Discover How to Grow Your Biz with Social Media

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Discover How to Grow Your Biz with Social Media

Mass consumer adoption of social media: There are more than 800 million active Facebook users, 80% of all Americans use a social network and Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other U.S. website (Nielson). Your customers are there. These are numbers you just cannot ignore.

A significant 61% percent of small businesses are landing new customers through social media activities (Crowdspring). Plus, more than 70% of small businesses using social media see increased traffic and more than 60% improve search rankings (2011 Social Media Marketing Industry Report).

Small Biz Success Summit 2012 is a live online conference that will empower your small business to use social media to gain more exposure, increase traffic, better engage customers (and prospects) and increase your sales. The world’s leading small business social media pros will show you how.

Join 28 experts, including including John Jantsch (author, Duct Tape Marketing), Anita Campbell (founder, Small Business Trends), Michael Stelzner (founder, Social Media Examiner and author, Launch), Mari Smith (co-author, Facebook Marketing), Jesse Stay (author, Google+ for Dummies), Hollis Thomases (author, Twitter Marketing), David Siteman Garland (founder, “The Rise to the Top” and author, Smarter, Faster, Cheaper), Joe Pulizzi (founder, Content Marketing Institute and co-author, Get Content, Get Customers), Brian Clark (founder, Copyblogger Media), Lee Odden (founder, TopRank Online Marketing), Ramon Ray (founder, Small Biz Technology and author, Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses) and Lewis Howes (co-author, LinkedWorking)—just to mention a few (scroll down to see full list)! The event is spread over multiple weeks from February 1 to February 23 (and fully online).

Secure your spot in the largest online professional development conference for small business owners and marketersseeking to master social media. By attending this online summit, you will:

• Discover the best and newest ways to market your small business with Facebook, Google+, blogging, LinkedIn, Twitter and video marketing (no guesswork… you benefit from the wisdom of those who’ve gone before you)
• Learn how to create a smart social media marketing plan (discover how to draw masses of people to your small business)
• Uncover how to sell your products and services via social media (you’ll learn how to turn fans and followers into customers)
• Find out how to track and measure your social media return on investment(so you’ll know precisely what’s working!)
• See how successful social media campaigns were executed by other small businesses and how you can achieve similar results (play-by-play steps provided)
• Learn how to creatively grow and engage a loyal social media following (gain raving fans who become your standard-bearer

• Learn how to Integrate social media activities with your other marketing efforts
• Gain a leg up on your competitors, helping you stand out
• Ask live questions and get answers (you speak live to the experts—no chat boxes)
• Learn in your spare time and eliminate travel (you participate via the Internet in live sessions that are spread over multiple weeks—plus recordings and transcripts are provided!)
• Network with your peers and share experiences via a private and exclusive LinkedIn group (more than 1600 people joined our private LinkedIn group at our summer summit)
• Become part of a genuine community of business owners and marketers just like you

So the big question is this: What do experienced small business owners and marketers know and do with social media that makes them so successful?

If you knew that—if you knew step-by-step how the pros create and execute their social media plans to attract high-quality customers and achieve success—you could simply duplicate what they do and achieve similar results.

That’s what the Small Biz Success Summit 2012 is all about. We’ve brought together the most successful small business social media practitioners and asked them to reveal their success secrets to YOU. And it’s all live!

And the best part? You don’t have to spend a small fortune on travel, meals or a hotel to attend. The conference is completely online. You “attend” from the comfort of your own home or office, using your computer to watch, listen and participate in the presentations and networking.

Here is my Social Media Ten Commandants

Here is a PDF on the Schedule SmallBizSuccessSummit2012

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