Creative Independence

Short show this week. Bob does a quick recap on his way to visit a group of art students at Wake Technical Community College. Home work assignments for this week will be collected with the release of the next episode. If you haven’t done your assignment yet there’s still time. Just head on over to Linked In and sign up for an account. If you’ve already signed up or have an account find the CI group and join up. Say hello to our group and introduce yourself.

Links for this episode include:

• Linked In
• CI Group on Linked In
• Bob’s CI Blog

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Small Business Marketing Expert John Jantsch

A few years ago I had the good fortune of finding John Jantsch‘s podcast, Duct Tape Marketing Radio. John is an expert in small business marketing. His podcast and blog site have completely changed the way I think about my business and how I market myself. In this episode I talk with John about some of his marketing strategies and about his latest coaching program, Social Media Pro.

I’ve recently completed the course and highly recommend it. John does a fantastic job of presenting the material in an easy to understand step by step lesson plans. Lessons are presented in a video format as well as written content and downloadable PDFs. If you would like to learn more about John you can find him at Duct Tape Marketing. If you would like to learn more about his latest coaching program you can find it at: DuctTapeU.com . Johns podcast is also listed on iTunes.

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Chris and Bob take a look at Linked In. This episode is the first in a two part series showcasing the many features available on Linked In. Once you’ve listened to the show please visit Linked In and join the CI group . Don’t forget to let us know you heard us on the show. As always thanks for listening and Pod On.

In Part 1 of our in-depth discussion on setting up yourself on Linked In, Bob and Chris walk through a number of key features including:

• Signing Up
• Setting up your Business Card
• Setting up your Profile
• Importing your contacts
• Requesting and Giving Recommendations
• Using your contacts to connect to colleagues and friends who are already on Linked In
• Using your contacts to invite friends and colleagues to join you on Linked In
• Tweetdeck integration w/ Linked In
• Multi Language profiles
• Custom URLs
• Linked In Applications

Coming up in Part 2 we will cover:

• Connections more in-depth including Searching, Browsing, Introductions and sending InMails
• Groups
• Questions & Answers
• Job Boards
• Company Pages
• Account Settings

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Chris and I talk a little bit about some of our favorite podcasts and what we like to listen to when we’re not up to our eyeballs working on Creative Independence. We hope you’ll check out these out if you haven’t already.

There are a million great podcasts out there and unfortunately we could list them all on this episode. If you have any suggestions for podcasts we haven’t listed here or mentioned on the show please add them to the comment section after this article. Don’t forget to leave a brief description and a link to where we can find it.

• Creative Independence: I like this show because the hosts are just plain hunky...
• The Story: Dick Gordon is a fantastic interviewer and can find an interesting story most anywhere.
• The Accidental Creative: Helping artist manage the create on demand world.
• Chris Oatley’s Art Cast: If you are an artist (especially illustrators) this podcast is for you.
• Dani Jones Illustration: (Video) Screen capture digital art.
• Gary Vaynerchuk: (Video) If this guy can’t get you fired up nobody can.
• Marketing Over Coffee: Great pod-cast all about you guessed it... marketing.
• Small Business Marketing Blog- Duct Tape Marketing: (One of Bob’s favorites) All about small business marketing.
• This American Life:– By Ira Glass you may have heard this on NPR
• JC-Hutchins: Super nice guy, fantastic writer. Check out the 7th Son trilogy. We were fortunate enough to have JC on the show (ep2-11 of Answers for Freelancers!)
• Scott Sigler: New York Times best-selling Sci-Fi- Horror novelist Scott Sigler has been podcasting without fail since 1978... er sort of. (Check our favorite, The Rookie)
• Seth Harwood: We had Seth on our show in eps 2-9 and ep 3-1 of Answers for Freelancers! It was a blast interviewing him. Real funny guy and a great writer too
• Art and Story: Specifically for those who are into cartooning and comics, but really, for anyone who marries illustration with words to tell stories.
• Escape from Illustration Island: Thomas James runs a blog with a number of freelance illustration resources, and his podcast echoes this passion thru interviews of other freelance illustrators.
• Hometown Tales: Gene and Brian explore the many tales of the world. From tales that are unique to certain towns to tales that every town seems to think is there’s alone.
• Managing the Gray: C.C. Chapman explores the world of new media marketing and PR. This is for those of us who are looking to promote ourselves using these new-fangled new media tools.
• Podcast Answer Man: Cliff Ravenscraft of the Generally Speaking Podcast Network (GSPN) shares the knowledge he’s gleamed since 2003 while producing roughly 20 hours of podcast content PER WEEK!