Ads for Fans are Facebook's best kept secret

What would happen if CMOs had more budget for technology than CIOs? Join Malcolm Friedberg, the CEO at Left Brain DGA, as he discusses the choices facing marketing technology purchasers.

According to Gartner, by 2014 social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20% of business uses. Tracking social presence via the number of followers and fans, traffic to web site, social mentions across platforms, share of social conversations and social influence are great ways to measure brand effectiveness – but what comes next? What are leading retailers doing today to mine this platform for actionable insight and truth? And how are they using that insight to meeting their growing business initiatives? Attend this session and learn: 1) Why joining the social media revolution is one of the top 5 ways to avoid losing customers this year; 2) The key data mining techniques and best practices for gaining actionable insight into your customers; and 3) How the right technology platforms can integrate your social media strategy with your overall business goals.

To build thought leadership, your company needs to be heard on a regular basis and become synonymous with insightful, credible content. When the discussion turns to scaling content marketing efforts, many up-and-coming thought leaders become paralyzed out of fear of losing control over quality and voice. This severely limits their market potential and cripples their ability to compete with other industry players.

Join us on May 15th at 2:00 PM EDT as we share insider knowledge that will help you learn how to have your cake and eat it, too. Discover how to unleash your potential, create momentum, and become your company’s content marketing hero

Online ratings on Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor and other sites can make or break your business.
Did you know?:
• 70% consumers trust online reviews (Nielsen)
• Increasing Yelp ratings by one star can boost revenues by 5% to 9% (Harvard Business Review)
• 67% prospects change their mind after reading only one to three negative reviews (Lightspeed)


In this informative webinar, you’ll learn how to:
•Boost online ratings on shopping and review sites
•Increase rankings (you’ll see how one hotel jumped 50 rungs on the TripAdvisor rankings ladder)
•Leverage user-generated content to boost SEO, engagement, and sales


Bonus! Ten webinar attendees will receive a complimentary autographed copy of the hot-selling book, “Brand Advocates: Turning Enthusiastic Customers into a Powerful Marketing Force,” by Rob Fuggetta, Zuberance Founder/CEO.

Matt Heinz works with companies big and small to help them build a measurable, consistent, opportunity-producing demand generation program. In this webinar, he will share many of his secrets that he has seen work time and time again. You will leave this event with the information you need to start right away.

B2B marketers often feel as though they are following their B2C colleagues in terms of marketing innovation, branding and social media. They feel that their world is very different. This webinar will challenge that as marketers it is the communication between individuals rather than organizations that makes us social businesses and that in the B2C world the most social businesses are the ones enjoying most growth.

From strategy and segmentation to content and measurement, we will explore what B2B marketers can learn from the successes in some of the best performing B2C companies and cover the following areas:
- Setting an appropriate strategy and objectives
- Understanding the nuances of audience profiles
- Optimum content and digital marketing tools
- Resourcing and fuelling the marketing plan
- Measurement and continuous learning and the future

Presented by Neil Wilkins BSc (hons), FCMC, MCIM; MD of Viper Marketing & Communications Group and Fellow of Cambridge Marketing College
Neil's Profile http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilwilkinsatvipermarketing

Robert Ellis, Business Alliances Team Leader and 27-year USPS veteran, will be presenting valuable insights and tips for maximizing the impact of direct mail. Learn how to cut through the media clutter to connect with target consumers and convert them into loyal customers.

Using current case studies and statistics, the session demonstrates how to effectively integrate direct mail with other media campaigns to amplify your message and increase ROI.

Your website may be cutting edge, but is it cutting the mustard? A site’s design, usability and functionality are important, but so is the most overlooked component - content! In this webinar, we will provide insight on how to write content that is informational and can “talk” to users. Also, how to leverage best practices to develop useful content intended for the web.

If you're not advertising on LinkedIn, you're missing out on an intuitive, highly capable B2B marketing platform. We'll walk you through best use cases, set-up tips and tricks, and advanced targeting strategies to help you make the most of a LinkedIn advertising campaign. Join us and bring questions!

Ian Moyse, a cloud and channel expert will deliver a thought provoking and interesting discussion on how we all need to think differently about approaching the cloud computing market,
How customers and channels need to think of their position differently and the state of the current market. Ian has spent the past several years presenting to end users (both small and Enterprise).
and at channel events hearing valuable feedback from the actual clients you are looking to address and can share valuable insight into the realities we all face today.