And mark your calendars to meet me at the BMA-NJ Social Media Symposium on April 10th, where I will deliver the keynote presentation. Your goal should not be to be good at social media. It should be to be good at BUSINESS using social media. All social media effort MUST move the business needle. Social media is merely a way of engaging in two-way dialog. And I invite you to meet me, Jeff  Ogden of Find New Customers at the BMA-NJ B2B Social Media Symposium on April 10th, where I am a keynote speaker. Self Education content marketing social media MORE >>

Sign up for her course on “ PR for Startups ” to learn more about getting media coverage for your fledgling business. Erica Swallow  is a technology and lifestyle writer. From Mashable. The original post can be found here. We also edited it a bit to avoid duplicate content issues. Thanks Erica. It can be challenging for unknown start-ups to garner attention with the press — budgets are tight, relationships with journalists may not be that strong and explaining a new concept is difficult. Therefore, marketing and public relations are often tackled piecemeal by whomever has time. Period. MORE >>

He presented “How to Build an Awesome Personal Brand&# at the 140 Social Media Conference and appeared to discuss B2B lead generation on Sales Lead Management Radio. Lead Generation Companies | Biggest Challenges for CMOs. few months ago, MarketingSherpa asked this question of 287 Chief Marketing Officers. “Which of the following marketing challenges are currently most pertinent for your organization?&#. The answers probably surprise no one – especially if you’ve talked to your sales teams lately. And it’s even bigger than it was last year. MORE >>

Check out our keynote talk here from the BMA-NJ Social Media Symposium. Driving Business Results with Social Media. We love to read your comments and when you share our content on social media. Don’t know if you heard the news, but Slideshare is now totally re-written in HTML5. So what? Two main benefits: Google can now search INSIDE your slides, so it rocks at SEO. It is now very mobile friendly. So it looks great on smartphones like Androids and iPhones. At the lead generation company and global marketing firm, Find New Customers , we are big fans of Slideshare. MORE >>

We love people who comment and share on social media. The Movie, Music and Newspaper industry is missing the point. Let’s set them straight. As the President of Find New Customers , I’m now in my 50′s and I’ve read newspapers like the New York Times and Wall St Journal in print for decades, but the world is changing fast. The business models of the past are collapsing. Some say people only steal. Let’s look at the debate and share some insights. Newspaper Death Watch  - is a website chronicling the decline of newspapers. Click the link to watch the show. MORE >>