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.