The Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce presents: Social Marketing For Entrepreneurs, happening May 4, 2017 at noon at the Mercer Island Community & Events Center. Featuring Keynote Speaker Blake Messer of Newfangled Commerce. $15 per seat for Mercer Island Chamber members, $20 for non-members. Seating is limited and RSVP Required. Go to www.StrongerBusiness.org to save your seat. #MercerIslandChamberofCommerce #BlakeMesser

Venue Sahalee Country Club Address 21200 NE Sahalee Country Club Dr Sammamish WA 98074, US Starts Thu Mar 16 2017, 11:15am PDT Ends Thu Mar 16 2017, 1:00pm PDT Blake Messer has steered the creative and placement for more than 2,500 advertising campaigns on radio, TV, print and digital media for some of America’s biggest brands, home town entrepreneurs and news making start-ups. His award winning copy writing and voice-over work can be heard on radio and TV sta

The 2016 Speaking tour resumes 9/27 & 9/30 in Kissimmee and Crystal River Florida. These workshops are fully booked, but it you REALLY want to come, click here to email us and we'll make room for you. (You may have to sit on someone's lap.) #SocialMarketingWorkshop #BlakeMesser #NewfangledCommerce #Florida

Washington State Transit Association presentation: Driving Riders with Social Media. #SocialMedia #WashingtonStateTransitAssociation #DrivingRiders #BlakeMesser #NewfangledCommerce

Buddha once said, “Thousands of candles can be lit by a single candle.” I’m certain Buddha wasn’t thinking about fueling commerce via advertising, email marketing or social media, but that incisive phrase about inspiring others through actions and words dovetails perfectly with the ability to duplicate a sale process with an emotion-evoking communication. It’s been said that success in sales is the ability to duplicate a sales process. Whether we’re talking about re-using a s

In my time of guiding over 2,400 advertising campaigns, I’ve learned a simple but powerful truth: “Repetition builds recall, and recall drives decisions.” How repetition is achieved is a matter that confounds many business people and sales people alike. Indian Yogi and Spiritual Guru Paramahansa Yogananda once said, “It is better to say just one phrase repeating it vigorously from low to high or high to whisper and lastly from a whisper to mental affirmations until one feels

Now that you’ve found yourself in a sales/marketing role, an appropriate question to ask yourself would be, “Why am I selling?” Really probe introspectively for the answer to this question. Are your motives strictly to put money in your bank account? Do you want to make a better life for you and your family? Is this a temporary role you intend to play until you can find what you’re truly in search of? If you’ve answered “Yes” to any of the above questions, then it’s time to e

My first sale made me feel triumphant! I sensed that I had moved the needle of progress forward, helped myself, and helped the enterprise that I was representing. And I knew I would help my newly acquired client succeed. Years whirled past, I kept climbing the ladder of success, and I found myself on a professional journey to learn the craft of sales. I devoured any published knowledge on the matter I came across. I became a student of psychology and human desire. I even soug

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Join the SBDC at Highline Community College December 14th, 2015 for a Social Marketing Workshop for small to medium sized businesses. This workshop is free of charge due to underwritting and is sponsored by the Washington SBDC, and Newfangled Commerce. RSVP required. Seating is limited. #SBDC #HighlineCommunityCollege #SocialMarketingWorkshop #BlakeMesser