Social Media - Right Here! Right Now!

I just read a post from @sheconomy titled “Market To Women with Social Media – Become A Leader”. A great post – but what got me was the 5 minute video – which I will now pass along to you all.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the phrase “my customers are not online” – which I say is a totally and completely untrue. Furthermore – the really exciting thing is the customers you never knew, and that never knew you – are most definitely online and are proably looking for you and they don’t even know it yet!

If you think Social Media is not for you – check out this video – it’s just a snippet of information that will leave a lasting impression on technological advances and the importance of staying ahead of the game with your online business. As @sheconomy points out in her post – NOW IS THE TIME!

When my customers go on about not needing to do any “social media stuff” I say to them – with 160 MILLION users on Facebook – why would you not put in the effort to even reach 1/100 of that traffic. The same applies to MySpace, Twitter, etc.

Please pass it on – and Get In The Game!

@socialpmchick

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This post was originally written December 4, 2009 – but it was my introductory post to my first blog.

To blog or not to blog has been my question for a while now… Until I could figure out what I had to share with the world it made no sense, but I now realize it is my passion for everything that I want to share – and how that passion continues to evolve in all that I do and all that I am personally and professionally.

I suppose where to start with this blog is to allow you to know who I am and why I am here. At just 38 years young, I have been employed in the marketing and internet industries for just about 15 years – a lifetime it seems. Somewhere between 37 and 38 a lightbulb turned on inside me and I realized that I was just existing and needed to surround myself with things I am passionate about. Starting with a new job… Having been home with babies for a few years and re-entering the work force, I made a very conscious decision to choose a career where I could be passionate about my career and truly enjoy what I am doing – rather than to just be a drone.

Writing a resume is the easy part in going back to work – it’s the “objective statement” that is challenging. Do potential employers ever really read your objective statement? Maybe not, but that’s not the point. I needed to know what my objective really was and what kind of job I wanted – so I felt it critical to write that statement for myself. With the help of my best friend, who knows me better than anyone, and about more iterations than I can count, the word that kept creeping into the statement was “passion”. And my passion started to evolve.

And so here I am – employed at Cazbah in the Account Management group and I must say I am truly passionate about who I am and what I am doing. My job is evolving and so am I.

I hope you will continue this journey with me as I explore what passion means in my career and my life and how it is contributing to my personal success. I will share stories about passion in project management (is that really possible?), passion for learning new technology, passion for social media, passion to see my peers succeed, passion for my client’s personal success and so much more. I believe with true passion anything is possible. Are you passionate about your work? I’d love to hear from you and perhaps share your stories in future posts as this blog and our passion evolves together.

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

- John Maxwell

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