Freelance Radio, Episode 25: Social Networking Stories
The twenty-fifth episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, we talk about a number of topics, including using social networking effectively, how to greet clients (and everyone else) on the phone and more! Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section. We hope you enjoy it!
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The Shownotes:
- Theme of the Episode: This episode’s theme is social networking. We go around the panel and talk about our positive and negative experiences with social networking.
- Mailbag:We talk about phone greetings (or, what to say when someone calls your business phone).
- Freelance Radio Recommends:
- Dickie: Helpful Twitter client Tweetdeck. Now used by all of the Freelance Radio panel!
- John: Parkour group Urban Freeflow. Because everyone wants to be able to run up walls!
- Kristen: Fitness helper site myfitnesspal.com.
- Von: Diet and weight loss journal site Fitday.com.
Other links mentioned include the HOW Design Forum, Twitterific creator Iconfactory, Howtousetwitterformarketingandpr.com, microblogging site Twitter.com, social networking sites (we mentioned Facebook, myspace, and LinkedIn, among others), telephony app Grandcentral.com (from the folks of Google) and Twitter helper website friendorfollow.com.
- Outro: This week’s song is by Ketsana and is called I Hunger. The song can be obtained by going to Ketsana’s myspace page and/or from Ketsana’s Reverbnation page.
And that’s the episode! If you like it, please feel free to rate it in iTunes or your favorite podcast aggregator (check us out on Digg at http://www.digg.com/podcasts/Freelance_Radio), and don’t forget to email your questions/comments via the Freelance Radio form. If you’d like to record a question/comment or submit an original outro song, you can upload them via this form!
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The other day I saw a jacuzzi that had a twitter panel on it.
The intro is too long.
I have caught myself investing so much time maintaining my social networks (the little that I do have) that I forget to stay busy with live, paying jobs. If I have time to maintain a plethora of social networks, more than likely I am out of work. If I am not working, I’m not generating income. Since my social networks have not proven themselves to be “cash cows,” I would much rather get some face time with prospective clients and network on a personal level—a technique that has proven itself to generate business.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe networking is the best method of generating business. But where do you draw the line with online social networks? How much is too much? If you have the free time, find a way to get paid!
Man, FreelanceRadio is starting to be a commercial for Twitter. Is there some sort of endorsement going on? I’ve actually been wondering if social networking is a viable, no-cost marketing tool so this was an interesting episode. BTW, the link to the HOW forums needs to be edited. Keep those podcasts rolling.