Connecting w/ Community: Building Online Audiences for LGBTQ-Owned Brands

Does choosing the right social media platform for your brand feel overwhelming?

Have you struggled to gain traction with your digital engagement?

Are you finding it difficult to build an audience on social media?

Join queer business owners Travers Johnson (Queerency, LGBTQ+ Business Week) and Chris Angel Murphy (Gender Sexuality Info, LLC) for this free, virtual event. This event is ideal for LGBTQ+ small business owners, side-hustlers, and “wantrepreneurs'' will help you solve these problems and more. Allies are welcomed.

Come for an hour-long fireside chat and Q&A on topics including:

• Finding Your Niche
• Picking Your Platform
• Connecting with Collaborators
• Accelerating Your Growth

The event will be live streamed via YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Links provided as they become available to registered users.

Speaker:

Travers Johnson (he/him) is an award-winning content strategist and editor with 15 years of experience in digital media, digital marketing, and book publishing. He’s the Founder & CEO of Queerency, an LGBTQ+ business media startup, and also the Creator of LGBTQ+ Business Week, an annual 7-day celebration of queer-owned small businesses. He is a Forbes contributor who covers topics at the intersection of the queer economy and the creator economy, and he has worked for and with industry leading companies including Mailchimp, Penguin Random House, Edelman, and Scholastic. He was trained at Morehouse College and Georgetown University and is a winner of the Google News Initiative Pitchfest and the Maynard Institute Media Entrepreneurship Award.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queerency/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@queerency

Website: https://www.queerency.com/

Moderator:

Chris Angel Murphy, MSW (they/them) is an award-winning LGBTQ+ speaker, trainer, and consultant who is neuroqueer and nonbinary. They have a background in social work and over 14 years of experience with LGBTQ+ community organizing. As the owner of Gender Sexuality Info, LLC, they provide various services and products to businesses, nonprofits, the LGBTQ+ community and those who support them. Chris Angel is a connector at heart, and the host of Allyship is a Verb, a double Ambie-nominated podcast.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gendersexualityinfo/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisangelmurphy/

Website: https://www.queer.training

Podcast: https://www.allyshipisaverb.com/