Learn to Build Long Term Authority Faster with Mentoring

Building an authority means getting deep into a specific topic and becoming known for knowing stuff about a topic.

I believe anyone can get there eventually, become a true authority on their area of expertise. For that, there’s the need for training, coaching and studuying, researching the information, getting the perspective.

Eventually anyone can make it. But there’s a learning curve. For some, it’ll take weeks, for others, it might be years.

And that’s where mentoring can help. This is what Dave Doolin talks about in his post about smashing the learning curve flat. I think you should go check it out and read the whole story…

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A good mentor will have a huge reservoir of ideas, notes, articles, references, links, contacts, and various and sundry miscellanea waiting for that enthusiastic someone to pick up the ball and run with it. Read more at website-in-a-weekend.net

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How to create cool online profile page in 3 minutes or less

Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant and dynamic website using personal content from around the web for only $20 a year free (premium option is completely optional, and costs only $20 a year if you do want it – I didn’t, at least yet).

Why create a profile page at Flavors.me?

From the top of my head:

• you’ll have a webpage to give to people you meet
• it’s easier than in any other similar service
• it’s hip and cool
• you get to syndicate content from different sites into one page
• if you go premium ($20), you’ll get a contact form that people can use to send you email without you getting spammed because you gave your email away.

What is Flavors.me?

In short, Flavors.me is a little site that allows people to create simple profile pages, syndicating their social media profiles, RSS feeds and such to one page. They support all the biggest sites, including, but limited to:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Posterous
• Tumblr
• Any RSS Feed
• WordPress
• Blogger
• Picasa
• Flickr
• Delicious
• GoodReads
• FourSquare
• …

What makes flavors.me awesome, is the simplicity.

It reminds me of Posterous in that sense…

But it does one thing even better – all the profiles were authenticated using non-password authentication. I didn’t need to add any passwords for services like Twitter, YouTube or anything else I added to the page.

Awesome, quick and easy. I love it!

Here’s how to create your flavors.me page:

1. Go to http://flavors.me/
2. Register (free)
3. Use an username you want to be in the url (flavors.me/USERNAME)
4. Once in, type in your name
5. Type in short “about me” text (HTML allowed, add some links back to your blog for example)
6. Connect the social media profiles, feeds and sites you want to show in the page
7. Tweak the design and colors if you want
8. Use the “Promote” part to tell the world about your new page
9. That’s it

It doesn’t get ANY easier than that.

What if you’d use couple of minutes to do this right now?

You’d have a nice looking profile page to have all your content and social media profiles available on a simple page, that is quick and easy both you and the people that visit the page.

You have probably spent more time reading this post than it would take to create the page and profile in Flavors.me, so now there is no excuse for you not to create flavors.me page…

Go create your Flavors.me page right now

Check out my flavors.me page at http://flavors.me/anttikokkonen for example.

How to schedule a webinar across time zones

When you plan and schedule a webinar or teleseminar with global audience, across time zones, you need to choose a good time for the webinar. The time should suit all the participants, not just the ones on your time zone. Here’s a simple tool to do just that: World Clock Meeting Planner.

You also need to provide information to all participants about the time of the event, no matter where they live. The “check your local time” links webinar service providers send require manual operation from the user. Even the webinar time needs to be entered by the user. What a load of bullcrap.

Make it easy for the participants to find their local time for the webinar

There’s a (great) chance that your webinar or teleseminar will get participants from all over the world. They need to figure out their local time for that webinar (or what ever live event it is, e.g. broadcast).

Yes, you might provide a link that says, use this website to find your local time… Then user needs to figure out the timezones, EST, PST, GMT, blah blah. When that webinar started? What timezone was it? What’s that AM/PM shit? What does 17:00 mean?

Send a link that shows *their time* RIGHT AWAY!

I’m amazed that no webinar service provider (that I know of) has automated this. How hard it is to create a link that actually shows the time, without the user entering the webinar time? (hint: it’s not hard)

You know something like: “Click here to see when this webinar starts for YOU”. No entering dates, times, time zones, remembering when the event starts, etc.

Make your clients, customers and colleaques happy: Create direct links to a easy to read “here’s when the webinar starts on your time zone” page.

Here’s a post of mine that shows a simple way to do it: How to choose a time for a global webinar. If you work across time zones, I think you’ll find the post useful.

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In the shadows

Whether it’s writing eBooks or creating an eCourse, now it’s time to create a product.

Do it

• Start a blog
• Start a mailing list
• Plan the product
• Mention that you’re creating a product on your blog
• Create the product
• Keep it small
• Launch the product
• Build on the feedback
• Sell some more

If you’re creating your first product, like I am, you have an advantage.

In the shadows

You’re in the shadows. You don’t have a huge following. You can’t lose. You are FREE to make mistakes. Enjoy it.

You can be like Batman, owning the night, you have your own playground – make the most out of it. Have no fear that your product is no good.

Finish the product. Do less, don’t worry about making it perfect. Launch it softly. Share the product to those already with you.

• Launch the product to your new email list
• Share the launch with your subscribers

Get feedback. Improve the product. (Use what you learned when you create your second product.)

Start

What are you waiting for? 10 pages for an eBook is about 2000-2500 pages. That’s 2-7 blog posts.

If you’re not into writing, make a video, podcast, code it.

Forget fancy premier, forget rockstar entrance. Product launches are overrated. Stop planning, and do something.

Challenge

It’s 40 days until 31st of May.

40 days is an eternity.

Will you have a new product on sale by then?

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Why eBooks Do Not Work on Every Market

E-book, or eBook like I like to type it out, is a great way to publish easily shareable information. eBook is a book readable on personal computers or other devices like mobiles or E-book readers. Easiest way to create and publish an eBook is to convert a document into PDF-file, which can be read with variety of software and devices.

But books, electronic or not, are not perfect for every market. Or at least the eBooks themselves are not the solution; it’s what the eBook helps people DO. If you’re running a business yourself or doing affiliate marketing, be aware of this. And understand what the people really want. They don’t want to buy an eBook, they want to solve their problems.

Read the whole post here: Getting Started with Writing and Marketing eBooks.