You've probably heard about marketing platforms utilizing social media, videos and mobile technology. You may have even dabbled a bit with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and blogging, but you still may not be sure how to put these tools to work for you and your business.
Learn to do business in the digital age by attending the Carlsbad Chamber's First Friday Breakfast next month. The featured speaker will be Bridget Ayers, who will help you understand the importance and viral nature of social media marketing, and will help you get started.
Ayers is the owner of Get Smart Web Consulting, which helps its clients create a comprehensive online presence to bring their businesses to a targeted audience. The Get Smart Web group manages online communities that reach audiences in the hundreds of thousands.
Ayers was written up in WE Women's Magazine as one of the top 100 women bloggers to watch in 2009.
During the First Friday Breakfast, Ayers will teach you how to:
• Strengthen your marketing with unique, feature rich, and value-based e-marketing campaigns by utilizing e-newsletter and video technology.
• Increase search engine visibility and establish a more personalized and interactive Internet presence for you and your business by integrating a blog into your Web site.
• Bring your business, brand and expertise to a broader audience through social networking on sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
First Friday Breakfast is the chamber's premiere networking and business promotional event, and one of the most regularly attended monthly programs. The breakfast will be from 7 to 9 a.m. Aug. 7 at the Windmill Banquet & Catering, 890 Palomar Airport Road, Carlsbad, 92008.
Tickets for the event are $30 for chamber members and $50 for prospective members registered by July 31. After July 31, and at the door, tickets are $55. At the door, seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Tabletop exhibits or Soapbox presentations are available to promote your business for $70 each, which includes one breakfast, and must be reserved in advance by calling Deveney Gibbons, the chamber's member services manager, at (760) 931-8400.
To register for the Aug. 7 First Friday Breakfast, visit us online at www.carlsbad.org.
Learn to do business in the digital age by attending the Carlsbad Chamber's First Friday Breakfast next month. The featured speaker will be Bridget Ayers, who will help you understand the importance and viral nature of social media marketing, and will help you get started.
Ayers is the owner of Get Smart Web Consulting, which helps its clients create a comprehensive online presence to bring their businesses to a targeted audience. The Get Smart Web group manages online communities that reach audiences in the hundreds of thousands.
Ayers was written up in WE Women's Magazine as one of the top 100 women bloggers to watch in 2009.
During the First Friday Breakfast, Ayers will teach you how to:
• Strengthen your marketing with unique, feature rich, and value-based e-marketing campaigns by utilizing e-newsletter and video technology.
• Increase search engine visibility and establish a more personalized and interactive Internet presence for you and your business by integrating a blog into your Web site.
• Bring your business, brand and expertise to a broader audience through social networking on sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
First Friday Breakfast is the chamber's premiere networking and business promotional event, and one of the most regularly attended monthly programs. The breakfast will be from 7 to 9 a.m. Aug. 7 at the Windmill Banquet & Catering, 890 Palomar Airport Road, Carlsbad, 92008.
Tickets for the event are $30 for chamber members and $50 for prospective members registered by July 31. After July 31, and at the door, tickets are $55. At the door, seating is not guaranteed and is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Tabletop exhibits or Soapbox presentations are available to promote your business for $70 each, which includes one breakfast, and must be reserved in advance by calling Deveney Gibbons, the chamber's member services manager, at (760) 931-8400.
To register for the Aug. 7 First Friday Breakfast, visit us online at www.carlsbad.org.