My cloud has a silver lining – Technology Tips for Small Business

Strategic alliances are reciprocal, long-term, sustainable partnership structures that have helped a number of technology companies grow their market share. It certainly takes a village to make strategic alliances work and involves a fair bit of art and science.

In this webinar, we will describe how strategic alliances work and how to make them effective.

Presented by: MuckAI Girish, Chief Revenue Officer, Appnomic Systems, Inc.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muckaigirish/

In addition to direct sales, partnerships is an important avenue for technology start-ups to expand their customer reach. Building an effective partner program is essential for realizing a successful go-to-market strategy for start-ups that are in various stages.

In this webinar, we will outline key elements and attributes of partnership programs ranging from technology alliance, reseller/channel partner, managed services provider and systems integrator to strategic alliance.

Presented by: MuckAI Girish, Chief Revenue Officer, Appnomic Systems, Inc.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muckaigirish/

Spend an hour with George Kinder as he leads a group meditation and discusses how to continue developing a mindfulness practice for yourself. There will be time for Q&A and discussion.

Can’t Miss Takeaways -

- You will:Learn the daily practice of Mindfulness and how it delivers practical benefits.
- Have access to an audio guide to a daily Mindfulness practice.
- Receive a free on-line copy of George Kinder’s book, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness and The Art of Inner Listening.

Spend an hour with George Kinder as he leads a group meditation and discusses how to develop a mindfulness practice for yourself. There will be time for Q&A and discussion.

Can’t Miss Takeaways -

- You will:Learn the daily practice of Mindfulness and how it delivers practical benefits.
- Have access to an audio guide to a daily Mindfulness practice.
- Receive a free on-line copy of George Kinder’s book, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness and The Art of Inner Listening.

According to Wikipedia, email marketing is a form of direct marketing that uses e-mail to send commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. Or as Entrepreneur.com says: Marketing via e-mail, usually through the use of sales letters or customer newsletters. In this webinar we will discuss the role of email marketing within an Omnichannel strategy.

Email marketing is no longer more the sending of just the ordinairy weekly e-newsletter. In less than 60 minutes EURObizz and BrightTALK will take you on a journey in the world of email marketing and the 2016 trends on this area.

Recommended sites:
EURObizz: http://www.eurobizz.eu
BrightTALK: www.brighttalk.com

Travelex went from having no mobile presence to the ownership of two category-defining mobile apps in under 6 months. Their apps have been featured by Apple as the “Best New Apps” and they’ve driven insatiable consumer demand for Travelex products.

This session will be led by Adam Warburton, Head of Mobile at Travelex, and will explain how they achieved this through a customer centric mobile strategy a commitment to building meaningful relationships on mobile.

Social advocacy has become a key component of many organisations’ social media strategies, whether they want to focus on Employee, Customer, Ambassador, Channel, or Influences advocacy. Join Microsoft, Xerox, Avalara, Zoe Sands, the social selling expert and Ian Moyse the number 1 cloud influencer on social media in a panel discussion about social media advocacy and the best practices and tips to making your program a great success in 2016 and beyond.

Chief Digital Technologist Mike Bainbridge from Rackspace talks to BrightTALK about the top 3 Ecommerce Trends that he is predicting for 2016.

The #1 question for people everywhere:
How to design & deliver a work-life balance that maximizes our best efficiencies at work and our most meaningful life outside work?

George Kinder has specialized in delivering work-life balance to consumers and professionals worldwide through Life Planning and Mindfulness trainings and workshops for 30 years.

The world today requires commitments in more areas than ever before. The requirements for work have been continuously expanded with new daily technologies, constantly competing with family time and lifestyle choices. Balancing a healthy lifestyle is critical for the future success of everyone in the workforce today.

Combining thoughtful financial Life Planning with Mindfulness delivers work-life balance to everyone. Mindfulness gives you the ability to recognize where you sacrifice your work-life balance. Life Planning defines the balance you really want and the financial elements needed to secure it. Join this webinar and learn how to design the best of lives for yourself, your employees or your clients that simultaneously maximizes efficiencies at work.

You will learn:
1.How to deliver work-life balance to yourself, your clients and your employees
2.How Mindfulness & Life Planning are key elements to your work-life balance
3.Learn how to begin the process of creating a financial Life Plan to support your work-life balance
4.Strategies for finding more time to support a good work-life balance

Can’t Miss Takeaways - You will:
1.Do the famous GK 3-Questions facilitated by George Kinder
2.See and receive access to a Free consumer Life Planning website
3.Receive a Free “Life Planning for You” book by George Kinder
4.Have access to an audio guide to a daily Mindfulness practice.

Who should attend?
Anyone seeking to improve their personal work-life balance or to help their clients or employees improve their work-life balance.

This webinar will show you how to write emails that start more conversations that lead to sales opportunities

Discover why brand and culture are two sides of the same coin in professional services, and how to align them to achieve your strategic goals. In this webinar, Monica Ralli CMO and Arch Singh CHRO share how they initiated a transformation effort to renew the organization’s brand and culture, increase employee engagement and accelerate commercial success. By developing a Client Value Proposition and Employee Value Proposition in tandem, Hay Group has created a compelling story on releasing the full people potential of both clients and colleagues that resonates in both the marketplace and the organization. Learn why HR and marketing should work so closely together and how to achieve this in your organization.

In September 2015, we saw designer shoes, designer handbags, and designer data take to the streets to celebrate Melbourne Spring Fashion Week. Get a sneak peek behind the scenes into the technology used to entice and engage consumers at the event, and how startups and small businesses around the world are now designing with data. Learn how Melbourne City Council, together with IBM:

- Tapped into social media to identify and target key influencers around the event.
- Used social media analytics to engage attendees and visitors to the city.
- Enabled designers, retailers and industry students with the techniques and tools to get started with exploring their own data for insight.

Det er spild af tid at lave kold kanvas til emner, som ikke er klar til dialog. Og du behøver ikke længere gætte dig til dine potentielle kunders behov og interesser. Nu kan du få direkte kendskab til deres digitale adfærd. Og dermed indsigt i, hvad der interesserer dem ved dine produkter.

Brug marketing automation til at pleje og modne dine emner, inden du banker på. Når marketing har kvalificeret og scoret nye leads overdrages de til salg. Det gør sælgere og account managers i stand til at få en relevant dialog med nye kunder.

Mange mindre og mellemstore virksomheder har et stort uudnyttet potentiale i at styre deres leadgenerering intelligent. Når de tilgår deres leadgenerering på en struktureret måde med undersøttelse af Marketing Automation er resultatet en bedre markedsdialog og præcise budskaber. Og det giver bedre synergi med salg.

På dette webinar vil du…
-) Få tips til at komme godt igang med marketing automation – enkelt og effektfuldt.
-) Forstå hvordan du opnår indsigt i dine potentielle kunders interesser.
-) Høre hvordan du prioritererer og kvalificerer leads ved hjælp af lead scoring.
-) Opleve hvordan en kunde klædte sælgerne på til bedre dialog og fik målbart mersalg.

Few people actually calculate the true cost of bad meetings, in fact, the Harvard Business Review discovered:

- 15% of an organization's time is spent in meetings
- 67% of meetings are rated as ineffective
- 92% of people multitask in meetings
- $32 Billion dollars is wasted in bad meetings

The reality is, meetings are still a crucial part of running an effective business. The value of effective meetings saves companies an average $2,600 per employee per year.

In this webinar, you'll learn how to save time + money through the power of Integrated Meetings, we'll show you a process we've taken over 15+ years of research to perfect and refine meetings that you can apply immediately in your company and with your team.

Great communication starts with great listening. And great listening starts with an inner listening called Mindfulness, a simple practice done 10-20 min. a day that makes an average communicator into a great one. Transform hollow interactions into engaged, dynamic relationships by being present and in the moment. Learn why successful organizations all over the world are bringing Mindfulness to the workplace. Developing inner awareness leads to productive relationship building, sharpening crucial skills in management, improving sales & operations at successful firms. Win the trust across the spectrum of those you communicate with, from clients to colleagues, employees to senior management, in every interaction.

You Will Learn:
1.What Mindfulness is & why it is useful in the business world.
2.How this simple practice enhances self-awareness, making one a potent & attentive listener.
3.How to be 100% in the present moment, focused, free of distractions.
4.A 5-phase process that leads to effective communication & deep trust, yielding sustainable professional & personal relationships.
5.How Mindfulness training has been embraced across industries, including health, financial services, technology, government, journalism, entertainment, social services, think tanks, law enforcement, the military & education. (Google, Apple, Aetna, Virgin, Madison Wisconsin Police Dept, Congress, & House of Commons.)

Can’t Miss Takeaway:
You will:
•Learn the daily practice of Mindfulness & how it delivers practical benefits.
•Have access to an audio guide to a daily Mindfulness practice.
•Receive a free on-line copy of George Kinder’s book, Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness & The Art of Inner Listening.

Who Should Attend?
Anyone who wishes to be more effective in their communication skills, with greater control, clearer focus, more patience, flexibility & skill, greater leadership & access to intuition, values, creativity, & managing stress & difficult emotions with poise.

What's Docker? Why is it popular? What are containers? Why and how are they going to drastically improve how we build, ship, and run applications? How to get started with Docker and containers, and leverage them to achieve faster, safer deployments for software stacks big and small?

In this presentation, Jerome Petazzoni wil answer all those questions (and a few more) to give you a clear overview of Docker and containers, as well as a quick bootstrap to get started with this technology.

From ecommerce platform selection to warehouse, order and product management systems, join ecommerce architect specialist Mike Bainbridge as he gives an overview of key software solutions for retailers.

Five9 and American Support have come together to create more jobs for American veterans and their spouses with the help of cloud technology and a drive to deliver social change.

Join Christine Crandell as she sits down with Dan Burkland, SVP Sales & Business Development at Five9, and Matt Zemon, President & CEO of American Support, to discuss how social responsibility and profitability have aligned in Silicon Valley.

The CIO is faced with reconciling the, apparently, irreconcilable. How does he build a cost effective technology platform that provides business agility, and manages risk?

In this session, Steve O’Donnell explains the critical success factors in achieving that desired outcome, the considered compromises, the strategies and tactical approaches that the CIO will need to adopt to deliver business benefits and keep his stakeholders onside. He will look at the different types of application and how they need to be managed and hosted. Where do we build, where do we buy and where is configuration the right answer? How do we choose between in-house infrastructure, managed cloud services and engineered systems?

Join Stephen for a structured approach to providing a cohesive strategy for IT investment that makes sense, and optimises business outcomes whilst being simple enough to gain business stakeholder buy in and approval.