Lorraine Ball

I have a busy few months ahead, with lots of public speaking engagements planned. Here is a short list of where you will be able to find me:

March 30 - Rainmaker’s Main Event
April 14 - Introduction to Business Planning
April 16 – 17 – Marketing by the Numbers, New Orleans
April 22 – Marketing Segmentation - Hullabaloo
April 27 - All Things Marketing Seminar
May 5 - Improve Your Website ROI
May 6 - From Random Strangers to Raving Fans
May 12 - Introduction to Business Planning

I’m not your typical blogger. I write on a variety of subjects for different readers and I don’t believe all the information belongs in one place. As a result, I have multiple blogs. Well to be perfectly honest I have one blog, this one, (www.lorraineball.com) and several sites built on a Wordpress platform, where I write and post content for specific niche groups.

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I am heading out to give my fourth presentation this week.  I should be feeling a bit talked out, but I am not. Each presentation this week was different.

Tuesday- Rainmaker Update at the Main event.  We had about 275 in the room, it was hot, but the program rocked.

Wednesday – Web 2.0 for Everyone – at Confluence – For a first time this event drew quite a crowd

Thursday – Freshman Orienteation for RM – How to make the most of your membership.   With the support of a great Advisory board, this was fun.

Friday – I am off to Decater Indiana, for a Woman’s conference.  i am going to talk about Branding for Small Business.

Sure all the “big guys” are using social media more and more (generally, social media can be blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, email marketing, social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Plaxo … all the the “new ways” of marketing using the internet).

But how does a small business use social media in their marketing strategy? Read on to find out!

Want to learn more about how to do this? Check out my upcoming presentation: What is Web 2.0 and why do I care!