On Saturday, April 6th at 3:30pm, Jeanette DesJardins will provide insight on major changes coming to Facebook and Instagram in 2019, how you can stay relevant in this forever changing arena and tips on how to grow your following, engagement and conversions.

During the Sunday Session at 9:30 am, Jeanette DesJardins will break down what makes a great website, how to combine your website and social media efforts to grow your presence and tools and tricks to help you be successful.

This will be two days you won't want to miss!  Both of these educational motorsports marketing sessions are FREE to all Hot Rod & Racing Expo attendees!

For more information on Hot Rod & Racing Expo and to purchase discounted tickets in advance, visit the Hot Rod & Racing Expo website.

Why?  ...Well, because it's about time, but Twitter released a statement saying that they were accommodating the platform users' requests.

"We are making this change after listening and observing a problem our global community was having (it wasn't easy enough to Tweet!), studying data to understand how we could improve, trying it out, and listening to your feedback," Twitter product manager Aliza Rosen wrote in a blog post.

Here at Crank It Media -- we are already seeing this change in our Tweets.  Are you?  What do you think about this new change?

PART 1: INTRO, SOCIAL MEDIA & FACEBOOK

Note: Click here to see video that wouldn’t play in Intro

PART 2: SOCIAL MEDIA & OTHER PLATFORMS

Note: Since the recording of this seminar — LinkedIn is now recognizing hashtags. “They saw the Light”

PART 3: WEBSITES & PRESS RELEASES

PART 4: SPONSORSHIP PROPOSALS AND Q&A

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.  Thank you for watching!

Crank It Media Founder & President will be presenting the Motorsports Marketing Seminar during the 10th annual Race and Performance Expo!  The Race and Performance Expo is scheduled to take place February 25th & 26th at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Digital marketing expert, Jeanette DesJardins will discuss common mistakes pertaining to social media marketing, as well as, provide tips and tricks to help you and your business achieve the most out of your marketing.  Some of the topics covered will include: websites, social media, press releases and sponsorship proposals.

The Motorsports Marketing Seminar is a FREE event to all attendees of the Race and Performance Expo.  For more information, please visit the Race and Performance Expo website.

About Jeanette DesJardins
Jeanette DesJardins is the Founder & President of Car Chix, the award winning premier motorsports organization for women and the Founder & President of Crank It Media, an internet marketing company that specializes in the motorsports, automotive, industrial and entertainment industries.  Recently, Jeanette was a speaker during the ‘Women in Motorsports’ Seminar at the 2016 Performance Racing Industry Show.  In 2016, she received an award from Memphis International Raceway for ‘Outstanding Leadership in Women’s Motorsports’ and the ‘President’s Award’ from Cordova International Raceway in 2015.

Twitter just announced that it will be shutting down the Twitter Dashboard as of February 3, 2017.  The Twitter Dashboard included many useful tools for businesses and marketers, such as: tweets tracking tools, post scheduling, tweet monitoring and analytics and more.

Rumor has it that Twitter has have not been happy with the Twitter Dashboard performance and it's potential overlap with other like apps.  Twitter is expected to release a newer and better version of Twitter Dashboard in the months to come.

So you say social media isn't for your company?  Most companies, most successful companies, are taking advantage of all the benefits of social media marketing.  However, there are a few that are still trying to avoid this uncomfortable change.

One of the number one reasons that we hear as to why companies are not utilizing social media marketing in their everyday business is that "it's not for my company."  As we have entered the new year of 2017, I can assure you that your competitors, no matter what industry you are in, are online and using social media marketing in some way or form.

Although change can be scary, do you really want to allow it to influence the success of your business?  Think about it this way... when was the last time that you personally picked up the Yellow Pages to search for a solution to your problem?  Today, people turn to their smart phones, their lap tops and the world of online search.  If you do not show up on the first page of search results for the keywords representing your business, you are in trouble.

Social media marketing helps your business rank higher in Search Engine Results. So when your prospect is searching for a solution to their problem, they find you and not your competitor.