Lisa, Shannon, Kristie, Brett, Jen & Melanie at Tlaquepaque

Social media is fun and engaging, and it’s available to B-to-B marketers.

As a follow up to our last blog post B-to-B Marketers Finding Value in Social Media, here’s some highlights from our sponsored day with Jason Sadler of IWearYourShirt.com.

Jason Sadler sports our new Rooster T and starts talking Mulberry Marketing.  Looking good, Jason!

The feedback rolls in . . . we asked Jason’s followers for feedback on our new web site … we received a lot of great input throughout the day . . . it was interesting to read and we’ll definitely be increasing the font size of the text on our web site … what? Everyone doesn’t have 20/20 vision?!

Lunch . . . (not important, but totally fun and we love to weave food into every event) we had a great team lunch, although we got a few stares for wearing matching shirts, but we wore our Rooster T’s with pride while eating tacos at our fave Mexican joint.  See picture of full and happy Mulberries, ready for more . . . work!

The USTREAM was interesting, people IM’d, e-mailed and watched, our team included, as Jason Sadler wore our shirt and talked about everything from marketing to . . . well, [insert something mindless here] . . . but the feedback continued to come in on our web site.

Mulberries & Scuppernongs . . . what’s a scuppernong?  Watch and learn . . .

Thank you, Jason, your search for Mulberries was nothing  less than entertaining.

And the winner is . . . so the feedback did come at a price, like any good contest, we gave away prizes and we were glad to do it . . . MMG Rooster T’s and $25 gift cards to Amazon.com went to five individuals and new social media connections:

• Joshua Merryman
• Shannan Hearne
• Kadie Chandler
• Hannah Beck
• Anne Toney
• Seth Oyer . . . Seth actually won a Poken, from Jason and his IWYS video sponsor PokenZoo.com

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Not bad for a days work . . . The scoppernongs You Tube video had 210 views (and counting – go check it out!), the U Stream video – 134 views, our web site traffic was up over 200% from the previous month and we received referrals from IWearYourShirt.com, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and more.  We also picked up a few new followers (thanks Twitter folk) and posted our first Qik.

In addition to putting social media in practice as b-to-b marketers, our team had a blast exercising their social media skills . . .this is a creative bunch and it’s great to engage in activities that will make us better, more interesting and more knowledgeable in our fields . . . we can apply what we’re doing here to our individual areas of expertise.