MCA February Monthly Meeting

"Building Branded Visibility on LinkedIn for Business Development"

Featuring: Anne Pryor,

Certified Reach 360 and Online Brand Strategist

Date: February 28, 2012

Time: 6:00pm- 9:00pm

Location: The Marsh 15000 Minnetonka Blvd. Minnetonka, MN. 55345

Are you happy with how you look on LinkedIn? Are you being found? Do you want to know how to create a branded LinkedIn profile, be found and find new business opportunities on LinkedIn?

Learning Objectives:

Best Practices for Being Found & Growing Business on LinkedIn:

1. Tips on SEO for creating & maintaining branded LinkedIn profiles

2. Strategies for creating meaningful connections on LinkedIn

3. Leveraging LinkedIn Applications for effective business development and brand marketing

Coaches will learn to:

1. Create a branded LinkedIn profile

2. Upload and leverage LinkedIn applications

3. Invite relevant connection

4. Join Groups and develop a strategy to be seen as experts

Anne Pryor is known as a Connector; creating online visibility for clients to be found for meaningful business connections. Anne lives a Portfolio Career, as a Visibility Strategist and Career Coach. She specializes in creating and coaching LinkedIn and branded online strategies. She has coached and taught more than 25,000 clients to be found online.

Anne is a certified Reach 360 and Online Brand Strategist, she holds a Master of Arts degree from St. Mary's University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business from SMSU. She is the co-founder of Meaningful Connections, a Career Coach and Visibility Strategist with Career Partners International Twin Cities and she serves as an adjunct LinkedIn and Personal Connections trainer for HIRED. She is a certified Nordic walking instructor and designer of Lovitude® jewelry. Contact Anne Pryor at Anne@MeaningfulConnections.net or by phone at952.484.6854. Her LinkedIn profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/annepryor.

Venue:
The Marsh
15000 Minnetonka Blvd
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Speakers:
LAUREL SUTTON
Principal
Catchword Branding

For any business, large or small, your brand’s reputation is
your most valuable asset. Global access to the internet means
that more people experience your brand than was ever possible
before. In this presentation, we will look at ways in which you
can establish and protect your brand, from choosing the right
name, to monitoring what’s said about your company online, to
basic trademark protection.

You’ll find out why it’s important to make name and brand
protection a priority, how you can use your online presence to
increase visibility, aid SEO, and win clients, and, most
importantly, how to do most of this yourself.

About Our Speaker:
LAUREL SUTTON is Principal and Co-Founder of Catchword, a
naming firm that develops product and company names for
companies ranging from Fortune 100 to VC-backed Silicon Valley
start-ups. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Catchword
creates brand names, corporate names, and slogans for
industries including technology, consumer products, financial
services, and healthcare. As cofounder of Catchword, Laurel
steers innovative brands like Cisco, Allstate, Wells Fargo, HP,
and Corning through the challenges of brand naming and naming
architecture. Laurel’s fascination with naming began while she
was in the PhD Linguistics program at UC Berkeley-a time that
also marked the beginning of her ongoing love affair with
gadgetry and all things high-tech. She has also served as an
expert witness on naming and branding issues.

Schedule
5:30 Check-In / Networking
6:30 Presentation
7:30 Wrap up/Networking

Venue:
Intel Corporation
2200 Mission College Boulevard
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As quickly as business social media, the iPhone, iPads and Facebook have entered and altered the way we do business, here comes a new wave of emerging creative business technologies that will keep your marketing eyes and ears open…or you'll miss it.

In our Web Design, SEO & Social Media workshop, you'll leave with exciting new trends to watch and tools to use on how to market your business in the next 5 years:

• Partnering with the search engines
• The next phases/stages of your business web design & user experience
• How to use Facebook, Twitter, MerchantCircle, LinkedIn and Google Places
• Mobile phones – Why they need different and special treatment
• Video has been around awhile…just not like this
• Creative web, smart phone and electronic tablet applications
• Why all businesses had better embrace marketing technology by the year 2015
• Location…location…location. The search engines are watching your building
• Learn about web design trends, web design "do's and dont's"
• Plus, we will review each person's business website for improvements

This class is for full-time business owners and marketing directors only of businesses with at least M in annual sales!

*This class is not suited or offered for Multi-level Marketing Businesses like Herbal Life, Tupperware, Mary Kay, Subscription Sales, Design Competitors, or Part-time Businesses.*

This workshop is limited to only two (2) business owners or marketing directors and seats are 9.00 each. If you would like to have more information, please call Jay Joyce at The Idea People at 704-398-4437 or email jay@theideapeople.com. These workshops are offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Venue:
The Idea People
4424 Taggart Creek Road
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We will have 6 Openshops from 6 Entreprenuers, Solo-preneurs presenting their expertise. Its an opportunity to Like Know and trust Us. We want to be your One Stop Shop WEB Services, SEO Marketing, TEACH…HELP…DO… IF you have a struggle or you need guidance in a part of your business, weve done it before. Come and Network with entrepreneurs, your peers, your target clients, your tribe, and learn from experts on the monthly topics. Share your wisdom with other entrepreneurs; Come to be part of this great entrepreneurial, Solo-preneurial Small business culture!

Agenda:

5:30 Meet and Greet/Networking

6:00 Room 1 Accelerate Now: Run your business with ease and increase your profits. www.joleneMckenna.com

6:00 Room 2 CXO to go Clarity, Direction, Velocity www.cxotogo.com

6:00 Room 3 To be annouced

6:40 Questions

6:45 Break

7:00 Room 1 Branding your business – Improve credibility Establish trust Maximize profits Have a life http://bazadesign.com/

7:00 Room 2 Ethical Impact- Grabbing the Future Increaseing Profit Potential Collaboratively http://www.ethicalimpact.com/

7:00 Room 3 EZOG – Entrepreneurial Zone of Genius, Work in the Zone where you make the most money www.myezog.com (take test here)

7:40 Questions

7:45 Food, Refreshements and Networking

We ask for a small donation

Venue:
VIM People Loft
6800 gunpark dr
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Why Every Business Needs a Google+ Strategy

Social media and Google Plus (Google+) in particular are grabbing all the headlines. Search gets more powerful every year. But how does Google+ and Google search work together? How do you set up and optimize Google+ for your organization? How do you get traffic from both search and social media? Join Shannon as she provides insights and a step-by-step approach to utilizing Google+.

This seminar will cover:

• Learn what Google+ is and how it can benefit your business
• Learn how to set up a Google+ Personal profile and a Business page
• Learn about Google's implementation of "Search Plus Your World"
• Learn Google+ SEO Best Practices

What you get:

• Free Coffee & Danishes!
• Google+ Tips and Tricks
• Contest Entry (Win a Free Website SEO Audit!)

Location:

Research Park
10437 Innovation Drive, Suite 121
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: 414-455-1286

Date and Time:

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

7:30 AM – 9:00 AM CT

7:30am-9:00am with networking from 7:30am-8:00am and the presentation and Q&A from 8:00am-9:00am

About Excira Media, LLC

Excira Media provides search, social, and content marketing strategy services in order to drive more traffic, more leads and more business through our client's websites. Specializing in Internet marketing and SEO, the company employs individuals skilled in marketing, social media, and e-commerce. It serves clients ranging from major e-commerce websites to universities, fortune 500 companies, and SEO agencies. For more information, please visit http://exciramedia.com.

About the Speaker

Shannon K. Steffen (Human SEO & Digital Philosopher) has held executive positions in the new technologies and marketing industries for more than 15 years. Shannon has a MBA in Technology Management – Global e-Commerce as well as a BA in Philosophy. She is a published author, releasing her first book, Human SEO: Strategies that rise above the search engine changes in August 2012. In addition, she founded Excira Media, a search, social and content marketing strategy company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2005.

Shannon frequently speaks at industry events and plays an active role in the Internet marketing community. She has worked for such companies as Monster.com and Robert W. Baird, and has CafePress.com, Johnson Controls and Verlo Mattress Factory included on her client list. Shannon has presented at WordCamp Chicago, Right Management, MKE Live, JobCamp Milwaukee and many online webinars.

Connect with Shannon on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+.

Venue:
Research Park
10437 Innovation Drive
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Course Overview

Google Webmaster Tools provides a free and easy way to make your website more Google-friendly. See your website the way Google sees it:

View which of your pages are included in Google's index
See any errors encountered while crawling your site
Find search queries that list your site as a result
Find out which sites link to yours

Google Webmaster Tools can be used by anyone with a website, no matter how big or small. Google Analytics is the preferred tool for viewing general web stats, more importantly tracking conversions. This 1 day workshop will cover the main features of Google Webmaster Tools, and Google Analytics and will help you to get started right away. Both of these tools should become part of your SEO toolkit!

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided during breaks.

Venue:
University of Essex
10 Elmer Approach
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