Storytelling and Social Media for Freelancers: How to Create Compelling Content and Market Your Freelance Business

How do you engage an audience and build a following? It’s not by blasting your marketing piece to mailing lists. In this new world of social media (you know, anything from blogs to Facebook), fans, friends, and followers are your greatest assets, and this seminar will help you use storytelling to connect with them. You’ll find that you can create a niche for yourself by investing time and effort--while spending less money.

Join Technologist, Writer, and Teacher Melea Seward for an illuminating look at how to use social media tools and STORYTELLING to grow your business and build better, stronger relationships, both online and off.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:
• Create a storytelling strategy to create content for your blog and social media outlets
• Produce content every day
• Leverage your content to build your influence, enhance your relationships, and grow your business
• Navigate the personal and the professional online

Melea Seward teaches Search Engine Marketing and Social Media at the Fashion Institute of Technology and teaches social networking for business owners. In her consulting work, she helps small business owners, internet start-ups, entrepreneurs, non-profits, universities, and foundations to increase website traffic, connect people, build strong relationships on-line and off, and improve end-user experience. She has worked for GoMobo.com, W. W. Norton, Seeking Designers, The Bowne Foundation, Polytechnic University, and the Institute for International Research.

Directions to the seminar will be emailed the day before the event. Please check the email account you use for PayPal.

Members: $30.00, Non-members: $40.00
Online registration is closed. If you are interested in attending, please bring cash or a check to pay at the door.

Date:

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Time:

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Location:

Demos, 220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY