Mindful Social Business

When a business owner starts out, it’s almost in a sales mode initially. You’re spending time outside the office and connecting with people, and there will come a time where there it’s a balancing act to balance selling your business to obtain new clients and completing the work you have, and this can be stressful. Remember, you’re in the business of making your clients happy. Also, it’s easier to...

How can we apply mindfulness in communicating and receiving business messaging? One of the things that is missing in business is mindful listening. We claim that we’re listening, but we’re not actually listening. We have so many distractions in our environments, and what we think is listening is really hearing. We hear somebody talk and we pick up some of the words, but we’re not really focused on...

For hundreds of years, people shared ideas, values, and teachings through storytelling. Advertising interrupted our entire way of communicating. For many years, we’ve been told what to think by media, television, and advertisers, and it’s disrupted our ability to create culture and contribute to culture like we used to. When social media came into play, it gave that power back to people. Now, ever...

What does mindful leadership look like? We know it’s a completely different animal than when many of us were young. Things looked fine when we were in a manufacturing environment, and now all of us are working in idea factories. Now everything is knowledge based, being thoughtful, mindful, and creative. Mindful social leadership is so much more than social media. It’s about active listening and be...

Organic content is free, but is it accomplishing your goals? If you want to get your message in front of the right eyeballs, that may not happen organically. Whether you’re B2B or B2C, learn some techniques to move your content to the next level. Join Janet and Jed to find out more! This Blabcast is part of the #MindfulSocial series, inspired by Janet's book "Mindful Social Marketing". Learn more...

Maybe success begins with getting other people to join in with you on starting a community. One way or another, you're starting a conversation. Learn more about this episode on the blog: http://bit.ly/2k81jzs

Besides getting to know what your customers want, social listening includes knowing how to control the content that is important to you and your community. Learn more about this episode on the blog: http://bit.ly/2jdruAO

"How do you talk to audiences, how do you provide information? The easiest way to impact the conversation is being trustworthy, providing accurate information, and making your argument and letting people decide." ~S. Farnsworth. Read more on the blog: http://bit.ly/2iYoxpZ

With Daron Larson. By doing something intentionally and consistently, like pausing when drinking a cup of coffee or taking a shower, we can gain insight. There's no one right way to notice your senses.

Dawn E. Carter is one of those people who exemplifies the generous spirit of a good Twittzen. Her Periscope series, #Twitterscope has close to 50 episodes and each one has valuable insights and best practices about using this platform for your personal or business brand. Learn more about this episode on the blog: http://bit.ly/2iGOXhq

Join us this week to talk about mindful community management starting from the ground up.

Social Listening. The why, the how, the WTH?

There's no right or wrong way to practice mindfulness, and it this week's show I talk with Daron Larson. Daron helps people feel more at home in their lives by encouraging them to habitually notice ordinary experiences in liberating ways. He has been practicing mindfulness daily to disrupt his own default narrative mode since his first silent meditation retreat in October 2002. Learn more on the b...

As we run headlong into 2016 let’s take a moment to reflect on what we want our businesses and our own personal brands to represent to the world, and what it means to be a conscious business. Learn more about this episode on the blog: http://bit.ly/2k88Az9

Our guest this week has one of the best taglines ever for her consulting practice. "Helping organizations succeed by turning marketing-speak and jargon-monoxide into compelling stories!". Storytelling is at the core of effective social marketing, or any kind of human interaction isn't it? Learn more about this episode on the blog: http://bit.ly/2iOSmG3

This week on Blab I had the pleasure of chatting with Aaron Kahlow, founder of Mindful Living about finding and keeping a little balance in our lives. Listen in and hear how we both find ways to be present even on social media.

Shonali Burke is a world -class PR professional and this week on MindfulSocial we took the show to Blab to hear about her vision for social PR.

Wanna learn how to mobilize and empower your employees to develop and support your content marketing strategy? Tune in!

This week I'm talking with Roxanne Darling about applying mindfulness practices to business and marketing in particular.

For today's marketer it's even harder to connect one on one with your customer. But it's not impossible, not at all. Do you know how to look someone in the eye digitally? +Ted Rubin  does and he's going to share some tips on getting real with one on one communication skills that many of us may have forgotten. Check out Ted's latest book, "How to Look People in the Eye Digitally". Learn more about...

Join me for  a lively discussion with the remarkable +Jill Rowley about what it takes to enable your team with social selling strategies that really work in today's #AgeoftheCustomer   where it's no longer the #AgeoftheSeller  . Bring your questions about #SocialSales  training and converting the old style mindset of push selling.

Think all you gotta do is throw content at the wall and you'll make meeelions? Yeah, probably not. If you want to do it right you really have to give my guest +Mark Schaefer 's new book, The Content Code a read (or two). Come watch live tomorrow at 10:30 PT 1:30 ET and bring your questions.

Kare Anderson, author of "Mutuality Matters," "Mutuality Matters More" and “Moving from Me to We” talks with me about mutuality, social media and mindful marketing. Learn more on the blog: http://bit.ly/2iOS3Lp