Free Webinars for Creatives and Small Business Owners to Gain Vital Visibility

Posted on April 30, 2012 by itees

I’ve created an online webinar series with the intention of attracting creatives and small business owners who are not seeing the web traffic and social media audience they desire for gaining new opportunities, clients and more importantly, sales.

In Hoboken and Jersey City we have a stimulating, thriving artist community, but most creatives are struggling for a number of reasons, and most definitely because they don’t use the web to their advantage. Some still have no website. Some build a simple website presence and leave it, thinking it’ll now do all the work for them. And some don’t like or use social media.

Wake up people, with a little help from your friend here, you could see some dramatic changes.

So, I’m writing this post to outline how these webinars will directly effect YOUR business.

1- If you are not expanding your mind everyday, and learning new things, you are moving backward, not forward.

2- These webinars are currently FREE. Once aired and recorded, in replay mode.

3- The topics I have chosen are critical and power-packed with actionable tips. Topics include Facebook Timeline branding and marketing must haves, Ultimate Marketing Tips, How to Create Effective Marketing Videos, Print vs Web for Gaining New Clients and Doing Business, Writing Rich SEO Content for Websites and Blogs, Alliance and Social Networking, and Work and Life, Finding the “Me” Time. (The Fall has totally different online classes and speakers.)

4 – The guest speakers have brilliant expertise and were chosen by me.

5- When you implement what you have learned, it WILL change your business.

Trust me when I say that I am giving you the information you need to propel your craft, visibility and the world is waiting to hear from you.

What do you have to lose? Tune in, watch a few and I know you will be back from more. Check out these testimonials:

Visit: http://broadcastlouder.com/classes/creativity-abundance-2-0/

Attention Artists: How Facebook, Twitter, Google+ YouTube & Other Social Media Sites Help You

Posted on July 11, 2011 by itees

Facebook and YouTube have become great resources for artists! (illustrators, designers, fine artists, photographers, musicians and actors…) Not only do we have the ability to post galleries and videos of our work, but we can create event pages about upcoming productions or exhibitions and invite all our friends. Our friends can share the events with other friends and so on. Facebook even stores our response, “attending” or “maybe” and will remind us of the event.

Today, we still receive direct mail postcards and brochures about upcoming productions and exhibitions, but there’s nothing better than having that information stored in a place we visit everyday. It’s a great way to be reminded as the event draws near.

Facebook also lets us feature our lastest videos so business owners can feature a new brand or product, actors can show a clip from an upcoming show, and musicians can feature their latest song.

We have the ability to create custom pages (iFrame apps) and they can include audio, video, forms, basically anything you can put on an html page and then you can set any of those custom pages as the landing page for newcomers. You can grab the link to that custom page and post about it, sending people to check it out. You can even load a store custom page and sell products right in there as well.

So okay what’s the ROI (return on investment)?

Since Facebook is FREE, I’d say the ROI is pretty amazing, but here are a few stats just from my own experience.

In the past two years my Facebook friends have tripled. It’s amazing to me sometimes over these many years just how many people I’ve met and know from the last! I have been invited to many more exhibitions, webinars, teleclasses and events, and by knowing about them and attending them (some in person) I have been introduced to so many new people.

As a creative, the larger your reach, the more opportunities will come your way.

As for Twitter, it has been a different experience. The sharing of bits of information can be a wonderful resource for news and meeting and learning about new people has it’s benefits, but so far I don’t see the ROI as much as on Facebook and I think it’s because the dialog on Facebook is much more personal and engaging. The conversation can be among lots of people at once, rather than just a dialog between two.

On LinkedIn, I have been using this networking site for a few years and have built a great business posse. My connections have also probably quadrupled. It’s a great place to share information with like-minded individuals and groups to have engaged discussions. When looking for companies to pitch to, or people who might help you, you can’t beat it’s database of millions of professionals.

I have a channel on YouTube and I can subscribe to other people’s channels… then YouTube sends me notifications when those people have uploaded new videos, as others get mine. I can embed a video in a blog post or just share it with my friends and colleagues on social media.

Savor The Success is a growing community of women entrepreneurs across the planet (15,000+) and I have been a member since 2010. This has been a very valuable resource for me. My visibility and clients are expanding due to this exceptional online community.

In the past few weeks, I joined this new community, Social Buzz Club, and I can see now how being a charter member and soon blogger of this new social media community is going to explode it all for me and super charge my online visibility. The sharing of valuable content between colleagues, having brand advocates in your corner for your own business, and being able to share that information with friends, what could be better?

Today I joined Google+ and so far it’s pretty great! Once I joined it instantly pulled together all my information for me… my profile photo, links to website, blog and social media, even all my company details. Now I’m connecting with people I know and you share on the wall like in Facebook or Twitter. I’m wondering why it recognized my YouTube account but doesn’t seem to load any of the videos there? Also it’s not immediately recognizing people but these may be kinks in the new system they are still perfecting. Check it out!

New Jersey Fashion Week March Mixer – W Hotel in Hoboken

Posted on March 26, 2011 by itees

What a night, what party! When I arrived at the W Hotel last night and made my way up to the second floor Chandelier room, the place was packed. I was mesmerized by beauty queens of course, all around the room wearing Tiaras. The cameras were flashing… the models posing… low cut dresses showing off what they’ve got, and lots of glittering sequence. There were almost more photographers than fashion industry people.

As I moved around the room, I met so many fabulous new people. Here are some of the new friends I’ve made… Charon Richardson of G’wan, Pam & Rashid Salaam of Pam’s Vintage Soul Boutique, Ashley Marie, Event Planner, Nikkia Tené McClain of Tené Nícole, Marketing & Public Relations, Porsha Star, Hair Stylist, and Dr. Randy Kansky of Hoboken’s own Eyeshapes.

The event was organized by New Jersey Fashion Week Founder, Donnella Tilery. Joining Donnella were co-host, Kim Granatell from “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” and Tom Murro from CelebrityMagnet.com. We’ll see when all those photos surface, if they were there! Photos are forthcoming. Also on the list for the event was the Mayor of Hoboken, Dawn Zimmer, although given the 300 people there, I didn’t see her.

Here’s a photo of the beauty queens posing, taken by photographer, Gary Preis, and click here to see his gallery on Facebook!