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Effective & Efficient Social Media Marketing for Small & Solo Brands

Find out how successful consultants, solopreneurs, and small brands with marketing departments of one manage successful social media marketing, so you can, too.

Being effective in social media means being efficient. First, focusing on who your target audience is, which requires knowing your brand and customers and asking the right questions. Then focus on where those select few who want to hear from you are online, and the services you choose, for example you can buy instagram followers to improve your ratings in this social network.

In this highly interactive talk, New Media Education Expert and CEO of Designated Editor Suzanne McDonald will show you how to be both efficient and effective to generate ROI for your brand. Learn from case studies and client stories, like the Strategic Video Award-winning #Ticknado campaign.

Founder of Newpo10926418_10153005593199581_7098092806552195492_nrt Interactive Marketers networking-learning group, Suzanne McDonald launched her consultancy Designated Editor in 2008 and in October won the International Business Award New Media Internet Company of the Year, in addition to American Business Awards Innovator of the Year.

An educator and communicator at heart, Suzanne voluntary leapt from The Boston Globe newsroom to dive into SEO, web strategy, social, email marketing, with the Best marketing training at the Affiliate Institute  and events and spends her days guiding small brands through game-changing communications technology to transform them into highly effective engaged brands, in spite of their budgets. Learn about Social Firestarter to achieve outstanding results in your career.

You may know Suzanne already via Newport Interactive Marketers networking-learning group, which gathers 75+ attendees monthly for networking and an expert speaker. Her last event with Instagram expert Sue B. Zimmernman had over 200 RSVPs. She’s also developed and taught New Media and Social Media courses for the University of Rhode Island and Framingham State University as well as online courses, she helps people get to know the importance of Instagram Services and other platforms.

Check out more about Suzanne at her companies’ websites:

Designated Editor

Newport Interactive Marketers

Mobile-Friendly Makes Your Business Customer-Friendly

Your audience wants to be engaged and informed.  Establishing and maintaining brand loyalty means connecting your audience to social networks, mail subscriptions and mobile devices. This allows the consumer to receive fast, accurate content through multiple channels, making your business’ customers more accessible. With an audience on-the-go, your company needs a plan to become more mobile-friendly.

Newport Interactive Marketers (sponsored by Designated Editor) is starting 2012 off with all things mobile.  Join NIM as Annette Tonti CEO, MoFuse uncovers the best mobile web practices for advertisers and publishers. Strengthen your multi-channel approach by building effective mobile web content that is convenient and easy to use. “Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly” is an event that is open to the public and begins at 6:00pm on Thursday, January 26 2012 at 41North (351 Thames Street, Newport RI 02840).

You will learn

  • Mobile is Local: What does that mean for marketers?
  • How are people using the mobile web and how will that change in 2012?
  • Mobile Web or App, what is the difference?
  • How do you build effective mobile web content?
  • Every marketer needs to include mobile as part of their multi-channel approach.  Which are the best practices?
  • Why and how has mobile web quickly emerged as the most important landscape for mid-tier and local businesses?

No matter what industry your company is in, there are opportunities for growth on mobile devices. Featured speaker Annette Tonti knows this all too well, as MoFuse defends its reputation for powering mobile sites for customers as different as the State Department and Harper Collins.  They also power mobile sites for thousands of local businesses and marketers who use mobile to build mobile ad campaigns.  From Pandora to Ghirardelli chocolate, both large and small brands are engaging audiences in this new, effective way.

How will your mobile-friendly company engage its audience?

With so many new devices and applications hitting the streets at record speeds, it’s easy for your company to put some of these new devices to marketing use.

  • Build incentive programs (i.e. coupons, contests, etc.)
  • Enable financial services such as PayPal for streamlined billing processes
  • Run surveys – feedback directly from the customer makes them feel engaged and appreciated
  • Promote customer service – build a two-way conversation
  • …and much, much more!

Connect with Annette Tonti via Twitter and LinkedIn before the event, and check out MoFuse, too!

For event details, visit http://bit.ly/NIMmobile2012