The last seminar stop on the Social Networking Tour was at the Shiawassee Chamber, located in Owosso Michigan. The Chamber staff was extremely friendly, and Chamber Vice President Sue Kadlek greeted us the minute we pulled up in the mobile office! Finding parking for a 30-foot RV (our mobile office) can be challenging, but Sue saved us a BIG spot right in front of the Chamber’s front door!
This group of attendees was very focused during the seminar, although not many of them were using social networking yet to market their businesses. At times the information was probably a little overwhelming, but they asked great questions and were especially interested in all the free tools we were telling them about. The tools and web sites we present as part of the Social Networking for Business seminar are ALL free, which is sometimes hard for people to believe. But that’s one of the traits that makes social marketing so powerful – it can be extremely low cost to use, especially if the platforms are set up correctly and integrated appropriately!
As we always do at the end of each seminar, we asked questions of the attendees and the first ones to shout out a correct answer got “Tour Swag” – an official 2010 Social Networking Tour t-shirt with the map of our Tour on the back! But to our surprise, Sue presented us with “Chamber Swag” – some very cool items branded with the Shiawassee Chamber’s info! Don and I each got a cool little paperweight, and an awesome ”post-its kit” with sticky notes of various sizes and colors. Now that was a first! 
