The Buzz: Garious Shines at the S.M.A.R.T. Group of Arizona

Learning, using and growing are the key elements that differentiate The S.M.A.R.T. Group from

The focus is on business education for the 21st century, including cutting edge social media techniques and strategic business tools. The goal is to learn how to build your business while making meaningful connections within the business community.

The S.M.A.R.T. Group representatives are:

• Dale Dillon Lips (@dillonadvisory): a business strategist for start-ups, new product lines, business acquisitions and work-outs
• Anthony Ryan (@TheAnthonyRyan): an
  entrepreneur, speaker, teacher, social Media Evangelist and more

Dale’s Presentation: “How Business Strategy Dictates Social Media Strategy?”

Continuing on the group’s educational emphasis, Dale gave an in-depth presentation on some key business objectives that social media is mostly leveraged for:

• Community Building
• Branding & Awareness
• Customer Service
• Selling
• Prospecting
• Becoming an industry leader and building the expert reputation

Interestingly, she presented examples of Twitter profiles that matches the above objectives and used Garious Twitter profile as a prospecting example.

Dale also discussed the importance of setting aside a specific amount of time every week to intelligently curate social media content. Here’s when Aaron Eden jumped in…

Aaron’s Presentation of Garious as The Ultimate Time-Saving Social Media Solution

Aaron addressed the following key issues:

• Business reasons for prescheduling social media posts
• “The set and forget” reasoning behind Garious
• How to set up posts on Garious.com
• As an added bonus, he shared his experience on how to use Google news as an up-to-date topics source

Here’s a video tutorial that proves that Garious can make social media drop dead simple:

If you happened to live in Arizona, I invite you to check out the S.M.A.R.T. Group and attend a complementary meeting. You will be glad you did. Go Garious!