1. The Tweet That Changed My World

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 13, 2010

“Ladies and gentleman, thank you for your attention over the last two days. I truly hope you feel like you learned something. If you need any help applying what we’ve talked about here, just drop me an email or we can schedule a Skype call.”

And with those words, I concluded my first international social media workshop halfway around the world. Considering that 12 months before that, no one besides me even knew I possessed social media knowledge, that’s no small accomplishment.

So how did I get to Malaysia? And more important, why should you care? Simply put, I made it to Malaysia by changing the way I went about prospecting for business. I deemphasized my traditional, ...

Get The Invisible Sale: How to Build a Digitally Powered Marketing and Sales System to Better Prospect, Qualify and Close Leads now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.