Jim Murray

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A Little Story About BeBee & Me. And Maybe You Too.

A Little Story About BeBee & Me. And Maybe You Too.

Opl€. dB loggers SurvivalOne of the personal qualities I have always prided myself on is the ability to figure things out that puzzled me.
For example I have a La-Zee-Boy recliner that for some reason started squeaking. We had the La-Zee-Boy people come in and replace the entire base but it was still squeaking.
So I got down on the floor and stared at it for quite a while. I had tried oiling the moving parts with some bike chain lube I had. But that didn't help.
So a couple of weeks ago. I was in Penner's, this great hardware store in Virgil, a town just east of here, and bought a can of 3-In-One oil with a telescopic spout. I applied the oil to the moving parts of the squeaky chair and what do you know? No more squeaky chair.
The lesson here is that it's all about finding the right tool for the job.

Why I Spend A Lot Of Time Promoting beBee Without Getting Paid For It. “I've blogging on beBee for close to a year now. I was one of the substantial wave of writers who left LinkedIn when blogging on Pulse became a total exercise in futility. I'm sure a lot of you are feeling the same way. But you're reluctant to leave because you've built a good network and you're afraid you would lose it if you did. But here's the thing. Since [ started blogging on beBee, and linking my posts from their publisher to my LinkedIn home page, my LinkedIn numbers are slowly but steadily coming back. Not to where there were before LinkedIn started screwing around with non-Influencer writers, but back to an acceptable level. The truth is LinkedIn’s publisher is never going to be what it once was. Because they don't want it to be. Posting directly on beBee has allowed me to A) Reach an almost entirely new audience there and B) Get back a good number of the LinkedIn readers I lost after Pulse went to hell. It's a genuine win win, and it's a big part of the reason I'm happy to promote beBee. It's called gratitude. Both LinkedIn and beBee have their relevance. But one is old and shrinking and the other is young and growing. That's the reality of it. And N that's why I'm here and why & you all should be too.” Be All You Can Bee @ www.bebee.comI apply the same sort of logic to social media. As a blogger, my main objective is to build and hold onto as large an audience as possible. About 18 months ago, blogging on LinkedIn Pulse started to become a losing battle in that regard, so, at the invitation of the great John White, MBA, I moved my blogging tent to beBee.
And it really wasn't very long before I realized that was a smart thing to do. I have explained it all, very succinctly in the meme below.
If you are struggling on LinkedIn to keep your audience these days,or just plain wondering where the hell they all went, then you should read this meme.
beBee helped me solve my LI audience issues. And it can do the same for you.
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Phil Friedman

7 years ago #18

#24
My legacy to beBee, Wayne Yoshida. Cheers, my friend.

Wayne Yoshida

7 years ago #17

Thanks Jim Murray - I am boinking the relevant and share buttons!

Wayne Yoshida

7 years ago #16

#4
Phil Friedman Ah! A new slogan: "The Triple Triple 100 Promise" - I like it.

Paul Walters

7 years ago #15

Jim Murray it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. Its a life metaphor

Jim Murray

7 years ago #14

#20
Sometimes it smells like peanut butter. Other times it smells like a fart. Does that qualify?

Jim Murray

7 years ago #13

#18
I'm sitting in my man shed right now. It's called my office. There's actually enough room in here to tune up my bike and I have a little wooden box with the thinkings that you use to get the tube out of your tire when you have a flat. I am living in Canada, and for most of the year the indoor man shed is the preferred option.

Jim Murray

7 years ago #12

#9
I'm here for the same reasons Michael O'Neil. All my work comes from referrals in the real world.

Jim Murray

7 years ago #11

#14
You're obviously not a blogger.

Jim Murray

7 years ago #10

#12
Actually we have 2 sheds. One if for gardening stuff and bikes. The other is for the the pool heater and pump. I'm seriously contemplating getting a can of oil for each shed. Right now it's sitting on a shelf in my office where I can keep an eye on it. Michael O'Neil

Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

7 years ago #9

#8
Martin Wright I am spending time between the 2 platforms as I have a commitment to manage a large community of groups until the end of March. That was the arrangement I made long before I actively checked out this platform. I am a person of my word. I will do one more short Publisher post just so that what shows up on my profile is related to my core business and not tips for overcoming the challenges of the platform. Instead of managing 22 groups ( I own 3), I will manage and own 6. I have already set up hives for 2 of them and I am trying to encourage the members to come here. I may hand off the Alumni group I own to the Group Manager as there hasn't been much engagement and it hasn't generated 1 cent for me. I'll have a lot more time to focus on writing, off-line marketing, and building the hives I have here.

Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee

7 years ago #8

This has certainly been a different kind of experience. Look, Ma! no squeeks

Martin Wright

7 years ago #7

A good account of your decision. I wonder how many are spreading their time between the two but with the rwcent changes to linkedin, bebee is definitely becoming more interesting.

Javier Cámara-Rica 🐝🇪🇸

7 years ago #6

#6
Anne Thornley-Brown many thanks !

Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

7 years ago #5

I agree 100%. I have been active here less than 2 weeks and I have already seen more organic reach, views of my content, and engagement here than I have in the last 6 months on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook COMBINED. I am going to share this in the B2B Bloggers hive that I am migrating here from LinkedIn. It is an attempt to get bloggers to discover new content and share what we find relevant and valuable across all platforms so we can all get some readers again. Thank you for sharing.

Javier Cámara-Rica 🐝🇪🇸

7 years ago #4

Thanks Jim Murray.

Phil Friedman

7 years ago #3

Good points all, Jim. I worked pretty hard on LinkedIn (more than 80 long-form posts, owning and managing two groups, helping to manage a couple others, and so on) to build some 3,500 followers, people who elected to read my publishing on a regular basis. I didn't give them any T-shirts or trade "likes" or swap following. I only made an implicit commitment to do my best to provide interesting, thought provoking, and sometimes useful content. Yet dating back nearly two years ago, LI began preventing my publishing from reaching the very people who asked to see it, and to whom LI had previously promised to distribute it in support of my building and maintaining my "personal" network. BeBee is the only social media platform whose owners Javier \ud83d\udc1d beBee have committed publicly and in writing to distribute 100% of my work to 100% of my followers 100% of the time. I call it the Triple 100 Promise, And it is the reason beBee is my main digital self-publishing platform. So, duh -- why would any blogger or self-publishing writer choose otherwise?

Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee

7 years ago #2

I agree wholeheartedly

Jim Murray

7 years ago #1

Javier \ud83d\udc1d beBee

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