FF163: Growing A Facebook Group to 20,000 Members with Cindy Gersch

Cindy Gersch of NEU Marketing Group joins us to share about marketing and social media. Cindy has started, and now runs the extremely successful Facebook Group, Supporting Small and Local Businesses Everywhere, which has more than 20,000 members and is recognized as one of the best Facebook groups for small businesses.

Highlights From This Episode:

• The best ways that you can market your business on a small budget is using social media
• Cindy’s strategy was to get on Facebook, support small businesses and low and behold within the first year she had 25,000 members
• It takes 15 seconds to do a video on your cell phone and show people what you do and to get your brand known
• Concentrate on two or three social media platforms maximum and go from there
• There are so many free networking opportunities so get out there and network

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Facebook group - Supporting Small and Local Businesses Everywhere

More About Cindy Gersch

Cindy Gersch is the Founder and President of NEU Marketing Group, an award-winning branding, marketing, and communications strategy firm founded with the goals of providing personal, thoughtful, and strategic leadership to clients. In addition, Cindy has started, and now runs the extremely successful Facebook Group, Supporting Small and Local Businesses Everywhere, which has more than 20,000 members and is recognized as one of the best Facebook groups for small businesses.

A former CBS reporter, Cindy has more than 25 years of marketing and communications experience working with multi-billion-dollar companies from all over the Globe.  A sought-after speaker, Cindy has spoken on topics ranging from crisis management to social media and is considered a leader in that industry.

Through social media alone, Cindy organically founded that Facebook Group which grew to more than 19,000 members in less than a year, and now offers two free marketing workshops a week. Cindy also notably saved a man’s life through Twitter and raised more than $100,000 in six weeks for a handicapped 7-year-old who needed a new accessible van. Cindy has founded three non profit organizations and now uses her skills as a volunteer on several others including the Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America (FMDSA).

Cindy is a Facebook Power Admin, a consultant for GLG, and proud member of the Female Founder Collection. Cindy has run 13 full marathons, including the Boston marathon and is an avid traveler having traveled to 4 out of 7 continents and 37 states so far.  Her bucket list is to visit all 50 states and 7 continents. Cindy resides in Atlanta with her Active-Duty Army Blackhawk pilot husband and two children Lily, 15 and Logan 12.

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