G Social Media Recommendations - Thank You!

KC Hart - Marketing Director of the Asheville Home Builders Association: "I would highly recommend Gary Charles with G Social Media as an excellent marketing consultant specializing in Social Media. He has worked within our organization- the Asheville Home Builders Association, particularly with the Professional Women in Building Council, to establish a basic foundation for conceptual social media, then taking the next step in building a social network for our members and their businesses. His vast knowledge and patient approach has enabled many of our members to learn from his experiences. He is truly an expert on the subject of social interaction and the marketing benefit that can come to businesses in the homebuilding industry when applying these techniques."

Ryan Izon - Owner of Mother and Son Bistro: "Gary is a top notch Social Media expert and has several great systems in place for the education and training for me and my employees to not only get started in all aspects of social media for my business, but also has given us the tools to continue of and to find new and exciting ways to help promote awareness of our restaurant in a small city with hundred of other businesses like ours. Gary has shown us how to stand out from the rest."

Julie Atallah - Owner of Bruisin Ales: "Gary's done a great job organization Asheville with the hub @AskAsheville website and Twitter. His unending energy and support of the Asheville community is reflected in his work on a daily basis. At Bruisin' Ales, we're happy to call him a colleague." 

Cathy Rodgers - Owner of Seven Waves Marketing: "Gary is one of the most enthusiastic and pro small business people I have met! His social media expertise have been the success of many professorships in the Asheville area. We met on Twitter and ended up working on a project together. You should Hire @gsocialmedia."

Felicia Carter - Editor-in-Chief of Go Graham Go: "Gary provides a wealth of knowledge on all things social media. Not only is he an encouraging person to be around, but he has plenty of energy to do the job!"

Deborah Potter - PR Manager at the Grove Park Inn: "Gary is an expert at social media and making it work for your company. If there's an important event, you can count on Gary to be there. He does a great job."

Jan Rogers - Owner of The Garage at Biltmore: "Gary is a doer -- an energetic, creative, passionate force committed to making a difference that matters in the Asheville community. He engages people in their own contributions, shares their aspirations, helps them get better, and embraces the joint impact of the actions. Highly recommend working with Gary and always appreciate the opportunity.

Mary Dotson - Power Realty: “I have known Gary for 3 years. His knowledge of all Social Media platforms is amazing. He is the most knowledgeable person I have met in this area. In addition to knowing about Social Media, Gary has extensive experience in weaving all the different Social and Web technology together for each individual person or business. I love to work with Gary and look forward to working with him again. Gary has conducted several Social Media classes that I found extremely valuable. He demonstrated a high degree of expertise and his presentation was clear and immediately actionable. He was sensitive to others that did not have the on-line visual. In addition, his style was open and inviting to questions (and expressed appreciation for them) and willingly gave his time to responding to questions thoroughly. Gary is extremely enthusiastic about his work which is infectious. I certainly would recommend him for any of your Web or Social Media needs."

Amanda Ballew - More Space Place: “Gary is the "go-to guy" for Social Media in the Asheville Area. He is eager to help businesses learn Social Media and has taught classes for the community for free, including a series of classes for my Professional Women in Building Council. Gary can break Social Media down into an easy to understand and manageable set of platforms that almost anyone can understand. His strategy plans for business Social Media marketing are quite impressive. I would recommend that if you want to learn Social Media for yourself or if you need a master plan for your company that you contact Gary.”

Austin Hume - Grove Park Inn: “Gary has been a valuable teacher of Social Media Marketing this past year. His knowledge on Social Media Marketing is impressive. He has been active in connecting people/business in Asheville on a local and national level. He has been holding free online marketing classes, teaching people how to be highly effective in online marketing and the value of staying connected. His teaching style is non-abrasive and patient, and the material he has written clearly and effectively guides the way for beginners to use online marketing to increase their exposure.”

Lindsay Fields - Owner of Hot Yoga: “Gary is extremely knowledgeable, truly an expert in his field with his finger on the Social Media pulse! I continue to refer to him with any questions I have. He is passionate, dedicated and a straight up guy. If you are committed to building meaningful relationships and growing your business or brand, definitely contact G Social Media

Social Media School Class #2 – Thank you Asheville

We had a great time the other evening at the Free Social Media School in Asheville North Carolina. First I took the group through setting up an email and a Twitter account. Then Justin from Social Village spoke on “Everyone has a story to tell” and how social media is the conduit for expression. Next up was social media and networking giant Trey Pennington from Greenville South Carolina to talk about relationships and how social media increases your effectiveness.


Special Thanks to the Garage at Biltmore for hosting the event and making sure everything was venue perfect. Jan and Chris, the owners, were more than accommodating and very hospitable to everyone. We had a little problem because Preferred Pump decided not to share their parking lot, but The Slosman Corporation in Asheville quickly responded and came to the rescue providing us with the use of their parking lot across the street.

Local Guys Moving in Asheville NC were there to make sure we had the chairs set up and were available to do anything that we needed completed. The chairs were lent to us by Cornerstone Church in downtown Asheville on South French Broad Avenue. Rev Pictures was there to take the video clips of this social media event and did a great job. PSAV provided the projector and screen for this event and assisted with getting everything hooked up right for a great presentation. AVL Custom Closet took care of the printing needs of the evening and was on-call to assist in any possible way. Man Cave Grilling came to the Asheville social media school and brought some great grilled food into the mix.

Sugar Momma's Cookies, Rolf Experience, and Man Cave Grilling all donated great prizes for this event. Thank you so so much!!

Awesome meeting! The next event is planned for April 23 from 5pm - 7:30pm at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville NC with a social time after. See the Facebook Event page or email me to RSVP. Try to plan to stay out with us until about 10pm if you are available. Free Social Media School in AVL! Thank you from G Social Media!

THANKS for helping with Asheville Social Media School - Class #1

First of all we would like to thank the Downtown Market in Asheville North Carolina for giving us the space to hold this 1st event. Josiah Hyatt, Pepper Parris, and the many vendors allowed us to make this class possible. Oh... and thanks for the raffle items!

Local Guys Movers of Asheville were also on the scene helping out in any way possible, make sure we had the chairs set up properly, and they were very helpful to everyone there. Their whole crew was wonderful. Thank you.

David Bonyun of Asheville Video Productions did a great job taking video of the event and we are going to have some clips for you really soon. Thank you for your video production work in Asheville NC!

Rev. Jeffrey A. Hober of Cornerstone Church gave us the 125 chairs for the social media event last night and we want to thank him and his congregation for helping us out.

Thanks to Maria Aponte of Hi Tech Systems in AVL let us use that wonderful Panasonic projector to show our presentations and was helpful throughout the night in so many other ways.

Jay Kirk of PSAV Presentation Services in AVL helped us out with the speaker system to go with the projector and a few other gadgets. Also thanks for helping us get back online when we had a glitch in the system!

Thx to Amanda Ballew of More Space Place Custom Closets and Murphy Beds in Asheville NC for providing the literature and paper needs, and also for helping moderate this whole event.

Bill Nixdorf of PaleoSun Web Design showed us a great presentation of how the search engines meter people, human behavior, and index websites. Thank you

Christopher Smith of Asheville Discount Card was very helpful from the moment he showed up on the scene. From helping move chairs, to getting things in order while we had to run and get some copies and more. Thx!

Thanks to Asheville Maid Katie Crisp for helping us with the registration, raffle tickets and making sure everyone had everything they needed.

Thank you to Polly McDaniel from the Asheville Citizen Times for coming to this event and talking about the newspaper, social media, and the local WNCLINC efforts!

Thanks to Jose Ibarra of Applied Solutions for presenting the push for Google to come to Asheville North Carolina. You can find more info about it on Google AVL.

Ryan Izon of Mother and Son Bistro in North Asheville / Woodfin donated gift certificate for a special occasion cake to the raffle items and also spoke about his business etc. Thank you.

Sandy Eha of Rolf Experience in AVL spoke about her business and also donated a gift certificate for a free Rolf session during the raffle.

Thank you to George Zhouf of Jump Wedding Photography in Asheville for dropping in and taking a photo shoot of the Asheville Social Media School event.

Al Lorenzo assisted the event by getting the cloth up to shoot the projections onto. Al is a General Contractor in the Asheville area 828-201-6581.

It took all of us working together to make this event a great success. Thank you so much to everyone; the people who helped and the people who attended the free Asheville Social Media School.