In this audio version of a blog post from HappyHourHangouts.com, Dawn & Traci share the steps you need to take to set up a Facebook Fanpage for your network marketing, direct sales or MLM company. Everything from how to name your page, how to set it up and how to get it launched.  

On this weekends episode of the "Weekend Marketing Minute" Dawn & Traci cover some "Don'ts" in Twitter that could be costing you leads & sales!! Grab a pen & paper and quickly do an audit of your Twitter marketing and make the changes you need to get the results possible from Twitter!

We live in a social media age, and there are so many different platforms. How do you choose which channels to focus on so you don't become a slave to your computer. Traci & Dawn break down their strategy for being everywhere and for being smart & productive when it comes to your social media marketing.  

How do you balance the fine line between asking for help and driving your mentor nuts? The sooner you can become self sufficient when it comes to finding the answers to your questions the better. So how do you get support you need, rather than the support you want? In this episode Dawn & Traci put it into perspective so that you can take advantage of having a mentor help you grow your business fast!

Social Media can be used for more than just generating leads & sales. It can be a wonderful place to create a community for your clients, customers & prospects. In this episode, Dawn & Traci talk about how you can use Facebook groups to create communities for your customers & for your team members. These kinds of social media communities could be the difference between a solid residual income and a shaky one.  

If you're a new marketer, then you probably have a lot to learn and a pretty big comfort zone to step out of. We are big fans of practice and "just doing it", but there comes a time when you have to ask yourself if your actions are reaching your target audience or are you just speaking to people who are already in your business? It's time to see things for what it is and move yourself forward toward your goals.

One of our listeners asked if they should be building an email list and "soliciting" people via email. They weren't comfortable with that idea and that inspired this episode. In today's show Dawn & Traci talk about email marketing and it's relevance in today's marketing online. Should you be building an email list, how do you not come across as a spammer? What if you've never started to build a list? Should every email be promoting something and having a call to action to buy? Email marketing is not dead and you are not going to want to miss this show!

For today's Weekend Marketing Tip from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci discuss one of their favorite tools to help make your life easier. Hootsuite. Hootsuite is a great tool to help you manage and automate several different social media sites, but Dawn & Traci primarily use it for Twitter marketing. You can get a free month trial of the Hootsuite Pro on our website at http://HappyHourHangouts.com Hootsuite will make your social media marketing efforts so much more effective and give you time back into your schedule!

In this new weekend segment of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour where Dawn & Traci bring you a quick social media tip that they are currently using to build their business, the topic is a cool research site for use with Twitter. Hashtagify.me is a tool that Dawn & Traci use to do research on the best hashtags to use to attract their avatar when marketing on Twitter.  

You can post all day long in social media and never experience any success. So how do you make sure that your posts are profitable? Dawn & Traci wrap up this week with a power packed 15 minutes covering how you can begin with the end in mind. As you learn to agitate the problems of your prospects, you can ask yourself, what is the purpose of my post? What do I want the prospect to do? What is my desired outcome? Take notes on todays episode and be prepared to start bringing in more profits as you get more purposeful in your posting!  

Every entrepreneur faces the challenges of too much to do and not enough time to do it. So if you've only got a small amount of time each day, or if you have all day every day, to work on your business, what do you focus on first? How do you decide what to do and when to do it. There are really 2 main categories to focus on, Creating & Marketing. In this episode Dawn & Traci discuss what falls into each category and how to choose what you should do first.

How do you get it all done? Work, kids, family, AND a part time business? There are a few tips & strategies Dawn & Traci use to set themselves up to win and in this episode they break down everything from your environment, to family, to workspace, to income producing activities

The Social Media Marketing Happy Hour co-hosts, Dawn Marrs Ortiz & Traci Reuter, are hosting a LIVE in person Happy Hour Meetup on Friday August 22 in the San Diego area!  

Come, ask questions, hang out...it's Happy Hour and it's going to be awesome!

Details at http://HappyHourHangouts.com/Meetup

If you are in Southern California, are a small business owner, entrepreneur, mompreneur, home business owner, network marketing profession, MLM Pro...come and meet the hosts of the top rated social media podcast!

Dawn & Traci's take on the concept of "Fake it til you make" when it comes to being a newbie in business. Do you need a brand, should you launch your business, or should you just leverage the strength of your sponsor or mentor? If you opened a restaurant, would you not tell anyone until you started to have success? Are you treating your business like a business or a hobby?  

Social media isn't a popularity contest, especially if you're trying to build a real sustainable business! There are some people who are so desperate to build their following that they'll "buy" followers just to look good. But what does that do to your "know, like, trust & remember factor"? In this episode Traci & Dawn talk about how you can get the followers you want and the followers that will help you grow your business!  

Napoleon Hill was a big supporter of a mastermind. All successful leaders have coaches, mentors & masterminds. Discover why being part of a mastermind can transform your business and accelerate your success!

Home parties or webinars? Google hangouts or your company's convention? In this episode Dawn & Traci break down how you can use technology to your benefit and when is the right time to get face to face at an event.

Having a mindset of abundance and becoming a person who shares great content from other thought leaders will help set you apart with your audience. Learn the strategy to use content created by others to help grow your reputation as a thought leader.

In this episode Traci & Dawn break down the 4 main types of content that you can share to add value with your audience. Images, text, links & video. 

How do you post content on social media without coming off as a spammer? In this episode Dawn & Traci lay out a philosophy of giving more and asking less, in a way that will give you the ability to earn the right to ask your audience to take action!  

You can never make a first impression a second time and in this episode Dawn & Traci give you some actionable tips to help you create a consistent & powerful brand in social media. Everything from profile images, profile descriptions and targeting your exact ideal prospect. Be ready to grab some great nuggets from this episode and put them into action!

There are some very subtle and not so subtle mistakes that you could easily make when setting up your social media marketing profiles. In this episode Dawn & Traci share some mistakes they see frequently in social media that will absolutely stunt your business growth. You'll want to listen to this episode more than once and make sure you make any necessary changes to your social media accounts!

What do you do when your friends & family just hate that you're using social media to build your business? One of the biggest challenges people face in building an MLM is the lack of understanding from friends & family, so how does this play online?

We get this question all the time. "Should I use a personal fanpage in Facebook or Facebook Fanpage?" In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of both options and what makes sense to build a large business.

If you want to leverage social media to build your business, you have got to get yourself out of the "witness protection" program! We see so many new marketers locking down all their privacy settings on social media, making impossible for you to be discovered. Find out why you need to get out of this asap!

The truth is the most successful people in any industry are always learning.  In this episode we discuss some strategies to always be learning and to become a thought leader in your industry.