Front Range CMOs to Merge with The CMO Club
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Dear CMOs and Friends of the Front Range CMOs,

We are coming up on the two-year anniversary of the Front Range CMOs and I have some exciting news to announce. Front Range CMOs has agreed to merge with The CMO Club. Front Range CMOs has grown substantially over the past two years with tremendous support from many in the Colorado Front Range. Our group was founded to provide marketing executives in the Colorado Front Range region with a resource for networking and professional development as well as to nurture the marketing discipline in our local community. After careful consideration and consultation, I have decided that the best way to achieve these objectives going forward is to combine efforts with The CMO Club.

The CMO Club was founded in 2006 by Pete Krainik and has expanded to nearly every major metropolitan area in the U.S. as well as several regions in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Similar to Front Range CMOs, is exclusively for the most senior marketing executives and does not allow service providers to participate. Also like Front Range CMOs, The CMO Club holds regular dinner meetings that give CMOs the opportunity to meet face to face and learn from one another. In addition, The CMO Club offers members a number of other resources including a global network for idea exchange and several national and international events. You can learn more about The CMO Club here and here. To celebrate the merger of Front Range CMOs with The CMO Club, Front Range CMO members will receive a 40% discount off an annual membership with The CMO Club, by registering using the discount code: frontrange.

The next Denver dinner for The CMO Club is February 3rd, you may register for the dinner here (note, no membership dues will be charged until after the February dinner). I hope that all of you will plan to join Pete and me at this event to celebrate the merger. We will discuss ideas on how to make the combined group even more valuable and enjoyable for members.

In closing, I want to express again how pleased I am that The CMO Club will continue the work we have started and enable our community to flourish in new ways. I will personally continue to be closely involved as an adviser to The CMO Club through this transition and into the foreseeable future. Lastly, I want to express my deep gratitude to those of you who have been a part of this effort from the beginning and hope that you will join me in celebrating this news.

Best regards,

Ryan

Ryan T. Hunter
Founder
Front Range CMOs

Social Media Marketing Personas
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A great post on personas on Facebook and other social networks

http://adage.com/smallagency/post?article_id=138239

A Brief and Informal Twitter Etiquette Guide
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Using social networking services like Twitter and Facebook has been a consistent topic in our group this year. I came across this blog posting today that I thought was particularly useful.

Enjoy: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/a-brief-and-informal-twitter-etiquette-guide/

May Dinner
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Many thanks to all of the CMOs that made it to dinner on the 26th! Our topic was how to use social networks for B2B marketing. We hope that you will join us for the next dinner on June 30th.

April Front Range CMO Dinner
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The April Front Range CMO dinner was held at the Kitchen Cafe in Boulder. We had a terrific dialogue on PR/Blogger relations. We are in the process of scheduling our May dinner to avoid conflicting with the Memorial Day holiday. Please contact us, if you would like to attend.

March Dinner
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Thanks to all of you who were able to make it to dinner last night. We had a great dinner at Table 6 in Denver and had a fantastic discussion about Affiliate Network marketing. As usual, the discussion went into a number of different directions.

Please mark your calendars for our next dinner on Tuesday April 28th.

Marketing Sherpa Releases Social Media Marketing and PR Guide
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We are big fans of Marketing Sherpa. This new report looks really solid.
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=31044

Another great dinner!
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Thanks to all of the CMOs that joined us last night. We kicked the year off with a great dinner at The Kitchen Cafe in Boulder and had a fantastic conversation about using Twitter and Facebook to reach various audiences. Looking forward to the next one on Feb 24th. Mark your calendars!

Happy New Year!
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Welcome to the new Front Range CMOs Web site. Many thanks to the team at Blitz Local for their ongoing care and feeding of the site!

The Front Range CMOs organization is still going strong. We meet for dinners the last Tuesday of every month. In Q1 2009 we will meet on Jan 27, Feb 24 and March 31.

Our dinners are limited to 10 attendees and topics vary on a monthly basis. For more information, please contact ryan at frontrangecmos dot com.

You can find membership information here: http://www.frontrangecmos.com/about/

Q2 2008 Dates for Front Range CMOs Dinners
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Many thanks to everyone who made it out to our dinner on March 25th. It was another great dinner and a lively conversation. As previously noted our topic was Marketing Metrics. As a reminder we will meet for dinner on the last Tuesday of every month, unless there is a holiday conflict (e.g. Memorial Day).

Here are the dates and topics for our Q2 Dinners:

Tuesday April 29 - Lead Generation Programs
Tuesday May 20 - Sales and Marketing Integration
Tuesday June 24 - Marketing Automation