Twitter has opened up huge opportunities for businesses. Never before has it been so easy to quickly target people by their location, interests and conversations. All you need to do is understand how.

Twitter Success for Business – social media training

This full day training event will get you started on your way to success. You may already have started, in which case this will be a shortcut to your Twitter Success. During the event you will cover

• Strategy planning
• Tool use & Automation
• Effective following
• Copy writing
• Time management
• Using #hashtags to promote your content
• Integration with other social media sites
• Promotions and competitions
• Customer service
• Measurement and results tracking

Half Price offer – all attendees will be given the opportunity to bring a colleague or guest for half price.

We run our full day training in the relaxed atmosphere of the Detling Coachouse, nr Maidstone, Kent. For full details visit the Accelerated Twitter Success page or go direct now to reserve your place on this amazing course. Click on the dates to reserve your tickets for just £167 now. Details of price reductions for early ticket purchase  and half price offers are on the event pages.

January 27th – Accelerated Twitter Success – early bird price before 10/01/10

February & March dates in London and Kent to be announced shortly

Register below to be the first to find out dates, limited early bird offers and all the latest Twitter Tips:

Planning for an event is never an easy task, getting people there is an ever bigger challenge. The key is planning.

My plans for the first Accelerated  Twitter Success went rather out of the window when Jago was born and I have been playing catch up since then. I’ve been keeping a diary of the activities on my Postureous blog and at Social Media Tribe.

Through this diary: My Social Media Challenge I have received various suggestions and support. Yesterday after one of my guests swapped her attendance on to the December date I had a brain wave. Inspired by an email from Christopher Howard it occurred to me that the best form of promotion is referral and recommendation by people on the course or who want to attend but can’t afford it. So I set up a basic Send A Friend mechanic.

The FREE option

If you send a friend to my course and they pay the full price( £127 before Oct 30th, £167 after) then you can come for free. Lovely I hear you say. All you need to do is let me know when they have purchased their ticket. Alternatively, email me and I can set you up an affiliate link so you can promote the event without having to follow up to find out if they bought a ticket.

The Half Price Option

Simply decide with a friend or colleague that you both want to come. Buy the first ticket at the event page Accelerated Twitter Success, then email me to request your second ticket.

Simple and equally lovely.

For a full day training on Twitter look no further than my Accelerated Twitter Success course. Having established the basics of using Twitter you will now be wondering how you can harness this tool to promote your business. This training day will equip you with the tools and strategy to achieve success.

The next training day will be on November 4th, 2009 in Maidstone, Kent. Your day will start at 9.30am and include lunch. You will be given some homework to prepare in advance and everyone will need to work from their laptop as we set in place your strategy and Twitter routine.

Full day Twitter training

• Strategy planning
• Tool use & Automation
• Effective following
• Copy writing
• Time management
• Using #hashtags to promote your content
• Integration with other social media sites
• Promotions and competitions
• Customer service
• Measurement and results tracking

November 4th 2009
Detling Coachhouse, Scragged Oak Road, Detling, Maidstone, ME14 3HB (map)

£167 incl lunch

9am – 5.30pm

Register for the event before October 24th to receive a £22 discount and guarantee your place on the course

If you are new to social media and are wondering where to start, don’t fear.  I gave this presentation to Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce members this week. Everyone should have a website by now – so what next? Do you even know if your website is getting you any customers or helping you keep your existing ones.  I know internet marketing is yet another challenge for many business owners and learning about all the latest tricks can be baffling. Twitter, Facebook, Pay Per Click advertising, email marketing…..urgh “I don’t have the time” is often what I hear.   This presentation will help you understand what comes after your website. As an Internet Marketing Advisor I assure you it’s not frightening, its just new. Underneath is the Social Media Checkist for Action which will get you started.

Sign up for my email newsletter which will give you the latest news from my blog plus tips and tricks on Internet Marketing for Business every month.

This checklist was given out at the KICC lunch which I spoke at yesterday. If you are a business owner in Kent then the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce is a must for networking and business support in the county.

You have got a website for your company, now what? I will be looking at this question and introducing social media as a marketing channel at the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce networking lunch on Wednesday September 9th. Full details are here.

For those attending the event, get yourself a Twitter account and bring your laptop – there will be free WiFi for all.

As an introduction watch this great video from Socialnomics09. And, if you need help signing up for Twitter watch the How To guide at the bottom.

(I’ll do my own Twitter intro to accompany my Twitter For Business event on Sept 16th. Register now)

I just got off the phone to Oliver Russell at The Big Shot. I did some work for him a while ago to set up distribution deals for this new initiative The Real Body Show. Check it out. Over about three days I made calls with my contacts to introduce them to this health and fitness video magazine.

Whilst I knew I had done a great job I was still telling myself that it wasn’t enough and was concerned that it wouldnt come to anything. In my update from Oliver just now I hear that he deals in the pipeline with AOL, Sport.co.uk and Babycentre.co.uk to name a few. I now feel great.

My lessons from this:

1. Be confident in your own ability
2. Stay connected to your network
3. Offer value and be consistent
4. Don’t panic – patience along with the above will pay off

This is the first of many events that I will be running in Kent. I’m making it my goal to bring social media to businesses and entrepreneurs in Kent. Of course the rest of the World will follow shortly after and you are welcome wherever you come from.

These events sell out fast. If you want an early bird notice and discount put your details below and you will be the first to know about them.

Twitter for Business Success and Networking event
Russell Hotel, Maidstone, Kent on Sept 16th 2009  1-30pm to 5.30pm (map)

Internet marketing goes way beyond your website now. Don’t get left behind. Attend this event to learn the basics of Twitter and understand how to create a social media marketing strategy. All the details are below. Register now for full information.

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Twitter is a business tool.

You may not have realised this. If you thought it was for kids and celebrities to tell each other what they are having for lunch then you are missing out on an opportunity to propel your business forward. If you are an entrepreneur, business owner or looking to raise your profile then you need to know about Twitter.

Get your ticket for this event today. Click the register button above.

Twitter is a communication tool.

Just like other social media services such as blogs, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn people are using it to grow their business. The world has shrunk un-imaginably and you have the power at your finger tips to broadcast yourself, your services, your products and your expertise in amazingly interesting ways.

Twitter is a social media marketing tool.

This introduction to Twitter and social media will give you an understanding of what it can do for you. You will learn how your internet marketing goes way beyond just a website. More than that it is a practical workshop that will set you up on Twitter, will explain the basics and have you Tweeting – that’s sending messages – to the other local business men and women who will be with you at the event. Bring your laptop, there will be free wi-fi for all.

Networking

The event will be attended by other forward thinking entrepreneurs and local businesses. At the end of the workshop there will be a networking opportunity to share your thoughts and establish contacts. This is the power of Twitter in action – you meet online, then you do business in the real World.

Do not wait. Click the register button below and get your ticket today.

Who should attend?

• Business owners and professionals
• Entrepreneurs
• Anyone with a website
• Marketing managers
• Sales managers
• Anyone wanting to raise their profile
• Celebrities
• Authors
• Coaches

Register now for full information

Often people say “ooh well, I’d like to do a blog or something but how will I know what to write about?”. Well, if you are writing a blog for your business I would like to think you know a lot about your product, services, why people need them and how people use them. Stop worrying about being a great writer and take confidence from the fact that you already know a lot of valuable information.

Then take these simple steps to set up a ready made flow of content ideas. What’s more, this will even help you find out what people want to know about right now.

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A website is the store front of any business. Even if you have a physical shop, if your website goes down customers will start to ask what has happened to your business. As many readers have noticed this just happened to me as my website has been down for the last four days. Not a very good example to my clients and prospects for sure. I was changing hosting companies to launch my new site and messed up all the DNS records. So what lessons can I share with you about this? The number 1 thing to remember is stay in communication. Technical problems do happen – do not try and hide it.  Let people know that it is being dealt with and minimise the negative impact or assumptions that people could make.

Having alternate methods of communication is vital in this situation and highlights the need to have an email marketing tool and social media accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn. If you haven’t got these start setting them up today. If you need advice on how to do this then contact me. continue