The 12th Annual Dayton AleFest is kicking off this Saturday at Carillon Historical Park. Bash Foo and Get Social! Radio got their hands on two tickets to give away.
Following the link at the bottom of this page to enter to win. Tickets for Dayton AleFest are on sale now to Friday for $35/each and $40 on Saturday.
The promoter is expecting about 4,500 ale-lovers to descend on Carillon Park this Saturday to celebrate AleFest.
Want more details? Visit their website at http://daytonbeerweek.com or http://alefest.com/dayton.htm

Bash Foo Social Media | Promote Your Page Too

You know that your website is under-performing, but you don’t know what to do about it? Learn how Bash Foo can improve your website by optimizing it for conversion. Get more sales, leads, members, subscribers, and value out of your website.

If your company is serious about online advertising and wants to get the most out of its PPC, SEO, Banner, or Email marketing effort, you have to work to increase your conversion rate and to learn the science of Conversion Optimization.

Conversion optimization is the process of creating an engaging experience for your website visitors with the goal of persuading them to take a desired action (e.g. fill out a form, buy a product, or subscribe to a mailing list)

Bash Foo will help you identify and improve the current site design and content issues that hold your website back from converting well. We will develop an effective persuasion architecture and sales funnel, based on the insights into the needs, values, and behavioral models of your target audience.

So… How does this help you??

Get more sales for the same advertising budget

• You are not only getting more sales, but you are also getting more sales for the same advertising budget
• You get two times (3 times or even 4 times) as much revenue as before you applied the techniques of conversion optimization to your website

Your customer acquisition cost goes down

• No matter what advertising avenues you are using to drive traffic to your website, your cost per conversion decreases dramatically and you get a much better ROI

Your customer retention rate goes up

• Implementing conversion optimization on your website brings you more satisfied customers and consequently, more repeated sales

The effect is permanent

• Optimizing your website for conversion is not seasonal; it is a continuous process

In doing so, the optimization resides in your site and brings you profit over and over again

You can contact Bash Foo in a number of ways…

Visit our Office

135 E. Main St.
Tipp City, OH 45371

Give us a Call

+1 (478) 227-4366

Send us an Email

mike@bashfoo.org

Or use this handy Contact Form

When you choose Email Marketing with Bash Foo you gain the strength of Constant Contact®, the easy, effective, and highly affordable way to get your message out to your customers, clients, or members. Bash Foo provides Email Marketing services from a very affordable self-serve option all the way to fully managed solutions. You’ll quickly begin creating high-impact, professional-looking emails — with no technical expertise. And, most importantly, you’ll build strong connections with your audience that lead to referrals, repeat business and loyalty.

With Email Marketing from Bash Foo and powered by Constant Contact®, you can:

* Choose from more than 300 easily customized email templates—or create your own from scratch.
* Create highly visual, professional-looking email newsletters and promotions in just minutes.
* Drive more traffic to your website with focused, targeted email communications.
* Build and manage your email list: import existing customer lists, add names individually, or capture contact information from website visitors.
* Measure your email campaign results instantly-check click-through rates, review new subscribers, and see who opened and clicked on each link so you can tailor your follow-up communications.
* Send automated communications to new sign-ups via an auto-responder tool.
* Communicate with your audience with confidence, knowing that Constant Contact® will take care of getting your email delivered and keep you CAN-SPAM compliant.

Discover how the power of Email Marketing services from Bash Foo can help you better connect with your customers, strengthen your relationships with them, and grow your organization.

Bash Foo provides a number of email marketing services for its customers, from self serve to fully managed options. Call us today! +1 (478) 227-4366

Sign up for a FREE 60-Day Trial of Email Marketing today.
No risk. No obligation. No credit card.

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Bash Foo provides its clients with a serious (yet fun) look at marketing their brand to clients across the web. We are experienced in programming  local micro-targeted campaigns to massive web marketing initiatives.

Here are just a few of the areas of expertise we use to build your brand relevance:

E-Mail Marketing  – Promote your business, boost sales, engage your audience, and reach out to your potential customers with newsletters, special offers, surveys and event management. Bash Foo has teamed up with market leader Constant Contact to deliver affordable and effective email marketing campaigns. Don’t underestimate the continued power of email messaging to drive sales for you.

Press Release Management. No matter how big or small your company is, we can help you write and distribute your press releases to the major online news media outlets, including Google News, Yahoo! News, Topix.Net, PR.WEB and smaller industry-specific media, blogs and RSS groups.

Third Party Blogging. Blogging is extremely popular today, and almost any niche on the Web has a vibrant blogger community developing around it. Blog sites built around your niche products and services are one of the best public relations and advertising platforms you can find for your website. Third party blogging helps your business in many ways.

Media Buyer. Are you interested in buying up advertising in website, search engines, social media, radio and television? Have you ever tried to use Google AdWords and become totally confused as to how it works and worried that you will waste your precious marketing dollars? We make the purchase decisions simple and streamlined. Bash Foo also works to negotiate the best prices for you and combine the multiple efforts into a coordinated sales campaign for your brand(s).

Through conversations with business partners and friends across the street or around the globe, Mike McDermott as an Ohio Ambassador is empowered to share what makes Ohio the State of Perfect Balance.

With a passion for Ohio and a drive to share with others what he loves about working and living in the State of Ohio, Mike McDermott, Lead Community Manager with Bash Foo Social Media is now a card-carrying Ohio Ambassador.

Mr. McDermott will work to help excite his friends, family and business associates about all that Ohio has to offer. The Ohio Ambassador program seeks to gain recognition as the ideal state to achieve a perfect balance in life, allowing for both professional and personal success without sacrificing one for the other.

As an Ambassador for the State of Ohio, Mr. McDermott seeks to:

• Share his Ohio experiences
• Address misperceptions of Ohio
• Avoid negatively positioning another state or location
• Be supportive of all Ohio business

Mr. McDermott seeks to achieve these goals as the founder of the Why Buy Ohio alliance http://whybuyohio.com where he works to encourage the growth and opportunities made for small, independent businesses in the State of Ohio.

About Bash Foo Social Media

Bash Foo Social Media is a business strategy and marketing firm that grows online communities of followers as well as brand relevance. Bash Foo Social Media seeks to become the most valued and trusted partner for every client through a passionate voice, winning strategies and measurable results. Today,
Bash Foo Social Media delivers these winning strategies and measurable results for companies across all industries in Ohio as well as a number of national and international accounts. For more information on Bash Foo Social Media, call 937-573-8535 or visit http://bashfoo.org

Today I challenged myself to write down my elevator pitch for my company, Bash Foo Social Media.
I didn’t want any pretentious chatterworthy buzz that receives the requisite head nods from the unattentive masses. If you are looking for corporate buzzwords and traditional marketing spin-doctoring with a nice warm and fuzzy feeling to it, you need to move along. You’ll find nothing of the kind here.
Rather, I wanted to first peak curiosity and then deliver a relentless choke hold that you can’t get out of.
Was I able to deliver the goods? You be the judge!

Bash Foo Social Media constructs strong business strategies.

Our uncompromising and unconventional analysis of a clients business needs maximizes the returns of even a small social media campaign through the gratuitous use of “Foo”.

Foo (foo) -verb

The amazing ability of human action in all of its forms to excite, engage, enrage, amuse, disgust, align and create a passionate response in others.

Foo is the action taken every day by our strategists to build viral blog articles, build and then engage fans, earn and then maintain community influence and finally to stand at the top of the highest mountain and announce brand dominance to the market.

If you are looking for Foo, you came to the right place.

Since 1999, businesses have relied on Bash Foo for sophisticated and custom solutions to meet their website design, custom programming, and online marketing needs.

When you call on Bash Foo for your website development needs, you’ll be engaging a professional web design company that prides itself on supplying visually stunning custom web pages that help your business work better, clean web design that keeps your visitors coming back, and a professional custom web development solution that has our clientele doing more business online than ever before.

Our site development work not only will inspire and impress your customers, it will help to convert visitors into qualified leads which translate to sales.

Our web designers have the creative talent to appeal to your sense of style, the training and knowledge of current web development standards and practices, and the ability to turn your ideas into reality!

Our clients range from small start-up companies needing a basic web site design to medium sized businesses requiring complex web applications, e-commerce capabilities and online databases. We invite you to review our website design portfolio and read our client testimonials.

If you feel that we are the right choice for your web design project or web site refresh, please request a no cost, no obligation quote today!

Contact Mike McDermott at mike@bashfoo.org or by phone at (937) 573-8535

OK, so here is my story.

Overachieving SM specialist and community manager looking to meet and learn new techniques from the digital marketing superheroes of today in order to lead hundreds of small and medium sized businesses to build strong communities rallying around their brand. Recently experienced a string of family, economic and employment challenges which prohibit me from flying to SoCal to meet with these guys in person.

The Social Media Success Summit is right down my alley. I can sit in the comfort of my SM castle here in Tipp City, Ohio and experience the Session Objectives!

• How to Create a Mega-Following and Mega-Sales With Social Media Marketing
• Building a Loyal Facebook Following for Increased Profits
• How to Grow and Engage an Audience on Twitter
• Using the Power and Reach of LinkedIn to Grow Your Business
• How to Productively Engage in Social Media Marketing
• Five Reasons You Need to Be on Twitter (and Tools to Help You Manage)
• Social Media Start Up: 3 Key Tools to Build Your Social Media Marketing Plan
• How to Attract Tens of Thousands of People in Mere Days
• Using Social Bookmarking for Improved Traffic, Links and Visibility

The SM superheroes that I referred to are:

• Chris Garrett
• Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV)
• Darren Rowse (Problogger)
• Mari Smith (Facebook guru)
• Jason Alba (wrote the book on LinkedIn)
• Ann Handley (MarketingProfs)
• Brian Clark (Copyblogger)
• Denise Wakeman (BlogSquad).

So yea, I want to with the free ticket to the conference and capitalize on the info-sharing and bash foo goodness from this online SMM summit.