Ready to learn or improve your social media skills? This workshop series is for you, featuring 6 hours of training, including:

• Social Media 101 by Paul Holmes - Learning the tools and strategies for success, and learn about what's on the horizon and how this might affect your business. Topics include Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Foursquare and Google+.

• Maximizing Facebook by Chris Burdge - How to use Facebook to grow your business, including; 
  • setting up an effective business page
  • creating custom tabs
  • running a successful Facebook contest 
  • create and manage Facebook advertising
  • use Facebook to improve your website's SEO
  • track results and measure ROI

• Maximizing Twitter by Juhli Selby - Twitter is an excellent tool for connecting with customers & prospects and expanding your network. Learn strategies to find and connect with people, build your "social capital" and effectively grow your business.

• Social Media Case Study by Rod Phillips - Meet the driving force behind Liquor Plus' successful and very robust social media initiative. Case studies from the real world. Learn from Rod's successes and mistakes as well as how he maintains a blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and his sanity.

• Working Lunch: this is optional but a great opportunity to meet with session leaders in a small group. Use this time to get first hand feedback on your social media strategy or get direct answers to your social media questions.

• Conference Materials: you will receive copies of all the workshop materials along with step-by-step guidelines for using the techniques you just learned.