Gather Your Crowd Donates to Night on the Red Carpet Fundraising Extravaganza

March 11, 2010

It was a lovely Night on the Red Carpet at Center for Spiritual Living here in San Jose this past Sunday as star gazers gathered together in their dressiest to watch the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony in the church sanctuary as raffle tickets were sold and silent auction items were bid!  It was an extravagant [...]

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Social Media Guidelines and Policies

March 8, 2010

One of the last things I did while working in Television back in 2008 was to get my local Telemundo Bay Area station active in Social Networks. A few issues arose with questions about copyrights, confidentiality, etc. Many companies today are struggling with how to best approach this social phenomenon without jeopardizing their reputation. Do [...]

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3 Keys to Generating Targeted Web Traffic

March 4, 2010

Gather Your Crowd had the honor recently of interviewing Nadir Hussain, Co-Owner & COO of Media Flint, a premier provider of Internet advertising and marketing solutions. It was at a Traffic Bootcamp seminar where Nadir covered over a 6-hour period many, many topics of which there was time only to scratch the surface. Here are some of the items discussed: Paid [...]

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Social Networking: A Right Brain/Left Brain Proposition

March 2, 2010

If you had dominion over every hour of your life – as I pretty much do at this point – what would you do? spend more time in your heart space and less in your head, believing that life will be abundantly joyful if you are more loving and less judgmental; or actively use your [...]

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Branding Through Bonding or Bonding Through Branding?

March 1, 2010

Wrapping up our wonderful experiences this winter co-facilitating, presenting and building the online community for Stanford Continuing Studies’ course “Branding Yourself Strategically”, Carla and I would like to thank dearly instructor Angelika Blendstrup, the students and the presenters with whom we had the pleasure of working. Being a multi-cultural team ourselves, Carla and I enjoyed [...]

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The Subtleties of Communication and the Psychology of TRUST

March 1, 2010

 We sometimes go through LIFE without paying attention to what we communicate and the role “communication” plays in promoting TRUST. Every word, gesture, tone and voice inflection, body language, and even how fast or slow we respond play a big role in the way we are being perceived and thus TRUSTED.   According to Wikipedia [...]

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Heart of a Successful Brand: Meet Valerie Orsoni CEO of Le Boot Camp®

February 22, 2010

Valerie Orsoni, CEO and Founder of MyPrivateCoach® and LeBootCamp®, leading European, American and Canadian online coaching programs for healthy living and weight loss, is living testament to a personal brand success story! Just listen to a portion of her bio: Orsoni’s successful battles against a brain tumor and cancer led her to become one of [...]

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7 Simple Ways to Connect with Your Ideal Client

February 16, 2010

Coach Cassandra Rae is a true inspiration! This past Saturday Cassandra was the featured speaker at the monthly Self Marketing event hosted by our dear friend Kent Pelz, a Gather Your Crowd founding member. I felt lifted and inspired by her “7 Simple Ways to Connect with Your Ideal Client.” Did you know that you don’t get [...]

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Are you a one-of-a-kind BRAND?

February 12, 2010

Do you truly embody your personal BRAND? What’s your signature look? How do you communicate? What makes you UNIQUE? Last night, Stanford CS: Branding Yourself Strategically had 2 outstanding presenters who emphasized these questions. The first presenter was Erica Lee, VP Global Marketing and CEO of StrategicLee, Inc. She shared 10 important steps in the branding process: (1) [...]

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Can Real-Time Feedback Loops Be Effective?

February 10, 2010

Twitter, the ever-popular free micro blogging platform, is great for large groups of dispersed people to be in conversation with one-another, whether its one-to-one, one-to-many or many-to-many. Let’s take a situation where Twitter is used. Let’s say we’re at a large meeting or conference where many people are present (and presenting) as well as people [...]

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