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A “Must Attend” for heads of Marketing: @TheCMOClub #CMOsummit

 

 

The evening of October 08, 2013 – October 10, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA

I have personally attended 7 Summits and have ALWAYS left wishing there was another I could attend the very next month. Looking forward to Keynoting and discussing Influencer Marketing with Tami Cannizzaro and Bryan Kramer

Stay Connected, networked and work with your peers, behind closed doors… No vendor selling permitted

120+ Heads of Marketing to Attend with 40 Leading Sessions

What Marketing Executives get from the Summit

1. Solve your biggest challenges as a marketing executive

2. Build you rnetwork and start lifelong relationships with CMO’s

3. Learn high impact ideas for leading your marketing team and buildling credibility with your CEO & Board

4. Recharge your battery and get inspired for success in 2013 and 2014!

“By far the most valuable CMO event I attended so far in 2013. The most engaged group of CMOs I know” – Paula Puelo, CMO, Michaels

“Every CMO Club Summit I attend I end up with 2-3 year impacting ideas for my company. Nothing is better than getting great ideas from your peers without vendor selling” – Evan Greene, CMO, The Recording Academy

“Engaged marketing heads, focused on helping each other, behind closed doors. Great inspiration as well” – Fred Neil, VP Marketing, The Home Depot

“I have never been in the same room with so many bright marketers and leaders, all focused on helping each other. Unlike anything else I have ever attended. The post summit engagement with other CMOs is amazing as well.” – Nancy Smith, CMO, iRobot

“Nothing challenges me more to improve as a leader to my team, then seeing what others are doing to motivate and lead their organizations – Thanks to The CMO Club for creating a real community of CMOs.” – Ashley Sheetz, CMO, Gamestop.

 

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Foster Relationships With Content ~via @Brand_Innovator #bisummit

 

 

I’m keynoting the Brand Innovators Content Marketing Summit today and thinking about the connections between what we call content and how customers connect to it. I must admit that what I see confuses me somewhat. Every day brands and marketers spend millions trying to convince consumers to use, keep using, and share their content. But why aren’t they doing everything they can, and using some of those millions to make experiences with their brand remarkable. It would probably be way less that they are spending on those marketing campaigns.  When this happens user-generated, story-telling content flows freely, and is naturally shared.

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Standout by “Liking” them before they “Like” you. It’s Basic #RonR!

I am confused. Every day brands and marketers are spending millions trying to get you to use, keep using, and share that you love their brands. But why aren’t they doing everything they can, and using some of those millions to do it (probably way less that they are spending on those marketing campaigns), making experiences with their brand remarkable. Opportunities to do this are given to brands each and every day and they simply, turn their heads, rave about their latest and great “campaign’ as if it were a military conquest, and pass up ways to really create customers for life.

I have been meaning to write this post for a while, and then today my friend, and brilliant marketing creative Bryan Kramer founder of PureMatter, mentioned via Facebook a “remarkable” experience he just had with Hertz and it got me fired up again.

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The Voice of the Customer… Are You Listening?

 

 

With all the noise online today, people are tuning out things like advertisements and promotions from brands. When considering a product or service, what’s more important to them are the thoughts and opinions of their friends—especially in social media.  Reviews have become the first go-to resource for most people searching for something online these days, so brands need to pay attention to this trend.

For instance, when you’re looking at books to read on Amazon, don’t you check out the reviews to see what others thought about the book before you hit the “Add to Cart” button? It’s human nature to seek out the opinions of others who have tried something—from the books we read to the music we listen to—and especially big-ticket purchases.

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Give your Brand a “Personality Test”

Have you given your brand a “personality test” lately? When you think of big brands that stand out, what comes to mind—just their product, or how their communications make you feel about them? It used to be that mass advertising was the way brands developed a personality, but that’s no longer the case. With today’s social communications being so important to a brand’s reputation and perception in the marketplace, finding a way to involve your friends and followers in building that personality is essential.

I’ll give you a few good big-brand examples (personal disclaimer… Duane Reade and Mastercard are Collective Bias clients).

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The Content “IS” the Ad

1There’s a lot of angst in marketing land right now. With Google’s Panda and Penguin changes and social algorithms that favor engagement, it may look as though SEO is dead, or that traditional ads will soon be going the way of the dodo. What’s a marketer to think? Are we supposed to throw out everything we learned about marketing and advertising to date and learn to ride a new horse? How the heck are we supposed to get in front of customers now?

Well, things ARE changing. Traditional advertising isn’t yet extinct, but there is simply too much noise out there, and people are sick of it. They’re shutting out the blast advertising that has crept into every aspect of their lives and centering in on the things they truly care about—friends, family, and social connections. You need to take a step back and study this shift in order to take advantage of it.

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Blogging Strategy as it Relates to Building Relationships


Your personal and/or company blog, to me, should be at the heart of your social presence and be a driver for valuable content that can be used in so many places.

Here are a few things to consider in addition to just posting articles and working the SEO angle… four places to concentrate to enhance engagement:

1. User-Friendly Navigation: Keeping your blog easy to navigate with intuitive category labels will help people find the information they seek much faster. Here again, doing your research on what your customers are looking for is essential. Also, make it easy for readers to leave comments and share your posts on various channels.

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Vonage Takes Generosity To A Whole New Level

No matter where we come from or where we’re headed or who we are, we could all use a little more generosity in our lives, right? Wouldn’t the world be a better place if more people had “a quality that’s a lot like unselfishness — someone showing generosity is happy to give to or share time, money, food, or whatever with others?”

Those of us who live, work and play in the marketing, advertising and branding world would love to have consumers look at us and our clients as being generous, yes? How priceless would that be? In today’s relationship marketing world, especially.

voncupWell one national brand is doing something that they hope will convey their message of generosity in a somewhat “crazy” way.

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