From its humble beginnings in 2009 at The Coffee Groundz to its current home at Impact HUB Houston, Social Media Breakfast of Houston has navigated both highs and lows, all the while serving the greater Houston area as a community-building powerhouse.
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The Indelible Power of Community Building
As the CEO of Zoetica Media and creator of Smart Social Secrets, Kami Huyse is widely respected as a social media marketing and public relations expert. One of the main things she credits with her success is community building. In fact, she lists it first in her LinkedIn profile. In a recent appearance on The Experience Live with Russ & Scott, she and co-hosts read more...
Do you REALLY need 10k followers?
Social media has become widespread throughout this generation and businesses now see it as a main channel to reach their customers and supporters. They often judge their success by how many people “follow” them and respond to their posts. Social media platforms like Instagram even reward users with extra features if they have 10K followers, so this has become a de facto goal for many companies. But do you really need 10k followers? That's the question. Kami’s Smart Social Secrets discusses followers -- numbers and what constitutes real results (ROI) from social media. Engagement is everything What do we mean by read more...
Five Lessons From Building an Online and Offline Community
Building a community is not an easy task, but it is one that many people are working to do every day, both online and off. No one person or organization can "own" a community, but they can be an important part of one and contribute to its success. The Houston Social Media Breakfast meets monthly and is completely free. People buy their own breakfast off of a special menu. There are about 100 people who attend each breakfast, which is capacity for the restaurant. Here are five lessons we have learned over the past four years as we have built a vibrant social media community in Houston, Texas.
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