----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 02:00) -----My parents were entrepreneurs. Grew up with small businesses.Earliest jobs building Web products to help small businesses and website owners build and promote their websites, grow their customer lists, use email newsletters and create banners ads. ----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:16) -----Geocities, websites ugly, banners flashed.Microsoft bought LinkExchange, bCentral for SMBs
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:16) -----Launched my own small business ----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:21) -----I learned how far a dollar could go online, how to be effective with cost-per-click advertising, how to leverage blogging, email newsletters, local reviews
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:21) -----If you do what you love, and make customers THIS happy - your business will grow and thriveYour accountant will tell you, happy customers equals salesBut don't do it for the money, do it for the love
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:21) -----HI my name is Kara, I absolutely LOVE cupcakes!
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:21) -----Do you really need a website?
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:21) -----What are the alternatives?About Me -
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:23) -----What about reaching customers?Let's start with the social media king, Facebook
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:23) -----Started by Mark Zuckerberg from his college dormroomFacebook will go public this year to the tune of about 100 Billion dollarsWhat is Facebook?
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:26) -----Great example of a small business using Facebook is Kara's CupcakesSee the menu before going to the store
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:26) -----The About page - no IT guy or HTML skills required!
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:26) -----Easy to upload photos, customers can share photos and tag your business in their post
----- Meeting Notes (2/7/12 05:26) -----Let's not forget Twitter
48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every dayOver 3 billion videos are viewed a dayUsers upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every weekMore video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the USYouTube is localized in 25 countries across 43 languagesYouTube's demographic is broad: 18-54 years oldYouTube reached over 700 billion playbacks in 2010800M unique users visit YouTube each month
It's a visual social network that organizes images by topic and lets you reshare with just one click.How successful is Pinterest? Unique visitors to the site grew 400% from September to December 2011, and just last week one study showed that Pinterest drives more visitors to third-party websites than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined.