You’ll learn how to leverage Email, Social and digital channels to:

• Ensure your business is easily found online

• Set yourself up for success with the right digital tools

• Leverage word-of-mouth marketing through customer reviews

• Understand the power of organic vs. paid search

• Improve your findability to attract more customer

During this live interactive session we will:

• Define what a Sales Funnel is

• Explore what makes up the funnel

• Ways to best approach building one for your organization

• Examples of funnels

• LIVE Demo

• Q&A

Marketing online isn’t just about getting your one-way messaging across to your prospects the way you might in a flyer or on a billboard, it’s about engagement and most importantly providing the prospect the information that they logically want or need to take the next steps based on their interest level.

Join Aaron Wesley Means, CEO of award-winning Constant Contact partner ACTIVATE
Business Solutions for a walkthrough marketing best practices and a live demo of
simple to use software.

Co-Sponsor(s): Henderson County Chamber of Commerce, Brevard/Transylvania Chamber of Commerce

Learn from Aaron Wesley Means of award-winning Solution Provider ACTIVATE Business Solutions as he shows you in realtime how to embrace the latest digital marketing technology using tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to save time, maximize your return, and become more competitive.

You’ll learn how to beat writer’s block to create more captivating messaging in mere moments as we:

• Create entire email marketing pieces with AI

• Create social media marketing posts with AI

• Create text marketing blasts with AI

• Create an ENTIRE marketing Campaign with AI! (Brand new, just launched last month!)

• Make your marketing more timely and personal with AI-driven segmentation and automation

Live Q&A + Special SBC discount bonus package available for all attendees for instant implementation.

Join Aaron Wesley Means, CEO of award-winning Constant Contact partner ACTIVATE Business Solutions for a walkthrough marketing best practices and a live demo of simple to use software.

Did you know there are at least 3 things you can do to guarantee a massive increase in your social media visibility (that DON’T include paying for ads)?

In our session we will cover:

• The types of content that gets the highest visibility

• The format of content that social channels give preference to

• Understanding what a social media algorithm is and how to make it work for your business

• Q&A

You may be committed “working hard” to grow your social media visibility, engagement, and growth while still seeing tepid results. You are not alone! Be sure to join us for this critical session where we cut through the clutter and identify the key actions you can take to ensure your visibility explodes!

Join Aaron Wesley Means, CEO of award-winning Constant Contact partner ACTIVATE Business Solutions for a walkthrough marketing best practices and a live demo of simple to use software.

You’ll learn:

✅ Enhance Branding: Seamlessly manage and customize your brand identity with AI tools that make it easier than ever to maintain consistency across all your marketing efforts.

✅ Simplify Content Creation: Utilize intuitive drag-and-drop tools and AI-driven features that simplify the process of crafting compelling communications.

✅ Simplify Your Strategy: Master the essentials of social media success, including the 15-minute social media plan and tips for getting started with paid ads.

✅ Streamline Management: Efficiently organize and manage your marketing efforts with centralized oversight, boosting productivity and allowing you to focus on growth.

✅ Gain Actionable Insights: Access comprehensive, easy-to-understand reports that empower you to make informed decisions and optimize your marketing strategies.

AI in marketing is a game changer for improving the quality of your marketing, while making it faster and easier at the same time!

Register now!

Join us and learn how to supercharge your marketing and enhance the customer experience by leveraging how people use their devices day in and day out with social, email, and text in concert to drive engagement and sales.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• How each channel - social, email, text - works to move people closer to your business

• How to harness the strengths of each channel as well as use them together

• How to create a great experience that impacts your bottom line

• How use a simple approach that saves time while getting great results

• LIVE Software Demo

• LIVE Q&A

Speaker: Aaron Wesley Means, CEO of award-winning Constant Contact partner ACTIVATE Business Solutions for a walkthrough marketing best practices and a live demo of simple to use software.

Co-Sponsor(s): The Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce, Yadkin County Chamber of Commerce, and Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

In this session we’ll cover:
• How to create a channel for your business
• How to upload a video and display it on Youtube as well as other locations online
• Using Video on Instagram/Facebook/X
• Building a following of “Youtube Subscribers”
• Going LIVE on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, and X
• Best practices for quality, length, and style of video
• Syndicating video to other channels
• Sharing your link vs. uploading native files

Speaker: Join Aaron Wesley Means, CEO of award-winning Constant Contact partner ACTIVATE Business Solutions for a walkthrough marketing best practices and a live demo of simple to use software.

Co-Sponsor(s): Elizabethtown-White Lake Area Chamber of Commerce

This powerful seminar takes you step-by-step through the keys to effective email Marketing. We'll learn what it really is (and isn't) and what it can do for your business.

You'll walk away with simple steps to harness the power of the inbox, including how to grow a healthy list, create great content, customize a mobile-friendly template that matches your brand, get people to open your email, and track your results.

We will also have a LIVE DEMO using Constant Contact, the SBC’s trusted software partner:

• Creating a mobile friendly and mobile responsive template

• How to Brand-Match Your Email with colors and themes like a Pro

• Adding features only Constant Contact has!

• AI (artificial intelligence) content generator and assistant

• Adding images and how to get the most from them

• Adding links, tables, videos, surveys, and other impactful content

• How to sell in an email (it's not what you think!)

• Why subject line is only the start, the secrets of pre-header text

• How to avoid the spam trap

• How to build your list both online and offline

• How to read simple reporting and analytics to measure your success

• How to get your emails opened right away

• Special SBC Bonuses

• LIVE Q&A

Join Aaron Wesley Means, CEO of award-winning Constant Contact partner ACTIVATE Business Solutions for a walkthrough marketing best practices and a live demo of simple to use software.

Over three action-packed days, you’ll have the chance to connect with industry leaders, learn from experts in the field, celebrate the growth of the franchise industry, and gain valuable knowledge that will help you take your business to the next level.

Position yourself for success in the future. Register now for the 2026 CFA National Convention!

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