Wise Network Marketer Is The Guest Star Of The Giant Peach
I got an email newsletter from Liz Monte, a dear friend and role model of mine who has been a busy bee lately (no wonder I haven’t heard from her in awhile! She’s got a lot on her plate.), of Wise Network Marketer a few days ago. She explained that she just did her first podcast and how nervous she was. Well Liz, you had nothing to worry about.
You were great and I’m so proud of you!
She was interviewed on “Kevin And The Giant Peach” (A “Blog Talk Radio” show hosted by Kevin Mastaw) on May 23 (See: “Kevin and The Giant Peach: The Blog.”). If you want to hear an honest and inspiring network marketing story, make sure to give Liz and Kevin a listen. Liz’s experience and wisdom will provide insight rarely found in online MLM marketing content because the bulk of her years as a network marketing professional have been spent offline. Yet she has an open and forward thinking mind and braved the Internet world, full of digitally gifted “new media marketers” from a whole other generation than she came from.
Think about how challenging a concept this can be for anyone who has lived and worked for the bulk of her life, completely content and efficient as the next person, without the aid of technolgies and resources that the “digital generation” takes for granted.
I met Liz about a year and a half ago (?) when I did the blog post offering my “Social Media Marketing Academy” course “scholarship program.” The idea came to me after the previous year long web 2.0 empire research and development phase which blossomed into a passion and online identity I fully embraced. Liz was the first respondant.
Despite the issues I ultimately faced (although said issues were eye-opening and valuable learning experiences I wouldn’t trade for anything) and unfortunate turn of events, I am pleased to have been even a small influence on Liz.
When I met her, she was pretty frustrated and a bit intimidated by technology and the Internet’s changing landscape. Just when she had a handle on her SBI website building skills (she’s a fantastic writer, by the way.), here comes a whole new ballgame: Social Media. I explained to her what I did during my research and testing and what I planned to provide my students and what was expected of them. I did not realize, at the time, that the sheer volume of different sites that I tried (as listed and rated on The Social Media Butterfly) during the course of that year and beyond could be a source of intimidation at first glance.
It almost looks as though social media marketing, in order to be effective, is a life sucking 24 hour a day job. That wasn’t my intended message nor is it a reality but, I realized later that I needed to be more clear about the required level of commitment as well as the ability for my students to create a personal social media presence as individual and diverse as they are.
Despite popular opinion, I have arrived at a position which goes like this:
With the exception of a blog, the central hub of a powerful social media presence, it’s a personal thing based on several aspects of individual elements of the participants, themselves. Social media participation, in terms of which sites, which media formats, which platform type(s) (networking, bookmarking, video, etc.)
In order to effectively determine which sites and platform types (i.e. open social networking sites, niche social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, wikis, video sharing sites, blogging communities, microblogging services, podcasting options, etc.) and in what capacity, I interview each student in depth and in an ongoing, natural way that is geared toward forging a lasting, honest, and open relationship. is best determined by individual personality, desired results, target market and product(s) and services provided, time allowance, strengths, passions, communication preferences and levels of comfort (i.e. are you terrible at writing but a gifted conversationalist? Are you terrified of putting your face on video?), and other factors best discussed in detail elsewhere and as a topic in and of itself.
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Nice podcast !! I play gold in Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens every year too !. Checked out Liz's website and got a lot of good info there. She has PageRank on most pages. Seems like she might be better off with a blog. I love your phrase "social media butterfly". Aptly put.
07.10.09 on 1:44 pmWow, she's very real and non-hype-y. I used to live in DC, and I know what she's talking about when she talks about not being able to relate to people when you think too far out of the box. Great place to live as long as you don't want to change anything. People are very set in their ways there. But where there's a will, there's a way, as she so aptly proves.
Her website is content-rich and provides great value too. I thoroughly enjoyed the podcast.
Lynn
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