Business timelines are blooming all over Facebook.

Read 5 Ways Businesses Are Using Facebook Timelines

Despite its rapid adoption, I often hear, “I don’t get Pinterest,” or “It’s only useful when planning a wedding.” I hear you, and I felt the same way.

But let me tell you something. Pinterest is ridiculously simple, and it can make a big impact on your business. I’m not saying this for the sake of jumping on the bandwagon. It’s not “just another social media site.” This one is different. Pinterest is doing a great job of driving traffic, leads, and sales.

Read the article: 6 Compelling Reasons You Should Use Pinterest for Marketing

Learn how many people are online and how many searches are conducted each month. Some of these people could be your ideal clients but they can’t find you. Find out what is effective social network marketing and why it is important. Discover five steps to generate more return on your investment of time and money. Understand the key Social Media Tools and how to use them – blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and why video is so powerful. Prepare to grow yourself and your business as you become engaged and inspired by our social media trio – Bob, Linda and Ann-Marie!
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Bob McNaughton

Bob was raised on a farm near Ailsa Craig in Middlesex County. He is a cottager, naturalist, world traveler (every continent except Antarctica and Australia), fitness buff, marketing consultant, social media strategist, speaker, trainer, video producer, photographer and writer. He has a passion for engaging and inspiring others to tell their story to get results!

After several years in sales and marketing management with large corporate clients and advertising agencies, Bob founded Dog & Pony Productions Inc., a communications company, in 1999. He enjoys being ahead of the curve and was the first to introduce virtual tours, interactive CDs and animated graphics to the agricultural industry.

Bob is a life-long learner. He has a B.Sc. (Agriculture) from the University of Guelph and an MBA in Marketing from the Schulich School of Business at York University. He obtained certificates in advertising, several pharmaceutical therapeutic categories, financial investing (CSC), life insurance and is a Certified Social Media Strategist by SMM University. He founded Social Media COO in 2011 to help businesses market with social media.

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Ann-Marie Cheung

Ann-Marie, sole proprietor of Flash Goddess Media has over 12 years experience in multimedia and web design and development. As a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design, Ann-Marie contributes her unique design sensibility and creative thought process to all her projects. Over the years, she has worked on e-learning projects, corporate presentations and projects for major financial institutions, and has creatively assisted many small to medium sized businesses.

Ann-Marie helps businesses create an attractive, effective online presence with a modern identity. She does this through website design and development, graphic design, and recently, social media.

With a keen interest in promoting and supporting other women, Ann-Marie presently volunteers on the EBWN Admin committee. A busy mom to two wonderful children, she is also passionate about healthy living, fitness, environmental issues and life-long learning.

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Linda Crawford

As the Public Relations and Advertising representative for the EBWN, Linda has marketed our information regarding meetings on various media including local newspapers, online blogs for Rogers Cable and MyFM Radio as well as our own EBWN’s facebook page and on occasions used printed postcards and bookmarks.

Marketing strategy is finding the right media to use to plan and promote which increase your business goals cost effectively.

Linda is enthusiastic about promoting our network to women in business where ever they may be – online, in print or on facebook. Having lived in Elgin County for 30 years and volunteered in many community events, it is her pleasure to be associated with this outstanding group of women.

“Boost” Online Visibility, “Attract” New Customers, “Build” Your Brand with Linda at Social Dynamic!

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The EBWN February 22, 2012 meeting will be at the Wayside Inn in Talbotville. Order anything you like from the menu

Kindly RSVP online before February 20th.

Did you know that there are more than 800 million active users on Facebook? 31% of Facebook users are on the site multiple times every day.

96% of small businesses are using Facebook as a marketing tool…86% of them found social network to be effective. 24% of consumers consult their Facebook friends before making a purchase. 1 in 3 consumers say they’re likely to purchase from a company they follow on Facebook.
If your business does not have a Facebook page, you are missing out on a lot of potential connections. Facebook Business pages allow you to share pictures, videos, events and publish to the feed, that show up directly on your connections homepage.

Why?

Because every aspect of your business (down to the last detail) is impacted by your relationship with money.

Which means you can’t grow your business big on the outside, if you’re continuing to struggle, giving away your power and playing small on the inside.

This is a problem that is impacting your business TODAY, and happily, one of the most generous women I know, award-winning entrepreneur Kendall SummerHawk is here to solve it for us.

It’s all in a brand new, no-cost video training series. In this FREE video training series, Kendall is sharing her secrets “behind the curtain” of her business growing from frustrating five figures into the multimillion dollar mark, all while following and staying true to her spiritual path.

These secrets are just as crucial for YOUR business growth, which is why Kendall is generously sharing this CONTENT with you:

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* How to stop unconsciously placing limits on your income

* Which of the 5 “Money Types” is yours and how knowing this will help put you in the driver’s seat and immediately transform the draining money drama you’re currently tolerating into practical, empowering actions

* 3 simple steps to get started with instantly forgiving yourself for racking up debt (and any other guilty money issues from your past) so you can move forward with growing your business today, happy and guilt-free

* BONUS: Kendall will also walk you through, step by step, via a BONUS teleseminar, a mini “Money Breakthrough Intensive”. This is where you’ll learn her brand new Divine Feminine model of how you can create a money breakthrough that generates immediate and TANGIBLE results in growing your business.

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PS – Kendall’s team let me know these videos will only be up for a little while longer, so don’t miss it!

OK, so you don’t want to be the last one of your small-business colleagues without a website. Or you’ve already got a website, but you think you could make some improvements, maybe even generate some income. There are numerous online resources (see list below) that can help you with decisions about domain names and key words, about e-commerce, search engines, finding a web designer and more. Even if you are planning to get some help with writing the content for your site—here are some tips to keep in mind before you get started.

Read the full article: Website 101: Nine Tips for Getting Started

The huge range of mobile devices used to browse the web now means you really have to consider making your site mobile-compatible.

But how do you go about it? Testing your site on mobile devices can be time-consuming and expensive due to the vast number of different mobile devices.

Fear not, because there are some handy tools available at your disposal for making sure that your website renders appropriately on the Mobile Web. This article shares and discusses 10 such tools.

10 Excellent Tools for Testing Your Site on Mobile Devices

These top 10 Facebook apps are some of the most useful ones for pages when it comes to encouraging fan engagement and giving value to your community.

They are also very easy to use. Some may be familiar to you, but you may find some new gems to try out. (From SocialMedia Examiner)

10 Facebook Apps for Fan Engagement and Building Community