events
The Stories of Social Media
Is your small business coming to the Small Business Social Media Summit the first weekend in June? Come to hear local business owners who are utilizing social media every day, meet your peers and begin to build a peer network, and leave with a social media plan for your business. www.smallbizsocialmediasummit.com The Power of Social Media…
Read More3 Days in June
Image via Wikipedia Got a small business? Be it brick and mortar or one you run from your home – Come to Hutchinson Kansas the first weekend in June. The Small Business Social Media Summit is designed just for you, the small business owner. We’ve brought together 8 local speakers who are also small business…
Read MoreRant in support of smart speakers
Have you attended a conference and wondered why they chose the speakers they did? Yeah, me too. That’s why Grant and I were very intentional on our choices of who to invite to speak to small businesses in rural America at www.smallbizsocialmediasummit.com. We chose our speakers because we know them. One of the basic tenants…
Read MoreWhat have you done for your small business?
Image via Wikipedia Have you got a small business? It could be a brick and mortar or a home business. Do you know how to use social media to promote your business? Most people don’t. Most listen to a friend who tells them to go to facebook. They don’t tell them what to do when…
Read MoreThree Tools for Your Small Business
In June I’ll be speaking at SmallBizSocialMediaSummit – and today I’m going to share with you three tools you can use today in your small business. 1. Google Profile Have you set up your own Google profile? Visit www.google.com/profiles and set it up. If you’re a business, include your physical address, contact info, lots of…
Read MoreSmall Business Social Media Summit
Debworks and G2 Web Media announce the Small Business Social Media Summit to occur June 5 and June 6, 2010 in Hutchinson, Kansas. This summit is designed specifically for small businesses to identify social media avenues (like Facebook, twitter, blogging), how to use them and walk away with a plan for their business. Hutchinson Kansas…
Read MoreBringing the best
It’s an exciting time for a geeky girl to be in small town America – things are changing. People are curious, they want to know things.
Read MoreThe Virtual Meets the Concrete
Last year I attended SobCon09 – and met many of the people I’d previously only had conversations with on twitter. Successful Outstanding Bloggers Conference – required to advance your business to the next level. I hung out with some of the big name people – and that created avenues to stronger conversations over this past…
Read MoreSmall Business Bloggers to Watch
They are not gurus, experts, mountain climbers or gods. They are not suits in an office or geeks in tshirts in the basement. They are real people, doing real work, in the real world. Jay Ehret Cody Heitschmidt Mary Lynn and George Krueger Kim Dushinski Becky McCray Grant Griffiths Justin Levy Deb Brown They were…
Read MorePlanning A Conference
I’m planning a Small Business Social Media Conference in June in the Kansas City area. You’d think it would be fairly easy to plan something like this. Decide the dates, find a location, book the speakers, get sponsors on board and put the word out. The speaker part was the easiest – and I’m happy…
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