In today’s webinar Julie started going through the Message Magic Advanced Users Guide, explaining it as she read through it. This is a very important document to ensure that you set your Message Magic up correctly.

Your Skype Profile Message Magic Advanced Users Guide Page #1

To get the most out of Message Magic you need to ensure you are set up correctly.

The first step in that is to have your Skype Profile set up in a way that is descriptive and attractive to people seeing it for the first time, and believe me when I say this… by using the MM software and adding as many contacts as you will, you are going to have a TON of new people looking at your profile to check you out and to make up their mind whether to add you as a contact in return.

While I haven’t checked him out personally, I’ve heard a few people mention a fellow in MySpace named Max Stengart. He apparently specializes in having a good MySpace profile and getting in contact with selected users through Instant Messaging… sound familiar? It may be valuable to to take the time to review his profile…

Skype Contact Groups – Message Magic Advanced Users Guide Page #3

To get the most out of MM it does not mean you simply blast out thousands or millions of messages all over the internet. That would be the flat out wrong approach and you’ll do nothing more than make people mad at you. Aside from that you will create serious issues for yourself, some system performance related. Please see the FAQ I’ve created related to Skype / Zone Alarm Compatibility.

Instead, you should be using it as a tool to add new contacts of similar interests and send messages related to those interests. To do that you need to be using Skype Contact Groups.

Bring up your main Skype window, the one that shows you all your contacts. Then click View, Contact Groups, and make sure there is a check mark beside Enable Contact Groups. Also make sure there is a check mark beside View, Contact Groups, Predefined Groups, Ungrouped (more on the full use of that later).

Now you need to go in to your main Skype window, Contacts, and create group names for the different types of contacts you have. To create a new group click on the plus sign (+) to the right of where it says Groups). Your group names could be things like Friends, Family,Technical, Church, Key Leaders, Networkers, Opportunity Seekers and whatever other title you think is suitable for your list of contacts. If you want a quick and easy approach just create a group called “Previous Contacts”. Then click on the group called Ungrouped. You will see lots of your current contacts show up underneath it. Just drag them all into the Previous Contacts group so that you end up with

ZERO in your Ungrouped.
The reason this is important is because when you run MM and click Load Contacts it will pop up a list of your groups so you can select which group(s) to send a message to. Ungrouped does not show up on the list.
To drag more than one at a time click the first one, scroll to the bottom of the list you want to move, hold the shift key down, left click on the last one and while holding the left mouse button drag them to the new group and drop them there.

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