Tip for Putting Ideas from Seminars into Action

I consider successful a seminar or workshop where I come away with one or two good ideas. At some workshops, like the Remodelers Advantage Power Meeting I attended this past week, I walked away from the meeting with tons of notes and my head spinning with ideas I couldn’t wait to put into action. I always review my notes after meetings and list the ideas and action items I want to pursue. However, I sometimes find that it's the ideas from the most idea-rich meetings that are the hardest to get from my long list of ideas into action.

Because this Remodelers Advantage Power Meeting was one of those idea-rich meetings, one of the RA presenters made a simple but great suggestion. She said, take all the ideas you want to use from the meeting and make a list. Then make a second list of no more than three action items. Until you finish at least one item, don’t put another on the action list. Her idea became the #1 action item on my action list. The second thing on my list was to share this idea! Now I can add two more ideas to put to good use.

One more tip: Remodelers Advantage puts on Power Meetings on all kinds of topics. If you have never attended one, I recommend you look into them at http://www.remodelersadvantage.com/.

Find Your Social Media Community

There are over 100 million blogs and over 100 million users of social media sites. Step one for testing social media marketing is to find where the homeowners, editors and writers you want to reach hang out in the social media universe. This might take a bit of online research and talking to those you would like to communicate with. If you are not communicating with the right people, you are not going to be successful.

Which social networks do your customers find most engaging?

According to Guild Quality blog post (link below)Facebook was the social media venue of choice for their client's homeowners. ">more...