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Looking Back at the You Matter Marathon
Back in October, Weaving Influence signed on to be an Ambassador for the You Matter Marathon, a worldwide project in which participants each distributed a "You Matter" card every day in November with the goal of creating and enriching positive connections between...
Featured on Friday: New #TeamBuzzBuilder Books in 2016
Our Team Buzz Builder members are so faithful to enthusiastically support every one of our book launches, as well as promoting each other's blog content on a weekly basis. Now it's our turn to support them! We're excited to recognize the following five TBB members who...
Giving Tuesday: How To Live It Year Round
Today is Giving Tuesday, something that may be obvious from the stream of emails flooding your inbox soliciting donations. Giving Tuesday, explained on its website as "a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration," is considered by many...
5 Ways to Show Gratitude Online
This week, I have a lot to be grateful for, specifically because it marks three very important birthdays in my life. One year ago, on November 23rd, 2015, my daughter was born in Jerusalem, Israel. On November 24th, 33 years ago, my husband was born in Kingston,...
Featured On Friday {Fanfare}: New Website for @Melissa_Lamson1
The Weaving Influence team values our partnership with global leadership expert Melissa Lamson, and is thrilled to showcase the new website our team has designed and developed for her at lamsonconsulting.com. Melissa Lamson works with businesses of all sizes,...
Why Action is What Changes Things
This post is part of our 2016 Team Buzz Builder Guest Blogger series. Today we are pleased to introduce you to Chris Jordan, a John Maxwell certified coach and blogger at CNE Ministry. I would like to touch on a topic that seems to be coming up more and more in every...
The Pitching Game: How PR Is Like Dating
Zoosk. Tinder. Match. The internet has changed the world of dating as much as it has changed the world of media. That said, when it comes to finding a media match—the process isn’t much different than what it was like three decades ago—research and relationship...
Featured On Friday: Our Veterans, Our Leaders
Though I have been living abroad in Israel for over three years, I am reminded on an almost daily basis of my American roots and identity. I remember backpacking around southern Israel at eighteen years old and coming across a group of US soldiers in a local bar in a...
3 Tips for Seasonal Social Marketing
If you’re like many of the authors we interact with at Weaving Influence and Hometown Reads, you may not have a huge publishing house team strategizing how and when to market your book. Instead, you may have a Facebook page, and maybe a Twitter account that your...
Featured On Friday: Corporate Champions
Have you heard of our Corporate Champions program? It's like Team Buzz Builder, but geared for organizations rather than individuals! Corporate Champions not only gives you early (and FREE) access to the newest releases in the business book world, but provides you...
The Key to #Winning on Social Media
Have you ever interacted with an organization or a celebrity on social media? Not just by tweeting at them or liking their Instagram, but by receiving a response back from them? When my husband, Taylor, was in college, he saw a Snap from Gary Vaynerchuk telling his...
Featured On Friday: #OASISConversations by @AnnVanEron
Having lived in a desert climate for over three years now, I definitely require a visit to physical places with water and vegetation once in a while. More pressing, though, is my need for mental oases—refreshing conversations, thoughts, and states of mind. This need...