Top Ten Tips To Create Viral Visibility Using Facebook Events

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Sandy Reed

The National Association of Marketing Consultants is pleased to kick-off 2010 with our first Business Building Expert teleclass call of the year “Facebook & Twitter Fortunes: How to Strategically Grow Your Business Using the Top Two Online Social Networks” with Mari Smith. Mari has been dubbed ”the Pied Piper of the Online World”.

To register and get more information about this content-rich teleclass CLICK HERE.

Get a preview of how Mari can help you get results on Facebook in the following article!

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by Mari Smith – Social Media Consultant, Speaker & Trainer

With 250 million members on Facebook and growing daily, if you host your own events – whether in-person or virtual, such as webinars or teleclasses – you can increase your visibility and attendance rate significantly when you know how to effectively use Facebook’s Events feature.

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Even Hawaii Needs Marketing…

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Sandy Reed

I love Hawaii, although I haven’t been in several years. You would think that a place that’s like Heaven on Earth would have a steady stream of tourists visiting just to get away from the economic gloom and doom we keep hearing about on this side of the ocean. It’s interesting that even the State of Hawaii has to market themselves. They compete on a global basis to get their name out there and remind people what they’re missing. They recently had to compete with all the other states to get Disney Productions to choose them for the new Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean movie to be released in 2011 – and they succeeded!

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Social Media Success – 15 Hot Tips from the Pied Piper, by Mari Smith

Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Sandy Reed

I’m often asked how I got started in social media and became so successful and well known. Well, first I like to think I’m humble and am just “one of the peeps” like everyone else, which is true. But I do recognize my business has really exploded in the past eighteen months, and so I thought I’d come up with a list of contributing factors that you might find of benefit too:

1. Get lucky!

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My definition of luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Since ‘99, I had pursued a path of relationship marketing, internet marketing, and success coaching… all of which culminated in social media when I got invited to join an alpha team of a Facebook app in 2007. I joke about being an “overnight success ten years in the making” – perhaps you can relate?! But all these years were preparation for my passion and purpose to intersect. I’d been preparing for many years, then an opportunity presented itself and I took ACTION!

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New Year’s Resolutions on Steroids… Graceland Too

Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Sandy Reed

It’s the beginning of a brand new year, typically the time when most people consider making New Year’s resolutions about their lives and their businesses. What’s the purpose of resolutions? To try to make your life better than it was the year before – to be happier, healthier, or more prosperous maybe? If you’re one of those folks making New Year’s resolutions, you might want to start by considering why you want what you want and backing into how you can make them work this year, finally…

In Holly Springs, Mississippi there is a man who is perfectly clear about what he wants and what he is willing to do to have it. Paul MacLeod is obsessed with Elvis, Graceland, and everything that has to do with the King of Rock ‘n Roll. Mr. MacLeod is ready to share his obsession with all who come knocking at his door 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year – any time of the day or night… And why would you want to visit MacLeod? Because he is the owner of “Graceland Too“, his home, which is crammed, jammed with floor-to-ceiling Elvis memorabilia including photos, records, figurines, cardboard cutouts, candy wrappers, clocks, and any and everything else he has been able to collect since the late 1980’s. For a mere $5 visitors get to experience sensory overload and spend as much time as they want in Elvis heaven.