There's a saying that your network is your net-worth and that couldn't be any more true when it comes to building a home based network marketing business. What if you knew that the efforts you put into building a network of great connections today could pay you big time dividends a year or two from now. Would you build it? Of course. Most networkers are so focused on growing their business NOW that they miss this hugely important activity. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour...
Oct 20, 2014•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Not sure how to find where your avatar is hanging out in Facebook? In part 2 of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci walk you through a cool feature in the Facebook Ad Manager called Audience Insights. Find out what your avatar likes, what pages they go to, and where the best places are for you to engage with them!...
Oct 19, 2014•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci continue the conversation from the week, and discuss how to leverage the power of Facebook groups & community pages. Find out how to use these pages to interact, engage & add value to your chosen avatar!...
Oct 18, 2014•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Facebook is our favorite platform and there are some things that we see happen that destroys your influence when building, engaging and marketing on Facebook. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour podcast, Dawn & Traci discuss how to really make Facebook work for you and not against you!...
Oct 17, 2014•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast If you're like most people who are building their network marketing business on social media, most likely Facebook will be your primary network to build your audience. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci walk you through how you can connect with the right followers on Twitter and transition them over to your Facebook community. It's a powerful way to build the right connections and the know, like, trust & remember factor!...
Oct 16, 2014•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Twitter is one of the most under utilized social media platforms and tools in the network marketing community. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share with you some of their favorite ways, both free & paid, to find and connect with your ideal audience. If you're not using Twitter to grow your audience, you'll want to after this episode!...
Oct 15, 2014•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Influence on Social Media doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, it takes certain skills & philosophies that if you employ consistently will dramatically impact your business. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci continue with yesterday's episode and help lay the groundwork so that you can become attractive to the right people on any platform you choose to use!...
Oct 14, 2014•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Dawn & Traci are going to hit you head on with some of the most important philosophies that you MUST include when you decide to start marketing your business online with social media. Inspired by How To Win Friends & Influence People, these things will make or break your success in prospecting online with Social Media!...
Oct 13, 2014•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Have you tried your hand at running Facebook ads only to be frustrated? Spending more money than you wanted to, without the results to show? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci feature an audio blog from http://HappyHourHangouts.com that walks you thru the 5 steps to make sure you have better & more effective Facebook ads!...
Oct 12, 2014•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Would you believe that there's a strong possibility that your social media audience is actually FOUR TIMES bigger than what you actually think? In today's Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci share with you how to tap into this "invisible audience" that is watching, lurking and doing nothing with the content that you share....
Oct 11, 2014•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you live your life expecting to be successful, you use a different language than someone who isn't sure about whether or not they will "make it" in Network Marketing. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you thru how to use the language of success in your marketing to help you attract the right people and the right circumstances into your life!...
Oct 10, 2014•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Having a forward thinking mindset that expects success not only will positively impact your business for the better, it can dramatically inspire others to be successful. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share with you how you can use social media to inspire others to experience success as you move along your own personal success journey!...
Oct 09, 2014•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is there a person that you know that if you could just get them "in your business" everything about your business would change? Most people when first getting started have "that person" in their minds. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share with you the importance of YOU becoming that person first, before you can expect to sponsor that person....
Oct 08, 2014•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you approach your life and business with an expectation for success, you'll by default have certain tools that are a must have to run a successful network marketing business. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you thru the must have tools that any successful entrepreneur can't live without. Just like you wouldn't think of not paying your utility bills, these are non negotiable tools for the online network marketer....
Oct 07, 2014•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast All great progress starts in the mind. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci set the stage for the week of focusing on expecting success in your life and in your business. It's critical that you focus on where you're going and not where you've been, as focusing on where you've been, your struggles, your frustrations, will only keep you stuck and will absolutely impact the way you market in Social Media...
Oct 06, 2014•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today's audio blog episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share a blog post that will sure to inspire you in your journey to success, especially if you're facing discouragement or frustration and perhaps you're ready to give up. Network Marketing can be challenging but using social media to grow your business can be very profitable, especially if you don't give up...
Oct 05, 2014•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Images are hot and we've talked about them several times on the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. On today's Weekend Marketing Minute Traci shares one of her favorite app's - WordSwag and how you can use it (only on iPhones - sorry droid users) to create original images and content from your iPhone...
Oct 04, 2014•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Podcast we continue with the topic of questions to ask to discover your avatar. These are some powerful questions you can be asking to better understand what matters to your avatar, thus allowing you to improve your communication effectiveness, which will result in more leads & sales for your business!...
Oct 03, 2014•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In yesterday's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci explained what an avatar is, why you should have one & why that matters in your marketing. Today's episode is part 1 of a 2 part series to help you ask yourself some questions to help you better define, understand and communicate to your avatar, your ideal perfect customer....
Oct 02, 2014•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast We've talked about it so many times, and we believe that it's the foundation of any successful marketing campaign or efforts. Your avatar. No, not the blue people on that awesome movie or your character from a video game. The profile, characteristics and details of your exact, ideal customer, client or business partner. Most network marketers, most people in MLM skip this, don't know about this and are taught that EVERYONE is their ideal customer, making marketing frustrating and ineffective. On...
Oct 01, 2014•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marketing your business on Facebook means you have to interrupt the conversation going on in your potential prospects head. People don't hop on Facebook to be sold stuff. In fact, people much prefer to buy and not be sold. So how do you get into the flow of the conversation going on in the minds and heart of your potential prospects? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you through the psychology of how to get people's attention and do it in a way that t...
Sep 30, 2014•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anyone & everyone wants more leads for their business. Whether you build your business online or offline, it's always all about the leads. You can buy them, you can do fairs, have booths at flea markets, get into co-op's, you name it, there are ways out there to get leads for your business, and Dawn & Traci have pretty much done them all. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, the girls talk about why generating your OWN leads is the way to go and the most powerful way for ...
Sep 29, 2014•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this audio version of a blog post from HappyHourHangouts.com, Dawn & Traci cover strategies you can use right away to start generating more free leads using Facebook. You are not going to want to miss the 3 ninja strategies that will help you never run out of leads again!...
Sep 28, 2014•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the Weekend Marketing Minute, Traci shares a cool free tool to help you understand when your audience on Twitter is most active, allowing you to better time the scheduling of your tweets, thus making your marketing efforts to your most important people more effective! Tweriod.com is a great free tool (there is a premium version that we don't use) to help you make the most of the second largest social media platform in the world!...
Sep 27, 2014•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast When you first decide to pursue your dreams and you use Network Marketing as a vehicle to do that, it can become overwhelming. Especially as you leave your comfort zone, and the people who you leave in that comfort zone don't necessarily support you. So what do you do? You find a champion. Someone who will encourage you to move forward. Social media is a great place to practice BEING someone's champion and if you are connected to the right people, it's a fantastic place to get championed! In tod...
Sep 26, 2014•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast In real estate, it's "location, location, location" and in Network Marketing it's "stories, stories, stories". In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about the importance of sharing success stories, testimonies for your products & business, and celebrating the success of others. If you've become disillusioned about the testimonies of others, feel like you'll never get there, or are just plain negative about them, then you don't want to miss today's show....
Sep 25, 2014•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast What happens when you want to leave a company and you start getting heat from reps in your current company about "cross-recruiting"? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci hit a controversial nerve in the Network Marketing industry. Do you "own" your team? Can you keep them from making a change? How does social media impact your business when it's time to move on?...
Sep 24, 2014•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Discover how to get people to like you both online and offline on today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. Learn to be genuinely interested in other people, ask questions about them, and above all else, don't practice predatory behavior!...
Sep 23, 2014•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci call "B.S" on all the people out there who are masquerading around under the guise of "helping people" when really it's their own selfish agenda that results in spammy, predatory type behavior. If I don't know you, like you, or trust you, why would I want to do business with you??...
Sep 22, 2014•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast We've all done it...go to Google and grab an image for a social media post, or a blog post. The only problem is most of those images are not free to use by anyone and you could be putting your content and your business at risk by using images that aren't free for you to use. In today's audio blog post from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci show you a way to find legal and dirt cheap images for your marketing!...
Sep 21, 2014•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
