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by Maria Peagler
on April 24, 2012
Want to get a free, totally online social media class on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, or other awesome networking tool? You can during National Small Business month in May. I’m celebrating our country’s small businesses by giving away Your Choice of One Free Class to 3 Lucky Winners – one of them could be You. [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on April 9, 2012
Lately I’ve been stressing to my students and consulting clients how important it is to solicit recommendations from happy clients. Why? Because if you don’t ask, people don’t think to offer. It’s that simple. Recommendations are one of the BEST ways to stand out among a sea of profiles that start to look the same. [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on March 7, 2012
Updated Jan 2013. Get Informed Ever wished you could get feedback on your business page from an expert? Wish granted! Here’s a social media makeover for Jenifer Dick of 42Quilts.com. Jenifer is a SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com student who has taken Facebook and Pinterest classes and already has a strong social media presence, but she asked me for [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on February 15, 2012
Updated Jan 2013. Get Informed First, the sobering news: some of your fans have ZERO interest in engaging with you. WHAT? That logic flies in the face of what highly visible “celebrity” experts tell you about social media: your customers want engagement, right? Apparently not. Get Trained At a recent Wedding Business Conference in midtown [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on February 10, 2012
Congratulations to Spring Creek NeedleArts for winning the Facebook Page Makeover contest! Thank you to everyone who entered the contest over on Facebook to celebrate SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com reaching over 500 fans. Watch the makeover here and you can use the suggestions to give your own page a turbo-boost:
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by Maria Peagler
on October 12, 2011
We’re so proud of our students and instructors who are in the headlines lately. They’re doing big things and using social media to promote their latest projects. Take a look: Our own YouTube101 instructor, Vanessa Wilson, was featured on ABC’s 20/20 as one of the enormously successful Generation YouTube entrepreneurs profiting from the video platform. [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on September 27, 2011
Register NOW [icontact id=3] Join me Wed., Oct. 5 at 1p.m. for a free 20-minute webinar on the changes coming to Facebook, what they mean for small business, and the steps you need to take to compete in the new Facebook environment. Yes, your business page will be changing. But what does that [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on September 26, 2011
Day Four of the SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com Blog Tour finds me at AllFacebook, the most up-to-date source on how to use Facebook for business. Today I’m showing you how to become a journalist magnet by developing a media room on your business page. The best part? The changes coming to Facebook on Sept. 29th are going to make [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on September 19, 2011
Welcome the SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com blog tour! Sept. 19-23 I’m touring the blogosphere’s outstanding online marketing and small business blogs, discussing new media marketing solutions for small business. How does it work? Rather than touring geographically, I’ll be touring virtually, via the internet, to some of my favorite blogs on small business, social media, online marketing, and [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on August 19, 2011
Welcome to SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com! My Facebook Marketing Infographic has been a worldwide phenomen, and I’d like to share a copy of it with you. May I ask a simple favor in return? It took me a long time to compile these proven techniques into one readable, printable infographic. To get it, all you need to do [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on April 28, 2011
Small business owners: here’s a slick way to keep your online marketing campaign on track: watch this quick presentation on my 6 Elements of Your Social Media Strategy to keep you and your staff on track. No matter where you are in your online marketing, whether you’re just getting started or are a veteran, it [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on March 24, 2011
Updated Jan 2013. Get Informed Online marketing depends on relationships with others, so join with others in your industry who have complementary products and do a promotion. Require that people visit your business pages, Like them, and share about them with others. I did a similar promotion on my Quilts and Creativity blog with amazing [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on March 18, 2011
Updated Jan 2013. Get Informed Having a Facebook business page isn’t enough, even for a small business: you need to give it a custom look to really get results: Why? First impressions mean everything, especially online, where people’s attention spans are easily diverted by cute YouTube videos, Farmville, or the latest quiz on your friends. [...]
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by Maria Peagler
on March 9, 2011
Updated Jan 2013. Get Informed Tried to get results on Facebook? Overwhelmed by the constant changes? Fast-track your way to success with my Facebook Action Plan Blueprint: a guide that will step you through how to grow your business and get leads, all in Facebook: Get Trained Everything begins with a personal profile Even if [...]
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