Had the chance to take the Never Stop Marketing message to Tokyo recently.

We were rewarded with the first-ever Japanese language testimonial.

Honored to have been asked to present on “Marketing in a Billion Channel Universe” to the Business School of the International University of Japan in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

It was streamed live via Ustream and now available for your enjoyment.

Doomo Arigatou….Mr. Roboto.

Suzanne Toohey is a Partner Marketing Manager at Microsoft and approached Never Stop Marketing with a unique challenge.

We need to get our partners better prepared to market in a “social” world…and we need to do it FAST. Can you help?

What came out of it was a the Never Stop Marketing Social Marketing “Quick Start.”

Over the course of 6 weeks, 10 partners from around the country participated in interactive webinars, completed homework assignments (yep!) and began to change their thinking to “social marketers” (not just marketers who used social media.)

And the results?

Well, we can’t really share all of that, but the partners were pretty happy. (Here’s one example)

And what about Suzanne?

“I am actually genuinely pleased with the entire experience and appreciate your leadership and your passion for the success of the program…

Not only do I feel tremendously good about the program, even more importantly our partners have given the PMM’s feedback that they are now looking at their business and their marketing strategies in a whole new light. GREAT JOB!”

Derek Coburn, a partner at Washington Financial Group and co-founder of CADRE DC shares his thoughts in this video on the value of being a Never Stop Marketing client.

“It helps to have someone whip us into shape.”

Vince Mayfield is the CEO of Bit Wizards, a company that really understands marketing (and has a sense of humor to boot!)

They are a participant in an exclusive Microsoft co-sponsored program called the “Social Marketing Quick Start.”

Needless to say, in true Never Stop Marketing style, we’ve pushed them pretty hard.

But, it seems to have been worth it.

Here’s what Vince had to say about the experience.

“You deliver a quality service with very helpful and relevant business critical information when it comes to marketing, advertising, and sales…

The training was Absolutely Fantastic with extremely valuable and relevant information on the Revolutionary Shift in Marketing and how to adopt and deliver on that revolutionary shift. The focus was on understanding that we have moved from Push Marketing Paradigm of Old to a Pull Marketing Paradigm where you have to earn people’s attention.

Those companies that adopt will be more successful in our new attention economy and those that do not will go the way of the Horse and Buggy. I had my entire Office Participate!”

One of the reasons for going to China to teach a marketing seminar in Beijing was to “get out of our comfort zone” and see if we could translate the ideas to another culture in an inspirational way.

Well, Michael Guo, our client said that we hit the mark. Glad to know that the ideas and passion can translate!

Marketing could be anywhere, anytime, and everyone is a marketer after given birth, you don’t even have a choice.

The question is not about if you get there, HOW and WHEN YOU GET THERE really matters in competitive world like China.

I strongly suggest that not only marketing professionals take this “Digital Marketing” course, all business related, say sales, channel, service roles (especially customer facing roles) will benefit from this course and that may lead you to another world of business success.

The trainer, Jeremy, have sound knowledge and delivery technics, which helps enabling  the audience thinking, digest… not only sitting there listening.

Thumbs up for this course!

Michael Guo |  郭锦峰

Field Readiness Manager  |  SMSG Readiness | Microsoft              

Big thank you to Kathy Durfee, CEO of TechHouse for a beautiful, unsolicited testimonial today.

She’s part of the Microsoft-sponsored “Champions…Never Stop Marketing” program. We’ve been working the participants hard, but it seems to be paying off.

“I am actually in a meeting today with our business development manager working on defining what our story really is. We are too broad in our message to tell  a meaningful story.

We would not be this far along if it were not for this program.”

Kathy—it’s for emails like this why we do what we do!

Alaska calls itself “the last frontier,” so with a mission to spread the ideas of Dandelion Marketing and Community Driven Marketing to all corners of the earth, it was an honor to speak to the Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau on Sept. 15th.

A crowd of about 100 Alaskan marketers visited the Egan center and the Alaskan pride was in full evidence.

Big thanks to Steve Halloran for making it all happen!

Excited and honored to have been asked to be the keynote speaker for October’s Leadership Breakfast of Maryland.

As they say about themselves:

“The Leadership Breakfast of Maryland (LBMD) is a forum for the continuing development of the skills and practices of leadership through group and individual discussion of topics and sharing of experiences. 

A subject matter expert leads a session each month to prompt interactive dialogs and extend learning. The topics are facilitated to ‘tap the knowledge in the room’ through comments and contributions based on the participants’ experience in leadership roles.”

This is a great group with high quality people, so it should be fun.

Excited and honored that the “Make Everyone A Marketer” program has been nominated for a prestigious Forrester Groundswell Award.

Looks like tough competition…worth reading through all the entries.

Thanks to the great folks at Global 360 (client) for the confidence and trust to do this project with Never Stop Marketing.