MarketingProfs B2B Forum Includes Experts On Dialog Between Sales/Marketing

MarketingProfs announces Driving Sales: What’s New, What Works and What Sticks, its Business-to-Business Forum 2007. The forum will be a live event held October 1-2 at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel in Chicago, IL. Top B2B experts in traditional and online marketing will share tips, secrets and techniques to help participants market more effectively.

Top industry experts will talk about creating a dialog between marketing and sales to generate higher profits and improved customer satisfaction. Speakers include

• Marketing’s New Role: Improving Sales Productivity Beyond Lead Generation
With John Coe, President, Protocol B2B
While lead generation and qualification will always be important, but marketing’s new opportunity is to create measurable programs to increase sales coverage, and thus improve sales productivity.

• How to Drive More Leads and Sales with Marketing Events
With M. H. “Mac” McIntosh, President, Mac McIntosh Inc.
McIntosh presents the inside secrets used by successful companies—large and small— to drive new business with marketing events

• How B2B Marketers Can Leverage the Power of Emerging Media
Moderated by David Armano, Vice President of Experience Design, Critical Mass
Panelists include: Todd Andrlik, Director of Marketing and PR, Leopardo Construction; Matt Lohman, Director of Business Development & Research, KnowledgeStorm; Chris Yeh, CEO, Ustream.TV. B2B top marketers share tips for leveraging blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, virtual worlds and social networks.

The MarketingProfs Business-to-Business Forum 2007 will provide marketing strategies and tips that meet the unique needs of B2B marketers, industrial marketing professionals and nonprofit (sponsorship-driven) managers. The program is open to members and non-members. Non-members who register for the Forum will receive a free year’s membership in MarketingProfs at the Premium Plus level as a bonus.

Register for the MarketingProfs Business-to-Business Forum 2007 at: http://www.marketingprofs.com/events/1/conference

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