L@C member David Ednie featured on CEO Europe

Happened to see in the latest mailing from CEO Europe a name I recognized: David Ednie (thanks Jean-Paul for making sure I didn’t miss it!).

David runs the consulting company SalesChannel Europe and has recently published an ebook on, yes, sales.

Here’s what CEO Europe has to say:

Pour vous aider à transformer vos opportunités en succès, nous vous envoyons avec nos meilleurs vœux pour l’année 2007, un ebook intéressant et stimulant : « 10 méthodes pour trouver de nouveaux prospects ». Il est rédigé par l’un de nos cadres dirigeants certifiés, David Ednie, qui est reconnu internationalement comme un expert dans les domaines de la motivation des forces de ventes, le commerce international et les canaux de vente.

David a plus de 20 ans d’expérience, acquis sur des marchés aux cultures différentes en Europe, au Moyen Orient, en Afrique et dans les marchés émergents d’Europe Centrale et de l’Est. David est australien et vit à Paris, en France.

Pour télécharger gratuitement ce livre (en anglais uniquement) , click here

“Leverage Your Client’s Supply Chain. The idea here is to prospect amongst your client’s customers, suppliers, partners or competitors. In other words, look for sales opportunities in your client’s “business eco-system”. Let me give you 3 simple examples of how you can do this…..”

Pour accéder à la short bio de David Ednie , cliquez ici

Pour lire nos derniers testimoniaux clients et candidats : cliquez ici

Nous vous souhaitons bonheur et réussite pour cette nouvelle année !

Here’s the SalesChannel Europe site (where you can get the free ebook):
http://www.saleschannel-europe.com/

The Long Tail

Previous event, April 2006

medium_Erik_Larsson_200px_1_.jpgErik Larsson, Vice President of Marketing at Netcentrex, talks about the concept of the “Long Tail” and gives us the short tale of how new technology will shift away from a focus on a small number of mainstream “hits” at the head of the demand curve (80/20) rule and towards a huge number of niches in the tail of the curve.

Download the podcast (37MB, 1h18).

“The Long Tail”, first coined by Chris Anderson in Wired Magazine in October 2004:

Wikipedia entry

Original Wired article

L@C Evening Cocktail Wednesday January 10

A reminder about this week’s informal get-together: Evening drinks in the bar at Le Cercle Suédois (address above). There is no speaker, just an opportunity to meet some other L@C people, as well as some others (the Cercle Suédois has an open house this evening so there will be plenty of other people too). There will be a jazz band playing with a singer (she also doubles as director for the Cercle Suédois…). These evenings usually bring together 10-15 L@C participants.

– Starting at 19.00. Drinks and snacks as you wish in the bar

– The Cercle Suédois will charge a small entrance fee (5 or 8 euro I think)

– No pre-registration required.

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Here’s what Le Cercle Suedois says about it:
After Work au Cercle, chaque mercredi 18h – 23h
voir notre programme à venir à la fin de ce message.

CE MERCREDI: 10/1 Soirée jazz
Notre ”houseband” joue du jazz de 20h30 jusqu’à 23h.

“Happy Hour” 18h00-20h – Vin, bière et petits plats dans le bar.
Nous proposerons également ”assiettes mixtes” avec une sélection de petits plats et sauces.

Droit d’entrée:
Non-membres : 6 euros
http://www.cercle-suedois.com/

Is Software as a Service (SaaS) disrupting the online business world?

— Wednesday January 31, Rob Steggles:
— Is “Software as a Service” (SaaS) disrupting the online business world?

You don’t need a big pc any longer? Death of the desktop? Final liberation from Microsoft’s license payments? Return of the dinosaurs (centralised computing)? Only pay for what you really need and use instead of paying hefty annual fees?…. There are many ways to look at Software as a Service, a reincarnation of the rumoured-defunct ASP model.

Presented by Rob Steggles, Marketing Director for NTT Europe Online (previously Verio), http://www.ntteuropeonline.com/. Rob works with many software companies to deliver software online ‘as a service’, including aggregators, innovators and software companies that are just plain scared of SaaS. (Rob was also recently instrumental in making NTT Europe the only really European partner to Microsoft for SaaS.) Rob explains how SaaS affects software companies and how it will change the industry. What IS this SaaS thing? Why does it matter? Should I do it? How is it different from ASP (well, there you have it!!)? What are the pitfalls and the advantages?

– Wednesday, January 31
– Lunch starts at 12.15-12.30 and ends at 14.00
– Inscription: By email only and I will confirm.
– Pre-registration required

Long lost friends

Perhaps not so long and not so lost, but all the same. Susan Lucas-Conwell was (even though she might not know it) one of the “spiritual inspirations” of Lunch at the Circle. I happened to find this video interview with her where she talks about her current role as Executive Director of SVForum (previously SDForum), a Silicon Valley networking and educational organisation.

Text-to-Speech, ReadSpeaker with Roy Lindemann

The Lunch at the Circle event in November featured Roy Lindemann from ReadSpeaker.

Roy Lindemann

Roy Lindemann

Roy’s area of text-to-speech (TTS) belongs to an entirely new generation of internet applications. Simply put, today you can take any web site with text, enable it with TTS, transform it into an internet radio channel, podcast or give it any other voice functions …

Download the podcast here (32MB, 1h10)

Link to ReadSpeaker: http://www.readspeaker.com/