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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