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July Newsletter: Canada Day

By Cheval John

Social media has reminded us of how connected we are in the world.

We are more aware of what is happening due to social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Since today is July 1st, I want to wish my friends a happy canada day as they are celebrating 150 years as a nation.

I also want to start this newsletter with the news of being named a Houston Top 25 Social Media Power Influencer for the second consecutive year.

It was through hard work and consistently providing value to my audience that allowed me to join fellow social media colleagues in the fourth largest city in the United States on this list.

Another milestone was having the opportunity to speak yesterday at Social Media Day Houston about why business owners should embrace live streaming.

The event occurred simultaneously with other events surrounding Social Media Day which started in 2010 by Mashable.

Thank you all for your support and here are the articles for this month’s newsletter starting off with the Houston Top 25 Social Media Power Influencer’s List

Houston’s Top 25 Social Media Power Influencers-Madalyn Sklar

Jill Castilla: Social media is an opportunity to humanize big banks-Staff from Tearsheet

How to Travel & Make Money?-Codie Sanchez, Speaker and Investor

B2B Social Media Influencers: A Conversation with Tamara McCleary-Carter Hostelley of LeadTail

3 Steps to Get Your Sales Team Onboard with Social Selling-Miri Rodriguez, Senior Social Media and Communities Lead for Microsoft

Attending The Best Conference In The Midwest

By Cheval John

I had mentioned last week I was going to write about how the Houston Texans Cheerleaders won national attention after their first annual #htcpicnic.

I have not written the post yet and I am sorry about that.

The reason why was I spoke as a panelist at Social Media Week Lima for most of this week.

The conference was held in Lima, Ohio and hosted by Now Marketing Group.

I shared on my show, What’s The Word? about what I learned from social media week lima and why business owners or anyone who are looking at putting together a conference should follow the example of Now Marketing Group.

Hope you enjoy the podcast.

Taking A “Break” From Work

By Cheval John

I normally would have a post today.

However, I decided to take a break to attend a major league baseball matchup for the first time this year.

I could have put together a fast post regarding social media.

I choose not to do the above because I wanted to be as detail as possible on providing value to you and also be consistent in publishing the blog post.

Later this week, you will see a quality post about how the Houston Texans Cheerleaders are dominating the NFL with social media and what we can learn from them as business professionals.

As for right now, I will enjoy this baseball matchup and see how the sport applies to businesses across the world.

Do Not Worry About The Sales Pitch

By Cheval John

You are very excited when a lot of people are reading your blog on a daily basis.

That motivates you to continue providing uplifting content to your audience.

Though your blog is getting a lot of views and bringing people to your website, you notice you are not making a lot of money.

You are wondering why isn’t this blog converting readers into potential customers.

Your first thought is trying out different tactics which will bring people to your business blog.

One of the tactics is pushing out your content to different social media platforms hoping to win new business.

That fails to work because consumers are more keen to see who cares about them.

You realize you must interact with your audience on a daily basis on the different social media platforms.

Though the above always works, you have not seen the results of converting your fans into customers yet.

I can tell you to keep on building your audience on the social media platforms.

You must also understand having an e-mail list is the most effective way to convert your fans into customers.

Your blog’s e-mail lists is your real estate.

When someone decides to join your e-mail list, you have a higher chance of winning new clients for your business.

The ways how you can build your e-mail list is providing value consistently with your business blog.

Also, you can embed educational videos or podcast which applies to the industry your business is apart of.

Like the podcast I embedded here from my show.

The biggest mistake you can make when building your e-mail list is having pop-ups.

Pop-ups is like spam.

When someone is reading your blog post and all of a sudden a pop-up appears, it basically distracts the viewer.

They are in the middle of consuming your content which is solving their pain point.

When blogs engage in installing pop-ups in their website, they are truly saying we are not confident our content will help you and we need to use these tactics to get a subscriber.

If you are starting a blog for the first time, never use any type of pop-up system even if many are telling you otherwise.

If you do win over a new e-mail subscriber, do not bombard them with sales pitches in every e-mail.

They will be turned off by your spammy sales pitches and opt out of your e-mail list.

Your must have confidence in your blog content and not worry about the sales pitch

Do you have agree or disagree with this post? You can leave your comments below

Newsletter For The Month Of June

By Cheval John

Here are some articles in this month’s newsletter you will enjoy and also help you in your business and career growth:

Was John Deere the First Proponent of Content Marketing? The Story that Started in 1895-Julia McCoy of Express Writers

How This Go-Getter Girl Became a Business Owner at 25-Shinjini Das, Speaker and Contributor to the Huffington Post

7 Common Video Marketing Mistakes Every Brand Must Avoid–Myriah Anderson of Impact

Facebook and MLB partner to bring live-streamed games to the social network-Sarah Perez of Tech Crunch

How to Eliminate Your Fear of Live-Streaming When English is not Your Native Language-Dr. Ai Zhang, College Professor

3 Reasons Baby Boomers Are Getting Fired-J.T. O’Donnell in Inc Magazine

6 Reasons to Hire Older, Out-of-Work Workers-Gail Miller of Careernetworx

Do You Know What A Blog Subscriber Is?-Renee Groskreutz of I Teach Blogging

Here are upcoming recordings for What’s The Word? which will be on Facebook Live via Blue Jeans Network (Times are subject to change)

Zala Bricelj-June 2nd 12 p.m. eastern, 11 a.m. central

Jim Palmer-June 8th 4 p.m. eastern, 3 p.m. central

Laura Petersen-June 13th 4 p.m. eastern, 3 p.m. central