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LinkedIn Profile Update Testimonials for Mark Stonham and Wurlwind

LinkedWin Pimp Your LinkedIn Profile ImageMany clients see huge benefits in having their LinkedIn Profile re-written professionally.

Here are a selection of comments and LinkedIn Profile Update Testimonials about the process and results achieve with a rewritten LinkedIn Profile.

Click on the links to visit their profiles on LinkedIn and see for yourself.

If you’d like a Professional, Engaging and Compelling LinkedIn Personal Profile as a solid foundation for your LinkedIn Sales and Social Selling activity please send an email to me at mark@wurlwind.co.uk.

Customer feedback and LinkedIn Profile Update testimonials.

Different LinkedIn Profile styles for different roles

Having reviewed and written hundreds of LinkedIn profiles it’s clear that different roles deserve a different style of profile. Check out the following pages that outline the key points for each role and profile:

For more information, or a quote, please send an email to me at mark@wurlwind.co.uk.

Wurlwind Social Selling Blog

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This policy is effective from 1 May 2013.

Section about Google Analytics Display Advertising Feature  added November 2014.

Website and social media case study for the Mirifice project

Mirifice logo for social media case studyThis short website, integrated marketing and social media case study highlights the three major phases and deliverables of a project for Mirifice, a network monitoring software supplier based in Bath.

Mirifice engaged Mark Stonham, founder and lead consultant at Wurlwind, to help them develop their online marketing and lead generation systems.

Over a two year period there were three major projects undertaken and successfully completed.

  • The largest was the Mirifice website replacement and integration project
  • The second was developing and kicking off the Mirifice Social Media plan
  • The third was Mirifice company and Mirimon product marketing support

Paul Tinkler, founder of Mirifice, outlines how pleased he was with the way the project went, and with the deliverables and outcomes.

Watch the video and read our website and social media case study below.

Each of the three phases included many elements, the main ones being:

1. Website replacement and integration

The website replacement project started with a Website Review and Action Plan undertaken by Mark, and completed with the website going live in time for a European trade exhibition, about 12 weeks later. The project included:

  • Design of an integrated online marketing and lead generation platform for Mirifice, including:
    • various ways to generate traffic and visitors, such as Search and Social Media and offline methods
    • multiple inquiry capture pages, essentially one for each major decision-maker persona
    • email marketing automation, and Loopfuse was selected against the criteria set out
    • integration with Salesforce.com, the CRM system already in use at Mirifice
    • use of Google Analytics for monitoring traffic and conversion and decision support for ongoing improvements
    • the preferred website CMS platform against the criteria was WordPress
  • A website brief was developed against this design, and a website design and build company was selected.
  • Mark was the project manager for the design and build of the crucial first phase of the overall design. This included:
    • Oversight of the scope of the first phase, against the brief
    • Input to and review of the templates, branding, imagery, navigation, etc.
    • Content migration, editing and new content creation
    • Basic set-up of the email automation system
    • Set up of Google Analytics
  • Mark also provided support during the exhibition, including:
    • Uploading details of inquiries gathered at the exhibition
    • Creation of follow-up emails, and tracking

2. The Social Media case study element

Alongside the website replacement Mark reviewed and updated the Mirifice Social Media presence. This included:

  • Review and update of LinkedIn profiles for key individuals
  • Creation of the Mirifice company profile on LinkedIn, along with product and service sections
  • Update and creation of Twitter accounts for key audiences
  • Plans to develop specific industry topics through the website, blog and Social Media, particularly using Twitter and LinkedIn

3. Company and Product Marketing

Prior to and as part of the website project, the Mirifice company proposition and product messaging was reviewed and refined, with assistance from Mark. This included:

  • review and update of product data sheets to emphasise benefits and gain greater consistency of layout and messaging
  • identify key decision-makers and persona, and crafting messages and copy to engage with their needs
  • keyword review and analysis to align and expand the key phrases with the likely search terms of potential buyers

As Paul emphasises in the video, he was delighted that the project came in on-time against a tight schedule, and under budget.

Mark has continued to provide support to Mirifice since the site went live, along with marketing advice and suggestions to assist the Mirifice team to make the most of the new online marketing platform, and develop through subsequent phases to capitalise on the initial investment.


About Mirifice:

Mirifice provides real-time, end-to-end monitoring solutions for television network operators in Cable, Satellite and IPTV. Mirifice improves Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE), quality and reliability of set top boxes (STBs) and IDTVs and the services consumed through them.

NB. Mirifice evolved into www.geniusdigital.tv in 2012.

Wurlwind Blog

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Wurlwind Services – LinkedIn Training and Social Selling Consultancy

Wurlwind helps business owners and sales teams to Connect LinkedIn with Sales in several specific ways.

The areas we cover and contribute to, with a LinkedIn focus, including:

  • Personal Branding
  • Online Networking
  • Relationship Building
  • Social Prospecting
  • Lead Generation
  • List Building
  • Social Selling
  • Customer Appreciation
  • Referral Business
  • Lead Nurture

The main ways we help clients is through:

  • Training – to improve the knowledge and skills so people can use LinkedIn more effectively
  • Services – to undertake specific tasks to accelerate the progress and adoption of Social Selling using LinkedIn
  • Wurlwind Consultancy – to diagnose, advise and guide clients on their journey to embed Social Selling within their organisation.

LinkedIn Training from Wurlwind

We offer many LinkedIn training packages to help sales focused individuals, sales teams and organisations to gain the skills to Connect LinkedIn with Sales.

Our primary focus is how to use LinkedIn for Social prospecting, Lead Generation, Business Development and Sales.

For Companies, Organisations and other Businesses we offer the following on-site courses:

  • LinkedIn Training – Foundation Course
  • Social Selling Training – Foundation Course

We also customise the LinkedIn Masterclass training as requested for the following audiences:

  • LinkedIn training for Technology Sales Teams
  • LinkedIn training for Marketing Agencies
  • LinkedIn training for Management Consultants
  • LinkedIn training for Lawyers
  • LinkedIn training for Accountants
  • LinkedIn training for Exporters
  • LinkedIn training for Salesforce.com users
  • LinkedIn training for Exhibitions and Exhibitors

Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

LinkedIn Services from Wurlwind

To help business owners make more of LinkedIn and save time on the set-up activities we offer the following:

  • Exhibition Support using LinkedIn
    • Contact us to discuss

Social Selling Consultancy from Wurlwind

We offer strategic diagnostic reviews, planning and project guidance to help businesses along the journey to Social Selling.

Review and Action Plan Packages

For an initial chat about what we do and how we help companies and organisations like yours, and to discuss how we can help you to Connect LinkedIn with Sales, please send an email to me, Mark Stonham, and let’s schedule 20 minutes for an introduction.

About You – who is an ideal Wurlwind client?

As we successfully deliver more LinkedIn training and Social Selling services it is becoming clearer who is an ideal Wurlwind client.

People who find our knowledge, expertise and approach most beneficial tend to be:

Small, medium and large businesses in the technology sector

We’ve trained and assisted sole practitioners, technology consultants and self-employed trainers, through business owners and sales managers with smaller sales teams to Sales Directors and senior managers in larger technology sector businesses.

Small and medium sized marketing agencies

We’ve assisted marketing agencies to understand and use LinkedIn and Social Selling to grow their own businesses.

We’ve also supported them with LinkedIn expertise when they’s been working on client projects and didn’t have the expertise in house.

 

Challenges and Goals of the ideal Wurlwind Client

The challenges and opportunities they face mean they need to:

  • Generate more and better quality leads
  • Develop better (more profitable) long-term relationships with customers and clients
  • Launch or go through a project and lack resources in-house
  • Reduce costs and find efficiencies

And the underlying questions include:

  • How can I grow my sales, profits and my business?
  • How can I find efficiencies and reduce costs?
  • How can I increase productivity and save time?
  • How can (marketing and sales) tools and technology help me?
  • What tools and technology are relevant to my particular business?
  • How can I select the right tool from the vast array that are out there?
  • Can I make more of the investment I have already made?

Take a look around this website and sign-up for the email updates and hopefully you will soon appreciate how Wurlwind can help you develop your business.

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