Small Business Workshop: Build Your Brand, Grow Social Networks and Run Your Business Online

Would you like more clients for your business?

This workshop is perfect for organizations and small business owners who are starting to learn about building a new website, blogging, social media, online marketing, hyperlocal business promotion and office productivity. Join us for this exciting, one-of-a-kind workshop!

What: Small Biz Workshop: Build, Grow And Run Your Business Online

Instructor: Adria Richards

When: Thursday April 7th, 2011 from 10am - 4pm

Where: Women's Building, 3543 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Google Map

Learn

• How To Build A Successful Website
• How To Grow Sales With Social Media
• How To Manage Your Business Online

Workshop outline

Session 1 - Build Your Brand

With million of new websites being launched each day, learn how to make yours stand out with content and value.  Find out what keywords you should be using, the value of a good domain name, how to read your web analytics and more! Workshop session: Website and blog report for your site, review best practices building a website, SEO and quality content.  Signup for Yelp, Google Local for Business and Google Alerts.

Session 2 - Grow Your Social Networks

Not sure where to start?  We'll explore the world of Twitter tweets, Facebook status updates, Flickr photos and YouTube videos to understand the business value behind these social networks and what essential data you add to your profile.  We will discuss strategies to engage potential customers in your vertical market and proper etiquette. Workshop session: Complete the Social media checklist, create/update your Twitter profile and try out social media tools for staying connected in social discussions. 

Session 3 - Run Your Business Online

We will explore how you can close more business with applications to track client conversations, invoice customers online, share documents and calendars, run credit card transactions from your iPhone and send out email newsletters that get results. Workshop session: Explore online services to share documents and calendars, demo of Square for mobile credit card processing, signup for email newsletter service Mailchimp.

Testimonials from similar training

"This workshop gave me the opportunity to ask questions and get instant feedback. Adria does a great job of answering questions and showing what is possible."

Bill, Meet Me Where I Am

"This DIY Series was info-packed and detail orientated. Spreading it out over a few weeks helped to not suffer information overload. I enjoyed hearing other people's questions too, as they brought up questions I had not thought of at the time. While website creation using WordPress is achievable for the novice, I think it would have taken many hours and not have the customized results participating in your workshop provided. I encourage anyone wanting to create their own website to save time and frustration and take this workshop."

Jacque, JacqueBona.com

"She is "techie" to the max. She knows her stuff, but she speaks English and has a certain amount of respect for those she is speaking to. Many techies do not. They overwhelm their audience with tech lingo and do not communicate. Not Adria, she is good at making technical concepts understandable and organizing the material. Do I recommend Adria's workshops to anyone who is wanting to learn more about technology? Absolutely! I didn't have a clue about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or CMS (Content Management Systems) but now I feel quite confident about these subjects."

Janine, Omsah

Your Instructor

Adria Richards, technology trainer and consultant, helps business professionals learn essential web technologies through hands-on training. Adria has been working with Joomla since 2005 and before that when it was known as Mambo. She has done countless installs, supported clients and managed CMS installations. Adria is a frequent speaker and attendee of conferences that leverage web applications, blogging and social media including SXSW, Blogworld, BlogHer, several Wordcamps and technology events