Note: An addtional fee +registration is required for this event. Discover latest tools that facilitate the daily management and to engage with audiences for Small Business Owners. This basic workshop will include Facebook Updates for Business Pages, Measurement/Insight Tools, and Strategies for your Page.
Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez, MBA, founded Beyond Engagement – Social Media Solutions in January 2012 – and hasn’t slowed down since. She has a passion for assisting small businesses grow their engagement levels with customers online with social media marketing.
Valentina keeps up-to-date with the latest marketing, communications and social media trends by networking – not only in the Tri-Cities, but across the state. She joined a panel at the region’s only social media conference in Knoxville, which was attended by 500 marketing professionals and small business owners. Her topic included strategies for beginning social media marketers, with an emphasis with her experiences with small business owners, nonprofits and educational institutions.
Her other achievements include:
Named a 40 under Forty recipient in the Tri-Cities (within a year of moving to the area) Featured in National Marketing Smarts Podcast: Big Heart, Small Budget: Social Media for Nonprofits and Small Businesses Finalist for the prestigious KOSBE Awards in Innovation & Marketing Received an honorable mention by KOSBE judges in Innovation. Named 70 Rising Social Media Stars
She presented to the American Advertising Federation of Coastal Carolinas in Myrtle Beach, Greenville (SC), and in Southwest Virginia about attending the latest Social Media Strategies on Facebook and on Instagram. Valentina has participated in numerous speaking engagements to education institutions, including Milligan College, East Tennessee State University, Emory & Henry College, and Northeast State Community College’s Foundation where she helped increased donations through social media and assisted in promoting its inaugural Derby event through Facebook.
Speaker(s): M. Valentina Escobar-Gonzalez, MBA, Founder of Beyond Engagement—Social Media Solutions
Co-Sponsor(s): Tennessee Small Business Development Center at East Tennessee State University
Fee: $ 25.00 FREE to ETSU Students with current ID. Must present student ID day of training.
Pre-Registration Required: $25 Fee Payable by Cash or Check only. All checks must be made out to the TSBDC. Please click the "Find Tickets" link or call 423-439-8505 to register.
