Gini Dietrich – Founder and CEO of Spin Sucks Pro
[quote style=”boxed”]You know, I’d have to say it’s to create income streams outside of your core business. I remember, very vaguely, a conversation I had with a friend four years…
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.
What makes these conversations different from another marketing blog is the source. These aren’t theorists. They’re people who’ve spent actual money on actual campaigns and lived to tell the tale. Some of the tales involve spectacular failure. Those are usually the most useful ones.
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”]You know, I’d have to say it’s to create income streams outside of your core business. I remember, very vaguely, a conversation I had with a friend four years…
[quote style=”boxed”]Seeing young entrepreneurs dream up an idea and see it come to life. Even when they fail, it’s great to see people chase a dream and see something tangible come to…
[quote style=”boxed”]The only way to bring ideas to life is through action. Just about every person has an “idea” for the next great company or product. But ideas are worthless. …
Meet Dave Knox – Chief Marketing Officer for Rockfish Interactive
[quote style=”boxed”]In my experience, what distinguishes a successful idea from an unsuccessful one is most often not the actual idea in question but rather the nature of the execution.[/quote] As…
[quote style=”boxed”]You have to try, try and retry. Never refrain yourself.[/quote] Marc-Henri Magdelenat is a serial French entrepreneur who lives in New York City with his wife and 3 kids….
[quote style=”boxed”]Cultural Capital. I’ve been working to develop a creative strategy approach and form of measurement which places the focus of success for a brand, not on it’s isolated equity,…
[quote style=”boxed”]If there is an idea I am excited about, I am of the mindset “just shut up and do it”. Figure out what is needed and just make it…
[quote style=”boxed”]Spending money on dumb things when you first start pursuing an idea is probably the worst mistake I ever made. When you boot strap a business you need to…
[quote style=”boxed”]Humility makes it possible for everyone to get what they need and keeps priorities straight. Mercy enriches the merciful and creates second chances. Discovery excites us and moves the…
Roland Osborne is the Co-Founder of Olark.com, a Palo Alto based start-up focused on enhancing relationships on the web. Olark’s current product enables businesses and clients to connect one-on-one via…
Niel Robertson is a serial entrepreneur and former VC who most recently founded Trada, a crowdsourced paid-search marketplace, and Crowdsortium, a trade organization for crowdsourcing professionals. Prior to Trada he…
Andrew Dumont is a technology entrepreneur and the Director of Business Development at Seesmic. Since the beginning of Andrew’s time with Seesmic in February of 2010, he’s led efforts on…
Meet Andrew Dumont – Director of Business Development at Seesmic