Excellence in Event Planning is an 8 hour INTENSIVE workshop is going to be an awesome experience for ANYONE that loves ANYTHING to do with event and conference planning.

We are currently working on the flyer but the registration link is live!  You can click here to register EARLY and SAVE! Those of you that have attended my events in the past know that I like to do things right! I have worked hard once again and secured a great partnership with a hotel. I’m so honored to share that the Sheraton Galleria Suites will be our hotel partner! Their property is truly beautiful and the perfect size for an event or conference for 300 or people or less.

Here are the details about the workshop:

1. It’s 8 hours! I’m excercising now to get ready! That’s  alot of teaching but you all are worth it!

2. It includes lunch! Yea! We will have a full lunch buffet so you don’t have to leave the area and incur an additional expense. You can network with your  new friends!

3.  Beginners and Intermediate planners will benefit the most though experienced planners are welcome to attend.  As many of you know, I launched Inspire! Imagine!  Ignite! last year.  This conference was for those that are serious planners and want to make serious money. Excellence in Event Planning is more of an entry level – how to get started and the basics of the industry.

4. I’m offering BRING A FRIEND FOR FREE! You can register before April 6th and bring a friend for free!  We all know that people love to do things in pairs so go ahead and grab a friend and bring them. You can split the cost of registration or sow a seed into someone and tell them you paid already paid their registration!

5.  I’ll be teaching from my book – Excellence in Event Planning. You can order your copy NOW.

As I mentioned above, we will host a Marketing and Social Media Workshop on the night before! So many people contact me asking how to really use and leverage social media and requesting more info on marketing. Well, make plans now to travel to Atlanta a day early and attend this great and informative workshop. More details will becoming but you can be the first to REGISTER and SAVE.  Here’s the registration link for it! 

More details on both are coming….

Spread the word!

Thanks!

Robin

Twitter is an amazing social media platform that allows you to communicate short messages in less than 140 characters.  In order to “track” a conversation you must create a hashtag which is simply the use of the pound (#) sign placed before a short phrase that is relevant to your ministry.  When a user enters this hashtag, they will be able to read all of the tweets that relate to your church.  The attached photo is a screen shot from the hashtag that I use every Sunday at my own church. You can also see who retweeted me.

Here are some quick tips to help you with your hashtag:

1.  Make your hashtag as short as possible. Keep in mind, users only have 140 characters and your hashtag counts in the 140.

2.  Announce your hashtag at every service.  Be intentional and explain to your members the importance of using it.

3.  Use Twitterfall and post your Twitter stream on a monitor in the lobby or in service. Be sure to have a member of your marketing team monitor the stream to see what your members/friends are saying.

4.  Post your LIVE Twitter stream on your website.  Be “ok” with knowing that you can’t control what is being said. That’s the realness (reality) of social media.

5.  Host a Twitter party once a quarter. Twitter parties are a great way for your members/friends to interact with the Pastor and leaders. I’ll share more in future posts about how to do this.

6.  Create a hashtag for EACH special event. For obvious reasons, this makes it fun and easy for your followers/supporters to stay connected.

7.  Use Twitter to welcome new members using their Twitter name and your church hashtag. Simply add a line on your new member form and request the Twitter address of each new member. Explain that they will receive a tweet from the church and provide a space for them to “check” that they “are “or “aren’t” ok with this.

Enjoy the attached article to learn how other churches are using social media.

Have a great day!

Robin

As servants, our role is to help build the kingdom and support our churches and not to make rock stars out of our senior leadership.  How can we make sure that we stay on track with this? During my workshops, I pose quite a few thought-provoking questions but here’s the first one:

What title justifies you as a leader?

First, let me break the #1 myth about who is and who isn’t a leader in your church or organization.  We are ALL leaders. Being a leader does not require you to have a title.  When you joined your church or organization, you became a leader.  Leadership is a function of what you believe you carry in yourself (gifts/abilities/anointing) and how honest you are about your abilities (training obtained, on the job experience, educational training etc.)

Leaders are honest and recognize that they do not have all the answers and are always on a self-odyssey to discover more about themselves and their leadership abilities.

Don’t believe the hype. Being a powerful and successful leader does not require you to have rock star qualities or legends of people around you celebrating your every move.

Leaders who win don’t “flex” their titles, seniority, relationship or bloodline connection to the Pastor/President to get results.  Leaders who win are those that make the people around them feel important, valued and successful.

Leadership is about who you genuinely are.

Be Blessed!

Robin M. Ware

www.thewareagency.com

___________________________________________________________________________________

This is the first in a series of leadership blogs I’ll be sharing. If you enjoyed this, please CLICK BELOW and share it with someone.  Also, I’d love to hear from you. Please leave a comment. I’ll respond and post it within 24 hours.  Thanks! Robin

Each copy is only $24.97!!! Available for IMMEDIATE download! This is an ebook. Read it on your computer, iPad, iPhone, Droid Phone or other electronic device!

BUY HERE:

The topics I’ll be covering are:

Breaking the Myths of Mobile Devices Being Utilized in Church

Why Christians NEED Social  Media Accounts

Fishers of Men: How to catch with the (inter)net

Seven Steps to Social Media Success

If you need help launching your WordPress or Joomla account, their customer service techs will walk you through how to set those up as well!

Enjoy!
Robin

1.  Google Gmail

2.  Google Alerts

3.  Google Profiles (for entrepreneurs, artists, authors etc.)

4.  Google Places (for businesses or organizations)

5.  Google Maps

6.  Google Picasa (online photo hosting)

7.  Google Docs

8.  Google +

9.  Google Adsense

10.  Google Voice

Restoration Weekend featured not only restoration, relaxation but also an opportunity to give back to the local community. Enjoy this article published online in Essence.com Witnessing Black Women Restoring Themselves which highlights Restoring Hope, the nonprofit arm of Restoration Weekend which provided all of us busy professionals with an opportunity to give back. This article was written by Author and Restoration Weekend speaker Sophia Nelson. Learn more about her and purchase her book, Black Woman Redefined at www.sophianelson.com.

The issue will be released December 1,  2011.  You can subscribe for only $20 a year and receive home delivery!  CLICK HERE SO SUBSCRIBE!

Follow Friday or Friend Follow was started as a way for active Twitter users to introduce their favorite “tweeters” or to welcome new friends who recently joined Twitter.  In a snapshot, here’s the scoop:

1.   When we see the hashtag (#) which is the pound sign, it means this is a part of an on-going conversation or to be more technical, a thread.

2.  When your name (@twittername) appears in a #FF tweet, the protocol or etiquette is that you should reply and thank the person that placed your name in the #FF. This person is “validating” that you are a great person to “follow” or to get to know on Twitter.

3. As a nice thing to do, I always retweet the #FF tweet. This does a few things: it introduces the person that did the #FF to all of your Twitter stream and it exposes that friend to your audience who may then, follow them.

4. If you are fortunate enough to be listed in a #FF with people you don’t know, I recommend that you click on their Twitter name and learn more about them and seriously consider following them. Odds are that you have something in common, which is why the person that placed you in the #FF tweet included you.

Happy Tweeting!

Robin

Need more help with Twitter or other social media networks, send an email (robin(at)robinmware(dot)com to me to discuss our social media coaching services!

Who knew back in 2009 when I joined Twitter and began “tweeting” from special events and yes, even at church, that Twitter would explode and become one of the number one communication tools of 2011! As a Social Media Expert, I teach that Twitter is an incredible tool that allows you to not only market your products and services but it allows you to build your brand while learning from others.  The best way to maximize Twitter is to first get to know your audience. Engage them in conversation and respond to their comments.  I know that all of this engagement takes a lot of time and my team and I have established a system that allows us to manage Twitter (and other social media platforms) for our clients. If you want to “join the conversation” but need help, look no further.  My team will create a social media strategy that best fits your business goals. Believe it or not, we don’t subscribe to the notion that you MUST be on all platforms.  We will help you decide which platforms are best for you and that’s where we will put you.

We currently work with small businesses, churches and Pastors managing their social media accounts.

It’s also important that your brand is communicated across all of your social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube allow custom background designs!). My team will work with you to design custom backgrounds that compliment your brand so that your friends, followers and viewers will  know who you are.

Our packages begin at $125.  Contact our office today at 678.395.9271.

You can also schedule a 1-Hr One-on-One Coaching Session. Just click the “Add to Cart” button below. Upon completion of payment, you will be redirected to provide your desired date and time for your session.