Marketing Pilgrim

Thanks to our long-standing partnership with The Customer Collective, we’re able to bring you cool stuff and educational training. The Customer Collective’s upcoming online panel Q&A will help you understand how to use social networking to actually sell stuff–as opposed to just wasting away your day.

Social Selling: Live Q&A on Selling with Web 2.0 takes place 11 a.m. PST / 2 p.m. EST March 31, 2009 and registration is FREE!

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How do you take the proven fundamentals of good selling and apply them to social networking? What Web 2.0 tools should you as a sales professional be utilizing to find new prospects and keep the customers you have loyal?

Sales executives are quickly discovering there is real business value in online connections. The Customer Collective, the online community for sales and marketing professionals, presents this free webcast to provide sales and marketing professionals with the knowledge they need to use social media to find and sell to new customers, as well as keep the ones they currently have close to home. Our expert panel will help you identify the new techniques and tools available to help you develop a Web 2.0 enabled sales strategy for 2009 and beyond.

Mark Woollen, Oracle	Christopher Carfi, Cerado Inc.	Anneke Seley, Phone Works
Mark Woollen, with more than 20 years of sales, marketing and development experience, is responsible for driving market requirements and business strategy for Oracle CRM applications. He will share the changes Web 2.0 and social media are bringing to enterprise software and what that means for sales.	Christopher Carfi is co-founder of Cerado, Inc. and author of The Social Customer Manifesto weblog. Chris is a recognized expert in applying emerging social technologies such as blogs, wikis, and podcasts to create strong customer communities and strengthen relationships between vendors and their customers.	Anneke Seley has spent over 25 years creating high-performance, high profit sales models for companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, Interwoven, and Hyperion. Now with her new book “Sales 2.0: Improve Business Results Using Innovative Sales Practices and Technology”, she is pioneering next-generation Web 2.0 sales practices.

If you’re looking for ways to measurably increase your sales team’s effectiveness, don’t wait. Register now and:

• Learn how social networks and Web 2.0 help sales professionals be more effective.
• Become the trusted advisor your clients are looking for who ultimately wins the deal.
• Discuss effective low cost/no cost methods you can put in place now.
• See the results of our TCC survey, and learn how Web 2.0 enables salespeople to easily communicate with prospects, collaborate with other sales professionals, and garner relevant content.

The first 50 people to register for this webcast will receive a free copy of Anneke Seley’s “Sales 2.0″ as a gift from us. Register now while supplies last!