Rick and Whitney  

Have you always wanted to hear about the benefits, drawbacks and costs associated with advertising in your local business journal? We are launching a new segment that will feature an in depth look at a specific type of media. This week we are taking on the business journal, the Eastside Business Journal to be exact.

Opinionated marketing gurus Rick Rochon and Whitney Keyes save you time and money so you can be more successful in business and get more out of life. From online social networking tips to advice about how to get free publicity, they help you avoid mistakes and share tips on free resources. As the Main Street Mavericks, they travel around the country helping small businesses stay in business and host a weekly radio talk show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rickandwhitney. For more information about Rick or Whitney, visit their websites: www.RickRochon.com and www.WhitneyKeyes.com.

Today's show was tons of fun, but I realized while we were discussing that it can be a little difficult to explain an Internet application without visuals.  So maybe we will do a FREE WEBINAR to show how to promote your business on Facebook using Pages and Ads.  But, the jist of show was you should get on there and give it a try.  Even if you just take a baby-step and setup a profile for yourself and try it out.  It is alot of fun and can be done cheaply and very effectively. 

Check out our show next week when we will be chatting with someone from The Puget Sound Business Journal.  Also, take some time to send us a note here and let us know how you like the show and what you would like to hear covered.

It is really hard to get your message out to the right audience and communities like Facebook are great tools to do just that. In this show we are going to cover: -Facebook in general and why to use it -Facebook for business -Facebook Pages -Facebook Ads -Facebook Applications and whatever else we can squeeze into 30 minutes. Be sure to call in or submit your questions early so we can cover them.

Opinionated marketing gurus Rick Rochon and Whitney Keyes save you time and money so you can be more successful in business and get more out of life. From online social networking tips to advice about how to get free publicity, they help you avoid mistakes and share tips on free resources. As the Main Street Mavericks, they travel around the country helping small businesses stay in business and host a weekly radio talk show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rickandwhitney. For more information about Rick or Whitney, visit their websites: www.RickRochon.com and www.WhitneyKeyes.com.

Thanks for listening to our first show it was great fun and we are already planning next weeks show.  Here are some resources we mentioned on the show.

1. Blogs- Check out Wordpress.com and Wordspress.org if you want to host your own blog.
2. Microblogging- Twitter can be found here and this is my Twitter page, follow me if you want.
3. Facebook- Can be found here and check out the Facebook page we made for Swank
4. Referrals- The company I am testing is called Urefer.  I am trying to get them on the show next.

Here is my referral badge. 

See you next week on Friday at 10am Pacific time with more great tips for your business.

Opinionated marketing gurus Rick Rochon and Whitney Keyes save you time and money so you can be more successful in business and get more out of life. From online social networking tips to advice about how to get free publicity, they help you avoid mistakes and share tips on free resources. As the Main Street Mavericks, they travel around the country helping small businesses stay in business and host a weekly radio talk show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rickandwhitney. For more information about Rick or Whitney, visit their websites: www.RickRochon.com and www.WhitneyKeyes.com.

Thanks for listening to our first show it was great fun and we are already planning next weeks show.  Here are some resources we mentioned on the show.

1. Blogs- Check out Wordpress.com and Wordspress.org if you want to host your own blog.
2. Microblogging- Twitter can be found here and this is my Twitter page, follow me if you want.
3. Facebook- Can be found here and check out the Facebook page we made for Swank
4. Referrals- The company I am testing is called Urefer.  I am trying to get them on the show next.

Here is my referral badge. 

See you next week on Friday at 10am Pacific time with more great tips for your business.

This is our premiere episode, but really our test episode to get our feeling for the software and format. We will be talking about marketing your small business in tough economic times. Update: We covered products like Twitter, Wordpress for blogging, Facebook Pages and URefer.