Tap into Free Data at Business and Social Networking Sites
Your new resource to find contributors, learn more about them & build relationships in order to create more customized "asks"!
• Learn how to find new contributors - online
• Learn techniques to get connected to contributors friends
We call them social networking sites, but they might as well be called "social fund-raising” sites!
In the last 4 years Facebook has grown from a few users to 140 million user. MySpace continued in the same time to grow from a few users to 180 million users. Linkedin is growing by 1,000,000 users a month and now has over 31 million users with the average user age of 41 and an average salary of $105,000.
You need to be where your contributors are!
Business owners, entrepreneurs and others who would be supportive of your mission -- recognize these sites will help them connect with others who can either help them expand their business or help them find a job. They are updating data and information that would be invaluable to you including current job, past job, titles, interests, hobbies, birth date, photos and more! You need to understand how to use these sites to find new prospects, nurture them and turn them into contributors.
By attending this Webinar, you will learn the secrets on how to use social and business networking sites, to advance your career and reach your goals.
You’ll learn anecdotal stories on how you can use these sites to:
- Find new prospects
- Create groups to bring your supporters together
- Join groups to introduce your message to supportive audiences
- Survey community members to get feedback and advice
- Effortlessly, communicate with, engage and nurture prospects
- Use social networking to reach into their networks
- Recognize contributors participation and volunteer work
Plus we’ll show you how you can be an asset to prospects and contributors by:
• Helping them expand their business network
• Finding solutions to their business problems
Finally we'll show you how you can use these sites to advance your own business career! We’ll show you how to work smarter, not harder in today’s competitive fund raising industry!
This Webinar is really an online Workshop. We'll spend the majority of the time visiting the sites, conducting searches and using their unique social networking tools. We'll show you how to use:
- Linkedin
- Facebook
- Zoominfo
- Plaxo
to accomplish the above 7 strategies.
If you learn today to create and manage your network using existing online social networking tools, there is no limit on what you will be able to help your organization raise or, where your career will take you! Invest in your education, help your contributors and find new contributors - all at the same time! This information will be INVALUABLE to you and your organization!
Participation is limited to 20 organizations. Register early.
Plan NOW to use business and social networking sites to find new prospects and engage existing contributors in 2009!
Presenters include:
Jason Alba, Author of, "I'm on Linkedin, Now What" and
" I'm on Facebook, Now What?"
Katie Pouch, Zoominfo, Director of Customer Involvement
Don Philabaum Author of "Alumni Online Engagement
Click here to Register!
When: Wednesday, January 21st, 2:00 - 3:30 PM EST
Where: On the web and via phone
How: We’ll send participation information
Why: You need to find new prospects!
Cost: Only $195
“If I was in charge of your office, I’d hire someone whose full time job was to “mine” the incredible data and prospect information on social/business networking sites, and feed them to selective development officers!”
Don Philabaum, Internet Strategies Group