Spring Marketing Challenge Experts
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Liz Strauss is Co-Founder of SOBCon, a highly anticipated event for elite bloggers and a social web strategist who focuses on growth through relationships, communication, and performance. Her clients are corporations, universities, small business, and individuals who want to know which social tools to use and in which order to build an effect web identity and deep relationships. Liz helps them seamlessly integrate online and offline cultures into their growth strategies using social media tools, such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs and measurement of specific goals.Liz Strauss has been named to the Top 100 Social Media & Internet Marketing Bloggers, Top 100 Most Influential Marketers of 2008, 50 of the Most Powerful and Influential Women of Social Media,Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers | @lizstrauss |
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Ramon De Leon started with Domino’s Pizza in Chicago in 1986 as a pizza delivery driver. Twenty Three years later Ramon is the Operating partner of a six store Domino’s Pizza Franchise in Chicago. Extreme Passion and High Energy are words that best describe his love for the pizza business.Ramon has been using Social Media for his business since before the word existed. AOL Instant messenger was his micro-blog long before Twitter was invented. When Facebook was closed to the general public, Ramon connected with customers in photos and groups. His Social Media strategies were recently highlighted at Gravity Summit Harvard and streamed Live on CNN.COM. Domino’s Pizza Franchisees around the world seek his Social Media advice. Ramon’s creative uses of Social Media and enthusiasm have made him a sought after speaker. |
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Teri Gidwitz, Account Director at Marcel Media, is a senior level executive with a background in marketing and general management. She spent the first part of her career in consumer packaged goods & services, focused on traditional marketing, advertising, event marketing and promotions. She has spent the last 12 years developing an expertise in eCommerce and online marketing in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments. Teri’s skills include building online capabilities from the ground up including web infrastructure, navigation, functionality and customer experience, as well as online lead generation and customer relationship management. Teri’s most recent corporate experience was leading the eBusiness team for HSBC’s US credit card division. Teri has a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. | @terilg |
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Barry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years.
After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation. His first book, “You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business” describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. It is in its fifth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai. His second book, “Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success”, shows what it takes to comeback and develop true business confidence. It has been translated into Korean and German. His third book , “BAM! Delivering Customer Service in a Self-Service World” shows how customer service is the new marketing. Barry is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship who has given hundreds of presentations to audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000. As a member of the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame, he also has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has appeared on many TV and radio programs such as The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and The Tavis Smiley Show. He hosts his own radio show, Business Insanity Talk Radio and blogs regularly for the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Now and Crain’s Chicago Enterprise City. |
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Daniel Honigman Daniel B. Honigman is the social media manager for Sears Home Electronics. Prior to that, he was a digital supervisor at Weber Shandwick, where he worked with clients such as General Motors, Oscar Mayer, Kraft Foods, the Campbell Soup Company and the Milk Processors education Program (MilkPEP). Before that, he was the lead social media strategist for Tribune Interactive and the Chicago Tribune, where he pioneered the “Colonel Tribune” campaign, which was a Forrester Groundswell Award finalist and named one of “3 Inspired Social Media Profiles” by Fast Company. | @danielhonigman |
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Amy Ravit Korin, founder of Interactive Amy, has over nine years of experience in social and emerging media, online advertising, branding and digital communications. Amy’s focus has been on counseling clients and executing digital media strategies for individuals, local businesses and Fortune 500 corporations. The roster of clients that Amy helped develop digital strategy includes: Procter & Gamble, H&R Block, Target, Arizona Jeans, JCPenney, General Motors, Sun Microsystems, Kao Brands, Zappos, L’Oreal, Ocean Spray and ConAgra to name a few. She earned her Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Loyola University’s Graduate School of Business and her undergraduate degree in Communications from The University of Michigan. | @interactiveamy |
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Beth Rosen, Founder o f4keysmedia.com is a leading edge Social Media strategist whose versatility and expertise in media and the promotional arts allows individuals and companies realize their full potential on Twitter, Facebook as well as through podcasting and blogging. Beth draws upon her vast experience as a radio, film and commercial producer to structure, implement and maintain highly focused and beneficial Social Media campaigns for businesses.Beth is also a pioneer podcaster. Since 2004, she hosts a weekly podcast that is carried by NBCChicago.com. She is instrumental in applying the podcasting format to her Social Media choices for companies who wish to permeate and inspire the mommy market. | @bethrosen |
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