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#23 Experts Share Their Awards Programs
Get inspiration for your awards programs.
Hello! There’s a lot of talk about awards programs. Here’s the 411!
Upcoming Events:
THIS Friday! 2PM EST
Kevin Lau is sharing about awards programs - he’s run an amazing Customer Awards program at Adobe and offered to share with the community - this is an awesome opportunity for all of us to learn. Register here.
Learn more about Kevin in these links:
LinkedIn Brand30 Posts (find all links in the comments)
Beating the Drum: How Customer Awards Programs Provide Immense Value for the Whole Company
Customer Advocacy Course & Certification: Where he shares his approach to planning an amazing program for your Customers & Awards efforts.
Additional Events You Don’t Want To Miss:
June 28th Advocacy: Reviews & References 2PM EST (jobs call will be immediately after at 3PM EST) Register here.
July 6th CMA 101 - Are you New to Customer Marketing & Advocacy?
Join us every month to discuss best practices for building new CMA efforts in your company. Sponsored by Captivate Collective’s CAP Certification Program
Awards!!
Don’t miss Leslie Barrett’s latest episode on Awards Programs (her program for Sendoso Senders is phenomenal) Check it out here.
Ari Hoffman from Influitive is running with his recent Elite 18 & Fearless 50 Awards program. He’s now sharing CEO video messages with the winners - what a great way to use the program to bring more attention to the Customer-led work happening in the B2B space.
Daniel Palay from Grafana Labs has shared about and updated us on the Awards program for customers. I love their mascot Grot!
More updates from Daniel (in the community - join here).
Award Programs for YOU!
CAP Awards: Customer Advocacy Practice awards are open from Captivate Collective. Now’s the time to shine - submit yourself or someone you admire for their work in our space. :D
CustomerX Impact Awards: The annual CustomerX by SlapFive & TrustRadius, event that no one should miss (seriously, everyone will be there) is taking submissions for their awards program. Who will you nominate?
PeerSpot & Alison Bukowski just launched their Annual Enterprise Technology Awards Program for 2023 - see what Alison has to say about their goals for this program.
Community Updates:
Sponsorship updates - we have 2 new sponsors and new packages for our sponsors. Additionally, new opportunities to support the community are coming up as we explore new programs….
Mentorship program - I asked a LOT of our members if they wanted a mentoring program and almost 50% have said YES - we have well over 100 people interested and I’m looking for a Sponsor for this program.
500 Members - we are almost there, now’s a great time to share about CMAweekly on LinkedIn.
New transcripts, summaries, resources and events have been added to the home page at CMAweekly.com
Hot Content!
Community & Reviews I was recently interviewed for a blog post with B2B SaaS Reviews. You’ll learn how I drive reviews with a community effort. For the record, I’m very uncomfortable seeing my face so much in promotional posts - GAH!
Community Posts:
Should You Wake the Sleeping Bears (customers)? Rebecca G: https://cmaweekly.slack.com/archives/C04B57HN9D3/p1686773927213959
What have you recently learned in CMA?: https://cmaweekly.slack.com/archives/C04B57HN9D3/p1686842484994349
LinkedIn Posts:
Freebie of the Week
Joel Klettke gave away 100 ways to use Case Studies & testimonials & if you know anything about content marketing, you know you have to come up with creative ideas to get your content out there. This is a super helpful freebie to assist you.
This looks fun :)
I haven’t seen a demo yet, but some community members have and you can join the conversation about it in the CMAweekly Slack. PS: I have severe FOMO right now.
Have a Great Week
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