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How to Commercialise the Clubhouse App
If you’re a business owner or an expert, you’ve probably heard about the Clubhouse app. The Clubhouse app is an invite-only, audio-based iPhone app, that’s essentially a social network where instead of posting, or tweeting, you’re chatting. But can you make this work for your business? Here’s how to commercialise the Clubhouse app.
The Top 7 Inhibitors of Intentional Influence (and Intentional Leadership)
I’ve written previously about how to lead with intentional influence in 2021. But what is intention, intentional influence or intentional leadership? In practice, for leaders, this means seeing the big picture. It means understanding the connections between disparate parts of your team or your community or even the issues that relate to those disparate parts.
Activate Your Word Wheel and Gain Intentional Influence
Each year many of us pick an annual word for the year as opposed to choosing a New Year’s resolution, which makes sense as the research shows that around 80% of new years resolutions fail to be achieved. A word wheel might be a better choice. Here are the five steps you should take.
Leading with Intentional Influence in 2021
Every year about this time some choose a word for the year. Not New Year’s resolutions, but instead, choosing a single word that becomes the focus for the new year. This word becomes the lens through which we see everything through. This year, I want to talk about intentional influence.
Give The Gift of Personal Branding Learning This Christmas
Is it time to learn personal branding? These books, courses and other items can help you do just that!
Why You Should Be Creating Content For LinkedIn
In Content Club, someone recently asked me if she should be creating content for LinkedIn. She believed, as many do, that her content would serve her better on her own blog, or other social media platforms. But LinkedIn is an excellent way to stay connected to your community. Here’s what you need to know about creating and publishing content for LinkedIn!
Viral Content: You never know where a piece of content will go
On the 26th of January 2019, my now-fiancé Mark decided he would propose. In an interesting turn of events, our proposal became viral content! Here’s the good and the bad of content that travels.
How to Organize Content
When I ask people at conferences how many times they repurpose one piece of content they generally answer ‘two to three times’. But content can be repurposed almost 100 times (including via social media).
17 Tips to Create Consistent Content
One of the biggest challenges that members of my community face is how to create consistent content. Even once they’ve nailed down the process of creating content generally, they struggle with doing it consistently.
How to Repurpose Content
All great content creators know that repurposing your content gets you the most value out of it. So, here are our tips on how to repurpose content for the best (and easiest!) results.
Why Content Marketing Works
When you’re in business or building your own personal brand you need to get noticed. You need to get clients and customers, awareness, and leads. And that means you need to be marketing.
Seth Godin is famous for saying, ‘content marketing is the only marketing left’. Here’s why content marketing works.
How to Measure Content Marketing Performance
When you’re posting content it’s easy to get caught in the vanity metrics around likes, comments and shares. And when you start looking at these to measure your content marketing performance it’s equally easy to wear yourself out trying to create more and more content, as you continue to chase more likes, comments, and shares.
Stop measuring vanity metrics like 'likes' and 'shares'. Learn how to measure content marketing performance for real success.
How to have good mental health while building your personal brand
Having good mental health in business (in any business!) is important and that includes when you’re building your personal brand. Here’s how to keep your mental health strong during that process.
How to Generate Leads with Content Marketing
One of the most common questions I get is how to turn content into cash. Well, in order to turn content into cash, you need to make sure that your content is generating leads. So, the question really is how to generate leads with content marketing.
Antisocial: Ditch Digital Connection and Get Real
I was recently working with a client who was having trouble implementing some of the things that we were doing in our coaching program. When I asked her what was happening, she said, ‘I just feel like there’s so much to do. I’m feeling overwhelmed.”
How to Maintain Your Personal Brand Authenticity
I recently spent a week’s holiday on North Stradbroke Island. I grew up in Lismore in Northern NSW so I’m not overly familiar with ‘Straddie’ as it’s known here in Brisbane. But after spending time exploring, there were a few things that I noticed about Straddie that make it absolutely unique.