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Love Instagram Love Blogging | Jump Start Your Social Media

Start Your 2018 Social Media Marketing Strong Ever wonder how your peers are using social media? How do social marketers strategize and plan? How do business owners gain trust and connect with their online communities in fun and authentic ways? Join us for a morning full of learning with bonus work time built in on Monday, February 26th. This business …

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Common Sense SEO

When you’re running a business, you don’t have a lot of time or brain power to spend on SEO. But you KNOW it’s important. In this class we’ll take a non-technical approach to SEO. We’ll learn quick techniques you can apply as you’re writing your blog posts, how to SEO product listings, and super fast keyword research tricks. After a …

3 Ways My Promo Video Has Helped Me Specialize My Business

It would probably surprise you to hear that as a photographer, there is one email I dread having to draft a reply to: My family needs photos! My husband and I have 3 kids, ages 6, 4, and 2. We really love your style and were thinking we wanted to have our family portraits taken at XYZ Park in a …

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Vend Raleigh Group Leaders

I’m not sure we can say the word community enough here at Vend Raleigh. Vend Raleigh is a unique example of a Raleigh small business community. We partner, cross promote, educate and celebrate one another. One way that we make Vend Raleigh just a little smaller and a lot more relevant is our sub-groups, our Facebook groups that are specific …

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Makeover Your Vend Raleigh Business Directory Listing

Many of you are about to begin a second year with the Vend Raleigh Business Directory and I want to tell you that I’ve got some fun promo ideas coming this year that will be big traffic drivers to the Directory! Those details are coming soon. For now, let’s talk about how you are using the Directory and how you …

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My Raleigh Valentine | Crafting Gift Ideas

 For Your Raleigh Valentine: Vend Raleigh Etsy Shop Owners Bring DIY to Valentine’s Day Gifts                                  You Hold The Key To My Heart Karen Campbell of Cool Mama Crafts   A Vend Raleigh Directory Member   To make this Valentine’s Keepsake, begin with any substrate of your choice.  A canvas or canvas panel …

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Holiday Sip and Shop | Raleigh Sponsorship Opportunity

The Vend Raleigh Holiday Sip and Shop is a highly publicized event that keeps getting bigger each year!  At our 2013 Holiday Sip and Shop, all 100 Swag Bags were gone in the first 40 minutes of the doors opening! We are excited to announce a new location for 2014, Cobblestone Hall Downtown Raleigh! Here we can accommodate more vendors …

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6 Steps to Better SEO | Video and Handout

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Jennie Wong is the owner of Limelight Web Development, which provides ecommerce and SEO services to their clients in North Carolina and nationally.  She is also the creator of the baby product quiz site www.ABorC.com, which provides your personal Amazon Top 3 for everything from car seats to diaper bags.  She provided this 1-hour introduction to Search …

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How To Create Images For Websites And Social Media

PicMonkey | How to Create Images for Websites and Social Media   Vend Raleigh Directory Member Tracy Bass of Damsel in Defense created this PicMonkey tutorial for us. This will get you started creating original images for your business right away!  I use PicMoney and Canva. Tell us in the comments, what image creation sites  do you use?     Great job, …

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Illuminate Sponsorship

Every business owner wants to create customers, develop qualified sales leads, and convert leads into sales. Illuminate 2014 offers tailored sponsorship packages to help you do just that. Whether you’re just starting out or an established business, Illuminate is a great opportunity to make direct contact with new customers and strengthen relationships with existing ones. Illuminate 2014 is presented by Vend …