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How to Google Yourself Properly - DavidKamatoy.com Show 2020.10

(Blog) Many of you have Googled yourselves, but most of you have been doing it wrong. Not wrong, necessarily, just not optimally. Googling or searching for yourself is basically typing your own name into a search engine like Google, Yahoo, Bing and seeing what comes up.

Most of us do this from a skewed perspective because we use the same search engine that we work from. The same site we do social media on, build our websites on and search  for ourselves and related projects and brands. Your search history affects your results. 

In order to Google yourself or search for yourself correctly, you should use an Incognito window in Chrome, an Inprivate window in Edge, or a private window in Opera. Your search is still most likely affected by your location, and for most of us that’s perfect. However, by using a VPN service you could see how you trend in another country.

Opera private has a built in VPN and I am happy to say that DavidKamatoy.com comes up #1 in Google in the Nederlands when searching for David Kamatoy. 

Why should you Google Yourself?

Are you working on your personal brand as an Artist, Entrepreneur, Entertainer, A

uthor, Actor, Singer, or Media Personality? Maybe trying to apply for that next job? 

If you are looking to blow it up on social media and the internet, the best thing you can do is to start by “Googling yours

elf” or searching for yourself, your brand, or your company to see what comes up. Study what comes up, compare that to the top searched sites, and then optimize accordingly.

We often base our branding decisions “on what we want,” but that has to be balanced with the reality of how people actually see you on the internet.

Google is the #1 Website in the United States according to Alexa.com.

ACTION: Open an “Incognito” Browser in Chrome or your favorite browser and search for yourself or your brand: “Your Name” “Your Brand” “Your Company Name.” 

• Tip: You want to type in your name or, if your name is not unique, then most likely your name + your occupation or company. 
• You want an incognito window so that your own search history does not bias the results. 
• You can also use a VPN to try to check results in other countries or areas.
• If you can’t find your name because it’s generic, then that’s when you want to get a yourname.com URL, or you may consider changing your name or creating a stage name. (Just ask Michael Douglass aka Michael Keaton).

So the question is, what comes up? Does your website come up? Your Facebook account? Your IMDB?

Whatever you see is most likely what other people are seeing when they search for you. If someone meets you or does research on you, this becomes the first, second or third impression. 

If you are using Chrome and Google, then you have technically Googled yourself.

Let’s dig deeper.

Within the world of Google we suggest looking at...

• Google News
• GoogleImages
• Google Videos
• Google Maps
• Google Shopping
• Google Books
• Google Scholar

Other Search Engines

• Follow a similar path on other search engines and browsers
• Bing, Yahoo, Opera
• Dogpile is a great search engine because it returns all the best results from the leading search engines. 

YouTube.com is the #2 website in the United States according to Alexa.com.

Whatever or however you are searching for yourself, type it into YouTube.com 

What videos show up? Do you have your own channel? Does someone else have a name or brand like yours? If you don't come up, then what does? 

This is why Video is such a powerful tool. Google owns YouTube, and YouTube results feed into Google. A well-viewed, optimized video typically comes up in the Google Search. 

Facebook.com is the #5 website in the United States according to Alexa.com

Search for your name, your brands, your company, and your hashtags on Facebook and other social media sites.

Top social media sites, and how you trend or rank in those sites, will show up not only on those sites but also in the search engines based on traffic. 

Build your own name .com Website Yournameasabrand.com

Grabbing your name url as a .com, . net etc. is the top strategy that helps you to control your own message. Your own consistent blogging and content should be placed here, in addition to social media sites. Remember, you most likely do not own or control Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and your profiles can disappear or be banned overnight. 

On that same point. Remember to build your own database using a system like jugglemail.com (Shameless Plug) to build, control and communicate with your fans or database. 

Summary: Googling yourself or searching for yourself properly using private windows is the best place to start when trying to create and control your personal brand, your brands and your projects. Take note of what comes up and then strategize on how to  optimize your presence using that information.

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Tip: Keep your Trackball Mouse Dust Free with a Swiffer.

(Blog, Tip) Using a Trackball Mouse comes with the inherent problem of dust blocking the sensors and then suddenly you lose the ability to move your onscreen pointer horizontally or vertically. This is typically followed by some sort of expletive before you realize what the problem is.

Air cans, blowing on your mouse, cleaning your trackball is the next obvious step. 

Tip: Place a Swiffer Duster sheet below your trackball mouse to keep dust at bay.

After a few days or a week lift it up and you'll see all the wonderful dust collected and then maybe you'll buy a HEPA filter as I did.

Also now you have easy access to a Swiffer Dust Sheet to keep the rest of your workspace dust-free.

"TMI Baby!"

Translated, "Too Much Information hip person."

 

• Did you know that the original trackball was invented in 1946, patented in 1947 and was actually a military secret?
• The original Kensington Trackball Mouse used a Billiard Ball. Love to get one of those, I would think about rotating the ball and then end up using the 8 ball. 

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackball

#Tip of the day, although I do not think there will be one tomorrow.

#Kensington #Actorlife #Actorslife 

David Kamatoy, Multi-Creative Entrepreneur. A juggler figuratively and literally has blogged since 2005. A juggler comedian, producer of nationally syndicated TV/ Radio, etc. He is the founder of Jugglemail.com a CRM, Email Marketing, Web Platform. For media and business inquiries please contact us via email, KamatoyMediaGroup.com. 

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Start Tasking with a No Brainer... #ManageFlitter

(Blog) When I need to start tasking and getting something done there are a couple of tricks that I use. 

I will undoubtedly write about these again in more depth but... 

1. I set a 20 minute timer, either on my phone or on my computer...no egg timer. 
2. I delete non-followers using Manage Filter

Check out Manage Flitter here

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Mange Filter is an award winning Twitter management tool. I used to use another service which decided to close it's doors and so I needed to find another solution. I am new to this system and even though I use systems like SocialOomph, Hootsuite I still find that each system even though they share similar functions, each one does things better than the rest. 

Manager Filter helps me delete and sift through non-followers that I follow. Those of you who are actively growing  your Twitter base and are not a celebrity realize that the strategy is typically to follow people and they follow you back. But once you get past following 5000 accounts then the system will regulate you based on ratio of followers to following and you get an error stating that you can't follow any more people.  Thus the need for a service like Manage Filter. 

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Just a quick tip and Ideally I can do a more in depth interview and ideally even talk to someone from Manage Flitter. 

As an example of productivity, my 20 min. timer lead to deleting 100+  Non-Followers and writing a quick blog post...DONE!

Now! Back to doing a more involved project.

OK back to it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tri-Tip Tuesday 1.31.2016 Control The Flow of Information via Google News / Scholar

Welcome to Tri-Tip Tuesday where we share important thoughts about social media, marketing, and anything else that comes to mind. We are always looking for good ideas that we can develop for future TTT posts.

Tip #1 Control what you read.

Back in my day we had these books called encyclopedias; now we have Wikipedia and the power of the internet search engines literally at our fingertips 24/7. So now more than ever we need to control the feed of information. It’s so easy via Facebook and social media to spend a lot of time reading what is trending, and some some of that may be fake news.  But is what is really trending specific to your business or specific to your topics of interest? What is at your top of mind awareness?

If the quality of your life is what you focus on then choose to feed your brain with topical information that matters. Some of the greatest minds in the world are avid readers. Start by reading or focusing on material that matters for 20 min. a day.

What to read?

Tip #2 Google News and others...

You may already know about Google News, but just in case you didn’t, here’s the point. You can use Google news to “Personalize Your News Settings” as you can on other news search engines like Yahoo.

You can also set up news alerts to email you updates based on topics or keywords on a daily, weekly, or per mention email alert. You can even “narcissistically” enter your own name or brand.

The good news and bad news is that Google's algorithm takes you to information that you trend. So if you're in the process of changing your focus, your search engine relevance may take a bit to follow. So what  I do is I often scan my other browsers for what’s trending. It’s also a media trick to see who has the bigger PR budget sometimes.

#3 Google Scholar

Google Scholar takes it to a whole new nerdy level: “Google Scholar broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.”

Imagine knowing the most recent relevant published references to your interests and business. We have this set up for Email Marketing, Neutropic, etc. Oddly I typed in our last name and learned something I did not know about a distant family member.

Final thoughts...

I teach this acting class and at the top of the class I ask , “What did you watch or read that inspired you this week?” The idea here is that we consume so much data as just popcorn or fluff. We are talking hours of Netflix, Fake News and Video Games. So why not take some of that time back under your control and get smarter by controlling what you read on a daily basis to start for 20 min. a day?

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My head is coming online at the strangest hours...

For many years I considered myself a night person and while I stil believe that to be true, I am finding myself becoming a really early morning person.

The world of RENDERING and ASSEMBLING video has created these NAP GAPS. I recall stories of how Bob Hope did all the USO shows by catching naps wherever and whenever he could. 

What's happening is that my subconcious mind is sort of clearing the plate for the tasks ahead and by napping or doing a little self hypnosis it seems to be giving the juice to be productive. 

I mean let's face it, you desk jockeys know the worst case senario is getting ready to work and then sitting in front of the computer waiting for something to happen. 

I think in the world of social media it's even worse. "Hey look Facebook, Ooh twitter, oh damn EBAY!" 

So here are a few tricks that I am currently employing....

20 Min. Timer 

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-timer/

There is an app. But I float this puppy over my work and try to accomplish something in 20 minutes. It's also a good way to take a break when needed. Thanks to TV and 22 min. We are used to working and seeing in 22 min. segments. You can focus a lot in 20 minutes. 

Online Video Hulu\

http://hulu.com/r/78mHSg

I watch a lot of online video in the background. For work that requires medium focus it works fine. TV and docs have a tendency to be better than Films. Since Films are written to be visual you miss a lot by not watching them. Television on the other hand is still written very RADIO + VISUALS. Most shows you can know what's happening without watching too closely. 

Online MUSIC Pandora

I am sure most of you do this already. But music is the default fun cool. My personal problem is that I fricking play and produce music so this can become its own DAMN DISTRACTION. Thus the Classical music is a great default. 

http://lifehacker.com/5365012/the-best-sounds-for-getting-work-done

Baroque Baby

(I recently subscribed to Pandora  love it. I interviewed Tim Westergren back in the day. And all I can say is CONTINUED SUCCESS.)

b-12 + Caffeine. 5 hour energy etc. 

• 5 Hour Energy still works well
• DynaPep- I am liking these days
• Labrada Power Shot
• I also get sublingual b-12 and b complex

I am trying to do more shots than the energy drinks and then drink more water with Enegen C or its equivalent. 

 

I am avoiding Ritalin, Nicotine and Meth at this point. However I am looking forward to BREAKING BAD. 

I am in the process of finishing off some rather big projects and have had to take a moment to address my health due to a persitent little cough that popped up. So just a quick entry for my PRODUCTIVE FRIENDS OUT THERE. 

 

ROCK ON

David Kamatoy, juggler & producer

 

 

Blogging Again..."The more I have to write about the less time I have to write."

 

This is me with Kickboxing Champion Lisa King. (Yes! I should be blogging about this.)

"The more I have to write about the less time I have to write." - David Kamatoy, juggler aka blogger

In the age of social media blogging continues to be extremely important. A blog should be the central HUB for all content you create because you own it. In then should be shared via social media leading the public back to your site / brand. 

CONTENT IS KING AGAIN

Content will always be king and in the age of social media it becomes even more and more important. Often we are so busy creating projects and media that we do not optimize them for the web via blogging, press releases, articles, pictures, etc. In many ways that's our continuing goal as a media company. To adequately optimize our media. 

For example the business that goes to the trouble of spending $5000 on a trade show booth but spends no money telling people outside and inside the trade show that they will be at the trade show via press releases, video, pictures, blogging and social media. Just like spending the additional money to staff the booth so should the company optimize it's investment buy budgeting for MEDIA & PR.

A VIRAL HIT + BODY OF WORK = OVERNIGHT SUCCESS (That took 10+ years to build.)

Everytime someone finds something that we or our cliets have done, we want them to see and easily find something else that we have done. This creates multiple impressions, branding, credibility, an increase in database and ideally an increase in revenue.

For example if you have only one video on YOUTUBE and someone sees that video and even loves it. What's the next video that come up on youtube? A: NOT YOURS. Epsecially if that is your only video.

 Verily I say unto thee, the more media the merrier...

"In the age of social media, you can't ignore PR because by definition social media is PR. Take control of it and master it, your doing it anyway, just be mindful of it and improve."

-David Kamatoy juggler aka Host of 'Blog This with David Kamatoy'

This week alone we are producing 11 hours of national & regional radio, 6-10 hours of broadcast television. Additional Videos for the web. Continuing production on 3 musical songs and participating in a international UN Peace concert.(Ooh and I am submitting as a juggler for a national tv commercial =).)

• Visit BigBizShow.com this week for new shows
• Visit RobertCardozaLive.com for politics,money and you
• Visit and subscribe to youtube.com/thejuggler for the new videos. 

HA! So yes there is a LOT TO BLOG ABOUT. We already producing the media. So now it's time to OPTIMIZE our efforts. 

BUYER BEWARE: There are firms out there taking advantage of people and businesses that NEED SOCIAL MEDIA and then charging hundreds of dollars or more a month. However, if you don't have anything to promote via social media (i.e. blogging) then there is really nothing to build your social media around.

SHAMELESS CTA: We would love to help with creating something to blog about. Give us a call at 619-573-9456 or email us via the contact page, http://KamatoyMediaGroup.com

Anyway! My immediate goal is to start to babble again, that's what this is about. 

BLOG THIS BABY!, 

David Kamatoy, juggler aka Blogger

 

You are a Complete Success...According to your own Subconscious Mind... Part 1

Every decision you make is a battle between your conscious and subconscious mind, and typically your subconscious mind easily wins because your subconscious mind is five to seven times stronger that your conscious mind.

A perfect personal example is MILK PRODUCTS, specifically ICE CREAM. Like mot people I love ice cream, but I’m a little lactose intolerant, it doesn't help in losing weight, it causes mucus and dark circles under my eyes, oh, and in the past it has not helped my acne at all.

However, regardless of all that, I still eat it and more importantly once I have it I continue to crave it. And that’s when it usually starts to work against me...really against me. 

I can say, “I really shouldn't eat this while I am enjoying a Milkshake...” What’s wrong with this picture?

My subconscious mind is a hell of a lot stronger.

The same can be said for any task or skill set that you know you have that you want to do more of, but can’t.

• Losing Weight
• Exercising
• Quitting Smoking
• Sales calls
• Cleaning

I bring this up because Ron Fender, my personal Clinical Hypnotherapist, is restarting his practice. He and I were prepping a talk that I had to do on the Theory of Mind, and the headline was part of this talk. As much as I was bitching about the good and bad of my current situation I realized that I was acting out and living in perfect alignment with all my unconcious beliefs demonstrating PERFECT SUCCESS of my current subconscious script.

Brilliant! I suddenly had no excuses except my own subconscious programming. Mind you, there are some great things happening with the company - projects, clients, etc. - and yet I realized that my bottlenecks are self-imposed and that I have solved much bigger problems in the past.

So currently I am

• Making a list of past positive performances
• Identifying the bottleneck
• Creating time to do the MOST PRODUCTIVE tasks
• Creating time to do the most rewarding tasks
• Rewarding myself for doing those tasks

While this subject deserves a lot more attention, I do have important tasks to accomplish. If you are currently bitching about your situation, I challenge you to take a moment and think about how long this has been going on - months? years?, decades?

Take a moment to figure out those KEY THINGS / TASKS that you absolutely should be doing but for some reason are not doing. Then stop the excuses that are holding you back and GET TO WORK!

 

 

 

Interested in Hypnotherapy send me an email by using the link on the right column.

Extrovert vs. Introvert: The war continues...

San Diego, Ca- The two-sided coin of Extrovert & Introvert very rarely lands on the standing edge in a perfect balance.

The ongoing frustration of having both traits is daunting. I am sure that many of my tricks and transisitions will no doubt be the fodder for my future self-help best seller.

Extrovert Mode allows me to perform in public, engage in conversation, motivate and engage. Sounds Cool! and it would be if it were the only thing I had to do.

Introvert Mode allows me to sit quietly in a room and accomplish a series of tasks, write pages and really finish projects. 

My ongoing mission as an introvert is to finish what the extrovert started.

I obviously can pull this off but not without a internal struggle that really no one every sees.

It has taken an exhausting day in addition to my back pain for me to write this post. (This is not a tip.) However I have been trying to figure out how to make the transition between extrovert and introvert more streamlined and/or productive. Here's what I am working on. 

• Write in a coffee shop. Be an introvert in a public place. A Starbucks like place is a good place to be alone in public with the ability to strike up a conversation when it presents itself.
• Excercise. This week I tried doing physically activity in order to create a physical sense of accomlishment. 
• Meditation. Taking a quiet moment of meditation, self-hypnotherapy, or prayer might also be the cure to calm the mind and move forward with tasks. 
• Make a short list. Yes! it still works.

One of the things that I did this week was get lost in a LARGER LIST, an overwhelming LARGE LIST. The reality is that we can't do everything at the exact same time. You can multi-task a bit but most of the time it's actually faster to accomplish one task quickly with passion and move onto the next one vs. Haphazardly working 2-3 tasks at the same time. Plus if you are in overwhelm NOT ACCOMPLISHING 3 tasks after hours of work is REALLY REALLY FRUSTRATING. 

So making a short list out of the big one is a great idea. That and one of the hardest things to do for a lot of us is to acknowledge or celebrate the accomplishent of any given task. My mind is always thinking of what's next. 

This is a time when good friends and social media can come in handy. Sharing the accomplishment of any given task, followed by a LIKE or kudos from a colleage can be exactly what you need. Also the old fashioned, "Let's go have a drink." angle works pretty well. 

Which right now sounds great, if I actually drank. 

 

R.I.P. Steve Jobs. Here's to the Crazy One...

The Apple/Jobs model of pushing a project with HIGH CREATIVE and Technology through to the end and into production will ultimately endure. His leadership and vision changed the way we look and use computers, cell phones and tablet computers.

The original Think Different spot with Richard Dreyfuss by TBWA\Chiat\Day. Jennifer Golub who also shared the art director credit with Jessica Schulman and Yvonne Smith.  This take off was found at SteveJobsDay on youtube. Apparently created just a few days before his passing.

As you well know in the creation of any new project or product. Shortcuts are usually taken, especially in manufacturing based products. It's easier to use last years doo hickey because we can make it fit or better yet we have tons of them in storage. 

Jobs/Apple compared itself to the Auto Industry Creative process where often the Cool Concept Car never makes it to production. Jobs/Apples creations not only made it into production but continually improved the COOL factor along the way.

Remember the CUBE apple =).

My first computer was an Atari. My second computer was an Apple Macintosh. I believe that my personal trend of being an early adopter came from buying a Mac and having the experience of having a cool piece of technology that made a difference in productivity.

"I believe that my personal trend of being an early adopter came from buying a Mac.." - David Kamatoy

He showed us how to make money with that model, inspire generations and create items that we interact with everyday.

What jobs did as an entrepreneur creative was simply amazing. He redefined the large scale creative process and showed us that a GREAT IDEA can make it through R & D, past the number crunchers and into production. 

I found the following quote at Wired.com Steve Jobs 1955-2011. 

At a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, Jobs shared the philosophy that drove him.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life,” Jobs said. “Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

I had to lay down because I just found out a friend of mine had passed away earlier this month, Larry Trouba. A teacher that I worked for that  always made me smile. When I woke up from my nap I saw that Steve Jobs had passed away. So I was doubly inspired to write. 

Here's to the Crazy Ones...Rest In Peace.

 

Blog This w/ David Kamatoy 6.24.2011: Twitter Hoaxes, FullScreen.Net, Facebook Acquires Beluga, DigiSign, SBA Craig G Francis,

Blog This w/ David Kamatoy returns with a brand new virtual set, new music and solid content. If you're an entrepreneur, entertainer or e-markter. This is the show to watch. Please RT, Tweet, Digg, Like and of course BLOG THIS.