Our featured guest will be Shama Kabani–president of The Marketing Zen Group, a full service digital marketing firm that serves clients around the world.  She has been dubbed the “master millennial of the universe” and “an online marketing shaman” by Fast Company, and was listed as one of Business Week Magazine’s ’Top 25 Under 25′ entrepreneurs in North America.   

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Social media has the capabilities to take your business to new places, but you have to understand how social media interacts with your existing marketing plan. You might be posting to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube many times each day, but do you know eactly how this is benefitting your business? Are you sure that you’re using these powerful social media tools smartly and effectively?

Check out our next live Teleclass on Wednesday, July 28th at 8 PM EST entitled “Step Up Marketing Using Social Media” with social media expert Tia Singh and learn how to take advantage of this amazing technology. Tia has used social media to take her business from the ground up, and will teach you the tips that have made her a success. By the end of the call, you’ll be equipped with 3 social media steps you can implement immediately in your business! Click here to register for our next call.

– Oscar Wilde

We’ve opened our conference offer to everyone in our database.  For three more days you can purchase 2 Audio Recordings and get 1 Free.   Offer ends May 31 at midnight and coupon code is Conference2010.
 
We have over 50 Audio Recordings to choose from and many may apply towards your continuing education credits.  Click here to see our audio library. 

Keeping Track of CEU’s? 
Depending on your services and scope of work, A Red Bench Audio Recordings may apply towards your continuing education units.  With each audio purchase you receive a certificate of attendance upon passing the class quiz.  Calls are 75 minutes long and may count as 1 CEU.  

Style Expert, Darcey Howard

Whether you are dressing for a new consultation, a networking event, a date or taking your kids to the park, to create great style, and make the right choices for you, there  has to be a connection between identity and image.   

Attend our next live teleclass with Personal Style Expert, Darcey Howard of Lifestyled and we’ll help you bridge the gap between how you feel and how you look.  Don’t worry. This isn’t about bright orange suits, $3,000 hand bags or dresses that require tape to stay on.  LifeStyled is about you, your own personal style, the life you want to lead and how you want to wear it.   The facts are you have about 6 seconds to make an impression so from calm and casual, to slick and stylish, to professional and powerful, we’ll teach you how to identify the personal style that plays to your strengths, increase your self confidence and make you feel like the person you’ve always wanted to be.

On the call, we will talk about how todevelop your own style, how to create a fantastic capsule wardrobe you can grow from and share some do’s and don’t of the pros.  Best part, as a professional organizer, many of us work with clients on closet organizing project so you can share what you learn on our call with your clients.  How many clients have held up a sweater with shoulder pads and said, “Is this out of style?”   Using what you learn on this call you can help them project the image they want to portray and use this class, called Brand Yourself Through Your Appearance, as a CEU.   Click here for more information and to register for this April 5th class. 

Highlights of the survey include the following:

• Seven out of 10 social media users between the ages of 18 and 34 regularly use Facebook more than such other sites as MySpace, Twitter and Classmates
• 71.8 percent of social media users said that after an online search, they tell others about a product or service through face-to-face communication
• More people who use social media prefer to give advice about a product or service rather than receive it
• Social media users are more likely to use other new media, compared with average adults age 18 and older
• 70.6 percent of female social media users regularly use Facebook, vs. 61.0 percent of males
• More men than women like to communicate with others via cell phone conversation after searching for a product or service online

Click here to review the full report.   This is interesting stuff, social media is changing the way we market ourselves.  For more information on how you can use social media in your business, check out our Social Media Teleclasses.    These classes, which feature will answer your most common social media questions for both new and seasoned users.   We had a Facebook expert, a Twitter expert, a LinkedIn expert and an expert to talk about time management and social media.  We wanted the goods, no fluffy stuff; if you are a social media beginner or Tweeting several times of day, you want to learn how to maximize your social media results through questions, examples, case studies and tools, you can start using immediately.  No one needs one more thing to do; but everyone wants and needs new clients.  By listening to our social media audio recordings you will finally understand how this marketing phenomenon can expand your clientele to a place you have not imagined.

To set up a paper filing system in your home or office, we recommend FreedomFiler.  Its the best paper organizing system we’ve found and we’ve used it with hundreds of clients. 

For more help Conquering Paper Clutter, attend our next teleclass on February 17th.  As a follow-up to our January call called Helping Clients Manage The Paper Crisis (available to download on our website,) we want to have a more specific class on paper that tends to cover the desktop, the dining table and kitchen counter.  We call this action paper and there are so many different ways to help your clients deal with their action paper.  Join us on our continuing education call, where we will we will take you through a step by step process to create action files that will Conquer Your Clients Paper Clutter forever.

• We kicked off the year as a finalist in the “Most Valuable Educational Resource” category of the 2009 LA Organizing Awards.

• We held more than 25 live teleclass on the topics of organizing, marketing, social media and business development. 

• We hosted our first booth at the NAPO Conference. 

• We hosted our first Social Media Event where 8 trailblazers from this new phenomenon shared their tips and tricks on how to make the most of this amazing technology. 

• We enhanced our Teleclass Membership, adding many new benefits of membership. 

• We kicked off our Become An Infopreneur Program and have a class of organizers creating their very own information product. 

• Christa presented, “From Organizer to Infopreneur,” at the POC Conference.

• Angela was selected as a panelist for the 2010 NAPO Conference “Ask The Organizers” Panel. 

• We were once again nominated in the “Most Valuable Educational Resource” category of the 2010 LA Organizing Awards.

Visit our website for educational tools and resources to grow your business.

As we are approaching the first recertification for the innagual exam, we are getting an overwhelming request for continuing education courses.   We are in the process of developing a Continuing Education Series, that will kick off in January, and would like to to know what you need?

Email us at info@aredbench.com and let us know what  organizing related classes would be helfpul to your business.  We look forward to working with you. 

A Red Bench offers continuing education for professional organizers and small business owners.