New Virtual Coaching Option for Businesses

December 7, 2009 by Doug Mitchell · Leave a Comment

We’re making a big push to serve businesses (especially the smaller ones who are getting squeezed) with usable knowledge and strategies to become more findable and engaging on the web. To that end, we’re beginning a ongoing web based coaching system that provides 10 minutes of structured content then 50 minutes open QA with 6 clients at a time.. TWO times per month.

This way we’ll all get our fair share of talk..and QA. We will use a video-audio conference solution like Skype or Oovoo and we might even try to utilize TalkShoe. We’ll cover topics like audio, video, blogging, content creation, and all of the findability and organic SEO mojo you’re looking for.

Our goal is to put like minds in a virtual room during a one hour time block twice per month. That’s 2 hours of discussion, QA, feedback, interaction, and learning for the sweet little price of $47/month. We’ll set you up on a recurring monthly charge and you can quit, bail, jump, drop, leap, hop out anytime you choose with one simple email or call.

If you’re interested in this, you can email me directly doug@createWOWmedia.com and we’ll get you signed up. We anticipate the first session to be in early January. Once we have a group of 6, we’ll form another one and progress until we are full. We’ll probably start with an end of business day time…and a lunch and learn mid-day time to start with to accommodate your schedules.

As always, one-on-one consulting is available from our team but we know how tight resources are these days. We’re trying to strike the right balance for you and bring you value. If you’re ready, hop on board.

Investment: $47/month recurring on your credit card.

Times/days:

Wednesday’s beginning at
12PM-1PM
2PM-3PM
4PM-5pm
6PM-7PM

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Filed under: findability, small business
Tagged: coaching, Consulting, QA, video, virtual

Do your presentations create WOW! or ho hum?

December 18, 2008 by Doug Mitchell · Leave a Comment

Abhay Parekh has a nice short list of presentation attention getters on the Manage Smarter website. I must say we’ve come a long way in this area at create WOW media but we’re always looking to get better.

We’re most enthused by number one on the list and that’s:

Show, rather than tell.

By leveraging graphics/imagery to assist your tale you allow the audience to follow YOU and YOUR MESSAGE vs. try and read something on a slide. Still, today, I cannot understand how people can simply get up and read me what’s on their slides. That’s when I hope for a technology failure and could get some “from the heart” talk.

Another favorite was number 5:

Know when to stop

In my blogging for business class, I prepared about double the amount of slides/information I actually got through because of the unbelievably valuable QA sprinkled throughout the class. That was most valuable to the class according to surveys. Lesson learned. Cut back on slides…more real world examples.