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Kent Lewis - Linked In For Business Interview

01/20/16 • 30 min

Linked In For Business Podcast | LinkedIn | America's Leading LinkedIn Coach | Best Selling LinkedIn Author

As President and Founder of Anvil Media, Inc., Kent Lewis is responsible for ensuring the company is living its mission and vision by managing overall corporate strategy including operations, business development, sales and marketing. Specializing in analytics, search engine and social media marketing services, Anvil is an integrated marketing consultancy which provides measurable marketing that moves clients’ businesses forward. Under his leadership since 2000, Anvil has accumulated the following awards and recognition: Inc. 5000: Fastest growing private companies in America Portland Business Journal: Oregon’s Most Admired Companies Portland Business Journal: Fastest Growing Private 100 Companies (for five consecutive years) Portland Business Journal: Corporate Philanthropy Awards winner Clutch: Top Pay-per-Click Agencies in AmericaWith a background in agency-side digital marketing, Lewis regularly speaks on effective digital marketing techniques & trends to audiences as a subject matter expert. Since 2000, he’s been an adjunct professor at Portland State University, where he teaches an SEM Workshop, and also toured nationwide with Online Marketing Institute as a lead instructor. Lewis also regularly contributes to industry publications including Business2Community and iMedia Connection. As a long-time entrepreneur, he’s an investor and advisor to a host of emerging Portland-based companies, including DreamPath, Gas Anywhere, Journey Fitness, RISEcx, Syndical and Tixie and Workplace Resource of Oregon. Lewis is co-founder of a variety of organizations, including career community pdxMindShare, eROI and SEMpdx, a Portland-area professional trade association for search engine marketers. Active in his community, he’s currently involved in non-profit charity and professional trade organizations including early literacy program SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) and others. Lewis’s industry recognition and awards include Portland Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40 Award, Top 25 Most Influential Pay-per-Click Experts and American Marketing Association Oregon Chapter Marketer of the Year in 2012 and Top 20 Digital Marketing Strategists 2015.

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Naresh Vissa - LinkedIn For Business Interview

Naresh Vissa is Founder and CEO of Krish Media & Marketing – a full service online and digital media and marketing consultancy and agency. He has worked with leading publishers, media firms and institutions such as CNN Radio, JP Morgan Chase, EverBank, The Institute for Energy Research, Houston Rockets, Houston Astros, the American Junior Golf Association, Agora Publishing, and Stansberry Research.

Naresh helped launch an online radio network generating six-figures in monthly revenue. He managed the production and marketing for the first online retail physical precious metals trading platform. He’s a #1 bestselling author ofPODCASTNOMICS: The Book Of Podcasting... To Make You Millions and has been featured on USA Today, Yahoo!, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Huffington Post, Business Week, MSN Money, Business Insider, India Today, and the Hindustan Times. He was also the Director of Media Strategy at the largest private and independent financial publisher in the world.

In 2009, Naresh co-hosted the top-rated financial talk show in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolis, The Wall Street Shuffle. He has booked more than 1,500 experts in the fields of finance, economics, business management & consulting, self-help, leadership, sales and marketing.

Naresh aided the Houston Rockets’ staff in selecting draft picks Aaron Brooks, Carl Landry and Donte Greene in the 2007 and 2008 NBA Drafts.

Naresh took as many as 27 credit hours a semester while at Syracuse University, and he graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Renée Crown University Honors Program, triple majoring in broadcast and digital journalism, finance, and accounting at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Morgan Stanley nominated him as an Emerging Student Leader. During his junior and senior years, he served as an analyst for the Orange Value Fund, where he managed an investment portfolio in excess of $1.2 million of private investor money. Upon graduation, he was awarded as a high-achieving student in his class.

Naresh earned a Master’s Degree from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, concurrently working as an admissions recruitment coordinator, marketing and communications blogger, and strategy research assistant to Executive in Residence Professor Bill Sax.

A former academic tutor, counselor to underrepresented students, and middle school assistant basketball coach at the nationally renowned Village School in Houston, Naresh frequently donates his time to community service and social advocacy. He holds a first-degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.

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Tony Faustino - Linked In For Business Interview

Tony Faustino

I Advise B2B Firms On Aligning Content Marketing, LinkedIn and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Third party media sites quoting my expertise include: Inc.com, bitly.com, CIO.com, MarketingSherpa.com, allBusiness.com, NGData.com, GetApp.com, and WebsiteMagazine.com.21st Century Buyers Crave Educational Content That Informs Their Decision Making. As President and Founder of Faustino Marketing Strategies LLC, my mission is to advise my clients how to market and promote their expertise on The Internet so their buyers find, learn about and purchase their services.Help Your Buyers By Educating Them. Today's B2B buyers invest in organizations, services, or products they trust. They invest significant time in online research during the initial stages of a buyer journey or consumer journey. + Help buyers solve their problems and earn their trust.+ Publish content showing how your approach addresses their problem(s). + Show your buyers how you think. I write about how The Internet reinvents content marketing and corporate strategy in my personal blog: Social Media ReInvention (www.socialmediareinvention.com). My advisory experience as a marketing and corporate strategist spans organizations from early stage startups to The Fortune 500. My content marketing experience includes (but is not limited to) inbound and digital marketing activities focusing on buyer persona profiles, relationship building with influential bloggers, media writers and thought leaders, selecting social media channels, and writing / blogging to educate current and prospective buyers.I integrate content marketing tactics with search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM: Pay-Per-Click / PPC advertising), and inbound link process improvements using SpyFu Competitive Intelligence Tools.Converse with me in real-time communications via Twitter (@tonyfaustino), Facebook (Social Media ReInvention Blog), and Google+ (+TonyFaustino).

Ted Prodromou (pro dro mo) is America’s leading LinkedIn coach and the #1 best selling author of The Ultimate Guide to Linked In For Business. To get a free copy of his book simply register at www.tedprodromou.com. On the podcast, Ted brings together some of the top LinkedIn minds in the country to share with you how they grow their businesses using LinkedIn and how you can, too.