Your brain processes 90% of all information it receives visually, and the stats in social media confirm it. Engagement, likes, shares, retweets are all DRAMATICALLY higher when visual images are included. Today we talk about why you should use images and how to use our favorite image creation tool, Canva.com...
Today we wrap up our 5 part series with the most important of all the reasons why you're struggling with having the success you desire in your network marketing business, a major lack of focus. Network Marketing, internet marketing, social media marketing are amazing, but when you get distracted by shiny objects, other money making opportunities and more, you get off track fast, taking team members and prospects with you....
Want massive results in your network maketing business? Then you need to be prepared to take massive action! Many people struggle because they're not only not taking enough action, they're not taking enough of the right actions. You're going to want to relisten to today's episode and then get ready to set your business on fire!!...
Do you have an upline or a mentor giving you guidance in your business and you're just not following it? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, we talk about one of the areas that could be causing your struggle and that is not being coachable. Maybe it's your pride, your ego, or maybe you're following a mentor who has had success but using an approach that doesn't resonate with you. Today's episode is for you!...
Goals....you've heard us talk about them before in episode 36. But today we talk about not just setting & writing down your goals, but creating micro goals, celebrating them, celebrating them with your team, celebrating them on social media, and nuturing them into wild, massively awesome achievements!...
One of the biggest reasons you're struggling in your Network Marketing business is FEAR! Today Dawn & Traci talk about the most common fears, how you can work thru them and leverage social media to do it FASTER! Be sure to tag your posts this week to the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Fan Page and enter to win one of our favorite books!...
Anytime you start something new it can be overwhelming. In this special audio blog, Dawn & Traci walk you through how to avoid becoming overwhelmed when you start to build your business using social media & the internet. Today's podcast is an audio version of a blog post from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour blog at http://HappyHourHangouts.com....
In this weekend's Weekend Marketing Minute, Traci shares a cool tool she uses to manage the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Twitter account. If you are serious about using Twitter as one of your social media channels, then this is a tool you don't want to be without! You're going to love ManageFlitter!...
Today we pick up where we left off yesterday and Dawn & Traci give you more things to consider, investigate and research when it comes to making a move to a new network marketing company. Social Media can help you do the due dilligence necessary to find a candidate that could be a great home for you. Consider these questions so you don't go down the wrong path and get let down by another opportunity....
There are certain things you should look for when finding a great business to represent. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci lay out some things to look for, some questions to ask and some things you should be aware of when choosing a network marketing company you can get excited about....
Today Dawn & Traci share some very dramatic experiences of when they had to dig in deep, do a gut check and then make the decision to jump. Not jump into action in their business, but jump to make a change. Sometimes your business, your network marketing or direct sales company is not a good fit. How do you know if it's time to make that jump?...
Inspired by a viral video by Steve Harvey, Dawn & Traci discuss in this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour the importance of just jumping and going after your success. Learn why it's okay to just go and make a mess, and realize that "Perfect" is really just like a unicorn....it doesn't exsist! If you or someone you know has been "getting ready to get ready" and paralyzed by fear of making a mistake, then this is the episode for them!...
Today Dawn & Traci are going to walk you thru the steps you need to take each day to make sure that by the end of the month, the quarter or the year, you end up where you want to go. This Social Media Marketing Happy Hour will break down the steps that lead to success & growth in your business....
If getting more leads & sales for your business using Social Media is something you've been wanting to do, then you do not want to miss this special live webinar hosted by Dawn Marrs Ortiz & Traci Reuter of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. Special guest, Tim Paige of Leadpages will be joining us live on http://HappyHourHangouts.com/LeadpagesLive Tuesday September 9 at 5pm EST. Be there live because you could be the lucky viewer who wins over $2000 in bonuses!!...
In this audio version of a blog post from HappyHourHangouts.com, Dawn & Traci share the steps you need to take to set up a Facebook Fanpage for your network marketing, direct sales or MLM company. Everything from how to name your page, how to set it up and how to get it launched....
In this weekend's Weekend Marketing Minute, Traci shares a cool tool she uses to manage the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Twitter account. If you are serious about using Twitter as one of your social media channels, then this is a tool you don't want to be without! You're going to love ManageFlitter!...
You've probably heard the phrase "your why should make you cry" and it really should, but, what about having a why that EXCITES you?? It's human nature to want to move towards things that really light us up and excite us. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci help you get focused on what will excite you in the future, and what excites you NOW! Prepared to get fired up!...
If you're planning to have a successful launch or relaunch of your business over the next 90 days, then there are somethings you are going to need to stop doing, some things you'll need to start doing, and some things to add to your arnesal of tools, marketing & recruiting. This episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour will help you get clarity on how to set yourself up for success during this fall 90 day blitz!...
Setting goals are important for your success, but as long as your subsconscious mind is programmed to fail, you will never reach those goals. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, learn how to start to create a vision for your life and for your success. By creating a future vision & practicing that visualization daily, it will change how you market in social media!...
If you don't know where you're going then how will you ever get there? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci talk about research on goal setting and how much more effective it is when you add to it an action commitment and then it becomes almost unstoppable when you add accountibility! Be prepared to start creating new goals for your network marketing business for the remainder of 2014 and beyond! It will make a huge difference in how you use social media to marke...
It's Labor Day in the U.S. and that signals the end of summer, kids are back in school and it's time to put a renewed focus on your business. This is the perfect time to prepare for a 90 day launch or relaunch of your business so that come December, you can enjoy the holiday season debt free. Join Dawn & Traci today and get ready for a September to remember!
In this audio version of a blog post from HappyHourHangouts.com, Dawn & Traci share the steps you need to take to set up a Facebook Fanpage for your network marketing, direct sales or MLM company. Everything from how to name your page, how to set it up and how to get it launched....
On this weekends episode of the "Weekend Marketing Minute" Dawn & Traci cover some "Don'ts" in Twitter that could be costing you leads & sales!! Grab a pen & paper and quickly do an audit of your Twitter marketing and make the changes you need to get the results possible from Twitter!...
We live in a social media age, and there are so many different platforms. How do you choose which channels to focus on so you don't become a slave to your computer. Traci & Dawn break down their strategy for being everywhere and for being smart & productive when it comes to your social media marketing....
How do you balance the fine line between asking for help and driving your mentor nuts? The sooner you can become self sufficient when it comes to finding the answers to your questions the better. So how do you get support you need, rather than the support you want? In this episode Dawn & Traci put it into perspective so that you can take advantage of having a mentor help you grow your business fast!...
Social Media can be used for more than just generating leads & sales. It can be a wonderful place to create a community for your clients, customers & prospects. In this episode, Dawn & Traci talk about how you can use Facebook groups to create communities for your customers & for your team members. These kinds of social media communities could be the difference between a solid residual income and a shaky one....
If you're a new marketer, then you probably have a lot to learn and a pretty big comfort zone to step out of. We are big fans of practice and "just doing it", but there comes a time when you have to ask yourself if your actions are reaching your target audience or are you just speaking to people who are already in your business? It's time to see things for what it is and move yourself forward toward your goals....
One of our listeners asked if they should be building an email list and "soliciting" people via email. They weren't comfortable with that idea and that inspired this episode. In today's show Dawn & Traci talk about email marketing and it's relevance in today's marketing online. Should you be building an email list, how do you not come across as a spammer? What if you've never started to build a list? Should every email be promoting something and having a call to action to buy? Email marketing is...
For today's Weekend Marketing Tip from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci discuss one of their favorite tools to help make your life easier. Hootsuite. Hootsuite is a great tool to help you manage and automate several different social media sites, but Dawn & Traci primarily use it for Twitter marketing. You can get a free month trial of the Hootsuite Pro on our website at http://HappyHourHangouts.com Hootsuite will make your social media marketing efforts so much more effective a...
In this new weekend segment of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour where Dawn & Traci bring you a quick social media tip that they are currently using to build their business, the topic is a cool research site for use with Twitter. Hashtagify.me is a tool that Dawn & Traci use to do research on the best hashtags to use to attract their avatar when marketing on Twitter....
