SweetPea WhitneyMae

Hello! I'm so excited to finally get this started. Welcome social networkers, welcome bloggers, welcome friends and welcome business owners. I'm SweetPea WhitneyMae and I have recently followed my mother's advice (after ignoring it a few times of course.) This is the blog for my small social networking agency: SweetPea&Co. We are experts when it comes to having an engaging presence on Facebook: the most important site for businesses to participate in. We can help you "be as successful on Facebook as you are with your business!"

How did I decide to create my very own networking agency? Well, as I said before, it was my mother's advice that sparked the idea. But it stems from a couple other things as well. First of all, my mother and I are extremely alike. She is an entrepreneur and has created a successful business in my small hometown of Gardiner, NY, and naturally I inherited her positive attitude. (Shameless plug for my mom's blog...HiHo Heidi's Diary). She has always believed in networking...even before it was internet-dominated. Anyway, I, as a Facebook user was noticing businesses slowly creating pages on Facebook and I started to convince my mom that HiHo needed to be on Facebook too. We played around with it (frankly if I ran the business component of Facebook I would change more than a few things) and we figured it out. Naturally we started talking to other businesses about it and then even reported that it was turning out to be a successful investment of time spent on the internet.

Then, a catering company I had been working for asked me (taking advantage of my knowledge from trying it out with HiHo) if I could help them with Facebook. SweetPea&Co. was born. This was where advice from my mother began. She knew that with my knowledge of public relations and social media I could help out businesses all over that knew that they needed to be on facebook (because if they aren't they're missing out) but did not know how to go about doing it.

When my boyfriend (the wonderful graphic designer and man he is) designed a logo, I knew it was really happening. (By the way, if you're wondering, "why sweetpea?" it's because it's a nickname that originated from him and then my mom caught on...)

Naturally, more and more businesses in my area (and some that are a bit far away but have networked with my mother by means other than the internet) began forming a list in a notebook I labeled "SweetPea&Co.: Wannabe Fabulous (and rich) Public Relations Diva." How, do you ask? Well just answer the question "what do mother's talk about?" for yourself and you'll understand. (Despite all the playful bashing of my mother I totally love her by the way.)

Anyway, I'm excited. This is really something I enjoy doing and I love learning more about it all the time! Recently I visited the NYIGF with my mother and attended a social networking seminar. There are always new ways to take advance of a presence in social media.

I will be blogging on a regular basis about clients, tips, our services at SweetPea&Co. and so much more!

Love,


P.S. Website coming soon!