Social Media Coaching

“The consulting sessions I had with Andrea Vahl were so helpful for me in beginning to build my online presence to promote my work as an author. She helped me with social media presence, my own website, search engine presence, plus many small details that came up when I was getting things going. She knows what she’s doing.” —Kathy Conde, Author

I will help you eliminate your frustrations and get back to your core business. Let’s face it, your business needs to be taking advantage of all that Social Media has to offer, but you don’t want it to be taking all your time and energy. Every business out there, local or web-based, is increasing their web footprint and you don’t want to be left behind.



“Kim approached this class with great enthusiasm and created a fun and collaborative environment for all of us to learn in. She simplified the mechanics of the technology with an expertise that made it an easy and fun learning experience and one we all embraced and thrived in.” — Sharon “Kim opened my eyes to fully understand social media, its power and how to leverage it in my personal and professional life. In particular, I learned how to strengthen the security on all my accounts. I highly recommend this class to the novice as well as experienced users.” — Vera “Kim was an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher who inspired me to become more engaged with social media. ” — Ellen “I looked forward to every single social media class taught by our esteemed Kimberly Palmer. She conveyed technical and informative points in such a fun and dynamic way that made me branch out of my social media discomfort. I’m tweeting and will start my blog! She’s an expert, in no uncertain terms! #ausocialmedia #kimberlypalmer ” — Junga

“Kim opened my eyes to fully understand social media, its power and how to leverage it in my personal and professional life. In particular, I learned how to strengthen the security on all my accounts. I highly recommend this class to the novice as well as experienced users.” — Vera “Kim was an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher who inspired me to become more engaged with social media. ” — Ellen

Quality traffic– There are lots of ways to increase traffic, but what you need is quality traffic. If you sell buzz saws and you get a lot of traffic for people looking for Buzz Lightyear, what value is that? We drive traffic based on who you are.

What’s your online platform goal? Over a course of 12 weeks, I’ll work with you one-on-one to reach it. As we work toward your goal, I’ll teach you the skills and tactics to help you better understand social media platforming and continue to improve your platform long after our 12 weeks are over.

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The Social Media Coach Call me 408.216.7423 Home Blog Media Speaking Consulting Books Video Contact Call me 408.216.7423 0 Janet Fouts- Social media strategist, corporate trainer, best-selling author and CEO of Tatu Digital Media How can I help you?   Talk to me What I do Social Strategy/Management Our popular social media strategy and management services enable you to make the best use of the right social networks for you. Learn more Corporate Training Whether you need your team brought up to speed on your chosen social platforms, company-wide social media compliance training or a keynote speaker for your event, Janet makes social marketing approachable.Learn more My Books Janet’s authored five books on social media marketing, all with the intention of making social media easy to understand and implement for your business. Check them out! Browse books How can I help you? Do you want to earn more customer loyalty? Develop thought leadership in your industry? Contact Me What’s new on the Blog 6 embarrassing email mistakes and how to fix themWe've all gotten emails and thought to ourselves "What the heck were they thinking?".Here are a few of the most annoying mistakes and how to fix them. If you've got your own to share please share in the comments! Emailing your newsletter to your connections on LinkedIn Why not? Well, in the first place if I wanted your newsletter I'd sign up for it. In the second place it's Read more»Remove a page from Facebook Business ManagerFacebook's business manager was created to make it easier for admins to manage more than one page from a single dashboard. It also made it easy to access your ads manager for multiple pages all in one place. It seemed like a good idea at the time but there are plenty of people who aren't very happy with it, and once you add a page to the business manager there doesn't seem to b Read more»Will you watch the #NFL live stream on Twitter?As you may know by now, Twitter signed a deal with the big 4 sports leagues this year to live-stream games and content from the MLB, NHL, NBA and the NFL leagues. We got a preview of how this might work with the live stream of Wimbledon in July, an event Twitter says was an "incomplete test". The next test? The NFL will live stream the game between the New York Jets at Buff Read more»Are you violating copyrights on social media?Image sharing is a huge part of social media isn't it? When was the last time you Googled to find just the right image to illustrate your point? Stop that. Stop it now! Why? Simply put most of the images you find in a Google search may well have a copyright on them and if you don't know the source and use it anyway you could be liable for violating copyright laws.The fines can Read more»Free images for your content marketing You probably know better than to steal images you find on Google for your content marketing work by now, and if you don't you should! If you already know to be cautious about copyright, here are some great resources for free or close- to-free images for the content you develop for your social media accounts or blog. As you'll see, there is a growing trend away from traditio Read more»FOMO, influence and the internet. Still high school? Remember waay back when you were in high-school and your friend Jenny got that great jacket and suddenly you just HAD to have it? So did every other girl in class because Jenny  had influence because she was one of the cool kids. I wasn't.  And where did she FIND that jacket? She wouldn’t tell, because then everybody would go get one and pretty soon she wouldn’t be uniq Read more»Social media brings back old-school marketingPeople who are fond of social marketing sometimes talk about how much better social media marketing is than so-called "old school" marketing. Generally, this means the old "yell and sell" where marketers thought that if they hit you in the face with their marketing message often enough you'd get so used to it that it felt familiar.Sexy messaging and subliminal stories made us b Read more»Instagram Stories- Is It For You?Instagram just released an update that appears to be taking on Snapchat for the hearts and minds of the 18-34 year old market in the US.  Stats via Snapchat) But will it? And if that isn't your age bracket or the age of your market, do you care? Let's see. Introducing Instagram Stories from Instagram What are Instagram Stories? Instagram Stories are a new way to share Read more»

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