RockTheWorld with LinkedIn

Talking about addressing the unique challenges associated with employee and partner engagement as Lori Ruff welcomes Sharon McIntosh from And Then Communications. Sharon also previews her appearance at the upcoming AMPlify Employee Advocacy Conference coming up in Boston.

Social Media Speaker and Strategy Consultant Neal Schaffer speaks to Lori Ruff prior to his upcoming AMPlify presentation on How to Help Your Fans Amplify Your Content.

Lori Ruff speaks with Mitchell Levy, Thought Leader Architect of THiNKaha, and Chief Aha Instigator for the Aha Amplifier, about the unique ways of enhancing content marketing and using Google Hangouts, articles, ebooks, etc. to become a thought leader!

Lori Ruff discusses Credit Unions and Customer Engagement with Myles Bristowe.  Myles is the Marketing Principal and VP of Consumer Engagement at PSCU.Myles also  leads the award winning “Make Your Money Matter” movement for the credit union industry, which leverages the power of social media to attract, engage and convert Millennials into new local credit union members.

GaggleAMP Marketing Manger  Bradley Yeater shares details with Lori Ruff about AMPlify: The Employee Advocacy Conference, an event occurring in May in the Greater Boston area that addresses the unique challenges associated with employee and partner engagement.

rFactr CEO Richard Brasser is said to be the foremost expert in helping companies the effectiveness and influence of their salesforce through strategic use of social communication. Lori Ruff talks to Richard about powering social sales and the  SocialPort platform,  a social communication management system that allows organizations to quickly and easily share content on social platforms.

Talking Social Media Connecting with Musicians and Artists as tCreative Spotlights Co-Founder Dani Felt is back to tell us about her new social media platform made to help musicians, producers, songwriters and the like communicate and network with each other, as well as new book.

Speaker. Mentor. Hip Hop Artist. Travis Lloyd speaks to Mike O Neil about his newest book Overcoming Emotional Trauma: Life Beyond Survival Mode, which depicts his own personal  hurt and pain as a former foster youth.

Mike O Neil discuss Masterminds and Making Entrepreneurs with Life and Business coach Aaron T. Walker from View From The Top.  We learn why Mastermind Groups Are A Game Changer and we learn  about one that Aaron runs called Iron Sharpens Iron. 

Mike O Neil discusses social media tools and technology with Award Winning Tech Blogger and Social Media Tools Guy Ian Cleary, the Founder of RazorSocial.

Mike O Neil discusses Social Collaboration and Communication for Business with Russell Lindquist, the Director of Midwest Sales at Jive Software.

Previewing Author U Extravaganza with Author and Publishing Expert Judith Briles, which offers a learning and working networking event with book marketing strategists, publicists, and Internet gurus. Plus, Brittany Walters- Bearden from AtLargePr discussses How to Find the Most Fascinating People on LinkedIn.

Talking about Team Training For Growing Businesses as Mike O Neil speaks with Max Yoder, the CEO of Lesson.ly and founder of The First Fund.  Lesson.ly is software designed to build, share, and track training materials.

Mike O Neil and Lori Ruff speak with Paula Garcia, the Marketing Manager at Assette, VP of Marketing at ALPFA Boston and her ALPFA Boston colleague Sophia Moon , the Creative Director at JaggerMoon Creative Group.

Marketing Consultant, College Educator and Author Mark Schaefer is back to speak with Mike O Neil  and Lori Ruff to discuss how LinkedIn Marketers need to be more involved with blogs.

Mike and Lori share plans for touring the country with their Social 2-Day Training Event called Integrate Social – The Integrated Digital Marketing and Social Selling Training Event. Plus, we get a preview of their newest book Integrated Alliances ... RockTheWorld with LinkedIn v2.1:  A Multi-Platinum Profile Plus a Classic Rock Soundtrack.

Autmoated lead generation, social media and email marketing are just sme of the factors that have been  evolutionizing how sales people have engaged with LinkedIn. Mike and Lori look back at the past year of the radio show and they have learned about this change with the guests that appeared on the radio show this year.

The ROI of Social Media Authors Steven Groves and Guy Powell are back to discuss their joint venture, ProRelevant. ProRelevant provides marketing experts, brand marketers and brand strategists with software tools to analyze how their consumers make purchase decisions so that they can improve how they market their products.

Lori speaks with Sharon Polsky, MAPP, the President of AMINA Corp. and President of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada. She speaks about privacy implications and unintended consequences of emerging laws, technologies and global trends upon individuals and organizations.

Mike and Lori welcome Speaker, Author, President Authentic Paragon Alliance and The Authentic Speaker Academy for Leadership, Dov Baron.  We learn about his new book, Fiercely Loyal.  In his book, he dives deep in to the what, why, and how of keeping your top players from jumping ship and going to the competition.

Research and Discovery Collaboration for the Healthcare Industry With Mannix Aklian – Visual Assay Founder and CEO of Label Independent. We learn about their Visual Assay platform, which captures experiment data as its designed and executed, allowing scientists to manage, track and share assay data in real time.

Talking Content Marketing and Social Media Tools as Mike speaks with  Rajan Shankar, General Manager  at  Suyati.  Rajan discusses how some of these tools promotes employee advocacy, recruitment and more.

Professional Networking, Big Data and Predicitve Analytics with LinkedIn  as Mike welcomes Courtney Klepsch, ‎ the Director of Marketing at  Bootstrap Incubation.

Productivity and Office Workflow Expert Robby Slaughter (and prinicipal  from AccelaWork) discusses his work with Mike about workplace productivity, employee workflow, team dynamics and organizational efficiency.

Publishing Content vs. Gathering Data as Mike welcomes us to Douglas Karr, the founder of The Marketing Technology Blog, Author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies, and the President and CEO of DK New Media.

Enabling Effective and Consistent Communication and Content Collaboration as Lori speaks with WittyParrot CEO Anil Jwalanna. We learn why WittyParrot was built to help knowledge workers and customer-facing professionals to easily find, use and reuse relevant content to communicate consistently and responsively.

Becoming The Successful Professional as Lori speaks with the author of the Successful Professional blog and the author of the e-book 10 Tips to Get Things Done Better, Faster, Easier, Patricia Haddock. Patricia specializes in Inbound Content Marketing and Product /Service Development

More on LinkedIn for Recruiting; Sales and Recruiting Automation with Donato Diorio, the CEO at Broadlook Technologies and Acting CEO at RingLead.

Mike speaks with Larry Reeves, the CEO of The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP) in a special uncensored conversation that followed when we kept the recorder running.

Managing the Valuation, Growth and Sale of Your Business as Mike talks with Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist and Premier Reseller for USA Corp, Doug Baumwall

Discussing Entrepreneurship Through Inside Sales as Mike speaks with Larry Reeves, the CEO of The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP).

Talking Strategic Communication, crisis communication reputation management and brand strategy, with Trezanay Atkins, President of Ignis Strategic Communication.

LinkedIn for Recruiting; Sales and Recruiting Automation as Mike speaks with Donato Diorio, the CEO at Broadlook Technologies and Acting CEO at RingLead.  Ralph Barsi from Acheivers joins Mike to talk success measurement in our expert segment.

Talking Sales Development, Social Selling and Employee Engagement as Mike speaks with the Senior Director, Sales Development at Achievers, Ralph Barsi. Achievers helps businesses bolster employee engagement, recognition, and alignment

Talking Sales Training and Sales Performance and Mike welcomes Vorsight co-founder and sales thought leader, Steve Richard, to share some tips on improving your sales process.

Talking TLDs and Social Networks with Scott Milener, Senior VP at PeopleBrowsr, which offers enterprise, government and Top Level Domain owners with the ability to launch their own social networks and analyze and engage the members of those network.

Lori speaks with Scott Milener, the Senior VP of Social Strategy at PeopleBrowsr, which helps enterprise, government and Top Level Domain owners with the ability to launch their own social networks and analyse and engage the members of those networks.

Professional Training and Coaching with Lauren Bailey, the President of Factor 8. We learn more behind the person voted as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Leaders in Inside Sales for 2013 by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals.

Discussing Professional Training and Coaching as Mike and Lori welcome Lauren Bailey, the President of Factor 8. Lauren was voted as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Leaders in Inside Sales for 2013 by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals and spoke at their Leadership Summit in Chicago on Behind the Scenes of an Inside Sales Benchmark - Why Some Companies Win.

Social Selling Influencer Jamie Shanks, Managing Partner at Sales for Life, discusses Social Selling , Social Selling Training,  Social Lead Generation and Social Recruiting.

Talking Collaboration and Communications Solutions, Comprehensive Assessments, Vendor-Neutral Recommendations and  Project Management as Mike and Lori welcome  BlackFin Square CEO Shannon Grube and COO Chris Parker.

Mike and Lori speak with Lance Seymour, the Chief Marketing Officer for TrueBear and makers of the CityHour app. The CityHour app is designed to organize valuable business contacts by scheduling meetings with people where you are when you are available.

Creating Sales Wins and Success with Hoopla CEO Mike Smalls, who talks to Mike following his Motivating Millenials presentation at the AA-ISP Leadership Summit 2014 in Chicago

Mike and Lori discuss The Value of Conferences plus welcome Kevin Price, from the Price of Business radio show on KTEK 1110 AM Houston and Editor of USDailyReview.com, from the Podcast Pavilion at New Media Expo in Las Vegas.  Also, Jeff Perkins from PGI joins Mike for this months expert commentary.

Talking cutting-edge audio and web meeting solutions as Mike speaks with Jeff Perkins, the Vice President of Global Online Marketing at PGi.

Implementing Digital Strategies with Sundeep Kapur, the head of Digital Strategies at Allied Solutions. Sundeep works with businesses across multiple industries, helping them to enable technology and services to brand, and personalize and speak to consumers more effectively.

Getting Your Small Business Edge with Brian Moran, Founder and CEO of SmallBusinessEdge, a Source for Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs to get advice on starting, growing and managing their business.

Talkiing Customer Relationship Management with John Paul Narowski, the  Founder of  KarmaCRM, a  web based small business crm software that helps you consolidate your sales contacts.

Successful Targeting and Winning Business as Mike and Lori speak with Ian Altman, the  author of Upside Down Selling and the CEO of Grow My Revenue, LLC

We are introduced to integrated sales platform Kitedesk with its CRO Sean Burke. KiteDesk integrates big data, cloud services and social media to improve marketing, sales and hiring.