Recently my core Tribe of 5 guys started a Tribe Power Hour. This is a very fun time for us and we get a lot done in this short amount of time. I wanted to show you how we structure our time and show you what we do so you can in turn use these same techniques to build up your own core Tribe.
It all starts with an agreed upon time that works for us all, and we then conference call each other through Skype to start the process.
We normally start our sessions by sending out a tweet something like, “Doing a Syndication Power Hour With My Tribe @karyrogney, @Kenpickard, @NickLogantv, and @JonAlfredsson.” We then update our status on Facebook with something similar.
We all start at one of our blogs and take the latest blog post, read it, and comment on it. Having the plug-in Comment Luv on the blog will give you back links to your blog which is always good because it creates exposure for you.
Once we’re done commenting on the blog we will then Tweet it. We do this by using the plug-in TweetMeMe or some of us have ViralTweets that we use too. In any case the post gets tweeted. For more information on this GO HERE.
After that we all social bookmark the post though the plug-in that we all have installed on our blog called OnlyWire. This is a great plug-in because it allows you to social bookmark your post to about 22 social bookmarking sites in just one click.
Once we have completed that process with all of 5 of our blogs we then move the syndication over to Facebook.
On Facebook we all have developed Fan (business) Pages to help promote our Tribes content. We will post links from each other’s blogs there, we will promote each other there, we will comment on what other people are saying on the page, and just do as much interaction as we can with each other.
We will then do something similar to our personal Facebook Pages.
We are doing all of this while Skype is on in the background so we are constantly talking, brainstorming, and joking with each other. What is normally about an hour syndication process normally turns in to about 1 ½ to 2 hours. The time goes by fast and it actually is very fun to do.
Since we have done this our exposure has grown leaps and bounds. What I was doing for a while just by myself, I now have 4 other people that made the commitment to regularly syndicate my content getting my message out that that much faster and that much stronger.
I want to encourage you to find yourself a Tribe of 4 or 5 people and start doing this right away. You will definitely start seeing immediate results!
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Please pay close attention because I have some very time sensitive information I want to share with you today.
I want to first start off by saying that the reason why I have this blog up is for my Tribe which are people like you who come to my blog to learn about leadership, and online marketing strategies. These leadership and marketing skills that I teach through my blog posts are to help you become grounded in online marketing strategies so you can use these exact strategies to make money online with your home based business.
Now I along with 4 other Tribe leaders have put together something very special for you. This international team of Tribe leaders will be giving a FREE webinar this coming Monday night, November 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM EST.
Your instructors will be:
- Mike Feil
- Kary Rogney
- Ken Pickard
- Jon Alfredsson
- Nick Logan
Here are some of the things we’ll be covering:
- How to Generate A Significant, Full-Time Income… With Less Time And Fewer Headaches…
- How To Get People Calling You! Wanting To Partner With You In Business… (This Tip Is So Huge, It’ll Blow Your Mind When You Hear It!) A Tenth Of 1% Of The Online Marketers Even Know About This Strategy!
- How To Build A Massive Subscriber List And Turn That Into Your Own Personal ATM…
- How To Stop Selling And Being A Go-Getter And Start Attracting Abundance And Be A “GO-Giver”…
- Why Value Rich Content Pays And How To Guarantee Your Message Will Spread…
- How ONE Tweak Will Create A Massive BUZZ And Attract Raging Fans…
- How to Build A HUGE Tribe Of followers That Will Syndicate Your Content And Create Massive Exposure On The Internet.
Like I said, this is a FREE Webinar and we are doing this because we want to give back to our followers and our readers that come and visit our blogs. I guarantee after you watch this webinar that we will be giving that you will walk away with some good nuggets that will help grow your business. Since this is the week of Thanksgiving we want to give you this as our way of saying thank you for connecting with us and working with us. I hope to see you there!
To register go to www.empoweredtribe.com.
today I wanted to share with you a follow up to my Zombie Marketing post. My friend George Fourie wrote the following post. You can check out his other post on his Social Tribes blog called That MLM Beat.
Social Tribes being formed within social tribes? Definitely so. But how about adding a touch of free blog syndication?
With literally the entire world on Facebook, more and more smaller communities, a.k.a social tribes, are connecting like minded network marketers and social media enthusiasts.
These social tribes started out with Facebook groups, which had more of a ‘vanity’ layout with the focus on the group creator rather than place focus on social interaction.
Facebook Pages however are quite the opposite. Facebook Pages are all about the interaction, commenting, approving (like feature) of status updates and making conversation.
So what’s new? Well, 3 Facebook Pages where you can attract more visitors to your Personal Development or MLM Blog while boosting your social media buzz and retweets on Twitter.
Kary Rogney, Michael Feil and Ken Pickard have created 3 different Facebook Fan Pages for maximum free content syndication.
The idea is simple: As soon as you’ve completed a new blog post, head over to the wall and paste a brief description of your post, the headline and a link to your new post.
The social tribe members will comment, share and retweet your blog posts.
That’s it? Not quite. Be sure to do a little homework and read the notes on each individual page.
Kary’s social tribe for example suggests that you build relationships with a minimum of 5 people within the social tribe.
Not just random 5 people, but 5 people that with similar backgrounds, goals, philosophies and so forth. So 5 people that you will want to befriend anyway.
These are 5 people that you can grow an alliance with amongst other things, but lets leave all the juicy details for the notes section on the individual Facebook pages.
Here are your 3 social tribes for free content syndication:
Michael Feil’s Business Page
Kary Rogney’s Business Page
Ken Pickard’s Business Page
To get the full benefit from the free content syndication, be sure to join all 3 social tribes.
In light of Halloween I thought I’d put together a fun little post on what we can learn from zombies. But first let’s look 
at what zombies are and when they can do.
Zombies are dead people that have come back to life that have an appetite for the human brain. Zombies are determined. They’re not fast, but they’re determined! They will do anything to sink their teeth into the human brain. In the movies you will see zombies with cut off limbs making their way to the living to eat their brains. You will even see zombies with no legs doing a military like crawl to their next meal. And if you notice once a zombie eats a brain their hunger for brains is still there. Zombies never lose their hunger!
You will also notice that zombies travel in packs. If you run into one zombie, sure enough, you will run into more. If they corner you then you’re pretty much done.
So how does this transfer into building Tribes? Well, let’s again understand the meaning of a Tribe. A Tribe is a group of people that have a shared interest and a way to communicate. In Social Media there is never just you! There is usually you and several other people…YOUR TRIBE. In our Social Media Tribes we travel around in packs to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, social bookmarking sites, etc. helping each other promote our content.
Like zombies we are not usually fast at it, but we’re thorough. We chip away little by little to get to our goal. A common trait for us Social Media Tribe members is that we’re determined and we’re going to reach our goal no matter what. Nothing is going to stop us and we will never lose our hunger!
Let’s talk about eating brains for a minute. Just like zombies we love to eat brains, but we’re just not as messy as zombies! When we go to other Social Media Marketer’s blogs and read what they are doing and gaining insight, knowledge, and strategies to better our marketing skills we are in a sense eating brains. We’re taking knowledge (what’s inside another person’s brain) “eating it (learning from it),” and digesting that knowledge so we can grow strong from it.
Then there are the mentally deranged humans that feed zombies. That would be people like me, Kary Rogney, and Ken Pickard. We’re feeding you zombies fresh brains for your enjoyment! Say what?? Let me explain…
On Facebook Kary, Ken, and I have put together business pages that promote other people’s content. If you have a blog then you are pretty much on the ball and have a good idea as to what you’re doing. So this means you probably have good content. You want that content out there, and you want that exposure. So all you have to do is go onto our Facebook business pages and post your link there and bam, you have instant exposure.
So getting back to our zombie analogy Kary, Ken, and I are feeding your brains to zombies so they can go on our business pages, click the link to your blog post, read your knowledge (eat your brain), and digest it so they can grow strong and make it to their goal.
If you want your brain eaten (if you want to post your link to your blog post on our business pages) just click the following links)…
Michael Feil’s Business Page
Kary Rogney’s Business Page
Ken Pickard’s Business Page
Ok you zombies! There’s a lot of great blogs out there! So eat up! Also Tweet this and Comment on it if you like it!
If you are trying to build a Tribe of like minded individuals through social media marketing then you really want to take advantage of social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web. Also, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.
The Benefits of Social Bookmarking…
1. Instant social traffic. A well written news article or blog post has the potential to drive massive traffic to your site.
2. Hundreds of one-way links to your website in a short amount of time.
3. Backlinks appear very quickly in Search Engines. Most links on regular pages often take weeks or months to be indexed. We have seen a majority of our social backlinks get indexed within a couple days.
As a marketer, you can leverage social bookmarking by setting up accounts at these sites and sharing the links to your sites with others. There are tools that let you submit a single page or site to dozens of social bookmarking sites with one click of the mouse, so you´re not entering them all by hand.
One of those tools is called OnlyWire. This WordPress Plug-in tool is great! Below is a video I made for you to learn how to install and use OnlyWire. Enjoy!
Please comment and Retweet if this has helped you!
Seth Godin, in his book Tribes, talks about how to improve your Tribe. He gives some bullet points but I would like to expound on these thoughts for a minute.
The two requirements of a Tribe:
• A Shared Interest
• A Way to Communicate
There are all different kinds of Tribes out there…Dog Lovers Tribe, Mix Martial Arts Tribe, Habitat For Humanity Tribe, your church could be your Tribe, etc. Heck, I was on a business trip in NC a few years ago and in the hotel I stayed in was the National Taxidermists Society’s yearly convention!! That’s a Tribe if I ever saw one!
Well, since we are all really focused on Social Media I’ll explain how the two bullet points above relate to us. We have a shared interest in home based business and marketing on the internet through social media avenues. Our ways of communicating are through several different avenues such as Facebook, Email, Skype, Phone, YouTube, Twitter, Blogs, etc.
So that makes us a Tribe!
Within the Tribe communication can be done four different ways.
• Leader to Tribe
• Tribe to Leader
• Tribe Member to Tribe Member
• Tribe Member to Outsider
Let’s talk about each one of these and how the communication is done:
Leader to Tribe
It’s important for the leader to stay in constant communication with his / her Tribe. If you lead a Tribe you need to be constantly communicating the Tribe’s vision to the members so everyone stays motivated and educated.
One good way to do this is webinars that the leader may host. Some may be free but some require a fee. If the leader is putting out a solid vision and the content that is being taught is valuable and will empower the members then the fee will be well worth it.
Tribe to Leader
It’s always good for a Tribe members to communicate with their leader, but what’s more important is that the leader communicates back to the members. Here’s an example, the leader writes a blog post on their blog and the members start commenting. A good leader would respond to all the comments that were being made on his / her blog. This shows that the leader cares and wants to be engaged with his / her members. When a leader stops communicating with his / her members the members might find a new leader.
Tribe Member to Tribe Member
Tribe member to Tribe member is great because it helps create relationships and partnerships. One way this can be done is through social networking sites like the Ning Community. With this community established member can talk to each other, share content, and learn from each other. Many times partnerships or joint ventures can establish within the Tribe that would have never happened if the leader didn’t bring the community together and empower the members to communicate with each other.
Tribe Member to Outsider
This is great because it allows the Tribe member to be an advocate for the Tribe and promote the Tribe to other people. If the Tribe member does a good job at this the outsider may be interested in joining the Tribe which will increase the Tribe with another like minded member and that new member can do the same thing…tell another outsider about the Tribe and continue the momentum.
So as you can see there are many ways to communicate but the most important thing is to keep a steady stream of communication going. Great communication allows for a Great Tribe!
Please comment and retweet this if you like it!
Today I want to talk about third party evidence and how it can help you grow your business and following. If I’m trying to sell you something I can say all day that what I have to offer is the best thing in the world, but I want to say that because I want the sale.
Third party evidence is when someone that is not related to your product has something good to say about it. We see this all the time in marketing. For example, Enterprise Rent-A-Car call you for a short survey after you have rented one of their cars to see how your experience was. Through the survey they can compile statistics that show how many customers were satisfied with their service and use that data for marketing purposes.
Another example would be the movie industry. How many times have you heard, “Man, you gotta check this movie out! It was great!” The movie industry relies on your third party evidence (you telling people to go see their movie) to spread the word about their product (the movie).
In social media this can be done one of several ways. Here are just a few:
- Testimonial
- Post on Facebook
- Video on YouTube
- Posting a comment in your comment section of your blog
- Showing the stats of how many hits you received on your blog
- Social bookmarking
- Retweeting
Today I’m going to focus on retweeting your Tribe’s content so they can have massive exposure. And if they are true Tribe members guess what will happen? They will retweet your content and give you massive exposure as well!
So check out the video!
To get your hands on Viral Tweets (free version or pro version) click on the following link…
http://www.michaelfeil.com/retweeting
Since we are talking about retweeting why don’t you try retweeting this post! I will appreciate it…and it’s fun too! 
Today we are finalizing the 3 part series on Instant Capture Page. If you missed the first two you can check them out here…
Part 1
http://www.michaelfeil.com/another-great-way-to-brand-yourself-pt-1/
Part 2
http://www.michaelfeil.com/another-great-way-to-brand-yourself-pt-2/
So now that we know exactly what Instant Capture Page is and what it can do, let’s talk about how to set up the links properly. In this video I talk about how to change the links and why it’s important to do so.
So let’s get started…
To sum up this series, I just want to say this is a very powerful tool that every social media marketer should have in their tool box. You can put Instant Capture Page on any website on the internet…Google pages, Click Bank pages, other affiliate pages, your network marketing company’s replicated website, any and all social media websites, the possibilities are endless!!
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This post is a continuation from my last post on Instant Capture Page. The last post I talked about what it is and how it can benefit you. If you want to see that post before you continue with this post you can view it at http://www.michaelfeil.com/another-great-way-to-brand-yourself-pt-1/
This post I will be showing you how to set it up and what is in the back office.
Let’s get right into it…watch the video below to see how easy it is to set it up!
Now do you understand how easy this is to set up? Pretty cool, huh!?
Now the last video in this 3 part series I will be talking about how to change your URL and why it’s important to do that. If this is something you’re interested in adding to your tool box you can Click Here And Get It!
In the meantime please comment and tweet my post! Thanks!!
As you all know, social media marketing is all about getting your name and face out there so you can deliver your message in a professional manner. I found a great tool that will help brand yourself as well as get people to opt into your autoresponder so you can follow them and establish a relationship with them.
This tool is called Instant Capture Page. Please watch this brief overview that I made that shows you exactly what it is and how I use it to get me additional leads. This is great!
So can you see the benefit of having something like this? This is what social media is all about…making yourself more personal on the Internet, getting your name and face out there, clearly communicating your message, and creating relationships.
Part two of this three part series we will talk about exactly how to set up Instant Capture Page and I will show you how easy it is to get you up and running!
If you’re interested in getting this Click Here To Get Instant Capture Page Now.
I would love to hear your comments about this tool so please give me your opinion. Don’t forget to Tweet this post!
