Building a Community with Social Media & Web 2.0: Cisco

Everyone in business aspires at engaging others at some point, internally or externally. In fact, engagement is so widely addressed that it’s becoming a big word that often means very little. So let’s define it meaningfully, by using science. What does it really take for the brain to be engaged?

An intriguing approach to understanding engagement is to view it from the angle of its absence. So what do we know about the psychology of boredom? Is it possible for the brain to be bored in the age of overstimulation? The answer is yes. As scientists, we used to believe that boredom was defined by the absence of stimulation. Now we are discovering that too much stimulation can have a similar effect. So how do we prevent the brain from getting bored – therefore staying engaged with your message and your cause? The good news is that the brain does not want to stay bored for too long. From an evolutionary point, we cannot afford to stay bored. This keynote offers three evidence-based, practical guidelines, which you can use immediately to create meaningful engagement for your internal and external audiences.

Increasing an intent to purchase is often the missing piece of an impactful, business-focused marketing plan. Join us for tips + tricks on how to stack the deck in your favor to create an effective event plan that gets sales + marketing on the same page in order to move the needle.

The friction between marketing and sales is real. A recent survey found nearly half of B2B marketers said their sales team doesn’t understand what is important to the marketing team, and 31% of B2B salespeople said their marketing team doesn't understand what’s important to the sales team.

Although sales and marketing serve different functions, it’s when they work together that companies see substantial improvement on important performance metrics: sales cycles are shorter, market entry costs decrease, and the cost of sales is lower. So how can these two teams stop battling and work better together?

Join Michael Collins CMO and Managing Director of CFA Institute for a fireside chat to understand how removing friction in favor of collaboration and staying laser-focused on customer needs and engagement can position for long-term marketing AND sales success.

Moderator: Marissa Pick, Founder of Marissa Pick Consulting LLC

It’s an age-old argument that sales never appreciates the leads that marketing delivers. There are never enough, and when leads are flowing in, the quality is not good enough. Conversely, marketing feels exhausted because they have done everything possible to deliver the best outcomes. This session will outline 7 ways to improve relationships and overall lead performance.

1. Planning alignment
2. Definitions alignment
3. Performance tracking and alignment on metrics
4. Regular meetings to discuss performance and refinement
5. Persona and buyers journey alignment
6. Messaging alignment
7. Respect each other as professionals in our trade

Session takeaways
• Best practices for collaboration
• Concepts to factor into performance tracking
• A few deep breathing techniques in case all else fails

In this session I will share practical tactics on and quantitative business outcomes from operationalizing ABM to achieve optimal marketing and sales alignment.

Take aways:
- Morning Coffee Dashboard
- Quantitative Business benefits of Marketing and Sales alignment
- 5 Imperatives of sales and marketing alignment
- 5 pillars of optimal Working model

The more you exploit the symbiotic nature of the relationship between marketing and sales, the more streamlined both organizations will be.
In this webcast we will visit what premium research tells us about the state of sales and marketing alignment. We will recast that thinking. We will think beyond alignment to symbiosis - the relationship or “living together” of two dissimilar organizations. Are marketing and sales so dissimilar in today’s environment?
This thinking applies to B:B, B:C and B:B:C organizations.
Takeaways:
In this interactive webcast, we will exchange ideas about strategic and very tactical steps that marketing and sales can take together to
• Streamline processes
• Improve CX
• Reduce time to close
• Increase profitable organic growth.
#wereallinthistogether!

No matter who you market to, they most likely have the same desire: to find out what the other guy is doing.
The pandemic brought on a world of uncertainty, and amplified that desire even more.
In this session, you’ll learn how Keywee’s marketing team doubled down on data-driven insights to drive high engagement and high quality leads for their sales pipeline amidst the chaos of the past year.

Engaging your audience on social channels can be a challenging puzzle, but when sales and marketing work together to develop effective messaging and visual content to cut through the noise to reach your customer, your business will see substantial improvement on overall performance metrics and customer engagement.

The human brain process images 60,000 times faster than text and 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visually based. Visual social marketing is the new standard for driving a deeper engagement across social media channels. This session will cover lead generation tactics for social media and give you clear tools & tips to get your marketing up to speed for the remainder of 2021.

Key Takeaways:
Review ways of developing visual content for social media channels to implement within your business planning.
Review B2B Lead Generation Tactics for Social Media.
Gain creative ideas to easily develop content to leverage without needing huge budgets.
Explore consumer engagement strategies to boost overall brand images and your company’s bottom line.

You have a webinar strategy in place, great! Now what? Now, it’s time to run them at scale in order to continue generating demand effectively. Stop worrying about day-to-day challenges that span time, resource constraints, content quality, or even operational logistics, and walk away with best practices that will help turn your lead and demand generation operations into a well-oiled machine.

Join us as we dive into a new product offering that can help you run your webinars effortlessly by alleviating the challenges of running a successful live experience from planning to live day. With over 15,000+ webinars and videos delivered on BrightTALK each year, we know what it takes to put on a good show and we’re here to help you do the same.