We created the Social Media Coaching Center, where you can learn how to use social media tools and networks as well as pull together a social media strategy for your business or personal brand. There are step by step videos and how-to’s as well as downloads and webinars. If you want to learn to use social media, this is the place. Hey, and if what you need are step by step tutorials for your own software or web product, we can do that for a lot less than you might think. Founding partner Janet Fouts offers webinars as well as hands on workshops for social media and online marketing.

Janet has taken off with her private practice as a social media coach, offering a wealth of services to enrich your social media outreach. She’s also speaking nation-wide to large audiences as well as conducting corporate training and workshop sessions around social media and online marketing. (No, the two are not synonymous. Ask Janet for more on that.)

So what’s going to happen in 2011? We’re re-building the web site (in WordPress of course) and will be offering more tutorials for our friends and clients here as well as more news and information. We’ve got some iphone apps in the works and we are going to be developing sites for the spankin’ new Google TV. Look for some very interesting projects coming from Tatu and Janet over the next few months. We’re going into the new year ready for new projects!

Over the years we’ve gotten so used to using it that it’s pretty much second nature for us, but that’s not so for everyone. We get a lot of questions on how to use WordPress, from basic “How do I create a page?” to how to install themes, using the editor, what plugins to use, etc., and it just makes sense to create a series of tutorials to share with our clients and the members of the Social Media Coaching Center.

It makes even more sense to offer it as a series of classes so that everybody can use it–for themselves or to offer to their own clients–(we’ve got an affiliate program) so we just launched WordPress-Classes.com. There are over 20 tutorials in the series right now, something for all skill levels, and just for the launch period we’re offering the entire series for $50. Sign up now and you get access to all the tutorials we add later too.

When’s the price going to go up?
I don’t know yet. It depends on response and how many new tutorials we add. We’ve got to cover our costs after all, and we can’t keep adding things and not raise the price.

Where are the new tutorials going to come from?
We’re asking our users to submit questions they need answers too. Who better to drive the process than the people who need it? We’ll create new ones based on that input and add them to the list. We already know we’ll be doing more tutorials on how to use the Thesis, Genesis and Headway themes and some of our favorite plugins. We’re open to ideas and it’s built right into the classes.

Check out our WordPress classes and help us spread the word.

Surveys show that people are suing social networks to make buying decisions like their next video camera, tv or even car. Perhaps more important to the small business owner users are deciding where to go for coffee, find the nearest bookstore or dry cleaner using social media on their cell phones.

OK, all that’s good, but you’ve got a business to run right? You don’t have time to spend all day on Facebook or Twitter or to learn how all this stuff works. Doesn’t it take hours per day? How do you even begin to learn all this? Well, you could just ignore it and hope it goes away, or you could decide to add social media to your marketing strategy and learn how to use social media through the Social Media Coaching Center.

The coaching center brings together some amazingly talented social media practitioners who teach how all this really works in small easy to digest pieces. The site helps you decide which social media sites will work for you and build a social media strategy for your own business that really works. Want to learn Twitter? Visit the quick start pages to get the basics down and then dive into the Twitter category for more advanced information. The same goes if you want to learn how to use Facebook, learn LinkedIn, how to use video in your social media strategy and much much more in the social media tutorials. New content is added often and the team is always on top of the latest tools.

As if that isn’t enough you can ask any social media questions you like on the ask us page and the team will research and find the answers for you. In many cases they even build a step by step social media tutorial to show you how to do it!

So? What are you waiting for? Take this opportunity to learn about social media for skilled practioners at the Social Media Coaching Center.

Janet Fouts hand-picked some amazing social media coaches, consultants and practitioners to help you understand what social media is and how to use it for business without getting bogged down in the details.

The site is your one-stop shop to really learn about social media and online marketing and the content is top-notch. No matter whayt your learning style, you’ll find something here of interest.

In addition to the content on the site Janet will be doing weekly call in shows with social media and on-line marketing experts where you can ask any questions you have about social media, social media networks or social media coaching and get answers. She’s even offering to build tutorials or videos to demonstrate her answers!

The site is in response to the many questions that came up while Janet was writing her book, Social Media Success! which just came out this week. The book gives you the strategy to make your social media efforts successful and the website gives you the tools and techniques to use to implement it. All and all a perfect couple! So, what are you waiting for? Check out the Social Media Coaching Center while it’s still free!