Happy Holidays from LNT!

Happy Holidays from LNT Social Media Training!

 

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Looking to end the year with a Social Media boost for your business?

We're still booking sessions leading up to 2013 so be sure to contact us today for your one-on-one session.

Need help creating a Facebook page?

How about USING your Facebook page for business?

Not sure what Twitter is or how to manage it?

Need ideas for what to post on your LinkedIn account or creating a group page for your business?

Let LNT help!

We specialize in training for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Blogging from beginner to advanced users.

 

What we've been up to...

 

LNT Social Media Training presented the

"Business Basics of Social Media" at the Greater Temple Terrace Chamber of Commerce 'Women Mean Business' event in November.

 

Lauren N. Tice of LNT Social Media Training

 

We enjoyed presenting and networking with a wonderful group of women and sharing new Social Media ideas for the businesses that attended.

 

If you are interested in booking LNT to speak at YOUR business event or meeting contact us to find out more!

 

www.LNTSocialMediaTraining.com

 

 

 

Until next time,

 

Stay Social

~LNT

 

 

Social Media & YOUR Business: 5 Helpful Tips

Fall is in full swing and LNT Social Media Training has been keeping busy lately with lots of exciting new clients!

Today, we would like to share 5 helpful tips to kick start

Social Media for YOUR business...

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1.) TIME!

Set aside time each week to focus ONLY on your Social Media accounts. This could be a simple fifteen minutes a day or once a week. Having a "scheduled" time set aside to manage your Social Media will give you the practice and patience to really take your online presence to the next level. 

2.) INTERACT! 

Communicating with your fans and followers is key to Social Media. Make sure you are tweeting, liking & supporting posts and updates from your fans and other businesses. 

This can really help grow your Social Media and in turn have others interact with your business online.

3.) SCHEDULE!

Learn how to use the scheduling features on Facebook and other Social Media management tools such as Tweet Deck and Hoot Suite. These tools are amazing for managing sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. 

Blogging sites also offer scheduling options, which is a great idea to manage posts. Such sites make having multiple Social Media sites much more manageable when you have a busy week ahead of you and not enough hours in the day. 

4.) LEARN!

Take the time to learn about what is going on in the Social Media world. Set aside some time to do a little research on what works for other similar companies or ask for advice from mentors or business partners and friends. We had so much support when we first started out from other small business owners in our area and learned SO much by reaching out to others and supporting their businesses as well :-)

5.) DON'T GIVE UP!

There are always weeks that will be slower than others. 

Weeks when you will only get a couple "likes" or followers and you might want to give up on Social Media...DON'T!

Your fan base will continue to grow if you put effort into your posts and updates. Remember to keep material interesting for others to keep coming back to YOUR business Social Media sites. 

It won't always be easy, but once you get that FIRST customer or new contact from using FREE Social Media, you will see that hard work really does pay off.

We hope you enjoyed our tips and if you are looking to book a one-on-one training session with LNT Social Media Training check out our website by clicking here!

Social Media {Networking}

Hi again~

Hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day off and we're excited today to share some networking tips for Social Media!

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Your Social Media Network is a very important tool that can be used to not only get NEW business and clients but manage and maintain current clients and contacts.

Networking through Social Media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others can help you in this process daily!

Here are a few tips we found helpful when networking through "Social Media"~

*Start with your own personal network and grow your contacts from it! 

You can communicate with others you are already linked to and find out about networking groups and how to really become active in the community you already belong to.

This will lead to other networking opportunities, take the risk!

*Join FREE online networking groups and become ACTIVE. 

This is so important especially for a new businesses(like us). 

Joining a networking group and interacting with others could bring you not only new clients but friendships and mentors that can offer help and suggestions to you. 

* Don't just limit yourself to ONE networking group. 

Don't be afraid to put yourself out there and make sure your business has a presence you can grow on many Social Media networking sites. 

We have found this very helpful when posting information we think that others might find interesting or want to pass along to their clients.

* It's not ALWAYS about the number!

As a new(er) business we had to really try to grow our Social Media presence and quickly. 

We recently hit 100 "likes" on Facebook and over 100 followers on Twitter and we are continuing to try to grow those numbers daily. 

The important thing to remember though is that you want to be able to manage and communicate with your "followers" and have them interested in what you are posting. 

That's it for today!

If you are interested in learning more about how Social Media can benefit your business contact us today to help...

www.LNTSocialMediaTraining.com

*Don't forget to click the blue "follow" button to get updates and posts from our training blog or follow by email!*

~LNT

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!

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