Business Internet Marketing / Social Media Summit For Small Business & Expo
TechExperts announces the first ever Internet Marketing and Social Media Summit For Small Business and Expo in Contra Costa.
They say that small business owners and Professionals like you, consider finding new customers to be the most important and painful things you have to do. But it doesn't have to be that way.
This workshop is geared towards small and medium business owners, and professionals like Attorneys, CPAs, Realtors, Non-Profits and Health and Healing pros. Find out what free tools exist on the web to:
- Increase your revenues.
- Improve your profitability.
- Ensure that you remain relevant, competitive, and alive in your industry.
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We've scoured the Bay Area to find you the best and brightest experts on the 3 most important areas of Internet Marketing. The techniques you'll learn here will bring you more clients for less then you spend in traditional media. Unlike other workshops which are loaded with technical jargon, TechExperts motto is learn it today use it tomorrow, so you begin to see immediate results in your marketing campaigns. Seating is limited to only 120 people. So reserve your seat now. Refer a friend and get and get $5.00 cash or Saxby's Coffee Card back!
At this workshop you'll be learning about the following three key areas of Internet marketing:
- Use social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, so that your casual contacts become a funnel of new clients.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) how the right keyword strategies can get you to the top of the list in Google and Yahoo. Make it so prospects find your page first, rather then your competition.
- Master email marketing and develop your customer list to become a recurring stream of income for your biz.
Laser Target Your Internet Presence Quickly
Presented by: Thomas W. Petty.
Owner Bay Area Seach Engine Academy
The rules of advertising have changed drastically in just the last few years, but many business owners still cling to the old ways. You'll learn new ways to market your business using the power of the Internet. Even if you don't have a Web site, there are many ways to get your message out to people who are already looking for you!
During this session you'll learn:
How do you get to the top of Google, Yahoo or anywhere else? How do you get ahead of your competition? How do you figure out what REALLY matters? How do you get more prospects to your Web site?How to use YouTube to get more hits.
Thomas W. Petty is a Certified Internet Marketing Consultant at WSI. He is also the President of the Bay Area Search Engine Academy, which has a single goal of teaching business owners how to get positioning on the search engines through keyword research and proper content building techniques. He is only one of approximately 2400 HFI-Certified Usability Analysts® in the world. Prior to being an entrepreneur, he retired from a 21 year information technology career at Chevron in California.
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How to Use Social Media and Web 2.0 to Grow Your Business
presented by Bryan Fikes, Owner & Founder
ZenergyWorks Internet Marketing

Everybody is talking about the power of social media and using social networks like twitter, facebook, linkedin, and more. But how do you use them "correctly" and efficiently to deliver a compelling message to a targeted audience for your business?
Move beyond the buzz words and learn how to use Social Media to make a huge difference in your internet marketing strategy.
In this seminar we will discuss the following:
- How to use Social Media to increase your google ranking for your website.
- How to monetize your Social Networking profile.
- How to connect with hundreds of thousands of possible target clients.
- How to correctly put your Social Networking on Auto-Pilot to work to grow your business 24/7
Have your heard of Utterli, Digg, Stumbleupon or Tumblr? Maybe not, but you will suprized how these can help grow your business.
Bryan has worked on the following Web 2.0 campaigns,
Guy Fieri (Food Network Star) - www.guyfieri.com
Carroll Shelby Merchandise - www.carrollshelbymerchandise.com
Wedding Links - www.weddinglinks.com
Xtreme Alien (Soft Drink Lauching using social media) - www.myspace.com/xtremealien
Founded by Bryan Fikes in July 2007, Zenergy Internet Marketing helps small to medium sized businesses compete with bigger companies in the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN). The technology boom makes the Internet a viable and valuable source for marketing, and with Zenergy business owners are able to obtain some of the highest returns on their internet advertising dollars. Utilizing Web 2.0 concepts with a solid coding foundation, Zenergy Internet Marketing has built a concrete foundation on helping the "little guy" compete in the bigger markets.
Best Practices in Email Marketing for Businesses
Presented By: Stu Carty, Constant Contact
Proactive, email marketing is an key component of your overall marketing strategy. Email marketing is cost effective and easy to measure. Learn to master email marketing with a comprehensive look at best practices and winning strategies for getting and keeping quality subscribers, increasing deliverability and open rates, writing good headlines and content, saving time, getting readers to take action, and more!
The session will teach you how to:
- Reach more people with your message
- Create email campaigns that get results
- Get your emails opened and read - get more sales.
- Write compelling subject lines and copy
- How to grow your marketing database and bring in consistent profits.
Stu Carty is currently a Regional Development Director at Constant Contact. Since 2006, he has delivered 250+ workshops & presentations on "Best Practices in Email Marketing" to over 10,000 attendees in Northern California & the San Francisco Bay Area. Stu offers proven success in both "Business to Business" (B2B) and "Business to Consumer" (B2C) email marketing. Carty is a veteran sales and marketing specialist with 20+ years progressive experience in the enterprise software industry. Stu has served as both an expert consultant and top executive with several software start-ups and small businesses, helping to define and launch their sales and marketing programs.
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What You Get
Three awesome workshops, usually priced at over $300.00
Network with over 140 professionals
An Expo with potential power partners
60 day free trial of Constant Contact Email Marketing Service
Free Web 2.0 Analysis worth over $500.00
Up to $500 off an intense Internet Marketing hands-on workshop
Free overflow Valet parking
Delicious Back 40 BBQ tri-tip and barbecued chicken lunch
Free Email Marketing Workbook
Agenda
8:30 - Arrival and Networking and Expo
9:00 – Website Marketing / SEO presentation (Tom Petty – 75 minutes)
10:15 – Break - Expo
10:45 – Social Networking Web 2.0 presentation (Bryan Fikes – 75 minutes)
12:00 – Buffet Lunch and Structured Networking Session
1:00 – Email Marketing presentation (Stu Carty– 75 minutes)
2:15 – All presenters – final wrap up – best things learned, final Q&A, etc …
3:00 - Close Expo
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