Networking for bloggers - The secrets you need to know to continue to build your business, your brand and/or blog OFFLINE

Networking for bloggers - The secrets you need to know to continue to build your business, your brand and/or your blog OFFLINE. 

Regardless of what industry you are in, whether you are in a business or building a blog to support a hobby and even affiliate sales, or even if you are blogging while job hunting, networking offline is crucial! This is going to be one session you can't afford to miss!

In this session, we will cover:

• The importance of taking your online networking efforts offline
• How to develop a local entourage and raving fans
• Strategies to attract referrals to your business or blog like a magnet
• How to effortlessly position yourself as a valued resource and make yourself indispensable 
• How to overcome a fear of networking events and ways to get excited about them
• Goal-setting and becoming an asset instead of just a participant
• What do respond when people ask "what you do"
• Ways to network on behalf of your blog in face to face settings
• 7 things that impact how others perceive you
• Ways to make sure you stand out for all the RIGHT reasons
• Strategies to  build social proof in the local business community 
• and more!

About Taryn Pisaneschi (aka @TarynP)

Grow your business.  Network meaningfully online AND offline.  Be a visionary!

Taryn Pisaneschi empowers small businesses, freelancers and solopreneurs to take charge of their own marketing and branding strategies.  As a social media expert for over ten years, Taryn understands that the key to brand expansion is in effective and strategic social networking.  She has been building online relationships since 1990 and started organizing networking events for online contacts since 1992. 

In 2002, she leveraged social networking to quadruple the market share of a small, service based company based in Atlanta in 18 months. As the founder of Women Intelligently Networking, Taryn supports female entrepreneurs through luncheons, events, and business skill workshops. Her leadership skills and the effectiveness of WIN! have garnered both regional and national attention.

As Chief Marketer for TSP Marketing, Taryn works with individual clients to develop business branding basics.  Clients benefit from learning about solid elevator pitches, intentional referrals, and productive social networking strategies. Through TSP Marketing, Taryn empowers clients to meet their marketing goals in a friendly and meaningful way. 

Taryn is based in Atlanta, but she travels extensively for speaking engagements and networking events.  In her free time, she is equally at home in a coffeeshop or a co-working space as she is snowboarding on the slopes, keeping in touch with her network via her trusty iPhone.

You can connect with Taryn at http://www.twitter.com/tarynp.

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