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21Mar2012

Proficientz Announces Mobile Apps Strategy to Extend Product Management Best Practices

Capture, Share & Socialize High-Value Needs Across Market-Facing Disciplines

Atlanta, GA – March 22, 2012 - Proficientz, Inc., a product portfolio management training and consulting firm for B2B organizations, announced today a strategy for extending its best practices to mobile applications.  Proficientz mobile applications will enhance an organization's ability to uncover bigger business problems and deliver higher value solutions by enabling all disciplines to capture, share and socialize high-value market needs with no additional effort.

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15Mar2012

Proficientz Announces Executive Briefing Series for B2B Product Portfolio Management

Product Management Shifting From Product Performance to Market Value

Atlanta, GA – March 15, 2012 - Proficientz, Inc., a product portfolio management training and consulting firm for B2B organizations, announced today a series of half-day executive briefing forums that offer executives and senior managers an opportunity to learn how to create greater market value with a new approach for managing their product portfolio.   These executive forums will discuss how product portfolio management helps organizations uncover bigger problems and deliver higher value solutions that are more strategic to target buyers.  The forums will be conducted in 13 U.S. cities beginning in April 2012.

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22Feb2012

2012 ProductCamp Season is Under Way

2012 ProductCamp Schedule

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18Aug2011

Fall 2011 ProductCamp Cities & Dates

There's a ProductCamp happening near you this fall.  Proficientz proudly sponsors most of them!

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16Jun2011

Proficientz Announces Free Product Portfolio Management Training Seminars

Free Summer Seminar Series Invites Product Managers & Marketers to Learn Advanced Skills

Atlanta, GA – June 17, 2011 - Proficientz, Inc., a product portfolio management training and consulting firm, announced today a series of free training seminars that offer B2B product management and product marketing professionals a risk-free opportunity to experience Proficientz training while learning advanced product portfolio management and marketing concepts.  The training will be initially conducted in 12 U.S. cities.

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10May2011

Now Available: May 2011 - Tips for Managing Your Product Portfolio

In this edition...
  • Market Strategy: Establishing Common Goals for Products, Marketing & Sales - Answer Six Questions & You're There
  • Business Analysts & Agile Product Owners, Your Time Has Finally Arrived
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09May2011

Proficientz Announces June 2011 Webinar Series - Impact Product Planning & Positining

Proficientz Announces June 2011 Webinar Series: Product Portfolio Management & Impact Product Planning & Positioning

  • June 10th - Portfolio Management & High-Impact Product Planning
  • June 17th - Portfolio Management & High-Impact Positioning
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22Apr2011

May 2011 Webinar Series: Product Portfolio Management & The Influence Factor

Proficientz Announces Two-Part Webinar Series:  Raising the Product Marketing & Product Management Influence Factor Through Product Portfolio Management.

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05Apr2011

ZIGZAG Marketing Changes Its Name to Proficientz

Re-branding Underscores Exclusive Focus on Product Portfolio Management

Atlanta, GA – April 5, 2011 - ZIGZAG Marketing, Inc., a product management training and consulting firm, announced today that it has changed its name to Proficientz as part of a re-branding initiative that underscores a shift in direction to focus exclusively on product portfolio management and marketing for B2B product and service organizations.  As part of the rebranding, Proficientz also launched its portfolio management framework to signify best practices for managing and marketing product portfolios to help organizations close the gap between their revenue and profitability goals and the management and marketing of their products and services.  

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22Jul2010

John Mansour to Lead Product Marketing Discussion at Orange County Product Managers Mixer

Join John Mansour, Managing Partner at Proficientz on August 18th at the Orange County Product Managers Mixer.
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22Apr2010

WEBINAR - The Similarities Between My Product Management Role & My New CEO Role

May 11, 2010, 12:00 - 1:00 ET

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22Feb2010

Proficientz Launches Product Management Interactive Subscription Service

Online Subscription to Framework, Tools, Consulting Services & Distance Learning
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22Dec2009

Upcoming Product Camps for 2010

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22Dec2009

Join Proficientz at PDMA SoCal

Join John Mansour from Proficientz February 24, 2010 at PDMA SoCal to discuss five ways product managers can exert more influence and grow their careers.
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30Oct2009

Product Management Educational Conference

AIPMM to hold it's annual Product Management Educational Conference November 16-17 in San Jose, CA.
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15Oct2009

Proficientz Takes Best Session Honors at ProductCamp RTP

Proficientz takes best session honors for the second consecutive ProductCamp.
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20Aug2009

Proficientz Voted Best Session at ProductCamp Austin - Summer 2009

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12Aug2009

Webinar: Agile vs. Traditional Development - The Best of Both Worlds

Friday September 18th, 12:00 - 1:00 Eastern Time
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20Jul2009

Upcoming Product Camps

Upcoming Product Camps for 2009
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03Jun2009

Summer Webinar Series

Join Proficientz for our summer webinar series featuring three webinars that will help you grow, revenue, market share and your career.

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18Jun2009

Product Camp New York City

Saturday July 18th. It's a free conference. Attend and lead a session or just attend, network and learn.
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15Jun2009

Performance Marketing and the Project Management Engine!

Joint webinar - The Project Management Institute and Proficientz, Thursday, June 18th at 2:00 p.m. EST. Learn how project managers can re-enfranchise the fundamentals of project/program management by deliberately fusing them with the burgeoning demands of successful marketing operations. REGISTER
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02Jun2009

Proficientz Expands Leadership Team

Adds Focus on Product Marketing to Improve Sales Proficiency

Atlanta, GA  June 2, 2009 - Proficientz, Inc., the Atlanta-based product management training and consulting firm, today announced the addition of a new partner to the firm. Kurt Ballard leads a new practice area for Proficientz focused on strengthening the link between product marketing and sales by helping clients develop messaging and sales tools that make it easier for sales people to position value and differentiate.

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14May2009

Positioning & Messaging Workshop for Sales & Marketing June 25th

Studies have shown that up to 90% of marketing collateral is considered useless by sales.  The result: sales people create their own freelance messaging, positioning and sales tools and before you know it, everyone is saying something different.
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14May2009

Product Camp Atlanta June 6th

Join your fellow product managers and product marketers for a free product management conference from 9:30 AM - 4 PM at the GTRI Conference Center, 250 14th Street, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30318. Conference information and registration.

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16Feb2009

Proficientz Publishes Greatest Tips 2004-2008

Tips for Simplifying the Way Products are Managed, Marketed and Sold

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06Feb2009

ProductCampBoston

ProductCampBoston: A collaborative unconference about Product Marketing and Management Saturday, 2/28/09 from 9:00 - 6:00. Sponsored in part by Proficientz.
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06Jan2009

Silicon Valley 2nd Annual P-Camp Unconference for Product Managers March 14th

Join more than 300 friends, colleagues and perfect strangers at the second annual Silicon Valley P-Camp Unconference for product managers, Saturday March 14, 2009. Sponsored in part by Proficientz.
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09Dec2008

Webinar for Product Managers "Between Jobs"

January 16, 2009
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02Dec2008

Proficientz Launches Interactive Product Management Framework

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19Nov2008

PM Association Events in Boston and Silicon Valley

November and December Product Management Association Events in Boston and Silicon Valley
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12Nov2008

2009 TAG Product Management Society Events

Mark your calendars and join Georgia's premier networking association for product management professionals where you'll experience personal, professional, and business growth.
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10Nov2008

2009 Course Schedule Now Available

See our course calendar for the first half of 2009.
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04Nov2008

TAG Product Management Society November 12th Event

The Agile Product Manager
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05Aug2008

Birmingham Seminar

Join Proficientz for a free seminar with the Birmingham Product Management Association 10/21/08

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12Aug2008

PMEC Conference Oct. 12-14

Join us at PMEC October 12-14 in Washington, DC

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