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Social Media For Your Food Business

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 4:00 PM - Friday, May 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

 Social Media For Your Food Business

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General Public Ended $25.00 $2.24
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Event Details

 

Can you hear it? It’s the buzz of social media. And it’s everywhere.

It has become a nec­es­sary strat­egy for small busi­nesses to have a pres­ence on social media sites. Yet sort­ing through the sites and hype can be over­whelm­ing and con­fus­ing. A big buzz kill. Join us for a hands-on work­shop that will help you under­stand the social media tools that will ben­e­fit your busi­ness and get started right away.

When: April 23th from 4–6 p.m

Where: Valen­cia Gar­dens, com­puter lab.

What: Social Media for your food business

Who: Jen­nifer Benz from Benz Communication

How much: Free for pro­gram par­tic­i­pants and clients of part­ner orga­ni­za­tions,$15 each ses­sion for com­mer­cial users and $25 each ses­sion for the gen­eral pub­lic. 

You’ll learn:

  • The key social media tools for small busi­ness mar­ket­ing and how to use them -  Face­book, Twit­ter, YouTube, LinkedIn and blogs
  • How to uti­lize social media for offers and promotions
  • Tools to help max­i­mize your small busi­nesses efficiency
  • How to main­tain a con­sis­tent brand image through social media to reach your customers
  • How to cre­ate cre­ative con­tent for Social Media platform
  • How to mea­sure the effec­tive­ness of Social Media
Par­tic­i­pants are encour­aged to bring their lap­tops or print outs of their cur­rent social media mar­ket­ing efforts.

About the Moderator:

Jen­nifer Benz is founder and chief strate­gist at Benz Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, a bou­tique con­sult­ing firm that focuses on employee ben­e­fits com­mu­ni­ca­tion. She is also a long-time La Cocina vol­un­teer and helped develop La Cocina’s mar­ket­ing cur­ricu­lum. Her busi­ness is fea­tured on Open Forum Pulse, an aggre­ga­tion of small busi­ness lead­ers on Twit­ter -  She will share her own expe­ri­ences and insights from her time with both Benz Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and La Cocina businesses.

The work­shop is made pos­si­ble thanks to gen­er­ous sup­port from Chevron.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When & Where



Valencia Gardens
15th & Valencia
San Francisco, CA 94103

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 4:00 PM - Friday, May 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM (PT)


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La Cocina



La Cocina is a ground-breaking business incubator designed to reduce the obstacles that often prevent low-income food entrepreneurs from creating successful and sustainable small businesses. By providing affordable, shared, commercial kitchen space, an array of industry-specific technical assistance and services, and access to market opportunities and access to capita, La Cocina works with entrepreneurs as they launch, grow, and formalize successful food businesses. We focus primarily on women from culturally diverse communities and immigrant communities. Our vision is that our program participants will become economically self-sufficient and contribute to a vibrant and diverse economy doing what they love to do.