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?
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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/

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
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