University of Wisconsin Executive Education - Integrated Customer Communications — Madison, WI
Technology continues to revolutionize the sales and marketing efforts of firms worldwide. Businesses must either adapt or put themselves at risk. Companies and customers communicate and interact with each other in substantially different ways than 10 or even 5 years ago. Direct and interactive marketing are converging, financial metrics are increasingly mainstream, and customers expect channel “silos” to be broken down. Learn how to benefit from the new tools and thinking in managing customer relations to increase sales, improve strategies, and reach online and offline markets.
Search engine marketing
- Make your site “search engine friendly”
- Explore “Pay-per-click” search advertising
- Analyze benchmarking, competitive intelligence and ROI
- Identify trends in contextual, behavioral and local advertising
Create a buzz - viral marketing
- Explore blogs, RSS feeds, forums, wikis and more
- Harness “word of mouse” to enhance your brand
- Discover the “sneezers” who will spread your viral message
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An RSS feed is merely an XML file that you host on your Web server — it kind of looks like HTML code. But don’t let its simplicity fool you; in the hands of a sophisticated marketer, the potential applications for RSS are huge.
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DMA Annual Conference — Atlanta, GA
Is something missing in your marketing mix? New channels are opening doors to the increasingly, tech-savvy consumer. RSS feeds and alerts, blogging, mobile communications and “mapping and monitoring” online conversations are among the newest marketing tools available.
- Understanding these new channels
- Leveraging them for customer retention and acquisition
- Building rapport with bloggers, and promote your products and company in the blogosphere
- Personalizing the content in the RSS Feed to each subscriber
- Tracking readership and response
- Advertising on blogs and within RSS feeds
- Podcasting (think: on-demand Internet pirate radio)
- Distribution channels (RSS search engines, directories, Web-based aggregators, RSS news reader software)
- Not just for bloggers and news sites — e-tailers embrace RSS as a channel
Moderators:
Stephan Spencer, Founder & President, Netconcepts
Marc Tramonte, Director of Integrated Marketing, Microsoft Corporation
Panelists:
Royal Farros, Chairman and CEO, MessageCast
Gard Gibson, Account Group Director,VML Inc.
Mark Goldstein, CEO, Loyalty Lab Inc.
Mark Grindeland, Co-founder, m-Qube
Dana Vandenheuvel, Director of Business Development, Pheedo
Debbie Weil, President, WordBiz
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Leveraging Technology in Marketing — Auckland, NZ
RSS is poised to revolutionise Internet-based content delivery. With it, you can syndicate your latest and greatest content to other websites. And simultaneously you can deliver that same content directly to your subscribers’ desktops, completely avoiding their spam filters.
- Understanding RSS, its implications and applications
- Effective uses of RSS in marketing
- Case examples
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Shop.org Annual Summit — Las Vegas, NV
See the results of actual trials and implementations of alternative marketing techniques used to drive online sales. Learn how online retailers eHobbies.com, Ice.com, and Steve Spangler Science have utilized alternative marketing tactics such as blogs and RSS feeds to expand their marketing reach and build customer loyalty. Panelists will share tips on executing a successful campaign, implementation costs, and how to measure the impact of these new marketing tactics. A must-attend session for retailers looking for alternatives to increasingly expensive online marketing tactics such as SEM. Retailers looking for alternatives to increasingly expensive online marketing tactics such as SEM must attend this session.
Moderator:
Stephan Spencer, President, Netconcepts
Speakers:
Pinny Gniwisch, EVP Marketing, Ice.com
Seth Greenberg, CEO, eHobbies
Steve Spangler, SteveSpanglerScience.com
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Spam filters tend to be the bane of the email marketer’s existence. Getting past them is a serious challenge, and it is becoming increasingly harder. How can an email marketer consistently bypass those spam filters?
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Left to its own devices, email marketing is unlikely to survive. However, if email marketers take responsibility for developing great strategy and execution, we are likely to bring on its evolution.
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In this teleseminar, Netconcepts’ founder Stephan Spencer moderates a panel of email marketing experts, including Chris Baggot, Rok Hrastnik, Eric Kirby, Jim Sterne, and Shar VanBoskirk. The output of which is an insight into email marketing’s true power and potential. Produced by MarketingProfs.com.
Read the Executive Summary: part 1 and part 2
Download the Transcript: PDF (300 K)

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Search Engine Strategies — San Jose, CA
This session explores how search engines are dealing with blog and webfeed (RSS/Atom) content and why providing such syndicated content can drive new search-related traffic.
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The major search engines - Google, in particular - seem to love blogs, which are the personal or professional diaries that number in the millions online. Search engines favor blogs because …
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