FREE Small Business Marketing Webinar Series Scheduled [Mar-15-2007] Charleston, W.Va. – Business owners and managers interested in learning how to grow their customer base and sales through innovative marketing strategies are invited to participate in an upcoming series of small business webinars.  The weekly web-seminar series is free and will start March 20 and run weekly until April 24. The six-part educational series will focus on introducing small businesses to effective marketing strategies and innovative marketing technology tools.  The webinars are the latest in an ongoing statewide initiative to help educate small business people about new technologies and computer applications/solutions.  The webinar series is being provided as part of the West Virginia Small Business Technology Education & Competitiveness Initiative (www.wvconnectivity.net).  These web-based seminars, which will be provided during lunchtime at 12:30 p.m. and will be short in duration (30-40 minutes), will be held on Tuesdays every week from mid-March to the end of April.  There will be no cost to participate in a webinar.  All a person needs to have is a high-speed Internet connection and a telephone.  Pre-registration will be required.  To pre-register, please go to www.wvconnectivity.net and complete the on-line registration form. The schedule for the webinars will be: March 20 - Marketing 101 Presenter: George Manahan, The Manahan Group March 27 - Innovative Marketing Technologies Presenter:  Larry Malone, Malone Consulting Services April 3 - Search Engine Marketing: Learn how businesses can make money - and bring money in from out of state - in a measurable, cost-effective way Presenter: Justin Seibert, Direct Online Marketing April 10 - Business Blogging Presenter: Justin Seibert, Direct Online Marketing April 17 - Relationship Marketing: Strategies, tactics and tools for building profitable relationships with your most valuable customers Presenter: Jeff James, Microsoft April 24 - Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Tools: Simple ways to manage and measure customer relationships Presenter:  Rich Hackenberg, Microsoft Enterprise Business Solutions Executive For more information, call (304) 342-1115. Back to News