We talk with Stu Miniman, research analyst at Wikibon, about the daily practice of being an analyst. Some of the topics we covered: Financial analysts vs research analysts Journalists vs analysts – no suit vs suit? Analysts provide tools to figure out how to adopt new technology. Stu’s focus is to…
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Warning: This is a tough-to-hear episode. Please accept our apologies – we did our best to clean it up. The conversation is just too good to throw it away! In this incredibly raw (apologies from the vBrownBag crew for that!) episode of the Geek Whisperers, we have multiple guests explain how…
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This week we talk with someone who uses Twitter and social media to form relationships with their customers. Scott Hanson, @CiscoServerGeek on Twitter, is a unicorn who uses his super powers as a pre-sales SE for Cisco’s data center products. Social selling (and selling in general) is about customer…
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When a Unicorn raises their hoof, the Geek Whisperers get them in front of the mic. In another career path conversation, we’re joined by Mike Stanley who’s taken a career path less traveled. From aspiring to be a Latin teacher to learning Russian in the Army to … IT? We take…
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This week the Geek Whisperers talk with a sales pro who gets it. Jill Rowley was a sales star at marketing software provider Eloqua – which was then bought by Oracle. Now she trains salespeople in how to have real relationships with their customers — in other words, social selling. Here…
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Navels, prepare to be gazed upon! Hosts Lisa Caywood and Greg Knieriemen bring you through a quarter’s worth of opinion while you trusted Whisperers consider where we’ve been and where we go next. We go through tough questions, introspection and Greg’s copious amount of notes. Some of the details: What’s success look…
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All the Geek Whisperers have changed jobs recently. We basically invented the new roles ourselves. How did we do that? This week we talk about using the force to create a new job and about our career journeys. Amy recently was promoted from a manager of Influence Marketing in…
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This week we talk with Symon Perriman, senior technical evangelist from Microsoft, about evangelism, career change, MVPs, user groups, org charts, performance management, business value, and more. It turns out unicorns come from Redmond, too. Moving from engineering to evangelism The Microsoft MVP Program Career effects of MVP Engineering…
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