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2010 Marketing Workshops and Presentations:

SEPTEMBER 2010

  • 9/17/2010 Friday 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm "Public Relations - How to Use Press Releases to Promote your Product, Service or Business" 1521 Georgetown Road, Conference room, Hudson, Ohio. Call for reservations. Fee includes workbook and refreshments. Presented by Chris Brown.
    SOLD OUT.

  • 9/23/2010 Thursday 10to 11:15 am How to Market Your Business with Social Networks Save time and effort by learning how to have the best impact for marketing your business on the social networks. Social networking offers new ways to network, collaborate, and grow your business. Learn how to make the most of it, while minimizing your time and learning curve. Chris Brown will speak about blogging, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.


    Crowne Plaza in Dowtntown Cleveland. 2010 Profit Factor. To register, call 1-800-900-7735 for more information.

OCTOBER 2010

  • 10/25/2010 Monday 9:15-10:30am and 10/26/2010 Tuesday 2:15-3:30pm "First, Solve a Problem: How One Entrepreneur Started and Grew a Professional Service Business" Kent State University, Business Building Room 210B, Kent, Ohio. Entrepreneurship class guest lecturer.

NOVEMBER 2010

  • 11/5/2010 Friday morning. Entrepreneur Extravaganza. "How to Use Networking to Market your Business Workshop" Kent State University, Student Center second floor, Kent, Ohio. For more information contact the Center for Business Excellence and Innovation 330-672-9430.

Past 2010 Marketing and Branding Speaking Engagements

JANUARY 2010

  • 1/21/2010 Thursday 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm "Social Media Marketing" Presented by Marketing Resources & Results. Who should attend: business professionals who want to improve the on line presense for their company or organization. Call to reserve your place. Location: 1521 Georgetown Road, Hudson, Ohio. Presented by Chris Brown.

    Get out of your "Blog Fog" and pull together your social media marketing program. It's one of the strongest way to connect and promote your business. Step by step how-to instruction helps to take some of the confusion out of the social media maze with this workshop. Participants will discover the various types of media, when to use them, how to use them and show you how to measure their effectiveness in your marketing campaign. Interactive questions and answers will also help to eliminate some of the confusion and help you develop a powerful program using web2.0 techniques.

MARCH 2010

APRIL 2010

MAY 2010

  • 5/1/2010 Saturday 10:15 am to 11 am "Out of the Blog Fog: Intro to Blogging”

    Are you considering taking your first steps in blogging?: Wondering if blogging could help your career? Confused about which platform to use? How often to post and what to do to get started blogging? Take some of the confusion out of the blog fog with this workshop. Chris Brown blogs on both WordPress and Blogspot. She'll explain pros and cons of various formats, the various parts of a post, show some examples of how to set up a "cool" layout with widgets and what to do to measure your readership. Questions will be answered to help the beginner understand the first steps to take in blogging.

    First Annual PodCampCleveland. #PCCLV10 www.podcampcleveland.com Cuyahoga Valley Career Center, Route 21, Brecksville, Ohio.

  • 5/5/2010 Wednesday 8:30 am to 10:30 am (8 am networking) "Understanding Social Networking and How it Can Benefit My Business” -- A closer look at LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter -- a good, solid overview of how these tools can be used effectively in a social networking/marketing strategy. Hosted by the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce. Willoughby Hills Community Center, Willoughby, Ohio. To register or more info, visit the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce website. Presented by Chris Brown.

  • 5/12/2010 Wednesday 2:30 pm "Marketing to Reach Senior Citizens Thru New Media Referrals ” -- Hosted by the Cardinal Retirement Center, Stow, Ohio. A monthly meeting presentation for Senior Services And Marketing Associates (SSAMA) Presented by Chris Brown.

JUNE 2010

  • 6/16/2010 Wednesday 11:30am - 1:00 pm "How to Create a Social Media Strategy" Chris Brown will be one of the panelists on the Panel Discussion. Who should attend: business professionals who are responsible for the PR, Marketing and/or IT for their company. Call to reserve your place. Location: Hattie's Cafe. Hudson OH 44236. Free lunch sponsored by SimpleX-IT 234-380-1277.

  • 6/19/2010 Saturday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm "25 Ways to Use a WordPress Blog to Brand and Market Your Business" Presented by Chris Brown of Marketing Resources & Results at WordPress Camp in Mendenhall Hall on the Ohio State University Campus in Columbus Ohio.

JULY 2010

  • 7/21/2010 Wednesday 11:30am - 1:00 pm Back by popular demand: In June 2010 Chris Brown participated on the panel discussion: "How to Create a Social Media Strategy" and it was met with such overwhelming response, she was asked to come back in July 2010 to present Blogging 1010: How You Can Get Started with the Most Important New Marketing Tool of the Decade (according to Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence.) Who should attend: business professionals who are responsible for the PR, Marketing and/or IT for their company. Call to reserve your place. Location: Hattie's Cafe. Hudson OH 44236. Free lunch sponsored by SimpleX-IT, but please register: 234-380-1277.





  • 7/28/2010 Wednesday 7:30 am "“The Use of Social Media in Marketing" designed to help business professionals understand how to integrate social media into their existing marketing programs. Chris Brown publishes the award winning BRANDING AND MARKETING online digital publication (also known as a blog) where she has written more than 800 articles and has over 6,000 subscribers.

    And while she doesn’t claim to be an extreme expert in social media marketing, she has used LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, YouTube and Flickr as marketing tools to successfully build awareness of her company, establish a strong online reputation and attract new clients.

    Fairlawn Country Club, N Wheaton Dr., Akron, Ohio. Contact the Fairlawn Rotary for reservations.

AUGUST 2010

  • 8/11/2010 Wednesday 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. "Blogging for Business Owners"
    Come to Akron’s Woman’s City Club to learn how you can develop the same skills and techniques used by the best professionals. Sponsored by RistList, Norma J. Rist CEO Consulting.

    Chris Brown, President and owner of Marketing Resources & Results, will be one of the 3 panelists. She has been blogging at BrandAndMarket.com since early 2006, attended 3 out-of state blogging conferences and 5 in Ohio. She is the co-founder of the Akron Bloggers Community, an informal organization that meets monthly to share and collaborate. She uses blogging to brand and market her business, build her marketing reputation on the internet and stay current with changing trends in the marketing industry.

    • What I wished I knew before I started
    • Proper blogging etiquette when it comes to commenting
    • How I make time for it
    • Where to get ideas for blog posts

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April 2011

  • 4/TBD/2011 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm "Public Relations - Using PR to Promote your Product, Service or Business" Hosted by the Akron Urban League. Partnership for Minority Business Accelerator PMBA. Akron, Ohio. Presented by Chris Brown

      PR: How To Tips to Promote your Product, Service or Business.
    • Each participant will learn the ins and outs of how to use PR to build their business.
    • Discover how to write a press release that will help them to promote their business, product or service.
    • Learn how to re-purpose a press release in 5 ways to get more mileage out of the press release that they have written.
    • Brainstorm different topics o write a press release about and will create a mini-media list with 10 places to send their press release.
    • Find out the difference between advertising and PR and when to use which technique to achieve your goals.
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JUNE 2011

  • Monday, 6/13/2011 Association of Professional Landscape Designers Marketing & Branding Workshop. 9 am - 4 pm How to Brand and Market your Landscape Design Business Creating a Marketing Program Designed to Build Awareness, Brand your Comapny and Attract New Customers

    Participants will:
    * Discover why you MUST brand your landscaping design company
    * Learn the 4 most important ways to accomplish your branding
    * Customize your marketing program to fit your individual budget
    * Find out 5 easy lessons to effectively use those free (but time consuming) social media tools
    * Identify easy ways to monitor marketing results and use measurement tools to improve your business

    Regardless of where in the 3 levels of marketing experience you currently feel you rank: the novice beginner, the intermediate junior level marketer or the advanced expert, you’ll find benefit from the marketing strategies and tactics shared during this program.

    Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) International Conference, Marriott Downtown Key Center, 127 Public Square, Cleveland Ohio.

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“I really appreciate your marketing presentation and especially found good value from your information on where to look for new ideas and the ways to approach new business. It’s obvious you have an overall love for marketing and you have great delivery with a lot of eye contact and energy. Very knowledgeable.”
Ron Shuler
Competitive Edge Contractors

“I gained a lot of marketing ideas from your presentation. The portion on web marketing was especially interesting.”
Willie Cook

“You’re very knowledgeable about the topic of marketing for entrepreneurs and your website tips extremely helpful.”
Mike Posten
Posten’s Painting


“I am in the marketing industry but still was able to learn a few new things! Chris is very knowledgeable and presenting the information in an engaging manner. I’d recommend her presentation to other organizations.”
Jeri Waters, President/CEO
Signature Communications, LLC

Thank you for doing the Social Networking seminar yesterday for the members of the Willoughby Area Chamber of Commerce. Not only is this a timely topic but it was well received by our members. I know that they walked away feeling educated and informed about an topic that is crucial to keeping their businesses at the forefront of their respective industries.

You did a great job in holding everyone's interest and in responding to their many questions.

The fact that you were prepared and knowledgeable about your subject matter conveyed a level of competency that will inspire the attendees to take what was an interest in social networking to an actual involvement with it.

We're fortunate to have had you with us and appreciate your effort in putting together this seminar.

Sincerely,
Nikki Matala
Executive Director

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