Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

• @LifeInTheArena Thanks for following Jim. Hope you are had a good weekend doing your thing. Looking forward to hearing you on MMG Tues #
• RT @intouch How to Generate Leads Using Search and Social Media http://bit.ly/dCWGJB Very Interesting - well worth a review. #
• 4 reasons why you need @Gist inside Gmail. Read this -> http://bit.ly/bFygDa #googleapps Very Cool APP for GMail #
• Man I really have to improve my Twitter background. I got fed up with my last one and…well haven’t made time to make a new one. Drat #
• Hello Tweeple Check out Compelling Change Radio Show - where I was discussing Sales process & the Change Process. http://ht.ly/2uUrT #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUAb #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUCb #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUKE #
• Wow a great new Blog post from @coaching4ursoul - Very impactful. http://ht.ly/2uVbb #
• According to @Klout, @Salesologist needs 2 engage more with others to gain influence. - http://bit.ly/a4A7Lr - I Do run with scissors #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUDi #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUEg #
• Working with a Great Client - Donna Jones a Legal Nurse Consultant Check out her profile on LinkedIn http://ht.ly/2vfUh #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUEG #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUHk #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUHJ #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUIs #
• What a great Interviewer @JeanieMarshall is. Check out this show about Sales Performance & Change process. http://ht.ly/2uUJ6 #
• @beer_a_day I did not know that. Thanks for the info on rating Beers. Very cool Tally Ho! in reply to beer_a_day #
• @LifeInTheArena JimBo hope you are having a great day. Will hear you again on Tuesday? Tally Ho in reply to LifeInTheArena #
• RT @DoraWoodrum: 5 Creative Ways to Upsize UR Life http://dld.bz/j27B #useful Good info even if you aren’t moving across Cntry! Tally Ho #
• Visiting Grant Park Festival seems to be a good event http://ow.ly/i/3tGw #
• http://ow.ly/i/3tIw@coaching4ursoul @ grant park festival beautiful woman on beautiful day. & Kettle corn is pretty good also! Tally Ho! #
• RT @BarbBallentine: When counting ur lipsticks become fun really need 2 re-evaluate social life, lol! YUP time 2 do something! GO GIRL! #
• RT @shoppingqueeen: All generalizations are false, including this one. Tally Ho! #
• Gr8 time at Grant Park Festival. Also was the day of relaunch of @learn2link as SoMeCon. More to come on that front! Tally Ho! #
• I liked a YouTube video — Solar Roadways: The Prototype http://youtu.be/Ep4L18zOEYI?a #
• This is a very compelling idea. And absolutely know it can and will work. H… (YouTube http://youtu.be/Ep4L18zOEYI?a) #
• RT @wellness4all: Benefit Of Eating Raw Food-A big concern 4 many these days is their skin. It http://bit.ly/d41Ydj looks interesting! #
• RT @IMODELAGENCY: Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. Unknown I LIKE THIS! Tally Ho #
• RT @denversolarguy: The Green Energy of Tomorrow http://dld.bz/mZBF think I may add some Solar to my home here in GA! Tally Ho #
• RT @madisonloesche: If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? Bette Midler LOL Good Point! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

• I liked a YouTube video — Business tips from William Sumner of The Inevitable You http://youtu.be/OEIziwcG1mk?a #
• Gr8 way 2 start the day — Business tips from William Sumner of The Inevitable You http://t.co/1eRm0Ir - One of my favorite bosses TALLY HO #
• I favorited a YouTube video — William Sumner, Keynote Speaker, Growth Through Partners… http://youtu.be/QEHP7×71ywk?a #
• I liked a YouTube video — William Sumner, Keynote Speaker, Growth Through Partnership … http://youtu.be/QEHP7×71ywk?a #
• William Sumner, Keynote Speaker, Growth Through Partnership 2010 Denver http://t.co/vfey94z - Gr8 reminder - gonna have to reach out 2 him #
• I liked a YouTube video — William Sumner: The Inevitable You Promotional Video http://youtu.be/6rB21HCebzY?a #
• I favorited a YouTube video — William Sumner: The Inevitable You Promotional Video http://youtu.be/6rB21HCebzY?a #
• Blogging a Day (Away) http://bit.ly/b1COMO #
• My oh My have I been remiss in Tweeting of late. Must get back on the ball. Tally Ho! #
• Oh and Good morning Twitterverse. Looking forward to sharing some interesting stuff today. #
• #MotionX Share: Todays run track. the mileage better be increasing or time improving http://bit.ly/cREiJT #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15

• It was an unusually long weekend. My body hurts all over I must have a good time #
• The Social Universe http://slidesha.re/dABCow A Little perspective on where 2 spend time in the Social Mesh. Go where the people R! #
• What a gr8 day met my friend @Frikor at Sweetwater brewery here in the ATL http://ow.ly/i/3aIb. Gotta take my brother-in-law here. #
• Couldn’t help myself! Stopped off @fatmatts home of gr8 ribs & Blues. It’s been too long 4 me. http://ow.ly/i/3aIm This Don’t Suck! #
• Again a gr8 place to bring my Brthr-in-law for some gr8 classic bar-b-Q & Blues. And no complaining If Music is 2 loud! No winers allowed #
• RT @CHRISVOSS: All know the way; few actually walk it. Bodhidharma. Sometimes u just gotta stop listen 2 some Blues, helps remind u of way! #
• RT @thomasmcmillan: So happy to watch the Panthers tonight. The era without Joke Delhomme begins. IT MAY BE A DARk ERA. Good luck! #
• RT @QueenofSpain: oh & p.s. 2 the PR folk sending me ‘reminders’ 2 check out that product they hadn’t heard back about from me on. GO GIRL #
• I registered 4 @awarenessinc webinar - People Make Businesses Better, Not Social Media w/ Brian Simpson - http://bit.ly/aSkK7O PROMISING! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08

• Good Morning Twitterville. I think is it morning outside yet? #
• RT @salestipaday: Did U know that email marketing accounts for 26% of all time email? This has got to skew so other stats! #
• RT @salesforce Atl User Grp meeting - http://ow.ly/1qNeYV A Good time was had by all - check out the next one in Sept. Stay tuned #
• No Coffee in house. But Aubrey at my @Starbucks http://ow.ly/1qNfT8 hooked me up w/ a Komodo Dragon French press She Rocks! Crisis averted #
• RT @Traininguru: “I am convinced that life is 10% what happens 2 me & 90% how I react to it. We R in charge of our attitudes.” C Swindoll #
• RT @GuyKawasaki: Why Facebook won’t go public until 2012 http://idek.net/2uPB very Interesting! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01

• Thought this might just sum up the last couple of days http://ow.ly/i/2a3i#bd5 #
• This is most interesting. Electricity is out so don’t have Internet, computers, AC or anything. Good time to be selling generators! #
• Hmmm no electricity for almost 15 minutes now. This is no longer fun, what does a panic attack feel like!?! #
• Working with a Great Friend of mine Buddy Orange on the Value LinkedIn as a Bus Dev tool. http://lnkd.in/cQ4X74 #
• @questandsummit Gr8 to work with my friend Buddy on getting him up & Running on Twitter. Tally Ho #
• If you are thinking of doing a retreat with ur team - checkout Buddy Orange at Quests & Summits first. http://ht.ly/2hQFx #
• RT @MillerHeiman: Conceptual Selling: Unless UR a mind reader, U won’t understand UR oldest, most reliable client’s http://fb.me/CsAYXrSj #
• @questandsummit Gr8 to work with my friend Buddy on getting him up & Running on Twitter & the nuances of HootSuite. http://ht.ly/2hQTo #
• Check out the @MillerHeiman Sales best practice study 2010 http://slidesha.re/bIVFvY We presented to group of SFDC user in ATL Tally Ho! #
• http://tweetphoto.com/35745688 @Coaching4URSoul Great view. Sunrise on the back patio wth a Cup-O-Joe and @coaching4ursoul - Life is good. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25

• Just discovered a gr8 German resturant here in Duluth KURTS vote 4 these guys http://ow.ly/1qJ8T4 #
• This turning out to be a good day. At a buckhead pool party to support animals. http://ow.ly/i/2Owr some umm interesting views #
• I guess if u r going to do fundraiser for animals this is a good venue to do it in http://ow.ly/i/2OwD behind windows r $500k of cars! #
• This a really gr8 party. Lots silicon & bikini’s http://ow.ly/i/2Ox9 hope they raise lots of money for animal protection. #
• Gr8 fundraiser for @safehaven4pets just met Lucinda Shore host & founder of this org & party. http://ow.ly/i/2Ozb #
• Ok this fundraiser is winding down…sort of http://ow.ly/i/2OzG #
• What gr8 fundraiser 4 safe Haven 4 Pets. Lucinda Shore - beautiful person & heart. And gr8 venue 4 A party http://ow.ly/i/2OKk #
• @bobstanke been traveling but back now hope we can connect this week. in reply to bobstanke #
• @BeerSommelier I am stuck, I am enjoying sweetwater420 at 3$ Cafe here in Alpha and want change but love 420’s consistency & it’s a micro in reply to BeerSommelier #
• @coenenfrans got ur email ie workshop u and wife attended. Looks very interesting. Looking to discuss soon on Skype. in reply to coenenfrans #
• @BeerSommelier actually yes. They have a sch weet which is nice lite wheat. Just haven’t found it on tsp any where? in reply to BeerSommelier #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18

• @bobstanke Gr8 Bob looking 4ward to connecting. Been traveling this week & now doing admin all today. Feel free to call 770-569-5553 in reply to bobstanke #
• RT @fatmenrunning: Ah … the $1.59 Costco lunch. My favorite dining experience. Altough at that price u need 2 get a slice also. #
• RT @MillerHeiman: Miller Heiman’s founder talks to Forbes http://tinyurl.com/28urus5 OUTSTANDING! #
• RT @MillerHeiman: R U a Miller Heiman alumni? We want 2 connect w/ U! Check out R Facebook fan page http://tinyurl.com/2769d4j JUST DO IT! #

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Organizing and Sales Magic

Happy 2010 and hoping you are a having a great start to your new decade! I am sure you did your annual planning and organizing for 2010, so you also see the beginnings of a great 2010. It is going to be a great year so if you are not anticipating a great 2010, I hope this tale shifts your perspective a bit.

The power of organizing and goal setting, we have always heard, is a great way to start the year. Out with the Old and in with New so to speak, and I have always gone along with it, more often than not, on autopilot. Well, this year my planning and organizing has been a bit different…so far. I have spent the last 15 days organizing, with some planning thrown in, for 2010 and have been experiencing some really interesting things. And while I wouldn’t recommend taking 15 days to plan and organize (I am a remedial planner & organizer with several years of disorganization to organize), it has been and can be quite a cathartic experience and have a positive impact on your Sales. In my particular case I closed 3 pieces of business because of my organizing!

OK you might saying to yourself, come on isn’t that a bit of reach, attributing the closing of deals to getting rid of stuff and planning. Well, yes it might be if that was the only thing I was attributing to closing the business. I just found it really interesting that as I organized, got rid of, burned, gave away and just released “stuff” my phone rang and these 3 deals that had been languishing in my funnel, closed. All this happened without much effort on my part, or at least it didn’t seem that hard.

So an interesting theory is emerging and one that I hope you will help me test. The more organized I become the easier it is to sell! Maybe a bit simplistic as theories go but why not give it a try and organize a few things in your life and let’s see what happens. Couple of suggestions to start with:

1) Paper Files - Go into your files (or in my case piles) and clean out stuff that you no longer need or that is so far out of date it isn’t relevant anymore. And/or move some of the paper files and notes into digital format so that you can keep them…until they are irrelevant…next year.

2) Electronic Files - Organize your Hard Drive(s) creating folders trying to keep ‘like with like’, so that you can find that proposal template you liked or contract you need to grab on the fly, next week.

3) Attack a Closet - Even if this closet has nothing to do with your business. I attacked (organized & added shelves) our kitchen pantry and it is amazing just the little bit of organizational sanity that gave me, not to mention messing with my wife’s head, as she didn’t think I knew where the pantry was let alone what was in it. (and it was while doing this ‘pantry’ work that I received calls closing 2 of my 3 deals..I am just saying!)

4) Business Cards - Clean out all your business cards, either get rid of them or add them to your contact database (Salesforce.com is a great tool for this). I took over 800 business cards I had collected at various networking and business events, and put them into my newsletter database. I anticipate that probably only 200 or so are still accurate or relevant but my first emailing will allow me to see who I to keep and who I need to delete from my database. This serves two purposes one I have a clean desk and second I am not constantly thinking “I should call that guy/gal” when I see their card sprawled across my desk. Minimized distractions allows for better focus.

Well that is a start anyway. I found that when I did these 4 organizational tasks things started to flow or at least they seemed to flow a little bit easier. So please help me test this organizing theory. Try one or all four of these suggestions and let me know what happens for you in your selling. Perhaps you will close that big deal that has been languishing or maybe your significant other will smile at you a bit more or perhaps you will just feel a little liter after getting rid of stuff. Whatever the result please do let me know.

Now I am off to attack another closet, perhaps my office closet this time, I am confident this will get the phone ringing.

Happy Selling and here’s to a Kick Ass 2010!

Facebook comes of Business Age!

Wow if this analysis from Istrategy is even half on target this is some very interesting statistics regarding the changing demographics of Facebook and regional growth.

Stan Schroeder of Mashable has done a nice article on this interesting phenomenon regarding the changing demographics of Facebook. This is particularly interesting in contrast to all the press recently on the Baby Boomers exiting Facebook.

513% growth in membership on Facebook in the 55+ age sector. so that’s how my Grandmother knows what is going on in my life.
142% growth in membership on Facebook in the Atlanta region. As a Southern Boy now, I find that growth very interesting. Not sure why it is happening but very interested in understanding how to get better at conversing with people in the Atlanta region.

All said and done, we can probably extrapolate all kinds of interesting data from this and will ponder this information. But what does it mean to you. Let me know I am curious to see what your thoughts are.

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Twitter - It’s About the Conversation

You know, I just gotta tell ya, people just aren’t getting it, Twitter is about the Conversation, the Social Interaction in a new virtual medium, it is not or should not be just about Spamming or Twamming, (Spamming on Twitter) as I have started to call it.

I was sitting on my back patio enjoying a beautiful Sunday morning with a great cup of coffee and tweeting a bit to Tweetdom. When in a pretty relaxed state, scanning the Twitter Stream, was struck by how many I’s, me’s and Check out my’s, were flowing through the Twitter “timeline”. While it is good to share what you are doing with the Tweeting world, transparency within the “Social Mesh” is a good thing, we don’t really want to get 30 - 100 consecutive tweets about your latest product offering or service, at least not without engaging in some level of conversation with us before hand.

It is about the “conversation” or Dialogue, this isn’t a Monologue! The various platforms of Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, Linked In, Second Life, Digg, etc., etc. are great vehicles or mediums for “conversations” and when used as such, improve our ability to connect and interact with new people, increase our perspectives and ultimately enhance our spheres of influence. Michel Fortin explains this very well in his recent blog post - “Tweet-fearlessly-block-ruthlessly” And particularly like his idea around blocking those people on Twitter that are following you so they can get their numbers up to improve their ability for “Twamming” and are not really engaged in a conversation. Block’em baby, if they aren’t interested in what you are sharing and haven’t unfollowed you then Block,em!

The “conversation” in Social Media or the “Social Mesh” is about sharing information that brings value to the people that are following or connected with you. So as you are Tweeting or using any of the various Social Media platforms ask how the information you are sharing is serving those you are connected with on the various Social Platforms. And as you are “conversing” in the Social Mesh, remember the words of Dr. Phil - “It’s not about yoooouu!” Think about what would be interesting to the people you are conversing with, and talk about that. And don’t worry if you really are not sure what your followers are interested in they will let you know!

So go have fun, run with those scissors, it’s only virtual after all.

Google Apps

Truly this a game changer in how we will be using technology going forward. This allows us as an organization to become more and more virtual and do things that we previously only could do with a great deal of capital infrastructure.

ASTD Mid-Tennessee - Social Media Presentation by Cadley Consulting Group

Hello ASTD Mid-Tenn Chapter!

Thanks for having me present to your chapter this past Thursday the 16th. Really appreciate everyone’s attending and hope y’all got something out the presentation.

Take a look at the video below, this is very easy to do and if you have an interest learning more how Video is revolutionizing how we use the Web please don’t hesitate to reach out to me and or join my mailing list.

And if we aren’t connected on LinkedIn yet, below the Video is a hyperlink that you can click on, that will take you to my LinkedIn profile where you can then choose to add me to your network.

Well thanks again enjoy my video thank you to in ASTD Mid Tennessee and look forward to seeing you all soon.

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PFK North American Network - Social Media Presentation

Hello all PKFer’s,

At the bottom of this blog posting is a hyperlink URL that you can click on to download the presentation that was presented on April 14th, 2009. We at Cadley Consulting Group hope you found it informative, helpful and fun. We would welcome your comments regarding the presentation, good, bad or indifferent. To submit your comment all you need to do is type something in the comment section and we will be off and running.

Thanks again for your attendance at the meeting and for downloading the presentation. If you or anyone on your team have any questions regarding using Social Media for your marketing or business development efforts please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at

Cadley Consulting Group
Steve Cadley
Office 770-569-5553
Cell 770-335-0141
steve@cadleyconsulting.com

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SHRM - Social Media & Human Resource Policy Exploration April 2, 2009

Hello SHRM members and Welcome to the Online home of Cadley Consulting Group. In this post you will find the presentation from Thursday’s April 2nd 2009 webinar. I hope you found it interesting and informative. If you would be so kind as to leave me a comment on your thoughts of today’s presentation I would be very appreciative. And would encourage you to join my mailing list, I never Spam anyone. I will however notify you of updates to my blog and website particularly around research as pertains to Social Media, Social Dynamics and Sales.

Again Thanks for participating in SHRM Atlanta’s webinar and look forward to reading your comments. And if you would like to contact me directly please don’t hesitate to reach out to me either through Email or by Phone, I would welcome the opportunity to connect live.

Steve Cadley
Managing Partner
Learn2Linkonline.com
A Social Media Training & Strategic Planning Consultancy
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Cadley Consulting Group
A Miller Heiman Sales Performance, Salesforce.com & Social Media Consulting Company

steve@cadleyconsulting.com
Office 770-569-5553
Cell 770-335-0141

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