Brossman and Hill Teach WordPress Basics at Wake Tech SBC
CARY, NC: “Create Your Own Website and Blog Using Word Press” will be the much-requested topic of a series of three classes starting Monday, Feb. 8, co-sponsored by the Cary Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Center of Wake Tech Community College. These 3-hour workshops at the Western Wake Tech campus on Kildaire Farm Road in Cary, will comprise set-up, editing and promotion of a blog-based website.
Presented by social media expert Martin Brossman (pronetworkingonline.com) and Web designer Andrew Hill (intotheinternet.com), this business-oriented series will provide hands-on instruction for building a working web site and blog that can be self-maintained. A working knowledge of the internet is a prerequisite for participants.
“We have found that many small business owners want a simple, low-cost website that they can easily update on their own,” says Brossman. “Andrew Hill and I are joining forces to teach a practical method of accomplishing a content management site using the popular open source software of Word Press, as well as how to drive traffic to the site.”
Originally slotted to begin Feb. 1, the class dates have been revised due to weather closings. The second class is scheduled for Feb. 15, with third class on March 8. Further details are available at the Wake Tech site: http://smallbusinesscenter.waketech.edu/
Students may also register online via EventBrite: http://createyourownwebsiteandblog.eventbrite.com/
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Contact Martin Brossman:
919-847-4757
martin@coachingsupport.com
www.pronetworkingonline.com
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Fundamentals of LinkedIn: Getting Results by Martin Brossman
Register here: http://linkedin2210.eventbrite.com/
Decision makers are using LinkedIn to screen prospects, contractors, and job hunters every day. How do you measure up against the competition? How do you, as a business owner, research sales prospects or new employees? Hoe are you using this powerful business tool to learn about your clients, prospects and competition?
Working with small business clients to high-end sales executives, I have been teaching LinkedIn in the Triangle since 2006. Now is your chance to experience quality training at an affordable price.
LinkedIn is a tool for solving business tasks. The service provides rich features at no cost–and you can dive even deeper into expediting the sales process with a premium membership.
Learn how to complete your profile the right way.
Learn how to write compelling copy to promote yourself.
Learn how to speed up the sales process.
Learn how to build your professional presence beyond InSide919.
Learn LinkedIn.
The cost for this Lunch and Learn class is just $20 in advance $25. at the door if space is still available. Space is limited. Take advantage of this incredible value now. Register here: http://linkedin2210.eventbrite.com/
Martin Brossman
http://www.ProNetworkingOnline.com
About Martin Brossman
Martin, a success coach, speaker, trainer and author, has been mastering the art of networking in the Triangle since 1982 ( www.coachingsupport.com ). He has originated numerous successful in-person and on-line networking groups which have facilitated meaningful business connections among members. Martin’s computer skills have powered his keen ability to create and teach crucial new Internet communications, such as blogging, podcasting and on-line networking. His own podcast show can be heard at www.InquireOnLine.info . He offers consulting on how to generate profitable alliances by maximizing face-to-face and on-line presence and managing “the conversation of you” on the Web ( www.ProNetworkingOnLine.com ) .
For more information, contact
Martin Brossman at (919) 847-4757 orMartin@CoachingSupport.com
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3 Part class on creating your own website using WordPress! : Martin Brossman, Success Coach / Trainer / Author
Andrew Hill, Founder and CEO, IntoTheInternet.com
Sponsored by Wake Technical College and Cary Chamber of Commerce
February 1, 8, 15, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Western Wake Tech Campus
Cost $97 for 9 Hours of Training!
This class will provide hands-on instruction to create a working website plus a blog that you can maintain yourself.
2/1 – Understanding and Setting up Blog-based Websites
· The multiple benefits of blog-based websites, and how it contrasts to other types of websites
· Understanding a blog, static-page and RSS feed
· Choosing and buying a website name
· Traditional web site versus a Content Management Site
· How Google finds websites and how to get Google to find yours
· Understanding hosting for the domain, free or paid
· Setting up the website and blog
2/8 – Using and Editing Your Website and Blog Widgets
· Finding the right keywords and understanding Search Engine Optimization
· How to market the site: How to drive and draw traffic to it
· Interfacing with Social Media sites
· Methods of generating on-going relevant content
· Future expansion and integrating into a future larger site
2/15 – Promotion: Attracting and Keeping the Right Customers
· Understanding the WordPress dashboard
· Choosing and installing a theme to customize your website and blog
· Building the static home page and setting up the blog
· How to add content to blog posts and pages
· Adding audio, video and pictures to your website and blog
· Using Plug-ins and Widgets
Students should have working knowledge of the internet
Cost: $97
Register At: http://webadvisor.waketech.edu/ Course Number: 50099
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Western Wake Tech Campus
3434 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary
Room 113
Cost: $97.00
To register go to the following link: http://webadvisor.waketech.edu/
Course Number: 50099
Sponsored by: Cary Chamber of Commerce
For Additional Information email: caroix@waketech.edu
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Martin Brossman
Martin Brossman Named Super Connector of Inside919 Network
RALEIGH, NC— Local business coach, trainer, and social media expert Martin Brossman has recently been recognized on the Super Connectors Wall of Fame, an honor reserved for members of the Inside919.com online network who have helped over 100 small business owners and professionals join and benefit from the local InSide Network, which is now over 2,300 strong.
Inside919 is was launched in Summer 2008 by Cary, NC resident Pat Howlett, owner of www.inSideNetworX.com , who is multiplying this effort across the country with 267 other Area Code based Micro Business Networks. Brossman was one of the first to join the Inside919 local business and social network at its inception, enthusiastically spreading the word to friends, colleagues, students and clients, inviting them to participate in this free networking community which is open to business women and men working and living within the 919 Area code of North Carolina.
“Inside919 is an ideal social network for the small business owner in the North Carolina Triangle,” Brossman said. “This is a professional network with a personal touch. You are encouraged to make connections that build your business with online interaction and in-person socializing at frequent InSider networking events held at member’s businesses. It’s a valuable resource that will continue to grow in value as it grows in size.”
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For information on Martin Brossman
and Social Media training:
www.pronetworkingonline.com
For more about Inside919:
www.inside919.com
Contact Martin Brossman:
919-847-4757
martin@coachingsupport.com
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The 1st Social Media Mastery Class
You’ve been to training sessions, you’ve seen the presentations. Now you want to get started using social media and you have more questions than you started with. The Social Media Mastery course was designed with you in mind. An intensive 10-week workshop takes you beyond the basics and gives you the skills you need to build your business with social media.
Since each course is tailored to the audience, each participant will be asked to complete a simple survey prior to the first session.
Get the unique perspectives of two diverse trainers, Rob Laughter and Martin Brossman.
Topics include:
1. What’s a Tweeter anyway? Covering the basics.
2. THE Walk of Fame: Your Facebook Fan Page and You
3. Twitter Time! Learning the culture.
4. Bliggity Blogging and LinkedIn
5. Important Stuff: Revisiting transparency, tone, consistency and personality.
6. Attracting an Audience: integrating your social media presence.
7. Advanced Tools, or “How to Manage Your Social Media Presence Without Wasting Your Time.”
8. Seeing is Believing: Youtube and Podcasting.
9. An open realm of possibilities: expand your social presence.
10. Putting it all together: Becoming a Social Media Rockstar
Additional areas of exploration include: Facebook (business and personal profiles), Twitter, LinkedIn, InSide919, YouTube, Blogging, Flickr, tracking success using Analytics, reputation management, productivity tools, time management, monitoring, personal branding, integration with a marketing program, using local directories, SlideShare, podcasting, BrightKite, understanding news aggregators and RSS Feeds.
Support you’ll receive:
20 hours of classroom training tailored to your goals
2 hours of individual coaching on your own time (one hour from each instructor – a $300 value)
Signed, printed copy of Martin Brossman’s Guide to Social Media (a $15 value)
Unlimited access to step-by-step instructional videos guiding you through key areas
Worksheets and homework for each week’s class, delivered in PDF format
Meeting Dates:
All dates meet from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Dec. 2, 9, 16.
Jan. 6, 13, 20, 27.
Feb. 3, 10, 17.
Can’t make a date? Send a friend or colleague in your place!
Register here and hold your position. Only one person per industry! http://mysocialmastery.eventbrite.com/
Held at Team Numbus in Raleigh NC
Meet Your Trainers:
Rob Laughter runs Connective Insights, a Raleigh-based social media consultancy company. Working with companies, small business owners, and individuals, Rob helps them understand, plan for, and execute strategies in social media and marketing. To learn more about social media and discuss if social media is even right for you, contact Rob at 919-833-3446, his twitter (@roblaughter), or his website (http://www.connectiveinsights.com).
Martin Brossman is a success coach, speaker, trainer and author based in Raleigh, NC with an office in Washington DC. He specializes in helping small businesses integrate social media in their marketing and networking strategies (www.pronetworkingonline.com) Martin has originated numerous successful in-person and on-line networking groups which have facilitated meaningful business connections among members. His computer skills have powered his keen ability to create and teach crucial new Internet communications, such as blogging, podcasting and on-line networking. His own podcast show can be heard at www.InquireOnLine.info . Martin offers consulting on how to generate profitable alliances by maximizing face-to-face and on-line presence and managing “the conversation of you” on the Web.
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PokenSPARK and PokenPULSE
Understanding the Poken which represents the next generation of business cards by Martin Brossman
This is a new electronic business card that stays up-today-date and includes Social Media links as well as your picture. In the old days we traded business cards that were often hard to read, when we got back to the office we had to type or scan into our computer and used paper from trees (NOT Green).
Today instead of the business care we use the Poken which cost from $20 to $35 (much less then a bunch of quality business cards) . You meet someone; touch your Pokens together that with sort range wireless transmits a code to each Poken. You plug your Poken in to your computer back at the office using a standard USB port and all their info shows up on the screen including web address, social media sites, videos and their picture. You can export this data electronically to any other system you want. If they change a website, a phone number, a job, their picture then you get updated with the change automatically! It also shows you where you met them in time.
To lean more about the Poken see the entire article at:
More info about the Poken by Martin Brossman – Raleigh NC
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Martin Brossman's Public Profile - Linkedin
Linking Into Sales – Using LinkedIn.com to support the sales cycle with Martin Brossman and Greg Hyer
Time: November 11, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: BNC of Cary
Street: 649 Walnut St Cary, NC 27511
Cost: $49.00
If you sell a product or service and rely on professional relationships to get the deal then you need to look into taking this course.
LinkedIn.com is a highly valuable resource that you should be using to support the sales cycle and even speed it up. But are you using this tool to the best of your ability?
Come and enjoy a buffet style dinner with professional networkers and trainers Martin Brossman and Greg Hyer. They will show you how LinkedIn will support your sales cycle by teaching you the following:
* Dress your profile for sales success
o Profile content
o Optomize your profile with keywords by using the “zones”
o More
* Targeting customers and who they trust
o Make connections with people that will lead you to the right connection
o More
* Building networking equity
o Utilize recommendations
o Form alliances on and offline
o More
* Making connections come full circle
o Criteria for connecting
o Using network “nodes”
o More
* Dealing with the Compition
o Learn about them
o Are they shopping your connections?
o More
* Using Introductions Effectivly
o Interupting approporately
o Writing a memorable intorduction
o More
* Leveraging Groups
o Effective uses
o A discussion is a discussion not a sales pitch
o More
* Answers that lead to contacts to sales
o Learn about pain points and provide solutions
o New perspectives on providing answers
o More
Portable computers are welcomed. A wireless network is available.
link for registration.
http://linkingintosales.eventbrite.com/
Martin Brossman’s profile on Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinbrossman
Greg Hyer’s profile on Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/greghyer
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Women in Business Summit
Raleigh: Success Coach Martin Brossman will be one of three guest panelists at the Women’s Social Media Summit taking place at the Capital City Club in downtown Raleigh on Saturday, October 17. At 2:00 p.m.the Men’s Panel will address the topic Social Networking from a Man’s Point of View.
Brossman brings a unique perspective to the topic, generated both by his current book, Brossman’s Social Media and Online Resource Directory for Business and his previous book on men’s topics, Finding Our Fire: Enhancing Men’s Connection to Heart, Passion and Strength. He is a frequent speaker on Social Media related subjects.
The event is part of the Women in Business Summit 2009, sponsored by Boomer Diva Nation and The Business Divas Inside919. Joining Martin Brossman on the panel will be Chuck Hester, author of Linking In to Pay it Forward: Changing the Value Proposition in Social Media, and Pat Howlett, founder of nationwide Micro Small Business Networks including the vanguard Triangle area Inside919.com.
Contact Martin Brossman:
919-847-4757
martin@coachingsupport.com
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St. Andrews Presbyterian College
RALEIGH, NC. - On October 1, the 24th Annual Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Awards will take place at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, NC Local success coach, trainer and author Martin Brossman will be one of four recipients honored. This award recognizes authors who have created authentic positive community.
Brossman graduated from St. Andrews College in 1983 with a degree in Math/Computer Science. He said, “Growing up during the excitement of the ‘60’s and 70’s in Washington, DC, I wanted to go to a smaller college. St. Andrews give me a place to flourish and succeed independent of the reading challenges I had with dyslexia. I really enjoyed campus life, becoming radio station engineer, newspaper photographer and dorm president for several years. I built my closest friendships at St. Andrews.”
“This is such a great honor,” Brossman added. “So often people call me a natural writer and I say there is nothing natural about writing with dyslexia. It takes work to slow down my ideas enough to get them on the computer. I remember how exciting it was when my first article, “Aikido for Business,” was published in a magazine.” He also contributed poetry in 2006 to the Triangle Men’s Center’s first published book for local poets, “Men of our Word.”
In 2006, after several years of work, Brossman completed Finding Our Fire: Enhancing Men’s Connection to Heart, Passion and Strength, a book based on insightful excerpts from 120 men, using questions gleaned from 10 years of The Men’s Inquiry discussion group which explored questions about life. The book can be found at www.FindingOurFire.com and is in international distribution through Amazon.com.
Recently, Martin Brossman produced a directory of Social Media for business, utilizing local professionals as guest contributors, combined with 2 years of resources he collected while teaching at Small Business Centers in Community He writes for a number of on-line publications, including the highly successful blog, Create Business Growth, started by David Williams
( www.CreateBusienssGrouth.com ). From 2007 through 2009, he has been a contributing columnist for the NC Triangle’s Women’s Edge magazine
( www.womensedgemagazine.com ) published by Slee Arnold. He also has his own Podcast show, InquireOnLine.info, which features current business topics.
Other awards the honoree has received include the Ron Hering Mission of Service Award for “living his mission powerfully in the world” and NC Volunteer of the Year Award for his work training volunteers to take humor to Cancer Patients.
“My personal mission,” says Brossman, “is to help people live lives they love that are a profound contribution to their community. “
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About the Fortner Award:
The Ethel N. Fortner Writer and Community Awards were instituted in 1986 to honor a friend of writers and frequent contributor to the St. Andrews Review. Fortner earned a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in New York. After a career in teaching at the Oregon School of the Blind, she and her husband moved to Estacada, Ore. She committed herself to writing and became editor of Human Voice Quarterly. A frequent contributor to the St. Andrews Review, she was the earliest benefactor of the St. Andrews Press. She believed that a full community embraced and encouraged the craft of writing.”
Link to the page on St. Andrews Presbyterian College Website: http://www.sapc.edu/academics/cw/fortnerawards.php
Contact Martin Brossman:
919-847-4757
info@pronetworkingonline.com
www.pronetworkingonline.com
St. Andrews can be found on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Laurinburg-NC/St-Andrews-Presbyterian-College/147829151421
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Capital City Club Business Connection Expo – Martin Brossman’s Social Media for Business Book
Capital City Club Business Connection Expo
Capital City Club Business Connection Expo – Martin Brossman’s Social Media for Business Book will have a table and copies to sell next to the Team Nimbus of Raleigh table.
Learn more about the event at:
Business Connection Expo: An Event to Showcase Exciting Businesses, Services and Products
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Cardinal Club 28th Floor of the Wachovia Building
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
This event is complimentary to our members!
Admission complimentary to Club Members | $10 for Guests
Reservations appreciated: 834-8829 or www.cardinal-club.com
Join us for an exciting showcase of wonderful resources. Make new contacts, network, check out services and products – even shop. Unique Jewelry, Cosmetic Lines, Gifts, Men’s Tailoring, Travel Opportunities and more. Check out services in the Financial, Accounting, Insurance, Business Coaching, IT and other Professional arenas! Enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks and a cash bar. Check out the Business Alliance – you will be amazed at the array of business services and wonderful products available to you from folks you know at your Clubs! And by all means listen for your name just in case you win a door prize!
Link to the Facebook fan page for the Social Media for Business book:
- Martin Brossman
htttp://www.pronetworkingonline.com
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