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!