Aprimo Marketing Summit 2011 - Hope to See You There

Looking to Improve the Business in 2011? Discuss with your peers this month.

My flight is booked and I’m raring to go. How about you?

I also wish to share some exciting news. My alma mater is the University of Notre Dame, from which I hold a degree in Marketing.

The University contacted me yesterday and invited me to be a guest speaker on B2B marketing with their MBA students.

What an amazing honor for this ND grad!

A good reason to attend an event like this is the ability to learn from the best.

One of the highlights of the Aprimo Marketing Summit (#AMS11) is the all-star speakers they’ve lined up, including:

Seth Godin: Live from TED

Seth Godin is an author, a blogger and an entrepreneur. He’s written a dozen bestselling books and been translated into more than 35 languages; his latest book LINCHPIN hit the Amazon top 10 on the first day it was published. Seth writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. American Way Magazine calls him, “America’s Greatest Marketer,” and his blog is consistently rated as one of the most popular solo blogs in the world (out of 80,000,000 that are published).

Seth has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne, which pioneered permission marketing and Squidoo, which is among the one hundred most visited websites in the United States. For a year after the acquisition of Yoyodyne, he was the VP of Direct Marketing for Yahoo! Seth’s columns have appeared in Fast Company, the Huffington Post and most recently, the Harvard Business Review.

Successful Meetings picked Seth as one of twenty one speakers for the twenty-first century. He has spoken to millions of people at public events and at companies as diverse as Disney, Cadillac, eBay, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, American Eagle, Eddie Bauer and hundreds of others. He has spoken twice at the prestigious TED.com conference and is consistently ranked in top 1% of all speakers at events he attends.

Seth’s Summit keynote will be live via satellite from TED on March 1.

Jeffrey Hayzlett

Jeffrey Hayzlett has been called a lot of things, most of them good. He has been described as a “CMO on steroids,” who parlayed what he learned running his own businesses into his position as Kodak’s CMO, where he helped revitalize one of the world’s iconic brands. Forbes magazine anointed him the “Celebrity CMO,” because of his countless media appearances, including on Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice. And Advertising Age calls him “a new style of CMO,” especially for his social media skills that made him one of the top ten C-level executive Twitterers in the world.

Jeff is also a cowboy—literally: He is a South Dakota native who is always wearing cowboy boots and still has a little house on the prairie. When he is not traveling worldwide as a company ambassador and print, social media, and marketing evangelist, he likes nothing more than being on the back of one of his horses out on the range with nothing around for miles. A much sought-after speaker on topics ranging from worldwide business growth, communications, marketing social networking, and mobile marketing, Jeff was named “Marketer of the Year” by BtoB magazine in 2008 and has received numerous other marketing and business awards and honors.

Ann Handley

Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer for MarketingProfs and author of Content Rules, is an 11-year veteran of creating and managing digital content to build relationships for organizations and individuals. Ann has a passion for building community, particularly in using new media tools to broaden and build value. She formerly was co-founder and president of ClickZ, the largest resource of interactive marketing news, information, commentary, advice, opinion, research, and reference in the world, online or offline. Ann graduated from Simmons College.

And here is your host for the B2B track:

Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor, is President of the b2b lead generation company, Find New Customers. He is also the author of such highly acclaimed white papers including How to Find New Customers, Definitive Guide to Making Quota, and Moving from Transactional to Conversational Email Marketing. He’s considered a top expert in content marketing and social media as well. (Social media expert Paul Gillin, quoted Jeff in his new book, Social Media Marketing for the Business Customer.) He was graduated from the University of Notre Dame. In fact, the MBA school at Notre Dame, one of the top business schools in the USA , uses content from Find New Customers to teach marketing.

Won’t you join these great speakers and me for a fun and informative few days in sunny Florida?

Click here to reserve your spot and revolutionize your marketing.

Jeff Ogden is President of Find New Customers “Lead Generation Made Simple” Check out the online show every Friday at 11am ET, “Laugh and Learn with the Fearless Competitor.” Find New Customers is one of few lead generation companies in New York.

Find New Customers helps companies like yours (with 150 to 5,000 employees and complex products) implement lead generation programs to improve the way you find and acquire high quality sales leads using best practices in online lead generation. Quality leads matter. In fact, a recent study found that sales teams with fewer, high quality sales leads closed more than sales teams with more leads of dubious quality.

If you wish to do sales lead generation online, contact the B2B lead generation experts at Find New Customers. Use the form below to send me a personal message or use the box below Leave a Reply to add a permanent note to this post.