Today’s topics for Oct 3, 2009

Blog Articles:

• Beans, Band-Aids, and Bullets in Social Media
• Are your customers referring your business?
• Is Social Media making us Anti-Social?

Upcoming Events: Introduction to Social Media workshop; CASN Summit; ITEX mixer; Unique 3 Business Bash; Referral Breakfast
Featured Business: Fabric Art by Becky Sneed

Marketing Tip: Always create some time to converse on the Internet

What’s on the Horizon: Social Media Business Directory

Blog Articles

Beans, Band-Aids, and Bullets in Social Media

I can remember my early days in the Marine Corps, during infantry training at Paris Island, S.C. The trainers taught us to always take an inventory after each encounter with… (more)

Are your customers referring your business?

I attended a recent network meeting and was intrigued by the questions the main speaker, Hazel Walker, Exec. Director of Business Network International (BNI) was asking.  She asked questions

about …(more)

Is Social Media making us Anti-Social

Ever since I have dove into the deep surf of social media, I have been asked if I think that people are becoming more detached from society and drawn to the computer to socialize and create activities

with …(more)

Upcoming Events

ITEX bartering company and The Knight Surfer invites you to the ITEX main monthly mixer. This is where you will meet many ITEX members and do ‘New Business’ Tuesday-Oct 20 Time 5:30 Kearley’s Restaurant – downtown Indianapolis.

Location: Kearley’s Restaurant
2960 N Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46208
www.kearleys.com

Unique 3 will be hosting their monthly business bash at EF Marburger’s fine flooring. There will be door prizes and hors devours and lots of good networking Thursday-October 15
Time: 4:30 – 6:30
Location: EF Marburger
9999 Allisonville Rd., Fishers, IN 46038

CASN will be offering a Referral Breakfast workshop at no charge. It is a great way to discuss and improve your business in a supportive setting. They will meet each Tuesday morning, from 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Location: Panera Bread – Raceway Rd
55 S Raceway Rd,  Indianapolis, IN  (near Avon)

Featured Business

Today’s featured business is Fabric Art by Becky Sneed. She has a unique product using fabric to create art. There are no prints or duplicate copies of any of her art. Each piece is one-of-a-kind.
Her specialty is custom art including pet or home portraits, and garden scenes.(More)

Marketing Tip

It seems that each day we get busier and busier. By the end of the day we might be lucky enough to take a quick peek at our emails and look into some of the information it offers. On the other side of the emails are your contacts and referrals.  Be sure to block some time on your calendar to engage with the people that are on your social media sites, such as Facebook, twitter and your blog. These are the people who will help grow your business and deserve some of your time.

What’s on the Horizon

The Knight Surfer is continuing to build the Realm.  The Realm consists of business profiles controlled by the business owners and representatives. These profiles will allow the user to add content such as text for advertising specials, photos, videos and have comment interaction with clients and customers. It is probably the first online social media directory. The setup service is free for the first 100 participants. As of today, we are at 52 members.  Once we have the first 100 these members will be listed in the new directory under their business classification. There will be a direct link to their profile page and company website. The web site will also have featured articles of businesses in the Indianapolis area. I will send out a separate news letter when we reached our goal. You still have time to sign up. Look forward to seeing you on the Realm.

Hope to see you soon,

Jim Mathews, MBA

Internet Marketing Consultant

Email: jim@theknightsurfer.com

Website: http://www.theknightsurfer.com

Community: http://www.knightsurfersrealm.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/theknightsurfer Phone: (317) 918-2457

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