What Have You Done For Me Lately – Digital Media

Giving this presentation to local business professional groups has given them insights into how important it is to be connecting in a hyper local and relevant manner. You wondering how you are stacking up in social and digital media? Get an Audit Social Media Audit Then go forward with an accurate view of what you [...]

Rewards For Attendees Sitting Up Front – Conference – Event Tips #Speakchat

Reading some of the challenges of conferences and events as a speaker, will help you find ways to be of more value as well as be more empathic to their problems.  Are you looking for simple no cost ways to add value to who hires you as their speaker? Here is one such question I [...]

Word Cloud For Sessions at Affiliate Summit Central #ASC12

Word Clouds have started being used for insights into our thinking.  They let us look a layer deeper into the conversation, whether it be what the speakers were thinking when they created their conference session descriptions or the live interaction during a conference from attendees, exhibitors and speakers. Have you thought about what you can [...]

Microsoft Convergence Conversation Day #1 in #CONV12

The horses are back in the stables after the stampede of more than 10,000 attendees at Microsoft Convergence 2012 in Houston.  This year conversations were flying via twitter like cowboys throwing calves at a rodeo with a new Ford up for the prize. With Social Media dramatically changing how companies and consumers communicate with each [...]

C-Suite Shirley Bloomfield Blogs Successfully with NTCA Community

One C-Suite Who Blogs Successfully Wondering if the community of businesses who are members of NTCA appreciate that not all CEO’s use a blog to create an open dialogue with their business community. Recently Shirley Bloomfield gave the keynote for CHR Solutions Users Meeting here in Houston.  She shared the state of rural telecommunications as [...]

Ten Effective Uses Social Media at Industry Conferences

Social media uses before, during and after industry conferences via Michele Price – Media Communication Strategist.

Can You Receive This Endorsement

Endorsements Are One of the Best Ways to Drive Trust and Credibility What is the best one you have received? Have you turned around a bad experience? Have you received great customer service that turns you from hate to love? Are you using social media as a listening device to catch these opportunities? Which do [...]

Are You Creating Heineken Experiences with Your Customers?

Do You Have A Handle-Bar Moustache In Your Marketing? What is the lesson for your brand in this commercial? Have you considered conversations with clients and what stood out for them? Are you discounting your mustache experience because you are “use” to it? Where can you share the “Ummmpphhh” of the experience your service delivers? What Would You Open For Your [...]

How Are You Leap-Frogging Your Competition After Conferences?

There are so many things to catch up on after a conference. Connecting with folks via email Thanking people who helped you while there Sending out friend requests, connections via linkedin and tweeting your replies If you are a vendor and exhibitor this two-three week period after attending the conference can be critical for your reputation [...]

Appreciation or Depreciation – How Partnering with Speakers & Bloggers Helps Local Businesses

When bloggers and speakers who are active online come to town for conferences in your local city, there are fantastic opportunities for small businesses. How are you leveraging them? What is one of the main concerns for local businesses in a tourism environment? Getting seen in positive light so that when more visitors are coming [...]

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