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This marketing and networking tools and tips post is part of #365withDonnaMJ series.

As a way to set the example with the tools and tips I’ve been recommending to you, I’ve made a bit of a shift here on this blog.

For the second half of 2013 #365withDonnaMJ series will be found now at:

DMJC.me

This gives you a way to continue connecting with me in a place that is easier and quicker to spell when you’re looking for it.

Please stop over and leave a comment and let me know what you think.

This blog will still be used for announcements, news and updates, and for our subscribers to access their private content, but our year long blog series will now be posted from the other blog.

Sincerely,

Donna Marie Johnson

Your Social Networking Liaison

P.S.

The free offer I told you about for having a private strategy session with me has been extended. Learn more at dmjc.me

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The Seven Sacred Steps to Success series continues with more discussion about influencers / mentors. This is part of our #365withDonnaMJ blog series.

If you are a health and wellness leader and have ever been through any type of leadership training, while in school or as part of an organization or ministry that you joined, you will be able to understand what I’ve been writing about in this series of articles. You may also understand why it is so important that we get a handle on this while building our emerging small businesses online. And I’ll take a moment to explain about:

RECOGNIZING & HONORING YOUR MENTORS

As an online marketer, you are an influence on lots of people, so being protective over who influences you helps to shape how you “show up” to other people. This is important when you are sharing with them on the social networks and through your blog and other online / email content that you are creating. This is critical because, as many folks I know say: YOU ARE your brand. Your brand is not your logo or colors or slogan / motto. YOU are influenced by others and that will be unconsciously apparent to everyone you come into contact with.

So, ask your self, how are you…

…recognizing and honoring the mentors God has brought into your life? This is a very important part of your success journey.

QUESTION FOR YOU

What do you think? Who has been influencing you? How do you honor them?

Past Articles About Mentors / Influence

• In the last article in this series, we talked about recognizing the influencers in our lives. Please check that article out here and leave a comment.
• In a Mother’s Day article on my blogger blog, I shared about my first mentors. Have a look at it here: http://ggen.biz/honor-first-mentors-moms
• Magazine Article (page 9) in The Work From Home Digest: http://ggen.biz/mothers-day-work-from-home

Also, you’ll often see me posting about this topic on my social pages. You can see all of my social links here:

DMJC.me

…along with my contact information, and appointment scheduling page.

I’d love to chat and get to know you. Reach out to me, if you’d like that, too, especially while my free offer for a strategy session is still available. That goes away at the end of May over on our new site at YourSocialNetworkingLiaison.com

Happy Mother’s Day!

Sincerely,

Donna Marie Johnson

Your Social Networking Liaison

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This post is part of the #365withDonnaMJ Series Regarding Recommended Marketing Tools and Tips. A recent blog visitor, Andrew, asked a great question about

Tips on Managing Research Tasks

even if you don’t have much time for it. So, today’s blog post will address this topic in detail. Leave A Comment and Let me know if you have a question that I might be able to include in a future blog post. ~Donna

Answer: How To Manage Marketing Research Even With Limited Time

My recommendation for preventing overwhelm is always always to have a comprehensive written strategic plan. In other words, cover all of the bases in advance by knowing your unique needs and using some creativity to plan your marketing, and remember to include a plan for how to also incorporate research. This is what will give you the best results instead of trying to follow a cookie-cutter plan that you may have read or heard about from someone else.

Research Planning Tips For Busy Health and Wellness Leaders

If you are a busy therapist or coach who sees clients daily, or if you are an author focused on completing vitally important writing tasks while you are in the midst of publishing, you are not going to do much research, unless you have planned it into your regular routine as a priority. So, here are some suggestions to help you get it done:

• Set aside 15 minutes at the same time each day just for researching a previously chosen topic. “Research” can look a lot different for you than it does for me – I love to read, but if you don’t then stick with video/audio and take great notes while you watch/listen. Do what works best for you.
• Keep track of your research with a great note indexing system (like MS OneNote or Evernote.com) – by “index”, I mean that the text content you enter into the system is completely searchable, even if you choose not to initially use tags, labels, titles or to sort into folders.
• Get the most of out the apps on your smart phone to help you keep track of notes if you are out when you learn about some important information or think of an important question that you want to research about.
• Go beyond just text notes – take pictures of interesting things or information that you see on the screen, in your snail/postal mail or while you are on the road and then send the pics to your indexing system; leave an audio note on your phone or in your smart voicemail inbox (the kind that gives you a downloadable audio file that you can store in your indexing system)
• Convert Handwritten Notes to digital notes by: simply snap a clear picture of the note page/s and email it to your evernote account; then during your next 15 minute research block of time, use labels/folders/merge and other features to associate that note with whatever pictures, audio, video or other information that you have also found on that same topic
• Hire A Researcher on Fiverr or another affordable task listing site; OR hire a research intern (We are hiring – click here.). A lot of kids are out of school and looking to make some money over the next few months. Check with your local high schools and community colleges to find out how to get onto their job/internship posting lists.

There are many more tips I could give you, but these should help to get you pointed in the right direction.

What specific questions do you have on this topic of managing research tasks? Leave a comment and let me know. Here is the original question I received from a reader:

Question About Managing Marketing Research

Donna, I wholeheartedly agree. {Referring to Article About Alternative Marketing Research Tools Part 1}

Search engines shouldn’t be the only thing we use for market research. That concept often creates a problem for small business owners though. Most of the ones open to research feel overwhelmed. There’s too much to do and not enough time to get it done.

What would you suggest to these kinds of business owners?

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This article about Alternative Marketing Research Tools is part of the tools and tips series in the ongoing #365withDonnaMJ series of articles. Even though our focus is on supporting health and wellness marketers, this article can be useful to anyone doing marketing research online.

Are You Using Only The Big Well-Known Search Engines?

If you are marketing your emerging / small business in the health and wellness industry online, even if you have hired a pro like me to help you, there is still a basic level of marketing research that you will want / need to do. The most well known internet browsers and search engines are the go-to resource for most internet users. That is why they are the biggest. However, below you will find the reasons why I recommend that you go beyond just using a regular search engine. I will also give you additional recommended tools and tips to help your quest.

Why Add Alternative Marketing Research Tools

Note that this doesn’t mean bigger search engines are not useful for searching. Of course they are. However, I am suggesting that you limit their use and add in a mix of other resources and tools as part of your marketing system. Check out the following subtopics about privacy and openness online. Also, before you read on, here is a recommended online search site where you can be sure your searches are private:

From their website:

“DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information.

That is our privacy policy in a nutshell.”

PRIVACY

Some of the larger search providers, including Google, have a track record of defaulting your search history to save in a way that is viewable by the public.

Of course you do not want your market research to be publicly viewable, right?

Take some time to read about your favorite providers’ privacy policies regarding your search history. Then learn how you can adjust the settings for enhanced privacy. The illustration below shows you where to go to adjust your settings if you have a Google Apps account (will be similar for regular google users, too):

Two Important Additional Notes:

• As of this writing, this is how to find your web history settings in Google Apps, however, they frequently change pages and directories. So, use this as a general guide.
• Online providers are constantly changing their privacy policies, terms of service, guidelines and offerings. So, make sure you pay attention to the alerts they give you which prompt you to review the changes after they are announced.

FOR SUBSCRIBERS: An upcoming webinar will give you a detailed video guide of this topic.

VARIED, UNLIMITED SEARCH RESULTS

There is a bit of a back story here…

I have been a researcher for all of my life, since I first walked into a school. I am a person who loves to learn and to read. So, the introduction of the internet into my world when I was in college expanded my opportunities to learn and read significantly. And now with the latest advances in digital tools and resources, I pretty much can learn whatever I want whenever I want, and often at very affordable prices.

And this unlimited availability of affordable resources has totally been by design from the hearts and minds of those who strongly believe in the purpose of the worldwide web as an open resource for everyone who can get online. According to historical information I’ve read and seen regarding the founding of the internet, the original intent was to open things up and make this world a better place as a result. Of course there are some powerful folks out there who have been and will always fight this openness philosophy.

The great thing is that openness is still winning and lots of passionate folks will never stop fighting to keep it that way. In this world, there are always some ruthless people who just want to make more money, no matter how their tactics impact everyone else. And so now, if you pay attention to the online chatter and social media news about this topic of openness, you will see an undercurrent (almost like a digital revolution) of unrest surrounding this issue. The great thing about this movement is that the passion of the “openness” folks has made marketing research for emerging businesses much more affordable and accessible than ever before.

So, keeping all of that in mind…

There is absolutely no reason for your online marketing research to be limited by anyone for any reason. You need specific information to grow your business. You need affordable access immediately. However, not all search engines are created equal when it comes to accessibility of ALL that you need (and with privacy), instead of just the parts they want you to see. It hasn’t always been like this with search engines. However, the addition of social data to our searches brought with it social marketing which intrudes on our privacy, supposedly for our own well-being to serve us better. I totally get the wanting to serve us better part, but believe our privacy should not be encroached upon as much as it has been in recent years. And, unfortunately, it only seems to increase.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE ON OPENNESS

Mozilla.org

VIDEO TOUR FOR ADJUSTING PRIVACY SETTINGS

If you would like for me to walk you through setting up your privacy for searching online, please subscribe so that you can see the webinar video that guides you through this process on a few of the major search engines.

WHAT TO EXPECT IN PART 2

And please come back for Part 2, where I’ll share with you more tools that you can add in to your online marketing research mix.

COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?

What are your thoughts or questions on this topic of online marketing research? Leave a comment with what tools you recommend for online marketing research.

Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,

Donna Marie Johnson

P.S. I am Celebrating the Launch of YourSocialNetworkingLiaison.com with a special free offer (expires soon). Listen to my latest soundcloud podcast to learn more about what I’m doing over there. To Listen, Click Here or go to 365.dmjc.me

P.P.S. Think about this…

Mindset Comment Regarding Marketing Research:

Just do it. Go for it. Be diligent. Be persistent. And Be focused.

Pick a specific topic that is closely related to the people God has called you to serve and stick with that for only a limited time each day (recommend 15 minutes at a time). This will protect you from getting burnt out and from following too many “rabbit trails”.

You will definitely be distracted online, but you can set your goals and standards in place in advance to keep yourself on track. It’s kind of like the same principle as eating before you go to the grocery store and always having a written shopping list with a budget.

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Focus Spring – During the last few weeks of April in the #365withDonnaMJ series, I pulled back from posting directly to this blog and focused more on social posts than I did during the first part of the year. Keep reading to learn why.

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Reasons For Diversified #365withDonnaMJ Social Posts

• I received indirect complaints about posting too frequently directly on the blog.
• I prefer to post on the blog and then to re-post / syndicate to social profiles. That’s the way I’ve always found success with blogging.
• I did some research and found some great tips that I felt have worked well for me and for readers. (Will share more once I have vetted them more.)
• Lack of response to the survey – I wanted to know what you wanted to hear more about for the rest of the Spring and Summer and have gotten no response at all. So…

I decided to focus on what I know for sure has been helpful to you all this Spring. So you can now expect to see / continue seeing:

*Parenting Articles:

• See the Butterfly Homeschool Blog
• See article “Seasons of Motherhood” in the The Work From Home Digest e-Magazine

*A continuation of the series on the Seven Sacred Steps To Success at least twice per month (starting up again in May.)

*Continued and More emphasis on LinkedIn and related information (If you didn’t look at the recording of the webinar, yet, subscribe so you can watch and download your action plan worksheet. You will walk away from the 90 minute webinar with your written networking strategy in your hands.)

*June Live Events Including:

• Atlanta Big Biz Tour Event with our friends Rhonda “The Success Instigator” Nails and Anissa “TaxChick” Barbee
• Podcast Season 2 with the phenomenal marketing leader Brandi Starr

*More repitition and reminders for subscribers to make sure they actually use the resources they have invested in (overwhelm has been expressed over and over again, along with an appreciation for reminders and continued encouragement)

I had so much I wanted to do in the #365withDonnaMJ blog series this year, but the main thing I wanted was to not be a source of more overwhelm. My goal is to be a tangible support and blessing to help you get real results for better marketing. So, when I get the sense that you all are ready to move forward more, I will do that.

For now, know that I am totally committed to your online marketing and networking success. So much so that I want to bless you with a free private marketing consultation session. To sign up, visit my new site: click here.

Also, I want to hear from you about what is helping you the most so far from all that I’ve shared in 2013. Please reach out to me and let me know.

Sincerely,

Donna Marie Johnson

YourSocialNetworkingLiaison.com

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This Atlanta Event (open to the public) is the fifth stop in the Big Biz Tour that we’ve been posting about on the #365withDonnaMJ social posts. We are extending a special invitation to Christian Leaders who are in the Health and Wellness Industry to join Donna at this event, especially if you have been struggling to build the online marketing part of your business.

Join GGene S.I.S., LLC and the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library in welcoming…

The Big Biz 5 City Tour – Atlanta Edition

Register For Free at

http://ggen.biz/Atlanta-workshop-Big-Biz

The Atlanta Fulton Public Library and GGene S.I.S., LLC are co-sponsoring this event.

The event hosts and speakers are listed below.

SESSION 1 with Rhonda Nails, The Success Instigator

TOPIC: How to Market, Manage and Motivate Your Business on a Penny Budget

*Mindset and Business
*How to market your services/products on a budget
*Best Money generating ideas for any business
*Budget friendly tools and resource from
*Let the Success Instigator help you get moving forward in your own success journey

SESSION 2 with Anissa Barbee, The TaxChick

TOPIC: The Cost of Business: What You Can (And Cannot) Write Off

*Business expenses that are and are NOT deductible
*Home office deductions
*How to track your Mileage for Business
*Learn how to keep more money in YOUR pocket
*Let the TaxChick break down the tax code to save you $$$

Register For Free at

http://ggen.biz/Atlanta-workshop-Big-Biz

**FREE GIFT~ SWAG BAGS!!

Attendees will receive free gifts from our +Sponsors!**

!!Donna’s Guests Will Receive A Special Gift~,

So Make Sure You Tell Them I Invited You!!

LOCATION:
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library SouthWest Branch
3665 Cascade Rd, Atlanta, GA 30331
Map Link: http://ggen.biz/library-sw-atlanta

- Free Parking
- MARTA Public Transit Within Walking Distance

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ANNOUNCEMENT

GGene S.I.S., LLC has opened their Health and Wellness Marketing Communications Division.

We are currently seeking interns. You can find the official listing on Indeed, or download the job posting pdf file below.

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Note: We have received several applications and plan to close this job posting soon. So, if you plan to apply, please do so as soon as possible. This blog post will be the last announcement / reminder.

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This post shares about the best monitoring tools you can use for your online social marketing. I have been burning up the airwaves over on the Quora networking site answering questions about online marketing and social networking. You can see the full #GGeneSIS Community Q&A Blog at this link: http://ggen.biz/q-and-a-quora

Preview of Question About The Best Monitoring Tools

Read Quote of Donna Marie Johnson’s answer to What is the best social media monitoring tool and why? on Quora

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Seven Sacred Steps to Success is part of our study about Biblical Leaders and part of #365WithDonnaMJ series in the #GGeneSIS community. Last week’s post started a four week discussion of Step 2 “Continue Learning From God and His Influencers“.

Seven Sacred Steps To Success – Step 2a

HOW TO KNOW WHO GOD’S INFLUENCERS ARE / ARE NOT IN YOUR LIFE

Last week we talked about the importance of staying focused on God’s Word and how to keep your focus. Today’s topic will help you learn how to keep your focus by guarding who is influencing your life. There are many scriptures about this, especially in

2 Corinthians 6

v 14 – 18 (MSG)
Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way:

“I’ll live in them, move into them;
I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people.
So leave the corruption and compromise;
leave it for good,” says God.
“Don’t link up with those who will pollute you.
I want you all for myself.
I’ll be a Father to you;
you’ll be sons and daughters to me.”
The Word of the Master, God.

v 14 (AMP)
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers [do not make mismated alliances with them or come under a different yoke with them, inconsistent with your faith]. For what partnership have right living and right standing with God with iniquity and lawlessness? Or how can light have fellowship with darkness?

v 14 (KJV)
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

In the scriptures, and in life, we often read, hear and think about the contrast of:

• Light v. Darkness
• Evil v. Holy Associations
• Truth v. Deception
• Love v. Strife
• Optimism v. Pessimism

In our hearts, we already know what a good influence looks like, however, sometimes we are tempted to override what we know for whatever reasons. Sometimes it is to be liked and accepted by a certain person or group. Sometimes it is because of money or influence that we think we might gain access to or that the other person may have access to. However, we just have to remember that Christ Jesus has already taught us, by His Example, what our influencers should and shouldn’t look like. Here is a list of what they don’t look like:

• *religious - spiritually deep/spooky deep
• *want to become your best friend right away / impatient to take time to build trust
• *whiners - complainers
• *gossipers – tale-bearers
• *small-minded, negative and unable to see the potential of the promise of God because of being too focused on temporary things
• *hateful - strife-filled or easily offended
• *bitter – unforgiving
• *unwilling to openly and publicly acknowledge who is the source of their strength and power
• *unwilling to use Jesus’ name in public

Jesus talked to us about knowing / discerning what “good fruit” looks like. Here is a list of what they might look like:

• *Other bloggers and entrepreneurs who openly share their love for the Lord Jesus
  • -Telesummit’s that help Christ-centered entrepreneurs focus their faith (e.g., Victory Over Money Drama)
• *Authors of Holy Bible-based books
  • -see the devotionals recommended in part 2
  • -see book reviews from the Social Savvy Saturday posts earlier this year (e.g., “Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur“)
• *People who stand in agreement with you according to God’s Word {instead of sharing their opinion, they always take you back to God’s Word and His Ways}

To Learn More, Click Here to Listen To Audio Podcast.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ABOUT HOW THIS STUDY HAS BEEN IMPACTING YOU.

Thank you so very much for reading, watching and listening to this blog and social post series #365withDonnaMJ

If you have missed some of the earlier posts in this Seven Sacred Steps to Success Series, click here to see the list of posts.

Please share your thoughts and insights on this topic, also.

Sincerely,

Donna Marie Johnson

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This article discusses the most common marketing help request that I (and other marketing pro’s) receive and where you can get some help.

Our 2013 2nd Quarter Survey for #365withDonnaMJ series and program is still open.

Please take a moment and complete the survey and help us

take our program pulse so that we’ll know how to serve you better this year.

MOST COMMON REQUEST FOR HELP

The main request on the last survey that was taken late 2012 was for more help with

understanding how to get more out of social media marketing in less time.

1. BLOG AND WEBINARS

I have been sharing information and tips here on the blog and in the webinars. If you haven’t yet read the older blog posts or want to subscribe to the webinars, use the links in this paragraph to go over now and get signed up.

2. CUSTOMIZED MARKETING ASSESSMENTS

During my clients’ private sessions, I share details on how they can create a social marketing strategy that works well for both their business and personal life so that it will be manageable. They leave with:

• the recording of their session
• a report with action plan checklist

To register for your private session, click here.

{And if you take the survey before the end of April, you’ll also have access to a special offer for your session.}

3. LEARN FROM MARKETING LEADERS

Finally, one of the main ways to keep learning is to sit under teaching from the marketing leaders who are already doing what you want to do. So, I highly recommend that you grab a virtual event ticket for

Social Media Marketing World 2013

Benefits of Virtual Tickets:

• *Full Access to 49+ Live Sessions (all event sessions included).
• *Review the slides and recordings from each session afterwards at your own pace.
• *Affordable High-Quality Learning From Social Marketing Leaders of Leaders.

Make sure you check it out and get your tickets as soon as possible. To Learn More, Click Here.

LEAVE A COMMENT

If this article has been helpful for you, please leave a note, reply to the newsletter email or give me a shout out on one of the social networks. Let me know which part helped you the most.

Sincerely,

Donna Marie Johnson

Your Social Networking Liaison

@GGeneSISLLC | DMJC.me

P.S. Remember to take the survey and get your very special offer from me at the end.

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