The world's best thinkers on social media
Reaching The Social Customer: New Tools, New Strategies
An exclusive, live webinar from Social Media Today
November 29th at 12pm EST / 9am PST
Join Marketo and Social Media Today as we discuss today's social customer and:
- New tools and strategies to communicate
- Why listening to customers is essential
- Sales intelligence to learn more the customer
- Engaging and retaining customers
- Customer-centric vs. customer service?
- The Use Cases for Social Customer Management
About the Panel:
Jon Miller, VP of Marketing and Co-Founder, Marketo
Jon leads strategy and execution for all aspects of Marketo's hyper-efficient demand center (powered by Marketo's solutions, of course). He explores everything from lead nurturing and social media to marketing ROI and revenue performance management in Marketo's popular blog, Modern B2B Marketing, and was named a Top 10 CMO for companies under $250 million revenue by The CMO Institute. Before co-founding Marketo, Jon held positions at Epiphany, Exchange Partners, and Gemini Consulting. Jon graduated Magna Cum Laude in Physics from Harvard College and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Adam Metz, VP of Business Development, Metz Consulting
Adam Metz is the VP of Business Development at Metz Consulting the social concept. Metz's Social Customer Community, at http://metz.customerhub.net offers a no-cost 9-hour training course on social customer relationship management. Metz has consulted with nearly 100 companies on how to acquire, manage, monetize and retain customers from the social web. His first book, There Is No Secret Sauce, has sold or downloaded over 3000 copies, and is currently in its third printing. Metz's second book, The Social Customer, was released on 9/16/11 and has hit #1 on the Amazon marketing charts. Metz lives in Oakland, California with his fiancee Susan.
Michael M. Lazerow, Chairman and CEO, Buddy Media, Inc.
Michael is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded four successful internet-based media companies. He has a passion for creating, managing and growing companies from the ground up. Michael is currently Chairman and CEO of Buddy Media, Inc., a New York-based company whose Facebook management system, the Buddy Media Platform, is used by eight out of the top ten global advertisers. Before Buddy Media, Michael founded University Wire, an Associated Press-like network of more than 700 student-run newspapers, now owned by CBS Corp, and GOLF.com, a profitable online golf media company purchased by Time Warner's Time Inc. in January 2006. In February 2007, he started Lazerow Consulting, which helps finance, launch, manage and grow numerous digital media businesses.
Brent Leary, Partner of CRM Essentials, Moderator
Brent Leary is a crm industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and award winning blogger. He is co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta based CRM advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. In 2009 he co-authored Barack 2.0: Social Media Lessons for Small Business. Recognized by InsideCRM as one of the 25 most influential industry leaders, Leary also is a past recipient of CRM Magazine's Most Influential Leader Award. He serves on the national board of the CRM Association, and on the advisory board of the University of Toronto's newly created CRM Center of Excellence. He's been quoted in several national business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Entrepreneur magazine. Leary serves on the editorial advisory board of The Atlanta Tribune magazine, writes the Social CRM column for Inc.com, and blogs at BrentLeary.com. You can reach him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/BrentLeary.
