There are now only 5 weeks to go now until KMP’s Reputation Management seminar takes place on the 7th May at the MDDA in Manchester! This week it’s the turn of Simon Rogers – Director of Sales at Market Sentinel. Background: Simon has 20 years experience of selling high value contracts covering outsourced services, application software and associated integration services to blue chip organisations. For the last 8 years he has been managing sales teams in start-up and turn-round situations, in Europe, USA and the UK. His success is due to pragmatic strategies, involving market segmentation, solid recruitment and employee development, and very good management of the sales process. Simon has also worked at Hoskyns, Cap Gemini, Burberrys, Corning, Norcross, specialising in start-ups. About Market Sentinel Market Sentinel is an organisation whose technology and expertise enables an organisation to understand who has influence over their brand, what consumerscons are saying online (positive or negative) and through that understanding, focus PR and marketing on those people and organisations that will deliver the best return on time and money invested and thus, manage the perception to the benefit of the brand and grow the business. The Presentation Simon will be presenting “How to Manage your Reputation and Measure the ROI.” Simon will be discussing:

• Where to find online conversations about your brand
• How to manage these conversations
• How to get involved and influence the conversations

If you haven’t booked yet, you can still get your tickets at the early-bird rate (available until 10th April). Book Now!

There’s just 6 weeks to go now until KMP’s seminar on the topic of Reputation Management takes place in Manchester on the 7th May! But, if you can’t wait until then, don’t worry! In the weeks running up to the seminar, I am going to be profiling the speakers and giving you a sneak preview of what you can expect from each of their presentations. As well as this, I’m going to let you in on a bit of background information about each of the speakers so that you can get to know them a bit before the seminar! First up this week, we have KMP’s very own Managing Director – Jon Keefe! Jon was one of the original founders of KMP in 1991, and has embraced internet technologies since 1995, helping organisations to understand how they can benefit from digital innovation. Jon has steered KMP from its inception in 1991 at the end of the last UK recession, through the Dot com crash to the steady growth and profitability it returns today. This experience overlaid on 13 years digital expertise in the public and private sector means Jon brings extensive knowledge and insight to any organisation and their digital strategy. Jon has also been a long time supporter of Manchester Digital, the trade association for ICT and New Media in the Northwest and an advisor to The Big Chip awards since they were first held in 1997. Jon will be presenting the keynote presentation, entitled “Are you ready to manage your reputation?” Jon will be finding out just how “social media ready” your company is, where he will be discussing the resources and skills available in your company vs what is required.