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SUMMARY:Social Media Summit
DESCRIPTION:Host Sponsor: NIACC Pappajohn Center brings the 2015 Midwest Small Business Social Media Summit to the North Iowa Area Community College's Mason City\, Iowa campus onSaturday\, October 24\, 2015. This full day event will bring national speakers and regional social media practitioners and information technology experts together with business owners\, operators and entrepreneurs.\n\nSeating is limited. Register now. Bring your portable computing device such as a laptop\, iPad or similar as workshop sessions include hands-on experience. There will be a limited number of iPads and laptops available to check-out the day of the event. Here's your chance to get motivated and take action.\n\nLead Sponsors: Social Connections\, LLC\; Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce and Webster City Area Chamber of Commerce\, all feature leadership experienced in creating customer connections through social media and using technology to craft and facilitate customer communication that creates a path to your door.\n\n\n\nThe Summit offers hands on workshops to help small businesses successfully integrate social media and digital marketing with their other marketing efforts. Attendees will be offered tracks for both First Steps (for beginners) and Step Up Your Game (for the more advanced or experienced).\n\nAttendees will at minimum leave with concrete accomplishments\, supporting materials to follow through on a social media work plan\, new networking connections\, market intelligence and motivation. You'll hear real world success stories to emulate.\n\nAttendees will get one-on-one assistance in the workshop sessions. Depending on the track attendees will establish their own social media accounts\, practice effective posting\, and gain experience with capturing customer data\, tracking metrics and cross platform management tools that allow businesses to target customers through content created once and used across multiple platforms.\n\nConfirmed speakers include:\n\n\n \n Scott Meyer\, 9Clouds.com digital literacy for businesses-- Predictive Social Media: Growing Business and Changing a Community.\n \n \n Lori Lite\, Stress Free Kids -- How social media marketing led to real world sales and fed the famous Shark Tank investors.\n \n \n Darcy Maulsby\, Farmer Paparazzi and rural marketer -- Shoot! How to Dramatically Improve Your Social Media Photos\n \n \n Tony Halsted\, Hoover's Hatchery -- How we used social media to reinvigorate a 70-year old family business to multiple year-over-year sales growth greater than 30%.\n \n\n\nFor more information\, including sponsorship and exhibitor information\, call Anna LaVallee at (641) 422-4384.\n\n\n\nSocial media and digital marketing assistance is an emerging area of strong demand for entrepreneurial assistance. You need to go where your customers live today online.\n\nMark your calendar and plan to attend.\n\nWatch for more details at www.niacc.edu/pappajohn/MarketingMidwest\n\n \n\nFAQs\n\nWhat should I bring to the event?\n\nIf you have a laptop\, iPad\, Android tablet or other mobile computing device\, bring it to the Summit. A guest WiFi internet connection is available and workshops will offer hands-on experience.\n\nWhat if I don't have a tablet\, laptop or other mobile computing device?\n\nJust come to the Summit. A limited number of NIACC iPads and laptops will be available to use for the day. We'll make it easy for you to get started.\n\nSeating is limited.\n\nRegister now. Don't miss out on the opportunity to both learn and do social media marketing.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Host Sponsor: \;NIACC Pappajohn Center brings the \;2015 Midwest Small Business Social Media Summit \;to the North Iowa Area Community College'\;s Mason City\, Iowa campus onSaturday\, October 24\, 2015. This full day event will bring national speakers and regional social media practitioners and information technology experts together with business owners\, operators and entrepreneurs.
\n\nSeating is limited. Register now. Bring your portable computing device such as a laptop\, iPad or similar as workshop sessions include hands-on experience. There will be a limited number of iPads and laptops available to check-out the day of the event. Here'\;s your chance to get motivated and take action.
\n\nLead Sponsors: \;Social Connections\, LLC\; Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce and Webster City Area Chamber of Commerce\, all feature leadership experienced in creating customer connections through social media and using technology to craft and facilitate customer communication that creates a path to your door.
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\nThe Summit offers hands on workshops to help small businesses successfully integrate social media and digital marketing with their other marketing efforts. Attendees will be offered tracks for both \;First Steps \;(for beginners) and \;Step Up Your Game \;(for the more advanced or experienced).
\n\nAttendees will at minimum leave with concrete accomplishments\, supporting materials to follow through on a \;social media work plan\, new \;networking \;connections\, \;market intelligence \;and \;motivation. You&rsquo\;ll hear real world success stories to emulate.
\n\nAttendees will get \;one-on-one assistance \;in the workshop sessions. Depending on the track attendees will establish their own social media accounts\, practice effective posting\, and gain experience with capturing customer data\, tracking metrics and cross platform management tools that allow businesses to target customers through content created once and used across multiple platforms.
\n\nConfirmed speakers include:
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Scott Meyer\, 9Clouds.com digital literacy for businesses-- \;Predictive Social Media: Growing Business and Changing a Community.
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Lori Lite\, Stress Free Kids -- \;How social media marketing led to real world sales and fed the famous Shark Tank investors.
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Darcy Maulsby\, Farmer Paparazzi and rural marketer \;-- \;Shoot! How to Dramatically Improve Your Social Media Photos
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Tony Halsted\, Hoover'\;s Hatchery -- \;How we used social media to reinvigorate a 70-year old family business to multiple year-over-year sales growth greater than 30%.
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\n\nFor more information\, including sponsorship and exhibitor information\, call Anna LaVallee at (641) 422-4384.
\n
\nSocial media and digital marketing assistance is an emerging area of strong demand for entrepreneurial assistance. You need to go where your customers live today online.
\n\nMark your calendar and plan to attend.
\n\nWatch for more details at www.niacc.edu/pappajohn/MarketingMidwest
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\n\nFAQs
\n\nWhat should I bring to the event?
\n\nIf you have a laptop\, iPad\, Android tablet or other mobile computing device\, bring it to the Summit. A guest WiFi internet connection is available and workshops will offer hands-on experience.
\n\nWhat if I don'\;t have a tablet\, laptop or other mobile computing device?
\n\nJust come to the Summit. A limited number of NIACC iPads and laptops will be available to use for the day. We'\;ll make it easy for you to get started.
\n\nSeating is limited.
\n\nRegister now. Don'\;t miss out on the opportunity to both learn and do social media marketing.
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