How To Make Your Digital Marketing Matter | GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

How To Make Your Digital Marketing Matter | GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

by | Aug 25, 2022 | Training

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

How To Make Your Digital Marketing Matter

Description:

Would you like to know where you’re at within your current marketing journey? This training will cover cohesive digital branding, what makes a great website, how to analyze your current marketing strategy, and more.

Key takeaways include:

    – What makes a great website – 4 simple questions to analyze your website
    – Analyze your current marketing strategy – is your brand cohesive across all digital platforms
    – Local SEO made simple

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Meet The Presenter | Renee Sobotka
Renee Sobotka is the Founder & CEO of True North Technologies, an innovative, Lincoln-based digital marketing firm. They offer website and app development, search engine optimization (SEO), social media management, digital advertising, text marketing, and branding services. Renee is originally from West Point, Nebraska, and earned a finance degree from the University of Nebraska. She went on to become a Supervisor of Internal Audit for Union Pacific Railroad and has 10 years of software implementation and accounting experience in the banking industry. Renee serves on three local boards: American Marketing Association – Lincoln Chapter, Lincoln Independent Business Association, and East Lincoln Business Association. In 2021, Forbes featured her in their Next 1000, a first-of-its-kind spotlight of American entrepreneurial heroes. Renee is adventurous, loves to travel, and values growth and honesty. In her spare time, you’ll find Renee doing something active outdoors with friends and family, especially her kids and/or dogs.

“Delegate to Accelerate: How To Do Less and Achieve More…With Purpose | GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

“Delegate to Accelerate: How To Do Less and Achieve More…With Purpose | GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

by | Aug 18, 2022 | Training

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

“Delegate to Accelerate: How To Do Less and Achieve More…With Purpose

Description:

If you’re someone who is serious about reaching their business goals, achieving more income, and creating more impact, this is for you! Business isn’t about doing more stuff, it’s about focusing on what matters most!

Key takeaways include:

    – Purpose | your entrepreneurial identity will drive who you are being inside your business
    – Process | create reliable, repeatable outcomes
    – People | find the right people, for the right roles, at the right time

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Meet The Presenter | Joe Sova
Joe Sova is a dynamic speaker, podcast host and award winning entrepreneur. With almost 20 years experience, Joe has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs create better systems, hire #1 employees, and build their dream team! Years ago while employed at a Fortune 500, Joe realized corporate life was not aligned with his core values. So in 2011, he took the entrepreneurial leap, founded his own company, and never looked back! Starting with zero income and zero employees, Joe went through the daily roller coaster of entrepreneurship while juggling family life. After you hear him speak, you’ll discover the fastest way out of the “daily grind” of entrepreneurship and the best way to level-up your business! Today Joe’s company continues to grow while employing a full time staff and helping hundreds of clients. When not talking business, Joe enjoys reading, exercising, bad 1980’s action movies, and quality time with his family!

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training | The Secret Sauce to Social Media Content and Planning

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training | The Secret Sauce to Social Media Content and Planning

by | Jul 28, 2022 | Training

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

The Secret Sauce To Social Media Content And Planning

Description:

As a business, you’re already on social media. However, it’s unlikely that your current presence is working as hard for you as it could be. Learn to create a social media plan you can finally stick to! During this session, attendees will learn to create, implement, and stick to a social media plan that will supercharge your social presence and help you gain traction with your customers. Learn to manage your time and tools effectively to make your social media work for you.

Key takeaways include:

– Find the keys to effective social media

– Manage your social media with technology that can help

– Create an effective social media campaign

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Adam is the founder and CEO of redthread. A 29-person creative advertising agency located in the heart of the midwest in the Haymarket of Lincoln, Nebraska. Working with local and national brands from U-Stop to Google to #TeamTrees, redthread has built marketing campaigns and helped grow businesses of all shapes and sizes. Adam started his entrepreneurial career at 15-years-old buying and selling sneakers on the streets of Chicago. After that business failed, Adam went off to college at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where he majored in advertising. As he was graduating, Adam launched a freelance side-hustle which eventually became redthread. Bootstrapping the business over the last 8-years, redthread has been recognized as the 2021 Inc. 5000 #100 Fastest Growing Company in the Midwest and the #1853 fastest growing company in America. Adam has personally been recognized as 2019 Lincoln’s YPG 4 Under 40 Award and the Walter Scott Entrepreneurship Award. In his free time, Adam loves to study pop-culture, relive his athletic glory days through slow-pitch softball and take long walks along the Mopac Trail with his dog and girlfriend.

Staying Safe During A Cyber War | GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

Staying Safe During A Cyber War | GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

by | Jul 21, 2022 | Training

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

Staying Safe During A Cyber War

Description:

Hacking and ransomware attacks are up 400-500% since the beginning of the COVID epidemic and have spiked higher since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Is your business prepared to deal with these threats? This webinar will focus on simple steps you can take to protect your business in an increasingly challenging digital world.

Key takeaways include:

– Why does being prepared for a cyber war matter to you?

– Simple steps to put proper defenses in place

– What to do if you are attacked/hacked

 

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Gary Bren has been involved with helping businesses leverage technology for almost 40 years. During that time the most profound thing he’s learned is that the best technology decisions focus on technology last…after the goals of the business are clearly defined, the processes the run the business are clearly understood, and the people working in the business are both clearly heard and engaged in the decision.

Gary co-founded Turner Technology in 1992. Turner is an IT services company that does business consulting, custom software development, and managed services. He is currently the Managing Partner and CEO of Turner. As an engaged volunteer, he is a past board chair of the Heartland Red Cross, a past President of Omaha Downtown Rotary and a past Rotary District Governor. He as been happily married to his wife Gretchen for 33 years.

Learn all about Making the Digital Pivot at MarkeTech 2021

Learn all about Making the Digital Pivot at MarkeTech 2021

by | Apr 29, 2021 | GROW Blog

Learn all about Making the Digital Pivot at MarkeTech 2021

MarkeTech

KEARNEY – GROW Nebraska’s 2021 MarkeTech Conference is set to be more timely than ever, with a theme aimed at tackling the digital adjustments all businesses were forced to make in 2020. 

MarkTech 2021, held July 15 at the Younes Conference Center in Kearney, NE, will be all about Making the Digital Pivot. 

Anchored by two keynote addresses from internet marketing expert David McBee, this year’s conference is aimed at helping businesses and organizations adjust their plans to the new digital world, no matter where they are in the process. 

“For better or worse, the pandemic changed the way we all live. It changed the way all businesses do business. Customers shifted more time, and more of their dollars, online,” said GROW’s Director of Marketing and Business Development Tiffany Stoiber. “Experts are guessing many of the habits formed during the pandemic are here to stay, and GROW Nebraska is here to help businesses adapt to those new habits.”

From experts like McBee to Nebraska entrepreneurs who have made the pivot themselves, MarkeTech 2021 will feature a variety of analysis, advice and new ideas attendees will be able to take with them into the rest of the year and beyond. 

McBee’s keynotes are intended for all audiences, whether listeners are entrepreneurs just starting to make the digital pivot or businesses ahead of the curve who want to make sure their marketing efforts are as effective as they can be. McBee’s morning session will be on Making the Digital Pivot and in the afternoon he will tackle Internet Marketing ROI.

The speaker lineup will also include two panel sessions: one featuring digital marketers and one featuring Nebraska businesses who will share their success stories from 2020. 

Interspliced between these sessions will be numerous networking breaks, a past attendee favorite. Businesses will set up booths to create a “Networking Plaza” where they can share their stories and attendees can hear those stories, see businesses’ products and even grab some samples. 

McBee will also have a booth set up where attendees can meet the keynote speaker and complete a free “Internet Presence Audit” with him. 

Registration for the in-person July 15 conference is now live. GROW Nebraska members can currently attend for $59 per person. The rate for non-members is $159. Early bird rates are currently in effect, and the cost for registration will increase after June 15. 

Members and non-members alike can also register for an exhibitor booth to be set up in the Networking Plaza. Rates are $109 for members and $399 for non-members. Those prices include the booth space plus two conference passes.

Register online and learn more about the conference at MarketechConference.com. Questions may be directed to info@grownebraska.org.

About GROW Nebraska

The GROW Nebraska Foundation helps entrepreneurs get the resources they need to live in Anywhere, NE and make a sustainable living. Since the inception of GROW Nebraska in 1998, its vision and mission has never wavered: to create viable economic development through business training, technical assistance, promotion and access to markets. The Foundation creates impactful opportunities for small business owners and entrepreneurs to live in “Anywhere”, Nebraska and make a sustainable living.

GROW Nebraska works with its clients to meet them where they are and move them towards their personal goals. Its services include training and technical assistance through many avenues: workshops (in-person and virtual), streamed and archived educational training opportunities, one-on-one technical assistance and an annual marketing conference, MarkeTech.

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