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LinkedIn Business Basics: Create a Great Profile

2010-03-09T13:33:55-07:00

This is the presentation for my students at Colorado Free University. I went item by item through all the LinkedIn headers plus challenged them to create their LinkedIn profile by a certain date. If you've been putting off completing your profile, you can download a PDF file and take the LinkedIn 100% complete profile challenge: Download Challenge to LinkedIn. LinkedIn Profile Basics

Marketing Your Business on Facebook

2010-03-03T15:27:31-07:00

This is the second part of my Facebook for Business I taught at Colorado Free University. And I have to thank all the participants for showing up on a Saturday afternoon to take the second part of the Facebook class. If you are interested in taking social media classes in Denver, please check out my calendar of events. You can also contact me at 303.632.2928 or SocialJo1@gmail.com. Happy social networking! Facebook Marketing for Business View more presentations from Your Marketing Gal.

Facebook 101 - Grow Your Business

2010-02-22T10:25:34-07:00

This is my presentation to a great group of participants at Colorado Free University on using Facebook for business. If you live in the Denver area and would like to take a social media class, please check out my schedule of events and classes. Need a little more information, please check out the description page or contact me at SocialJo1@gmail.com. Facebook 101 for Business View more presentations from Your Marketing Gal.

Workshop: Use Facebook to Build Your Business: It's Free and It Works!

2010-02-10T08:20:00-07:00

Facebook business building strategies are very simple and can be used at no cost to you. The publicity is priceless and is the wave of the future. The class is for success-minded entrepreneurs wanting to automate, simplify and rapidly increase their network and public exposure through the magic of Facebook, the world's most used social media website. Get the tips, tricks and strategies to build your friend base while building your brand. Learn how to avoid the three top deadly mistakes on Facebook. Class is Saturday, February 20, from 9am to 11am at Colorado Free University, 7653 East 1st Place,...

Free February Networking & Education Meeting: Denver Entrepreneurs

2010-02-09T22:00:42-07:00

Optimize Your Bottom Line Through Search Engine Optimization Please join the Denver Entrepreneurs for our February meeting including power networking and education. Mike Belasco, a local Search Engine Optimization expert, will be sharing some great information that can help all of us optimize our websites, blogs, social media platforms, press releases, etc., to get even more traffic, prospects and customers. Meeting is Thursday, February 25 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Google and other search engines work on algorithms to rank your site that are often secret. Mike Belasco has obviously broken the code helping scores of companies be ranked on the...

LinkedIn 101 Rotary Club in Denver

2010-01-06T10:32:20-07:00

Last night I had the pleasure or presenting a brief introduction to LinkedIn to a group of Rotary members. Debra Fine, author of the bestselling book The Fine Art of Small Talk, asked me to present to the members of her chapter at their informal gathering. After watching a video on her website, I see that social media is actually not so different from her suggestions on how to engage people through small talk. Through LinkedIn and all social networks, it's all about having a conversation with your connections, friends or followers. Her advice: show that you are listening -...

Twitter for Job Seekers

2009-12-17T14:46:38-07:00

On December 17, I had the pleasure of speaking to a friendly group of job seekers in Boulder called Boldernet. The group is run by volunteers but has a nice, relaxed structure. Their website is http://www.bouldernetworking.net/ plus they have a Meetup as well. Here is the Twitter presentation:

Social Media Marketing 101 Brand Your Business

2009-12-03T23:22:41-07:00

Is it too late to create your social media marketing plan? Heck no - it's prime time. You can start branding yourself as an expert in your industry or business by implementing a few simple tools. Watch the Power Point I presented to the great folks at Creative Connections in Denver recently. Have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Denver Entrepreneurs Unite for a Great Cause

2009-12-01T18:14:27-07:00

On November 18th, a great group of Denver Entrepreneurs met at Slattery's Irish Pub for a great cause. Our benefactor: Food Bank of the Rockies. We raised $750 or the equivalent of 3,000 meals for folks in need and we had so much fun.

Creating Video For Search Engines - Media Post Search Insider

2009-11-30T09:11:14-07:00

If you're just getting into video marketing, as I am, the following article has great information. My job has lately had me producing a lot of video content for the Web, and I suppose my timing couldn't be better. Google just decided to roll out auto-captioning, which will vastly improve the accessibility of video files to search engines. And while Web videos are hardly a novelty, they're starting to influence conversations more and more. Here, then, are a few observations about what (and what not) to do when producing video for the Web. Videos Rank! One of the biggest surprises...

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2009-11-07T00:00:00-08:00

Your Marketing Gal - Social Media Basics for Wildly Successf
Social media is now and the future. Social media is online content created by people that is inexpensive to free and makes us all publishers. We've gone from monologues to dialogues and to more of a democracy. Whereas before we relied on newspapers, movies, radio, also known as industrial media, we now can publish, participate and engage with...

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2009-10-30T00:00:00-07:00

Networking for a Great Cause Happy Hour
Networking Fundraiser for Food Bank Rockies - Denver Entrepreneurs & Friends. $10 buys 40 meals join us please join us.

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2009-10-09T00:00:00-07:00

What Happened to LinkedIn Events? They're Still Here! - Your
While trying to find my normal spot to post events on LinkedIn today, I couldn't. Sent a help email to LinkedIn - my first ever. Of course, I haven't heard back from them yet anyway. I have a free account - what do I expect? However, I did go to Answers on LinkedIn and saw that there was a discussion asking this very question: why can't I see the..

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2009-10-07T00:00:00-07:00

Google Sidewiki: Is it helpful?
I didn't understand what Google's SideWiki was about. First you need to be using the Google Toolbar and download Sidewiki. Interesting, or is it? Not necessarily according to Jeff Jarvis, author of What would Google Do? and a fan of Google. He sees danger in this and calls it ungoogley...

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2009-09-16T00:00:00-07:00

Advice: Using Twitter to Find Job Leads
If you haven't thought about using Twitter as part of your job seeking strategy, you need to read this article!
Ten Tips for Creating Your LinkedIn Job Seeker Profile, Jo G
Ten short tips for creating a more effective LinkedIn profile.

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2009-09-11T00:00:00-07:00

Low Cost Social Media Classes - St Anthony Hospitals
Low cost social media classes this month in Denver start next week: LinkedIn for Job Seekers, Eons & Facebook and Twitter for Job Seekers. St. Anthony Hospitals Health Passport Office is holding these low cost social media computer hands-on classes next week.

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2009-09-02T00:00:00-07:00

Don't Hate Me Because I Am Just Launching My Social Media We
I originally started blogging for search engine optimization purposes for my jewelry company in February of 2008. I had â��investedâ�� in an SEO guaranteed top ten placement package from a a very well known company right before I started my first blog. I received more hits to my website from traffic that came from my blog...