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!

In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci call "B.S" on all the people out there who are masquerading around under the guise of "helping people" when really it's their own selfish agenda that results in spammy, predatory type behavior. If I don't know you, like you, or trust you, why would I want to do business with you??

We've all done it...go to Google and grab an image for a social media post, or a blog post. The only problem is most of those images are not free to use by anyone and you could be putting your content and your business at risk by using images that aren't free for you to use. In today's audio blog post from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci show you a way to find legal and dirt cheap images for your marketing!

Your brain processes 90% of all information it receives visually, and the stats in social media confirm it. Engagement, likes, shares, retweets are all DRAMATICALLY higher when visual images are included. Today we talk about why you should use images and how to use our favorite image creation tool, Canva.com

Today we wrap up our 5 part series with the most important of all the reasons why you're struggling with having the success you desire in your network marketing business, a major lack of focus. Network Marketing, internet marketing, social media marketing are amazing, but when you get distracted by shiny objects, other money making opportunities and more, you get off track fast, taking team members and prospects with you.  

Want massive results in your network maketing business? Then you need to be prepared to take massive action! Many people struggle because they're not only not taking enough action, they're not taking enough of the right actions. You're going to want to relisten to today's episode and then get ready to set your business on fire!!

Do you have an upline or a mentor giving you guidance in your business and you're just not following it? In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, we talk about one of the areas that could be causing your struggle and that is not being coachable. Maybe it's your pride, your ego, or maybe you're following a mentor who has had success but using an approach that doesn't resonate with you. Today's episode is for you!

Goals....you've heard us talk about them before in episode 36. But today we talk about not just setting & writing down your goals, but creating micro goals, celebrating them, celebrating them with your team, celebrating them on social media, and nuturing them into wild, massively awesome achievements!  

One of the biggest reasons you're struggling in your Network Marketing business is FEAR! Today Dawn & Traci talk about the most common fears, how you can work thru them and leverage social media to do it FASTER! Be sure to tag your posts this week to the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Fan Page and enter to win one of our favorite books!

Anytime you start something new it can be overwhelming. In this special audio blog, Dawn & Traci walk you through how to avoid becoming overwhelmed when you start to build your business using social media & the internet. Today's podcast is an audio version of a blog post from the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour blog at http://HappyHourHangouts.com.  

In this weekend's Weekend Marketing Minute, Traci shares a cool tool she uses to manage the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Twitter account. If you are serious about using Twitter as one of your social media channels, then this is a tool you don't want to be without! You're going to love ManageFlitter!

Today we pick up where we left off yesterday and Dawn & Traci give you more things to consider, investigate and research when it comes to making a move to a new network marketing company. Social Media can help you do the due dilligence necessary to find a candidate that could be a great home for you. Consider these questions so you don't go down the wrong path and get let down by another opportunity.

There are certain things you should look for when finding a great business to represent. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci lay out some things to look for, some questions to ask and some things you should be aware of when choosing a network marketing company you can get excited about.

Today Dawn & Traci share some very dramatic experiences of when they had to dig in deep, do a gut check and then make the decision to jump. Not jump into action in their business, but jump to make a change. Sometimes your business, your network marketing or direct sales company is not a good fit. How do you know if it's time to make that jump?  

Inspired by a viral video by Steve Harvey, Dawn & Traci discuss in this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour the importance of just jumping and going after your success. Learn why it's okay to just go and make a mess, and realize that "Perfect" is really just like a unicorn....it doesn't exsist! If you or someone you know has been "getting ready to get ready" and paralyzed by fear of making a mistake, then this is the episode for them!

If getting more leads & sales for your business using Social Media is something you've been wanting to do, then you do not want to miss this special live webinar hosted by Dawn Marrs Ortiz & Traci Reuter of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour. Special guest, Tim Paige of Leadpages will be joining us live on http://HappyHourHangouts.com/LeadpagesLive Tuesday September 9 at 5pm EST. Be there live because you could be the lucky viewer who wins over $2000 in bonuses!!  

Today Dawn & Traci are going to walk you thru the steps you need to take each day to make sure that by the end of the month, the quarter or the year, you end up where you want to go. This Social Media Marketing Happy Hour will break down the steps that lead to success & growth in your business. 

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.  

In this weekend's Weekend Marketing Minute, Traci shares a cool tool she uses to manage the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Twitter account. If you are serious about using Twitter as one of your social media channels, then this is a tool you don't want to be without! You're going to love ManageFlitter!

You've probably heard the phrase "your why should make you cry" and it really should, but, what about having a why that EXCITES you?? It's human nature to want to move towards things that really light us up and excite us. In today's episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, Dawn & Traci help you get focused on what will excite you in the future, and what excites you NOW! Prepared to get fired up!

If you're planning to have a successful launch or relaunch of your business over the next 90 days, then there are somethings you are going to need to stop doing, some things you'll need to start doing, and some things to add to your arnesal of tools, marketing & recruiting. This episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour will help you get clarity on how to set yourself up for success during this fall 90 day blitz!

Setting goals are important for your success, but as long as your subsconscious mind is programmed to fail, you will never reach those goals. In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour, learn how to start to create a vision for your life and for your success. By creating a future vision & practicing that visualization daily, it will change how you market in social media!   

If you don't know where you're going then how will you ever get there? In this episode of the Social Media Marketing Happy Hour Dawn & Traci talk about research on goal setting and how much more effective it is when you add to it an action commitment and then it becomes almost unstoppable when you add accountibility! Be prepared to start creating new goals for your network marketing business for the remainder of 2014 and beyond! It will make a huge difference in how you use social media to market you business.

It's Labor Day in the U.S. and that signals the end of summer, kids are back in school and it's time to put a renewed focus on your business.  This is the perfect time to prepare for a 90 day launch or relaunch of your business so that come December, you can enjoy the holiday season debt free.  Join Dawn & Traci today and get ready for a September to remember!