HSAY 019 - Sara Broers | Travel Blogger | Social Media Leader Quote: “I want people to be smarter and safer online, and from a business perspective which most people tend to forget about” Background: Instructor Sara Broers is a Social Media Strategist and travel enthusiast who travels the nation speaking to groups on how to use social media. Sara has a passion for helping business owners make connections they need to grow their businesses through Social Media. Her Presentation has drawn national acclaim as she introduces new auctioneers to social media and shows them how they can use it to market their businesses in a successful manner. This 'A' personality & top Instructor will inspire you to successfully find your place in the world of social media. TravelWithSara is where Sara shares passion of her home state of Iowa and anywhere a plane, car, train, or boat would take her. She was a bit of a travel bug at a young age and throughout her lifetime; and developed a deeper love for sharing her travel experiences with others. Sara is the co-founder of the Midwest Travel Bloggers Group in 2015 and the Midwest Travel Twitter Chat. She is the founder of the North Iowa Social Media Breakfast Club. Several clubs have started, based off of the format that she started. Sara has grown to adore the beaches and people of the Alabama Coastline. Mountains, beaches and the Caribbean are also her favorites. Sara believes that your travel connections begin in your own backyard. Sara has partnered with several destination partners and helped them grow their tourism base through the use of social media. Highlights: lives in north IowaIn 2008, she hopped on the social media train when she started mom blogshe didn't realize how social media would really change her life from therewhen she started writing, she didn't have a clue as to how people would find out who she was writing or who she was.then she hopped on twitter and not facebookusually, people would start from Facebook, she did it backwardshe started with twitter and has made more business connections with it than any other media platformlooking back that was probably the best thing that happened to herit's fascinating because she can get to live on a farm in Iowa and travel the world because of the internet and social mediashe has been able to meet so many people she wouldn't have otherwise met in person through social mediathe magic really happens after you meet someone online and then you can get to meet them face-to-face in real life.When you can that relationship offline; to face-to-face conversation, that's where partnerships begin and things begin to really happenit's a fascinating space to be inIn June 2013, she started the north Iowa social media breakfast clubeverywhere she went since then in her local community she mentioned the word twittershe is a trailblazer without even realizing itshe's a blogger and a social media influencerher motto is, she wants people to be smarter and safer online and from a business perspective which most people tend to forget aboutinto blogging, a travel writersocial media is a part of her life - who she is, and what her life is made ofShe is a farmer's daughter - she has to get that in thereevery place is a huge place for social mediashe didn't think that farmers 10 years ago would have realized that social media would be a part of their lives today. Friends with Suzanne stavert - both share a mutual love of blogging and social medialet's talk a little bit about your various blogs and how you manage to create contentsshe operates 3 different blogscom is a social media businessshe was blogging in 2010 and found a job on twittershe started managing social media platforms for businessesyour tweets represents who you are and what you are aboutshe grew a social media business out of blogging that she honestly never saw comingshe has a passion for women and businesscom is where she tends to put things about safety, social media tips and feature some entrepreneurial women in north Iowacom actually came out from her previous blog allinaniowamomsday.com which later morphed into travelshe was a social media influencer but she never realized thatat this time she started to do more travel stuff and she didn't have a travel platformsaramomoftwo was on twitter for 5 years and twitter decided to cut it down because of suspicious activitiesthat hurt because her 85,100 followers were real peopleshe thought maybe this could be her little push to get into travel moreyou can't take your @travelwithsara and move it to that accountsaramomof2 became socialsarabshe had an engaging community on twitter which meant a lotMidwest travel bloggers is a community that Lisa Trudell and Sara are buildingthey've been on it for a couple of years, showcasing destinations of Midwest on twittertwitter is a big platform that we are using now as we are expanding into other platformsfrom the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month...they do the midwest ...
