This podcast was created to discuss everything and anything social media! It will feature guest interviews with other prominent bloggers, social media evangelists, business owners and self-employed individuals who are basically rocking social media (folks who are implementing these tools in their business and doing so successfully). Join Stacey Soleil, Brand & Social Media Media Specialist, and myself as we bring you fresh new content monthly!

All calls will take place via our TalkShoe Page so you can subscribe there for updates and or check back here for more…

This week, Stacey Soleil and I had the pleasure of interviewing marketing expert and author, Seth Godin. He:

• authors one of the most popular marketing blogs in the world,
• is author of (12) best-selling books,
• speaks to audiences around the world about marketing (American Way Magazine calls him “America’s Greatest Marketer),
• and he’s the founder of Squidoo.com, a fast growing recommendation website.

If you haven’t read any of his books, you should. Amongst some of my personal favorites are: Permission Marketing (affiliate link), Tribes, and Linchpin. And his blog, is the only blog I subscribe to via email. Mainly because I think the information is always timely, focused, thought-provoking and relevant.

Listen to the Recording:

Below is an un-edited version of our call with Seth (we had some technical difficulties in the beginning). I hope you enjoy the call and I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments!

PHOTO CREDIT: Seth Godin

Brian Solis is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders in social media. He is Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media agency in Silicon Valley, and has led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0 startups.

This Friday at 4:00pm PST, Stacey Soleil and I will be interviewing Brian to talk about his new book – Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web. You already know social media is important. But how do you design and execute an accountable and measurable strategy? We’ll talk to Brian about his new book and ask him questions like:

• How do you apply and execute success-proven strategies within your company?
• How do you effectively brand yourself and your company online?
• How do you determine the ROI of everything that you do?

Listen to the show:

Episode 9: Interview with Aaron Brazell

In this episode Stacey Soleil and I talk with Aaron Brazell, author of The WordPress Bible (affiliate link). Many of us use WordPress. It’s what we use here at [Ribeezie Media] to build our client websites. Why? Because it ranks extremely well in the search and there’s just about nothing you can’t do with wordpress. Here we talk to Aaron Brazell about the differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. We discuss the nature of “open source” and it’s benefits. And we talk about the book as an instructional reference guide to:

• Theme designers,
• Plugin developers,
• Core developers,
• and WordPress users alike

In the book you’ll find tutorials, references, screenshots and walk-thru’s on just about everything WordPress; from the basics (such as installation and blogging 101 basics) to more advanced topics (such as plugins, themes and templates, custom fields and more).

Episode 8 – Interview with Julien Smith

In this interview Stacey Soleil and I have the great pleasure of interviewing Julien Smith, co-author of the New York Times Best-Seller: Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust (affiliate link). In the book, both Julien and Chris discuss some of the following:

• The importance of social capital
• How to transform the space you work in to make yourself its leader
• Why networks allow people to thrive
• Many of the web’s non-verbal signals of trust
• How to leverage social tools for maximum benefit

We discuss a lot of these concepts during our call and how they relate specifically to YOU as a Real Estate Professional because you are in fact a “Trust Agent”.

Episode 7 – Interview with David Meerman Scott

David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, keynote speaker, seminar leader and the author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR(affiliate link), an award-winning BusinessWeek bestseller published in 24 languages. He is also author of the hit book World Wide Rave (affiliate link) and three other books. His Web Ink Now blog is ranked by AdAge Power 150 as a top worldwide marketing blog.

In this episode, Stacey Soleil and I talk to David about Social Media, ROI in Social Media, and the updated version of his best-seller The New Rules of Marketing & PR.

Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 2 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.

To quote Neil:

“It doesn’t matter what you do. The only thing that matters is how awesome you are to be around.”

In this episode, I talk to Neil about:

• What it takes to be successful in business
• What it takes to author a successful blog
• What it takes to be a good networker in social media