What is Social Media Breakfast Atlanta?

We are all business professionals who use online networking to meet new people, establish and develop new alliances, plan events, provide resources and much more. Our regular attendees include graphic artists and bloggers but also includes insurance agents, chefs, small business owners, real estate agents, bankers and much more. The only reason not to attend is that you just already have enough friends!

We start the meeting at 8AM but networking begins as early as 7:30. At 8AM we are eating, sipping coffee (please support the venue by buying at least a coffee or tea), and spending one on one time with one another. Generally we have one or two presenters who take about 10 minutes to share about their success with online networking but we also have people who can explain why colors are important, how choosing the right logo for your business can make all the difference in the world, and even people who can tell you how to network with a blood drive. Not joking!

Community Giving

Starting with this August event we are going to be raising money every meeting to go to a specific charity and our charity this month is MUST – Marietta United in Service and Training. Ken Cook, founder of the NW Atlanta SMB, has volunteered with MUST in the past and believes in what they do. One of the project we can really get behind is their making sure school aged children in their program have food, clothing and school supplies. Your donation here will go into the pot and we will present a check to MUST either at or shortly after the event. We will present at the event if we raise enough to make it worth their time to come.

Itinerary

7:30 – 8:00AM pre-meeting encounters – feel free to pass out cards or your information to others
8:00 – 8:20AM ordering breakfast – you’re on your own but the menu is vast and affordable
8:20 – 8:30AM charity presentation to MUST if representative is present (need to raise at least $200 for this)
8:25 – 8:45AM Tools, Tips and Tricks – as many as 10 tools to use in online (and off) network building
8:45 – 9:15AM presenters – this month’s presenters will be announced soon
9:15 – 9:xx 60 second elevator presentations from attendees
until 10AM open networking

Cost for the entire day is $10 for attendees and sponsorship opportunities are available.

There are two site to visit. One is the Small Biz BarCamp site at http://smallbizbarcamp.com/category/cities/atlanta/ and you can get to the Eventbrite site from that link to RSVP.

RSVP is required and you can do so HERE for FREE (or a small donation will really help)!

Sponsors wanted to help cover the costs of hosting, buying name tags, providing gift items and even the cost of breakfast. If you have a technology related product for the online marketing industry please contact Ken at 678-439-8683 or click on the Sponsor Us link.

Kevin Glowacki, aka The Atlanta Wine Guy will be presenting. Kevin is a prolific wine blogger and has built a tremendous following not only in the Atlanta area but around the world.

Kevin Glowacki - Atlanta Wine Guy

Kevin was laid off at the end of March this year. He worked in a very tiny industry and had a very non-specific set of duties and skills. He worked in special events and did all sorts of things, from purchasing, asset and inventory management, trouble shooting, production planning, warehouse department management, product development and software development “(I’m not a programmer unfortunately). That has made it a bit more difficult to find a job, so with encouragement from my wife and a credit card, I started this blog. It keeps me sane and has introduced me to the whirlwind of social media, which I participated in back in when I was an active member of?Tribe. While I’m still learning, I’m energized by all that is going on.

“I’ve talked about doing this for a while and finally did it. I’ll be doing wine reviews, articles that you or may not learn from, restaurant reviews and anything else related to wine, food and other beverages. If I find a tea that I really like (and I do love good iced tea), I’ll write about it. Of course, wine is obviously the focus, but I’ve typically found that “wineauxs” tend to be foodies and are interested in anything related. I’m sure things will change as this process evolves … I’m just here to enjoy myself and if you do to, that is sauce for the meal.”

Taryn Pisaneschi

Taryn Pisaneschi empowers small businesses, freelancers and solopreneurs to take charge of their own marketing and branding strategies. As a social media expert for over ten years, Taryn understands that the key to brand expansion is in effective and strategic social networking. She has been building online relationships since 1990 and started organizing networking events for online contacts since 1992.

In 2002, she leveraged social networking to quadruple the market share of a small, service based company based in Atlanta in 18 months. As the founder of Women Intelligently Networking, Taryn supports female?entrepreneurs through luncheons, events, and business skill workshops. Her leadership skills and the effectiveness of WIN! have garnered both regional and national attention.

As Chief Marketer for TSP Marketing, Taryn works with individual clients to develop business branding basics. Clients benefit from learning about solid elevator pitches, intentional referrals, and productive social networking strategies. Through TSP Marketing, Taryn empowers clients to meet their marketing goals in a friendly and meaningful way.

There is no doubt you are going to enjoy this event and learn much from these two great presenters. You are invited to come and share what you know with us and enjoy a great couple of hours together getting to know one another and learning more about the burgeoning social media industry.

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Social Media Breakfast Atlanta April 15, 2010

Just in case you missed us we had a fantastic event at the Atlanta Bread Company on Prado Lane in Marietta (Town Center) on April 15. About 22 people showed up for the event and we enjoyed our normal great breakfast and coffee and each other.

James Ball spoke about what it means to make money from your online experience. Much more than a “Twitter 101″ session James talked about the self-less hours needed to be dedicated to your online presence, the need to engage and promote others and the way many people fail to understand how improbably it is to “buy your way to the top”.

“Paying me to do it for you [engage] is like using pay-per-click advertising”, James says, “once the budget runs out it’s over.”

Good stuff on "doing it for real"

We were also joined by a lovely family of sweet potato pie bakers who also distribute soul seasonings. They were picked on often by many present as the perfect type of business to take social for profit. One of their party, Ed Montgomery, was psyched when he left and obviously ready to hit it! Remember, Ed, if you have enough true friends you’ll never have to sell anything.

Attending today was Desiree Scales of Bella Web Design who joined us for the first time. A repeat visit from Steve Moore proved as helpful as always and so many others were on hand as well. Let’s just say it was certainly one of the best Social Media Breakfasts in Marietta to date.

Chris Foster from Georgia.com joined us as well and I’m looking forward to much more from Chris with the relaunching of that fantastic user driven site. I’ll see Chris at the Atlanta Steeple Chase very soon!

Next month you have GOT to be there! Two great speakers I am really looking forward to. Kevin Glowacki – The Atlanta Wine Guy?http://atlantawineguy.com and Taryn Pisaneschi W.I.N. ? Women Intelligently Networking?http://tarynp.com/

This week’s event was sponsored by:

Social Media Edge – social media and online consulting

Small Biz BarCamp Atlanta – all about small business and technology not just social media but legal, advertising, insurance, accounting, payroll, benefits, licensing, and much more!

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Atlanta Bread Company Town Center
2555 Prado Lane
(Barrett Pkwy Prado Center)
Marietta, Georgia 30066
770-420-9225

Want to address the group?
Planning on attending and have a relevant topic?
Submit for consideration at http://smbatlanta.icobb.com/speak

Special Guest Presenter – James Ball

James is the mind behind http://noteasytoforget.com andhttp://hellonorthgeorgia.com to name a couple. James will be presenting his marketing experience, what inspired him and what still inspires him. I know we’re really going to enjoy everything James brings to us so make sure you don’t miss this event!

James can be found on Twitter at @noteasytoforget and @HelloNorthGa

Topics for open discussion will include:

Foursquare – using it for longtail search marketing and community advocacy. Also the fear(s) – both real and imagined – about using geolocation services to interact with social media.

Blogging – is it dead? Dying? If so can that trend be reversed and does it need to be? Ken Cook has published over 3000 blog posts just in the last decade but also uses open engagement as a mainstay in community building.

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Spring is in the air and we’re going to have a fantastic season of sun here in Atlanta. Lane, Thom and I are looking forward to organizing a great string of events and want each of you to play a major roll in the upcoming schedule.

The organizers for the Atlanta Social Media Breakfast are Ken Cook (Northwest), Lane Bailey (Northeast) and Thom Abbott (Perimeter/Intown) the founder of Social Media Breakfast is Bryan Person of Austin, Texas.

Ken is an Atlanta native with over two decades of online networking experience and is a PHP/MySQL/AJAX developer, photographer and musician. Since November 2008 he has hosted/cohosted the top Blog Talk Radio show on the subject of Social Networking “Social Media Edge” (Tuesdays at Noon Eastern?http://socialmediaedge.com) and Host of http://REtechRadio.com a Real Estate New Media and Technology Show. He most recently spent a decade as Social Media and Operations Director of NovaStar/Novation Mortgage companies and is currently a national FHA mortgage professional, blogger and trainer. Ken may be contacted directly at 678-439-8683 found on Twitter @thekencook or Skyped at thekencook

Lane is a prolific blogger and you may have met him at any number of area events Meetups/Tweetups and Bloggerodeo or New Media Atlanta. He travels as much as possible to other Social Media gatherings across the Southeast. Lane is a Real Estate Agent and car aficionado. Lane may be contacted directly at 678-200-5895 especially if you are in northeast Atlanta (Lawrenceville/Stone Mountain) and he can be found on Twitter at @LaneBailey as well as at one of his blogs http://LaneBailey.com

Thom Abbott is an Intown marketing practicioner learning to apply many social media tools to his years of experience in building his network and he is the facilitator of the Perimeter/Intown Social Media Breakfast events. He can be found on Twitter at @ThomAbbott and can be reached on his cell phone at 770-713-1505

SPONSORED BY:

Social Media Edge Radio – http://SocialMediaEdge.com every Tuesday at Noon eastern
AHK East Cobb – http://ahkeastcobb.com

Next month (May 21) join us for speakers Kevin Glowacki -?The Atlanta Wine Guy http://atlantawineguy.com and Taryn Pisaneschi W.I.N. – Women Intelligently Networking http://tarynp.com/

James is also the mind behind http://hellonorthgeorgia.com which is North Georgia’s Virtual Directory.

All you need to do to add yourself to the mailing list is to create an account here at this site or click the CONTACT link.

Atlanta Bread Company Town Center
2555 Prado Lane
(Barrett Pkwy Prado Center)
Marietta, Georgia 30066
770-420-9225

Want to address the group?
Planning on attending and have a relevant topic?
Submit for consideration at http://smbatlanta.icobb.com/speak

The main topics of discussion for this meeting will :
Leveraging Online Review Sites for Your Small Business
Building a Reach Maximized Online Presence (managing mega-followers)
Top Social Media Websites like Twitter, Posterous and Facebook
Top Social Media Tools like TweetDeck, SocialOomph
Open Discussion on Branding
Maximizing the Value of the PROFILE!

BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Spring is in the air and we’re going to have a fantastic season of sun here in Atlanta. Lane and I are looking forward to organizing a great string of events and want each of you to play a major roll in the upcoming schedule.

The organizers for the Atlanta Social Media Breakfast are Lane Bailey and Ken Cook – the founder of Social Media Breakfast is Bryan Person of Austin, Texas.

Ken is an Atlanta native with over two decades of online networking experience and is a PHP/MySQL/AJAX developer, photographer and musician. Since November 2008 he has hosted/cohosted the top Blog Talk Radio show on the subject of Social Networking “Social Media Edge” (Tuesdays at Noon Eastern http://budurl.com/jckc) and Host of http://REtechRadio.com – a Real Estate New Media and Technology Show. He most recently spent a decade as Social Media and Operations Director of NovaStar/Novation Mortgage companies and is currently a national FHA mortgage professional. Ken may be contacted directly at 678-439-8683 found on Twitter?@thekencook or Skyped at?thekencook

Lane is a prolific blogger and you may have met him at any number of area events – Meetups/Tweetups and Bloggerodeo or New Media Atlanta. He travels as much as possible to other Social Media gatherings across the Southeast. Lane is a Real Estate Agent and car aficionado. Lane may be contacted directly at 678-200-5895 especially if you are in northeast Atlanta (Lawrenceville/Stone Mountain)

Join us at 8AM on November 19th at:

Atlanta Bread Company Town Center
2555 Prado Lane
(Barrett Pkwy Prado Center)
Marietta, Georgia 30066
770-420-9225
MAP

Our inaugral meeting in Gwinnett brought in 20 people for a fantastic time of sharing, learning and , of course, eating!

The main topics of discussion for this meeting will :

Top Social Media Websites like Posterous and Facebook
Top Social Media Tools like TweetDeck
The Line Between Social and Unwelcomed
Maximizing the Value of the PROFILE!

RSVP is FREE and REQUIRED – click here to RSVP for free!

Since the land mass of the metro Atlanta area is larger than most we will have rotating locations until we can establish leadership for each region.

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 8:00am – 10:00am
Location: Atlanta Bread Company in Suwanee
Street: 3320 Lawrenceville Suwanee Rd NE
City: Suwanee, GA

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Join us at 7AM on August 26th at:

Atlanta Bread Company Town Center
2555 Prado Lane
(Barrett Pkwy Prado Center)
Marietta, Georgia 30066
770-420-9225
MAP

RSVP here http://smbatlanta2.eventbrite.com/