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April 2008
NEWS 

Write Like a Blogger
You can improve your writing (your business writing, your ad writing, your thank you notes and your essays) if you start thinking like a blogger.

Marketing Lowdown: Effective E-mail Communication
E-mail Communication Made Simple (and Effective)

Google Website Optimizer Webinar

EVENTS 

Social Media Conference with BMA
Social Media: Animate Your Marketing
Building a business case for integrating your conventional marketing programs.

Join the Business Marketing Association and the Pittsburgh Technology Council for a full morning of practical advice and perspective from some of the Pittsburgh region's foremost experts. Not only will you learn some of the how-tos, but each presenter will take a critical approach in answering the question:
Is this right for my company?

Presentation topics include:
When to Blog, When to Comment or When to Listen
presented by Mike Woycheck, Technology Analyst, Innovation Works

Podcasting:
Can My Company Benefit?
presented by Dave Nelsen, CEO, TalkShoe

Search Engine Optimization:
How Can I Get My Web Site First on the List?
presented by Robbin Steif, CEO LunaMetrics

Web Globalization:
How You Can Reach a World-Wide Audience
presented by Les Dutka, Founder and CEO, Echo International




Sales and Marketing Network: Special Executive Breakfast
Please join us on Wednesday, April 23, for a breakfast meeting exclusively for CEOs, Presidents and Senior Managers designed to help navigate today’s competitive sales climate and come out ahead.

Featuring nationally acclaimed sales development expert Sean Coyle, this special executive breakfast will enable top executives to:

  • EVALUATE hidden strengths and weaknesses and why they impact your sales and profits. Then, most importantly, how to capitalize on them.
  • DISCOVER the top five things that successful managers spend 85 percent of their time doing.
  • RECOGNIZE what to do about lost opportunities, slipping margins, rising cost of sales, complacency and the important battle for market share.

Sponsored by Elliance. Supporting sponsorship provided by the Employee Benefits Network and Advanticom.

 


Sales & Marketing Network:
Sales Modernization Workshop
In today’s highly competitive market, customers simply have less time to wait for the information they need to make buying decisions. They expect sales people to understand their needs, past buying history and preferences. Join us on Friday, April 25, at the Sales Modernization Workshop, where experts from HarvestGold and Summa Technologies will discuss ways that you can leverage new SaaS technology, CRM systems and forward-thinking sales processes to drive sales and manage customer relationships.

If you are asking yourself any of the questions below, then you will benefit from attending:

  1. Does your sales team refuse to use your current technology tools because they are cumbersome and slow?
  2. Do you struggle to get the sales information you need to make sound business decisions?
  3. Are you able to easily track and measure your sales cycles and individual sales performance?
  4. Are your salespeople overwhelmed by paperwork and reports, reducing their selling time?
  5. Does your field sales team have access to the tools and information they need to react quickly to requests for proposals and product information at critical points in the sales cycle?
  6. Are leads easily accessed, managed and measured?

Sponsored by Elliance.

 


Sales & Marketing Network:
Local Search Marketing
Local Search Marketing focuses on businesses who want to launch Web sites to use for local marketing purposes. Local search traffic has grown immensely over the last two years, and is poised to continue to grow. So if you're a small business that relies on local search traffic, join us on Friday, May 16, to make sure search engine crawlers have a good sense of where you're located.

Speaker: Taylor Pratt, LunaMetrics

The Search Engine Marketing – Web Optimization Series is sponsored by Catalyst Connection, ON Motion Media and PNC Recruiting Services. The Sales & Marketing Network is sponsored by Elliance.




The Search Engine Marketing – Web Optimization Series
is sponsored by Catalyst Connection, ON Motion Media and PNC Recruiting Services

Series includes: 
Social Media 
Friday, June 27


Save the Date:
Face2Face

Thursday, May 22   

SMN Network:
Know Your Customers - User Research Tools and Techniques

Friday, May 30

BUSINESS ESSENTIALS 

The Pittsburgh Technology Council is proud to provide you the latest cost-saving opportunities in our Business Essentials line-up. We hope our collaborations with these and other nationally-recognized affiliates help your organization achieve its goals.

For more information, please contact David Schuerholz,
Member Relations Manager, at 412.918.4236.

CONTACT US 


Shari Albert
Networks Associate, Sales and Marketing Network
phone: 412.918.4266

MEMBER NEWS 

Mazur Media Develops Web Site for
Regional Medical Practice

Mazur Media, LLC just completed a major Web site development project for Blair Medical Associates (www.bma.md). The objective of the site is to showcase Blair Medical Associates as a leader in outstanding care.



Zoo Selects Mullen As Agency-Of-Record

CTC Team Wins Five-Year Solutions for Intelligence Analysis Contract

Read more member news

Have a press release? Please send it to press_releases@pghtech.org.

MEMBERS ON THE MOVE 
Achieving Sales Results Helps Increase Sales for RedZone Robotics

e-magine and Blatant Media Partner to Provide Turnkey Technical eLearning

Mullen Adds Two New Employees

A to Z Communications, Inc. Expands Creative and Technical Services

Read more member news

Have a press release? Please send it to:
press_releases@pghtech.org

MEMBER2MEMBER SAVINGS 
Achieving Sales Results
The focus of Achieving Sales Results is to help clients achieve a sustained increase in sales results through coaching sales managers and improving their own ability to coach the sales team through our service offerings.  Achieving Sales Results, LLC., will provide a free one-day sales training course to Council members if a follow-on reinforcement program is implemented for a minimum of six months. This will insure that your sales team is practicing the skills and strategy they need to close business.



CAREER CENTER 

The Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Career Center currently boasts more than 1,400 open positions. For many students and recent graduates, this tool provides invaluable connections to internship and job openings within southwestern Pennsylvania. Council member companies use this resource to find basic entry-level candidates, seasoned C-level professionals and everyone in between. Candidates are encouraged to apply for positions through the Career Center and to post their resumés in our on-line resumé database for recruiter viewing.

This week's Hot Jobs:

Software Developer
at Net Health Systems

Embedded Software Engineer
at Software Design Solutions, Inc.

Software Engineer
at Pyramid Consulting Group, Inc.

Sign up to receive our weekly Hot Jobs e-mail delivered to your inbox every Monday.
E-mail the Career Center team to subscribe.

SPECIAL INTEREST 
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Corner

Link Juice

Not all links are created equal. This infographic visualizes the various site and link components that combine to form link juice.



TEQ MAGAZINE 

The Ad Agency Alternative
Industry veteran, Gregg Gantwarg, launches virtual marketing firm for small and mid-size businesses.



WHO'S WHO 
Thank you to our new and renewing Pittsburgh Technology Council members that participate in the Sales and Marketing Network. 

- 4C Technologies
- Branding Brand
- CGI
- Choice Applications
- CLG (Continuous Learning Group)
- Corporate Express US, Inc.
- Freedom Disc USA
- Market Analytic Research, LLC
- SpaceBoy Interactive
- The HDH Group, Inc.
- Wanted Technologies Corp.


MEMBERSHIP SAVINGS 
Refer Your Way to Savings
Receive 10 percent off next year's membership dues when you refer us to a new Council member. And feel good about helping another regional technology company succeed.

Make a referral today by contacting
David Schuerholz, Member Relations Manager, at 412.918.4236.

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