We had a great Fort Myers event on rehabbing real estate with the rehab queen Robyn Thompson. Robyn Thompson was absolutely awesome and shared so much with us, then, after the Fort Myers event we went out to the tiki bar and watched her horse come in 2nd in the Breeders cup! What an amazing lady! Her real world experience in rehabbing real estate was so powerful and the attendees loved it!
Last night I spoke at the Morgantown Forever Wealth Club on Goals for the Small Business Entrepreneur and an attendee, Grant, really enjoyed it. The Forever Wealth Club supplies resources and tools for the Small Business Entrepreneur.
Tonight I had the pleasure of attending the social media club of southwest florida, you can find more info at Twitter under #smcswfl. It was a good first meeting and a club I think will grow into something really great. There were some great people there and I thought the superstar was Tanya Foxx who does the marketing and PR for Naples Tomato. Her practical, non-theoretical statements toward social media were awesome and I hope any local business owner that was in the room was paying attention. Anywho…I also shot a video with more of my thoughts on the event if you would like to watch it.
Here is a video testimony of what Cape Coral Realtor, Daniel Barres, thought of the SWFL event for the forever wealth club on private money and venture capital. At this SWFL Event, Brad Dohack was the meeting sponsor and showcased his Small Business Internet Marketing product. Lisa Donner, a SWFL Investor, talked about raising private money and Joann Ellis, an expert on venture capital helped the audience learn about raising venture capital in this SWFL Event. We had a packed house! Here is Cape Coral Realtor Daniel Barres on the SWFL Event:
Happy Monday everyone! As the founder of the Forever Wealth Club, runner of multiple masterminds and a Southwest Florida Marketing Company Owner, I get a lot of questions based around marketing. A question I got on Saturday was from a Southwest Florida Masseuse. Her question was how to get more clients. She said her existing clients love her services and keep coming back, she just needs more of them. So I offered a couple suggestions:
1) Come up with theme days or theme-based coupons. Frustrated realtor Fridays or Tax professional Tuesdays may help draw in a specific type of crowd and help her in trying to get referrals. When you give the entire world as possible referrals, most people won’t know who to refer but when you tell them you are doing a waitress Wednesday or something along those lines and then offer an inexpensive trial offer, it narrows it down and gives them some good ideas of who to talk to for you.
2) Creating a social media presence. Offering promos and coupons is perfect for twitter. As a southwest florida twitter guy with over 5,000 followers, I have directly seen the power of coupons and promos.
3) The best kept secret simply means you are not doing the best job of marketing. Get testimonials from your current raving fans, preferably video testimonies. They are powerful and you can use them forever!
Let’s face it, the old ways of local business marketing are just not working. What the heck marketing and advertising actually works? What is worth the money and what advertising is like flushing your money down the toilet? If you are trying to learn how to advertise local business, we have a FREE event for you!
Ray Higdon and the Forever Wealth Club will be doing a Free Southwest Florida advertise local business Event at 7pm on July 8th at the Clarion Hotel on 12635 South Cleveland Ave. in Fort Myers. This Free Southwest Florida advertise local business Event will help small business owners understand how to get their message out on the Internet and what has been shown to work. The speaker, Ray Higdon, is a national speaker on marketing, the founder of the Forever Wealth Club and previously handled the business intelligence reporting for multiple companies including Collier County and a Naples based insurance company. Ray is also an expert at creating online income streams and has translated what methods work to small business owners and will be sharing those strategies on July 8th.
Free Southwest Florida Business advertise local business event to Occur:
When and Where: Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 7pm
Clarion Hotel, 12635 South Cleveland Ave., Fort Myers, FL 33907
Free to attend
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Can’t make or can’t wait for the event? These how to advertise local business videos will help you!
So, big question for you local business people, is Fort Myers Networking worth doing? Is networking at events worth it? Well, it depends. It depends on HOW you operate at Fort Myers Networking events. Here are some no-no’s:
1. Setting a quota as to how many of your business cards you should give out.
INSTEAD: See how many quality relationships you can establish
2. Telling every new person you meet all about yourself and business
INSTEAD: Listen to the other person, people feel so great when you let them talk about themselves!
3. Giving out your business card or flyer and hoping they contact you
INSTEAD: Take their information, and the power of contact
Fort Myers Networking can make a lot of sense, if you operate in a smart fashion. Don’t do what everyone else does! Hope these 3 tips for Fort Myers Networking helps you in your journey!
