From the desk (and BlackBerry) of Keith Parnell

Be sure to register for these cool social media events at coffeewiththeceo.eventbrite.com so we can allow our hosts to plan for crowds.

February 2nd location:
Panera Bread
300 Constitution Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23462

February 9th location:
Bean There Cafe
733 Eden Way
Chesapeake, VA 23320

February 16th location:
Aromas Coffee
706 Towne Center Drive
Newport News, VA 23606

February 23rd location:
Fair Grounds Coffee
806 Baldwin Avenue
Norfolk, VA 23507

Coffee with the CEO: Let’s Live Social Media in Hampton Roads!

10:00am - 11:00am

Come out on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Digital Media, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

Join the video series online at CoffeeWithTheCEO.com

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On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Baby I Love You by B.B. King & Bonnie Raitt.

On Tuesday a group of professionals will gather over coffee to discuss business strategies, new media tactics, how inbound marketing can help small businesses in Hampton Roads, and many other hot topics.

Come out to Fair Grounds Coffee off Colley Avenue in Norfolk and join us in this open discussion. No agenda. No sales. Just sharing and free networking with other like-minded business folks.

Let’s live social media for business together!

Register for Tuesday’s Coffee with the CEO here.

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On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Low Rider by Barry White.

We’re giving away two free social media t-shirts at 2010’s first Coffee with the CEO session. Be there Tuesday morning with your business card for a chance at one of the cool shirts.

Come out to Panera Bread on Constitution Drive in the Pembroke/Town Center area of Virginia Beach, VA on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Group Marketing & New Media, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

Join the video series online at http://www.CoffeeWithTheCEO.com

Please register online at http://coffeewiththeceo.eventbrite.com

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On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

A group of professionals will gather tomorrow at Panera Bread in Ghent, Norfolk, VA. We will talk social media, new media, inbound marketing, lead generation, brand quality. We can talk about your business. We can talk about my business. We can talk about whatever you want.

Join us for coffee!

Come out to Panera Bread on 21st street in Ghent, Norfolk, VA on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Group Marketing & New Media, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

Join the video series online at www.CoffeeWithTheCEO.com

Please register at http://coffeewiththeceo.eventbrite.com

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On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Last Goodbye by Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

I’ll be teaching a how-to class on Twitter in a few weeks. The idea behind the session is to get non-profits and museums across Virginia onboard with the powerful networking aspects of Twitter.

I’ve come up with this course description and bullet conversation points. If this looks like something that would benefit your organization, feel free to contact me to setup a date. I’d be more than happy to talk with your action officers, decision makers and executives on the true power of social media and new media marketing.

Twitter for Your Organization - The Why and How

Building and maintaining your organization’s brand and reputation is a crucial aspect of the success you achieve. Twitter, one of the power players in this era of social networking, has proven to be an efficient tool to help with brand management.

But why tweet? Here are some of the topics we will cover in this session on tweeting to help you understand how Twitter can help your organization.

- What is Twitter and how does it work?
- Why should we tweet?
- The Twitter lingo.
- How to get started tweeting, creating an account, setting up a profile.
- What software programs can I use to tweet?
- How to post tweets.
- How to manage multiple Twitter accounts.
- How to @reply to others and retweet (RT) other tweets.
- The right way to interact with other twitterers.
- How to add Twitter to your blog.
- How to add Twitter to your Facebook page.
- Twitter marketing with your mobile phone.

Teacher: Keith Parnell, JASE Group Marketing & New Media

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On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Truth Serum by Dishwalla.

A group of professionals will gather tomorrow at Panera Bread in Ghent, Norfolk, VA. We will talk social media, new media, inbound marketing, lead generation, brand quality. We can talk about your business. We can talk about my business. We can talk about whatever you want.

Join us for coffee!

Come out to Panera Bread on 21st street in Ghent, Norfolk, VA on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Group Marketing & New Media, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

Join the video series online at www.CoffeeWithTheCEO.com

Please register at http://coffeewiththeceo.eventbrite.com

RSS and Facebook readers: click here to view and enter comments.

On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Time Makes Two by Robert Cray Band.

This week I sat down with several business professionals in Virginia Beach and talked social media, blogging, holiday shopping online, business strategies, marketing concepts, advertising traditions, SEO, return on investment (ROI) measurement methods and economic spending.

Coffee with the CEO attendees: Mike Key, Jeremy Bailey, Anne Bailey, Gerald Briscoe, Bill Boyer, Jaime Krapf, Chris Faircloth, Scott Janney, Cedrick Harris, Anthony Gartner, Rose Thornton, Alison Creamer, Naoma Doriguzzi, Sonya Schweitzer, Keith Parnell

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http://needlocalhelp.com
http://skytelecom.acnrep.com
http://uglywomansguide.com
http://virginiamortgageinformation.com
http://wavemarketing.biz

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On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Sunday Morning by Maroon 5.

Let’s talk coffee.
Let’s talk business.
Let’s talk family.
Let’s talk social media.

** NEW LOCATION THIS WEEK **

Come out to Panera Bread on Constitution Drive in Pembroke/Town Center, Virginia Beach, VA on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Group Marketing & Advertising, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

The new JASE t-shirts have arrived (photos: http://keithparnell.com/index.php/2009/12/12/3581/) so we will be giving away two of them through a business card drawing.

Bring your laptops and smartphones. Tweeting and blogging is encouraged while we are there. The Twitter hashtag is #cwtc.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

Join the video series online at http://www.CoffeeWithTheCEO.com

Please register at http://coffeewiththeceo.eventbrite.com

RSS and Facebook readers: click here to view and enter comments.

On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to Good Morning Heartache by Tony Bennett.

Do you wonder who is JASE Group?
Do you wonder what JASE Group does?
Wonder no longer!

Related info:

http://www.JASEgroup.com
http://www.CoffeeWithTheCEO.com
http://www.jasegroup.com/brand_management
http://www.jasegroup.com/inbound_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/design
http://www.jasegroup.com/blog

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On Twitter? Follow me at @parnellk63.

Listening to After the Storm by Norman Brown.

Coffee with the CEO: Let’s Live Social Media in Ghent!

10:00am - 11:00am
Panera Bread
739 West 21st Street, Norfolk, Virginia

Come out to Panera Bread on 21st street in Ghent, Norfolk, VA on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Group Marketing & Advertising, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

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I had morning today coffee with a diverse group of professionals from Hampton Roads at Panera Bread in Ghent, Norfolk, VA. The group talked social media and new media strategies for their businesses, shared marketing tactics and analyzed case studies from their own experiences. Specifically the group talked about search engine optimization, inbound marketing, traditional marketing strategies, online marketing strategies, online advertising and social media strategies that work for their businesses.

RSS and Facebook readers: click here to watch the video.

Related Information:
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http://www.coffeewiththeceo.com
http://www.jasegroup.com
http://www.jasegroup.com/advertising
http://www.jasegroup.com/brand_management
http://www.jasegroup.com/inbound_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/internet_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/online_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/search_engine_marketing
http://www.jasegroup.com/social_media
http://keithparnell.com
http://www.kingdombailbonding.webs.com
http://www.mobile757.com
http://www.nancychandler.com
http://needlocalhelp.com
http://www.newmediaconventions.com

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Coffee with the CEO: Let’s Live Social Media in Ghent

Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: Panera Bread, 739 West 21st Street, Norfolk, VA

Description:
Come out to Panera Bread on 21st street in Ghent, Norfolk, VA on Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM and have coffee with Keith Parnell, CEO of JASE Group Marketing & Advertising, CLO of NeedLocalHelp.com, and Co-Principal of New Media Conventions.

No agenda. No sales. Just sharing.

Talk social media.
Talk new media.
Talk about your business.
Talk about how to grow your business.

Let’s live social media!

See the video from last week’s event here.

Register here on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=188055025347

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I would love to say that I created these oh-so-elegant words, but I can’t. These are the perfect thoughts of my friend, Cassandra Thomas, a member of our New Media Conventions planning team for the April 2010 event. You can find her on Twitter @MarketingFlair.

Now is the time to engage with new media.  NMC10 is going to be an innovating and engaging experience for all of Virginia’s Tidewater region and beyond.  New Media experts from afar will come to share their ideas that can take your social media experience to a new level.  Businesses will learn how to make their entire marketing message communicate across all new media.  From Social to Mobile to Global — New Media Conventions 2010.  Don’t miss it!  And be sure to also follow them on Twitter @NewMediaConv.

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New Media Conventions
April 2010
Hampton Roads, VA

Come join us in April for social media at the beach!  April brings beautiful weather to the Virginia Beach area.  The wider area around “the Beach” is known collectively as Hampton Roads, which makes up Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Williamsburg, Hampton, Newport News, and Va Beach. 

If you’re traveling from Richmond, Washington DC, or Charlotte, NC the drive is very easy.  Norfolk’s ORF Airport services direct flights from New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, and many other major metropolitan areas.

Get more information on New Media Conventions at http://NewMediaConventions.com

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Passion! I have a passion for blues music. I have a passion for social media and new media. What’s new? What’s coming next? I talk about that a lot here and here and here. I also have a passion for talking about social media business strategies.

Don’t miss life and not be able to live and work with your passion. What is your passion?

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Related Information:
http://www.jasegroup.com/social_media
http://blog.keithparnell.com/index.php/2009/10/28/jasegroup-team-at-real-estate-xchange/
http://blog.keithparnell.com/index.php/2009/10/20/my-passion-social-media-on-steroids-what-is-your-passion/
http://blog.keithparnell.com/index.php/2009/10/14/do-you-share-this-passion-with-me/
http://www.therealestate-xchange.com/

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