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

What’s the big idea?

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Recently some mem­bers of the Day­ton Mar­ket­ing Com­mu­nity met up for the 1st (of what will hope­fully be many) Big Idea Break­fast — some­thing I thought up a few days prior while writ­ing my morn­ing pages.   The con­cept for the event was as fol­lows: This meet­ing is part net­work­ing part inno­va­tion part caf­feina­tion part col­lab­o­ra­tion …read more

Speed 2

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Last Octo­ber I attended a stu­dent pre­sen­ta­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Day­ton enti­tled Speed Mar­ket­ing.  The event fea­tured sev­eral groups of stu­dents deliv­er­ing 5 minute pre­sen­ta­tions on the lat­est and great­est trends in the world of mar­ket­ing.  The event was won­der­ful.  The stu­dents did a great job of pre­sent­ing the infor­ma­tion in a highly impact­ful …read more

More Information on 2009 Dayton MLK Celebration

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I was recently given the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion about the fes­tiv­i­ties sur­round­ing Mar­tin Luther King Day in Day­ton, Ohio, and I wanted to pass it along to any­one who might be inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing.  I plan to be there on Mon­day for the march.  I hope to see you there. 2009 MLK CELEBRATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DAYTON, …read more

Obama in Dayton Friday

Demo­c­ra­tic Pres­i­den­tial Can­di­date Barack Obama will be com­ing to Day­ton, Ohio this Fri­day.  He will be speak­ing about his pro­posed energy pol­icy.  The event is free, but tick­ets are lim­ited.  This is a great oppor­tu­nity to see a Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date up close and in per­son.  I hope that I can score tick­ets and make it …read more

I Saw You… Walking In the Rain…

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Nope, I am not post­ing about Oran Juice Jones and his clas­sic hit ref­er­enced in the title of this post. I am talk­ing about the Epilepsy Foun­da­tion of West­ern Ohio fund rais­ing event that was held last week­end at Delco park in Ket­ter­ing, Ohio. It was a very rainy Sat­ur­day, and still 75 peo­ple turned …read more