MVP Marketing + Design Launches New MVP Social Networking Division

Minneapolis, September 14, 2009 – MVP Marketing + Design, a technology enabled marketing communications firm, today announced the launch of MVP Social Networking (MVPSN), a professional services division designed to help clients generate, implement and maintain effective social media business strategies. MVPSN teams with leading social media software providers to ensure client success.

The initiative is the result of MVP’s recognition of the growing importance of social and mobile media to the marketing mix. Leveraging the company’s longstanding brand marketing know-how and Web technology capabilities, MVP Social Networking assists organizations in strategizing, building, and sustaining branded customer communities and customized social and mobile media applications. By partnering with leading “white label” community platform providers such as KickApps and Crowd Factory and drawing upon MVP’s own in-house marketing, design and project management expertise, MVPSN enables clients to increase their sales and profits through the power of social networking.

Additionally,  as a long standing Ektron Certified (Content Management System) Partner, MVP can not only “hook up” a client’s Web site to social networking services like Face Book and Twitter via RSS feeds, comments, blogs and forums but maximize traditional SEO effectiveness through frequent content updates that generate increased customer interaction and improved search engine rankings. This process is known as social media optimization or SMO.

Services offered by MVP Social Networking include:
• Social and Mobile media strategy and design
• Social network moderation and analytics
• Social and Mobile media application development
• Social Media Optimization

According to Dick Weinrib, President of MVP Marketing + Design, “The launch of MVP Social Networking is the result of almost two years of social media research and the creation of related interactive sites and tools for companies in the medical device and high-tech manufacturing marketplace, as well as a community public service organization.” He continued, “As a result of these implementations, we’re confident that our partners, including  such industry leaders as Ektron, KickApps and Crowd Factory, in combination with our own in-house support services, will enable us to build and strengthen our clients’ customer communities through branded social media.”

MVP Social Networking plans to exhibit at the upcoming Life Science Alley Conference & Expo in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which will be held on December 9, 2009.

Visit the site: www.mvpsocialnetworking.com

About MVP Marketing + Design, Inc.

MVP Marketing + Design, founded in 1985, is an integrated marketing communications and brand design firm focused on applying marketing know-how and creativity to solve business problems. Attention to industry and project requirements ensures the highest level of creative and account service, setting MVP–and its clients–apart from the competition. MVP's award winning services include the creation of advertising, corporate communications, Web sites and packaging. The firm's principal clients include 3M, TSI, Churchill Capital, Empi, Schneiderman’s Furniture, Worthington Aviation and Minnesota Sleep Institute/Lung Center among others.

For more information, please contact:
Dick Weinrib
MVP Marketing + Design, Inc.
612-332-8939
info@mvpdesign.com