Social Media Workshops – update from events

Facebook – 22 October
Thursday 22nd October saw the final of NFBP’s four social media workshops, this time focussing on Facebook for businesses.

The workshop led by Brodie McIntosh from the Digital Marketing Team at Intergage gave attendees food for thought on ensuring Facebook is the correct social media platform to promote their business and reach intended target audiences.

Brodie went on to explain that content planning is key and to identify clear goals that your business can measure such as driving traffic back to your website which can be monitored through Google Analytics and Facebook Insights. The presentation also gave everyone tips and tricks to ensure business profile information is maximised.

The Facebook presentation can be viewed in the NFBP member’s area; if you are not a member and wish to find out more about joining please visit: https://www.nfbp.org.uk/join-nfbp/

For further information on the services Intergage provide please visit: http://www.intergage.co.uk/

Google+ – 15 October
Thursday 15th October saw the third of NFBP’s four social media workshops, this time focussing on Google+.

The workshop led by expert user Gavin Meikle gave a great insight to all of the extra benefits businesses could take advantage of by being on the social media platform.

We received some great feedback from our attendees “thanks Gavin Meikle for shedding a great deal of light, much more than I was expecting in fact, upon the world of Google+” and “it’s been a revelation to know we can host webinars totally free of charge and publish straight onto our YouTube channel”.

If you would like to find out more about how you can take advantage of Google+  then please visit: http://www.inter-activ.co.uk/ where all of Gavin’s contact details can be found.

Twitter – 8 October
Thursday 8th October saw the second of NFBP’s four social media workshops, this time focussing on Twitter.

An energetic and informative presentation from Mark Tillson, an expert on social media and self confessed Twitter geek! He provided the 23 attending businesses with all the information they needed including top tips on hashtags, twitter lists and direct messages.

If you wish to find out more about Twitter and how it can work for you then please visit http://tillison.co.uk/ where all Mark’s contact details can be found.

LinkedIn – 1 October
Bookings were full for the first of our Social Media Breakfast Workshops held last Thursday, 1 October.  The workshop on LinkedIn was a huge success and was facilitated by  James Potter, known as ‘The LinkedIn Man’, a former Sales Director who became expert in LinkedIn strategies via direct corporate experience. James delivered an informative and interesting workshop giving delegates some interesting tips and tricks on how to open up the whole Pandora’s Box of tips and tricks to enable you to better connect, network, and build relationships effectively.

If you wish to find out more about LinkedIn and how it can work for you then please contact enquiries@thelinkedinman.com or call James on 07802 392925.