Mari Smith

Mari "The Chic Geek & Facebook Passionista" is a social media expert speaker and trainer and the author of several books, including Facebook Marketing: An hour a day and Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars.

Thousands of ordinary folks, small businesses and even huge organisations are better known and successful today thanks to the extraordinary networking talents of one woman. She has been crowned the Pied Piper of the online world, and is a veritable engine of personal branding and a relationship marketing whiz. "Relationships first, business second."

Mari Smith has a strong ten-year background in the world of relationships and Internet technology, making social media her ideal arena. Through her consulting and training business, she is passionate about helping independent professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners to accelerate their business profits using an integrated social marketing strategy, with particular focus on Facebook and Twitter.

"Whether I'm chitchatting, retweeting, @replying, talking about my personal life, my products or services, it's all marketing," she said. "People buy people before they buy products or service. They're buying into you." Mari Smith

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