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About kaonmarketingguru

Dana Drissel is a well-rounded, highly energetic, results driven professional with 15 years of advertising agency and corporate marketing experience at both large public companies and small business start-ups.

Should Sales Training Be the Responsibility of Marketing?

Did you know that the average sales call lasts approximately 1.5 minutes? And a first impression is formed in the first 7 seconds? Average Talk Time/Call = 1.5 minutes. Average Cold Call Prep Time = 3 minutes. Average First Impression = 7 … Continue reading

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4 Tips for Creating A Killer Product Presentation for Your Sales Team

According to a recent survey by the CMO Council, sales thinks presentations created by marketing are less than useful, with salespeople spending approximately 40% of their time preparing customer-facing deliverables while leveraging less than 50% of the materials created by marketing. … Continue reading

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Taking 3D from the Silver Screen to B2B Product Marketing

Following the success of Avatar, James Cameron became the poster child for modern 3D in Hollywood – setting the gold standard for how filmmakers could approach the format artistically (i.e., subtle depth as opposed to gimmicky pop-out effects). As a … Continue reading

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Kaon First to Bring 3D Product Models to Google Nexus 7 Android Tablet for B2B Marketing

Offers On-The-Go Interactive, Photo-Realistic Demonstrations for Large and Complex Products  Kaon Interactive, the leading provider of 3D interactive product marketing applications, today announced the first fully interactive, real time 3D product demonstrations available on Google’s new Nexus 7 Tablet, via … Continue reading

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What’s in the Box? Differentiating Your Telecom Products from Your Competition.

Marketers in the telecom and networking hardware industry have struggled for years to differentiate their products, while salespeople have struggled to clearly decipher what product within their portfolio is best suited for their customers’ needs. “At first glance, the physical … Continue reading

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Top 3 Reasons Marketers Are Scared of Change?

Sticking to the status quo is no way to live life and it is definitely not an acceptable way to approach your B2B marketing initiatives. So why are marketing departments producing the same old static brochures and repetitive video loops … Continue reading

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3 Things that will Impress Your CMO

Have you ever tried to impress your CMO with REAL thought leadership? If so, you’ll know that it is difficult because it takes real courage to step out of the box and present new ideas that will change the direction … Continue reading

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Kaon Enhances 3D Product Marketing Applications

B2B Product Marketers Can Now Give Better Visual Product Demonstrations On Mobile Devices, at Trade Shows or for Sales Demos Kaon Interactive, the leading provider of 3D interactive product marketing applications, announced today new enhancements to its Kaon 3D Product Models … Continue reading

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Kaon CEO to Speak at HCEA Annual Meeting

Gavin Finn Shares Expertise on Interactive 3D Product Marketing for Medical Marketers MAYNARD, MA – June 21, 2012 – Kaon Interactive, the leading provider of 3D interactive product marketing applications, announced today that Kaon Interactive President and CEO Gavin Finn will … Continue reading

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Marketers: To SEO, or Not to SEO

SEO software providers have promised that their solutions let you analyze keywords, increase ranking and calculate search ROI. But is SEO as relevant as it was 5 years ago? I’ve been told that for years, Keyword Meta tags have been … Continue reading

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Marketers Only Get One Chance to Make a First Product Impression

First impressions are formed within 7 to 17 seconds of meeting someone and 55% of a person’s opinion is driven by physical appearance. I wonder if that statistic also carries some weight for product launches? If so, finding the right … Continue reading

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Marketers Are Driving Sales Enablement Tools, at the Request of CEOs

Sales enablement has become a very hot topic this year. So much so that in March 2012 Forrester Research held a Technology Sales Enablement Forum: Bridging The Strategy-To-Execution Gap, in San Francisco. Forrester touts that to produce sales growth, sales departments … Continue reading

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Kaon Selected as a 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Finalist

Interactive 3D Product App for iPad Finalist in “Best Mobile App” Category Kaon Interactive, the leader in 3D interactive product marketing, announced today that its Kaon 3D Product App™ has been selected as a finalist in the “Best Mobile App” … Continue reading

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All Your Products in Your Pocket – Virtually

The First Mobile Solution to Make 2 Ton Products Portable The Kaon 3D Product App™ is the latest Kaon innovation providing interactive 3D product models optimized for the iPad and iPhone, without an Internet connection. Mobile devices are quickly becoming the hottest … Continue reading

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Marketers Make Manufacturing Products Sexy

Thanks to programs like Science Channel’s How It’s Made and Discovery Channel’s HowStuffWorks, there’s a new appreciation for the machinery that makes everything from the food we eat to the mattresses on which we sleep. This high-profile introduction into the … Continue reading

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