photo credit: CC Chapman

Ok, Interview #8 of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective Social Marketers” series. Today’s interview is with none other than Christine Major.  When she’s not knee deep in Social Media, she’s quite the  stand-up comic! If you have some free time, check out Christine doing her routine here at the Comedy Connection…

About Christine
I am the marketing communications manager for Awareness located in Burlington, Mass. Our social marketing software powers online communities for brands such as Kodak, ASOS and JetBlue. I like to consider myself to be a serial networker (thus the name of my blog). This means I get out there, a lot, and love to get people together through the several offline events I plan in the NH and Boston areas.

1. What one trait or habit got you to where you are today?
Positive attitude. I truly believe that having a positive attitude through life can get you through anything. During even tough times, I always try to see the positive.

2. Your work day just started, what’s the FIRST thing you do?
After going through my email, I always review my to-do list for the day and figure out what I am going to accomplish that day. I love lists and I love crossing things off my list even more.

3. What makes you efficient with your day?
Our marketing team at Awareness has recently implemented an agile marketing process. You may be familiar with agile if you are in engineering and we applied the same process to our marketing activities. We meet as a team on a daily basis, go over activities completed from the day before and discuss what the focus will be that day. This process helps us all stay on task while allowing us all to see what everyone else is working on.

4. Your Favorite Business book of all time?
I really don’t have a favorite business book – at least not yet. I am reading several now and recently finished GaryVee’s CrushIt which I felt was a great motivational book and validated my belief that if you aren’t happy in your current situation, then you have to change it.

5. 3 things on your desk right now/or 3 things you can’t live without
My MacBook, My iPhone and my laptop

6. Habit you want to kick in 2010
I would like to try to actually get out of my chair and go to the gym at lunch time. I can’t tell you how many times I have brought my gym bag into work and said to myself “this is THE day I am going to workout at lunch” and every single time that bag just sits there. Hey look, it’s there right now….

7. Habit you’d like to form for 2010
Slowing down. Like many people, I am typically working on several projects at once. Sometimes if you just slow down a little you can actually be more productive.

BONUS: A picture of Christine’s office- what makes her so efficient!