Discussion of How A Power Hour Works

This is a chat log that I think will help explain a lot of the questions about the actual FLOW of the syndication steps.

[9:29:41 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: As I was explaining to Jan, the key here is for us to take 2 (or so) from our Tribe class, that know how these tribes run… and add in 4 people that are willing to learn…. that increases syndication to 6 …. and in 30 days you have 6 that know how it works :)

[9:30:33 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: In 30 days, you then split the tribe into 2 or 3 divisions, and add new people to fill the open seats, and repeat the cycle, increasing the base number of people that know how to utilize team syndication… and letting you meet new people and find out who you mesh well with

[9:31:24 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: When you’ve found a handful of people that personally mesh well together (probably 90 days in), someone that wants to lead that group forms it up, and they function as their own sub-unit, giving them strong, high-quality syndication. They can also then run another group with new folks if they like.

[9:32:02 PM] *Tracey Keefer: cool

[9:32:28 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: This is what in the Tribe class they call a “power hour” (it almost always takes wya more than an hour cuz you get laughing and goofing off, the goal being to make friends of course at the same time)

[9:33:13 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: During a power hour, everyone brings a new piece of fresh content with them (a new blog post), and in essentially round the room fashion, you syndication each person, and each person syndicates you…. let me elaborate…

[9:33:33 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Lets say I start by syndicating Tracey … this means I …

[9:33:50 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: a) Leave a comment on her new post (or another new post of hers I havent commented on)

[9:34:13 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: b) Retweet her info, preferably from her Tweetmeme or Viral Tweets box, so she gets a counter from it

[9:34:37 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: c) Post her post to my facebook (again, preferably from her facebook button on her blog)

[9:35:23 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: d) Social Bookmark her post … usually with Onlywire (however theres currently problems with onlywire and we’re working on that one) … try to get them to at least like the big three or four… digg, delicious, stumbleupon, technorati, slashdot

[9:36:06 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: e) Social Proof… Join Google Friend Connect to help the individual build social proof

[9:36:05 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: We may have to get socialability plugin set up in teh meantime till we get onlywire working right

[9:36:28 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: During the week we will also RT each others stuff on Twitter as best as possible

[9:36:44 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Does this make sense?

[9:37:33 PM] *Tracey Keefer: yes perfect sense and a great way to get the attention to each!

[9:37:43 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Now theres a lot of mutual backscratching here because, everyone leaves each other comments, joins each others google friend connect, gets free backlinks from commentluv, gets major 5x exposure to a large audiance, its a time leverage!

[9:39:09 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Ideally this takes ~2hrs for the group session…. maybe 30 total minutes RTign all your tribe mates across the whole week… maybe another 30 minutes leaving followup facebook comments, being social, etc … and probably 30-60 minutes commenting on OTHER blogs as well, which your going to do for the backlinks, its self-serving

[9:39:28 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: the exposure numbers are HUGE and its why we’re in love with this method

[9:40:25 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: These grouops of 6 work best when…. individuals are in related fields but DIFFERENT businesses… can be mlms but different types prefered…. individuals may share affiliate links and such, but the core of the businesses should be seperate to increase SEO results

[9:40:49 PM] *** Kimberly Castleberry added Rajinder Yadav ***

[9:40:59 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: I just realized he fell out of chat again lol

[9:41:11 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: darnit i’m gonna figure this issue out eventually lol

[9:41:15 PM] *Tracey Keefer: he was off before you started

[9:41:31 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: oh well, we’ll run as best we can

[9:41:40 PM] *Tracey Keefer: I hope you got him back

[9:42:14 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Generally tribal speaking theres not a lot of focus on recruiting, but for the method I’m using, to increase the number of people that know how, and to keep thems mostly free, we really do need to get new folks involved

[9:42:56 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: We need to fill this team and the tuesday team, and then it will take off… I have a few people that couldnt make either date, and we’re looking at the possibility of yet another group as well

[9:44:01 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: There is some “bar holding” (standard holding, accountability) to the group as well… it holds you to having new content weekly… it holds you to having GOOD content weekly … and if your quality dips, your tribemates are going to tell you because they wont want to syndicate it, everyone helps everyone grow here

[9:44:36 PM] *Tracey Keefer: fair enough

[9:45:09 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: the only hard part is thinking clearly enough to leave a good blog comment, while BSing on skype with your tribe!

[9:45:35 PM] *Tracey Keefer: lol

[9:46:09 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: So I will put some work into filling this one this week, and hopefully this group will be more ready this week. I’ll post these text notes to the forum.

[9:46:48 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Jan have you got a post I havent commented on?

[9:47:34 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: oh one other piece…

[9:48:15 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: when you make a new blog post… post it as a note, like I did the other day… with a link to your blog… and tag your tribe mates (and other tribe participants) so they can leave comments for you… again, “social proof”

[9:48:51 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: http://www.tracey-keefer.com/

[9:49:04 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: http://www.askjanhill.com/

[9:49:15 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: http://www.kimberly-castleberry.com/

[9:50:08 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: I’m going to run through a syndication cycle for you two gals myself, if you’d do the same that would be great, then I can answer if there’s any questions :)

[9:50:35 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Tracey I’ll get with you to work on plugins in the next day or two

[9:51:16 PM] *Tracey Keefer: okay we have tomorrow other wise next week

[9:51:37 PM] *Tracey Keefer: k

[9:51:51 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: yeah may be next week, tomorrows pretty crazy for me

[9:52:29 PM] *Tracey Keefer: k

[9:52:42 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: lol, i’m syndicating your MLK post, and the “Involved Everyone Through Alliances, Teamwork, and Diversity.” is kinda fitting!

[9:52:55 PM] *Tracey Keefer: lol

[9:53:32 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Jan you get lost in sorting out your code bug?

[9:53:45 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: her blog has a hiccup

[9:57:01 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: okay… post made on your blog Tracey.. now I roam off to facebook and twitter :)

[9:57:14 PM] *Tracey Keefer: ty

[9:57:23 PM] *Tracey Keefer: jan doing your latest post right now

[9:58:06 PM] (Tribe) Jan Hill: thank you!

[10:03:10 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Tracey’s: comment – check, facebook – check, twitter – check, onlywire – check (sorta lol)

[10:03:40 PM] *Tracey Keefer: lol yeah right

[10:03:45 PM] *Tracey Keefer: jan you are all done on all counts

[10:04:02 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: I’m starting on jans now, my turn :P

[10:04:04 PM] *Tracey Keefer: on to you Kim

[10:10:32 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: checkity, check-check! :D

[10:20:02 PM] Kimberly Castleberry: Oh, one thing I didnt cover… when videos are involved….Youtube: Subscribe, Friend, Rate & Comment

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