When: Wednesday December 02, 2009, 06:00PM - 08.00PM GMT

Where: Hampton hotel, 4 Morehampton Rd, Dublin 4. http://www.hamptonhotel.ie

Price: 15 Euro on the day.

Zero to Hero

This SLI session will share with you some of the key strategies to help you get back on top in challenging times. Vincent Reynolds of Rapport Consulting will share the keys to working with C level executives and encouraging them to engage and buy high level solutions while Seán Weafer of Seán Weafer Consulting will reveal some of the secrets for ‘making the numbers’ and the challenging questions that every sales leader should be asking themselves to keep themselves ahead of the competition.

Speakers:

Seán Weafer is a top-level sales leadership consultant, who helps build alpha sales organisations by helping management ‘build trust and get things done’.

His clients develop practical, profitable and effective sales management solutions to their business challenges and how to continue to grow the bottom line even in tough times. His next book is ‘Rebel in a Business Suit - The Business 1%ers’ (due 2009) - outlines the emergence of a new breed of business professional who makes change rather than watches it change around them.

Rapport Consulting is led by Vincent Reynolds FCCA, an experienced senior manager with a background in consulting, corporate training and development, change management, finance and human resources.

Vincent started his career in general accounting practice before moving to a series of management and senior management roles with multinational companies.

He is a Chartered Certified Accountant, a former chairman of the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers and a member of the Irish Institute of Training and Development. Vincent is also an accredited facilitator under the Irish Government’s Skillnets programme.

If you are involved with sales, you won’t want to miss it - reserve your seat here.

Sales superstars close more deals and ramp up business for their companies.

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It’s been a while since I blogged on here, because for the last while I have devoted nearly all my energies into Bloggertone. It’s been a learning curve for me but one that I have enjoyed and so far so good.

Before I report on the progress made, let me again thank Fred and Facundo from Channelship. The guys are simply awesome professionals and are an absolute pleasure to work with. They come with my highest recommendation.

Bloggertone went live on Friday the 23^rd of October, The countdown to the site launch was held on Twitter with the site going live @ 2pm GMT.

A Right Old #Twineup!

With spirits already high with the success of the launch two inspired ladies @miriamahern and @whatswhat_sian came up with an entirely novel way to celebrate that evening.

Miriam’s explanation:

“It’s just like that - a spontaneous party -don’t need to go anywhere. From the comfort of where-ever you are simply grab your favourite beverage, sit in front of your favourite Twitter client (mine is TweetDeck) and run a search for “#twineup” . Everyone from everywhere is welcome. Join in the conversation and meet some great people”

Congrats and thanks to Miriam & Sian, because it was an absolutely roaring success with #twineup taking over (modestly) part of the Irish twittersphere on Friday night - mentions on radio stations ( think it was 98 FM, but let’s leave stations in plural anyway) soon ensued with many people describing it as the best fun they had on Twitter - well EVER!

So Far So Good

According to Alexa, Bloggertone’s traffic rank for the first 7 days was 154528. In many respects, what was even nicer to see was that people were spending on average over 8 mins on the site visiting over 7 pages. The Social Media buzz was also working with Linkedin, Twitter & Facebook sending lots of visitors.

Many Quality Posts

The quality of the posts has been excellent so far, a few of my personal favourites include:

“Rural Business, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” by Elaine Rogers

“LinkedIn for Jobseekers, Do you Dance” by Paul Mullan

“Competitive intelligence gathering for international markets” by Una Coleman

What’s Up Next?

The PR for the site is just about the start, we wanted to wait until we had something to show people.  An international blogging and social media expert has just joined the Bloggertone gang. Details to follow but I have little doubt that this person will help immensely to make the site a valuable and popular business resource. If you are interested in contributing to Bloggertone and becoming one of our featured bloggers, please apply here.

So all in all a pretty good start then, lots more to do and I may need to get back to the day job soon