“The consumer is you.”
Renata Ferraiolo began her career at British American Tabaco (Souza Cruz), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Throughout her career, she has held many different roles all over the world in marketing, sales, and general management. Known as a result-driven, creative and people-person marketing executive, she has over 23 years of FMCG experience and is a storyteller by nature. Renata is very focused on developing and expanding on marketing capabilities, brand purpose, social cause marketing, and omnichannel. She prides herself on being a global citizen, with passion for her family, traveling, and discovering new things.
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“Protecting your hard work and building brand loyalty is absolutely vital at this stage.”
66% of customers say that hearing from brands during the pandemic is comforting and reassuring. What are you doing to connect and engage with your audience during COVID? Tune in to this special mini-series installment of the Integrate & Ignite podcast to learn more.
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“There is always a big gap between who we think our customers are and who they actually are.”
Dean McBeth is managing partner and co-founder of Shepherd, an upstart consulting firm focused on customer-first strategies. He and his team help brands grow and bring companies closer to their customers. Dean – who is also an award-winning strategist and creative, a teacher, and a nationally sought-after speaker in the marketing and advertising industry – understands that it is the relationship between a business and its customers that creates meaningful products, experiences, and communications. Dean’s work is taught today at every major communication school in the country, and over the course of his career, he has held senior positions with some of the biggest agencies in the world, including numerous senior executive posts at the likes of Wieden+Kennedy, Barton F. Graf (BFG), Ketchum, Circuit of the Americas (COTA), and Crispin, Porter +Bogusky (CP+B).
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SHEPHERD, CLICK HERE.
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“Chatter does matter!”
Bill Bice has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company at age 14. At 18, he started ProLaw Software, the first integrated ERP for law firms. Bill then became a VC as a founding partner in the Verge Fund, investing in high tech, high growth companies. As a serial entrepreneur, Bill believes that good marketing is all about data and he is passionate about helping small businesses grow. A programmer at heart, Bill founded boomtime, maker of fuse, a marketing-as-a-service platform that approaches marketing as a technology problem. In his many years in business, Bill has learned that when you follow the data, really good things happen. Bill has one simple goal: to enable small businesses to more effectively compete with their larger competitors.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BOOMTIME, CLICK HERE.
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“Fish where the fish are.”
Mike Westgate is vice president of marketing at Briggo Coffee, an Austin-based consumer tech company that serves gourmet coffee and tea via mobile app and an autonomous vending system. The company is currently in scale-up mode, growing from Texas markets to the Bay Area and beyond. In addition to leading all brand and marketing strategy, Mike supports business development, forges strategic brand partnerships, designs and implements retail sales programs, and drives Briggo’s product roadmap. This is a man of many talents. His professional experiences include brand/product development, go-to-market strategy, consumer and tech product marketing, digital analytics, PR strategy, account management, and team leadership.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BRIGGO, CLICK HERE.
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How to extend the power of your content with your core tribes and early adopters. Learn more by calling the Avocet Communications team today at 303-678-7102.
“The company owns its brand, the public owns its reputation.”
Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications, and professional development expert, keynote speaker, and the best-selling author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for Fortune 500 companies and in winning global political campaigns. Bill previously co-led the Global Risk Management and Crisis Communications Practice for Hill+Knowlton Strategies, and he has provided senior counsel for numerous clients including AT&T, Target Corporation, American Airlines, The Home Depot, and Xerox over the course of his career.
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The importance of crisis communications and reputation management. Learn more by calling the Avocet Communications team today at 303-678-7102.
“(It’s about) giving your customers somewhere to come back to.”
Brittany Vriesman is senior manager of digital marketing at Gaiam and SPRI brands, a leading lifestyle brand with a mission to make yoga, fitness, and wellness accessible to all. With nearly a decade in the digital marketing space, Brittany has managed digital platforms across event management, travel, and retail sectors. She brings a diverse background to her current role at Gaiam, where she focuses on marketing and customer retention and acquisition in both the B2B and direct to consumer spaces. Brittany taps into her experience across distinct industries to blend customer engagement, loyalty, unique promotions, and partnership opportunities to support revenue-driving initiatives.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GAIAM, CLICK HERE.
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Strategies to surprise and delight customers. Call Lori Jones today at 303-678-7102 to learn more.
“Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow.”
Kristin Miller has over 15 years of PR experience, with a passion for technology PR. She is currently corporate communications director at Ping Identity, a company that helps prevent security breaches, increase employee and partner productivity, and provide personalized customer experiences for some of the world’s largest organizations. Before joining the Ping team, Kristin was head of Webroot’s global PR team, where she focused on cybersecurity across the US, EMEA, Australia, and Japan. Previously, she was at SSPR, a high tech PR agency working with brands including Groupon, Patagonia, RingCentral, and many others. An unrepentant fan of the oxford comma, she can be found chasing her six-year-old daughter through playgrounds, cheering for her alma matter Purdue University, or taking Buzzfeed quizzes.
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“The act of creating an effective brand position is filling an empty hole in the mind of the buyer.”
Carman Pirie is the co-founder of Kula Partners, an agency built to help leading manufacturers digitally transform marketing and sales to deliver more leads, close more prospects, and grow their competitive edge. Over his nearly three decades in marketing and communications, Carman’s career has taken him from the halls of Canada’s Parliament to various client-side and agency-side marketing leadership roles. Along the way, he has advised Fortune 100 clients, governments, and non-profit organizations. At Kula Partners, Carman serves as lead marketing and sales counsel to the firm’s diverse range of North American manufacturing clients. His unique insights and distaste for the ordinary have earned him a Gold Award for Media Innovation from Marketing Magazine and Kula Partners—Canada’s first Platinum HubSpot agency—has been recognized as a top lead generator among HubSpot partners.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT KULA PARTNERS, CLICK HERE.
“Brand partnerships are the difference between surviving and thriving on the shelf.”
Karina Kromsova is the CEO of AKT Consulting. She's an experienced brand and sales developer with 20 years in the food industry. She spent the first part of her career in retail, where she led product development and marketing for the $10B+ grocery company, Giant Eagle. She then followed her dreams to NYC where she worked for Chobani during its peak time of growth, developing sales in all emerging accounts. Later, she spent time helping new food startups, such as Aspire Food Group, and now for Reneva & Poshi.
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“We have to Sherpa the conversation.”
Chad Sanderson is an award-winning sales, marketing and business strategy consultant with 20+ years of proven results in driving revenue growth, facilitating market expansions and building high-performance teams. Chad is a sought-after and trusted advisor to global companies, partnering with them to optimize sales across markets and verticals, and drive predictable revenue growth. He is a founder of Value Prime Solutions, a leading provider of the ValueSelling Framework and the host of “The B2B Revenue Executive Experience” podcast. Throughout his career, he has consulted with and enabled major brands, including Adobe, Verizon Wireless, eBay, Microsoft, Chrysler, Fidelity, Thomson Reuters, and the Minnesota Vikings, to name a few.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT, VALUESELLING ASSOCIATES, CLICK HERE.
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People-first marketing is our focus. Call Lori Jones today to learn more. 303-678-7102
“Everything is in sound bites, everything is in video, and everything is visual.”
Dale Haines is a marketing professional who has worked in a variety of industries including finance, aerospace, and software. His passion is helping companies increase brand awareness and grow their market share. What Dale has learned over his more than 20 years of experience, is that those two goals are dependent on building relationships. As he sums it up: people do business with people and with companies they like. Dale is a pioneer in digital media, an authority in video content marketing, and the marketing project manager at ASU Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions
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TO FIND DALE HAINES ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE.
Helping you incorporate video content into the marketing mix. Call LORI JONES today at 303-678-7102 to learn more.
“Listening, humility, and vulnerability are essential ingredients for marketing.”
Adrian Gershom is vice president of marketing and digital strategy at c|change, a Chicago-based consultancy that accelerates the sales and marketing of future-focused B2B companies. He works with clients that range in size from startups to Fortune 500 companies to understand and address how to make sales and marketing more measurable and effective. A particular area of focus is the role that culture and values play in separating organizations with highly effective sales and marketing teams from those that are merely average. Adrian is keenly interested in using business as a force for good and works to grow the number of certified B Corps as a B Local Leader in the state of Illinois.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT, C|CHANGE, CLICK HERE.
“When you expand outside of your domestic market, you introduce a wide host of challenges that your teams are going to have to work through.”
Ryan Medine, vice president of marketing at Velocity Global, is a results-driven, global marketing executive with over 13 years of experience in B2B and B2C marketing. He is a creative brand visionary that excels at bringing brands to life by tapping into human emotions through messaging, content, and storytelling. He is an analytical leader with a proven track record of developing integrated marketing strategies that deliver exponential business growth and maximize ROI. Since joining Velocity, Ryan has delivered revenue growth of over 300 percent – surpassing $50MM – and helped the company reach #4 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Additionally, he transformed the marketing function from a two-person inbound-only team with stagnating results into a 13-person, cross-channel, inbound and outbound marketing engine.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT, VELOCITY GLOBAL, CLICK HERE.
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“Getting to know your customers isn’t easy; it should always be evolving.”
Mario Nawfal is founder of the IBC Group, a network of experts in over 40 countries that has risen in less than a year to become the established industry authority in the rapidly growing blockchain and Crypto space. This dynamic entrepreneur embarked upon his path with only $300 in the bank, selling blenders door to door. That experience led to his founding of Froothie Australia, a globally recognized brand of blenders and juicers. Through unconventional marketing techniques, efficient logistical systems, and a team of global contractors, Mario has propelled Froothie from $1 million in year one to over $10 million in year two, all bootstrapped.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT, IBC GROUP, CLICK HERE.
“Without having a strong hold on what the perception is of your brand in the marketplace, you truly are guessing at all of your marketing messages.”
Lori Jones, president and CEO of Avocet Communications, brings top retail, consumer, and business-to-business branding expertise to all aspects of integrated marketing. Her experience with Fortune 500 brands, middle-market challenger brands, and entrepreneurial startups have made her an in-demand speaker at industry sales and marketing conferences. Her top-rated Integrate & Ignite podcast is listened to by CEOs, CMOs, and innovators all over the world. Founded in 1980 and consistently honored as one of Colorado’s leading marketing agencies, Avocet Communications has earned a national reputation for helping its clients increase customer count through integrated marketing communications solutions.
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“Every single marketing team should have a revenue goal.”
Rose McCarty is a results-driven global marketing executive with over 14 years of experience transforming marketing and communications groups into strategic teams aligned with business development. In addition to holding executive leadership positions with high-profile companies such as Stewart Title, Edge Group, and Compass Group, Rose leverages her experiences to grow the marketing industry. She recently spoke at the New York Stock Exchange on how customer experience is reshaping marketing and was later named to the inaugural Houston Power 50 award list by Texas Diversity magazine.
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“Don’t get caught up with the virality of content. Take the slow, steady, and consistent approach.”
As Gardenuity’s COO, Doug Platts drives business growth and defines scalable operations to support their growing customer base and product range. An international marketer with over a decade of experience in the industry, Doug has an extensive record of identifying new technologies and delivering strategic innovation and has helped brands like Microsoft, LG, Toyota, Coca-Cola and Starwood Hotels build deeper engagements with their customers.
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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT, GARDENUITY, CLICK HERE.
“Marketing has to be integrated and unified before it can be amplified.”
Corey Livingston is responsible for establishing the marketing vision and strategy at OneNeck IT Solutions. As VP of marketing, Corey is accountable for introducing impactful marketing programs and initiatives that drive brand affinity and market demand for services and solutions across the company’s broad portfolio in order to achieve OneNeck’s aggressive sales and revenue growth goals. Her areas of focus include continuous optimization of segmentation and targeting; strengthening the brand and its core value proposition; creating and telling audience-centric stories; modernizing the marketing technology stack; customer acquisition and nurturing; and defining marketing performance in terms of business impact.
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“You want to fill the room and work the room.”
Rylee Meek is founder and CEO of the Social Dynamic Selling System, a value-based approach to lead generation and client acquisition that an approach that has turned dinner seminar marketing into a science. The Social Dynamic Selling System, which Rylee devised in 2010, provides a predictable, sustainable, and scalable system for entrepreneurs and business owners looking to drive more business and increase revenue through new customer acquisition. Rylee and his team have promoted over 25,000 events and connected over 2+ million consumers with their clients. Rylee has used a combination of direct mail marketing and what he calls “dinner events to grow his business to $12 million in sales.
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May Lilley is vice president of marketing and communications at Under Canvas, Inc., a company offering all-inclusive glamping adventure packages through their eight luxury glamping resorts, and whose mission is to bring the glamping experience to life anywhere in the country. May’s experiences, studies, and interests cross all areas of data-driven marketing, strategic communications, and branding, and combine to produce a truly integrated approach to brand efficacy and driving revenue. Her areas of focus include international/global communications, integrated branding, acquisition integration, financial accountability/budgeting, leading high performing teams, and agency management.
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As CEO of Brightpearl, Derek O’Carroll is responsible for the overall company strategy and for delivering on Brightpearl’s mission to automate retail. Brightpearl is a scalable cloud platform designed especially for high-growth multi-channel retailers wishing to automate and integrate their e-Commerce and accounting operations. He has spent his career developing a highly successful track record of creating value to IT companies in EMEA Specialties including building exceptional teams and creating winning environments, simple messaging, zero ambiguity, and a train for excellence. In 1994 he founded Adnet, Ireland’s first online advertising agency building database driven websites and offering SEO services. In 1999 he founded Vordel, which became a leading provider of XML security solutions and was sold to Axway in 2012.
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Kasim Aslam, a self-described “digital ninja,” is the founder and chief strategist of Solutions 8. His background is in custom application architecture and development. He has built custom web and software applications for organizations in a myriad of sectors such as the banking industry including the largest privately owned bank in the United States, the healthcare industry including the oldest TPA in the country, and the nonprofit industry as a consultant for a branch of The Gate’s Foundation. Kasim has been a technology spokesperson for Intel and has worked on a contract basis for the United States Army. He has been published in numerous publications, including CRM magazine, Search Engine Journal, and Social Media Today. Kasim has lectured on the topics of Search Engine Optimization, marketing automation, and digital marketing, and has served as a guest speaker alongside Mavenlink CEO Ray Grainger on project management for small businesses. He is the author of the Amazon bestseller, The 7 Critical Principles of Effective Digital Marketing, and his company is a Digital Marketer Certified Partner, a Google Partner, and was recently named a Top 10 Agency by Expertise.com.
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Janine Davidson, Ph.D., is the president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, the state’s third-largest public university, serving more than 20,000 students in high-quality, career-oriented undergraduate and graduate academic programs. As president, she has listed her top three priorities as 1) students, 2) students, and 3) students, and has become known on campus for her relatable personality. She’s one of few university presidents who is as comfortable in board meetings as she is playing ping pong with undergraduates. Prior to joining the University, Davidson served as the 32nd undersecretary of the United States Navy, where she managed all Department of the Navy affairs including acquisition, finance, personnel, legislative affairs, research and development, and was responsible for the health and well-being of nearly 900,000 sailors, marines, civilians, and their families.
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• The unique challenges facing leaders in higher education.
• Her commitment to meeting a market need in higher education.
• How she put in place a student-focused infrastructure.
• Her approach to “inclusive leadership.”
• How leadership at a university is a hybrid between “being a mayor and being a CEO.”
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Rick Miller is an unconventional turnaround specialist, sought-after speaker, servant leader, and an expert in driving sustainable growth. For over 30 years he served as a successful senior executive in roles including president and CEO in Fortune 10, Fortune 30, nonprofit, and startup companies, including AT&T Global Services and Lucent Technologies. Throughout his career, he has been recruited from the outside to turn around poor performance in difficult times. His new book, Be Chief: It's a Choice, Not a Title, helps leaders at all levels achieve their true potential.
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