Sales Konnect: 2008

Sunday, November 16, 2008

WOW! VP at Motrin Responds with Apology

http://crunchydomesticgoddess.com/2008/11/16/motrins-response-to-the-onslaught-of-complaints/
Quick thinking on her part. They have removed the ad from the website.

Yikes! When Social Media Goes Wrong....

Tip #1 never, never start marketing campaign without a pilot group.
Tip #2 never piss off a bunch of women buyers (ever heard of a woman scorned HA!)

Literally Motrin's website is down right now. Not sure if all the social media conversation that is happening regarding such a bad PR campaign or if it is a tech thing causing the site to be down.
Here are the details:
http://mashable.com/2008/11/16/motrin-moms/

Sunday, November 9, 2008

When Your Six Year Old SPIN Sells

Ok, my son is destined to be a great salesperson one day. His father and I both come from corporate sales so we both SPIN sell with him to encourage certain behaviors. Example: He is 6 years old and has a summer birthday so we had a tough time deciding if he should go to 1st grade or go through kindergarten again. Academically he was really ready coming from a Montessori class, he had already had Math, Computer and Spanish classes. (Amazing things will come from that generation. He has been using a computer since he was 2 years old.) Long story, short we explained to him that because he is so smart he needs to help the kids in his kindergarten class. Good thing he bought it. Now here comes the funny part. The other day when the weather had gone from 40 degrees back up to 70 degrees (got to love Cincinnati weather) my wonderful son tells me "Mommy I have been so good for you, can I wear shorts to school today?" I died laughing and told him yes you can wear shorts today. Most kids would have simply asked to wear shorts but he made sure to give me a reason as to why I would let him wear shorts. Got to love it!

Friday, November 7, 2008

LinkedIn Events Bring Conference Networking Online (http://ping.fm/Gfnvv)

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Eating Your Own Dog Food

It's too funny that I ghost write blogs for businesses but struggle to keep up with my own blog. There is safety when you can write under someone else's name. I will be better at "eating my own dog food" since I teach and consult about blogging and social media. I have been journaling since 8th grade but to write in public is a whole other level for me. Someone please burn those journals when I die or there will be a very interesting roller coaster novel for the world to read.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Ning Keeps Growing....

Social networking provider Ning yesterday announced that it now hosts half a million social networks on its platform. Ning launched in February 2007 and has seen rapid growth and mainstream adoption ever since. According to Ning's co-founder and CEO Gina Bianchini, Ning users now create a new social network every 30 seconds. As Dan Farber reports, 65 percent of these social networks are currently active and 3 percent of Ning's users are paying $19.95 a month for Ning's premium service.
Ning's premium service allows users to use Ning on their own domain and run their own ads (or decide not to run ads at all).
Some of Ning's most popular networks include Chris Pirillo's Geeks! Network, a network for the Ellen DeGeneres show, and rapper 50 Cent's social network. While Ning has a number of competitors, including KickApps and Crowdvine, Ning clearly leads the pack in terms of its user-base.
Ning is also very popular among academics and teachers, who often use it to set up networks and blogs for their classes instead of relying on more commercial platforms like Facebook or MySpace or having to use cumbersome class management software.

Source: www.readwriteweb.com

Thursday, September 11, 2008

How to Market Your Business Using Linkedin class on Sept 17. For details:www.saleskonnect.com

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Over 70 people registered for Speed Networking Event

Are you registered?

Xtreme Networking Event on Sept 8 from 6-8 p.m.
Microsoft Office
4605 Duke Blvd, Suite 800, Mason, OH

ONLY $10 per person!

This is networking on steroids! Bring a ton of cards!
5 minute rotation tables-like speed dating but it's speed networking!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Did you know that there are over 200 million people that are using social networking everyday?

Social media is a global phenomenon happening in all markets regardless of wider economic, social and cultural development.

57% have joined a Social Network, making it the number one platform for creating and sharing content
– 55% of users have uploaded photos
– 22% of users have uploaded videos

The widget economy is real
– 23% of social network users have installed an application
– 18% of bloggers have installed applications in their blog templates

Blogs are a mainstream media world-wide and as a collective rival any traditional media
– 73% have read a blog

The blogsphere is becoming increasingly participatory, now 184m bloggers world-wide
– The number one thing to blog about is personal life and family

Social media impacts your brands reputation
– 34% post opinions about products and brands on their blog
– 36% think more positively about companies that have blogs

Content from Univeral McCann

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Xtreme Networking

Xtreme Networking Event

This is networking on steroids. Bring your cards! 5 minute rotation tables!

September 8 from 6-8 p.m.
Microsoft Office-4605 Duke Blvd, Suite 800, Mason, OH

$10 per person
Register today as space is limited!
www.saleskonnect.com

Happy Networking!

Friday, August 8, 2008

Monday, July 21, 2008

Tri-State Business Network Group: Schedule for the Meetings

Learn How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Network

Optimize Your Social Network
$30 per person
Register today-space is limited.
http://www.saleskonnect.com/

DUE TO AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WE HAVE ADDED MORE CLASSES THROUGH THE END OF SEPTEMBER FOR YOU

ALL CLASSES-dates, times and locations are posted at www.saleskonnect.com.

You're invited to a LinkedIn Workshop!
Do you have a profile on LinkedIn but not sure how to grow your network?
Hear all the social networking buzz words (Linkedin, Plaxo, Facebook, etc) but not sure how to leverage the tools?
Then this workshop is for you!

Join our featured speaker
Kendra Ramirez has been called a "social networking junkie" and "walking directory." She is able to teach and share directly from her experiences in networking, sales, recruiting and business improvement. Kendra has consistently grown through social network tools and good old fashioned "hard work." She is able to show businesses how to utilize these tools to the benefit of their bottom line. She is able to show individuals how to brand themselves through the use of social networking.

Training Agenda

Overview of LinkedIn System
Building the Best Profile
Searching the Database
Looking for new networking contacts
How to Introduce yourself to a new contact
Live Demonstration on How to use the tool
Search for Candidates
Search for new customers
How to find contacts in an organization

BRING YOUR LAPTOP TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THE CLASS!
Sponsored by: http://www.saleskonnect.com/
Thank you!