Getting Great Publicity on a Shoe String Budget
This workshop is designed for business owners, startup leadership teams, and marketing professionals to gain insight to making connections with the media, the importance of press and media in business growth, and effective ways to monetize and measure ROI from media campaigns both online and offline.
What you will learn:
-Getting The Media To Interview You as CEO and Publish Your Articles
-Monetizing Your Online and Offline PR
-Three Keys To Your Successful PR System
Ann Albergotti - has placed clients onto Channel 9 news and other local media in Colorado as well as such national media as CBS. As Marketing Director at Taylor Made Small Biz she is a strong advocate for TMS clients, providing marketing strategies that include successfully planning, implementing, and managing multiple client marketing campaigns. She has increased client inbound leads and conversion by 25-50% within weeks of launching PR campaigns. Her marketing campaign success is achieved through a unique communications to drive results with active daily management of social media, internet marketing, public relations, event promotion, and lead generation.
She has over 7 years experience growing her client base in her own marketing firm Platinum Marketing Solutions, and has worked for over 12 years in corporate positions including marketing director for Fortune 500 companies and local Colorado companies such as Symtx, ICG and Access Alpine. Ann’s humor and authentic style have served her well in building her many connections with major media networks as well as augmented her frequent speaking and training in teleseminars, webinars, and speaking for various associations and business groups in the Denver Metro Area.
Patrice Barber, President of Taylor Made Small Biz Inc, an international inbound marketing consulting firm, is a serial entrepreneur and award winning business leader, having led teams across the US, Europe, and Japan. TMS supports clients in the US , Canada, Pakistan, and Australia, providing online and mobile marketing strategies, marketing systems implementation, cloud- based CRM and is a certified partner and VAR for Adobe.
Her 20+ years of experience includes P&L accountability in IT Program Management, Software Development, Operations management, Financial Services, Marketing & Sales, leading technical teams of over 25 direct reports and enterprise-wide implementations with over 300 team members.
Previously she was VP of consulting services at ABT Corp (Fortune 500 sold in 2000) growing revenues to $10M for the western region, President of two financial services companies, co-founder and COO for another two financial services startups sold to partners, and President of Taylor Made Solutions an Enterprise Program Management consulting firm providing consulting and management of multi-year enterprise IT implementations for Fortune 100 and 500 companies with project budgets up to $6M. Having led teams across three continents, her experience in team development in both domestic and international markets makes her an indispensable leader.
Her business achievements bridge multiple startups, as well as serving over 550 entrepreneurs in their business development, internet marketing, mobile marketing systems and strategies. Additionally she has worked with 35 Fortune 500 clients including Intel, Oracle, Jeppesen (Boeing), Echostar (DISH network) and Qwest telecommunications. Her career began in semi-conductor manufacturing at Texas Instruments.
Patrice is passionate about giving back to the community. In addition to speaking on entrepreneurship, mobile marketing, women in business, and winning strategies for inbound marketing and client retention, she has presented as keynote for various associations, chambers of commerce, leadership groups, and corporate events to audiences of 30 to 500 since 1998. Most recently her firm Taylor Made Small Biz was selected as one of the subject matter experts for the US Department of Labor to provide the content for the entrepreneurship portion of the national Transition Assistance Program ( TAP) for US soldiers returning home.
She has served as a Board member on multiple for- profit and non-profit boards, Water and Fire districts, was a founding member of Presbyterian Foundation of Boulder with over $500,000 in grants, and Montessori Peaks Charter School foundation.
