Tech After Five

There are some great tech executives who are "tonning it" on LinkedIn. They are making meaningful connections by first creating an entry point with social media and building up an audience that they can help. People willingly follow them and connect with them and that gives them more opportunities to create business relationships where problems are solved and money changes hands. This isn't a myth. It is happening. Now, what I want to know, is how can I use LinkedIn like the best of the best.  We've got just the guy for that.

Named one of the top sales voices on LinkedIn in 2019, Richard Bliss helps busy executives bring social media into their life in a way that it adds opportunities instead of sucking away time. We interview him and come away with a three step plan for creating an audience and then working with that audience to accomplish our business goals. This is social media that works. If you're ready to perform like the people at the top, then listen up and take some notes.

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Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

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Many businesses have an advisory board. Many small businesses should have one but don’t. In this episode we expand the idea of an advisory board to include setting up one for yourself. You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers. Let’s figure out how you can go about setting up an advisory board for yourself. You'll be surprised at what you can learn by crystallizing your own thinking and asking good questions. You'll benefit from the accountability. You'll learn by hearing great ideas from serious people.

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Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

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So many times our important ideas are lost because we don’t know how to wield influence in our communications. Whether we are talking to a client, teammate or boss, it’s easy to lose power in our communications. Great ideas can be lost. Does influence matter?

In this free ranging conversation with Carol Hamilton, we talk about the use of influence in conversation whether its one on one or one to many. We talk about why we think influence matters, how it’s lost and what are some of the tools we can use to help get our points across.

Carol Hamilton is one of my favorite people on the planet and she gets to help people across the globe improve the delivery of their message. If you’re looking for someone to nurture your ideas into a stronger voice, then a conversation with her is definitely a best next step.

Join Phil Yanov and Scott Pfeiffer as they tease out some great advice from Carol on communicating your ideas effectively.

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If you'd like to spend some quality time thinking about how you can be more influential in your communications, join us for the Tech After Five podcast. 

Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Your hosts:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

We're back! Welcome to Season Two of the Tech After Five Podcast!

We've been hard at work pulling together episodes on how to be a better communicator, how to sell your tech, and we've got some amazing people for you to meet in our upcoming episodes.  With season two, we begin by committing to a predicable, persistent presence. Every Tuesday we will be launching a brand new episode. (Can we call it Tech Tuesday?) We've got a lot of episodes ready for you and quite a number of people we haven't yet talked to, but are in our production queue. We promise that we're going to deliver a lot of great conversations that will help you advance your tech career, build your business and stay afloat in the gig economy. If IT is your life, we are here to help you stay connected to the people you need.

If you're not already subscribed, hit up our main podcast page and pick the podplayer of your choice. We're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and many more. -- https://anchor.fm/techafterfive

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We've got a tight episode on how to respond when a friend, coworker, or random person asks you for a LinkedIn endorsement or five star google review.  Even when you know them well, this can be a hard thing to get right. (But there are tricks -- and we share them.) Also, it can be harder when you want to help, but you don't know them well. What do you do then? Lastly, what do you do when someone asks, but you just can't bring yourself to make the endorsement? We've got some advice for that sticky situation, too. 

Your hosts:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Want to know how to move your tech career forward? There are lots of people trying to help.  We invited Richard Sykora from Blackbaud back to talk about the updates that have been made to one of our favorite events for Job Seekers.  The event is RestartSC and it's happening again on November 2, 2019. Hopefully you are hearing this episode in advance of the event and you'll be able to attend or pass it along to a friend. Even if you are listening after the event, Richard talks about ongoing community groups you can become part of.  In our conversation, Richard talks about what a day at the RestartSC event looks like, what you will experience, and just exactly what skills will be honed regardless of where you are in your job search.

Check out RestartSC at their website. The next event is November 2, 2019.

Your hosts:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Are you stuck at a gatekeeper? You might have this problem when you are in sales, consulting, or looking for a new job.  The problem is most people start at the wrong place. Sure, it's good to have connections, but you want to make sure you can use those connections to start at the top of an organization.

In this episode, Phil Yanov & Scott Pfeiffer talk about some real world examples of what goes wrong in people's heads when they are searching for their next job. The problems, and how to overcome them are exactly the same whether you are looking for your next position or customer. You have to get yourself right. Then you aim high. Learn why your fears are getting in your way and how to create a plan that will overcome them in this episode of the Tech After Five podcast.

Your hosts for this episode:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five. (TechAfterFive.com)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

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Tech After Five offers live, face to face networking events for I. T. professionals. Whether you are looking for tech talent or you are talent looking for the next step in your career, we offer a path towards connection. Sign up for event announcements, networking classes and tips an our website https://techafterfive.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. @TechAfterFive.

In our last podcast on Good Digital Parenting, Kate Jay of Verizon mentioned the GizmoWatch as a great option for your child that might not be ready for a smartphone, but might be ready for some of the features you might get with a smartphone. Well, that got me curious. Does the GizmoWatch really work?

I got one to test and invited my special test subject into the studio to get some reaction.

Let's talk about the GizmoWatch.

Your host for this episode:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five. (TechAfterFive.com)

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Tech After Five offers live, face to face networking events for I. T. professionals. Whether you are looking for tech talent or you are talent looking for the next step in your career, we offer a path towards connection. Sign up for event announcements, networking classes and tips an our website https://techafterfive.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. @TechAfterFive.

If you’ve got kids of any age, then you’re probably wondering how to decide when they should have a smartphone and what the rules for digital devices should be. It can be overwhelming. Tablets, phones and consoles are fun. As a parent, it can be easy to throw your hands up in the air in frustration. But. There is a way to solve this problem and it’s not one size fits all. You can have the right conversations. You can create your own guidelines as a family. The problem is solvable and we’ve got the help you need.

In this episode of the Tech After Five podcast, we bring in the Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute, Stephen Balkam along with Kate Jay of Verizon to help us formulate a plan to provide good digital parenting.

Resources mentioned in the show:

Family Online Safety Institute - The Family Online Safety Institute is an international, non-profit organization which works to make the online world safer for kids and their families.

Good Digital Parenting Videos - a series of guideline videos for families to watch together as they explore creating appropriate rules for their own family.

Good Digital Parenting Workshop Materials - Download the materials you need to present the Good Digital Parenting workshop to parents groups, teachers, etc.

Guests for this episode:

Stephen Balkam, Founder & CEO, Family Online Safety Institute, FOSI.org

Kate Jay, South Area Public Relations at Verizon.

Your host for this episode:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five. (TechAfterFive.com)

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Tech After Five offers live, face to face networking events for I. T. professionals. Whether you are looking for tech talent or you are talent looking for the next step in your career, we offer a path towards connection. Sign up for event announcements, networking classes and tips an our website https://techafterfive.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. @TechAfterFive.

We've launched Tech After Five in a brand new city.  You're probably wondering how that happens and what kind of people would launch a formatted networking event especially for IT professionals. We've got that answer, plus an introduction to the people and mission of the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences.  Like us, they are committed to bringing IT professionals together so that they build community. 

A blue ribbon commission report to the Governor of Arkansas brought about their beginning. Now they are on a mission. Learn more about them and the launch of Tech After Five in Little Rock, Arkansas in this episode of our podcast!

Your hosts for this episode:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five. (TechAfterFive.com)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

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Tech After Five offers live, face to face networking events for I. T. professionals. Whether you are looking for tech talent or you are talent looking for the next step in your career, we offer a path towards connection. Sign up for event announcements, networking classes and tips an our website https://techafterfive.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. @TechAfterFive.

You’ve decided to come to a Tech After Five live event. Awesome! Thanks for coming. Since we’re not like other networking events, we want to give you everything you need to succeed. This podcast will let you know what to expect so you feel at home at your very first Tech After Five.

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Your hosts for this episode:

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five. (TechAfterFive.com)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

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Tech After Five offers live, face to face networking events for I. T. professionals. Whether you are looking for tech talent or you are talent looking for the next step in your career, we offer a path towards connection. Sign up for event announcements, networking classes and tips an our website https://techafterfive.com. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. @TechAfterFive.