the shots and created the beginning of the Mobile Media Revolution. Mobile media will PUSH social media out into the marketplace in a new way, creating the Mobile Social Media Revolution.
Rather than a statement of “Join the Revolution,” a question puts it more precisely, “Who WOULDN’T want to join this Revolution?”
Now you understand why iZigg holds more potential than any other mobile marketing company out there!
iZigg is a large media agency, offering media agency “franchise type” opportunities to individuals, enabling you to create mobile marketing campaigns for your clients (and much, much more in the future). Mock up a few and share with potential clients. That’s what I did when I met with Sally Edwards, triathlon icon, in Seattle on Monday. It was great fun to be a part of the audience in the show, A NewDay Pacific NW, and then to hear her speak that evening…especially since Roby and I are participating in the Trek Women Triathlon on September 19 in Seattle…our first!
If you have an iZigg Media agency and you would like to learn an easy way to do mockups, a visual way to show potential clients about iZigg Mobile Media, sign up for my FREE webinar I will present on Thursday, July 22 at 6 pm PST/9 EST.
Mcard from iZigg is THE mobile card you need. TEXT: CoachB TO: 90210 to receive mine. Utilize the Mcard along with BusinessCard2, an online digital billboard that brands & promotes YOU! BusinessCard2 is a complete web container where you tell your story. After all, who knows your story better? Partnered with the Mcard, you have a 1-2 marketing/branding/promotion vehicle that will explode your business. And…the best part about BusinessCard2 is that it is FREE! You can get yours at Brand You First.
It doesn’t stop there. Once you get your Free Busines Card2 at Brand You First., come back and click on “Find a Professional.” You will see the tab on the right side of my blog. Then you can “drop your card” on my blog where people can find YOU! And…that’s also a free tool that I just implemented!
Check out my BusinessCard2 below!
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…
- “WHAT do I need to do to shift in order to start creating a personal brand though a digital business card”, and…
- “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:
- Throw away the old files! Move away from thinking about a business card as you have in the past.
- 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!
iConnect and Engage Facebook Club…Three Smart Chicks say, “There’s Got To Be a Better Way!”
iConnect and Engage Facebook Club…Three Smart Chicks say, “There’s Got To Be a Better Way!”
Connecting, Engaging, Collaborating & Leveraging on a Global Level…The Collective Intelligence is the New Expert.
Won’t you join us as we connect globally through Social Media?
Years ago we talked about the “Three R’s” and their importance to our educational system. They were acknowledged to be the foundations of a basic skills oriented education program within schools: Reading, wRiting and aRithemetic.
Wikipedia says, “The phrase is attributed to a toast given by Sir William Curtis around 1825. Since its original creation, many others have created new words for what the R’s stand for.”
Today, we have the four R’s. Real. Relevant. Relational. Revolution. And these are important to our integrated health that includes our physical, psychological, and spiritual selves.
- Real – Life is fast paced. Ironically, there exists among people a deeper desire to slow down, be present, and be real…to live more authentically
- Relevant – People want to experience compelling dialogue and conversations about anything and everything.
- Relational – Real & Relevant conversations lead to enduring, long-term relational exchanges. It is not only important to have a connection with others, but to sustain it.
- Revolution – Real, Relevant, & Relational all lead to a Revolution in the positive sense.
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, “a turn around”) is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. (Wikipedia)
There’s a REVOLUTION happening…and it’s with the PEOPLE. When the people rise up to claim their personal power for the good of all, the SHIFT happens at warp speed. It’s time to CONNECT GLOBALLY!
We’ve hit a tipping point. Governments can no longer control people because they can no longer keep them from communicating with one another due to the internet and the systems it allows through FB, Twitter and other social media. Once people can no longer be kept from communicating with one another, you can no longer “control the message.” The truth prevails! A SHIFT happens!
The intention behind the launching of our Facebook Club, iConnect & Engage is so simple.
You can’t hate someone whose story you know. Get to know one another and it’s nirvana. That’s why “There’s Got To Be a Better Way” is our mantra.
It is imperative that we reach out and connect to one another…it is a matter of choosing to thrive vs. survive How we engage one another, how we collaborate, and how we leverage our talents as a collective whole can create a shift in the blink of an eye.
It doesn’t matter from what country you hail. It doesn’t matter what you do. It doesn’t matter what language you speak. It doesn’t matter who you love. It doesn’t matter what kind of home you have…or don’t have. It doesn’t matter what gender you are. It doesn’t matter if you own a company or stay home with the children…plus it doesn’t matter if the “you” who stays home is a man. We may be different in some ways, but in the ways that truly matter, the differences disappear.
A human is a human is a human. People want to connect and express themselves in more authentic ways. And people want to make a difference in our world.
Social media is a great vehicle for engaging a global audience, whether it’s friending on Facebook, tweeting on Twitter, linking on LinkedIn, or sharing real, relevant & relational videos on You Tube that start a Revolution.
Let’s REACH…Reach out to one another and lift up one another.
Let’s share our dreams with one another. Let’s Reach for our Dreams! If we don’t, who will?
Our intention is for iConnectEngage to bring you the global connections and engaging that you desire.
Our combined talents offer a collective intelligence and the New Expert! The value of diversity cannot be underestimated. It is fertile ground in which to play…and it inspires us in the way that communicates, “Together, we are better!”
Cindy King ROCKS! “How To Connect Globally with Social Media” is her blog post initially carried in the Social Media Examiner. Cindy is an amazing expert on cross-cultural marketing. Through our iConnect & Engage Facebook Club, we want to be the experts on providing a platform and environment for cross-cultural connecting and engaging!
Smart Chick Clare Kelway says,
Grab your cup of coffee and come relax. No hyping. No pitching. Just Connect & Engage with us in a safe environment and invite your friends from around the globe!
One part of Cindy’s post outlines the cultural differences in how people respond to social media. She cites the expertise of four culturally minded social media players who look at four areas – Engagement, Hesitation, Networking, and Shyness. She examines how these impact people differently, depending on where they live. Although our focus through our iConnect & Engage Facebook Club is not on marketing, this information is still good for us to consider as we invite people from other countries around the globe to “connect and engage.”
Remember, we just launched this week. A little help from our friends would be greatly appreciated! People don’t often realize “what” they can do or “how” they can help in any situation, and yet are delighted to do both when they understand a direct request. So…here’s our wish list of requests! 
I have a personal philosophy of “I have the right to ask, and you have the right to say ‘No.’ ”
- Comment on this blog post. Yes, give us your feedback. What do you think about our idea? Does it resonate with you? Do you feel it has merit regarding connecting and engaging on a global scale?
- Give this post a tweet by clicking on Twitter icon at top of post. Give this post a FB nudge by clicking on FB icon at top.
- Visit Three Smart Chicks on Facebook. We had to set up a profile that wasn’t connected to any one of us in order to create our iConnect & Engage Club page. While you are there, click on “Suggest friends” near the top of the page on the left. A box will pop up that says, “Suggest friends to help Smart get more out of Facebook Each friend you select will get a suggestion from you to add Smart. Smart will also receive a suggestion to add the friends you select.”
- Search on Facebook for our iConnect & Engage Club (FYI…since we are new, we have to accumulate 25 people before we can get a custom FB url to send people). Go there and “like” iConnect & Engage, and ask your friends to do the same!
- Stick around and engage and share your insights once you have arrived at our FB iConnect & Engage Club. Remember, all great ideas or movements begin with a single step…a single action. This motions create emotions, triggering a ripple of energy toward alignment and attract people through their common intentions. We invite you to participate in our first baby steps with iConnect & Engage!
- Follow us on Twitter: @iConnectEngage
- Stay in touch with IConnect & Engage updates by filling out the short information below!
How do you connect through Social Media?
How do you engage though Social Media? How do you relate through Social Media? Everywhere you look there is either a tweet, an article, a teleseminar, or a webinar about developing your Social Media presence...from Facebook to LinkedIn…from You Tube to Twitter. Each one is a little different, but there is a common thread.
What does developing your Social Media presence really mean?
Here’s the CORE Essence of all of them. The bottom line is that through utilizing engaging questions, each medium has the opportunity to lead to Collaboration & Fun!
- Connect - Friend them or they friend you on FB, Follow them or they follow you (or both happen) on Twitter, Connect with them on LinkedIn and share your profile and vice versa. Make a video, share a video, subscribe & follow their videos. Notice I said “Connect,” not “Pitch your product.” Very important to understand this basic concept. It doesn’t mean you can’t post on YOUR wall what you are into regarding life or business. After all, it is YOUR wall… but do not go to their wall or send them an initial message with your pitch. This applies even when it is for the starving children in Africa or the people of Haiti. Connect FIRST with no agenda other than to do precisely that…Connect! If you do this, you will have enough friends to call upon when there is an opportunity to help others through a specific tragedy or non-profit, without relying upon pitching people you don’t even know.
- Openly Engage – If you never go from connecting to engaging, you really aren’t actively engaging (there’s that word again) the value of social media (notice I don’t say “power” here…the “power” is in the value). Ok, I am as guilty of this as anyone. Although I have less than 1000 “friends” on FB, I am telling you I don’t have the time or energy to “engage” with that many! It is sort of like the reason I don’t choose to have affairs. I barely have the time and energy to properly cultivate and nurture my relationship with Roby, the love of my life. What makes me think I can distract myself with affairs and legitimately stay connected to my spouse? No moral judgment here. Just the practical aspects. Ok…I have gotten off track here a little (not much), but I think you get my point. People are out there scrambling…often to indiscriminately build their numbers as fast as they can so that they appear to be a “happening” chick or dude. Why? Because some “guru” told them that is what they need to do. Well…I am not claiming or aiming to be a guru (I’m a Diva, after all!), but I do consider myself a human being committed to connecting and engaging…a human being who had two things confirmed during our year-long journey criss-crossing America in 2005/06.I take the following from one of our pages on our website. Two basic human yearnings seem universal and were consistently reflected across the diverse spectrum of people we met throughout the country…no matter their sexual orientation, gender identity, political persuasion, socio-economic status, religious affiliation or lack of one.1) People want to live authentically…there is something inside each of us that yearns for that, because to experience authenticity with self and others means to be known at the core level and in turn to know others in a similar manner. It allows you to live a life of MORE with more authentic connecting and more authentic engaging.2) People truly want to make a difference in our world – someway, somehow…and we search to find those connections which resonate with and impassion us.
There are many programs telling you how to build your list on autopilot. Is that what you really want? I can supply those for you if you do (who am I to judge if that is the “right” or “wrong” way.) Here’s my take on it. I agree that the more people you connect with, the greater is your opportunity to find the gold nugget of connection within those numbers, and the more likely you will be to engage with people with whom you are truly aligned. Perhaps that is how I need to view those systems. If you only have 10 FB friends, you might think “This FB isn’t any good at all. I don’t have anything in common with these people.” Do we have another chicken or the egg theory happening here? Comments, anyone? The real point to understand here, in my humble opinion, is that the “gold” is in the authentic engaging…it’s the value received from the give and take created by synergy with a person. So…what do I suggest? Use this phase like dating…throw your cap into the ring…shoot the ball (an ex-coach for women’s basketball at the University of Kentucky can’ t help herself from using these metaphors). What I know is that the more you shoot, the greater your chance of scoring, especially if you put the ball above the rim! Commit to this process of engaging and you will discover common ground with someone along the way. That’s what you do in any off-line relationship. You look for common ground during the engagement process (wow…is that why they call the phase before “marriage” an engagement?). The bottom line is that this common ground will lead you to #3 – Relate
- Relate – YES! This is where you BUILD your Relationships. It doesn’t happen overnight and the beginning moments are often filled with excitement. Post excitement, you might stumble a little, have to regroup…perhaps even issue an “I’m apologize”… or even discover that this relationship is not empowering. Cut it off! Don’t allow it to continue just because you “slept” with them. (this is a metaphor, folks!). If the foundation of your relationship is not dysfunctional and contributes to you finishing an interaction saying to yourself, “Wow! That felt great and I feel energized,” then keep it up. Remember that you can feel energized even in the space of having difficult and challenging conversations. The building of your relationships is an interactive, dynamic and fun process…enjoy it!
- Enthusiastically Leverage & Collaborate through Collective Intelligence – This is where the true value and power of this “Collective Intelligence” that I refer to as the new “Expert” begins to manifest. Leveraging the relationship & collaborating together in a positive manner is Nirvana! Here’s my bottom line. 4 eyes…4 ears (for Listening) and 2 mouths (for speaking, sharing ideas) is better than 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 mouth (me by myself). 16 eyes…16 ears, 4 mouths is better than the solo effort. 256 eyes, 256 ears, 16 mouths is better than MY solo effort. Social Media is allowing the PhD person discovers there’s common ground with the person who never attended college…the person with 30 years of experience in an industry discovers that the everyday person has some answers and solutions for the questions in business that are plaguing their business…the single, divorced Mom with 5 children, in small town, USA discovers there’s common ground with the single, divorced Mom with 5 children in India. You get the picture. All of these represent situations that in the past might never have happened. Our new technology and the internet that supports this Social Media Revolution is AMAZING!I am a person who enjoys connecting, engaging, collaborating, and T.E.A.M.WORK (Together Each Associate Matters). I am your associate in life, and you are my associate in life. Yes, I choose to work from home. That doesn’t mean that I choose to live a solo existence, unconnected to people and the world. I know that I am fed by connecting and engaging with others, and I appreciate every day the value of Social Media in that process. It leads me to ask,How can we shift and transform our world and make is a better place through utilizing this CORE essence of Social Media?
Ahhhhh…another QUESTION! I hope that it provides food for thought. I don’t have the answers (to anything in life), but I sure have lots of QUESTIONS. I remind myself that the questions are what lead us into inquiry and conversations with one another. The questions allow us to share our stories. We began each newsletter on our year-long journey with this line, “You can’t hate someone whose story you know.” Questions lead to inquiry. Inquiry leads to shared stories, and feeling heard. Stories lead to connecting. Connecting leads to openly engaging. Engaging leads to building relationships. Relationships lead to positive leveraging and collaboration. How much better does it get than that?
One of the best ways to tie all of this together is through a free tool, BusinessCard2, that you can get at Brand You First. This picture below illustrates the power of this amazing tool. Experiencing BusinessCard2 is one of the best ways to understand it. See my digital branding billboard below. Imagine updating one vehicle (BusinessCard2) that translate through all social media as you share your link or embed code on your blog or website.
Here’s a valuable update to this post…a link to recorded webinar I did with Lief Larson, developer of BusinessCard2. This will help you understand what you “don’t know you don’t know” about branding, marketing and promoting YOU via the internet and global marketplace… and what it means to “operate in the cloud!”
You…and I…have a unique responsibility that is a gift. And if we give the gift of connecting, openly engaging, relating and enthusiastically leveraging and collaborating through our collective intelligence and talents, the gift of who we are will just keep on giving and we will have FUN together!
- Never forget the powerful words made famous by Helen Keller, but first originated by Everett Hale.
I am only one.
But still I am ONE.
I cannot do everything.
But still I can do something.
I will not refuse to
do the something I can do.
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