Event {Networking}

Come out tonight to support Lady Ashley Designs at this great event!

*Effective immediately, Lady Ashley Designs has "Teamed-Up" with Anastacia's Floral Design located at 8826 N. 56th Street in Temple Terrace.
Join us on Thursday, June 21st from 5:30-7:00 PM at Shamrock's Ale House in the River Run Preserve Shopping Center at the corner of 78th Street and Temple Terrace Hwy. for our "Kick-off" Party. There will be light appetizers and drink specials.

Stop by for an opportunity to chat about our new venture*

LNT Social Media Training is donating a 1 hour Facebook Training Session ($50 value), see you there!

June Special!

Check out our June SPECIAL!

Facebook one-on-one training session only $30 (one hour) until end of June! 

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Contact us today to book your session and learn how to create & maintain a Business Facebook Fan page. 

Appointments will be booking up quick so contact us today!

~LNT

www.LNTSocialMediaTraining.com

Branding & Social Media

Today we'll be discussing "branding" and how you can help achieve a strong brand status among your Social Media sites.

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You can use Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all to build your brand.

What is your "brand" you might ask? Your brand is what consumers think of your business(or you!).

Think of McDonald's, we picture the yellow arches, insurance companies often have catchy tag lines that always remind you of them and cities often have interesting slogans to make an impact on you either the visitor or resident. We recently attended an awesome seminar on "Branding" and came away with so many amazing insights on what truly a "brand" is.

You want people to remember YOUR brand.

You can do this by doing a few things through your Social Media sites to achieve the branding desired.

Here are a couple tips I have learned over the past few months:

• Make sure your logo, company colors, etc all match. This is the first thing a consumer sees representing your company(and yourself so wear your colors!!) so make it bold and make it something they will grow familiar with when they think of your business. Think of yourself as the brand and the main thing you are "selling" to others.
• Use Social Media to interact with your customers/future customers. If you have a  "mission statement" or any other tag line use it throughout your different sites to grow your branding and image.
• ALWAYS be a good representative of your brand, whether you work for a company or own your own business, whenever at a business function be professional and through Social Media outlets such as blogging and Facebook/Twitter. Create a separate business account for more professional related contacts and a personal account for home life. This is just our suggestions that have worked for clients.
• Remember: You want to be positive, trustworthy and someone YOU would want to do business with. If you don't believe in yourself why would someone else??

Hope you learned a little about branding today and contact LNT at LNTSocialMedia@hotmail.com if you need help setting up your Social Media sites to take your "branding" to the next level!

~LNT

Social Media {Blogging}

Hi there!

Hope everyone is gearing up for a fun Memorial Day weekend :-)

Today, we'll be talking about how to use Blogging to grow your business through Social Media.

I have found Blogging to be a very valuable(and free!) tool that can be setup through sites like www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com to use yet another source of Social Media to connect with your customers(and future customers).

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Some business owners ask us "What do I blog about"? That is the best part about blogging.

You can blog(or write) about anything you desire!

I like to blog about Social media since that is what my company is about but blogging is a way to communicate through articles and little "blurbs" if you will about topics related to your business.

Different ideas to share on your blog are interesting facts or specials your company is having, articles related to your business industry, news and events or even just insights to what your business offers to clients.

I have found blogging a great way to meet more individuals or companies that "follow" along with blog posts and can be potential clients(or just interested readers). Others can share your blog posts which will give your business even more exposure.

If you need help setting up a blog for your company contact LNT today at www.LNTSocialMediaTraining.com to see how we can help :-)

Social Media & Networking

Hi everyone!
Been a couple of very busy weeks but hoping to write some more informational articles and eventually host some seminars in the next few months. Today I want to talk about how you can use Social Media to your advantage at a networking event. I go to many networking events and organize them for my daytime job so I have come in contact with many small business owners.
The first thing you want to have done are perhaps some mini flyers or cards you can pass out at these networking events with you Social Media site links on them. You can choose to focus on just Facebook or Twitter to start out(or even your blog link) and hand out these mini advertisements for your Social Media sites to get people interested in "connecting" with you in more ways than through your website or email alone. You can even have a link on your business card if you would like, just something interesting that will catch someones attention and make them want to go look your business up on Social Media perhaps when they go back through their business cards from the networking event.
I think this is a great tool that can be done for a very nominal fee and that will help to get you those new customers that perhaps use Facebook or Twitter a lot and to inform them about your business and what YOU are all about.
Hope this helps and I will be providing more tips in the future.
Please feel free to send your questions our way and we will try our best to answer as many possible in upcoming posts.

*$99 Complete Set-up special is still going on through May so contact LNT today to make your appointment!
~LNT

First Event {Open House/Networking}

Hi everyone!

Hope you have had a wonderful week and I just wanted to say a special thank you to everyone that came out to our event last night at Lady Ashley Designs :-)

We had a great time networking and I can't wait to have more of these events and Social Media Training seminars in the future. I will be returning next week with some tips and tricks for your Social Media Marketing but wanted to share a few pictures of our event.

{Event setup..I had some new marketing materials made and had wine/snacks for everyone, also lots of door prizes donated by some of the attendees, Scentsy Wickless Candles, Velata, Lady Ashley Design and LNT}

{Some of the event attendees(including some amazing friends that have been a great support system to me)}

*So now it's your turn, comment with your Social Media questions and we will feature them on our blog next week with our answers!

~LNT

Great Article!

Check out this feature article about us on the Temple Terrace Patch today!

http://templeterrace.patch.com/articles/lnt-social-media-training-ready-to-help-businesses-grow?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001#comment_3205533

Hope to see some of you at the open house/networking event tomorrow at Lady Ashley Designs!

~LNT