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LOcal Free Networking Events

Small Business Milwaukee
Free Networking events held the 2nd Monday Evening in Hales Corners and 3rd Tuesday Evening in West Allis Meetup|Eventbrite

Milwaukee Business Professionals MeetUp
Meet every other Friday morning at Bakers Square Restaurant from 8:00am – 10:00am conveniently located near Hwy 100 and National Ave Meetup

PWOW - Professional Woman of Wisconisn
Free Networking Events. Every 4th Tuesday Evening at the Brass Key in Greenfield. Meetup

Step Into Networking
Meeting every second Wednesday of the month from 9:00 am-10:00 am at the Terrace 167, 3210 Wis. Hwy. 167, Richfield, WI 53076 Meetup

Ozaukee Women's Network
Association of non-competing, professional business women who meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month late morning. Grafton area, Meetup
Local Paid Networking Group/Memberships

Network After Work - Milwaukee Networking Events
Rotating Locations. Events once a month. $15.00 per event. Meetup

Downstream: Inspired Growth For Business Owners
Supporting growth-minded entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals, host conversation series. Brookfield $25.00 a session Meetup

Women in Technology Wisconsin
Non-profit organization. Events are held in Northeast WI, South Central WI, and Southeast WI. 3 Membership Levels Website

Wisconsin Business Owners
“Lunch & Learn” held on the last Friday of the month. $25 fee per event. Held in Brookfield Meetup
Local Networking Chapters

EWI of Milwaukee
Milwaukee Chapter of Executive Women International. Regular Monthly Meetings
LOcal BNI Groups

BNI Rock N' Referrals - Waukesha Business Networking
Every Week on Thursday morning in Waukesha at Crush Wine Bar. Meetup

Your Title Goes HereRacine | Mt Pleasant BNI Strictly Business Networking
Every Week wednseday Mornings in Racine. Meetup

The Milwaukee Small Business Meetup Group
BNI Referral Stream. Meets Thursday mornings at Benny’s Cafe in Milwaukee Meetup
LOcal Chamber Groups
Local Free Educational events/Meetups
Milwaukee WordPress Meetup for Beginners to Intermediate Users
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DIVI Theme
Elegant Themes Divi Nation – Free event- Teaches Divi Theme. Meets every 2nd Tuesday evening of the month. West Allis. Meetup

Milwaukee Online Marketing Group
Meets every first Thursday evening of the Month in West Allis. Free event. Meetup

Greater Milwaukee Area WordPress Meetup
– New and experienced, young and old, designers, developers, marketers and business owners. Random Events – Follow on Meetup

MKE Beginners to Intermediate Search Engine Optimization/SEO
Meets every Third Thursday evening of the month in West Allis Meetup

Racine WordPress Meetup Group
Every Third Wednesday Evening at Atmosphere Collaborative Space in Racine. Meetup

Sales Masters
Every 2 weeks on Monday evenings in Brookfield Meetup

Salesforce Saturday Milwaukee
Every Second Saturday Morning of the Month at Penrod in Milwaukee. Meetup
Local Paid Educational events/Meetups
Local Co-Working Spaces
Local Small Business Start-Up Resources
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Trello
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Gratitude Journal
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Evernote
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Kanban Board
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Repurpose your Content Collection
Repurpose your Blog Article
- Turn it into an e-book
- Turn it into a script for a video or podcast
- Take pieces of it and create a social media post
- Take pieces and use on Reddit, Quora or Medium
- Repurpose the blog as a guest post (make sure to give credit)
- Pull quotes from the article to use on Social media
- Repost on social using different headers
- Host a live Q&A about your blog article
- Use your blog post bullet points to create questions to interview customers
- Use the Instagram polling feature to create questions pertaining to your blog article and then direct them to your article
- Turn your blog article into a presentation
- Use paid promotion to advertise your blog article
- promote it in your newsletter
- post on selected social media groups such as Facebook and Linkedin
- Use content to create an infographic
Repurpose your Video
- Transcribe your videos and make into a blog post
- post video to facebook video library
- Break up the video into 1-2 minute bite-size pieces and put on social media and websites
- Greate a looping gif on the main points of the video
- Add video to Instagram as well
- Repost on social using different headers
- Host a live Q&A about your video
- Break up Videos to 15-sec clips to add to your Instagram story
- Break up your video into bite-sized lessons
- Post your Video on Linkedin
- Turn video content into a Slideshare deck- turn those slides into article material
- Turn your video into a podcast
- Promote in your newsetter
- post on selected social media groups such as Facebook and Linkedin
- Use content to create an infographic
Repurpose your Podcast
- Host a live Q&A about the podcast
- Break up your podcast into small chunks used as a heading for a new blog article
- Create an image for your podcast and pin to Pinterest
- Feature it in your newsletter
- post on selected social media groups such as Facebook and Linkedin
- Use content to create an infographic
- Create videos from your podcast material
- pull quotes from the podcast and create images
- produce a transcript, post as a blog article
- create audiograms
- create an infographic
- turn your podcasts into Ebooks
- Create discussion topics on Linkedin from the podcast
- create episode summaries and post on social
- make free downloads
- Send an email series
- Use Clammr to create short podcast clips to post on social
Repurpose your Images
- Create a Pinterest page and boards to post your images with content
- Feature it in your newsletter
- post on selected social media groups such as Facebook and Linkedin
- Create a different version of the same images
- Put a variety of images into a slideshow video
- use images to create an infographic
- use images with content to create an e-book
- Post on Instagram
- Use for a presentation
- Use on all your blog articles
- use images to create a tutorial
- create a photo collection on Facebook
- create a gallery on your website
- add to Flickr
- Post to Google My Business
- create a video
- turn it into a GIF
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