Compunetix sales and marketing personnel Robert Haley and Antonio Capodieci attended a recent Pittsburgh Technology Council (PTC) sponsored lunch seminar earlier this week.

This event featured a colleague and friend of Compunetix – Mr. Dave Nelsen.  Dave, currently president of Dialog Consulting Group, is a 30+ year veteran of the telecommunication industry, and more recently has positioned himself as a chief consultant for companies hoping to engage in social media marketing. He provided a 60 minute talk entitled “LinkedIn for Sales, Marketing & Competitive Intelligence.”

Dave works with business executives to craft processes, policies and strategies to engage their customers in the hot area of social media marketing.  In this session, Dave shared with the capacity crowd some of the insights he’s gathered over the years working with what he considers the only true “business” social network – LinkedIn.

Specifically, Dave shared with the Pittsburgh executives various takeaways for leveraging the free and paid LinkedIn accounts to increase contacts, spread your company’s messaging and turn up new, valuable sales opportunities.  Showing why he was named Vistage Speaker of the Year, Dave kept the audience engaged while at the same time delivering hard, actionable advice on using the platform.

We’d like to encourage readers to engage with Compunetix on our social media sites including our corporate LinkedIn and Facebook pages.  More information about Mr. Nelsen and Dialog Consulting can be found here.