Advertising is about awareness and getting the right people to take action when a topic resonates with them. Social Media is about having a platform that encourages engagement. Many conflate social media with advertising, which can happen, but advertising is all about creating awareness. What really matters with social media is staying top of mind…
Victoria Montgomery Brown is the co-founder and founding CEO of Big Think the knowledge company that gets people smarter, faster through the wisdom of the world’s leading thinkers and do-ers. Victoria launched Big Think in 2007 and was CEO until its acquisition in late 2020. Victoria is the author of Digital Goddess, the unfiltered lessons…
Did you know that elephants don’t really like peanuts? In the 1990s, elephants were used in circuses and zoos that allowed people to feed them. The circuses and zoos would sell peanut bags for people to feed elephants. But, peanut-loving elephants are a myth. Elephants don’t eat peanuts in the wild. They are not even…
After co-authoring the award-winning book The Corporate Startup, Dan founded the consultancy company Outcome. At Outcome, Dan is helping large companies transform to be able to grow for the future while running their today’s core businesses. In this capacity, he worked with blue-chip companies around the world, most notably John Deere, Bayer, DNB, Indonesian Telekom,…
When Facebook (and other social media platforms0 go down, your business can suffer if you rely on it to help spread your messages. Facebook (and other social media platforms) have come under scrutiny about how their algorithms can slant what people see to create more income through ads for them, without concern about how it…
Mark S. Babbitt is President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that helps organizations understand leadership’s impact on culture and the company’s collective level of Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next…
When you see everyone doing the same thing, human nature is to follow the crowd. Just because everyone is doing it, does that mean it’s right for your business or your customers? Have you ever seen a kids’ soccer game? All the kids follow the ball around the field until something happens. But what’s the…
When disruption strikes, businesses try to manage by finding new leads to sell to, but is that the best way to deal with it?. When disruption strikes, we tend to get bust, and if you are too busy to market, then you have a compounded problem. You have probably spent years trying to grow your…
In an upcoming expert interview, Marks S A Smith tells us that “A Ready To Sell Business is a GREAT Business”. What he means is, if you increase the sales by improving the processes, your business should be more profitable and better suited for suitors. If your marketing messaging is better, it will help you…
Deb Krier is a LinkedIn Strategist, social media advisor, and professional speaker. For more than 10 years, she has work with professionals to optimize their use of LinkedIn. As the founder of Wise Women Communications, a full-service marketing agency, she sees LinkedIn as a vital marketing tool for professionals at any level.
Throughout her career, Deb has worked with corporations and nonprofit organizations developing and maximizing their marketing and public relations efforts. But, senior executives often don’t see themselves as something that needs marketed. Drawing on her experience in working for small businesses, one of the largest corporations in the world, the nonprofit realm and as an entrepreneur, she demonstrates how LinkedIn is a strategic tool that enables everyone to improve their business, whether large or small, and create an impressive personal brand.
With more than 20 years of experience, Deb has a Master’s Degree in Marketing as well as a Master’s Degree in Communication Management. She has the experience and knowledge to help busy executives make an impact with their LinkedIn Profiles.
