gWave and Christie Media are hosting a Social Media Marketing workshop on Thursday February 11th in Downtown San Diego.

You will learn how to create online video buzz to build your business!

Things you will learn:

Why Should My Business Care About Video?

• What’s the video buzz about?
• How to create a compelling story
• Busting down the myths

How Do I Get Started?

• How can you leverage video?
• Programs and cameras; how simple is it?
• Video hosting sites/channels, what’s out there, what to use?

There is no charge for this seminar, a light breakfast will be served. Seating is limited to the first 25 people, so RSVP soon.

Presenters:
Bekah Christie, Principal- Christie Media
Melani Gordon, Founder - gWave Consulting
Date/Time:
February 11, 2010  8:00-10:00 a.m.
Location:
Hive Haus - 770 11th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101
(corner of 11th & F.)
RSVP:
Reply by February 9, 2010 (seating is limited!)

LET US KNOW YOU’LL BE THERE! CALL: 619-894-0384 or RSVP YOUR COMMENTS BELOW

September 22, 2009 - San Diego, CA

Maximizing the effectiveness of your marketing efforts is always important to the success of your business.

You will learn:

How to Develop a Killer Marketing Plan:

•    5 minute marketing planning, just the essentials
•    Time-tested marketing principles, such as repetition and testing and measuring
•    The AIDA Attention, Interest, Desire, Action principle
•    How to critique your own ad material

How to Develop Your Own Social Media Plan:

•    Your digital identity, building your brand socially
•    Engaging your community, building relationships
•    Social media tools, terms and trends
•    Best practices and case studies

There is no charge for this seminar, a light breakfast will be served. Seating is limited to the first 25 people, so RSVP soon.

Presenters:
Annita McDonald, Principle/Licensed Business Coach - ActionCOACH
Melanie Gordon, Founder - gWave Consulting
Date/Time:
September 22, 2009  7:30 - 9:30am
Location:
Hive Haus - 770 11th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101
(corner of 11th & F.) map
RSVP:
Reply by September 18, 2009 (Seating is limited)

LET US KNOW YOU’LL BE THERE! CALL: 619-894-0384 or EMAIL US

gWave Consulting is taking the San Diego Web 2.0 community to a higher level. They’re inviting us to their Skybox.

They’re serving beer, wine and refreshments. Beer donated by Firehouse Brewing Co. Any tips/proceeds will be donated to the Firehouse Foundation.
http://www.firehousefoundation.org

 More event info and RSVP here>>>

I attended the MS Vision to Venture event on April 15th in San Diego. Event details - http://officeliveoffers.com/v2v/default.htm

I arrived early to take advantage of networking opportunities. There was definitly a great table set up in the room and PINK theme. However, not a lot of heavy networking going on pre-show. I took this time to find the keynote speakers and introduce myself.

The exhibitor area was fairly small in size. The Pixel Fish video service was definitely geared toward the small business looking for an affordable video solution. This is also a great strategy to target the iPhone users.

Next exhibitor was Duct Tape marketing . A great blog to subscribe to. And who just happened to be standing next to the booth - founder of Duct Tape Marketing, John Jantsch.

The first keynote speaker was Susan Wilson Solovic of SBTV.com. A very inspiring business women, who took the stage by surprise and told business women to rise up and take charge of their businesses.

I managed to stop Rich Sloan of StartUpNation.com. He’s a very young and professional business person with lots of energy. He was very easy to talk to. I asked him how much time he takes to blog every week. Drum role please - 20 minutes per day. So even the new blogger can make it happen while drinking your Starbucks and writing your morning blog.

The overall feedback/comments on the Microsoft event was that MS was pushing their new Office Live Biz package a bit too hard. While they were giving away a free copy of the software, most savvy business people weren’t too keen on being hard sold in the middle of an educational event.

Till next time.

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