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Realtime Listening Panel at #RLTM NY 11 [Best of the Backchannel]

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Part 2 of our summary of tweets from #RLTM NY 11 Realtime Conference attendees. These tweets summarize our morning panel, “Listen Up! Turning Conversations into Business Opportunities,” with panelists Randall Brown, Gatorade’s Director of Digital Engagement, Jeff Cole, Kellogg’s Senior Manager Global Social Media Operations, Frank Eliason, Citibank’s SVP of Social Media, and Victoria Harres, PR Newswire’s Director Audience Development. The panel was moderated by Stephen D. Rappaport, Knowledge Solutions Director, ARF. Read →

Stop Shouting and Start Listening: Your Customers Are Talking.

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It used to be that your marketing efforts had to find a way to INTERRUPT what the customer was doing— reading a magazine, watching a movie—and then convince them to pay attention to your message. Good luck with that these days. Today’s consumers and business people are distracted and perpetually multi-tasking. The DVD and streaming video services have put them in control of their own programming.

But today, customers are TELLING YOU what they need, when they need it, and how they want to hear from you. If you start LISTENING, you will be able to create marketing strategies that are more targeted, more relevant and more effective than any push-marketing initiative you’ve ever seen. Read →

Press Release: Realtime NY 11 Speakers to Include Social Media Innovators from Citibank, McDonalds, PepsiCo, …

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NEW YORK, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Realtime Report and Modern Media today announced that Realtime NY 11 (http://therealtimereport.com/ny11, hashtag #RLTM), a one-day conference on the business use of realtime, social and mobile technologies taking place June 6, 2011 at B.B. King Blues Club in New York, will feature case studies and best practices from social media experts at leading brands. Read →

How Gatorade Monitors Social Media 24/7 to Build its Brand

PepsiCo is using social media to try and breathe new life into its Gatorade brand, which has suffered a three-year sales slide. The company has set up a “Mission Control” room in a converted  glassed-in conference room at Gatorade headquarters in Chicago. The staffers monitor social media posts 24 hours a day and whenever someone [...] Read →

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