SocialNetworks4Business.com can help you harness the power of social media to get more sales. Whether it’s to promote your SME, your larger business or simply to help you find a job; SocialNetworks4Business.com have a range of COURSES that take you step by step through using Blogging (using WordPress), Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube and FlickR in order to fully understand AND implement a Social Media strategy.

Our courses will take you step by step through EVERYTHING you need to know in order to promote yourself and your business.

SocialNetworks4Business.com is run by Mark Stephens MRIAI, a Chartered UK and Ireland Architect with extensive skills in IT and training. From 1990-2000, Mark ran the most successful CAD Training company in the UK and Ireland and has been using the internet to promote his business for over seventeen years. Mark was also the Managing Director of two leading Internet based photographic virtual tour companies. This year, Mark was a finalist by the be2Camp awards in the ‘Best Use of Twitter’ category. Mark is also one of the top 100 most influential tweeters in the UK Built Environment.

Since 2004, Mark has been running his own architectural practice MarkStephensArchitects.com from the West of Ireland, specialising in unique one-off designed houses, extensions, refurbishments and conservation projects. The company was founded in the ‘boom-time’ Celtic Tiger Ireland but Mark is continuing to work through the worst recession Ireland (indeed any country) has known.

How can an architectural practice based in the most remote part of the one of the most bankrupt countries in Europe continue to survive? The answer is SOCIAL MEDIA! Mark Stephens Architects do not advertise, they do not attend trade shows and they have no form of direct, traditional media marketing. One of the key reasons Mark Stephens Architects have continued to flourish is through their use of Social Media. In particular the connections that are made between each of the different social media players – when Mark updates his blog for example, a tweet is automatically sent to Twitter and FaceBook is updated, when a photograph is uploaded to Flickr, Facebook and Twitter are also updated. Through attending one of our SocialNetworks4Business.com courses, you will also learn how to create and manage these connections.

The Mark Stephens Architects website (which is entirely blog based through WordPress) uses social media to create a circle of interest around everything that Mark writes, says and does. Our WordPress training course also shows how you can make your website not look like a blog; this website and MarkStephensArchitects.com are both WordPress based.

One of the key reasons for the success of Mark Stephens Architects was the switch from a standard html based site to that powered by a WordPress based blogging engine. By writing informative and more important ‘search-engine-friendly’ blog posts your web site is automatically optimised for search engines such as Google.com. The courses will show all the tips and tricks required to maximise a Search Engine Optimisation strategy through a WordPress blog (similar concepts will apply if you are using other blogging software). The courses will take you through step-by-step setting up and managing your own blog. And if required, we can also help you further through our WORD PRESS CONSULTANCY

Part of the course is to will identify which social media outlets are right for you and your business, and through different case studies we will show how any business can use Social Media to survive and flourish.