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There has never before been a place where small business entrepreneurs could go to find out how to simply start to use social media to market their businesses without wasting a lot of their time or money.  There are a lot of pieces of information and wrong information on the internet, but none that provides a complete guide for starting and succeeding in social media marketing from A to Z for entrepreneurs that have no previous experience.

The Practical Social Media Community celebrates the explosion of opportunities to market your business through social media with no more that knowledge and elbow grease.  We offer an online training curriculum, monthly magazine, Q&A forums, webinars, a full resource library and more.  And everything is geared to teach entrepreneurs with no previous experience how to use social media tools to gain leads and close more sales.

Our goal is to simplify the overwhelming amount of information and choices to market your business online today into the practical action items that will create the greatest return.

WE OFFER VISUAL, STEP-BY-STEP, PRACTICAL ADVICE THAT ANYONE CAN UNDERSTAND ON HOW TO PUT SOCIAL MEDIA TO USE IMMEDIATELY IN MARKETING A BUSINESS.

You will never again have to ask yourself the following questions for your business:

- How do I start in social media?
- Where do I spend my time?
- What will provide a short term return?
- What are the insider tips and tricks?
- How do I avoid wasting tons of time?

We make the learning opportunities easily accessible through our Practical Social Media Community.  To learn more, visit http://www.practicalsocialmedia.com.

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Steven S. MacDonald, Founder of Practical Social Media – Over a twenty-two year career, Mr. MacDonald has served as a founding partner in an advertising agency, Vice President, Director of Strategic Planning for the Mazda Motors of America, Executive Vice President of a regional marketing firm, Director of Cliente services for a top ten internet marketing agency and CEO of a dot.com start-up.

Mr. MacDonald has recently been appointed to the Thought Leadership Board of the Marketing Executives Network Group (MENG) to create a series of special reports and trend analysis to be shared with the national business press. Additionally, he has spoken at organizations such as US Airways, been published in business journals, and worked with some of the smartest marketing minds at Nike, Absolut, Procter & Gamble, VISA and Miller Brewing.

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