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Ahna’s Social Straight Talk: Raw Rock Chick

This series is dedicated to sharing real life examples of social media marketing. It’s an in-depth review of a business’s social platform with suggestions on how to optimize it. This series is not meant to criticize, but to offer insight into the complex world of social media marketing. But as the series name suggests, I speak frankly. To have your business reviewed, click here and send me a message.

Barbara Fernandez is the owner of The Raw Rock Chick. She’s incredible and her website is beautiful. If you’re interested in eating raw, smoothies or healthy soups and easy recipes – she’s your lady. [Read more…]

Ahna’s Social Straight Talk: Zaire Kacz Photography

This biweekly series is dedicated to sharing real life examples of social media marketing. It’s an in-depth review of a business’s social platform with suggestions on how to optimize it. This series is not meant to criticize, but to offer insight into the complex world of social media marketing. But as the series name suggests, I will speak frankly. To have your business reviewed, click here and send me a message.

Zaire Kacz is an incredible photographer. We have never met in person, but I was blown away by the photo set she did with my sister several years ago, and then the photos she took of my parent’s French restaurant.

But when it comes to Facebook marketing, like many business owners, Zaire doesn’t have the right social media strategies working for her. She produces and shares gorgeous photos, but Facebook marketing takes a lot more than beautiful photography to successful reproduce viable income for a business.

However, because she does have unlimited amounts of visual content, she’s ahead of many business owners.

Let’s dive into Zaire’s business Facebook page and talk about what is and isn’t working for her.

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Ahna’s Social Straight Talk: Indian Summer Leather Design

This bi-weekly series is dedicated to sharing real life examples of social media marketing. It’s an in-depth review of a business’s social platform with optimization suggestions. This series is not meant to criticize, but to offer insight into the complex world of social media marketing. But as the series name suggests, I will speak frankly. To have your business reviewed, click here and send me a message.

Brian and Anita Jackel are the fine owners of Indian Summer Leather Design, located on the beautiful Gabriola Island in British Columbia. The husband/wife team work hard to give their customers the very best with Anita designing gorgeous leather products and Brian making sure the business runs smoothly from an administrative level.

I met these fabulous folks in the midst of an online course and was impressed by the attention to detail put into the bag designs and the care with which the marketing is handled.

But of course, the Jackels are already wearing too many hats to maintain everything at optimal levels. Still, thanks to unique and beautiful products, there’s much that can be done!

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Ahna’s Social Straight Talk: Crewlab

This biweekly series is dedicated to sharing real life examples of social media marketing. It’s an in-depth review of a business’s social platform with optimization suggestions. This series is not meant to criticize, but to offer insight into the complex world of social media marketing. But as the series name suggests, I will speak frankly. To have your business reviewed, click here and send me a message.

Alan VanToai, founder of Crewlab, is a location-independent entrepreneur who’s got his hands in a whole bunch of projects. A previous Yelp employee and personality powerhouse, Alan is taking the startup scene by storm with his podcast interviews and focus on showcasing other entrepreneurs blossoming onto the scene.

His podcast, Crewlab, is an iTunes featured podcast and generates an incredible amount of attention. In addition, Alan writes excellent blogs that break down business structures (I LOVE this one).

But as always, there’s a disconnect between sharing valuable content and growing an online community with social media. No biggie – let’s go over where he’s #winning and how he can maximize the problematic areas.

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Ahna’s Social Straight Talk: Red Lemon Club

Alex Mathers of the Red Lemon Club is a location-independent entrepreneur from the UK who teaches small businesses how to attract the best customers in their industry. He blogs more than twice a week, updates his Facebook page, strategically grows his Twitter community, consistently sends updates to his email subscribers, and has self-published a few ebooks.

He’s doing great. But when it comes to maximizing his social media marketing, he’s leaving dollars, or in his case, pounds on the table. [Read more…]