9 Steps to Putting Yourself Out There! by Steve Burnett

Zig Ziglar said, ​“If you help enough peo­ple get what they want, you will get what you want.”  I tru­ly believe this and that is exact­ly what I am doing while putting myself out there and pro­mot­ing oth­ers in my com­mu­ni­ties. I am offer­ing a com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice to my friends in local com­mu­ni­ties by giv­ing them a 5 minute video inter­view, pro­mot­ing them on ​“Com­mu­ni­ty Spot­light” to my entire Social Media net­work. I go one step fur­ther and have the videos tran­scribed and then post them as a blog post for them as well. After inter­view­ing the local Venice Flori­da busi­ness or pro­fes­sion­al, I then include them in the Com­mu­ni­ty Spot­light e‑mail that I send out that includes the lat­est Com­mu­ni­ty Spot­light encour­ag­ing them to sup­port their fel­low spot­lighters (cre­at­ing com­mu­ni­ty) by pro­mot­ing the video to their social media chan­nels! What I do: 1. First, these are all good friends of mine. I am a heavy net-work­er! I attend 4 to 8 net­work­ing events a week. So this helps to cre­ate com­mu­ni­ty with­in ​“our” cham­bers. I offer the inter­view oppor­tu­ni­ty and set up a time to meet them at their place of busi­ness. 2. I use a Flip Video on a tri­pod. Flip is great for fast edit­ing and upload­ing. 3. I then edit the begin­ning and the end­ing. 4. Upload it to YouTube 5. From YouTube it drops into my web­site under the Com­mu­ni­ty Spot­light tab. 6. Have the video tran­scribed. 7. Take the tran­scrip­tion and screen shots from the video and then set it up as a blog post. 8. Take that link and e‑mail all of the Spot­lighters to pro­mote to their net­works. 9. Post the video to all 7 of my Social Media chan­nels. And that is it! How is it work­ing for us? Well, year to date, we are up 97% with a record 73% close ratio with­out 1 print ad. In clos­ing, also con­sid­er what Zig Ziglar said, ​“Peo­ple often say that moti­va­tion does­n’t last. Well, nei­ther does bathing — that’s why we rec­om­mend it dai­ly.” ~Steve Burnett