Real Fresh TV | Specialists in Social Commerce and Social Media Marketing

As Group owner, I’m thinking of switching the closed Manchester Social Media Surgery Group on LinkedIn to an open Group, meaning all past discussions will be tucked away in a members-only archive and all future discussions will be visible and fully searchable and shareable on the Web.

The Manchester Social Media Surgery Group on the world’s leading social network for professionals has grown organically to eclipse numbers on its Social Media Manchester counterpart and now boasts 90 members compared to Social Media Manchester’s 60.

To be honest, this has taken me by surprise!

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You may have heard of the Social Media Surgery before but you may not know they’ve been running since 2009 and are incredibly well received by the digital, creative, media and marketing community in Manchester.

Manchester Social Media Surgery events takes place on the second Tuesday of every month and feature a panel of experienced social media practitioners who answer questions put forward by the audience. Each event is themed around a specific social media challenge for business and attendance is free.

Recent themes have been:

• Creating Social Media Content and Analysing Engagement Stats
• Social Media for Recruitment
• Social Media for Events
• Developing a Social Media Policy

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Social Media Managers are in increasing demand, as companies begin to realise the power of social media in enterprise.

In the social media world, Influence is everything.

To find out how much social media influence you have, take our survey.

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As one of the first companies in the UK to provide practical, hands-on social media training courses to equip businesses with the skills and knowledge to grow and market themselves on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs, Real Fresh TV has hard-earned experience in leveraging social media platforms to achieve sustainable social return on investment (ROI).

We’ll be sharing how we do it and how we empower organisations to do the same, using the same actionable insights that have helped Real Fresh TV generate real business using social media since we launched in 2006.

Birmingham-based web design agency Compass Design recently attended our Learning Social Media By Doing course and left with solid marketing advice that generated business within weeks.

Here’s how it happened, in their own words:

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After a prolonged silence on the blog we’re back!

Over coming weeks, the theme of this blog will be shifting somewhat as I focus on how Real Fresh TV helps companies achieve sustainable Social ROI.

Expect industry insights, case studies from companies we are working with and as we can find them, cold hard facts on how social media delivers sustainable value to businesses large and small.

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Digital training, development and research company, The White Room, is launching Influence, the UK’s first social media manager training programme, in Manchester.

The groundbreaking project has been created with joint partners, social media training and implementation consultancy, Real Fresh TV, in response to industry demand for marketers skilled in growing online influence through social media strategies.   Influence has already won the support of a number of regional heavyweights, including the North’s most successful independent PR agency, MC2.

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“Get the regional manager, Facebook sales are going through the roof!”
- Online manager, Luxury Cars Direct UK Ltd

Sounds implausible?

This is a likely scenario by the 2012 January sales, according to social media training and implementation consultancy, Real Fresh TV

The Manchester-based consultancy is launching Influence, the UK’s first Social Media Manager training programme at Peter House, Manchester on 21st February.

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Isn’t it time you learnt how to strategically grow and market your organisation on free social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn?

Let leading social media training and implementation consultancy, Real Fresh TV enthuse you with actionable strategies for using these new ways of communicating to engage with new customers, generate qualified leads and reduce marketing costs.  The net effect for your business: increased sales.

Attend one of our social media training courses and learn how to:

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Let us know what you’d like to see at the Manchester Social Media Surgery in 2011.

More one-to-one sessions with the speakers? A more formal Q&A arrangement with questions handed out beforehand?

We’d love your thoughts!  Please let us know in the comments.

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Bit late this month but here comes a roundup of upcoming social media and digital content events taking place in the region in October.

Want to add your event to the list?

Contact us at least one month before your event and we’ll publicise it! Call it a media partnership in the making…

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