I have another “guest video blogger” in this weeks Optimistic Monday because my better half has my Flip cam with her over in France this week!

In the video below, Mike Morris from Mimomedia explains the importance of building your own personal brand and how it will help your business profile regardless of what you doing, or choose to do in the future.

Check out Mikes Youtube channel for more videos like this one!

Personal Branding Help – Clickonmyface.tv

If you would like help with your personal branding in business, then go over and check out my other blog - Click On My Face for details of Workshops, 1 2 1 coaching and specific company training solutions from myself and my friend Ann Hawkins.

Our next half day workshop is “Twitter for Beginners” and is on Friday 30th April at the Wood Green Animal Centre in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.

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Morning all, This week, I announce a brand new blog that ive put together with Ann Hawkins called http://clickonmyface.tv & also a business tip about failing fast.

Well here’s a turn up for the books.. someone is actually with me on this one!!  I thought it high time I start actually speaking with OTHER people and not just giraffes! (although he could be making a come back at some point.. people have been asking quite alot!)

Here’s me aka “the cowslip kid” with my business mentor and all round great person Ann Hawkins talking about personal branding

The latest presentation given at Cooks Barn in Bottisham for Ann Hawkins Inspired Group event saw Fergus McClelland give an amazing presentation on the power and importance of your voice. In this clip, we seem him help transform a lady with very little confidence into someone with loads of it with vocal exercises.

(Local Bloggers – Please embed this video into your own blog if you wish to support what Ann is doing at Cooks Barn by creating your own post about it. The page where you can embed this video can be found HERE)

I’m in the process of finding a solution of uploading the WHOLE of the presentation on the web right now, but as you can imagine, at 48 minutes, its a fairly hefty file size!

Filming tonight at Ann Hawkins Inspired Group meeting and picked up my Poken from Ian Mckendrick!

Wednesday night this week saw me team up with Colin McClean to film “talking head” video clips of the guests and business club representatives at the Ann Hawkins bash known as “The Complete Networker“, (or #TCN if your on Twitter!) It was a long night for me, arriving at 4.30pm and leaving around 11.30pm, but came home late thinking I had done a good job…. Well, apart from my “trigger mic” on my Camera failing to work so I couldnt pick up any decent audio of Lindsay Abbott’s jazz Trio! very frustrating, but hey ho… you win some you lose some! Luckily, Colins Sure Microphone worked like a dream and we managed to fit in all the business network representatives + another 4 guest interviews. It would be have better to have grabbed a few more, but the time seemed to just drift away from us.

Heres the video Interviews of the Business Networking Representatives -

And heres the videos of the “Guests” we spoke to regarding their thoughts about business networking -

Last night found me filming at the lovely venue of Cooks Barn in Bottisham for Ann Hawkins monthly Inspired group meeting. Andy Gibney was in the building and he certainly made his “mark” with his own unique style of presentation. Im sure this video is part of the evening that most people will remember, but Andy had the whole group involved in lots of audience participation and also shared some great nuggets of advice of self help in the business world. I will be working on another “hight lights” clip of Andys full presentation in the next few days so subscribe to this blog if you want to be kept up to date!

This video contains tips on social media, and online video news from WTV Media and some of the clients I’m currently working with.

Heres the links to the business or people mentioned in the video above :

AudioBoo.fm -  Audio Blogging Software for the Iphone

Blistering Success – Internet and Business Marketing Tips

Presentation Works – How to deliver better presentations.

Caravan Sitefinder -  Online Listings website for caravan parks

The Inspired Group – Business Building, Inspired Workshops  by Ann Hawkins

I recently had a cancellation on a film shoot down in Wiltshire and all my equipment was packed up, charged and ready to go. I knew that Ann Hawkins had a networking event arranged so I rang her to ask if she would mind me filming her guest speaker – Bob Garbett.

Initially, I wanted to film Bob’s full presentation so that afterwards, I could edit “in” the powerpoint slides.

I started to edit a short “taster” for Bob, so that he could see what the footage looked like, and started to realise that he came out with great statements about his networking group – O4RB. It became apparent that this short “viral” styled video would be (in this case) more helpful than the full presentation video.

I dont personally think that business meetings are rubbish! Its just a discussion provoking subject title for a blog and a video on you tube, to gain interest in what Bob is doing.. and so far, based on certain reactions its doing its job!