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Interview with Erin Saxton, Senior VP, Tallgrass PR

the CEO Hour, April 20th 2012. 

Erin Saxton | Sr. VP | Tallgrass Public Relations 
  
As Senior Vice President of TallGrass Public Relations, Erin Saxton continues to develop the firm in response to an industry need for a new kind of agency capable of capturing the attention of the media. A multi Emmy-nominated TV producer, Ms. Saxton has long been on the receiving end of PR pitches, having worked on shows that include The View, Barbara Walters Specials, and Good Morning America. This extensive experience gives her an insider's status that enables her to identify the concepts that resonate for television and radio producers as well as editors in print and online media outlets. She knows the best ways to pitch a book, person, or product, and utilizes her professional skills and expansive contacts to generate strong media interest in the messages her clients wish to deliver.  www.tallgrasspr.com

 

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Interview with Kathy Heasley of Heasley and Partners Branding Firm

the CEO Hour, April 13th 2012. 

Kathy Heasley | Founder | Heasley & Partners, Inc.

Kathy is the branding and creative force behind HEASLEY & PARTNERS, a branding company that helps entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial organizations grow and prosper.  Kathy has dedicated her professional life to developing businesses that connect with the heart and open the mind. In the process, lives are transformed and companies become breakthrough brands.  After years of working in just about every aspect of marketing and communications there is, for big companies, small companies, entrepreneurial companies, tech companies and more, her well rounded view of business led her to start her own firm in 1994.  Through years of helping clients she arrived at what worked and what didn't. From that she created Heart & Mind^® Branding, a method that connects companies and people with their audiences to win hearts and minds-in that order.  www.heasleyandpartners.com

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Interview with Ron Wille, Founder and CEO of Black Tab Group

the CEO Hour, April 6th 2012. 

Ron Wille | Founder & Partner | BlackTab Group 

Ron Wille has been helping organizations better leverage their technology to increase performance for almost 20 years.

Prior to founding BlackTab, Ron was the coCEO of NimbleUser, where under his leadership NimbleUser grew from a niche firm of 3 people and a single offering to 30 employees with several award-winning business lines.

The BlackTab Group are business consultants, with experience in managing sales, marketing, and IT professionals. They know how to leverage Salesforce.com to run high-performance teams that grow both the top and bottom lines.   www.blacktabgroup.com

 

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Interview with internet marketing author and speaker, Stephanie Chandler

the CEO Hour, March 30th 2012. 

Stephanie Chandler | Author & Motivational Speaker | 

Stephanie Chandler is an author of several books including Own Your Niche: Hype-Free Internet Marketing Tactics to Establish Authority in Your Field and Promote Your Service-Based Business (Authority Publishing, February 2012), From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, eBooks and Information Products (John Wiley & Sons) and LEAP! 101 Ways to Grow Your Business (Career Press). Stephanie is also founder and CEO of BusinessInfoGuide.com, a directory of resources for entrepreneurs, and Authority Publishing, a custom publisher specializing in non-fiction books. A frequent speaker at business events and on the radio, she has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, BusinessWeek, Inc.com, and Wired magazine, and she is a contributing blogger for Forbes.    www.stephaniechandler.com

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Interview with Russ Militello, CEO of IConnected Marketing

the CEO Hour, November 11th 2011. 

Russ Militello | CEO | iConnected Marketing  

iConnected Marketing Corp specializes in the development of web-based marketing solutions. Combining strategic marketing plans with purposeful website development and creative uses of website design, SEO, SEM, and social media platforms, iConnected Marketing is able to fully leverage today's digital media to reach our clients' business development goals of tomorrow. "WE GET IT! ...You need to communicate with your target markets when they want, where they are, through the medium they're using. We harness the power of digital media to do just that... WE CONNECT PEOPLE NATURALLY."  Russ will tell us how in the first hour.

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Succession Planning: Creating Your Legacy -The CEO and founder of Lighthouse Marketing, Susan Beebe, chose her successor, Jessica Sloma as they tell their 10th anniversary story.

the CEO Hour, October 14th 2011. 

Susan Beebe | President | Lighthouse Marketing

Jessical Sloma |VP Client Services| Lighthouse Marketing 

Founded in 2001, Lighthouse Marketing, Inc. (LHM) is an advertising agency that provides clients with superior, attentive service coupled with solid creativity. Uniquely structured, they offer a full and diverse range of services while maintaining a low overhead that is transferred to cost effective rates for our clients. LHM employs a small core staff and has approximately 20  specialized strategic partners on confidentiality agreements. These talented individuals are freelance partners, most of whom have worked with Lighthouse Marketing for many years and are brought in on a project-by-project basis. http://www.lighthousemkt.com

 

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MedTech's marketing specialist and President of GrowMotor, Graeme Roberts

the CEO Hour, August 26th 2011. 

Joining Heather, is MedTech's marketing specialist and President of GrowMotor, Graeme Roberts.  Graeme helps clients to drive change against all odds. Tough decisions and commitment follow deep, relentless emotional engagement. If storytelling and metaphor are the bulldozers, logic and analysis are the pick and shovel.  He practices expert marketing for social, political and business innovation that he believes will make for a better world. Call it progress. 

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An Interview with Wayne Breitbarth; LinkedIn consultant, speaker, trainer and author of " THE POWER FORMULA FOR LINKEDIN SUCCESS: How to effectively use LinkedIn"

the CEO Hour, July 1st 2011. 

Wayne Breitbarth is a LinkedIn consultant, speaker, trainer and author of THE POWER FORMULA FOR LINKEDIN SUCCESS.He has trained over 10,000 busy businesspeople-from entry level to CEO-on how to effectively use LinkedIn. I help companies develop a comprehensive strategy for using LinkedIn to grow their business and build their brand. He then trains their team on how to use LinkedIn to meet their objectives.  Wayne is consistently asked to speak at Executive Agenda (EA), YPO and TEC meetings as well as CEO Roundtables, where his thirty years of experience as a business owner and manager enables him to help his peers understand how social media can benefit their companies. wbreitbarth@mmoffice.com

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The Client Driven Practice: Steve Wershing, says two new studies reinforce what he's been telling financial advisors – clients are more interested in the service you provide, than how you get paid or what legal standard of care you must provide

the CEO Hour, July 1st 2011. The Client Driven Practice: The importance of having a referral marketing system - Steve Wershing "Two new studies reinforce what I Certified financial planner and the president of The Client Driven Business, Steve Wershing, says two new studies reinforce what he's been telling financial advisors for some time – clients are more interested in the service you provide, than how you get paid or what legal standard of care you must provide. swershing@gmail.com

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Happy Employees, Happy Customers: Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most - Sybil Stershic proves the return on investment when companies care for their employees

the CEO Hour, June 17th 2011. Sybil F. Stershic, founder of Quality Service Marketing and author of Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most: A guide to Employee-Customer Care is the second segment of the show this week. Sybil is a marketing and organizational advisor who specializes in employee and customer care.  Her blog focuses on internal and communications - how to effectively engage the people who most impact marketing and organizational success. Sybil has a newly released ebook, Volunteer Engagement that can be downloaded from her website. http://www.qualityservicemarketing.com

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