“Actually, it is mostly women’s fault. They simply don’t ask for raises or promotions as often as men do.”

If I had to give my opinion, I think this Shaun guy is either smoking crack (or at the very least, playing someone on TV who does) or blowing smoke up his own and puffing rings out his mouth, for the Shock Factor.

And, he might have a point but it’s not the one he’s making. If anything, it’s around women learning to speak the Language of Capital.

But whatever his motive, at least he’s transparent about it.

Click here to read the full post on Forbes.

Posted via email from The Michelle Price Lifestream

{ 0 comments }

socialmediaconsumers

When I found this information on from Forrester Research , I immediately thought of “Social Climbers”. However, it’s not what you think ;-)

What it tells you  is “look before you leap” and find out HOW your audience uses social media. AKA “Social Technographics(r).

For example, say you wanted to create an online community or social network for your business. You need content, and you assume that if you build it, and give your audience the ability to create blogs, they will come, and blog, and create the content for you.

What if based on this cool tool, they aren’t Creators, they are instead Spectators? Then it’s pretty useless to create a community where they can blog, right? It would make more sense to find the bloggers they already read and are influenced by. Who also allow comments on blog posts.

You could then do a couple of things. You could invite those bloggers to blog on your community. (And offer them some sort of social currency or even hard currency to do so). Or you could hire your own bloggers to create content that is related AND goes deeper into the topic.

Then you could create a comment strategy and go start commenting on the blog your ideal users read. And link back to specific, relevant blog posts on your community.

Watch the slide show, then play with the Social Technology Profile Tool. Enjoy!

Social Technology Profile Tool

What are your thoughts?

{ 0 comments }

Influence Match: The Insider Strategy of Influence Agents in 6 Steps

December 3, 2009

I’d like to introduce my mentor,  Gary Spirer, a.k.a. the $560M Man and founder of StepsTo.com. He  is my Guest Blogger today. We are co-creating a “StepsTo” Guide around Influence for Women Entrepreneurs.  He wrote this to show me that he figured out my pattern for influencing others…;-)
Stay tuned for more information….
Influence Match: The Insider [...]

Read the full article →

reBlog from dovbaron.com: Friends Family and FaceBook | Dov Baron – Mind Mastery

November 20, 2009

Dov Baron points out a blinding flash of the obvious today. Which is why I love his stuff. He is the master of “nuance”…

What I want to share with you are some other kinds of friends you may want to pay attention to, in particular ‘bad weather friends’. I know you’ve been told that real [...]

Read the full article →

Third Mind Think Tank: Visionary Thought Leadership (Or The Art of Original Thinking)

November 12, 2009

A Twitter conversation sparked this post a while ago, and I wanted to revisit today (thanks @JDeragon)
Jan Phillips wrote this white paper in 2006, using Michael Stelzner’s white paper on… “How to Write a White Paper” (thanks Michael …designed to help market the book she was writing for 9th Element Group, our angel-funded, [...]

Read the full article →

reBlog from socialmediasavvy.com: Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?

October 27, 2009

I found this fascinating quote today:

While many sites are attempting to follow Google and generate revenues from advertising, will advertising be effective? If friends influence the purchases of a user in a social network, it could potentially be a significant source of revenue for the sites and their corporate sponsors.socialmediasavvy.com, Do Friends Influence Purchases in [...]

Read the full article →

Where are the Women Business Thought Leaders?

September 23, 2009

That’s a question I’ve asked for a while now and none of the pretty enlightened leaders I know seem to have a clue either. So, I thought it would be fun to plan to find them and when I do, they’ll appear in this category.
In 2006, I was a partner in a thought leadership publishing [...]

Read the full article →

reBlog: 15 Things Social Media Can Do for You Today

August 1, 2009

FYI, “reBlog” is for bloggers what “Re-Tweet” is to Twitters.  I learned that today on my internet travels.
Using Twitter to discover conversations about thought leadership, I found this great list of 15 Things Social Media Can Do For You today and wanted to share it.  I couldn’t have said it better myself :

Allows you to [...]

Read the full article →

What Is Strategy 2.0?

May 26, 2009

Guest Post by Jay Deragon
Relationship Economy Thought Leader
I found this in my Facebook inbox today. I decided it was high time I posted something from Jay Deragon, one of my favorite leading thinkers on all things Relationship 2.0….Enjoy~
A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. Strategy is different from tactics.
Every [...]

Read the full article →

Tribes Are What Matter Now – Seth Godin at TED

May 11, 2009

The OG Online Thought Leader Seth Godin talks at TED about Tribes (What I like to call True Fans – what if you had a Tribe of 1000 True Fans? Never “work” again because you would have your own economy!).
TED is my favorite site for learning who the leading thinkers are for today. [...]

Read the full article →