Welborn Media University is Now Open For Enrollment

Posted on November 13, 2014November 13, 2014 by Lacey Welborn

We’ve been dreaming of and working on Welborn Media University for years and we’re excited to announce our first ever course…

The Ultimate Facebook For Business Online Course

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My email inbox is flooded with emails asking for help on Facebook, whether it be questions, clarification, problems, or just how to be better at it.

Our business, Welborn Media, started with the goal to help small businesses become successful online. As our business has grown so have our prices and many small businesses who we intended to help — want to hire us, but can’t afford to do so.

That’s when we came up with the idea for Welborn Media University. A social online learning system to educate business owners so they can share their passion and grow their business. Because of the immense value we’ve achieved for our clients using Facebook we knew our first course would have to be The Ultimate Facebook for Business Online Course.

In the build-up to launching this class, we’ve been sharing our thoughts and ideas with others and we can’t tell you how exciting the response from the business community has been.

When we think of the type of person we wanted to create this course for, we thought of our good friend Jim Keneaster, the owner of ABC Computer Services in Chino, CA. Jim is involved in our local Chamber of Commerce and what struck us about him was the enthusiasm he had for his work. But, Jim was struggling to reach his business goals. We knew social media could help and we tried to figure out ways to work with one another, but Jim simply couldn’t afford our monthly services.

And so, we couldn’t help Jim. Until now…

This online course allows us to help so many more people: passionate, hard-working, and enthusiastic small business owners. We can teach small business owners like Jim to use Facebook to reach their business goals.

In 30 10-minute lessons that you can consume all at once or follow along with a one-a-day schedule, for a one-time fee of $299, you can learn everything you need to know about Facebook. The Ultimate Facebook for Business Online Course shares absolutely everything we’ve learned from managing dozens of Facebook accounts for all types of businesses.

It is a 30-day online course featuring:

Step-by-step videos that show exactly how we set up, grow, and build Facebook business pages
Assignments at the end of each lesson to motivate participants to take action
An online community to collaborate and work with (Private Facebook Group)
Podcast episodes discussing Facebook and social media
Images, videos, and text sharing all kinds of information

Plus there’s all kinds of other bonuses, find out more by CLICKING HERE.

How To Use Facebook to Make Money By Becoming a Social Business

Posted on November 12, 2014November 13, 2014 by Lacey Welborn

Zeb answers one of our most FAQs

One question we are often asked is how can you make money by using Facebook. For business owners this is an important question and we have the answer.

There are 3 main ways to make money using Facebook, as top of mind marketing, as part of all of a sales funnel, and with direct sales. Enhance all of these by working to become a social business.

Enter your email and watch the video to find out more.

If you’re thinking about using Facebook for your business, you need to focus on using it effectively. Sharing posts on Facebook that don’t get tangible results for your business is not the most effective use of your time. Businesses can benefit substantially from Facebook, but ONLY if they do it right.

The Ultimate Facebook for Business course will not only teach you tactics and techniques, but we’ll also share the mindset you need to have in order to create a successful social business.

These videos are building up to the announcement of our Ultimate Facebook for Business Online Course where we teach you everything we know about using Facebook for Business.

My background as a teacher and our experience managing Facebook pages for more than 30 clients in more than a dozen industries have given us insights on ways we can help any small business use social media to reach and retain more customers.

On Thursday, November 13, we are officially launching our Ultimate Facebook for Business Online Course.

Welborn Media University’s Ultimate Facebook for Business Online Course will only be open for enrollment from November 13 until Thursday, November 20 and will be closed until next year. This introductory course will NEVER be cheaper.

Visit https://welborn.leadpages.net/money-social-business-opt-in/ and, leave a comment! Share a link to your Facebook business page.

3 Quick Ways You Can Increase Engagement on Your Facebook Business Page

Posted on November 6, 2014November 6, 2014 by Lacey Welborn

Free Video

Thank you to those of you who commented on my first video: The Top 3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Facebook -

I'd especially like to thank Adam Witmer and Lisa Walsh for your comments. Be sure to watch the video where I address the answer to your questions.

In this video, we will show you 3 quick ways you can increase the likelihood that your Facebook followers will click the like, comment, or share button. Doing so will help your Facebook posts show up more often in the news feeds of others, building more awareness of your brand, and eventually, driving sales to your business.

Facebook is free to use, and with our Ultimate Facebook for Business Online Course you'll learn everything we know about managing a Facebook Business page.

In our next video, I'll be introducing our Ultimate Facebook for Business Online Course and showing you why authenticity in your Facebook posting matters.

Click here, enter your email and watch the free video.

The Top 3 Reasons Why You Need Facebook For Your Business

Posted on November 4, 2014November 4, 2014 by Lacey Welborn

Free Video!

We are prepping to Launch Welborn Media University and in our lead up to the big event we're sharing three videos packed with information.

This first video, The Top 3 Reasons Why You Need Facebook For Your Business, shows how any business can be successful on Facebook. And why, (if you're a small business owner) you should be using Facebook to grow your business.

Also, if you know anyone who has ever mentioned, thought about, or is doing Facebook for their business and they could use some help . . . please share this with them.

Share Your Passion. Grow Your Business.

Facebook is the easiest way to grow your business today.

Have you been stalling to get your Facebook presence started? Have you tried it and failed? Have you thought about hiring someone to do it for you? Is Facebook not your thing?

Welborn Media is here to teach you how to do it, and how to do it well.

In this video, learn how you can use Facebook to transform your business into something greater.

After managing Facebook pages for more than 30 businesses in a variety of different industries, we know what it takes to make small businesses successful. We are here to help you navigate Facebook to make your business a winner.

Stay tuned for our next video where Zeb shares his #1 trick to substantially increase engagement for your Facebook Business page.

Click here, enter your email and watch the free video.

Free Download – 4th of July Wallpaper

Posted on July 3, 2014July 3, 2014 by Lacey Welborn

Dress up your desktop for the 4th of July with our 4th of July Desktop Wallpaper. Have a happy and safe Independence Day!

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Scrapbook Owner Jennifer Davis Recommends Welborn Social Media

Posted on February 4, 2014February 4, 2014 by Zeb Welborn

Jennifer Davis recommends Welborn Social Media:

We hired Welborn Social Media in June 2011 to help us develop our Twitter presence and advise us on how to increase our followers on Facebook and build interaction on our page among our Facebook users. From the very beginning, Zeb and Lacey demonstrated their passion and expertise for building a strong online presence for Scrapbook Expo.

Since starting in June, Welborn Social Media has taken our Twitter following from a couple hundred to over 5,000 followers. According to Twellow, we are now in the top 15 of all scrapbookers on Twitter. They started a biweekly Twitter chat called #Scrapchat which is producing some fantastic results.

After getting to know Zeb and Lacey, we have been extremely impressed with Lacey’s web design and graphic design abilities. I’ve given her projects with specific instructions and she always goes beyond my expectations. I’ve started giving her projects with minimal direction just to see what she comes up with. She’s always spot on, she understands our brand and I am a huge fan of her work.

Lastly, we have been so happy with the work Welborn Social Media is doing for us we constantly encourage our exhibitors to hire them to help develop and enhance their social media presence, design professional emails and create logos. Every time we refer Zeb and Lacey to our exhibitors we consistently hear that not only did they do an amazing job, but they did it cheaply and timely.

We truly feel our business has improved because of Welborn Social Media and would be more than happy to provide any feedback or answer questions you might have when dealing with Welborn Social Media. We can not recommend them highly enough and would encourage anyone looking to grow their business to hire Zeb and Lacey to build a healthy online reputation.

Do You Have an Entrepreneurial Mindset or an Employee Mindset?

Posted on December 16, 2013December 19, 2013 by Zeb Welborn

Charlotte Clary and Beverly Vines-Haines were two grandmas who started close to thirty different businesses which all ended up failing . . until they hit it big with Ice Chips Candy. The world was introduced to Charlotte and Beverly when they were featured as the entrepreneurs who invented Ice Chips Candy on ABC’s hit TV show, Shark Tank.

Beverly Vines-Haines, Charlotte Clary and Ice Chips Candy

If you talk to many business owners, many of them will say, “I am unemployable.” The reason for that is that these people who are entrepreneurial have figured out a way to make a living without becoming an employee. They then use their time to work, and work, and work to create and test new ideas until they find the idea that will lead to their ultimate success. Some people become successful on their first business, but most business owners who have become successful have started numerous ventures until they hit the one that makes them a success.

The Tutoring Solution

My first business is The Tutoring Solution. We are a local tutoring company that serves Chino, Chino Hills, Corona, Eastvale and numerous other cities in Southern California. I learned the skills I needed to create a successful business by building and growing The Tutoring Solution. I still own The Tutoring Solution and hired my then girlfriend and now wife, Cynthia De La Torre to become the director of the business and to manage it. The skills I learned while building the tutoring business directly led me to starting Welborn Media, devoted toward helping passionate business owners use the Internet to become more successful. Welborn Media has even grown to expand to include 19th Hole Media and the Defining Success Podcast. I have been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and now I’m honing and growing my craft . . . working to make my business more successful every day.

A great example of someone who has an entrepreneurial mindset is my father-in-law who owns his own agricultural business. He grew up in Mexico and as a young boy of probably five years old, he would work to sell gum on street corners . . . his first taste of entrepreneurship. When he came to America, he got a job at a young age in the agricultural business where he learned and cultivated his craft. Others saw him as someone with a strong work ethic and someone who achieved results. As a result, he was given more responsibilities and more pay until he was able to afford to purchase a piece of land where he could grow and sell ground cover at his business, DLT Growers. His entrepreneurial mindset led him down the path towards a career in entrepreneurship and he’s constantly thinking of new ideas and new ways to grow and expand his business and even create new opportunities for others.

DLT Growers

Charlotte Clary and Beverly Vines-Haines are two of my favorite entrepreneurs. For those of you that are unfamiliar with Ice Chips Candy, they are natural mints which are broken up into uneven pieces. The way they explained it on Shark Tank, they painted the picture that they created this product in their garage and were breaking up these pieces by hand with a hammer in their home. It’s a visual which always reminds me that becoming successful takes hard work, discipline and a willingness to get your hands dirty. Charlotte and Beverly are a great example of entrepreneurs who fought and fought and fought until they hit it big.

There is a big difference between entrepreneurs and employees . . . the most important being in their mindset.

An entrepreneurial mindset is being someone who is constantly willing to make mistakes, learn from them and grow as a result. They are continually leaving their comfort zone, and experimenting with trial and error. Most employees, I’ve found, are in the mindset of avoiding mistakes. Employees who make mistakes are typically reprimanded for doing so and thus they lose some of their creativity in the process. An entrepreneur is constantly making mistakes, failing at things and learning from them.

Three Reasons Why You Must Monitor Your Personal Brand

Posted on December 3, 2013December 4, 2013 by Zeb Welborn

My dad, Larry Welborn, has been a reporter at the Orange County Register for 40 years. For as long as he could remember, he knew he wanted to be a journalist. I asked him how he knew he wanted to become a journalist at such a young age and he gave me many of his reasons, but one of the ideas he liked most about being a journalist was that if you got your article published, you could see your name in print.

Today, everyone can see their name published across the Internet. Our times have changed and the novelty of having your name in print has worn off because now you can have your name, your picture, a video online which is now communicating to the rest of the world what you and your name are all about.

Zeb Welborn

Personal branding is one of the biggest changes that has occurred in our economy during the past decade. Before the internet, for the most part, people lived anonymously. Now, people are able to create a reputation for themselves, for better or for worse online. Personal branding is a critical component towards living a successful life in today’s economy. Learn how to make sure that people are talking about you online . . . and when they do . . . make sure they’re saying something good!

Imagine you’re applying for a new job. Your employer has a choice between two candidates. In performing his/her due diligence, your boss performs a Google search on both candidates. Candidate A has no to little information about them online; Candidate B, has continually written articles, posted YouTube videos and engaged with others on the way to developing a strong online reputation in their field. As an employer, which one is going to be more appealing to you?

It doesn’t apply just to job interviews, it applies to business relationships. If you’re a business owner, a sales representative or someone who deals with customers on a regular basis, make sure your online profile is not hindering your relationship with your customers or potential customers.

As the host of the Defining Success Podcast, I’m continually working to manage and monitor what is being said about me online and to make sure that when any customers or potential customers look me up online they will see how committed I am to my career. The Defining Success Podcast demonstrates that I’m someone who is eager to become successful and understand what it takes to make success happen. My credibility since starting the Defining Success Podcast has gone through the roof and I’m continuing to expand my efforts to increase my personal brand.

If someone does a Google search for me online they will see that I’m the host of the Defining Success Podcast, owner of Welborn Media, owner of 19th Hole Media and owner of the Tutoring Solution. They will see that I’m very passionate about success and education. If a company hires me, they know that I am going to do a great job, they know I work hard and they know I’m someone who gets things done.

A friend of mine called me last week, because someone had set up a fake Twitter profile and they were using this profile to poke fun at everything he was doing. They made him look really bad. But when you searched for his name, this fake Twitter account was the first thing that showed up. He asked what he should do and I advised him to focus on building a personal brand around the positive things you do for others. Trying to contact Twitter or any online platform to remove information posted online is difficult, time-consuming and often times doesn’t work. Your best way to beat negative comments about you online is to be proactive and make sure what’s being said about you online are the things you want people saying about you online.

When my Dad began his career as a reporter, the most recognition he could hope to get was having a byline in a story he had written. Today, videos, pictures and social media platforms can all represent who you are as a person online.

Personal branding is essential in todays day and age, and everyone should be aware of what is being said about them online.

To find out more about personal branding and how you can manage your reputation online listen to Episode 53 of the Defining Success Podcast titled, Personal Branding by Zeb Welborn.

If you’re concerned about your personal brand take the time to Google your name with potential keywords people would use to find out more information about you. Make sure your personal brand is aiding and not hindering your goals. If people are saying positive great things about you online then you’re on the right track. And if they’re not . . . then it’s time to make changes to ensure that they are.