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Update - September 2010 Edition

  

September 2010 Professional Development Meeting

 

Leveraging LinkedIn for Business Purposes

presented by: Anne Pryor, Meaningful Connections

 

In this session, Anne Pryor, will share techniques, tips and strategies to help you determine your LinkedIn Strategy for business development, finding experts, developing vendor and partner relationships, and show you how you can be found on LinkedIn as an expert in your field.  She’ll share strategies for setting up your Profile, searching techniques to find people, companies, groups, business opportunities, all people who come recommended by your network. You’ll leave amazed at the value of LinkedIn.

 Anne Pryor

 Learning Objectives:                                                    

  1. Learn the 3 basic components of LinkedIn: Settings, Profile Strategy Development, Inviting Connections

  2. Learn how to leverage LinkedIn for searching for companies, vendors, products, people to create Meaningful Connections and business development opportunities

  3. Learn how to create your personal brand presence on LinkedIn using Groups, Answers and Discussions to be found as an expert in your field

Speaker Bio:                 

Anne Pryor is a Master Connector with more than 20 years of experience in networking, wellness consulting, career coaching, social media consulting, partnership marketing and product development. Anne accelerates success and well-being through facilitating meaningful connections by inspiring, equipping, and empowering people to easily and effortlessly manifest their goals.  Anne has a diverse network with more than 1,500 LinkedIn connections and 7,000,000 contacts which have helped her previous employers generate over $5,000,000 in partnership sales.

Anne is a Career Coach and Social Media Consultant with Career Partners Twin Cities and as an independent consultant, she works one on one with individuals in career transition and for business development purposes.  As a former Sr. Director at Carlson Marketing, she designed corporate wellness and innovation solutions for Fortune 500 clients.  Previously she was the first Minnesota employee on the grand opening team of Mall of America’s Knott’s Camp Snoopy and she Directed Marketing for Lifetouch and managed the group sales team at Valleyfair.  Anne holds a Master of Arts degree from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota and a BS degree in Business from Southwest Minnesota State University where she played intercollegiate basketball and tennis.  Her hobbies are researching quantum energy, Nordic Walking, soul watercolor painting and reading the job want ads.

BONUS! Pre-Dinner Program:

Managing Your Personal Brand
presented by: Kathleen Crandall, Meaningful Connections

You communicate a message about your personal brand every day, whether you intentionally manage it or not.  It is communicated on your LinkedIn page and other social networking sites, in your email, in what you say and don’t say, in your behavior, and in how you show up.  Managing Your Personal Brand will help you get to the heart of your authentic brand and learn how to leverage it when communicating your strengths, what you are known for and good at (or aspire to be!) and what you desire in networking, business development and job search.    

 Kathleen Crandall

Speaker Bio:

Kathleen Crandall is a Meaningful Connector and expert in Personal Branding and Public Relations.  She helps  companies, products and people succeed through effective communications and the power of their brand.  Kathleen has more than 20 years experience building successful brands and helping people understand, develop and communicate their personal brand to get what they desire.  She is a public speaker, trainer and coach for executives, corporations and organizations.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, Kathleen is principle at Crandall Communications, Inc., a public relations firm, and partner with Anne Pryor in Meaningful Connections, a business that inspires hope and belief and provides training and coaching to help people achieve what they desire.   Kathleen served in senior level executive positions with several national and international public relations firms and for the past 15 years built a successful PR business working with companies in healthcare, medical device, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, professional services and retail with business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications strategies.

Location:

Jax Cafe'
1928 University Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55418
612/789-7297

Date:
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Schedule:
5:00pm Pre-dinner/Registration/Networking
6:00pm Dinner
6:45pm Announcements/Break
7:00pm Program
8:00pm Closing

**Plan to attend both programs if possible to get the most out of this event - both topics go hand-in-hand and will enhance the learning experience.

Members: $35.00, Non-Members: $45.00, Students: $15.00

Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 9th.

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