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Eric Schoep

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Marketing Director, Blackout Creations, LLC

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Eric Schoep is a life-long San Diegan, born and raised in Poway, CA. Eric has over 10 years of sales and marketing experience and over 7 years of credit and collections experience. Since starting with Conrad in 2002, he has ...

Eric Schoep is a life-long San Diegan, born and raised in Poway, CA. Eric has over 10 years of sales and marketing experience and over 7 years of credit and collections experience. Since starting with Conrad in 2002, he has worked in the Finance Department, Collection Department, and Sales and Marketing Department. Eric possesses a strong background in web development and has earned certificates in Graphic Design. With his current position as Marketing Director, Eric has implemented many new products at Conrad including the “Client Access Web” communication portal and Conrad’s latest technological upgrade, Conradco.com.

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April 19, 2011

Experience / Knowledge about ShareThis button/widgets for website ?

Correct but the purpose of allowing your readers to share your content is to drive new traffic from those networks. more

Social Applications

Social Bookmarking

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April 5, 2011

Can someone please explain the NFL labor dispute?

Here is a basic summary of where we are now:
The two sides disagree on a number of issues (especially player revenue shares and regular season game extension) that has prevented a new collective bargaining agreement. The players decertified their union to allow possible litigation against ... more

Human Resources

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March 28, 2011

How can you get penalized by search engines for using spammy techniques?

Worst case, they can black-list and remove you from their search results entirely, which is difficult to impossible to reverse. Not a good option, stick with white-hat tactics.
For an example, I just read an article today where google found out about shady tactics used ... more

Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Optimization

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March 26, 2011

What are the best available "Step by Step" affiliate marketing programs?

Check out AnthonyMorrison.com. Many great products with easy to understand step-by-step training, turnkey affiliate sites with pre-established partners and auto-updates, and optional one-on-one coaching. more

Affiliate Income

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Programs

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Feb. 3, 2011

Does clean account & contact data promote better CRM adoption?

Absolutely! It is a major importance for two primary reasons:
1. Data migration across platforms can be a major task. Inaccurate or messy data may impact cooperation and/or compatibility issues with your IT department.
2. User adoption is a must with any major project like CRM. ... more

Sales Operations

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Feb. 3, 2011

How long does a month end accounting close typically take?

Probably depends on the industry. Credit and collections takes about six to eight days in my experience.
Eric Schoep, RRP
Inbound Marketing Professional
Credit and Collections Expert
http://www.EricSchoep.com more

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Financial Services

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Jan. 11, 2011

What CRM integrates with Constant Contact or provides another email marketing tool?

The Zoho Project (www.Zoho.com) offers many affordable solutions for businesses including ZohoCRM, with endless integration options. They for sure integrate with MailChimp (the ESP that I use) and probably with ConstantContact.
Feel free to contact me if you need help!
Eric Schoep
Inbound Marketing Professional
http://www.about.me/eschoep more

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Dec. 21, 2010

Social media to email marketing?

Looking for a platform to convert social media followers into sales leads or email newsletter groups. You can message Twitter followers, and "Update" Facebook followers. These are impersonal and lack tracking. more

Email Marketing

Social Business Strategy

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Dec. 20, 2010

Should you develop a seperate website to promote your solutions on an individual level?

What you are seeing and referring to is probably variations of lead generation and automation tactics. For that purpose, yes you should have separate and multiple micro-sites with specific landing page variations based on the driven generated. For example, you may have one landing page ... more

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Dec. 20, 2010

Why would an increase in sales result in a decrease in cash flow?

The most common cause for an increase in sales to result in a decrease in cash flow would be long AR terms. However, this is usually financeable to some extent. You could also go to some of your customers and offer them a discount for ... more

Business Finance

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Dec. 17, 2010

What is a Linkedin LION?

LION stands for Linked In Open Networker. LION's try to accumulate as many connections as possible on Linked In. Connecting with another business professional allows you to freely message one another. LION's typically display their email address on their professional summary and openly request invites ... more

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Dec. 15, 2010

Are there any mobile apps available that are helpful at trade shows?

Check out Loopt (I believe there a couple variations for different verticals); I've ran across that app a few times and they mentioned using it to connect with other attendees and exhibitors at tradeshows (and other venues).
Good luck!
Eric Schoep
Marketing Director
Conrad Companies
http://www.conradco.com
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/the-conrad-companies
http://www.facebook.com/conradco more

Information Technology

Conferences and Events

Events and Trade Shows

Eric Schoep recommends this answer by Tom Diederich

Dec. 15, 2010

What are some good ways to utilize social media during a trade show?

I agree with Eric and Barry (excellent advice from both). Adding to Eric's, you can also add checkins from Facebook (just like foursquare, though not nearly as popular yet). But a special page on Facebook would be a good idea. It could include all contests, ... more

Events and Trade Shows

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Dec. 9, 2010

What's the difference between "good" debt and "bad" debt?

The term "good" debt refers to debt that is maintained in current good standing (i.e. mortgage, car loan, credit card, etc.). "Good" debt may improve your overall credit rating as long as it is kept in good standing.
The term "bad" debt refers to debt that ... more

Business Finance

Finance Management

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Dec. 2, 2010

How will my personal credit score affect my ability to get a small business loan?

It may not impact your ability to obtain a small business loan at all if you can show enough financial strength in the business on its own. If not, then the lender will probably require a personal guarantee from or more majority owners. Obviously, if ... more

Business Finance

Financial Services

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Nov. 17, 2010

What options are available to export notes/history from ACT! by Sage 6.0 to a .csv file?

Information Technology

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Nov. 15, 2010

What is a predictive dialer system and who uses it?

Good answer Todd. I think it's important for people to know that there is a difference between Predictive and Power Dialing. Predictive can actually look at the past performance of your data and predict the dialing method and rate of which calls need to be ... more

Customer Service

Information Technology

Contact Center Technologies

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Nov. 9, 2010

Wordpress Comment Spam: How do you deal with it?

I'm not overly familiar with Wordpress but there should be a CAPTCHA plugin that adds a security code/message whenever someone publishes comments on your site. This drastically reduces spam comments that are often posted by bots using scripting programs to search the web for unprotected ... more

Wordpress Plugins

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Nov. 2, 2010

Are there any alternatives to loans to finance my small business?

There are all kinds of alternative small business financing options available with varying benefits, risks, costs, and collateral. To start, I would suggest exploring account receivable and merchant factoring and cash-advance. These financing functions provide your business with funding secured by your existing and ongoing ... more

Business Finance

Financial Services

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Oct. 19, 2010

Would you choose Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal CMS for your new website prject? Why?

Joomla for sure! I have found Drupal to be less user-friendly than Joomla (especially for those intermediate and beginner web designers that often use these type of platforms) and WordPress to be too specialized compared to Joomla (seems to be focused on blogging) which limits ... more

Information Technology

Content Management Systems for Websites

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