Wilmington
Successful Twitter MeetUp In Wilmington!
What a fun night last night! nearly 50 Wilmington residents assembled at Howe Creek offices near Mayfair to listen to some top notch Twitter advice. For a new twist, we also streamed the Meetup in live broadcast using UStream.tv, and had 10 people watching live from various parts of North Carolina, including Colorado!
Our focus on this Twitter MeetUp was to field questions from the audience people had about Twitter, then our stellar panel answered them.
Questions ranged from “Why use Twitter”, “Using Twitter for business” and “What are your favorite applications for Twitter." Some applications discussed last night included Twollo, Tweet Deck, twhirl, and Twitter grader. Do you have a favorite Twitter application? We want to hear, please leave it in a comment below!
One other neat announcement was Shannan Bowen telling us about the Star News launching a new section of their site listing their Twitter users, and local “tweeps”, here it is: http://www.starnewsonline.com/section/news41
Special thanks to our panelists Bruce Brown of Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty, Steve Harrell of Sophic, Shannan Bowen of the Wilmington Star News, and William Lang of Port City Color Copy handled the Ustream PC and fielded questions that came in via the Internet. Oh, I was there of course, Ty Downing with Perspective Internet Marketing and SayItSocial.
Video: Twitters Spectacular Growth – Co-Founder Evan Williams
Wilmington Twestival Was a Complete Success!
For those of you who came out last night, (over 60 people) our Wilmington Twestival was an incredible display of how social media can impact people, and organizations for the good. Twestivals were held simultaneously last night (February 13, 2009) for Charity: Water, in an effort to raise awareness, and donations for cleaner water in under-developed lands. Twitter was the main “tool” of social media we used to organize this event in literally 10 days..amazing. Pictures of last night are at bottom of this post, if you have any to add to this, send them! Leave comments too.
How much did our Twestival Raise?
We just got our final donation called in this morning from Ana Dawson, with Pre-Paid Legal Services, she and her associates donated $220, and plan on giving a total of $500.00! So with that amount and 100% donations off ticket sales last night we will be able to donate $1,205.00!!!
Our goal was $4,000, but in all honesty, we met, and exceeded our goal. This amount will help fund clean drinking water for 1000’s of people, Wilmington, we should be proud! Remember this was a global event, I can’t wait to see the total numbers from the over 180 cities….Be sure to visit the Twestival site, and Charity: Water site for details soon.
Twestival 2009 – Wilmington, NC – Are You Coming?
We are just a couple of days away from one incredible world-wide event called Twestival. What will happen Thursday February 12th, 2009 at Port City Pub here in Wilmington, NC?
- Social Gathering, Networking.
- Simultaneous broadcast from cities across the globe.
- Donations accepted to fund clean drinking water projects in Africa.
- Witness results of harnessing the power of Twitter, and social media.
- Free Beer, food, clean drinking water.
What else, any prizes? Of course. The first 50 people in the door get a free t-shirt! After that, a donation of $5.00 per shirt. There will also be raffles going on, here are some other prizes being given.
- One free Surf lesson.
- iPod Nano.
- Spectrum Jewelry & Crafts Jewelry.
- Tickets to the Sea Dawgs basketball.
- Who knows what else, just get your tickets!
Please, please come. Help us reach our goal of $4,000.00, the price to fund the building of one well in Africa…
Where do I get my tickets? Please go here. Looking forward to seeing you Thursday!
In the meantime, take a look at our local promotional video, as this will about bring you to tears, and explain why we are doing this.
Twestival Is Coming To My Home Town, Wilmington, NC!
Hello everybody,
Have you heard the buzz around Wilmington, NC, the city I live in? I know you have heard of Twitter, the social media tool ‘phenom’ right?
Well guess what, "Twestival" is coming to Wilmington next week! Instead of our Meetup this week, I will be organizing the finishing touches on this worldwide fund raising event for an organization called Charity: Water. Wilmington will be host to 1 out of 175 cities worldwide on February 12th, 2009.
I personally invite all of you to attend. No, you don’t have to be a ‘Twitter’er’, so just take a look at the following websites to get more information, but for now 100% of proceeds go to the charity, tickets are only $15.00 and includes food, entertainment, prizes, and beer… More details below….please especially view the video, and visit our site!
I look forward to having you there if you can make it!
What is Twestival? Where does the monies for my ticket go? Take a look.
More details, and where do I get tickets? Take a look here.
Web Site Reviews At Our Wilmington Meetup!
I am pretty excited about our second SEO/SEM Meetup group being held tonight, December 4th, in my hometown of Wilmington, NC. This Meetup will be focusing on reviewing 3 locally owned web sites listed below.
By combining several years of Internet marketing experience as well as web design experience, the review panel hopes to give these site owners some valuable advice to help get them traffic, and improve overall looks of their web site. Here are the 3 sites we will review;
1- www.coastal-mail.com
2- www.urbanbabygear.com
3- www.crossfitcoastal.com
Do you have any advice for these sites? I would love to hear from you..
Who will be on the review panel?
Richard Perry – Akira Media, Web designer in Wilmington,NC
Megan Criss – Wilmington SEO, Search Engine Optimization Company
Jayson Conway – Internet Marketing
Ty Downing – Perspective Internet Marketing, Wilmington, NC
Hopefully we will post some pictures of the evenings event!
Web Designers and Internet Marketers Can Get Along
It’s true. When you typically think of IT type people and marketing people, you sometimes think of right brain/left brain reactions right? Well, I am glad to have as a connection, and colleague, Richard Perry from Akira Media web design in Wilmington, NC. Our working together is PROOF that we can all get along, us SEO’s and web designers. 
Now I am not totally sure if he agrees that he is an "IT" guy, so I can’t wait to see his comments, but semantics aside, the bottom line is that you can, and should get along with each other to effectively reach your intended results, CLIENT SATISFACTION.
You see, if you are an search marketer and have a working relationship with your web designer, more than likely you will be able to tackle a client with experience, and accomplish the most good for the client. In addition, I can say working with Richard on projects, he knows what to expect from me, and I know what to expect from him, so we save tons of time.
My advice is simply to make friends with your local web designers, and visa versa. There is no substitute for both of you being on the same page going into a project, and in the end, you both win.
Everybody, Meet Coach Reggie!
Yesterday I had the rare privilege of being a guest host on “Coach Reggie’s” weekly radio show here in my hometown. If you are looking for a business coach in Wilmington, NC, or anywhere (I think he does this nationally) you need to talk to Reggie.
What does he do? Check this out, Reggie Shropshire is a certified Wilmington Business Coach with ActionCOACH, the World’s #1 Business Coaching Franchise (Entrepreneur Magazine, Jan. 2004 & 2005).
He focuses on 5 key areas to help a business succeed (But not limited to)
- Sales
- Marketing and Advertising
- Team Building and Recruitment
- Systems and Business Development
- Customer Service
It’s so funny how I met Reggie, the Internet through “Word of Mouse!” You see he teaches fundamental principles to his clients that dove tails into what I do, so when we met last week, within minutes we added another notch in our network circle. He sees the power of the Internet, social media, and teaches, preaches this to his clients. He and I are a classic example of the power of the Internet and networking. In fact, he is even hosting a seminar September 2nd, 2008 here in Wilmington entitled “Turning Social Media from Sociable to Profitable.” (Sign up here if you can go) Finally, someone that gets it!
Internet Marketing MeetUp Group In Wilmington Now!
I am pleased to finally say there is a Wilmington, NC Search Engine Optimization (SEO) MeetUp group now in the Port City!
Search Engine Optimization Services, Wilmington, NC
What a bland title, search engine optimization services Wilmington, NC..Why this title? Well, this happens to be the city I live in, and I have been pleasantly surprised at the interest lately with internet marketing, namely SEO here.
There are just a few web marketing companies here, and just a couple seem to cater towards focusing on search engine marketing, but I think Wilmington is growing up! This is something I have been waiting for for about 4 years now! In the last year, I have received more inquries for my services here more than ever, and just the last month or two, an overwhelming amount. I say bring it…We need to grow up here in Wilmington, and need to realize the time is now to optimize your site, and I am more than happy to help! If you want to go at it alone, remember we also offer internet marketing training in Wilmington, NC!
