How to Use Meet Edgar

Meet Edgar is a social media auto-scheduler. What makes it unique from Buffer and Hoot Suite is that it allows you to put content in one time, and then it circulates that content around the clock (based on a schedule that you set). 

You can send content out to Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. 

There is a similar service, called RecurPost. I'll be doing a demo on that later. Big difference is that RecurPost is less expensive.

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How I Use Evernote to Manage My Biz & My Life

Evernote is one of the most important tools I use in my business, and my life.  Although I do still love a nice sharp pencil and a clean pad of paper, nothing beats Evernote for keeping things organized. The secret to using Evernote successfully is in it's tagging feature. Yes, you can create oodles of notebooks and categories, but if you are anything like me, you will forget where you put something as soon as you put it there. Tags allow you to simple type whatever logical word comes to mind into the search bar, and if you tagged your item, it will pop up instantly. 

I created this video, below to demonstrate.

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How do you use Evernote? I'd love to know!

A Quickstart Guide to Periscope

How to Make a Content Creation Assembly Line for Your Videos and Blog Posts

In order to really grow an audience, it's so important to create good content, CONSISTENTLY. You want to become the go-to person in your niche. But creating good content, consistently is not exactly an easy proposition, right? This was a challenge for me, for sure. When I did create content, it was usually pretty good, but it was the consistency that I had trouble with. It might be months between vlogs or blog posts. Or even live streaming or posting on my Facebook business page. 

That's when I decided to create a system, and it's made all the difference.

Use this as a guide, but don't feel like you have to do every single thing I've mentioned. The gist of it all is this:

1. Batch your content (you create several videos or blog posts at one time)

2. Move each piece of content through a process. A content assembly line.

(Having a virtual assistant to help with this is a game changer, and I created a free mini-course on the topic here.)

My favorite place to create this assembly line is in Trello, and I've made a template for you

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR ASSEMBLY LINE TRELLO TEMPLATE

(Here are the instructions for making the Trello board your own)

Here is the video I made on the topic: 

Thinking about my content creation systems like this is really a credit to Todd Herman, who is a genius performance coach. A year ago I signed up for his course, 90 Day Year and using his methods I was able to accomplish a year's worth of progress in 90 days. He's got great free videos here.

Make sure and grab the workbook and checklist below.

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What are your biggest challenges with creating content consistently?

The Benefits of Streaming Live From Your Personal Facebook Profile

Live streaming on Facebook is a wonderful way to connect with your audience.  But when we stream from our business pages, it is 100% public.

Streaming from your personal profile allows you to live stream for a very specific audience.  

Before you can do this, you need to create a few lists.

This video shows you how to do that.

Next, click on the "post" icon, pictured below:

Next, choose the audience that you want to reach with your broadcast.

Give your broadcast a good title; make people curious.

Once you are live, find your self on your laptop, desktop, or second device and click "share". One caveat: if you want to share from your personal profile to other places, only the people who are the original list will be able to see it elsewhere, so you may at that point want to change the privacy settings to "public".

Notice the options! So cool, right? You can share into a group (OR MORE THAN ONE), AND you can share to one (OR MORE) Facebook pages that you manage. HOW COOL IS THAT?

In the image below, I am streaming live in my Facebook group, The Front Row.

...and here I am simultaneously streaming to my business page. (Mustache added to mask goofy/unflattering grimace.) :) 

In summary, the main benefit from streaming from your Facebook profile is that you can select exactly who you want to see it. This is great if you only want existing clients, for example, to see what you are posting. Or maybe you want everyone EXCEPT existing clients to see. The possibilities are numerous. How will you use this feature?

Hire and Train Your First Virtual Assistant (Before You Think You Need To)

I wish I would have known this when I first started my business: hiring a virtual assistant, right off the bat is one of the smartest things you can do to grow your business.

I know the objections:

I'm not making money yet.

I wouldn't know what to give to a virtual assistant, I can barely figure out what to do myself.

I'm so disorganized. And by the time I explain it, I might as well do it myself.

But listen up:

If you spend your days doing $10 an hour tasks, that's about how much money you can expect to make?

That is time you ARE NOT spending doing the things that are actually revenue-producing. 

Hiring a virtual assistant for my tiny little business was the best move I EVER made.

I've created an entire system that will walk you through how to find someone who you can afford to pay, where to find them, and how to onboard them in a systematic, automated way that will not take up a ton of your time.


Onlinejobs.ph - These are VA's exclusively in the Philippines.

Loom Video: This free software allows you to record your screen (or yourself) so that when it is time to onboard your VA, you will have a full training portal in place.

Trello - A project management system that allows you and your VA to be on the same page, literally. (I use the free version)

Lastpass - Allows your VA to access your accounts, without knowing your passwords.

Click this link to grab the notes I created. 

Let me know if you have any questions!

Turn Those Pesky Auto DMs on Twitter into Gold!

If you are on Twitter, then you know how irritating AUTOMATED DIRECT MESSAGES (DM) can be. But I found a way to turn these nuisances into pure gold!

What we are going to do is reply to the direct message with our own message.

1. From your iPhone (I'm sure Android has something similar), go to settings, then to "general."

2. Choose "keyboard."

3. Choose "text replacement."

This is where it gets really amazing. Click the PLUS SIGN in the top right hand corner.

Next, type in your message in the "phrase" field. This can be quite lengthy. You can include links! Start your message, though, with, "Thanks for your DM". By doing this, you are letting them know that you are responding to THEIR DM i.e. you didn't initiate the conversation

In the "shortcut" field, type in 3 letters that you would never ordinarily type together.

 

Next, go to your "messages" folder. This is what mine looks like on any given day.

Type in your shortcut, (mine is twx) and the following phrase is automatically and magically pasted into the message. "Thank you for your direct message. You may be interested in my Facebook community called the The Front Row where entrepreneurs come together to support each other and learn from each other. Here's the link. We would love to have you there..." I don't do this with everyone, just the people who I have identified as my ideal clients." You can even message them about your upcoming webinar, freebie and a lot more.

Guess what? 75% of the people I messaged have joined the Front Row!

This tip has been working really well for me. Let me know what you think.

How to Use Leadpages to Grow Your Email List

LeadPages creates landing pages and other phenomenal tools that make it easy to: 

1. Grow your email list

2. Sell your products and services

3. Build your audience

4. Launch a new book or product

5. Get more blog or podcast subscribers

6. Grow your business 

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