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Today I got a nice little nugget in my inbox, and thought – yes! This definitely should be shared.

How many times have you spoken, and realized that what was heard, was not at all what you said? Communication is part art and part science and must be practiced. There are four main goals: to inform, to request, to persuade, and to build relationships.

If we don’t master the art of communication, we may waste our time doing pointless activities that amount to, well, pointless activity.

For example: is your social networking NOT working? Has your sphere of influence and reach expanded? Chances are you are not building the type of relationships that benefit from your influence. Perhaps you are talking to the wrong people. So, what can do?

Take a look at this list and identify one or two items that fit your objectives for communicating (informing, requesting, influencing, or building relationships). Try them right away and be sure to pop back on this page to share your comments and stories. I want to hear them!

Article Resource: 99 Ways to Improve Your Communication [http://www.getinfrontblogging.com/communication/99-ways-to-improve-your-communication/]

Additional resource: Lynne Waymon founded an organization called: Contacts Count. Check out some of the resources she offers for effectively connecting and building relationships (communicating) at live events.

Find them at http://www.contactscount.com

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• Making Your Words Count (ismckenzie.com)
• Social Media Q&A: Is One-Way Communication an Oxymoron? (socialmediatoday.com)
• Communicate effectively (slideshare.net)

**UPDATED***

Who doesn’t need good press?

Imagine seeing your name in the local business newspaper and magazine, being highlighted in a local publication or TV show, your family, friends, clients and potential clients gathering calling to congratulate you on your press coverage.

If building your credibility through local public relations is appealing to you, you will want to join us as Meredith Liepelt of Rich Life Marketing shows us the exact steps she takes to secure local press coverage for herself and her clients. And how you can too!

Join us as Meredith teaches us how to get local PR on a micro budget!

You will learn:
• The #1 thing that makes up the news
• Four kinds of stories that reporters love
• The simple components of a press release
• How to know where to send your press release
• The one thing you should never say to a reporter when you call to follow up
• How to get your name in the paper next week – really!
• The key components of your press kit

Join the LIVE Smart-Savvy Entrepreneur’s BlogTalk Radio show ***UPDATED****on May 7th, at 5:00 p.m. EST: http://bit.ly/C7kR5 (or get the replay of the show on-demand).

Questions will be taken LIVE during the show at: (347) 308-8941

Host: Tiffany Odutoye | Guest: Meredith Liepelt

About the featured guest:
Meredith Liepelt, Creative Client Attraction™ Strategist and President of Rich Life Marketing, is an award-winning marketing entrepreneur, coach, speaker and author of eight years. She has been featured on entrepreneur.com, MSN.com, Portfolio.com, ABC, NBC, Business First, The Columbus Dispatch, as well as a multitude of newspapers and radio shows around the country. Meredith is a featured columnist in Glow Magazine, www.ResourceNation.com and has been published in many others outlets.

Meredith is featured in the books Real You Incorporated, 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs, by Kaira Rouda and Beating the Bailout Blues by Rosalind Resnick. She is a member of The National Association of Women Business Owners and eWomenNetwork where she leads the marketing committee for the Columbus, Ohio chapter. She is the author of an upcoming book on client attraction strategies for solopreneurs.

Meredith works with solopreneurs and micropreneurs around the country through her group and private coaching programs, boot camps, teleseminars, retreats and home study kits. Meredith created a 2-minute movie called www.TheRichLifeMovie.com that other women business owners have called “brilliant” and “a true gift to women in business.”

She publishes a very popular free bi-weekly enewsletter called Smart Marketing that is packed with client attraction advice, tools and resources. Every new subscriber receives a free e-course where she teaches her Marketing for a Truly Rich Life Formula™ valued at $139.

Web 2.0 Expo is a global annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo is co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb.

Here is a clip form the keynote (Oct. 2008).
2009 is planned for March 31-April 3 (San Francisco, CA)

Has your Blackberry suddenly gone wacky? Have your recently lost valuable data?

If not, great. Here’s the low down on preventing information overload on Blackberry:

Top 10 tips of the month:
1) Make it your standard to maintain at least 14,000,000 bytes of free space!
2) Regularly check your system and remove any unused programs – they are just wasting space.
3) Use the “delete prior” feature, which keeps your messages on your desktop, but not clogging up your in-box.
4) Be sure to turn on the feature “Delete on prompts” (especially if using IMAP).
5) Clear history for internet use.
6) Clear cache operations.
7) Save music and audio books to the memory card and NOT the phone.
Make sure your photos taken with the camera phone are stored on your data card and NOT the phone.
9) At least once a week, connect your device to your laptop and back up your data.
10) Finally, re boot for your changes to take affect.

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Here’s a BONUS for all of you Google business app lovers…
Just released google and blackberry contacts sync!!! Check out the details here:

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-sync-for-blackberry-now-with.html

There’s two new kids on the block! and who likes being the new kid on the block anyway? No one ever really does, unless you receive the warmest welcome there ever could be. That is exactly the way The Virtual Wire’s team have embraced me.

I introduced myself to The Virtual Wire’s (TVW) community, and for those who have followed me to this blog, thank you. I feel really privileged to be one of the newest VA bloggers added to TVW, and hope that you’ll continue to read in both places. For those of you who haven’t heard of TVW, please read my first post.

Starting October 1st, and every Saturday thereafter, I’ll be blogging thematically on TVW (unless, something more compelling strikes me and I just have to tell you about it). October will be dedicated to the art of entrepreneurial thinking, or should I say the “lost art”. It would be great to hear from you as we explore this topic. There will be resources, advice (like we need more of that) and stories too. To kick this off, see where my motivation began (blog entry: Entrepreneurship – principles that recapture the lost art…). If you respond to the call to action, please tell me about it. We all want to hear from you!!

We are also graced with the talent and expertise of Sydni Craig-Hart of Craig-Hart Consulting, and EAtoVA. I could not be in better company, and neither will you. Sydni will be blogging on TVW on Wednesdays, and I know you’ll be informed and enlightened by her perspective. She rocks!

Thank you to the TVW team for having me!

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