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Are customer advisory boards still a good strategy?

Callie Rojewski, Director of Customer Advocacy at Menlo Security, answers the question of the hour, "are CABs still a good strategy?"
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How do you achieve a truly global advocacy program?

We talk with Maria Sztarovics, Founder & CEO of Wings4U, about what makes for a truly global 🌎 advocacy program.
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5 Tips for Launching an Influitive Advocacy Program

Thinking about launching an Influitive advocacy program? Huw Wigley, Post-Sales Marketing Manager at SUSE, will share his tips for launching your own Influitive advocacy program.
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Webinars

From Advocate Activity to Advocacy Impact

In this webinar, we talk with special guest Leslie Barrett, Director of Customer Marketing & Advocacy at Sendoso, about the movement of the advocacy practice from activity to impact and how you can show the real value of advocacy and it's impact in the organization.
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Prioritizing Your Advocacy Efforts to Ensure Short- and Long-Term Impact

Our own Bianca Del Vecchio chats with Daniel Palay, Customer & Community Marketing Team Lead at Grafana Labs, about how to prioritize your team's efforts for short-term and long-term impact.
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Podcasts

What's Next for Customer Advocacy Programs?

Deena, Liz, and host Will Fraser (CEO of SaaSquatch) share advice on how to get started with your own advocacy program, how to evolve your strategy after you’ve launched your first program, and what’s next in customer advocacy. Hint: It’s about unlocking advocacy for your entire customer base!
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The importance of VOC in your customer and market research

Deena Zenyk and Liz Richardson discuss how you should incorporate the Voice of the Customer into your customer and market research, and why such a technique is so important for customer-centric marketing and developing a strong customer advocacy relationship.
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Webinars

Be Your Own Best Advocate: Landing Your Next CMA Role

A job search discussion uniquely catered to customer marketers. We talk with Andrew Sevillia, Director of Customer Advocacy at Vendr, about getting you to your desired role, faster. He also shares some practical tips from his own personal journey.
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How to Get 45K CMA Followers Through Knowledge Sharing

Building your personal brand is where it's at these days. We be chat with Christina Garnett, Senior Marketing Manager at HubSpot, on how she has built her own profile and substantial social following through knowledge sharing!
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Customer Advocacy Vendor Speed Dating (May 2022)

Ready to meet your Customer Advocacy Software Soulmate? Tune in to the recording of Captivate's 2022 Customer Advocacy Vendor Speed Dating event.
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Building Next-Level Influitive Campaigns

We take a deep-dive into building out-of-this-world Influitive campaigns and cover 6 mission-critical steps for creating and launching highly engaging and entertaining campaigns that your customers will be over the moon for.
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Ebooks

Beyond 5 Stars: Obtaining and Leveraging Customer Reviews

In this ebook you'll find fresh ideas that are both practical and actionable to keep the reviews flowing and maximize the potential of every customer review interaction.
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From Marketing to Movement

How do we transform a customer program into customer momentum? In this webinar, we talk with Popular Demand founder and seasoned CMO, Kevin Miller, to discuss how to activate your existing advocates to develop a customer cultural brand that has the potential to grow beyond the confines of your company.
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Reflecting on Customer Advocacy's Evolution and What's Coming Next with Deena Zenyk

Deena reflects on the evolution of advocacy over the past 15 years and the emergence of "Advocacy 2.0".
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Ebooks

Five Star Strategies for Online Reviews

An effective customer review strategy is powered by relevance and collaboration, not last-minute review wrangling tactics. Find best practices to support you in diversifying your approach in this ebook.
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Building Trust and Connection Through Customer Stories

In our chat with Sam Shepler, we talk about building a successful customer advocacy program, the shift in marketing and sales, and how you can be at the forefront of current customer advocacy practices.
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Talkin CRM with Deena Zenyk and Liz Richardson on Customer Advocacy 2.0 for 2021

Megan and I discuss the next generation of Customer Advocacy Programs: "Advocacy 2.0" with Deena Zenyk and Liz Richardson of the Captivate Collective.
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What B2B Marketers Can Learn From B2C Loyalty Programs with Liz Richardson

Liz spent over five years at Influitive, leading areas like client services, customer success and customer experience.
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Webinars

3 Rules for Choosing the Right Customer Advocacy Platform

Learn how to choose the right platforms and tools for your B2B customer engagement or advocacy program using strategy as your foundation.
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Captivate Conversations

Giving Customers a Seat at the Table

The Captivate Duo and our guest, Jennifer Susinski, Customer Marketing and Advocacy Manager at HPE, chat for 5-minutes on "The best way to give customers a seat at the table."
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Engaging the C-Suite for advocacy

A five minute conversation on the best ways to activate C-level customers to advocate for your organization, featuring Dana Alvarenga from SlapFive.
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What Achievements Had the Most Impact on Your Customer Advocacy Career?

Join us for the fun, familiar discussion as we pull back the curtain on impactful achievements that helped propel our careers forward in the customer advocacy and engagement space.
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Should B2B Customer Advocacy Focus on Individuals or Logos?

Individuals or logos? What are you pursing as a customer marketing and advocacy professional? Nick Venturella from Ceridian weighs in with the Captivate Collective team.
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Customer Testimonial Mistakes

What are the biggest mistakes organizations make when it comes to capturing and leveraging customer testimonials? A brief discussion with the Captivate team and Sam Shepler, CEO of Testimonial Hero.
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The far reaching benefits of the advocacy mindset

In this Captivate Conversation, we chat with Amy Rosenberg, Sr. Manager of Field Marketing at MongoDB on how advocacy experience and advocacy mindset can have benefits across the organization.
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Approaching customer advocacy as more than a platform

Captivate chats with Tim Newborn, Marketing Programs Manager at Blackbaud on the importance of understand your customer advocacy strategies beyond any given platform.
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Measuring program effectiveness and ROI

Captivate chats with Luis Gonzalez, Manager of Strategic Customer Marketing and Advocacy at Alteryx on what lessons she has learned from PR that have helped her succeed in the customer marketing practice.
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Lessons from PR to make you a better customer marketer

Captivate chats with Jenni Adair, Director of Customer Engagement and Advocacy at Cohesity on what lessons she has learned from PR that have helped her succeed in the customer marketing practice.
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What does Advocacy 2.0 Software Look Like?

In this two-part Captivate Conversation, Gal Biran, CEO and Founder of Crowdvocate discusses the difference between 1.0 and 2.0 advocacy strategy and solutions with the Captivate team.
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How to get started with a software-enabled advocacy strategy?

Captivate chats with Gal Biran, Co-Founder of Advocacy platform Crowdvocate on the importance of synchronizing strategy with software.
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How to Launch a Successful Customer Awards Program

Captivate chats with Thalita Carrico, Learning Engagement Manager, Customer Enablement at Alteryx on her top 6 tips for launching a successful customer awards program.
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What are the main drivers of TRUE customer advocacy?

Captivate chats with Amon Kiplagat, Founder of Hyve, an all in one customer advocacy marketing software platform helping B2B SaaS companies turn their customers into empowered advocates that spread positive word of mouth to drive revenue growth and customer retention.
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Webinars

“Hey Look! That’s Me!” Creating share-worthy customer stories

In this fast-paced, practical webinar, customer advocacy experts Deena Zenyk and Liz Richardson of Captivate Collective are joined by content master Emily Amos, founder of Uplift Content.
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Customer Advocacy Vendor Speed Dating (July 2021)

Ready to meet your Customer Advocacy Software Soulmate? Tune in to the recording of Captivate's Customer Advocacy Vendor Speed Dating event.
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Podcasts

Sales Synergistics Podcast with Captivate Co-Founders

Captivate Collective's joint venture is more than an advocate strategy consultancy; it’s a meeting place for like-minded marketers.
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