Projects for Wildlife Podcast

www.ProjectsForWildlife.com

The Know, Like, Trust factor in online communities is really important. You adore your research and create amazing content for your community. You know the material and how to create messages that people want to read. But perhaps all this work really isn't gaining the traction your desire in growing your online communities or your newsletter list.

Why not? To gain traction in your online communities you need engagement from followers that know, like, and trust you. Once you've established this they will follow you and support you and your mission. No matter what platform you decide to use and grow your community there are a few steps to gaining momentum.

In person salespeople do this daily, but online it's hard to get it right. And you're not the only one struggling with getting readers to respond, comment, share, and follow you. You may be sending out the right information and invitations, but let's dig into some ideas on how to transform your community. I am going to share a few ideas. Here are the three concepts upfront.

Get Known online. Build Likeablity online. Build Trust online.

Dr. Jennifer Lavers goes to the most remote islands in the world to find plastics to figure out how this impacts wildlife and humans. She is a marine eco-toxicologist with expertise in tropical and temperate seabird ecology, plastic pollution (marine debris), invasive species management, and fisheries by-catch. She supervises a large number of graduate students in Australia and abroad working on a diverse array of projects. Find out more about Jenn and her research team at Adrift Lab. www.adriftlab.org

Do you struggle with coming up with the perfect wildlife campaign message?

The creativity monster in your head pops up and says … oh no you don't you're a scientist you only think analytically there is NO WAY you're creative enough to come up with a marketing slogan…. Nope, it's not going to happen - by the way you were "trained to think analytically, not creatively"

Have you heard yourself say these things before… whether to yourself or to others? It may feel like an impossible hurdle or wall just went up and now you find yourself struggling with words and ideas.

IS this jiving with you? Here are six tips to get help you hush the creativity monster and move forward being the amazing leader that you are.

1. Check-in and identify your feelings.
2. WHY are you doing this in the first place?
3. Lowering your expectations of yourself.
4. Remember what it felt like to be an explorer and creative when you were a kid.
5. Take a deep breath, a walk, be calm and open before you begin
6. People we know, like, trust, and will give honest whole-hearted Feedback.

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Eric shares how his research is making huge impacts for dolphins and manatees in Belize. And how his drone work has provided new opportunities to learn more about behavior. His curiosity about this flying technology is being applied around the world and for more studies. As he finishes up his PhD he shares how social media is contributing to his impact and growing his community worldwide. Learn more about Eric's adventures and upcoming ecotourism trips on the Oceanic Society Website.

The best 8 productivity apps for ALL environmental leaders to make a greater impact this year.

1. Forest
2. Done
3. Grace Space Hypnosis
4. Workflowy
5. Meet Edgar
6. Bear
7. Trello
8. Overcast

Links found at www.projectsforwildlife.com/episode004

Gena Bentall, founder of Sea Otter Savvy shares how she created a sticker to put on kayaks that help remind people how to watch sea otters safely and respectfully. Her idea to collaborate with people to protect sea otters grew from hosting a meeting to an entire conference to protect wildlife in California. She shares her helpful tips for making it all work, growing community, and what makes a leader effective.

Grow your impact in 2019 with these six environmental leadership traits.

The six traits environmental leaders need to invest in this year are:

1. Be magnetic
2. Build trust
3. Intuition
4. Communication
5. Expertise
6. Delegate

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Malte Niebelschetz is the founder of Shore Buddies, an innovative conservation focused small business that is turning ocean plastic pollution into marine wildlife stuffed animals for all ages. Shore Buddies are stuffed animals made from recycled plastic bottles. It takes 6x plastic bottles to make one of the 12" stuffed animals and 2x plastic bottles to make one of the famous keychains.

From sea gull to seal, and dolphin to a brand new turtle character - Malte's team is finding ways to connect with children so the next generation is inspired to take action, prevent pollution, and solve environmental problems with innovative solutions.

In this episode Malte shares how he was inspired to recycle plastic into toys and his love for the ocean.

Connect with Malte:

https://shore-buddies.com

Instagram, Facebook, & Twitter: @shorebuddies

Malte' mentions two books:

4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

Birth of the Brand by Brian Smith

Welcome to Projects for Wildlife a podcast where you will hear from project leaders from around the world who are launching their big ideas to protect wildlife and benefit humanity. From big idea to failure to success it's experiences like these stay with us forever and form who we are. This podcast created a space to make sharing these experiences possible. Your host Alicia Amerson will share conversations, solo episodes, and coaching with amazing conservation project leaders. In each 45 minute to an hour long weekly episode you'll get to walk in the footsteps of inspiring and passionate project leaders. Along this journey in solo episodes I will provide you with seeds of advice to shape your experiences and values into a vision that will gain you followers and help you realize your biggest environmental goals.To get your Tuesday dose of inspiration... Make sure to subscribe to Projects for Wildlife podcast and find us on all the popular social media channels. These conversations inspire us, and more often than not lead us to think big, to take action, and create projects for wildlife. Now let's go stand up for what we stand on.