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8 Strategies for Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile

A LinkedIn profile is a great opportunity to showcase who you are and what you can do for others. To effectively showcase yourself with your LinkedIn profile, you need to be able to tell a story that is credible and engaging. How do you tell a story on LinkedIn with your profile? There are 8Continue reading “8 Strategies for Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile”

4 Key Insights from DMWF

Last week I covered the Digital & Social Marketing Conference in New York. There were many amazing panel discussions on Digital and Social Marketing. My key takeaways were: 1. Influencer Marketing is growing and it is up to brands to get it right. 2.Brands need to use Social Listening to understand their Customers if theyContinue reading “4 Key Insights from DMWF”

How Brands can Serve Challenging Customers & Influencers on Social Media

We are in the digital age. In this age, social networks are the wave of the future. Today’s consumer is empowered. Social consumers quickly share their thoughts about a product or an experience on Facebook, Twitter, Google and many other networks. Brands need to be present on social networks to interact and engage with theContinue reading “How Brands can Serve Challenging Customers & Influencers on Social Media”

How Businesses will Increase Sales by Improving How they Hire Marketing Staff

image via http://www.slideshare.net/NashvilleTechCouncil/the-power-of-smarketing-40266445 Sales reps can only be as good as the product and message they represent. Before companies can hire Sales reps, they need a great product with messaging that conveys the benefits to customers. Sales Reps need support from marketing in the cross functional organization of tomorrow. The messaging should be able to preventContinue reading “How Businesses will Increase Sales by Improving How they Hire Marketing Staff”

25 Ways to Drive Revenue using Sales & Marketing

Image via http://www.walkerandgrimes.com/wp-content/themes/shell-lite/images/featured-image.jpg The purpose of the Sales & Marketing functions is to drive revenue for the organization. Below you will find 25 Sales & Marketing Strategies for driving revenue. 1.Market Research & Competitor Analysis Before businesses can sell anything, they need to determine if there is a market for their products and services. Most businessesContinue reading “25 Ways to Drive Revenue using Sales & Marketing”

How to Integrate SlideShare into a Marketing Strategy

SlideShare is a great platform for creating original and repuropsed Content. Acquired by LinkedIn, SlideShare is fully integrated with the LinkedIn platform. Slideshare is a social network of its own. Users can follow other users content; similar to LinkedIn. Signing up for a SlideShare account is easy and be done quickly with a LinkedIn account.Continue reading “How to Integrate SlideShare into a Marketing Strategy”

Content Curation: 4 Ways to Improve your Content Marketing Results

image via wonacotpr.com Content creation is one of the best ways to engage an audience, making it essential to content marketing. However, we simply cannot cover every single topic in our industry. This is where content curation comes in handy, content curation is where you share the work of others in your industry. Content curationContinue reading “Content Curation: 4 Ways to Improve your Content Marketing Results”

A Guide to Getting Started on Social Media

Today, many people and organizations are using Social Media to get their message out. If you are not using Social Media you are missing a an opportunity. The major Social networks are LinkedIn, Twitter ,Facebook tumblr, & WordPress. These networks have similarities in the sense they are designed for people to communicate. Below is howContinue reading “A Guide to Getting Started on Social Media”