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Adding your venue’s socialmedia icons and online booking link is also mighty handy, as well as perhaps a photo for those that met you recently. See if you can attend some networking or vendor functions. The same goes for sample socialmedia posts and including links to review sites where you’re trying to get more exposure.
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