MariSmith_HeadShot-Web_bioMari Smith

Fast Company dubbed Mari, "the Pied Piper of the Online World"

Mari Smith is one of the world’s foremost experts on using Facebook as a marketing channel. She is coauthor of Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day and her new book on the topic of relationship marketing is due out in August 2011.

Fast Company dubbed Mari, “the Pied Piper of the Online World.” With her popular blog at MariSmith.com, and her large loyal following on both Facebook and Twitter, Mari is considered one of the top resources and thought leaders in the world of online marketing. She frequently appears in media locally and nationally.

Mari has a strong ten-year background in the world of relationships and Internet technology, making social media her ideal arena. Through her consulting and training business, Mari helps independent professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners to accelerate their business profits using an integrated social marketing strategy, with particular focus on Facebook and Twitter. After applying Mari’s proven Social Marketing methods, her clients typically experience a significant increase in traffic, subscribers, clients, affiliates, lucrative strategic alliances and targeted media attention.

Mari is also popular Social Media Keynote Speaker and Trainer. She travels the United States and internationally to share her wisdom and provide social media keynotes and in-depth training. She has shared the stage with the likes of Sir Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama, President F.W. de Klerk, Tony Robbins and Dr. Stephen R. Covey.

Presentations Topics:

•    Facebook Marketing: Discover Proven Strategies and Tactics for Growing Your Profits Using Facebook!

•    Facebook Fortunes: How To Strategically Grow Your Business Using the Top Online Social Network

•    How To Design A Powerful Social Media Strategy Using The Right Tools For Your Business

•    Outrageous Success With Social Media: How to Use the World’s #1 Online Social Network to Create a Massive Following, Build Your Brand, and Increase Your Profits!

•   Social Marketing Success: How to Use The Top Two Online Social Networks – Facebook and Twitter – to Significantly Increase Your Profits!

Facebook has significant implications for business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs. This highly successful online social networking platform currently boasts close to 600 million active members. Over half of all active members log in daily for an average session time of 55 minutes – that’s a huge captive audience!

Twitter is also a wildly popular social network with around 175 million members. Yet, even with its 140-character simplicity, Twitter can be infinitely more complex than Facebook to understand how to use effectively. There’s a right way and a wrong way and you need to know the difference.

Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are extremely powerful marketing mediums you can use to exponentially grow your business.

During this information-rich session, Mari will share proven strategies for generating significant online profits using social media, including [NOTE - these are *sample* benefits, not all would be included in a one-hour talk, for example]:
•    How to design a powerful social media strategy using the right tools for your business.
•    The most effective ways to establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.
•    Simple strategies to powerfully leverage your visibility and brand.
•    How to drive a flood of traffic to your website and blog.
•    The top two secrets for getting rapid high search engine ranking.
•    Proven ways to identify and attract your top paying clients.
•    How to build a team of lucrative Joint Venture partnerships.
•    How to use Facebook in just five minutes a day and still yield huge, measurable results.
•    How to build a targeted, responsive following rapidly on Twitter.
•    The do’s and dont’s of “tweeting.”
•    Secrets to leveraging, automating and delegating to get maximum results from your social networking.