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Your Job is Marketing, Stop Denying it!

August 20, 2015 in Influencer Marketing, Non-Tech, Social Media

You can call it whatever you want: influencer relations, influencer marketing, evangelist, advocate, thought-leader, social/community manager, technical marketing engineer, etc. If the goal of your job is to educate non-customers in hopes that they will become customers, you’re marketing to them. Every time you ask someone with one of these titles what their role is I bet the answer either starts with or ends with “but I’m not marketing”. Why!? Marketing isn’t the problem, in fact if it wasn’t for marketing we probably wouldn’t have jobs. Why would customers even […]

Tags: Influencer Marketing, Marketing, Social Marketing, Traditional Marketing
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On to the Next One

August 14, 2015 in Non-Tech, Social Media

This seems to be the state of mind with most companies regarding their current customers. I am the only one that see this? It seems like every marketing campaign is to get new customers by offering huge discounts, free products, and other incentives that are very rarely offered to existing customers. That type of customer service is why customer loyalty is almost non-existent. Common sense makes me think that current customers would be more loyal and maybe even purchase additional products/services if these same discounts were offered to them. For example, […]

Tags: customer expectations, customer loyalty, customer service
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With Change Comes Opportunity

March 23, 2015 in Non-Tech, Social Media

I have had a great time as the Principal Engagement Manager focused on the EMC Elect. In the past 6 months I have had the chance to go to a few more events than normal and that gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of new and awesome people in the Elect program, the tech community, and within EMC. We have had great conversations and hope to continue to grow those friendships. I have been mainly focused on the influencer marketing side of things (Elect). I have thoroughly enjoyed […]

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What’s The Real Value Of Community?

March 17, 2015 in Non-Tech, Social Media

Simply put; communities exists so that people can share unique experiences or to solve common problems. However in today’s social world there a lot of faster and more convenient ways of getting an answer to your question…..right? Why would anyone take the extra step to join a community? How does an online community fit in with the goals of the business? From a consumer point of view communities allow me to find answers or post questions about specific issues I am having with a product and they also allow me […]

Tags: Community, Online Community, Social Community, Value of Community
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Do You Need Manager Approval?

February 9, 2015 in Influencer Marketing, Non-Tech

Should anyone ever have to ask for manager approval for customer satisfaction? In my opinion, no. Have you ever been to a local retail store or restaurant and had a bad experience? Then the employee offers you a discount for that inconvenience, but first he has to get manager approval? Why is this? Why are employees trained in a way that anything above their job has to have approval? One of my first jobs was as a repair technician in a local IT shop. During one of the slow days […]

Tags: customer service, manager approval
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How Do You Get The Answers You Need

January 6, 2015 in Influencer Marketing, Non-Tech

This isn’t going to be a long post, but more of a unofficial poll. Feel free to also elaborate in the comment section as well! When you are facing a problem with a specific product, where do you go to get help? There are many ways to get the answers to your problems. You could visit the manufactures website, you could ask a friend, or you could simply Google the problem you are having and see what others have done to resolve it. However there are caveats to all those […]

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Influencer, Advocate, Champion, or Ambassador – Does it Matter?

October 29, 2014 in Influencer Marketing, Non-Tech, Social Media

Influencer marketing is a hot topic right now among companies. There are so many theory’s around what algorithms we need to correlate social metrics into actual influence. Then once we find that magical formula, or at the very least a formula that gives a number we feel good about, what name do we call them? If we call them an advocate or an ambassador is it required that the content they are creating will always be positive? If we call them a champion does that mean they know everything there is to know about […]

Tags: Influencer Marketing, measure influence, online influence, Socia ROI, Social Business Strategy, social influencer, Social Media, social strategy, socialbiz
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Influencer Marketing – What’s In It For You?

October 24, 2014 in Non-Tech, Social Media

  *Disclaimer – This post will be heavily weighted toward the EMC Elect program which I help manage at EMC. Although this is my perspective on this program in particular, it would also be my opinion toward any other such program. Also EMC Elect nominations are open until December 31st. 🙂 Enjoy! photo: Since joining EMC in June, I have had numerous conversations with people on EMC’s influencer program EMCElect. Generally the conversations all start the same, “What are the EMC Elect and what do they get out of the […]

Tags: influence, Influencer Marketing, online influence, social influencer
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Don’t Tell a Story, Have a Conversation. The Art of Social Selling

October 7, 2014 in Non-Tech, Social Media

How do you become great at social selling? Don’t try to sell! Can it really be that simple? I am by no means an expert on this topic, so everything you are going to read from here out is purely my opinion and should be questioned 😆 . One of the most overused phrases I hear from “experts” is “You should be telling you’re story through social. That will help you sell you and your brand”. While I don’t think that statement is completely wrong, I think people are missing the bigger […]

Tags: conversation marketing, social selling
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Social Is Great, In Person Is Better

August 5, 2014 in Events, Non-Tech, Social Media

Over my last 6 years or so on twitter I have the had pleasure of chatting with a lot of great people on a number of different topics. Social is a great tool to be able to talk to a lot of people from all over the world at one time, but it still lacks in the  personal connect area. I haven’t been able to attend many of the smaller events in the past, but since joining EMC I have been fortunate enough to do a little traveling. During my […]

Tags: Events, Social Media, vBrownBag, VMUG
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