We are very excited to announce our very special March Social Media Breakfast. March 26th from 8:30am – Noon we are having a Best Of/Thank You Social Media BRUNCH at the Frog and Turtle in Westbrook Maine.

We have had such a great time and support from the community while putting these breakfasts together. We have met some amazing people and learned from experts and our peers on how businesses can use social media to help them with their marketing and PR.

Register early. This event will sell out!

All Star Cast of Speakers

We have an all star lineup of some of our favorite speakers from the past breakfasts and some new case studies and speakers as well. For past speakers we have invited back Heather Wasklewicz from 32north (the makers of STABILicers ice cleats), Chrystie Corns to talk about personal branding, Calvin Gilbert from Goodwill NNE, Alex Steed for his expertise in working with nonprofits and Brad Lawwill from Pierce Promotions to talk to us again about creating social media policies. For new guests we are excited to have Candace Karu from Cabot Creamery, Keith Luke from the City of Westbrook and Jeff Parsons from Q97.9.

For the full list of presenters and their presentations
check out our upcoming page.

Great Sponsors Help Make a Great Event

We are very lucky to have the support of two great sponsors who understand the vision of this special social media brunch!

The City of Westbrook

The City of Westbrook is changing right before all of our eyes. With some great additions to the business scene in downtown, Westbrook is becoming an even greater town for participating in lots of activities, shopping and dining. Westbrook has been using video to help show and tell local residents more about what they have to offer. We knew we wanted to partner with them for this event and host it in their fine city.

The Maine Marketing Association

The MMA has become a local fixture for events, seminars, Lunch N Learns and support for its members and businesses. The Social Media Breakfasts have always been to educate the community on how to market themselves online. We are fortunate to be able to team up with another local group that has the same values and goals to put on a really unique event.

Social Media is a great way to reach new people online and converse with them like never possible before. For some industries Social Media has shown to be just another extension of their current marketing and business approach. The Travel, Tourism and Recreation Industries have a unique opportunity to connect with people before they make their vacation and travel plans. We are choosing to hone in on the Travel, Tourism and Recreation Industry for this month’s breakfast.

Most vacations and trips start with online research through search engines, blogs and on social media sites. We now have the ability to converse with our online network and get their opinion before we move toward booking our trip. Participating online so that you are found when people are looking for these ideas and service is imperative to your businesses growth.

This month is going to be slightly different with a short presentation on changes the travel, tourism and recreation industries have seen in the last few years and then we will have three local case studies to share with us their online and offline marketing strategy. Norm Forgey from Maine Day Trip, Heather Wasklewicz from 32north the makers of STABILicers and Darcy Liberty and Nick Lambert from Sunday River will be this months speakers.

Register today and we look forward to seeing you all at another great breakfast!

December 18th

‘Tis the season for giving thanks and I have to start with thanking everyone who has helped make our breakfasts a success: MPX has been so generous to let us use their space, our raffle donations have been great and of course our presenters and attendees. This month’s topic was brought up at a breakfast and also through the contact form on our site. We think we have a good topic for this month.

Personal or Professional on social networks

Social Media has done some great things for local businesses. Some people are themselves and reap benefits by becoming online friends and sharing news about their company. Other are their company logo online and have got lots of chatter going about their company. Some other people have found a way to do both. What is the right thing to do? How do you decide what is best to get your message out?

We are going to try to demystify how to create your social media content personally, professionally and try a few things in between. Emily Brackett, president of Visible Logic, is going to talk to use about making the decision on whether to be your brand or yourself. She will give us some real life examples from different industries so that you can make the right decision. Then we have two local professionals to talk to us about how and why they chose to promote their ‘personal brand’ or their company. Chrystie Corns, President & Chief Strategist for Thirteen Thirty Marketing, will talk about her decision to be a strong personal brand and Chris Brown, VP of Bull Moose will share with us promoting a company brand on social networking sites and the benefits his company has seen from his efforts.

Register today and we look forward to seeing you all at another great breakfast!

We all know now that participating in Social Media can open up new opportunities for you and your business but how do you know if what you are doing is working? Are people hearing what you are saying? Are you connecting with new potential customers? Are you wasting your time?

This month’s Social Media Breakfast Maine we will tackle all those questions and more. We will lay out what goals you and your organization should set up and how to track your progress. We are very excited to have Monica Wright and THE Rich Brooks present for us on setting goals and measuring. We also have a local case study from Calvin Gilbert who oversees the web development and print for Goodwill Industries of Northern New England.

We think this topic will be a popular one so register early. This month’s event will be held again at MPX on outer Congress, here in Portland. MPX has been a generous sponsor and partner for these breakfasts.

We got this topic from a few people who attended the last breakfast and some who filled out the contact form. If you have a topic you would like to see covered please contact us.

If you were not able to attend our last breakfast for Non-profits the recap and presentations are on our archive page.

After some really great feedback, we decided the topic for our next Social Media Breakfast Maine will be Social Media for Nonprofits. The breakfast will be back at MPX on October 16th. We gathered up three great speakers to join us while we learn about the potential and the technology involved with using social media to boost Nonprofits marketing reach and raising awareness.

We’ve invited back Alex Steed to drill down more specifically how he sees social media as a tool for nonprofits. We also invited Brian Clark of Strong Fathers Maine to speak first hand about what he has seen using social media and Kaitlin LaCasse from Idealware to share her experiences with social media as well!

For more information please check out our upcoming breakfast page and register early because this topic is sure to sell out!

Hope everyone survived the long weekend! We have 10 spots for left for Social Media Breakfast Maine on September 18th. If you haven’t signed up, you should before it is too late.

After checking out the Eventbrite page, I am very excited! Not only do we have a great group of speakers but we have a really nice group of attendees lined up so far! Good attendees mean great conversations!

As for the morning itself, things are shaping up quite nicely and we have a very generous donation to our raffle: Chris Brogan has offered to give us a few copies of his new book Trust Agents that he wrote with Julien Smith. I spent a good part of my weekend crushing this book and what a great pairing for our topic Creating Trust and Communities Online. Trust Agents is a great book for explaining the theory on why building trust online is important and gives you some practical things you can start doing right now.

If you have an item you want to donate to our raffle, have any questions or have a suggestion for a future topic for SMBME let us know! If not, we look forward to seeing some of you on September 18th!

September 18th – 8am – 10am

We are very excited to announce Maine’s second Social Media Breakfast! The topic this month will be Creating Trust and Communities Online We have some really great speakers lined up, a really nice space (thanks to our friends at MPX), some yummy treats and a few tricks up our sleeve.

We also created this nifty little site so we can keep a running conversation with all of you about upcoming events and after each breakfast we will put up the slides and notes from the past events. You can also contact us at any time if you want to be a speaker, sponsor or just to chit chat.

This event we will only have 35 available public tickets so you better hurry up! Register here. If you can’t make it we hope you can join us another month and we will have the presenters slides available after the event is over.

You are welcome to join us at 7:30am for networking and sign-in. Presentations will start promptly at 8:15am. We will have three presentations and some time for a Question Answer panel and some networking.

Hope to see you on the 18th!
Thanks! Amanda and Kyle