Ale Lariu – CEO of shout
[quote style=”boxed”]Do first ask later.[/quote] Ale Lariu is the CEO of shout and co-founder of SheSays, a 5 year old award-winning global network organization focused on the engagement, education and advancement…
Marketing is part art, part science, and part educated guessing. The founders here know all three. They’ve built agencies, launched brands, and figured out how to get people to pay attention. Which, in a world drowning in content, is no small feat.
These interviews cover the full spectrum. SEO. Content marketing. Social media. Brand strategy. Paid acquisition. Influencer marketing back before everyone was an influencer. The landscape keeps changing, and the people featured here have been adapting in real time.
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You’ll find insights on building marketing teams, measuring what matters, creative strategy, and the eternal tension between brand building and performance marketing. If you’re a marketer, you’ll find people who’ve solved problems you’re dealing with right now. If you’re a founder trying to figure out marketing, you’ll find people who can point you in a direction. Not the direction. A direction. That’s how marketing works.
[quote style=”boxed”]Do first ask later.[/quote] Ale Lariu is the CEO of shout and co-founder of SheSays, a 5 year old award-winning global network organization focused on the engagement, education and advancement…
[quote style=”boxed”]1. Audit the content you have. List it in an Excel spreadsheet. Look long and hard at it.2. Put someone in charge of the content at the beginning of…
Jeff Pedowitz has 20 years of experience leading successful B2C and B2B organizations. As founder and president of The Pedowitz Group, Jeff is responsible for setting the company’s…
Meet Jeff Pedowitz – Founder, President and CEO of The Pedowitz Group
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Justin Graves is the Founder and CEO of Infegy, the provider of Social Radar 3, the industry’s most intelligent social media monitoring and analytics platform. Social Radar’s patent-pending analytics and…