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Friday, August 12, 2011

Vocus Announces Free Webinar: “Hey Influencer: Try Influencing Your Boss!"

Kelley Blue Book’s Rebekah King to host free webinar on influencing upper management with social media measurement and reporting.

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Quote startThe numbers, charts and metrics that Rebekah will demonstrate make this webinar essential for anyone struggling with convincing their boss, CFO, or CEO of the value and importance of social media.Quote end

Lanham, MD (PRWEB) August 12, 2011

Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS), a leading provider of cloud-based marketing and PR software, has announced a free webinar titled: “Hey Influencer: Try Influencing Your Boss!”on Tuesday, August 16th.

The host is Rebekah King, Consumer Communications Manager at Kelley Blue Book, an expert in translating social media results into a value relevant to an organization’s revenue model. The webinar will cover:

  • The best tools for monitoring and measuring social media
  • What to measure and how to do it
  • How to translate social media results for the ‘numbers folks’ to understand

The free, one-hour webinar will be held this Tuesday, August 16, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. EST.

“There is still a lot of debate on whether social media can be measured,” says Cassandra Pean, PR Manager at Vocus. “Rebekah King has developed not only a way of measuring it, but a way that speaks directly to the decision-makers in charge of budgets. The numbers, charts and metrics that Rebekah will demonstrate make this webinar essential for anyone struggling with convincing their boss, CFO, or CEO of the value and importance of social media.”

To register and find out more, please click here:http://bit.ly/q9wUfN

About Vocus
Vocus (Nasdaq: VOCS) is a leading provider of cloud-based marketing and PR software that helps organizations of all sizes reach and influence buyers across social networks, online and through the media. Vocus provides an earned marketing platform for social media marketing, content distribution and public relations to help customers generate awareness and increase sales in today’s customer-led buying cycle. Vocus is used by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide in seven languages. For more information, please visit vocus.comor call (800) 345-5572.

For more information, please visit http://www.vocus.com or call (800) 345-5572.

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