Entrepreneurial Marketing

Dear All,

My name is Javier Abad Dominguez.I was born in Cuba and raised in Spain and currently reside in Orlando, Florida. I am taking this course in order to compliment my Masters Degree in Management because I wish to learn and expand my knowledge in Internet Marketing and Small Business Entrepreneurship. I have worked for major corporations during the last ten years including Hewlett Packard, Telefonica, Whirlpool and currently for Kaplan University Online. I have an extensive technology background and expertise that has helped me coordinate, coach and manage teams and operations across geographies. I look forward to learning not just from this course but from each and everyone one of you as well.

Sincerely yours,

Javier Dominguez
404-437-6091
javierdguez@gmail.com

Hi, I'm developing an alternative health care practice and would like to learn about online marketing to help promote the business. My background in particular is in neurofeedback training and as there is a relatively small industry in Sydney Australia, I would like to incorporate some social/guerilla marketing techniques to promote my business.

Hello! My name is Indira Cornelio I live in Mexico. I coordinate the Communication and Public Relations Department of REDDES (NGO that works in projects of open software, technology, education and sustainable development) I'm here to learn more about e-marketing and how to take the best of the digital tools for the following reasons: this year we started offering workshop for rights advocates in Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Bolivia and Peru so they can use this tools in order to apply them into their advocacy labors and so they can communicate their messages, we also finished planning a course of environmental education for people with a very specific profile and we are searching for the best ways to get this specific audience into the course; all the information of the course has been written and design for them, but how to get in touch with them, I already have a bunch of ideas but I know this course will help me on this. Also in promoting the courses in Latinamerica I tried to use some of the social networks but the think that worked the best for us was the direct mail. So I'll really love to learn more about how to deliver those messages to the audiences you need to communicate with.

I'm in charge of the facebook page of Reddes (http://www.facebook.com/contactoreddes), the twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/contactoreddes) I'm also the administrator of the site (www.reddes.org) that is on Joomla. I'm 23 and I finished the college on march 2010 and I started to work on january 2010 and I really love working on teaching rights advocates to use these new platforms that will help them do their work better. I also know that I must learn about some other tools and specially about the strategic use of the online tools in order to get results offline.

I would like to share with you the link of the project we have being working last year www.informationactivism.org/en this is a project of Tactical Technology Collective that we have being promoting in Lationamerica. And it shows 10 tactics that advocates can use to communicate their causes.

I know I'll learn so much here and I will definitely share with you everything that I find helpful!

Have a nice day/night :)

Hi All,
My name is Karen and I live on the NSW Mid North Coast of Australia.
I am passionate about supporting people to improve, eating, exercise and using positive psychology strategies to improve their health and wellbeing and for disease prevention. I have written a coaching program to support coaches to deliver coaching to groups, gyms or organisations about ways to live a happy healthy life.
I have a person currently assisting me with my website www.karenplumbecoaching.com however, I would like to learn more about SEO, google, and develop a marketing strategy. I have already created a blog and I have a facebook page but my challenge is getting them to all work together and to get the word out.
Sounds like there is a knowledgeable group as part of this course and I look forward to learning together with you all.

Hey everyone, great to join such a talented pool of people.

My experience covers a range from: mobile phone development and distribution (domestic / international), music production, sound FX production, live radio broadcast, graphic design, web-site construction, social media management, SEO, silk screening and event production.

The reason I am here is a cross between each of these experiences. In addition to ongoing freelance and volunteer work, I have also co-founded a music and art workshop series in East Los Angeles targeted towards youth. The goal of the workshop is to enable young people to develop their talents, and give them the technological tools to share their work and generate income from it online.

Specifically from this class I want to learn marketing techniques to share the content created from the workshops to an international audience of art and music lovers.

My experience is pretty broad, while working for a top international entertainment company in los angeles by day, i am also connected diversely throughout california to independent artists and business's. if there is anything i can assist any of you with please don't hesitate to contact.

I hope that throughout the class I will have working examples of promotional materials, websites, and content presentations to share with you and would love feedback, critiques and opinions as often as possible!

-a

Hi Everyone!!
My name is Cristina, I'm 33 years old and I'm Catalan. Catalonia is a nation in Spain, so I use to speak Catalan and Spanish.I live in a small village near Barcelona.
I'm a Sound and Image engineer and now I'm working in a public television as a technician. I also teach maths to teenagers.

I'm very excited with this course and I think that this project i awsome!!

I don't have academic formation on marketing, I only have a bit knowledge of web design so I know that I will learn a lot this weeks with all you.

I expect from this course learning as much as possible about marketing techniques in general and emarketing in particular. I would like to design an image bank. I'm interested also in create a virtual shop.

Looking forward to learn and share as much things as possible with you!!

Hello! What a great group of people in this class, I so look forward to learning and getting to know you.

As for me, I'm Jane Saylor, a Spirit and Soul Life Coach from a small community in southeast Michigan, USA. I have been working, researching, and learning in the self help field for most of my life (I'm almost 50 now... so its been a while!) My work addresses the subconscious mind, overcoming negative habits and changing the way we think and feel, and also communication and relationships. My website is www.ThePowerofSelfHelp.com.

Over the last 2 years I've researched, designed and developed an individual assessment process which has allowed clients to recognize what they need to do get life back on track. It's all falling right into place, the synchronicity of life amazes me.

I am in this class to learn more about marketing in a variety of areas (and also because I consider myself a 'stalker of knowledge'... I just want to know!)

My website was developed thru SiteBuildIt. I really enjoyed the process of doing it all myself. Thru the years I have taught myself how to design professional looking brochures, books, and much more.

I have one book which I published in 2006 called The Road You've Traveled, which teaches people to journal their life. The assessment program I spoke of earlier will be broken down into a series of books which will called the Combat Stress and Chaos Series.

About 10 years ago I used to layout and publish poetry books for people in the community using Adobe Pagemaker which I learned on what I like to call, a need to know basis... when I needed to know it, I'd learn it! (:

I look forward to sharing what I know and learning from all of you,

Smiles to you,
Jane

My name is Clarence Cromwell. I'm a writer and journalist, but right now my day job is in house painting.

I tried to start up an alternative paper in 2009, after my local paper announced it would close down and start a web-based newspaper. I didn't have much luck selling ads, so the paper didn't last long. I decided several things: to publish on the web in the future, to not rely on local business advertising to fund an edgy and irreverent publication, and to be better at marketing next time.

What I'd like to do next is create an online publication with the kind of writing I do best, which is more like a magazine article than like a typical newspaper item.

I'd like to be able to describe the new publication to readers or potential donors (who would pay the costs of keeping it online) without being boring or turning them away in droves. I'd like to make sure I'm reaching the right people (not people who don't want to read or fund my work). I'd also like to learn the best kinds of media to reach people with this project. I have a strong hunch I'll be using Facebook, Twitter and Constant Contact, but I'm willing to try anything that might work.

I've spent some time talking to business people about how they're advertising online and offline, what's working for them and what isn't, so I might have something useful to offer for discussion on those points.

Some things I wouldn't mind collaborating on would be research into how to use social media advertising to promote a business; specifically, I'd like to work out really practical tactics, as specific as "when you have a sale, make a facebook post with a picture and a message including the word SALE." Stuff I can act on and that I know will work for me.

Hi all! I'm Sam from upstate NY. I currently work with a very cool start up company called Ecovative. We are developing and producing radically sustainable alternatives to Styrofoam and other synthetic plastic materials. We're growing these alternative materials using... mushroom technology!

Although my background is in mechanical engineering and product design, I wear many hats at this start up, and one of those hats is marketing. My father is a marketing exec, so growing up I was always giving feedback on new product names, commercial concepts, etc. I write all the content for our website, blog, twitter and facebook. Please check it out and tell me what you think!

www.ecovativedesign.com
www.ecovativedesign.com/news
www.twitter.com/ecovative
www.facebook.com/ecovative

My goals are to learn new ways to more effectively spread the word about the benefits of our new materials with as little time and money as possible. I think with my design background I can contribute a lot of design critique and suggestions for this class.

Looking forward to learning!
-Sam

Hi I am Julie from Ontario - about 45 minutes outside Toronto. My background is marketing, market research and my side business of photography. I use market research, marketing (especially the social media side of it) to promote my business.
I want to continue to spend little to no money on advertising and I would like to learn more about promoting my business. I don't want to discount my prices to gain more business and I want to be able to spread the word more.
I have a webpage www.juliethurgood.com, I currently use mailchimp for my monthly newsletters and I use google analytics to track the visits etc on my site.
I use facebook, twitter and jpg photo to grow my business.

I would like to share ideas and see what else we can do to grow our business.

Look forward to this course!
Julie

Hello,
My name is Scott, I live Las Vegas NV. I sell computer technology and Cloud computing solutions. I don't have a marketing background, I have been in sales for 15 years. I am interested using on-line marketing to bring in more business and hopefully have customers start calling me to compliment my prospecting. I hope to learn the best way to get my advertisements out to the most targeted potential buyers.

thanks!
Scott

Hello,
my name is johannes.
I am from Germany, but I've been living in Australia for 7 years now. My wife is from the US, Seattle.
We both work for a non profit organisation called YWAM.
www.ywamrto.org
www.ywamships.org

YWAM (pronounced: why-wham) is a non-denominational Christian youth organisation operating in many diverse cultures and nations around the world. We are committed to training and facilitating community projects and programs that meet the practical, spiritual and physical needs of people in the communities we serve. (this is from our website and I couldn't say it much better. what it means though is that we are helping people in Papua New Guinea. Check out our website if you wanna know more)

I am completely self taught as far as anything goes really.
I am heading up our Online Marketing at the moment, using mainly FB, Google, and i am also dabbling a little bit in webdesign. personally i prefer WP and i am attempting to switch all our websites to WP as anyone can update them quite easily and it is hard to break it..
(we have a lot of turn over at our org)

I hope to learn how to get the word out about our org and what we do. i think Google and FB work, but there must be heaps more. Plus we work on a tight budget...

great, I am looking forward learning with all of you guys.
even though i feel a little out of place looking at all your background and websites...

Hello everyone,

My name is Janel and I live in Austin, TX. My hometown is St. Louis, MO. I've lived and worked in Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles as well. My day job is in technical recruiting. On my downtime I produce music and DJ occasionally. I have 12 years experience in the music industry that has taken me to many parts of the world. My fiance' and I are at the beginning stages of creating an online music start-up, which is currently in stealth mode.

Currently, I work in the staffing organization at VMware, which is a large enterprise virtualization software company. My role includes many social media related activities. Working in high tech has been an enjoyable experience as it's continually evolving.

At the end of the day, my ultimate goal is to become a music entrepreneur, with my own digital record label. In order to achieve success, I must promote myself as a brand within the various social platforms online. I'd like to learn the best practices for marketing the content I produce through these respective channels.

Heading into this course, I plan to learn as much as I can from those that are more experienced than myself. One of the truly exciting aspects of this course is that the student population is a global demographic. One thing that I'd like to bring to the table is my experiences of marketing myself internationally as a DJ.

Thank you for taking the time to read about my background and endeavors. I've enjoyed reading all of the introductions and mission statements. This appears to be a very talented and diverse group of driven individuals.

Kind regards,

Janel

Hello Everyone,

My name is Ashley. I live in western Washington. I got laid off last week, so any marketing work I was going to focus on that company is no longer. I do, however, have about 20 different startup ideas floating around, so I’m taking this as a sign that I need to actually START with at least one of those ideas. My hang up seems to be my attention span and interests: I tend to get bored with things quickly and I want to move on to learning about the next thing that sparks my interest, which is usually in a totally new area (i.e. I love horses, animals, cars, psychology, behavior, architecture, fashion, design, art, writing, painting, sustainable living, health, fitness, religion, dance, reading, food, cooking, racing, outdoor activities, photography, alternative energies, electric vehicles, inventing things, anything new, etc., etc., etc.). My focus right now is figuring out how to do everything I love in a way that conforms to society’s rules and boundaries.

For now my “enterprise” will be a health and wellness business. Helping people feel great by developing physical, mental and emotional fitness. I, like nearly everyone else, want to help people. I want to help motivate people to stretch their comfort zones and go deeper to learn about themselves. I want to show people they can be happy as they are now and teach them how they can change to get greater satisfaction with life. I guess this boils down to being a life coach, but it could also be a business with multiple employees that focuses on different forms of movement and healthier eating while teaching people little things to help shift their perspective on life…so, pretty much a new-age gym :-). I am passionate about this because our inner state of mind is reflected in the world; I am convinced that helping people find peace within themselves will eventually create peace around the world.

I would love to learn how to market myself; I have some confidence issues around telling people “I am the person you need.” I also hope to gain insight into how other people got their businesses off the ground. I don’t have a lot of specific goals; I find that whatever I need to learn about myself or otherwise will be presented. Just learning is my life goal.

I am good at editing copy and pictures; I think I have a good eye for composition and design. I’m also good at developing simpler or more efficient ways of doing things.

I really look forward to learning with you all!

Hi Everybody!

My name is Chuck and I live in Seattle, WA. I work for a startup that makes applications and software for the small business accounting market. We are called CloudSway and I'm very pride to work with such a cool team. I run the marketing for our company. Which right now consists of Social Media, SEO, Tradeshows, and so on. I'm great with the online marketing world but I don't have the basic framework that many traditional marketers have. When I'm not behind a computer I'm usually in the mountains hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and camping. Sometimes I feel like I have a split personality between the online and outdoor world ;)

I'd like to focus on my company for this course as I'm very passionate about and love to work on it. It's fun because we can actually solve problems that small businesses have. There's nothing worse than missing paperwork at tax time and our goal is to alleviate that pain and do it cheaply.

I specifically want to expand my marketing foundation. I feel like I've been "doing" marketing for years without knowing why or what it is. Essentially, I want to gain knowledge in the traditional elements of marketing that will enable me to put a method behind my madness.

I'd love to work with others on building an identity for companies. For some reason I've found myself good at finding the "voice" of a company. I will freely admit that I need help when it comes to the more traditional aspects of marketing. Anyone with that knowledge please feel free to shout it out! I want to make sure that the things I do on a day-to-day basis are rooted in good processes that are building something.

Hi all,

Im Lori Shaw, 27 years old and live in Brisbane, Australia.

I have recently been accepted to QUT University to study a Bachelor of Business major: Marketing. It has always been my dream to open my own Hair and Beauty Wellness Centre that brings together and educates individuals of a community on how to take better care of themselves, their families and each other.

I am passionate about communities coming back together – it seems as though life is difficult enough without feeling like you have no support or no-one understands what you’re going through – I want to provide a place where people can come together and feel that love and support is available everyday right at their doorstep.

I have a desire to learn and teach – which is what I hope to add and gain from these classes, but the one thing I need help on is creating a strong mission statement and business outline so that I am not side-tracked when I finally open the business.

My motto is to be more prepared that you think!

Thanks guys, I am really looking forward to this time we’ll have together

Love L