SummitUp Preview Podcast — Lara Kretler

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Lara Kretler, AVP and social media lead at Fahlgren Mor­tine Pub­lic Rela­tions, is pas­sion­ate about the strate­gic use of the social web. A career PR pro with both agency and cor­po­rate expe­ri­ence span­ning more than 15 years, Lara brings over a decade of online com­mu­nity build­ing and social media exper­tise to her pub­lic rela­tions work. …read more

SummitUp Podcast Preview — Lewis Howes

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Lewis Howes, a pre­vi­ous two sport col­le­giate All-American, is also the NCAA All-Division Record Holder for the most receiv­ing yards in a sin­gle foot­ball game (418 yards, cur­rently an unof­fi­cial World Record). Lewis grad­u­ated with a Sports Man­age­ment degree from Prin­cipia Col­lege, and since his retire­ment from pro­fes­sional foot­ball, he con­tin­ues to stay involved in …read more

SummitUp Preview Podcast — Ali Margello

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As a  busi­ness devel­op­ment pro­fes­sional at Exact­Tar­get, Ali Margello part­ners with mar­keters and agen­cies of all sizes to help them opti­mize their dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing efforts through the effec­tive use of email, SMS, voice, and related social media plat­forms. In addi­tion to tra­di­tional sales devel­op­ments, Ali works closely with sev­eral Indus­try part­ners and Asso­ci­a­tions (Amer­i­can Mar­ket­ing …read more

SummitUp Preview Podcast — Roger Bora

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Roger Bora is a mem­ber of Thomp­son Hine’s Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty prac­tice group, con­cen­trat­ing his prac­tice in the area of intel­lec­tual prop­erty law, which includes trade­mark, pass­ing off, false endorse­ment, trade dress, copy­right, e-commerce and inter­net, adver­tis­ing, and right of pub­lic­ity laws. Before join­ing Thomp­son Hine, Roger was a prac­tic­ing trade­mark attor­ney in a major law …read more

SummitUp Preview Podcast — Debba Haupert

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With her 20 years of mar­ket­ing expe­ri­ence in com­mu­ni­ca­tions, PR, prod­uct devel­op­ment, etc. (self-proclaimed ‘mar­ket­ing mutt’) in var­i­ous indus­tries (high tech, finance, B2B, CPG), Debba Hau­pert has grown the girl­friend com­mu­nity online. She employs Twit­ter, Face­book, YouTube, and other social media plat­forms to fur­ther expand the aware­ness of and traf­fic on Girlfriendology.com. Through her social …read more

SummitUp Preview Podcast — Kendra Ramirez

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Kendra Ramirez, CEO/Founder of Sales Kon­nect, is able to teach and con­sult directly from over a decade of expe­ri­ence in net­work­ing, sales, recruit­ing and busi­ness improve­ment. Since 2005, Kendra has shown busi­nesses how to uti­lize these net­work­ing tools to shorten sales cycle, find pas­sive can­di­dates and extend their mar­ket­ing plans. Kendra is also one of the …read more

SummitUp Podcast Preview — David Esrati

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Called the über blog­ger by the Day­ton Daily News, David Esrati leads The Next Wave, a for­ward think­ing adver­tis­ing agency that has been on the lead­ing edge of uti­liz­ing open source con­tent man­agers for web devel­op­ment. He has been a keynote speaker at national con­fer­ences talk­ing about organic SEO/SEM, com­mu­nity build­ing online and the future …read more

SummitUp Preview Podcast — Brian LeCount

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Brian LeCount is Asso­ciate Direc­tor of Strate­gic Plan­ning at Bridge World­wide – a WPP inter­ac­tive and rela­tion­ship mar­ket­ing agency in Cincin­nati, Ohio. Prior to join­ing Bridge, Brian founded R.O.Why! Mar­ket­ing, a results-focused mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions firm, and pre­vi­ously spent 8 years serv­ing on the client side in mar­ket­ing lead­er­ship roles in health­care, tech­nol­ogy con­sult­ing, soft­ware and …read more

SummitUp Preview Podcast — Jennifer McClure

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Jen­nifer McClure is an Exec­u­tive Recruiter, Exec­u­tive Coach and “Tal­ent Geek”. Trans­la­tion? A Con­sul­tant, Advi­sor and Part­ner to busi­nesses and busi­ness lead­ers in the areas of attract­ing, recruit­ing, devel­op­ing and retain­ing Tal­ent in their orga­ni­za­tions. She is the Founder/Group Man­ager of Linked­Cincin­nati – a net­work­ing group of over 10,000 pro­fes­sion­als who under­stand the value of …read more

SummitUp Preview Podcast — Steve Phillips

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As prin­ci­pal and owner of Pur­ple Trout, LLC Steve Phillips lit­er­ally lives, eats, breathes and, yes, sleeps Search Engine Opti­miza­tion (SEO). His pas­sion for SEO is evi­dent in his daily client work; desire to edu­cate clients on the art and sci­ence of SEO and his ded­i­ca­tion to pro­duc­ing higher rank­ings in search engines for each and every …read more