Modern Marketing Engine podcast hosted by Bernie Borges

Bernie’s guest on this episode is Andrew Malcolm, Chief Marketing Officer at Evernote. Andrew tells how he and his team are doing exactly that and explains why their approach has enabled Evernote to evolve into a technology-driven marketing organization. Toward the end of the conversation, Andrew wraps up with best practices that can be applied to your organization.

Account-based selling is experiencing a surge in popularity in B2B sales due to changes in technology that have appeared over the past few years. One of those technologies is what is referred to as “relationship intelligence.” In this conversation, Jaxson Kahn describes how marketing can leverage relationship intelligence to more effectively collaborate with sales and how managers can use relationship intelligence to enable customer success across the board.

Bernie's guest for this episode of Social Business Engine is Tammy Boyd, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing for Neuro International. Bernie invited her on this episode because she is actively building her personal brand to elevate her company’s corporate brand. Tammy saw that her company was not embracing digital and social marketing strategies but she was determined to make an impact in her industry through her own personal brand.

Innovation and Florida are in the same sentence at Synapse, a company that’s deploying a ground-breaking methodology to connect all business personas within a multifaceted ecosystem. Brian Kornfeld, co-founder and Head of Operations at Synapse, is featured on this episode of Social Business Engine and shares the inspiring story behind this breakout company’s impact on innovation in a region that isn’t widely recognized for innovation.

On this episode of Social Business Engine you’re going to meet Cathy McPhillips, Vice President of Marketing at the Content Marketing Institute. CMI has successfully positioned itself as the premier resource for marketers who want to learn about content marketing. Cathy reveals a key metric in their marketing that enables the company to convert by a factor of 10 on their most coveted offering, the annual Content Marketing World conference.

On this episode, you’re going to meet Duncan Wardle. Duncan spent 30 years at arguably the best-known brand in the world - Disney. In his last role he was a global executive in charge of something most companies don’t even identify as a function in the business. That function is innovation.

We all want to have a full sales pipeline to fuel the success of our business. Toward that end, Bernie is doing something a little different on this episode. He recorded a conversation between himself and his co-founder and CEO of Vengreso, Mario Martinez Jr. The two of them speak about the “why” and the “how” of a strategy they are implementing at Vengreso that you might consider at your company.

Social sales is becoming a common sales approach in more and more types of businesses. Bernie’s guest on this episode demonstrates how true that is by revealing how social selling is being implemented in a very traditional business - banking

On this episode Social Business Engine podcast host Bernie Borges summarizes key take aways from recent episodes featuring digital sales and marketing practitioners at Adobe, Conversica, Oracle, Verizon and SAP.

What is the real ROI of social selling in a global company like SAP? With social selling still being relatively new, it’s hard to tell because there are few baseline standards to compare against. But the SAP team is creating innovative ways to measure social selling. The theme of this fifth and final episode of this UpClose series is how SAP is measuring Social Selling ROI

Social selling training is a key part of any modern, successful sales force. The team at SAP recognizes this fact and has put together a world-class social selling training program for their sales teams across the globe.

The global team at SAP has proven to be successful at social selling, and the sales and marketing alignment they’ve achieved is one of the main reasons why.

Even the most seasoned technology sales professionals need to develop social selling best practices - but they can take years to develop. That's what makes conversations like this one so powerful. In this episode, Bernie Borges explores the best practices of some of SAP’s most seasoned and successful sales professionals.

The sales world is changing and social selling is becoming a powerful tool in today's sales toolbox. This episode of Social Business Engine introduces a multi-part series of podcast episodes we have entitled “Up Close: Savvy Social Selling the SAP Way: Best Practices that Win Customers.”

Every brand strategy is about gaining attention for the company, but it has to be done in a way that does more than simply talk about what the company is doing. It’s got to engage with real people over issues they truly care about. In other words, it needs to have a relational element to it. That’s exactly what Merck is doing with their highly effective approach.