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For me, I have made many clients from LinkedIn. I have also put in 1000′s of hours (or so it seems haha!) into networking/marketing and branding my business on that site. I started using it last spring as a marketing tool and after one year, I have had 32 clients from Linkedin and many of those folks have referred to me off site clients.

As far as Facebook, I have had no clients yet from it. I have also not put in a ton of time into using it for business purposes. I mostly use it for personal fun. I also have a business profile and a personal profile and tend to not give my business profile much attention. I just love it for what it is! FUN!

Twitter. I’m just now figuring out how to get tweetin’. I am following 1426 people and have 822 followers. As I’m just getting into it and learning how to tweet my tips and tricks effectively…I have no stats yet.

Other things…I also do Word Press and am doing quite well with that. No clients yet…but I’m getting alot of hit and comments from other folks in the Word Press community. It’s a fun application actually. I enjoy using it.

Other things than those? I’m really not doing much else. I’m probably missing the boat on some other hot items, but I will figure those out later:)

I was driving to work this morning and wondering about all the social media and how many folks are getting clients or just using it for brand recognition?

What are YOUR thoughts? Please comment below!

Seasoned Entrepreneurs! Recharge your batteries and get inspired!
Rookies! Learn new strategies and how to be a part of this new exciting business world!

★Topics covered
How to get going with your business (you have a business, now what do you do, how to network)
Branding your business (logo and website are everything for a start up!)
Advertising/Marketing (learn how to use the social media with ease, how to avoid pitfalls)
Setting up the business tools (what you will need technically to get going or refresh your world!)
How to get clients (how to effectively network and learn the downfalls of networking)
The highs, the lows…(ah, the funks!, if you’re in one now, this workshop is for you!)
…and extras you need to know! (the secrets that no one tells you about being in business for yourself)

Use the current economy to your advantage: right now is the BEST time to be an entrepreneur and sell yourself and your special skills!

★Where, how much and when?
Oak City Restaurant, Bloomington
Cost $99 until June 15th, then $119 after
Includes a refreshment of your choice during our midway break
Dates: 22nd and 24th
1p-4pm or when we close up

Pre-networking lunch beforehand if you choose to come early! (good time to schmooze)
*Lunch not included in cost of workshop

★How to sign up
Email Lisa@callthatgirl.biz with your
★Name
★Date requested
★What business you own or what you are interested in starting up
★One thing you want help with

then…pay here!

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5741679

Everyone will be involved in this workshop, it’s going to be very interactive (meaning a lot of YOU being involved) and at the end…you will be invited to be in the “Eclub” and will be able to attend meetings every 6 weeks for free to work with the other entrepreneurs who attended workshops.

Feel free to forward to anyone you feel may be interested…thank you!

PASSWORDS:

Do you remember a few messages ago I  reminded you to change your password on Facebook and make it different from your email account? I recommend that again! Please change it NOW!

I would also go and change your Facebook account password to something unique too. Why?
….Because I have seen four hacks this week alone! All different ones too. One client of mine called in despair, she was doing something in Facebook, clicked on a link and the next thing you know, her Internet Explorer lost connectivity. 2 other friends of mine apologized to their friends because their friends got messages from them that was NOT from them. I just received a message from an old high school pal and I know she didn’t write this…this is the actual message.

 VIRUS!

Facebook and MySpace has a virus called Koobface. The virus hijacks your account…From an Kapersky labs with short edit:

This worm creates a range of commentaries to friends’ accounts. Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, which targets Facebook users, creates spam messages and sends them to the infected users’ friends via the Facebook site. The messages and comments include texts such as Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street; Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet; Hello; You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam; Is it really celebrity? Funny Moments and many others.

PROTECT YOURSELF:

*If you see a strange message from a friend, delete it.

*Then google it to see what it was

*Inform your friends about the message, they may not  know about it

*Report it to facebook security  http://www.facebook.com/security

 QUIZZES?: Even this has me worried, those quizzes! I know they are fun, but read the small print…(pull your profile info, photos, YOUR FRIENDS INFO…and “content”…) What content? Now we have to read the TOU! (terms of use). ARGH!

Should you do them?

…with caution

*Don’t give out any personal information or passwords,etc.

*Be careful of the links that take you to off Facebook sites.

MY OPINION ONLY: Facebook is for people you know (in my opinion) there is no value to have 1000′s of friends on Facebook unless you are using it for marketing/advertising. Because I had so many folks from my online social networking world ask to friend me on my Facebook account, I created a business Facebook account. I keep them separate. I use them for different reasons.

 Continue to enjoy Facebook, I do! I have been having a blast catching up with old friends, but we have to remember that the hackers also are having fun ruining our days and giving us computer problems. If you have a question about something in regards to Facebook and security, feel free to shoot me an email. I am not a Facebook Guru, but should be able to point you in the right direction if/when you have an issue.

 Have a great week everyone!

What is next? Who knows what the next fresh thing is? I’m curious to find out because as much as I enjoy Facebook, it’s now becoming a virus tank. I will post about that later on….many folks are getting their accounts hacked into and it’s not pretty.

That’s it folks, today I am off to St. Paul for Twitter class and back to the office to finally set it up. I’m exhausted with that office move already!

Call That Girl is totally excited for this summer! This summer is more exciting than my summer of 2003 (when my friend Vikki and I came up with the idea of Call That Girl via our infamous eports!).

 We have many things going on and on the plate, so keep on watching us grow and coming to your neighborhood! We are there and everywhere…Have you seen the Call That Girl Mobile? (or the truck as I call it). 

 Spotted the truck out and about?

If you email my intern Hassan within an hour of seeing my truck….we will give you 30 free minutes of free tech support! (Hassan@callthatgirl.biz). Just tell us where you saw me and where I was…done deal!

The Tips and Tricks of the week!
Are you just about to open up a document and start working on that massive project? Here is the tip that will save your life or your heart/stress level (if not now, but maybe later).I had a client last week who worked on a document for 3 hours without saving and had 2 documents open by accident, closed one without saving and closed the wrong one. Drama. You know what happened, she lost all her 3 hours of work.

 After you open up a new document, immediately save it in a location you know where it will be saved. (the My Documents is a common place or your desktop for Mac and PC users)

 Then…go to your autorecovery area and make sure you have auto save turned on!

 Mac users with MS Word: File>Save As>options>set for 3 minutes.

PC user with MS Word: File>Save As>options>save>set for 3 minutes

 I type fast and losing 3 minutes worth of work is all I can deal with. If you are a slow typer, then the standard 10 minutes should be fine.

 Are you a wanna be Twitterer (Tweeter, Twit)?

Don’t want to let your competition get an unchallenged foothold with Twitter audiences?

This class will give you all of the tools you need to be a twitter star!  
Bring your own laptop so you can get hands on experience in addition to information.  Lunch at QKindness Cafe after class is included.

Friday, June 12th 9am to 12pm $99 (discount for early birds).  Space is limited — register today:

http://twitterfulllaunch.eventbrite.com/

http://guideonyourside.com/Events.html

Remember to keep Call That Girl in mind for your next computer repair and if you’re looking for a new blog to check out, please see what I’m up to!

 Keep up with my saga’s at http://callthatgirl.wordpress.com/

That’s it for this week folks!

..The next FRESH thing!
 
Lisa Hendrickson
612-865-4475
http://www.callthatgirl.biz

“People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, …but they will always remember how you made them feel”
~Carrie Bradshaw

That’s all I really wanted to say today!

Why is that? Because I have found no matter how high or low my junk mail settings are, some regular emails sneak in there! So I might as well just turn the whole thing off and just start adding each email as just so I know that it’s junk. But what’ s the point, I will still check my junk email because I don’t trust it! ARGH. I don’t know what is worse, one overloaded inbox or checking two of them.

I love Outlook 97 before the junk email box existed. It was just easier to delete unwanted emails and create rules to force them to the garbage. Seriously.

So the point of this post is this…I recommend checking your junk mail everyday and add folks to the “not junk list”. You may be suprised to find a few emails in there that you were supposed to get and never did, but did. I will only take a few minutes and maybe, just maybe someone won’t be thinking, “wow, he never replied back…” Or if you’re getting way too much junk email, maybe it’s time for you to get a fresh email account that you only give to the “important peoples” and keep that old one for the junk. Just a thought.

To close: I know also that it’s not the subject line that sends it off to Junk Mail. I just looked at my junk mail and even the most simple words in the subject line get shoved down to no-whereville. So with that said, I turned the junk mail feature off. I will do it myself, then I won’t miss anymore emails.

Rant over!

Happy Monday and welcome to my world today, the world of my boinky internet! I hate it, but thank goodness I have to go to work in a couple of hours and will come home to an unboinky internet. That’s how my computer rolls in this house. 

Sometimes internet goes boinky for no reason, meaning….it’s not your computer, your internet provider or you router/modem. 

A few things you can do when your internet is slow/not working is to reboot your computer. I did that this am and my internet came back, but then went boinky again….then came back. I think my computer is still sleeping to be honest. It is 6:37 am. 

So what if you reboot and it’s boinky again? I usually say at this point to just turn off your computer and let it rest. So many of us are in a hurry, but if you haven’t changed anything….it could be just a bad connection that will fix itself shortly. On the computers time, not yours. 

In the past 13 years of my computer repair career, I can’t tell you how I use the simple methods for troubleshooting and….it works. Just turning off a computer will often fix many issues. I know many folks who leave their computers on for days/months and with no reboot, things just go boinky eventually. 

If you restart the computer and the internet is still boinky, then it’s safe to say that you can check the router/modem. (Usually unplugging the power cord for a minute does the trick) If those are blinking after a power cord unplug.. then call your internet provider. I will personally almost never call Comcast as I can’t stand doing the phone que (*Press one for this, *Press two for that, argh!)…but I will if need be. They aren’t perfect either and sometimes have to reset things on their end. But it’s always good to start with the easy stuff on your end. 

But it’s always a good idea to do some minor things on your end. I never recommend going into your computer network settings and reconfiguring them. I have seen some folks delete some files or change things that take me awhile to fix. Just do the simple stuff.

That’s it today folks, hope to see you all at the Rudolph’s lunch! I’ll be there!

Lisa