Hey! I am a project manager with the Girl Scouts in Eastern Tennessee and I am excited to be able to share what we do here as well as get insight into how we can move our social media from ok to awesome!  Here’s our Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/GSCSA )and we have just started venturing into Google Plus.  

Hello!I am a social media consultant with experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors.I’m really interested in connecting with this group and sharing lessons learned and resources. Right now I’m wanting to learn more about social media ROI and search engine optimization–Any recommendations?I can be reach @JesseC_D

Hello Pauline Cook from Local Business Consulting,So excited to be a part of something big!I just recently discovered Social Media Examiner and I love the articles and posts.I recently revamped my fanpage and with a combination of one facebook ad went from 170 fans to 821 in a space of around 3 weeks.  I will now focus on engaging my fans with a hope of getting clients.Thanks for the opportunity to participate.My facebook fanpage is  http://www.facebook.com/localbusinessco2My website is localbusinessconsulting.co

Looking forward to some great conversations, insights, and information

@patricknunes Hey Patrick – I live out in the Chicago suburbs in Naperville.  I’m a former Rotarian for 20 years and a Paul Harris fellow.

Let’s keep in touch.

Jeff

Hi All,

I’m Karen Pelletier, a marketing consultant in the CA desert.  I’ve been in marketing all of my professional life (30+ years) and I’ve done consumer packaged goods marketing, a lot of new product work (including tech) and consulting.  I tend to evaluate the changes in our industry with a “long view” perspective.

Keeping up with what’s going on in the industry is a full time job.  I’m so glad you’re all there so that I can ask questions to knowledgeable peers!

Looking forward to getting to know you!

Karen Pelletier

@harjit could you please tell me what your knowledge level of Social Media and Social Media strategy is on a scale from 1 to 10?Also, could you please let me know how much you charge?Welcome to the group.Jorgen

Hey guys!

Love the concept of this group and of this club.

My name is Phillipa Kiripatea and I am Co-Director and Chief Social Media Strategist for a social media agency in Perth, Western Australia called Social Divas.
We specialise in custom designed social media business pages and also in creating social media strategies that integrate with offline media.

You can see some of our design work here: http://www.socialdivas.com.au/portfolio/

Our Facebook page is here: http://www.facebook.com/socialdivas where you can connect with us.

Have a great weekend

Phillipa Kiripatea

Hello!

My name is Gabriel, i work as a website manager for Ringier, Libertatea (www.libertatea.ro) and, most important, I am in love with all things communication – marketing, social media, advertising and so on.

My profiles:

https://twitter.com/#!/uberaffe
http://www.facebook.com/sociallyme
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=127876484&locale=ro_RO&trk=tab_pro
https://plus.google.com/110300257166972202193/posts?hl=ro

I haven’t gotten to using Google+ yet, unfortunately. Mostly because of time related issues.

Anyway, nice to meet you all!

Hi Cory, the first thing you need to do is transition your business from a personal profile to a business profile before Facebook shuts you down. Basically you are in breach of their T&Cs.

Don’t worry all your friends will be converted to fans.

I was going to look at it and give you some more input but I hate the timeline concept. Happy to look once you have transitioned.

Hello. Just joined this club today. I’m an account exec for Breaking Limits, LLC, a PR/marketing agency with clients mostly in motorsports.  I create and manage social media accounts for many clients and am interested in learning the latest and great trends on Facebook — especially ones you don’t have to pay for (clients in our industry typically can’t pump money into social media bells and whistles).

My agency’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/BreakingLimitsLLC

Nice to “meet” you all!

Hello everyone;
My name is Corey Blackmur and recently I became a member of the networking groups here at Social Media Examiner, still feeling my way around so to speak.

I’ve joined all three of the clubs because I have an interest in each of them and am looking to contribute my knowledge where I can as well as learn from the other members.
I do use Facebook as a marketing tool, although in saying that, not to the fullest extent that I can, basically because I don’t have a full understanding as to how to take advantage of everything Facebook has to offer.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to staying abreast with the club and if you want to connect, please ask and if you want to be friends on Facebook you can catch up to me here:

https://www.facebook.com/corey.blackmur

G’Day Everyone,

My name is Peta and I’m the director of Rhythmology a business that specialises in team building drumming. I really need alot of help with my facebook page and really looking forward to learning more.

Cheers Peta

I contributes in the Social Media Strategy and Execution efforts for Ogilvy PR in South India at their Bangalore office as a part of their Digital Influence team.

My career spans over 4 years in Digital Media & Technology domains. 

I holds a Masters in Business Administration from Madurai Kamaraj University with a specialization in Marketing. He also holds a Bachelors in Commerce from Calicut University – which he found very helpful in his first job as an accounts teacher.

I am a certified Inbound Marketing Professional and has received the ‘Excellence in Creativity and Execution in Social Media’ award from IBM India.  He has extensive knowledge of online social media tools and services.

Hari is a LinkedIn expert – especially for lead generation and conversation mapping. He runs his own blog at http://www.harious.com where he shares his expertise on social networks. He is also one of the early beta testers for Quora.com and one of the earliest adopters of Google+.

Connect with me 

Facebook – http://facebook.com/hribnaircalicut

Google+ – http://gplus.to/haribnair

Twitter – http://twitter.com/haribnair

LinkedIN - http://in.linkedin.com/in/haribnair

Hi everyone! I’m excited to be a part of this group and plan on learning a lot. I’ve spent the last 17-18 years of my life as a marketing & branding strategist, concentrating on using my graphic design and copywriting ability to help small & medium companies create unified marketing solutions. I’m at a cross-roads in my career, seeing an opportunity to start a marketing services business, and want to learn as much as possible before I choose my next path.

I’m very much in the “work-in-progress” stage with my business, but have a Facebook page focusing on Social Media Marketing that I’d love for you to visit & like, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Media-Marketing-by-DeannaJ/256533124409708. I’d love to connect on LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/in/deannajohnsonminnesota, also. 

I’m looking forward to connecting with you soon!

Hello Everyone,

Where to start?  I know at the beginning.  I’m Judy, nickname Red, and have been a small business owner for several years, but just recently started a business that requires me to learn all this new “social” stuff.  That is why I’m here because I know nothing and need to learn everything.

What I do now is design perfume, and all natural skin and hair care products.  What I did before was own a daycare.  I know the burning question is how did you get from daycare to skin care?  Many years ago I was a licensed cosmetologist so it was a natural change.

Here I am ready to make social media and marketing work to my advantage.  I’m going to need lots of help.

If you are interested in my products this is where you will find them at http://www.heartlandsos.com.

See you on the threads.

Red

Hi everyone. I’m happy to be here. Hoping this club will help me get a handle on Facebook. I have a facebook account for our newspaper, but it is sadly outdated. I want to revamp it as I put our newspaper online. 

I do many creative things in my life, but first and foremost I’m a writer and will be so until the day I leave this mortal plane. I was a freelance journalist for more than 30 years and now I write, edit, and publish a local community newspaper. I also have several other writing projects in the hopper. 

Facebook confuses me. I know what I want to have – I can see what I want my outcome to be, but I haven’t yet been able to figure out how to make it happen.

  For instance, how do you keep an open page and prevent folks from posting game stuff on it (not interested at all in seeing that)?  

Or how do you get those who like your personal page to become fans of your business page (where the numbers really matter to you?) 

How do you set up a separate page with a landing page/opt in for a completely different service without having folks on your other pages knowing about the site (completely different audiences)?

So, yes, I know these are newbie questions and I have spent a huge amount of time reading facebook manuals and googling information and reading Social Media Examiner and, even with two tabs up and reading a sentence and doing the action, I’m still stumped.

 If I had the budget, I’d outsource it, but that isn’t an option right now.  Although, I’m totally open to bartering — any FB wunderkind need terrific writing or editing?

I’ve actually been called brilliant in other areas of my life — but somehow, some times, when faced with Facebook, I feel like an idiot. 

Here’s hoping for some solutions in this club so I can start feeling smart again. And, I’m glad to share my knowledge where it helps. Words, writing, editing, creative ideas, are all available. 

Jessica

Hey everybody,

I’m really excited to be a part of this community and I’m looking forward to networking and building some great relationships!

I am a coach, consultant, motivational speaker and self-published author of self-help books that teach self-awareness, how to build character, and how to develop personal leadership skills.

So how did I come to get into the “Self-Help” industry? For the sake of brevity, I’ll just say that I’ve been through some things in my life that have taught me some very profound life lessons that I think are very important to pass on to others!

As I said, I’m excited to be here and I’m looking forward to networking and building some great relationships with all of you.

Take care, “Professa D”

Hi everybody, really looking forward to learning and sharing insights with all. 

I’ve been in the web development space for over 14 years as a certified sr. project manager dealing with design and development of web based applications, marketing, social media specializing in online sweepstakes, instant win games, rewards with purchase and many other branding / positioning tactics. Many of the promotions I manage live within FB as one of many entry points within a campaign.

I enjoy what I do, look forward to broadening my horizons and making new powerful connections.

Cheers!,Cynthia 

Hello Everyone!

It is nice to be here and communicate with great people here!

I am here because I really enjoyed articles of social media examiner and also want to learn more with tips and tricks in social media.

Our facebook Page:  http://www.facebook.com/webpreneur
Our Website:  http://webpreneur.com.ph

Please drop by and let us have a small talk!  I look forward to getting meeting new people and developing new relationships here on “Networking Clubs!

I’m Jane Cook. Throughout my adulthood I’ve always been involved in some form of marketing or sales starting in the early 1980′s in that fledgling industry, cable television.  Technology has changed a lot since then, but the basics of analysis, strategy, implementation and ROI analysis have not.  I took a long break to raise my children, volunteer and do some freelance work.  I started back full time a couple of years ago with a company that produces networking and educational seminars for C-level executives.  I handled marketing and sponsorship sales.  During that stint I fell in love with social media and the role it plays in the marketing mix.  I’ve just recently started a consulting firm that works with small business to add strategic social media to their marketing.  

Hi!Its a pleasure being here!Am Vijay. I recently started a SMM Consultancy firm of my own, along with a couple of my friends, named as IZE Creative.To be frank, we’re a bunch of students right out of college, with nothing but lots of interest and passion about Social Media and its growth, especially here in India, where its still in the budding stage.Hoping to learn a lot from this group and its discussions and also hope all of you would be there to help us newbies out!Thanks

*taps mike* 
Is This Thing On?
Greetings folks
I am an IT Director IT Project Manager and have been actively following SME since day 1. 

I don’t use FaceBook for business (for shame) in fact I don’t use any social media for business. I just enjoy the social aspect – and I like to fix things. They say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. True enough. But when I see an app, widget, plugin or do-hickey that doesn’t work as (I think) it should, I change it.

Copy editor on the side and I have done a couple of stints teaching at high school and different universities.

Hi everyone,
I am a metal artist from Australia. I have my own gallery where I display the work I make and a woodfired pizza cafe on the side of it: https://www.talismangallery.com.au/.  I am really looking forward to getting amongst all this facebook stuff and talking to all of you- bit of a newbie.
My F/b page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Talisman-Gallery-and-Cafe-Little-Hartley/196753030335960
and my personal page is:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1527114646
Speak soon!

@christinamarie7 Nice to know you. Sounds like you’ve worked out some of the process steps. Might you be willing to share your strategy statements and what you hand off to your clients? This club is such a wealth of info.. So happy that Michael and his team have created it!!

Hi Everyone ”Do what you love, love what you do.”
I love design, branding and social media.  My background is in digital communications, information technology, and design.  I’m the Community Manager for the Ontario Real Estate Association (a non-profit organization working for Ontario REALTORS®).  We have several facebook pages:

http://facebook.com/oreainfo (over-arching OREA page)http://facebook.com/oreacollege (college)http://facebook.com/oreagr (government relations)http://facebook.com/oreaypn (young professionals network)http://facebook.com/oreaocc (commercial real estate)http://facebook.com/orealeadership (leadership development)http://facebook.com/oreapres (president)

I look forward to growing our knowledge together to gain expanded results

Nice to meet everyone!! 

I work as a marketing manager at Brand Adoption. We specialize in word of mouth, guerrilla, and social media marketing. We have awesome ureps (University Reps) across the nation who serve as wonderful Brand Ambassadors for our campaigns. 

I am very excited to be part of this new club and can’t wait to see what new things I learn! 

Our company pages are: www.facebook.com/BrandAdoptionwww.facebook.com/universityrep

Hi Everyone,

I heard about this club through the grapevine and decided to join. I’m actually part of the social media team of Fire Department Clothing. We are a growing business online that has decided to take more of an effort to get our name out there. We are a One Stop shop to all custom Fire Department Clothing needs. We offer fully custom designs between embroidery and screen-printing. We ship nationwide and are always looking for new innovative ways to make us different from everyone else.

Like us and spread our name. http://www.Facebook.com/FDClothing

@clusterwebdesign do you make websites purely in wordpress?

Jorgen

@jorgenpoulsen – The short answer – yes. I do prefer to work in Joomla and I’ll do a combination of Joomla and WordPress if my client wants a blog. But, yes, I can create the entire site in WordPress if that’s what my client wishes.

Heather

Not a problem Jorgen! Thanks!

Heather

Hi Everyone, great to be a part of this group and looking forward to connecting with you on here.  can anyone tell if i can log in through Social Media Examiner

Hi Everyone,I am very happy to part of this.
I am a personal development mentor/coach. I’ve been developing my website http://personalgrowthpeople.com. I look forward to helping you learn and learning from you in all areas.Judith

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Hi Everyone

For the past few years I have made it my mission to have a better understanding of Social Networking and develop environments where Business owners can have a platform to display their brand on or through Social networks.

My name is Alf Delli Fiori and I’m the CEO and founder of Kooky Video Chat which is the first of Five Applications that will be available on Social Networks and will be launched in a few weeks so stay tuned for that, I am also a developer of Business Applications for Social Networks, I am supported with a fantastic team of talented professionals that just make things “Dead Simple” and “powerful”.

I’m happy to be in an environment of professionals, and what this incredible group has to offer I look forward to sharing with you and to stay in touch with you and all of this has been made possible through Social Media Examiner.

Our Website is  http://www.kookychat.com

Facebook Page is   http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kooky-Video-Chat/315115465198249?sk=app_106878476015645

Follow us on Twitter  https://twitter.com/#!/KookyChat   

Best Regards to all and thanks for reading.

Excited to join the club, thanks for the welcome! I live in the Bay Area and have been involved in social media and digital marketing since the early days of online advertising (I launched products at LinkExchange, one of the first online ad networks for display and link ads).

I’m now head of social media, brand and PR for @RingCentral, a leading cloud-based telephone system for small and medium businesses – also on Facebook.

I’d love to connect and am recruiting bloggers, authors and speakers who love to talk business, and specifically SMB to engage with us and be featured on our blog and social channels, including our podcast and live stream chats. 

Please connect with me at denise.terry@ringcentral.com if you’re interested or connect on Twitter @denisehterry.

Hello everyone.  I’m Catherine and my company is Classic Legacy.  We sell wholesale to retail stores, corporations, hotels, and resorts. Classic Legacy is  represented by major gift market showrooms in the United States. Our team is proud of our relationships with our customers. We enjoy learning how we can best serve clients by developing products such as our wine accessories, desk accessories, and personal accessories. To best view our proucts please visit http://www.classiclegacy.com.
Creating custom gifts is our specialty!

Greetings, just wanted to share a little bit about myself:Best regards,

-That Social Dude

Hello everyone.  It’s wonderful to see just how diverse this group is — location, professional background, as well as social media experience level!

In addition to working as a part-time legal assistant, I own/operate an antiques & collectibles online shop, with a Facebook page that has had slow but steady growth.   

My desire to gain a much deeper understanding of social media has brought me to realize that, with growth and refinement of the skills and experience I already have in place, I could also be of service to other local small business owners.

I’m looking forward to learning all that I can and, of course, helping whenever I can.  I should add, however, that with recent and upcoming webinars, as well as maintaining my normal weekly work schedule, my plate and brain are approaching maximum capacity, so I’ll be in nibble mode here for the next couple of weeks. 

My Facebook page is Flashback Alley

Hello!

I’m a Social Media Manager at Sid Paterson Advertising. I’m excited to be a part of the Social Media Examiner network and look forward to connecting and learning from you all.

Best,

Alina

Hello! My name is Murphy White. For the last year I’ve been studying about using social media as a marketing platform. I’ve made several Fan Pages on facebook for various musicians and non-profit organizations. I really look forward to sharing and learning on here to be able to make the most of social media and maybe eventually turn it into some money

Hi Everyone,

Company: BlitzMetrics  http://www.facebook.com/BlitzMetrics 
Location: Portland, Oregon
What We Do: Social Media Analytics

Job: Social Media Analyst

Skills: Facebook Algorithm techniques, Facebook Advertising, PPC-Google & Bing, SEO, Local Business listings. 
Large campaigns, little campaigns, traffic and conversions = ROI. 

Fun I enjoy it.

Hello, my name is Viola Myers I’m a Digital Marketer at Socialyt Digital Marketing. If you would like to connect on other mutual platforms you can find my complete social media presence here http://j.mp/An3mzq. Look forward to connecting! 

Hey guys! This looks like it will be fun! I work for Hubze, Inc which most know from our Fan Page Engine product for Facebook. I change my official title every few weeks! Hard to encompass everything I do into one title! I manage all of our social presence basically. From Facebook to Twitter to Google+ to our Blog (which was just named the #4 social media blog by Social Media Examiner for 2012!!) to Podcasts and etc. As well as handle all of our training and assist with Support and of course Sales!

I fell into social media by accident when I started using Facebook for my own transport business about 2 years ago. Fell in love with it and quickly became the goto person to ask about how to use Facebook so I started a page called Pimp My Fan Page that garnered alot of attention. Which led me to work for Hubze. Pretty exciting stuff! 

Feel free to Subscribe to me on Facebook and ask me any questions you want about Facebook or Google+ and I’ll be happy to answer them!

Hello fellow social media examiners. My name is Rod and I’m a social media manager, coach, and consultant, and author the site The Social Biz Buzz. I teach businesses and organizations how to best utilize social media marketing. 

A free gift awaits you at my Facebook page, and I look forward to making the connection with everyone here. 

The Social Biz Buzz on Facebook

Hi Everyone!

I hope it’s OK to be part of all three clubs here!  : )

I am a freelance writer and marketer helping small food, wine and creative businesses learn to market online.  I’ve been blogging for about 3 years about food, wine and restaurants, etc., but I just recently started a new blog (2 months ago) to support my writing and marketing business.  And I know being a part of this wonderful community is going to help me lots there!

My Facebook Page for that business is: http://www.facebook.com/WeeklyDishwithKimberlyHouston

It’s called “Weekly Dish” because that’s the name of the weekly email communication that goes out to my list from http://kimberlydhouston.com/, so I thought it made sense to call my Facebook Page the same thing as the weekly email.  But now I’m wondering if I should change it to something else (I’m still under 100 fans, so I can do this) so it doesn’t seem confusing . . . ? Any feedback most welcome!  : )

Anyway, great to be here, and I look forward to networking with everyone!

Oh, and on Twitter I’m at:   

im  happy to be here….  facebook  is  great for  our  busness….i hope to  learn a lot on here..we have a big  brick and mortar store and  use  facebook  a lot….

http://www.greenoakantiques.com heres our store

http://www.facebook.com/greenoakantiques  heres our page

Good Morning Fellow Socialites!

I am the Social Media Specialist for the 4th largest Rural Multi-Service Telecommunications Company in the United States. We service more than 140,000 customers/members in 76 communities encompassing 30 Oklahoma counties in Western Oklahoma and 14 counties in Southern Kansas. My companies venture into the social media world is fairly new and I am proud, no honored, to be the first to bring us into this new frontier and the possibilities it brings. I was excited to see this new club available to us “Social Junkies”. I look forward to meeting all of you and making new connections along with the opportunity to learn anything and everything from each and every one of you.

Find us on-

 Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/PioneerTelephoneCoop

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/PioneerTeleCoop

Web sites:  http://www.ptci.com/

                     https://www.wirelesspioneer.com

Have a wonderful day!

Hi everyone,I’m so happy that I found this club! I’ve attended FBSS and now SBSS and love the info and all the people.

My husband and I own a small business in NJ and have been providing branding, marketing and creative services for more than 13 years. We recently launched an online magazine where we provide free marketing content aimed at small businesses and other marketing professionals who need support. The magazine is our passion project with much the same goals as SME – to provide great content, totally free of charge and to connect with our community.

I want to add that I “Liked” a whole stack of Facebook pages after reading through this thread. Great people here!

Although my company provides marketing services and I’m always happy to discuss that, what I’d really love is to share the “free stuff” and hear what you think.

Magazine: http://www.websearchsocial.comFacebook page: http://www.facebook.com/WebSearchSocial

Hi club members i like to be added
HAVE A BLESSED DAY

Hi – I’m Jenny Pollock and an the Social Media Intern at Four51, we provide an easy way for small businesses to manage their social media marketing using Fantools.   

I recently graduated form Minnesota State University, Mankato with a degree is Mass Communication. I grew up with social media, I began at Childrens Theatre Compnay updating their Myspace page in 1995 and have been involved with social media ever since.

I am excited about joining this group, I have recently started following Social Media Examiner (which is great!) and am looking forward to connecting with other readers!

My business Facebook is  http://www.facebook.com/#!/Four51FanTools I have worked on many different facebook pages for companies, fundraisers and school groups.

Hello, new friends. My day (sometimes also night) job is Assistant Dean for Development in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin (Hook ‘em Horns!). We use Facebook for alumni, friends/donors, student, faculty, and staff engagement and information sharing. We have several pages we oversee and coordinate along with a college Twitter account. I’m a founding member of the UT Austin Social Media Collaborative and love to learn new ways to use social media in fundraising, alumni/donor engagement, highered, and for business/personal.I’m a one-time Ironman, now sometimes triathlete and serve the USAT South Midwest Region as a social media coordinator. This includes both a Facebook page and Twitter account. I am honored to have the privilege of interacting with and learning from all of you. Please let me know when I can be of assistance.Karl