S&MM SoundOff

S&MM Sound Off wants to hear from you!

The idea swapping and opinion sharing on S&MM Sound Off is stepping up to the next level.  We want you to sound off!

Have your opinions on today's current sales and marketing topics heard with your very own blog entry on S&MM Sound Off. Starting August 14th, you too can join the industry experts and Sales and Marketing Management editors on the S&MM Sound Off. We will select one lucky blogger's submission each week to be posted.  It's time to shout out and share your opinions today! 

Email blog submissions to [email protected]. Include your name, email, location, company, and position. Be sure to title your post.

(Submissions should be 200-500 words in length.  Selections based on newness of ideas and topic appropriateness. Personal contact information will be used for editorial purposes only. Please refrain from naming specific people and companies when relating personal experiences. Deadline for submissions each week is Friday at 12pm. Selected entries will be posted the following Monday.)

Be sure to check out the topics others are sounding off on and share your comments on our blog, S&MM Sound Off.

Welcome To Our Blog

S&MM has finally jumped on the blog bandwagon. We spend so much time reporting everyone else’s opinions and experiences that we decided it was time to have a place to sound off on our own. I had fun reporting and writing a story on blogging for our October issue, so I’m particularly pleased to have a place where we can share thoughts more immediately with readers.

Most of the business blogs I stumbled upon while writing my story seem to fall into one of two categories: those that voice pundit opinions or observations and follow trends, and those that act as a sort of roman a clef where bloggers reveal (hopefully anonymously, lest they get shown the door) the warts-and-all aspects of Corporate America. Admittedly, it’s more fun to read the latter. One of the more compelling reads that falls in this category is BigPictureSmallOffice.com; the blogger even has a sales and marketing link. Whether or not everything this executive writes about is true, I’m sure everyone can relate to the experiences at some point in their career. I also think the blogger is a novelist in training, judging by the use of color and detail to describe office happenings.

Do many of you blog? And do they err on the side of analysis and trend-watching—or dishing dirt on your company?