A quick video promo here and the lengthier version below

This workshop explored the ‘What the heck is it’ and ‘How the hell do I use it’ regarding Social Media in small business. We all need to generate sales, but firstly trust, and Social Media fits the bill perfectly if you know how to leverage it.

We had 25 small business owners join us for our 7th workhop. Long may they continue! Hoorah.

Well done Richard O’Connor from Grab Marketing and Luke Williams from Social Tech for delivering a full-on workshop. The feedback so far has been extremely positive with only 1 or 2 a little brain fried with too much content. However, we will remedy that.

Thank you to all who came, I’m sure there is follow up to do so let us know ‘What’ and ‘How’ you would like that to happen.

Thanks to Rick from Red Banana for creating these diary and promo videos. Lovely! Now all I’ve got to do is lose some weight and learn how to present!

All constructive feedback appreciated. As usual, the Good, Bad and Ugly…….

-

• Would you prefer to use a Mac at work? #
• RT @danbowyer: Started a project in Kabul last week. Had to leave the roof as bullets flew overhead….mmm! A view http://twitpic.com/4luor #
• Top Tip: If you’re on O2, you can text a blank msg to 21202 and they will text back your remaining mins, texts and monthly bill total. #
• If you want to know what the current Twitter tends are, check this out: http://bit.ly/FvQZz #
• Some really great articles on social media and online marketing by @mashable here: http://bit.ly/ykXVL #
• Stay away from early Sony Vaio’s. Pre 2008 let’s say. Hideous PCs! #

• iPhone top tip for boys. Put in pockets upside down so charging port doesn’t fill with pocket fluff #
• RT @techwatch: First Solid Gold iPhone Takes Tackiness to New Levels : http://tinyurl.com/cr4qx2 #

• What’s better, Facebook or your Landline? #
• Here’s a fun little twitter tool. Powerful too. http://www.tweetwheel.com/ #
• @drlogic We all have a role to play…. As it were. J. in reply to drlogic #
• Dear small biz owner. Do you care how green your IT is? Yes or No #

On Thursday the 16th April we delivered a 1 hr ‘Top Tips’ seminar covering the concept of how to market your business online using a plethora of free tools.

We looked at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many more including how to optimise your website and measure results.

Our guest speakers Richard O’Connor from Grab Marketing and Damien Senn from Senn-Sational gave their perspective from years as online marketing and sales gurus.

Here’s what a few attendees had to say:

“Thank you very much for the extremely informative talks today – great stuff, thought it was brilliant.”  Keren – Shout! Communications

“I thought that it was great!! My brain is still ticking it all over!! Lots to think about.”  Lisa – Ablestoke Consulting

“Just wanted to say how interesting (and entertaining) the session was last week.” Jackie Morley – NHS

Damien talks about his time with us:

• 100 Top iPhone Tips for business. Free workshop. 17th March. 1230-1330. Adam St. Tweetme for details #

• Take a look at our new updated Blog: http://theengineroom.co.uk/blog #
• @otus And a fab job you did too! in reply to otus #