MEETUP UPDATE 12-1-09

The high energy Cindy Lin will be our presenter at the Tuesday December 8th Meetup:

Cindy Lin has been working in real estate since 2005 when she became a real estate agent to help manage a family friend’s rental property. In 2006, Cindy founded Staged4more Home Staging and Redesigns. A natural at staging, Cindy is passionate about making her clients look good and helping people sell their homes quickly so her clients can get to the next chapter of their lives quicker, less stressed and with more equity in hand.

In addition to her staging work, Cindy coaches small business owners and real estate professionals on how to leverage social media for business. (You can read Cindy’s tech blog, smallbizgurl* talks tech here.) She also teaches the Live Green Live Smart real estate designation to agents who want to learn how to help their clients adopt sustainable practices during the resale process.

In 2008, Cindy won the Make Mine A $Million Business Award in the micro category and Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur Award. This recognition helped Cindy take her business to a new level and enabled her to pursue her idea for EcoJoe™.

The same year, Cindy was also named a finalist for the Real Estate Staging Association’s Stager of the Year Award and the Innovative Stager of the Year Award. Cindy’s work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, CBS 5, the San Mateo County Times, Inman blog, HGTV, the book How to Build a Successful Staging Business by Barb Schwarz, and in many other media outlets.

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Something you've always wanted to know more about: San Francisco Bay Area M3 Meetup members (and Count Me In Winner!) Cindy Lin of Staged4More will discuss creating buzz around your products using social networking tools Twitter and Facebook. Many of you have questioned whether or not these tools are right for your business and how to get the most bang for the time spent. Come to our December meeting and find out! Cindy has used social networking to help build her product's awareness and will give real world examples of the impact they've had.

This is the POWER of our Meetup group: Learning from the experience of our members!

It seems appropriate this time of year to think of others less fortunate than ourselves. Our host for this event, The Global Fund For Women lives in that space all year round. Recently relocated to new San Francisco offices---furnished with USED, refurbished and donated furnishings--- they've offered us their space so that we can learn more about their mission to promote economic security, health, education and leadership to women around the world. Learn more about their work here.

And finally, please take a moment as you RSVP to let us know more about your experience level with Social Networking so that Cindi can orient her discussion towards the areas you most want to know about. See the questions below.