Bruce Lee and the Art of Selling
Yesterday I had the privilege of delivering the closing keynote at the Sales 2.0 conference in San Francisco. My session was on Bruce Lee and the Art of Selling. As someone who loves kung-fu movies I thought it would be interesting to combine martial arts and the philosophy of Bruce Lee, with selling. Here are [...]
Reverse Demo Day (Thursday, September 29)
By now the rituals of Demo Day are familiar. The opportunities are great both for startups to tell their story, and for investors to see a lot of deals in a very short time. So why wouldn’t the reverse be true? Introducing the Valley’s first Reverse Demo Day, where the investors sell themselves to entrepreneurs. [...]
Free Event Thursday: Founder/CEO Succession
If you liked my recent post on How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company, you’ll love my upcoming panel on founder/CEO succession issues, What Color Is Your Parachute?The good folks at Orrick and I have assembled an All-Star panel with three fou…
You’re Invited! American Marketing Association on Social Business
I’m speaking at the American Marketing Association during Social Media Week on “Evolving into a Social Business.” The event is on Feb 9th from 6-8pm at 1550 Bryant Street Penthouse–Eleventh Floor. Here’s the description of the event: Organizations are getting more involved with social media as tools and channels but inevitably the question of “now what?” [...]
Speaking At Conferences, Should You Be Compensated?
Speaking at conferences is a lot of fun, but it’s also a lot of work. When I speak at an event I like to think that I am providing something unique both in terms of content and in terms of presentation. Sometimes I get approached to speak and sometimes I submit requests to speak. The [...]
Are You Interested in Monitoring Social Media?
Murray Newlands is hosting yet another event in San Francisco this Thursday October 21st; this one is all around social media monitoring and features great speakers such as Marcel LeBrun (CEO of Radian 6), Jennifer Zeszut (chief social strategists at Lithium Technologies), and Timothy Jordan (developer advocate at google). I spoke at Murray’s last event [...]
For the First Ever Social Customer Relationship Management is Coming to Blog World Expo!
I’m very excited to announce that for the first time Blog World Expo (the world’s largest social media conference) is going to be introducing Social CRM into their agenda mix and I was fortunate enough to be asked to lead that session. I’m also very excited to announce that joining me on stage will be [...]
Free Webinar on the Business of Being Social and Why You Should Care
I’ve been a fan of blueKiwi for a little while now. For those of you not familiar blueKiwi, they are a social business software company which allows customers, partners, and employees to effectively collaborate with one another. I believe they have a very interesting vision for both customer and employee engagement and they are executing on that [...]
My Thoughts on the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Today is the last day of the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston and I must say that I had a great time meeting with and interacting with a lot of folks that I have either known for a while or have chatted with online but haven’t yet met in person. The networking and relationship building [...]
I’m Attending Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, are You?
For the next week or so I’m going to be commuting between New York and Boston. I’m in New York speaking at PRSA and at a client event. I’ll be in Boston for E2.0 from the 15th-17th (of June). I attended the E2.0 conference in San Francisco last year and loved it, this is my [...]
My Thoughts on the Social CRM Summit in Georgia
This past week I had the privilege of attending Paul Greenberg’s and BPT Partner’s Social CRM Summit in Atlanta. I’ve never been to Atlanta before or anywhere near that portion of the U.S. Yes it was a bit warm and yes it was a bit humid, but I still had a great time. The event [...]
My Thoughts on the Social CRM (SCRM) Panel at Social Media Club
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Social Media Club (San Francisco and Silicon Valley chapter) panel session around Social CRM which was moderated by Jeremiah Owyang and included Salesforce, Get Satisfaction, Mint, and Lithium Technologies. The room was packed with around 100+ people that were all interested in Social CRM, which was great. [...]
Can Companies Succeed Using Open Source Platforms for Enterprise 2.0? (webinar)
On May 20th at 1pm PST I’m hosting a webinar with our partner Acquia and their client Florida Hospital. The webinar is free to attend and is going to cover some best practices and trends around the collaboration. We’ll be looking at the state of E2.0 some benefits and challenges and will also take a [...]
Sugarcon Day 2, Re-cap of Paul Greenberg’s Keynote on Social CRM
Instead of covering all the sessions I attended I’m going to focus this post on Paul’s’ keynote on social CRM because I believe there was a lot of valuable information and content that he presented. As I did with my recap of the first day of Sugarcon, my notes are in an easy to ready [...]
Re-cap of SugarCon Day 1
I literally flew in from Maui (via LA) and hopped on a train to get to Sugarcon on very little sleep. I’ve never attended a Sugarcon evet before but boy am I glad I did. First of all I had the great pleasure of meeting with folks that I have been chatting with online but [...]
