Where do you fit in?

Get online! Get a blog! Anyone can do it!

While these may be true, you really want to put your best foot forward in creating each layer of your business. There's a lot to learn for sure!

Here's a great link to a Hubspot article you should read...before you get started.

Before You Start Blogging, Ask Yourself These 10 Questions

It made me consider what I was doing as well. Somethings I felt good about and other I had to rethink and redirect. Here's where I'm at:

1. Primary target: People looking to network their business and stuff that will help them develop their businesses and their overall learning.
2. Secondary target: Businesses looking for approachable assistance in learning new product and technological waves from a newbie perspective.
3. Key information needs are: Bites of information, interpretation of application, and affordability.
4. Other blogs: Building a list or reputable, consistent and leading edge information.
5. Definitely leaving comments and remarks as I go. It's important to give people feedback and create the trail.
6. Key words: assistance, assistant, virtual, help, learning, resource, technology, nimble, versatile, contributing, aware, creative, professional, respectful, grateful, attitude...just to name a few
7. Only doing this one partly. Time to set up some other alerts!
8. So far so good!
9. Ultimate goal: To create an integrated web presence.
10. Both!

I welcome anyone's opinion or encouragement regarding where I can improve and continue to develop. Oh, and by the way, anyone can do it; if they really want to...it's just better if there is no crying when someone cuts into your onion.

Nimbly,
JCM

Training: Fun?

Yes, we all need to improve. Some of us more than others in one area or another. Despite all the groans I can hear, we all know it. We can't be everything and all-knowing all the time. There's only one person with that job and thank goodness the position is filled!

That being said, why should we resist training? It doesn't have to be a cumbersome, lengthy, or a mind-numbing experience. I know, because I've attended some really fun training sessions. I like the short-burst training times. Either full-day experiences or half-days once a week for a short period of time. Let's face it; we are busy people and if we wanted to do this full time, we would not run our own companies (not that there aren't lessons learned every day). We would go to education centres and make full commitments of resources (time and money).

Recently, I attended a course for small businesses who wanted to increase their knowledge and understanding about ezines and blogs presented by Susan Regier (Vantage One Writing) and Jayme Cousins (In House Logic). I picked up some great information but I never expected to learn about how things "auto-magically" happen thanks to Google when you "play in their pool" or how many "flavours" there are or that there was "widgetry" out there. Apparently "content is King" and often "perfectly free" as long as "you're on the sniff" and consider the "gee-whizery factor." And never, ever, in a million years, would I have ever thought I would ask someone to "chew my chicklet!" Somewhere "under the hood" is a lot of detail that I should know about but don't really need to know what to do with it. I rested assured though, "it is permanent until you change it."

Yes, I have my tongue in cheek but the point I'm trying to get across is that I had a lot of fun and learned at the same time in a small, dare I say, intimate classroom where "conversation and interaction are Queen."


Nimbly,
JCM

P.S. Watch for The Nimble News, my new ezine coming out soon for other places you too can go for training and self-improvement.