C-Suite Network™

Ted Rubin

In today’s digital world it’s all too easy for us as brands and individuals to let our relationship-building muscles atrophy. We get caught up in a multitasking whirlwind of emails, social updates and text messages where it’s easy to let a connection or a conversation fall through the cracks. We’re super-connected, yet somehow disconnected at the same time. This puts us at risk of losing the very relationships that help us prosper as companies and people.

In How to Look People in the Eye Digitally, Ted Rubin re-introduces us to the one-on-one communication skills we’ve forgotten in our rush to new technologies. He shows us how we’ve let social and mobile technologies hold us back, and teaches us new ways to use the people skills we already have to stay connected in an authentic, human way. Through anecdotes from his own experiences as a busy, socially connected executive and single dad, plus examples from brands that are getting it right, Ted inspires new ways to build relationships online that truly grow and prosper.

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Ted Rubin and Kathryn Rose

Return on Relationship™ (ROR), simply put, is the value that is accrued by a person or brand due to nurturing a relationship, whereas ROI is simple dollars and cents. ROR is the value (both perceived and real) that will accrue over time through loyalty, recommendations and sharing, and is used to define and educate companies, brands, and people about the importance of creating authentic connection, interaction, and engagement.

Both Ted Rubin and Kathryn Rose embody the concept of ROR in their work. Ted has been using the term since early 2009 to build awareness around the belief that the true value of brand and personal marketing is in the relationships created. Kathryn also uses relationship skills every day as a sought-after social media and relationship marketing speaker and trainer and CEO of the Social Buzz Club, the world’s first online marketing collaboration network.

Ted and Kathryn truly “walk the talk” every time they tweet, speak at an event or interact with the social media community. Both are shining examples of how building relationships adds value to the way we do business today.