#19 Support the new site, User Groups & Community Friday Call

Welcome!

We’ve got some new changes for CMAweekly!!

The website is officially changed and is now on the Bettermode platform.

Please join to access recordings, resources, and upcoming content.

You can start posting on the community (we will also keep the NEW Slack called CMAweekly - see if you've joined).

There will be a blog including content from the community and some of our most active members.

The Goal: Get the newsletter, events, and content in one space! (Events are coming)

Each week, additional events/calls will be listed in this newsletter; you'll get this automatically once you are a free member of the site.

Now, the news for the week!!

Events:

• Every Tuesday: Job Seekers call for CMA; 2 PM EST we discuss companies hiring, trends in the space. Register by joining this space.

• Friday topic: Community & User Groups for Customer Marketing Efforts

• 2PM EST Join here: cmaweekly.com/fridays

• May 15th 12PM EST: Expansion w/ Rachel Ward; We'll discuss Lead Scoring for Customer Marketing & Expansion (this will be hot!!). Register here.

• May various dates: Accelerate series by SlapFive

• May 18th at 1 pm ET Building an Enterprise Community Strategy with AWS

• Robert Cialdini - Free opportunity to get his help in a new influence challenge (by May 11th) 

• May 16th Vendor Speed Dating with Captivate Collective - See all of the vendors in our space without a demo.

VOTE!!

The Elite 18 and Fearless 50 are open for voting.

Some community favorites have been chosen:

• Kristine Kukich

• Alison Bukowski

• Alexie Glover

Recordings:

I haven't collected any. We didn't have our normal Friday call, but come this week.

LinkedIn Posts:

• Rod Cherkas (CCO Playbook author) shared about his call with others on considering Customers when rolling out new AI features - check it out. 

• The Customer Whisperer says getting closer to customers in times like this helps you win. Check it out here. 

• A simple writing process by Tim Stoddart

• Leslie Barrett shares How you talk to an Executive

• Chris Walker shares why now is the best time to be a marketer

• Do you need a company page for your brand? hmm…

• Why is your customer canceling your call?

• Fix B2B Marketing - what’s working and what doesn’t

Community Discussions:

Starting a Customer Stories (case studies) effort by Kevin

Hyperlinking keywords in your case studies by Harikrishna

Short form customer stories ideas by Alexie Glover

Marking new customers for future stories by Cara Peterson

How not to launch a rebrand to customers by Rebecca Grossman

And, come in to the Slack community to welcome some of our new members:

• Thao Ngo

• Bree Bunzel

• Cristina Sartori Errico

• Christina Patrick

• & Pablo Fernandes

Have a great week everyone!!