Voices — Episode 11: Peter Shankman

Peter Shankman - Voices Podcast

One of my favorite peo­ple to fol­low on the web is PR Guru, Peter Shankman.  Whether he is jump­ing out of air­planes, con­struct­ing an in-home social media bat­tle sta­tion, or jet­ting from city to city, Peter is always up to some­thing inter­est­ing.  He is a pio­neer in the use of social media and the founder …read more

Speed 2

Speed2

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

In One Word

inoneword

On a recent shop­ping trip to the mall, I was walk­ing past store after store think­ing to myself “If I had to use one word to describe (insert name of retail store) what would it be.  For some, it was easy to do.  For oth­ers, not so much. From a mar­ket­ing stand­point, this was an excer­cise …read more

Whatcha Talkin Bout Willis?

saysomething

By this time you have prob­a­bly heard about Twit­ter.  If not, here is a quick sum­mary.  Twit­ter is a site where you, and the rest of the world get 140 char­ac­ters to answer one ques­tion “what are you doing?” Now the com­mon first reac­tion by some­one who dis­cov­ers Twit­ter is to scrunch up their face, tilt …read more

Linking Up with LinkedIn Dayton

Today I was given the dis­tinct honor of address­ing the LinkedIn Day­ton net­work­ing group at Champps in Cen­ter­ville, Ohio on the topic of lever­ag­ing web based tools to build your per­sonal brand.  I want to thank every­one who attended the event.  I hope you found it to be fun and infor­ma­tive. I know that I …read more

If I Was in Charge of Rolling Rock…

Rolling Rock

Week 2 in my series of “If I was in charge.” I dis­cov­ered that it is more dif­fi­cult than I thought to pick a com­pany. Inspi­ra­tion comes from many sources, and tonight, it hap­pens to come “from the glass lined tanks of Old Latrobe.” — Rolling Rock. So, if I was in Charge of Rolling …read more