Happy New Year from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! In the final episode of 2014, Dawn & Traci share how you can get positioned and prepared for an epic 2015. A New Year is like a blank sheet of paper where you can write the story you want. Are you ready to write a story you'll be happy about at the end of 2015? This episode will get you thinking in the right direction!

If you're like most people, you've either already set goals for 2015 or you're in the process of setting 2015 goals. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about why goal setting doesn't work for most people. If you're going to take the time to plan for the year ahead, make sure that you set yourself up so that your goal & target setting will work for you!

As 2014 comes to a close, many people are taking time to set New Years goals, targets & resolutions. Many people will never take the time to look back over the past year to review what worked, what didn't work, what should continue and what should stop. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk through how & why doing a year end review is as important as setting goals for the upcoming year.

As we approach the end of 2014, it's common to reflect back and see where you've been. For many, they're not where they want to be and this year has been more of a struggle than a victory. Don't despise the days of small beginnings. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci encourage you to look at the journey you are on and to remember that it is just a journey, and you won't be where you are now forever. Celebrate the small beginnings and remember that the struggle you've been through is part of your story that will encourage others!

Do you only have a short amount of time to be productive each day? Do you hop on to Facebook with the plan to do something specific and then an hour goes by and you've gotten lost in cute kitten videos, posted on things that had zero to do with your business and ran out of time to do the things that actually make you money? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci share a cool little extension you can set up on your Chrome browser to help increase your productivity and decrease the time you spend being distracted!

Happy Boxing Day! If you're in the United States you may have no clue what Boxing Day is....but if you do business, or hope to do business in other countries, knowing and understanding important holidays can be huge in marketing your business. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, learn from Canadian Dawn what Boxing Day is and how you can leverage international holidays to grow your business.

Merry Christmas from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! In this episode Dawn & Traci share how the Christmas stories timeless meaning can impact your business in the years ahead. Get ready to believe that the impossible can become possible, no matter what you may believe.  

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! For the grand finale on Christmas Eve, the #1 most popular episode of all time is episode #21: Followers: Real vs. Fake. What's The Deal? Merry Christmas and we hope you've enjoyed these encore presentations of our top 12 episodes. We wish you & your family a special & blessed Christmas!

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #2 is episode 81: Prospecting Online (Part 5 of 5) - How To Win Friends On Facebook

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #3 is episode 77: Prospecting Online (Part 1 of 5) - How To Win Friends & Influence People 

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #4 is episode 56: Are You Building Your Business Like A Predator? 

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #5 is episode 15: The Do's of Personal Branding on Social Media.

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #6 is episode 69: Are You Three Feet From Gold? [An Audio Blog] 

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #7 is episode 75: Weekend Marketing Minute - The Invisible Audience

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #8 is episode 70: The Power of Forward Thinking

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #9 is episode 63: The Power Of Generating Your Own Leads On Social Media

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #10 is episode 53: 5 Reasons Why You're Struggling In Your Business: Lack of Focus (part 5 of a 5 part series)

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #11 is episode 57: How to Make People Like You & Want More From You.

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour is bringing you "The 12 Days of Christmas" featuring the 12 most popular episodes of all time from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour! Coming in at #12 is episode 92: Branding A Profitable Fanpage (part 2 of a 5 part series).  

2015 is going to be the year where building your email list will become more important than ever, especially with changes in how you can market on social media channels like Facebook. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you through several strategies you can start using right now to grow & build your email list!

What's the best and fastest way to grow your list online? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about how you can in effect, put "miracle grow" on your marketing & list building efforts by just being intentional in what you do each day on social media.

Don't you just love how many people you can connect with in Social Media? There are no limits, no boundaries, the world is yours. You can build giant followings and a thriving business. But what happens when the social media channel changes, or *GASP* goes away? You don't own your social media following, and in this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share what you should be ultimately focusing on as you build your social media empire!

The upcoming changes in Facebook will no doubt impact selfish marketers more than any other marketers online. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci teach how to not be a selfish marketer, how to provide value as an entrepreneur and how that will prevent the upcoming changes from hurting your business.

Facebook continues to make tweaks and changes that are not necessarily in the best interest of marketers. On this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci discuss some upcoming changes to Facebook and how it will impact the small business entrepreneur. Will the changes hurt you or help you? It all depends on how you market and how you look at it.

Having tools like social media have changed the way we interact with people, stay in touch with friends & family and how we market our businesses.

Everything you do is leaving an impression and creating your own unique "fingerprint". In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about the fingerprints we are leaving all over the internet and look closely at whether or not the fingerprint we are leaving is one we will want to be remembered for.

What the heck is a swipe file and why would you want to have one? On this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about how they learned marketing from some of the best and how "spying" on those awesome marketers can help you raise your game to a new level!  

Do you have a mentor who is helping you get the results you want in your business? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about the amazing powerful experience having a mentor can make in your home business. If you don't have a mentor, you'll want to do what it takes to find a mentor or a coach that can help you achieve success faster than you could on your own!

You've probably heard the stories about the awful "greedy guru" who is out to take your money and keep you stuck in a perpetual cycle of frustration and failure. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about how the "greedy guru" is really more a myth than a reality. Getting good coaching & mentoring from a guru who has achieved the results you're after in your business can make all the difference in creating a shortcut to your path to success!

If you want a team of superstars, you need to surround yourself with superstars, become a superstar and attract superstars. So how do you do that? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share with you how to expand your network to include rock stars that are wired for success.  

There's a marketing practice some use that are trying to tap into your insecurity and vulnerability that you're not succeeding because your "upline has let you down"....the truth is that only you are responsible for your success. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci encourage you to reject that kind of victim mentality that will just keep you in a perpetual struggle. It's time you rise up and have the kind of success you are capable of and you deserve!

Remember the old movie "Glengary, Glen Ross"? "The ABC's of sales?" Always, Be, Closing. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share how you should Always Be Closing for new team members. The kiss of death in business is when you recruit one or two people and then stop and put all your attention on them. Learn how you can avoid that and breath life back into your business starting today.

Everyone has needs that are the driving force behind why they're an entrepreneur. It could be paying off debt, getting bill paid, saving for retirement or more. When you're strapped financially it makes it really hard to focus on serving others and that leads to a cycle of struggle because your prospects can sense you have an agenda that doesn't involve them. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci encourage you to get your fous in the right place to avoid this struggle.

In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci share one of their "must have" tools they use day in and day out to grow their business, collect leads and nurture those leads into sales. Get Response is their favorite auto-responder tool and there's a great 30 day free trial you can take advantage of!

Do you have a turkey hangover or are you one of the millions of crazed consumers who are out participating in Black Friday? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share how you can learn from retailers and take advantage of this season of sales & promotions to grow your business! Also, Dawn & Traci have a special Black Friday promotion of their own. You can access it at http://HappyHourHangouts.com/products

Happy Thanksgiving! As most of the United States celebrates Thanksgiving, Dawn & Traci have a special episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. As an entrepreneur, having a lifestyle of thankfulness is crucial, not just having a day of thankfulness. Learn how to put on the "armor" of gratitude each and every day to guide you through the challenges every entrepreneur faces on their journey to success!

What do you look for when picking a mentor or a coach? Many people think that the more time they spend with a mentor, the better. However, this is the same philosophy as trading hours for dollars, which is what you do with a job. As an entrepreneur, your number one focus should be on getting results. That's what you should look for when choosing a mentor or a coach. Someone who can help you get results. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk through their shift from coaching & mentoring from a time standpoint, to shifting to a results focus. Something everyone wants.

It may sound strange....sometimes you have to spend money to make more or to save money. What does that mean? Well in this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about how spending (investing) money on their business, even in times where funds were tight, made all the difference in their business expanding. If you're ready for growth, then this episode is for you!

Successful people think and act differently than people who struggle to get results in their business. Successful people seek out and value mentors, coaches & training, recognizing that it can be the one thing that makes or breaks their success. If you are hungry to have a business that experiences crazy results, then you'll definitely want to listen to this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. To find out more about the Inner Circle Mastermind go to http://HappyHourHangouts.com/InnerCircle

In this episode of the Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci share one of their favorite tools to take your webinar strategies to the next level. If webinars are going to be a big part of your marketing strategy, you'll definitely want to check this one out!

We've all had that "day after the party" feeling....thinking there was someone you should've talked to, a phone number you should've asked for. In many ways it's the same after the "Webinar party". In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share how to follow up after the big event to make sure you continue to get results even after it's over!

In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci take you through how to structure the actual webinar to get the best results possible. You don't want to leave the actual presentation to chance so you want to be sure you know how to actually structure the format and this episode will help you do that!

You've got your webinar set up, you know what topic you're going to cover, now how do you make sure people show up? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci take you through the very important aspect of promotion. The best webinar in the world is only good if people show up! Don't miss this important step!

You've decided you want to use webinars to grow your business, but how do you set them up? What do you need to set up a webinar that will get you the results that you want? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci take you through all the steps you need to create killer webinars.

There are so many different ways you can use webinars to grow your business. The only limitation is your creativity. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you through the different ways you can use webinars. Get ready to get your creativity going because this episode will open your mind up to the different ways you can use webinars for growth in your business

Are you using webinars to grow your business? If not, after this week's Social Media Marketing Happy Hour series on webinars, you might change your mind. Dawn & Traci will share with you how webinars launched their business and how it literally changed everything for them and how it can be a game changer for your business.

In this episode of the Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci share a cool & simple tool that allows you to quickly and easily add your website to all of your unique images that you share on social media.  

You've got your ethical bribe set up, your LeadPages ready, your thank you page & your follow up emails all lined up and ready to go. Now what? How do you get people to see your offer? It's all about traffic. Dawn & Traci share 5 ways you can get eyeballs onto your offer and start the list building process asap.

Uh, oh....your new lead doesn't buy the first time you show them your offer. What should you do now? The facts are that about 98% of your new leads won't buy the first time, and about 80% won't buy until they've seen your offer about 8 times. So how do you set yourself up to win? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci take you through the process to ensure that your follow up sets you and your prospect up for long term success!

Your ethical bribe works, and someone signs up for your email list. Now what do you do? What do they get? How do you make sure they get what you promised? On today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci take you through the steps and the process you need to take with that precious new lead. This is where the relationship begins.  

It used to be super expensive & complicated to get a page set up for prospects to sign up for your ethical bribe or your email list. Today, there are some incredible tools that will make it super easy for you to create a professional looking page in as little as 5 minutes. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share one their most valuable business building tools, LeadPages, and how you can use it to explode your list building strategies!

Have you ever seen a website that says "sign up for my newsletter"? Chances are you have. With all the information you have coming at you, do you really want to sign up for another newsletter? No, you don't. Neither do your prospects. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour podcast, Dawn & Traci walk you through the most effective way to get people to "opt in" to your email marketing list, by exchanging something of value for their email address! We call it a lead magnet or an ethical bribe and by the end of this episode you'll realize fast why you need to get your own ethical bribe set up asap!  

You've probably been taught that you should make a list of all your friends & family and start contacting them about your business. What do you do once you've gone through that list? How do you start building a list online? Have you even considered building a list online? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you through why the saying "The Money Is In The List" is mostly true and why you should definitely be building a list using simple tools that will help you leverage your time & efforts.

Even though Dawn & Traci highly recommend using a Facebook Fanpage to grow your business, you'll still use your personal page from time to time. The question is, does your personal page make you look like someone who is going somewhere in life or does it look like you're not serious about success? In this audio blog episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share some things that could be embarrassing you on your Facebook wall.

Coming up with valuable content to share with your followers can be challenging, and one great strategy is to share other people's content. But how do you avoid losing potential leads by sending them to someone elses site? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute edition, Dawn & Traci share a cool new discovery, Snip.ly, and how you can use that to grow your list while sharing other peoples great content! 

You've probably heard how important consistency can be in any area of your life. It's especially important if you want to take your business to another level. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share how creating consistent content thru blogging, social media, or podcasting, combined with massive action can change your business fast.

The 100 episode celebration continues and in this episode of the social media marketing happy hour, Dawn & Traci share their insight on how podcasting has dramatically impacted their business and how you can take advantage of this hot trend of podcasting to grow your audience, get more leads, and ultimately more sales for your business.

We can hardly believe it. 100 episodes of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. What started out as an experiment has turned into a huge part of our business and brand. To celebrate 100 episodes, Dawn & Traci share some of their journey to 100 episodes, along with some lessons learned along the way!

When you first fell in love with the idea of building a network marketing business online, part of the charm was to have family freedom, time freedom & more. Then you discover that with the internet you can literally work 24 hours a day, and you quickly wonder where your freedom went. In this episode of the Social Media MarketingHappy Hour, Dawn & Traci share how using a content scheduler will help you build your business faster and give you the time freedom you are after.

Posting frequently & consistently in social media is extremely important for growing a highly engaged audience. How do you post content on social media consistently and frequently without becoming chained to your computer or cell phone? In this episode of the social media marketing happy hour, Dawn & Traci reveal how they post high value content to multiple social media platforms without becoming 24/7 slaves to social media. After this episode if you're not already using a content scheduler like Hootsuite, you'll most likely run, not walk to get one set up!

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour began because of a Google Hangout and in this audio blog episode Dawn & Traci walk you through 4 ways you can use Google Hangouts to build your Network Marketing, MLM & Direct Sales business. Video is hot, and Google Hangouts are even hotter! Don't miss this proven strategy to grow your business and get more leads & sales.

Do you have issues focusing and getting work done in a short period of time? Dawn & Traci both struggle with all the distractions, the focus and temptations of building a business online. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Podcast Weekend Marketing Minute, they share one of their favorite tools to help shut out all the distractions, put focus on hyperdrive and get stuff done!

In part 5 of this 5 part series on how to set up a profitable Facebook Fanpage from scratch for your Network Marketing, Direct Sales or MLM business, Dawn & Traci get into the details on how you actually scale up the page once you've laid the proper foundation. You know your avatar, your branding is good, you've got content, and you've got fans, now what do you do to EXPLODE your following with the right kind of fans? You don't want to miss this episode

Getting your first 100 fans to your new profitable Facebook Fanpage can seem daunting, but it's not really that hard if you do things the right way. In part 4 of 5 on How to set up a profitable Facebook Fanpage from scratch for your network marketing, Direct sales or MLM business, Dawn & Traci walk you through ways to get those coveted first 100 fans that are going to engage with your page and keep coming back for more!

When starting a new profitable Facebook Fanpage, it's important that you get it set up with valuable, relevant content that your avatar would be interested in. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci cover part 3 of a 5 part series on how to set up a profitable Facebook Fanpage from scratch for your network marketing or MLM business. 

Is branding just for huge Fortune 500 companies or can a Network Marketing pro benefit from having a professionally branded Fanpage? In part 2 of a 5 part series on setting up a profitable Facebook Fanpage, Dawn & Traci walk you through some simple, yet important things to help you establish and grow a professional brand.

Fanpages can be extremely profitable if you know how to set them up properly and in a way that it sets you up to win for the long haul. This week on the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci have a 5 part series to help you from start to finish to launch a profitable Facebook Fanpage

As a follow up to the prior episode, Dawn & Traci bring you another episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute. Two free tools that you can use with Evernote that will help you organize your life, track your business & create cool content on the go to use right away for for later! CamScanner & Skitch are two awesome apps that you can use to enhance your Evernote experience!

On this episode of the weekend marketing minute, Dawn & Traci share their favorite tool to help organize their businesses and their lives. If you are super busy and trying to stay on top of it all, Evernote is a must have, free tool that will work across all of your devices and it doesn't matter if you use a Mac or a PC, an Android device or an iPhone!  

We've been talking about building networks using social media, and in this episode Dawn & Traci discuss some tips & tools they use to nurture their existing relationships (team, clients, friends, etc) using social media.  

Social media is a great way to build a business, but there is nothing that compares to an actual human interaction. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about how to move a new relationship from social media chats, to a phone call, Skype conversation or a video chat.  

In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you through a powerful way to make meaningful connections in social media. Building a large network of people is key and you want to make sure that you are starting out on the right foot! Learn how to not only connect with new people, but engage with people already in your networks! 

You've probably heard it said that you can never make a first impression twice. And that couldn't be more true in social media. However, there's a growing trend online where people are forgetting that the key in building large, successful network marketing business, is to build relationships. There isn't a day that goes by that we don't get a random message from some stranger with no attempt to build a connection, start a friendship or add value to our lives. They're just going straight for the "kill". Not only does this strategy not work, it's hurting you.

There's a saying that your network is your net-worth and that couldn't be any more true when it comes to building a home based network marketing business. What if you knew that the efforts you put into building a network of great connections today could pay you big time dividends a year or two from now. Would you build it? Of course. Most networkers are so focused on growing their business NOW that they miss this hugely important activity. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci discuss the importance of having a long term philosophy and dedication to building a large network based on great relationships and adding massive value!

Not sure how to find where your avatar is hanging out in Facebook? In part 2 of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci walk you through a cool feature in the Facebook Ad Manager called Audience Insights. Find out what your avatar likes, what pages they go to, and where the best places are for you to engage with them!  

In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci continue the conversation from the week, and discuss how to leverage the power of Facebook groups & community pages. Find out how to use these pages to interact, engage & add value to your chosen avatar!

Facebook is our favorite platform and there are some things that we see happen that destroys your influence when building, engaging and marketing on Facebook. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour podcast, Dawn & Traci discuss how to really make Facebook work for you and not against you!

If you're like most people who are building their network marketing business on social media, most likely Facebook will be your primary network to build your audience. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci walk you through how you can connect with the right followers on Twitter and transition them over to your Facebook community. It's a powerful way to build the right connections and the know, like, trust & remember factor!  

Twitter is one of the most under utilized social media platforms and tools in the network marketing community. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share with you some of their favorite ways, both free & paid, to find and connect with your ideal audience. If you're not using Twitter to grow your audience, you'll want to after this episode!

Influence on Social Media doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, it takes certain skills & philosophies that if you employ consistently will dramatically impact your business. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci continue with yesterday's episode and help lay the groundwork so that you can become attractive to the right people on any platform you choose to use!

This week Dawn & Traci are going to hit you head on with some of the most important philosophies that you MUST include when you decide to start marketing your business online with social media. Inspired by How To Win Friends & Influence People, these things will make or break your success in prospecting online with Social Media!

Have you tried your hand at running Facebook ads only to be frustrated? Spending more money than you wanted to, without the results to show? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci feature an audio blog from http://HappyHourHangouts.com that walks you thru the 5 steps to make sure you have better & more effective Facebook ads!

Would you believe that there's a strong possibility that your social media audience is actually FOUR TIMES bigger than what you actually think? In today's Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Weekend Marketing Minute, Dawn & Traci share with you how to tap into this "invisible audience" that is watching, lurking and doing nothing with the content that you share.  

When you live your life expecting to be successful, you use a different language than someone who isn't sure about whether or not they will "make it" in Network Marketing. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you thru how to use the language of success in your marketing to help you attract the right people and the right circumstances into your life!

Having a forward thinking mindset that expects success not only will positively impact your business for the better, it can dramatically inspire others to be successful. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share with you how you can use social media to inspire others to experience success as you move along your own personal success journey!

Is there a person that you know that if you could just get them "in your business" everything about your business would change? Most people when first getting started have "that person" in their minds. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share with you the importance of YOU becoming that person first, before you can expect to sponsor that person.  

When you approach your life and business with an expectation for success, you'll by default have certain tools that are a must have to run a successful network marketing business. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you thru the must have tools that any successful entrepreneur can't live without. Just like you wouldn't think of not paying your utility bills, these are non negotiable tools for the online network marketer.

All great progress starts in the mind. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci set the stage for the week of focusing on expecting success in your life and in your business. It's critical that you focus on where you're going and not where you've been, as focusing on where you've been, your struggles, your frustrations, will only keep you stuck and will absolutely impact the way you market in Social Media

In today's audio blog episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share a blog post that will sure to inspire you in your journey to success, especially if you're facing discouragement or frustration and perhaps you're ready to give up. Network Marketing can be challenging but using social media to grow your business can be very profitable, especially if you don't give up

Images are hot and we've talked about them several times on the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. On today's Weekend Marketing Minute Traci shares one of her favorite app's - WordSwag and how you can use it (only on iPhones - sorry droid users) to create original images and content from your iPhone

Today on the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Podcast we continue with the topic of questions to ask to discover your avatar. These are some powerful questions you can be asking to better understand what matters to your avatar, thus allowing you to improve your communication effectiveness, which will result in more leads & sales for your business!

In yesterday's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci explained what an avatar is, why you should have one & why that matters in your marketing. Today's episode is part 1 of a 2 part series to help you ask yourself some questions to help you better define, understand and communicate to your avatar, your ideal perfect customer.

We've talked about it so many times, and we believe that it's the foundation of any successful marketing campaign or efforts. Your avatar. No, not the blue people on that awesome movie or your character from a video game. The profile, characteristics and details of your exact, ideal customer, client or business partner. Most network marketers, most people in MLM skip this, don't know about this and are taught that EVERYONE is their ideal customer, making marketing frustrating and ineffective. On today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, find out more about why Dawn & Traci are such big believers in having an avatar and how that will help impact your results in a major way!

Marketing your business on Facebook means you have to interrupt the conversation going on in your potential prospects head. People don't hop on Facebook to be sold stuff. In fact, people much prefer to buy and not be sold. So how do you get into the flow of the conversation going on in the minds and heart of your potential prospects? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci walk you through the psychology of how to get people's attention and do it in a way that they get in the conversation instead of you interrupting theirs!  

Anyone & everyone wants more leads for their business. Whether you build your business online or offline, it's always all about the leads. You can buy them, you can do fairs, have booths at flea markets, get into co-op's, you name it, there are ways out there to get leads for your business, and Dawn & Traci have pretty much done them all. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, the girls talk about why generating your OWN leads is the way to go and the most powerful way for you to experience the business growth & success you desire!

In this audio version of a blog post from HappyHourHangouts.com, Dawn & Traci cover strategies you can use right away to start generating more free leads using Facebook. You are not going to want to miss the 3 ninja strategies that will help you never run out of leads again!

In this episode of the Weekend Marketing Minute, Traci shares a cool free tool to help you understand when your audience on Twitter is most active, allowing you to better time the scheduling of your tweets, thus making your marketing efforts to your most important people more effective! Tweriod.com is a great free tool (there is a premium version that we don't use) to help you make the most of the second largest social media platform in the world!  

When you first decide to pursue your dreams and you use Network Marketing as a vehicle to do that, it can become overwhelming. Especially as you leave your comfort zone, and the people who you leave in that comfort zone don't necessarily support you. So what do you do? You find a champion. Someone who will encourage you to move forward. Social media is a great place to practice BEING someone's champion and if you are connected to the right people, it's a fantastic place to get championed! In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci share some stories as well as give you ways to create this kind of atmosphere in your business with the help of social media!

In real estate, it's "location, location, location" and in Network Marketing it's "stories, stories, stories". In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci talk about the importance of sharing success stories, testimonies for your products & business, and celebrating the success of others. If you've become disillusioned about the testimonies of others, feel like you'll never get there, or are just plain negative about them, then you don't want to miss today's show.

What happens when you want to leave a company and you start getting heat from reps in your current company about "cross-recruiting"? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci hit a controversial nerve in the Network Marketing industry. Do you "own" your team? Can you keep them from making a change? How does social media impact your business when it's time to move on?

Discover how to get people to like you both online and offline on today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. Learn to be genuinely interested in other people, ask questions about them, and above all else, don't practice predatory behavior!