Archive for the ‘CEO / President’ Category

Sophie Ann Terrisse, STC Associates

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Sophie Ann Terrisse, CEO of STC Associates, discusses Global Branding for clients.

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Some of Sophie’s VlogViews:

“I think a digital department is great but at the end of the day it’s really about the integration. And integration means digital is no longer your website, it’s no longer your email, it’s no longer your database. It’s how every single component of your reputation comes together.”

“What we do is we actually sit down with our clients, and we argue with them of what is a qualified prospect. How do you qualify a lead? How do you know you’re converting the right consumer? How do you know that they will take the right purchase or action that you want them to take? And what is the fastest way for you to make sure they take it?”

“PR has always struggled with, how do you measure performance? How credible will your efforts be when it comes to looking at that bottom line, and we wanted to find a way to be able to demonstrate it and that’s how we build our agency.”

“What we’re experiencing is a lot of people say, ‘I do have a limited budget, I need to be very disciplined about my spending, I need to be able to prove to my organization that I get a great return.’ And we find that PR, when it comes to building reputation credibility is one of the most powerful discipline tools.”

Katie Paine, KD Paine and Partners

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Katie Paine, CEO of KD Paine & Partners, discusses the value of web placements, the reporting of web data, and the importance of driving traffic to a unique URL. Recorded at the Bulldog Media Relations summit.

Some of Katie’s VlogViews:

“You go to the four biggest reporters of web data and you’re going to get four completely different answers…You sit there and say, ‘pick one and be consistent’ and I think what happens is people are picking the ones that makes them look best.”

“[Web reporting] is really all this crazy technology driven stuff that really is just approximating where the number of people who might possibly be watching whatever it is that you’re doing, so that the actual real numbers of people you’re making a difference to is very suspect.”

“There is nothing more important than driving traffic to a unique URL. You have to have a unique URL if you’re going to measure anything because if not you really don’t know where things are coming from.”

Dan Abrams, CEO, Abrams Research

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Dan Abrams, CEO of Abrams Research and Chief Legal Analyst for MSNBC and NBC, discusses the changing media landscape. Recorded at the Bulldog Media Relations summit.

Some of Dan’s VlogViews:

“In terms of the media becoming more corporate, that’s a trend that has been happening for 15 years, if not more. I think a lot of those media entities are now forcing media professionals to figure out how to have their hand in different areas.”

“Transparency is always significant in media. But I don’t think that’s the panacea. I think that the truth is there are not that many close calls with regard to conflict that people want to create, but conflicts make for good media stories.”

“Accept that you don’t know a lot. I think it’s so important to say, ‘look there is a changing media landscape out there and it’s changing every month’ and you have to accept that fact that you don’t know everything and once you accept that and you say, ‘you know what? I need to keep learning. I need to keep accessing the people that do know this’, you’ve taken a giant step forward.”

Geoff Ramsey, CEO, eMarketer

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Geoff Ramsey discusses the importance of engaging in new media tools, as well as what changes we can expect in the delivery of advertising messages online.

Some of Geoff’s VlogViews:

“Test. Test. Test…You can read all the research you want…but at the end of the day, if you don’t try [new media] stuff yourself, you’re going to be behind the curve.”

“Whether you’re appealing to a younger demographic…or an older demographic, across the board people are watching video online, whether that’s a Youtube video or they’re going to Hulu or watching it on CNN.com…80% of Internet users are watching video on a regular basis, today. You can’t ignore that.”

“This whole pre-roll thing…will not be in the discussion in three years, because that’s the old model -“ the interruption/disruption model…That’s not going to cut it anymore…The advertising has to become part and parcel with the content that people came to see.”

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