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Extole (www.extole.com), the leading Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) Social Marketing Platform, saw exponential sales and revenue growth in its first fiscal quarter of 2012, making it the best quarter in the companys history. During this period, the company added 40 new premium brands as customers including T-Mobile, Travel Channel, Jack Donnelly, My Alarm Center and Cloud9.
This announcement follows an explosive period of growth for Extole. Extole closed 2011 with a year-over-year revenue increase of 400 percent and over 200 customers, increasing the customer base by three times over the previous year. The continued momentum validates Extole as a leader in the social marketing space, by providing companies a solution to launch social referral programs and promotions that drive measurable ROI.
Extoles 40 new customer wins join existing brands such as Redbox, Vistaprint, Shutterfly, Kate Spade New York, New York Times and SkyMall. With Extole, these brands can tap into the power of their customer advocates to cultivate word of mouth (WOM) at scale, amplify awareness and acquire new high value customers, while gaining insight into their customer base and advocates.
We have high expectations for what Extole is going to be able to do as a part of our demand generation program, said Tracy Eiler, CMO, Cloud9. What is more powerful than a referral from a trusted friend or colleague? The fact that Extole is going to enable us to harness that power is really exciting. This is really next-level marketing.
Key highlights from Extoles record Q1 2012, ending April 30, include:
Marketers are realizing a fundament shift in social marketing. It is more than just a brand-focused approach of building brand pages and driving likes and fans, its about harnessing the power of customer advocates to get them spreading the word about your brand, said Brad Klaus, Founder and CEO of Extole. The opportunity is for brands to tap into consumer advocacy across all touch points, including their corporate websites where engagement is highest, and drive word of mouth at scale over social networks and the Facebook Open Graph to produce measurable marketing results.
About Extole
Extole is the leading Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) Social Marketing Platform for brands to tap into the power of customer advocates to drive measurable marketing results through social word of mouth. With Extole-powered social referrals, promotions, and analytics, brands can drive advocacy, amplify awareness and acquire new high-value customers, while gaining insight into customer behavior and advocates. Extole powers C2C social marketing programs for over 250 brands including Vistaprint, Shutterfly, Kate Spade New York, J. Hilburn, New York Times and SkyMall.
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Is it time to stop using the word "Asian"? In recent weeks Britain's Sikh and Hindu communities have complained angrily about the use of the misleading term in reporting of the Rochdale grooming convictions of men of Muslim Pakistani descent. Headlines like Asian grooming why we need to talk about sex crime, Child sex grooming: the Asian question, and Grooming offences committed mostly by Asian men, says ex-Barnardo's chief show the problem.
Obviously Sikhs and Hindus and other "Asian" non-Muslims, including Jains, Zoroastrians, Christians and Buddhists, dont want to be associated with sexual grooming of vulnerable white girls. The vast majority of Muslims dont want to either. The girls targeted in Rochdale, Derby and now in Luton are all non-Muslim. This is nothing new for British Hindus and Sikhs, who have complained about targeting of their girls for decades; Indians refer to the practice as "love-jihad".
Judge Gerald Clifton, who sentenced the men in Rochdale, indicated they thought the victims were worthless and beyond any respect. He asserted that one of the motivations behind this was they were not part of your community or religion. This is not the first time that this has been suggested: at a Hindu Forum conference in 2007, the then Metropolitan Police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, revealed how the police were working to clamp down on aggressive conversions of vulnerable girls. The following year, a blog site called "Sikh4aweek" which called on Muslim "soldiers" to "hunt" down Sikh university students during freshers week was forced to close following complaints to the police and Google. The common denominator: targeting of non-Muslim girls.
It is for the Muslim community and its leaders to decide what is behind the trend, and what to do about it; but it is time for politicians and the press to bear in mind that in the context of these sex crimes, as with violent extremism, female genital mutilation, forced marriage and honour killings, the vague term "Asian" serves no purpose. Worse, it besmirches entire swathes of Britons with roots in the Indian subcontinent. Its encouraging to hear some brave voices filtering through the political minefield: Baroness Warsi recently hit out at the small minority of Pakistani men who see white girls as fair game; last year, Jack Straw braved criticism for his claim that some Pakistani men see white girls as easy meat. But the problem continues: commentators are unwilling to label the perpetrators "Muslim", opting instead to hide behind the fudge of "Asian".
Lessons can be learned from Britain's own colonial history. The Empire's attitudes towards natives may have been problematic from a modern perspective, but it was careful to distinguish between the different inhabitants of the subcontinent. In Charles Allens book Soldier Sahibs: The Men who made the North West Frontier, the Indian-born historian quotes the soldier Herbert Edwardes, who was dispatched to a distant corner of the Sikh Empire in the mid-18th century. He describes four main groups in a mountainous district called Banu:
"The mongrel and vicious Bunnoochee peasantry, ill-ruled by Mullicks, and ill-righted by factions; the greedy Syuds and other religious mendicants, sucking the blood of the superstitious people; the mean Hindoo traders, enduring a life of degradation, that they may cheat their Muhommudan employers; and the Vizeree [Waziri] interlopers, half pastoral, half agricultural, wholly without law, but neither destitute of honour or virtue."
As Edwardes discovered, people of the Indian subcontinent have various cultural, traditional and religious affiliations: identities are both convoluted and complex. They shouldnt be oversimplified for the sake of political expediency. Of course we have to be careful not to label all Muslims sex offenders: but it is simple cowardice to pretend that grooming is not a problem for the Muslim community, but Asians in general.
Hardeep Singh is a freelance journalist and broadcaster and the Press Secretary for the Network of Sikh Organisations
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Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) June 07, 2012
DotComSecrets President Russell Brunson announced another round of free webinars for would-be marketers who want to learn the secrets of how to earn money online through an efficient Internet marketing system.
To encourage participants to sign up for DotComSecrets X, Russell is offering incentives such as raffle contests and cash donations to different charitable organizations. For every participant who signs up for DotComSecrets, Russell will donate a corresponding amount to World Teacher Aid.
Russell has sponsored World Teacher Aid, a Canadian organization that strives to help build schools for school children in African countries such as Kenya. While the participant learns how to get money fast, one lucky individual will be picked to go to Africa, accompanying Russell and his executives, to help build schools. The winning participant will not only have a chance at having financial security through DotComSecrets, but he will also have the opportunity to help build schools.
The webinars will be held on three different dates and all of these will be free of charge. Participants are encouraged to register for an early seat because only 300 slots are appropriated. Since the first-come, first-serve policy is observed, failing to avail of the 300 will be disqualification from the said webinar. Participants may register here: http://clickfusion.com/r/12/4.
Russell deemed it his responsibility to help ordinary people become financially secure and be able to work on their own terms at home, determining the income they want to earn. For this, he diligently researched and came up with a program that helps an average citizen earn money online using free online marketing tools.
During the webinar, Russell will introduce this program, and additionally, educate participants on how to go about the whole Internet marketing process. Through this personal coaching, Russell strives to achieve the following DotComSecrets goals: 1.To help 100,000 individuals earn their first $100 through internet marketing 2.To help 10,000 individuals ultimately fire their boss 3.To help 1,000 individuals take home six-figure incomes every year 4.To help 100 individuals become the next online millionaires
Russell assures the participants that, At the end of the webinar, you will have the keys and the tools you need to secure your financial freedom forever AND you're going to have ME as your own personal mentor and coach.
This only means that the participants now have the chance to work without a nagging boss, no specific working hours, and no sales experience needed. To learn more about the DotComSecrets X program, check http://x.dotcomsecrets.com/.
Russell Brunson, founder of DotComSecrets, developed a program that effectively utilizes affiliate marketing to earn money online. For this, he has made DotComSecrets an internationally acclaimed Internet marketing company. His genius in the online marketing industry has earned him the respect of tycoon Richard Branson and inspirational speaker Tony Robbins.
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07-06-2012 12:19 Local Social Marketing Experts, Focused on Local Search, Social Media, and Video Marketing for Local Businesses. Titaneer: Engineering The Titans Of The Web.