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

SummitUp

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For my birth­day this year, I am get­ting some­thing really cool -  a social media con­fer­ence right here in Day­ton.  “Yea, Just what I always wanted, a con­fer­ence!” No, the con­fer­ence was not put on for that rea­son, but it is a nice coin­ci­dence.    The event is called Sum­mitUp, it will take place on Octo­ber …read more

Farewell Marley

Long before the book came out, there was Mar­ley (my dog) and me.  I wanted to write a quick post to say farewell to Mar­ley, who passed away ear­lier this week.  Mar­ley lived a long and good life, and was a great dog.  I got her from a friend while I was in col­lege.  She …read more