August Benefits invited me to give a presentation to their clients at their main location in Huntington on Tuesday. I left super early to get to their offices and with all of the US Open traffic, I got to the office in an hour.
At the seminar, I discussed the following:
- Building a community
- Microblogging
- How to use Facebook to build business
- How to use Twitter for business development and brand recognition
- How to use Plaxo to build relationships
- Blogging and why it is important
- Podcasts/video podcasts
- Case Studies, which include Skittles, Landrover, Pizza Hut and more!
Someone recently asked me if these seminars are just sales pitches or if he could really learn something from the seminar. I told him that we are doing this to educate people on social media. “That’s first and foremost!” I told him. “And if someone hires us as a result, that’s just an added bonus….”