Confused About How Social Media Can Help Boost Traffic for Your Small Business?

Sept. 14, 2010 - PRLog -- Canton, Michigan. (September 12, 2010) – In a study of 3,000 U.S. social network users exploring the behaviors and platform preferences for social sites sponsored by Performincs released in June, more than a third of all respondents reported using a search engine to further learn about a brand after seeing an ad on a social networking site.   If you’re not on social media yet, you’re already behind your competitors and missing your market.  With more than 500 Million users on Facebook, 190 Million on Twitter and 70 Million on LinkedIn, those are considerable untapped communities but not the only ones that can get your business noticed.  

If you are a small business owner who wants your customers to find you, choose you and buy from you, Lisa Mininni, Best-Selling Author, President of Excellerate Associates, and Creator of The Entrepreneurial Edge SystemTM, will explore how to cut through the social media chatter and create a strategy that builds brand visibility helping you turn it into profitability in a 3-part webinar series, “Get the Social Media Edge – Samurai Secrets that Cut Through The Social Media Chatter and Kick Start Your Million Dollar Strategy.”  Special Guest includes Social Media Marketing Strategist, Laura Rubinstein.  The webinar is scheduled to begin October 20, 2010, (5:00 – 6:00 p.m. ET) Oct 27 and Nov 3, and is hosted by Excellerate Associates (www.excellerateassociates.com)

With more than 50 million Tweets on Twitter, it’s seems like a daunting task to get noticed and the prospect of creating a social media strategy can be intimidating. But not all social media may be right for your business and if you use the wrong marketing techniques on some social communities, your company will get noticed for the wrong reasons.  In this webinar, Mininni and Rubinstein will help you cut through the chatter, develop your social media strategy, and systemize and optimize it for your company’s brand visibility, brand credibility and social media ROI.  The 3-session Webinar includes:

•   Step-by-step coursework to build your own system and cut through the internet chatter.
•   A plug and go process so you get your social media system up right and running immediately.
•   Resources that automate your social media so you continuously fill your practice but remain authentic in your marketing messages.
•   A social media system unique to you so your preferred clients find you when they are looking for your solution.
•   Various types of social media and how the same approach does not work for all social networking sites.
•   How to differentiate yourself so you cut out your competition for good.

“Social media offers small businesses an opportunity to leverage the internet and compete in a global economy.”  said Lisa Mininni” Best-Selling Author and President of Excellerate Associates, home of The Entrepreneurial Edge System – the only developmental and marketing  3-step national curriculum showing entrepreneurs how to fill their business in record time.  “Social Media will continue to evolve and those that haven’t claimed their presence are already behind the eight ball.  Social Media Marketing Strategist, Laura Rubinstein, will join us and she has been helping fledgling entrepreneurs become successful in social media for a number of years.  The insights she shares in this Webinar Series will be valuable to small businesses looking to create a Social Media Strategy, critical for today’s marketplace.”

The Excellerate Associates Webinar series gives small business owners access the leading edge in today’s marketplace.  The cost of the Webinar series is $197, and access is provided via web.  Limited space available.  Information and registration at http://www.freebusinessplanformat.com/creatingyoursocialm...

Contact:   
Lisa Mininni
Excellerate Associates
Info@excellerateassociates.com

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About Lisa Mininni
Lisa Mininni is President of Excellerate Associates, home of The Entrepreneurial Edge SystemTM, the only national curriculum showing small business owners how put their client-getting and revenue-generating goals on the fast track. Lisa helps shows her clients how their ideal clients find them, choose them, and buy from them. She is also Key Note Speaker for many organizations whose members are small business owners including, SPARK, a Michigan-based business incubator.

About Laura Rubinstein
Laura is a Social Media Marketing Strategist for Transform Today. With more than 20 years of marketing consulting experience and focus on relationship building, her strategies make her a highly sought-after professional. She works with business owners, speakers, authors, and service providers around the globe specializing in social media training and consulting.