Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Create a Talk Trigger for Business: Magnificent Marketing Presents a New Podcast Episode on the Power of the New Word of Mouth

Word of mouth has been the number-one way to gain new business for decades. But how many of companies have a strategy to create word of mouth? And how does one go about creating a strategy to increase word of mouth?

Those are the questions Jay Baer of digital marketing firm Convince and Convert tries to answer in his new book about t alk triggers – or, in other words, the reasons people tell their friends about a company or product.

Magnificent Marketing has teamed up with Baer to present a new podcast episode, in which they discuss the importance of word of mouth for marketing and explain to marketers how to effectively create talk triggers for their business.

In this episode, Baer touches on the following topics:

This is part of Magnificent's marketing podcast series. To listen to this episode, and read the accompanying blog, click here.
About Magnificent Marketing:

Magnificent Marketing is your full-service content marketing agency that will take care of all your marketing needs so that you can concentrate on the core duties needed to manage and grow your business.

Their objective is to generate leads that turn into customers while focusing on expanding the visibility of your company and brand, and positioning you to be "top of mind" for future potential clients.

In order to achieve this, they draw on their experience and belief that a mixture of traditional marketing techniques combined with modern marketing tools will yield the best results. In other words, they blend old and new school marketing to create the best school of thought.

About Jay Baer:

Jay Baer is the world's most retweeted person among digital marketers. He is a renowned business strategist, keynote speaker and the New York Times best-selling author of five books who travels the world helping businesspeople get and keep more customers. Jay has advised more than 700 companies since 1994, including Caterpillar, Nike, Allstate, The United Nations and 32 of the FORTUNE 500. He is the founder of Convince & Convert, a strategy consulting firm that helps prominent companies gain and keep more customers through the smart intersection of technology, social media, and customer service. His Convince & Convert Media division owns the world's #1 content marketing blog, the world's top marketing podcast, and many other education resources for business owners and executives. The creator of five multi-million dollar companies, Jay is an active venture capitalist and technology advisor, as well as an avid tequila collector, and certified barbecue judge.

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Paper Crafting, Home Décor, Calligraphy, Macramé among Education Lineup for Creativation

Conference registration for the 78th annual Creativation trade event, where creative business professionals go to learn, connect and discover, is now open at http://www.CreativationShow.org. This year's conference features hands-on product workshops in popular consumer craft categories, including but not limited to paper crafting, cardmaking, scrapbooking, home décor, mixed media, celebrations, party décor and needle arts. The premier education program also offers interactive seminars on topics that are critical to today's retail and creative professionals, including social media, content and digital marketing, business operations, legal, point of sales and technology. The conference program kicks off with two full days of education on January 17 and 18, 2019, and runs throughout the trade show, January 19-21, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

In response to the hand lettering trend, Creativation is introducing a new calligraphy education track. American Crafts, an innovative leader in scrapbooking, is offering the workshop, "Beginner Bouncy Brush Lettering" where buyer attendees will learn the basics of brush pen calligraphy. This new track also features a workshop with world-renowned calligrapher Paul Antonio, sponsored by the Phoenix-based company Spellbinders Paper Arts, where buyer attendees will create one-of-a-kind cards and invitations using calligraphic flourishes and elements.

"Our in-person peer education model enables our attendees to learn directly from the manufacturers they buy products from," says Andria Gibbon, CEM, Vice President of Education & Events for the Association For Creative Industries (AFCI), the event organizer. "We're excited to host an event that provides universally interesting content that will benefit all creative businesses."

Laurie Karian, Director of Brand Strategy for Gel Press by PolyGel, one of the exhibitors, shares, "We are able to showcase our products, bring a new brand/product to market, educate the industry professionals on the 'best practices' of the products, and create a community around the love of artistic expression."

Creativation is also accepting exhibitor applications. Manufacturers of general arts and crafts, memory and scrapbooking, yarn, needle arts and other creative products are encouraged to view the floor plan and complete an exhibit space contract at http://www.CreativationShow.org and contact Nadine Schwartz, Director of Sales and Sponsorships, at (201) 835-1203 or nschwartz(at)afci.global.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.CreativationShow.org.

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ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
The Association For Creative Industries (AFCI) is the premier trade association for the global creative arts products industries. AFCI strives to deliver innovative high value services as we support our Members who provide products and services to educate, entertain, and inspire creative consumers. Our Members include the manufacturers, retailers, distributors, designers, educators, digital content providers, professional makers and DIYers, and other creative professionals that comprise the $36 billion+ creative arts industries in the United States alone. For more information about AFCI, membership, or its annual Creativation trade event, visit http://www.afci.global.

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PayGo Energy’s Mark O’Keefe Receives AppSheet Innovator Award

PayGo Energy's Head of Operations, Mark O'Keefe, receives AppSheet's Innovator award; an award that recognizes app creators for creating apps that change how work is done, influencing positive changes in organizations and the world.

PayGo Energy, a company based in Nairobi, is revolutionizing the way the world accesses clean fuel. While working in an informal settlement in Nairobi, the PayGo team noticed that households were spending more money to cook with dirty fuels, like charcoal and kerosene, than they would with gas. Their challenge: how to sell gas in small quantities so that everyone has access to clean fuel. Click here.

From the start, O'Keefe knew that he wanted to digitize the entire process. "Although it took a little bit longer to develop these processes and apps with AppSheet, in the long run I think it saved us a lot of time because of the way we could digitize every single process. Now every core component of our operations is digitized," said O'Keefe.

AppSheet's App Innovator award series shines a light on inspired people creating apps that make a difference in the workplace or the world. "Every day we learn about app creators from every sector—nonprofit, education, construction and more—that have had a significant impact on their business or organization through the development of apps that have changed how people get work done. In ways big and small, we marvel at the ingenuity of these innovators and the apps they create to solve a specific problem, address an unmet need, or change an existing process for the better. This award recognizes those creators as innovators in their fields," said Praveen Seshadri, CEO of AppSheet.

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"Thank you for this opportunity and all of the support. The AppSheet platform made our digitization journey an effective way to manage all our processes," said O'Keefe. Read all the latest news.

About AppSheet
AppSheet is an intelligent no code platform used by both technical and non-technical users alike for the creation and distribution of apps. It is the platform of choice for over 200,000 app creators across the globe, in small- and medium-sized organizations as well as Fortune 500 companies. For more information on AppSheet, please visit http://www.appsheet.com.

About PayGo Energy
A PayGo system is installed in a household, including a two-burner stove, cylinder and a smart meter that measures the amount of gas used. Customers access pay-per-use gas by mobile money—in amounts that make sense to them. The valve on the smart meter shuts down when credit runs out and instantly reopens with a new top up. With smart usage and location monitoring, the platform allows cylinders to be replaced before customers ever run out of gas. By removing barriers to adoption, PayGo Energy's technology and service has shown to hasten the speed of which customers transition away from solid fuels and start and keep on using clean cooking fuel. For more information on PayGo Energy, please visit https://www.paygoenergy.co/

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Oregon State University Taps Into Big Data with New Online Bachelor’s Program in Geography & Geospatial Science

Geographic analysis and geospatial technology are present in every aspect of modern life in our interconnected world, and there are many career opportunities for professionals who have the know-how to solve the most pressing problems facing our environment, society and economy.

To meet the demand for geography and geospatial professionals in the national job market, Oregon State University now offers a bachelor's degree in geography and geospatial science 100 percent online, giving learners everywhere access to highly transferable skills in order to harness the power of "big data" analysis and geovisualization and build a career in almost any field or economic sector.

Geography is central to many important global matters including land-use planning, conflict resolution and global security, and adaptation to climate change. Geospatial science applies techniques such as web mapping, remote sensing and geographic information science (GIScience) to address a broad range of critical environmental, social and economic issues.

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The program – offered by Oregon State's renowned College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences and delivered online by nationally ranked OSU Ecampus – puts an emphasis on using spatial data to impact the Earth's environment, its peoples and its places. There is a focus on human-environment relations with an international perspective aimed at enhancing global awareness.

"In this era of information technology and challenging social and environmental issues, our B.S. in Geography and Geospatial Science will open doors to exciting careers and lifelong learning," said Julia Jones, professor and director of the GGS program in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

The course work is designed to help students address challenges including those related to business, environment and natural resources, defense, transportation, natural hazards and public safety.

Using the latest geospatial science tools, geographic knowledge and experiential learning, graduates of this program will be well-prepared for future-proofed careers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, geographers had a high median salary of $76,860 in 2017, while cartography and photogrammetry are among the fastest-growing occupations in the U.S. with 19 percent job growth expected through 2026. Read all the latest news.

Oregon State is a member of The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and OSU's GIScience undergraduate certificate and graduate certificate are among the leading online GIS programs nationally.

Students can apply to the program now, with classes set to begin with Oregon State's winter term on Jan. 7, 2019.

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Trepp Launches CECL Benchmarks Tool to Help Banks Strengthen CECL Analysis

Trepp, LLC, the leading provider of information, analytics, and technology to the structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking markets, announced today it has launched CECL (Current Expected Credit Loss) Benchmarks™, a solution designed to bridge the gap for banks in search of data to estimate and justify their reserves under CECL.

"The breadth and depth of data required to estimate and justify reserves under CECL are much greater than what most banks have available," said Russell Hughes, Trepp VP and Banking Product Manager. "Trepp has stepped up to deliver CECL Benchmarks™, a CRE data solution that provides customers with easy access to 20+ years of historical data from the highest quality CRE loan data set available."

Built from Trepp's CMBS data feed – the de facto gold standard in quality for CRE loan data – Benchmarks™ allows users to leverage data to establish loss rates for mean reversion, validate model output or justify qualitative adjustment. With a user-friendly and intuitive interface, banks can quickly sort, aggregate, view, and download historical lifetime loss rates for CRE loans across a range of loan attributes and credit profiles. Users can easily export the results into Excel for integration with their broader CECL process.

"This tool is extremely valuable to institutions with limited internal loan loss data to effectively perform CECL analysis," Hughes added. "Benchmarks™' seamless interface eliminates the need for data scientists to slice and dice large data sets. Instead, this product allows them to spend their time doing what really matters: finding where their portfolio outperforms and underperforms benchmarks."

Trepp CECL Benchmarks™ is a data module delivered through the Trepp Default Model™, a web-based platform that enables banks to forecast commercial real estate loan Probability of Default (PD), Loss Given Default LGD), and Expected Loss (EL) at the loan and portfolio levels. For more information on Trepp CECL Benchmarks, visit our website: https://www.trepp.com/products/bank/trepp-cecl-benchmarks.

About Trepp
Trepp, LLC, founded in 1979, is the leading provider of information, analytics and technology to the CMBS, commercial real estate and banking markets. Trepp provides primary and secondary market participants with the web-based tools and insight they need to increase their operational efficiencies, information transparency and investment performance. From its offices in New York, San Francisco and London, Trepp serves its clients with products and services to support trading, research, risk management, surveillance and portfolio management. Trepp is wholly-owned by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT). For more information, visit http://www.Trepp.com.

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Captivating Novel and 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist ‘The Funeral Plain’ is Released

Author Michael Dean Kiggans has debuted his first fiction book, "The Funeral Plain," which chronicles a young man's journey to finding the truth of life after tragedy strikes. An iUniverse Editor's Choice book and a 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in two categories for First Novel and General Fiction/Novel under 80,000 words, "The Funeral Plain" has been receiving rave reviews for its realistic characters and fascinating page-turning story.

In this coming of age roman á clef set in Ohio, protagonist Elijah Rake recalls the fateful day his father suddenly died in a skydiving plane crash when he was only nine years old. Through vivid memories, he recounts the effect of not having a father in his life had on his childhood and family as he comes to accept that death is inevitable. After much reflection and reconciliation, Elijah is able to grow into the man he becomes at the end of the story.

"I wanted to write a 'literary thriller' for people who love great stories," said Kiggans. "But I wanted it to represent real life, because we don't always get a happy ending in real life. The book has ties to something similar that happened in my family over 50 years ago. Much like Elijah, I was able to create a legendary story from this experience."

"The Funeral Plain" highlights themes of personal development, life, death, family and relationships as it reminds readers that before death, there is a rich life worth discovering and living.

The book has already entertained and touched readers with one reader calling it "…a nice piece of work. You should be proud…a melancholy delight." Another wrote, "Just finished reading it cover to cover, could not put it down."

"The Funeral Plain is an incredibly well written and absorbing novel that so easily captures the reader that it's hard to believe it's Mr. Kiggans' first book. This gentleman is an exceptionally talented writer and I highly recommend this novel." – Amazon reviewer

"The Funeral Plain"
By Michael Dean Kiggans
ISBN: 978-1-5320-20582-1 (SC); 978-1-5320-20575-1 (EB)
Available at the iUniverse Online Bookstore, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

About the author
Michael Dean Kiggans is an avid reader and collector of fine books and literature. He currently resides near New Matamoras, Ohio, with his wife, Deborah. "The Funeral Plain" is his first novel which was honored as an iUniverse Editor's Choice book and was recently a finalist in two categories for the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Big Data Infrastructure Automation Provider Gemini Data Awards Public Sector Partner, Epoch Concepts, with Premier Status

Gemini Data Inc, a provider of the leading big data infrastructure platform, Gemini Enterprise, today announced Epoch Concepts LLC has achieved Premier Partner Status. A key component of Gemini Data's public sector strategy is to engage with partners that understand the power of combining existing data platform technologies with advanced processes like automation, machine learning, and automatic data discovery to drive greater value and efficiency in their client's big data and security technology stack. Epoch Concepts delivers on this objective while providing unparalleled customer service and support.

Gemini Data's Public Sector Director, Andrew Hooson, recognizes "Epoch Concepts has demonstrated the ability to truly understand their customers' big data vision and help them realize significant efficiencies using leading edge solutions. I'm excited that we have established such a strong partnership and look forward to working with the team to solve our customer's big data challenges, including reducing platform costs."

Gemini Data's platform is used globally to bring the vision of big data into reality by automating the management of data platforms and unlocking valuable intelligence from IT data. By automating data infrastructure and analysis and offering an on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solution, Gemini provides a full stack solution that holistically addresses security and privacy concerns.

"Gemini Data is one of those complementary technologies that aligns perfectly with our company mission. Creating purpose-built solutions that incorporate efficiencies like automation and machine learning mean our customers can spend more time on mission and less time worrying about the low value issues & bottlenecks that come from old outdated IT platforms. We are proud of the recognition from Gemini Data and look forward to continuing this partnership." Said Kevin Mackey, Epoch Concept's Chief Revenue Officer.  

About Gemini Data

Gemini Data automates data infrastructure and analysis across silos to unleash the potential of big data investments. The Gemini Enterprise platform provides the fastest path to extracting value from machine data. Designed for modern architectures needing to reduce complexity, the solution is delivered on-prem, in the cloud, or as a hybrid option. Gemini Data is lead by experts from technology heavyweights such as Splunk, AppDynamics, and ArcSight. Find more information at geminidata.com or follow us on Twitter @geminidataco.

About Epoch Concepts, LLC.

Epoch Concepts LLC, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) located in Highlands Ranch, CO and Albuquerque, NM, is dedicated to providing best of breed technologies and services to both government and enterprise customers. The firm offers a full suite of products as well as pre-staging to easy delivery and implementation. Epoch enables customers to protect and evolve their enterprise through innovative best of breed products, from end point to data, and everything in between. They hold contracts with SEWP, GSA, and DISA.

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