Emmanuel Vivier /// Blog & Buzz marketing

Marketing 2.0 Conférence | Paris (5/6 may)

A few photos from http://www.marketing2conference.com we are co-organising with Vanksen|Culture-Buzz & Nils Andres from the Brand Science Institute. More available on Flickr.

Connections Improbables (Paris) : le 26 mars 2008

Le 26 mars je serai heureux de me joindre aux invité(e)s des "Connections Improbables", rencontres parisiennes qui mélangent des personnes d'horizons différents (jamais plus de 3 invités du même domaine)...

Plus d'info : http://connexionsimprobables.com/?category/Edition-03

Win 2 tickets for Passionata Lingerie Show 2008 @Crazy Horse

Hurry Hup if you want to have a chance to win 2 tickets for Passionata Lingerie Show 2008 @Crazy Horse in Paris... You can register to receive an exclusive access to the video of the show too....

More info on http://show.passionata.com

Job Offer : Senior Business Developer & Web Marketing Consultant

Job description

Our customers are large corporations looking for highly qualified specialists to develop their interactive communication. You are responsible for seeking, qualifying and closing new opportunities, mostly in new accounts.

You understand how interactive solutions bring value to your clients. In a team of killer experts you define concrete solutions that answer clients' needs and fit into their budgets. You read client’s minds, predict the future, have Jedi powers of analysis, write hypnotic proposals, close deals like Donald Trump and negotiate contracts with frightening precision.

You look after Vanksen|CultureBuzz (http://www.culture-buzz.com) major customers as though they were your own children and build long term relationships with them. You ensure the commercial follow-up, detect new opportunities and develop stunning proactive proposals that you wow them with. You know your customer’s business better than their CEO and you propose innovative solutions to solve their problems. Together with our strategic & creative teams of gurus, you elaborate new concepts & strategies, advise your clients and improve the expected results of their interactive & offline communications.

You act as Business Developer and you have targeted sales objectives. You have overall financial responsibility & report to the Vanksen|CultureBuzz Business Development Director. You define project budgets and ensure follow up. You provide qualitative briefings to your brothers and sisters the Project Managers and build a good relationship with them.

Profile/Requirements

We are seeking a high-level, high-energy Business Developer & Consultant with strong client service skills that will inspire our clients and motivate internal teams to deliver the best projects.

Your skills include:

· Experience in sales activities & customer management with large corporations

· good communication with excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills

· You are results-oriented and efficient with strong organizational skills

· You have a track record of successfully closing projects in new accounts in a team selling approach

· You possess the ability to be efficient, productive and positive under pressure; you have an “S” printed on your undershirt

· You are fluent in French and English

· … you’re really fluent in French AND English

· Any other languages is of course welcome

· You have a good knowledge of internet technologies (CMS, site design, flash…) & web marketing (SEO, emailing, banner,..) 

· Expertise in viral, buzz, guerilla; blog, social networks, online video is a plus 

· You have a university degree or equivalent through experience

Location

- 1 position in Paris and 1 position in Luxembourg

What we offer

We offer a fun, energetic, open & multicultural working environment amongst talented people. We provide a salary package that pays the rent with a bit left over, a high level of professional education for training our marketing ninjas and a personal evolution plan – grasshopper will grow past the master – in a fast growing dedicated company.

Company Information

Vanksen|CultureBuzz (http://www.culture-buzz.com) is the buzz & communication agency of Vanksen Group.  We provide innovative, creative communication & buzz concepts and assist major brands (such as Procter & Gamble, LMVH, Microsoft, Louvre Hotels, ArcelorMittal, Quiksilver, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, 20th Century Fox, Canal Plus, BIC, Nokia, Sony, LG, Casio, Roxy,…) to deploy them online and offline on an international level.

VanksenGroup has two others business units:

- BuzzParadise (http://www.buzzparadise.com)  PR 2.0 with bloggers & social media

- LegitiName (http://www.legitiname.com) Brand Management (protection, SEM, monitoring)

Our 85 employees are shared between our offices in Luxemburg, Hamburg, New York, Geneva, Paris, Hong Kong (and more to come)

Send your resume now to : jobs@vanksen.com Ref: SBDWC

Speaking at Strategies "Entreprise 2.0" Seminar

If you are interested in Entreprise 2.0, i.e. the use of 2.0 technologies such as wiki, blogs, social networks, second life,... to improve business collaboration, join us at Strategies seminar in Paris about Enterprise 2.0, the 3rd and 4th of december : http://conferences.strategies.fr/entreprise20/. I will be speaking to present the ArcelorMittal Webtv we have been launching this year for the worldwide leader of the Steel Industry (330,000 employee).

Rende-vous le 3 et 4 déc 2007 pour la conférence Stratégies sur l'entreprise 2.0 : wiki, réseaux sociaux, Second Life, blogs,... si vous voulez découvrir les dernières innovations en matière de collaboration et communication interne, rejoignez nous : http://conferences.strategies.fr/entreprise20. J'interviendrai à propos du projet de webtv que nous avons mené pour ArcelorMittal, le leader mondial de l'acier avec 330.000 employés.

Fannysparty #26 : The Photos!

If you were a geek, a gadget fan or a robot freak, there are chances you were at Fannysparty 26th edition in Paris few days ago. Fanny Bouton, our country manager for Vanksen Hong Kong and the famous Geek Queen, has just made the flight back to organize her now renknown event around asian gadgets, hightech technologies and mobile devices...

Nao marche à la FP26
Vidéo envoyée par fannysparty

More photos on my Flickr...

Dim Osmose tonight in Second Life

After buzzing via the bloggers with BuzzParadise...

and having generated word of mouth around their new http://www.dim.fr/ site that try to explain in a very charming way rugby to women :

...the new super high tech bra of Dim (aka Osmose) is preparing an event tonight...in Second Life.

BuzzTheBrand Conference : the first Buzz Conference in France : 17th of october 2007

I am happy to announce we are co-organizing BuzzTheBrand the 1st Word of Mouth Marketing Conference in France with Stratégies (the equivalent of AdAge in France) on the 17th of october. Most of the top buzz and viral player will be there to deliver value added information to design, deploy & track successful buzz campaign (guerilla marketing, buzz marketing, influential & blog marketing, viral videos,...). Thanks to Justin Kirby and the VBMA (Viral and Buzz Marketing Association for supporting the event).

Please find below the 1st 3 interviews of the speakers (more videos to come on http://www.buzzthebrand.com ):

Buzzthebrand / Interview de Publicis Net
Vidéo envoyée par culturebuzz

Buzzthebrand / Interview de Tribeca
Vidéo envoyée par culturebuzz

Buzzthebrand / Interview de Buzzparadise
Vidéo envoyée par culturebuzz

More info : http://www.buzzthebrand.com

Back from Medef Summer University

I have published a complete note on Culture-Buzz.com. But you can have a look a the blog of the event, or at the photos taken by the 70 guest bloggers. I should say it was an interesting experience and a great opportunity to exchange ideas and meet new faces. Thanks to Frédéric Chevalier for his real sense of organisation and his enthousiasm.

Buzzcast#44 / Tariq Krim / Université d'été du Medef

Le Medef se met au 2.0 avec Tariq Krim, le fondateur de Netvibes, qui intervenait lors de l'atelier sur "le web, une règle de jeu mondiale. Tariq fait partie de la nouvelle génération d'entrepreneurs 2.0 plus jeans et baskets que costume et cigare. Pourtant il n'en aborde pourtant pas moins le futur de son entreprise avec sérieux et ambition avec plus de 10.000.000 d'utilisateurs de sa plateforme! Voici avec ce "buzzcast" ses quelques réflexions sur l'avenir de Netvibes et son intérêt pour les entreprises...