7 Habits of Highly Effective Social Marketers- Steve Garfield

tgoodridge | Feb 08, 2010 | Comments View Comments

Ok, Interview #7 of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective Social Marketers” series. Today’s interview is with Steve Garfield.

About Steve
Hey this is Steve Garfield from SteveGarfield.com I’m author of the book Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business, and founder of Boston Media Makers. Through speaking and consulting I teach people how easy it is to put video online.

1. What one trait or habit got you to where you are today?
My favorite habit is Stephen Covey’s ’seek first to understand then to be understood.’ I love learning things and then sharing what I learned. I’ve been doing that for years, in person and on my blog, and that led to writing my book.

2. Your work day just started, what’s the FIRST thing you do and why?
First of all I have say that actually don’t have a work day our work schedule. I’m working all the time so I could be working maybe 4 AM, 6 AM, 8 AM. Time doesn’t matter. First thing I do check mail, then check twitter.

3. What makes you efficient with your day?
What makes me a fission is a deadline so for example if I’m editing a video I know I have to get it done by the end of the day I will focus on getting that video done and what I do is try and exclude watching all types of social media.

4. Your Favorite Business book of all time?
My favorite business book of all time is 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey. I love that book and I try to be values based and as I said earlier, seek first to understand then to be understood.

5. 3 things on your desk right now/ 3 things you can’t live without
Three things on my desk so the first thing right front of me MacBook Pro totally runs everything I do all day long every day. Second thing is a nice external hard drive. I finally found a good one. I like it to Seagate external FireWire drive and the other thing that I love that I have a my desk is Sharpies. I love keeping lists and then crossing things out when I get them done with a nice black line big thick black line

6. Habit you want to kick in 2009
I want to get rid of this insane check-in check-in everywhere. It’s crazy. What would love to see is new technology that would auto check me in.

7. Habit you want to form for 2010
The habit I want to form in 2010 is actually get out of habits. I’ll look for some new opportunities or new things are are new ways of doing things . I’m going to try and keep an open mind on new possibilities and then try and stop the pattern of doing the exact same thing over time. Otherwise I love what I’m doing and look forward to new opportunities in 20-10. I’m not going to call it 2,010 either. 20-10!

BONUS- here’s a picture of Steve in his office…