Thank you to all 7 of our panelists for being a part of a first for Helping Hands for Coaches! We had an amazing group of successful coaches, speakers and a professional digital branding expert discuss why they use Twitter, how they use it, and the success they’ve had. Each used Twitter differently, yet successfully. I hope that each of you that listen to the call will take away that it doesn’t matter how you use it, so long as you do – and do so authentically. Don’t become a Spammer, only there to promote yourself, but realize that Twitter is a way to connect, communicate, and network with others you may not have reached otherwise.
The call was so successful, I will continue to have panelist discussions in the future. Be sure to sign-up for our classes if you wish to have notice of our Friday classes.
Enjoy!

Audio is 60 minutes in length.

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I am so excited for Friday! I hope you’ve cleared out any appointments for 10-11am PST/1-2pm EST because you do not want to miss this panel of Twitter experts. Our first guest is Amy Martin, ‘The Phoenix Suns Girl’ who helped ‘The Real Shaq’, and several others get on Twitter! We also have some business and life coaches, as well as professional speakers that will be discussing how they’ve used Twitter to build their business – read below for their bios and Twitter IDs! If you haven’t already, please sign-up at http://helpinghandsforcoaches.com/live-teleclasses/ .

Amy Martin:
Most recently, Amy spent three seasons with the Phoenix Suns developing their Digital Media platform and integrating new and existing marketing partner brands within all Suns digital channels. Such digital touch points include, mobile marketing programs, official social networking forums, virtual websites and official team property sites.

Amy’s area of expertise involves layering social media strategies to create one cohesive digital brand universe. She has developed a proprietary formula to mix traditional digital measurement with social media metrics. Her most recent example of social media success is the growth of Shaquille O’Neal’s digital brand via Twitter implementing strategies such as “Random Acts of Shaqness” and “ShaqDay”.

Digital Royalty, Amy’s new business venture, focuses on digital integration and social media strategies to help brands and athletes build their digital universe through the following methods:

·      Creating a digital roadmap which guides brands to establish an integrated network of traditional digital and social media touch points – all working together in digital symphony.

·      Exposing and evolving brand personalities, digitally. Educating brands on the balancing act of being social with human qualities while wearing the ever-necessary brand management hat.

·      Converging traditional and digital media to leverage the brand’s Return on Influence (ROI) and maintain one comprehensive marketing strategy.

Prior to founding Digital Royalty and working for the Phoenix Suns, Amy was an account supervisor at a full service ad agency working with clients such as the Arizona Cardinal, Phoenix Coyotes and Super Bowl XLII. She is a graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in Marketing and Business.

www.TheDigitalRoyalty.com

www.Twitter.com/The_Real_Shaq

www.Twitter.com/PhoenixSunsGirl

Marc A. Pitman
Marc A. Pitman is the author of Ask Without Fear! and founder of FundraisingCoach.com, a website dedicated to practical ideas for fundraising more effectively. Internationally recognized by such organizations as Reuters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the American Marketing Association as a thought leader, Marc helps individuals and organizations raise more money than they ever thought possible! His lively presentations at conferences and fundraising seminars get him invited to various organizations including Blackbaud’s Conferences for Nonprofits, Habitat for Humanity International, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
http://fundraisingcoach.com/
http://twitter.com/marcapitman

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Kate Nasser
Kate Nasser, The People-Skills Coach, celebrates her 20th year in business inspiring and teaching customer service and teamwork to diverse audiences. She is feisty, smart, down-to-earth, funny, and just wild and different enough to inspire growth and change in all who hear her people-skills messages.  She has a natural GPS about people and has used it for 20 years to spring them to greatness. As a professional speaker, Kate activates audiences with wisdom, energy, humor, caring and realism. She has BS in Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa and Masters in Organizational Psychology.
http://katenasser.com
http://twitter.com/katenasser

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Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens is a Professional Speaker, Media Coach and Author. Based in London UK, he speaks internationally, and has spoken in over 25 countries in the past three years. He specialises in PR and media matters and is in great demand as a conference host and keynote speaker. In 2010, he will become president of the International Federation for Professional Speakers.
http://www.mediacoach.co.uk/
http://twitter.com/mediacoach

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Donna Amos
Donna has over 20 years experience working with solopreneurs to develop their marketing and sales strategies in order to build their businesses. Her experiences as an entrepreneur, sales trainer, management in the corporate world, as well as her formal coach training make her uniquely qualified to support others as they create and grow their business.
http://www.solopreneurs.org
http://www.donnaamos.com
www.twitter.com/donnaamos

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Monikah Ogando
Known as The Business Explosion Coach, Monikah Ogando is impactful, dynamic and charismatic. Monikah received two undergraduate degrees from the University of Miami, where she put herself through college with her independent spirit and entrepreneurial motivation and graduated by the age of 20. Her first job out of college as a financial planner, Monikah soon discovered that the majority of her clients were business owners, and the best way to help them was to assist in MAKING money, not just investing the money they already made. By learning from her clients, Monikah created an entrepreneurial program for other financial planners to reach their clients as she had. When she made $124,000 in three months of teaching the program, she knew she was onto something big. Today, small business owners and entrepreneurs seek Monikah’s advice to help them turn their businesses into profit-producing powerhouses, and more importantly, live their lives with purpose and freedom. Monikah’s coaching and consulting challenge people to marry their humanity to their businesses, and their profits to their purpose.
www.fanaticalfocus40.com
http://twitter.com/MonikahOgando

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Crystal Williamson
Crystal new to Twitter, but has already found it helpful in gaining new clients! She is a certified small business coach/consultant who loves to help holistic and helping professionals with their technology presence and computer applications. She started as a computer trainer in 1990. After being downsized, she transitioned from the corporate world to coaching and became certified in 2007. She has her own coaching and computer consulting business called Coaching with Crystal. She has a Blog Talk radio show on Wednesdays at 8 pm (ET) where she talks about computer/learning trends and concepts for the beginning and already established entrepreneur. She’s facilitating a technology coaching teleseminar in April 2009 to give guidance for newer small business owners.
www.coachingwithcrystal.com
http://twitter.com/coachcrystal

Wow, one request to HARO, and you have all the panelists (over 50 replied) one show could need! Thank you to everyone that emailed! I have selected the 6 panelists, 3 professional speakers and 3 coaches – all with over 1,000 followers and some real examples of how they’ve used Twitter to promote their business. They will be submitting their bios and photos later today – but I wanted to get the word out now about tomorrow’s teleclass. We’ll be doing it a little different – instead of just shouting out questions during the call, please ‘Tweet’ them with the hash tag #hh4c. That will help with the flow of the 1 hour class. If you have some friends that would like to join us, please ask them to sign-up today by going to our ‘Live Webinars‘ page.

The class today was hoppin with good vibes about Twitter! We went through the basics of your profile, certain settings to be aware of while tweeting, and the importance of RSS feeds. Most importantly, we answered the ‘Why?’ question so many coaches and speakers have in regards to Twitter. You can listen to the call below, and be sure to sign-up for the call next Friday, March 20th, to discuss some of the applications that have been built around Twitter that can save you time, add multi-media, and track results while using Twitter. Remember, these classes are FREE! – and a great not just for coaches and speakers, but also your business clients, so pass it on, and thank you!

Some of the websites that were mentioned in today’s class:

www.Ping.fm

www.tweetscan.com

Twitter Search

www.PopularTweets.com

Just Tweet It search

www.FreeTwitterDesigner.com

www.TwitBacks.com

www.SnipURL.com

www.BudURL.com

Recommended Blog posts regarding Twitter and RSS feeds:

RSS Feeds video

Twitter for Coaches