Small Business, Big Voices, Episode 12: Michele Santo, WellPower Wellness Coaching

We continue this week on YouTube and asking businesses why they think they’re “must see TV” in a YouTube world.

This week’s interview was with Michele Santo of WellPower Wellness Coaching.

Name: Michele Santo

Company Name: WellPower Wellness Coaching

Michele Santo wants to use YouTube to expand her health and wellness offerings to more people. Her hope is to communicate with more people who need coaching to get their life in balance with food, relationships, work and more. We were excited she was able to join us and decided to do this video to help bring more recognition to her budding business!

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Small Business, Big Voices, Episode 11: Terry Viney, The Plus Factor

In our interview for this next series of videos, we focused ways businesses can use YouTube to get in touch with their customers using both audio & video.  We then spoke to the businesses as to why they were “must see TV”.

This week’s interview was with Terry Viney of The Plus Factor.

Name: Terry Viney

Company Name: The Plus Factor

Terry Viney is launching a new component of his career: YouTube videos. He wants to leverage the video medium to bring more eyeballs to the business coaching he does and give people the ability to empower themselves to be more creative and effective in their day-to-day business tasks.  He is going to be focusing on leadership and personal development as part of this effort.

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How Many LinkedIn Connections are Too Many?

There is an ongoing debate out there right now in the world of LinkedIn, and that is: how many connections can you have?

The short answer: LinkedIn limits you to 30,000 connections.

The question came up when I was trolling through the “Answers” area of LinkedIn the other day, when I found somebody who posed the question, “Why is it OK for Twitter members to have hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of followers… but not so for Linkedin members?”  I responded, in short, that I didn’t feel the two social media networks could be compared, and that thousands or hundreds of thousands of people with whom I connect on Twitter aren’t necessarily “quality” connections or people I know for that matter.

It’s not to say the people on Twitter aren’t nice people — it’s just that I don’t know all of them.  I might take an interest in them.  But I don’t know all of them.
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Small Business, Big Voices, Episode 10: Cliff Moore, I’m Impressed, Inc.

In our interview for this week, we focused on different techniques for the blogger, and how they could spread those ideas to the online community-at-large.

This week’s interview was with Cliff Moore of I’m Impressed, Inc.

Name: Cliff Moore

Company Name: I’m Impressed, Inc.

Cliff started I’m Impressed, Inc, to convey some of the ideas and advice he had to business owners about networking and leveraging tools to help bring visibility to their business and credibility to their brand.  He runs seminars regularly to assist businesses in an interactive and evolving environment that is based on the needs of the participants.  He’s developing his blog to help communicate those ideas to his regular followers and was looking to us to provide information about blogging effectively.

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Small Business, Big Voices, Episode 9: Rose D’Amico, Rose’s QB Financial Svcs

This is continued from our series of videos on Facebook Fan Pages.  If you missed our seminar, what we presented was based on this blog post from a few weeks ago: Facebook: Friend, Fan or Group?

This week’s interview was with Rose D’Amico of Rose’s QB Financial Services.

Name: Rose D’Amico

Company Name: Rose’s QB Financial Services

Rose is a key QuickBooks resource for her customers, but she’s looking to move beyond a traditional role as a bookkeeper and connecting with her customers in the social media realm. She knows Facebook is a great tool she can use to connect with customers, and she’s taking what she learns in the seminar to reach out to customers she has and to the people who just need a little advice.

Watch for other “Small Business Big Voices” episodes coming soon!