Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

No matter what stage your business is in, there is one thing you can do for free that will build your market and help you grow: email marketing. An in-house email list is one of your business’s most important marketing assets. However, there are dozens of email marketing service providers on the market.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

We started the company with the aim to bring new, affordable electric vehicles to market and showcase our groundbreaking EV technologies in our more high-end, flagship vehicles. I started North Atlanta Hair Restoration out of my desire to be a patient-oriented physician dedicated to the human condition. Photo Credit: Dr. Dan Danyo.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A few weeks ago I was in Atlanta for Techstars Atlanta Demo Day and the Venture Atlanta Conference. I had a great time and it’s fun to see the vibrancy of the Atlanta startup community. My favorite keynote at Venture Atlanta was from Scott Dorsey. I put him in the awesome category.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I must take a moment to acknowledge the many kind greetings upon my return to Atlanta and the many well wishes as I departed Austin. I heard this morning at All Saint’s Episcopal in Atlanta this excerpt from a pulpit prayer: “Disturb us, Lord, when our dreams come true because we dream too lowly.” Think about that.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Decades ago, in small towns and communities across the U.S., In fact, plenty of non-bank lenders have entered the market hoping to capture a piece of the pie, but they don’t solve the problem because, frankly, they’re not really different. It Takes a Village. banking was truly a relationship-based business. If you don’t, b-bye.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carolyn Rodz. 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16]

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. Boulder, CO. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 15, 2014

If you had time to watch the video where Jon Birdsong (CEO of Rivalry ) and I talked to Michael Tavani, Rob Kischuk and TJ Muehleman, you’ll know that one of the points the group made to Jon and I was that there is a lot of publicity about the Atlanta Tech Village but very little about the startups in the building. The community.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Atlanta Tech Village is the brain child of David Cummings , a friend of mine and co-founder of my new company, Dragon Army. He purchased a 5-story building in Buckhead (corner of Piedmont and Lenox) with the idea of getting 600+ entrepreneurs in Atlanta stuffed into the same location and let the magic happen. LOVE your job.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy). RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 21, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing; the fifth was with Rob Kischuk , CEO of PerfectPost; and the sixth was Kyle Porter , CEO of SalesLoft. .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Pre-swag surf group photo of HBCU@SXSW students and Spike Lee at Capital One House Over the past several years, tech communities across the United States have attempted to make significant progress towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their industries. In 2016, OHUB pioneered HBCU@SXSW at SXSW. Placement is 90%!

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

. “A” can stand for “agency”, or “activism”, or “alliance”…but it also is a call back to Atlanta, which is often referred to as, “The A” So, what is The A Pledge , you ask? In 2012-2013, I went through Leadership Atlanta. read more ) Here’s what happened.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2018

Let’s be real… I was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and I had a privileged upbringing. Right after that trip, I decided I was going to leave Atlanta and explore a new city. I was to help with marketing, errands and anything else that popped up during the week. I went to private school and played on club sports teams.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2016

I guide readers through communicating with their target audiences and cultivating themselves as go-to professionals. This book showcases various public relations and digital marketing tactics to leverage your success. Content marketing and social media are awesome in garnering recognition. Talk About It.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The event was at Ponce City Market in the General Assembly space. The great Atlanta Falcon, Warrick Dunn , came and inspired our volunteers with his amazing story and commitment to giving back to his community. One of our sponsors, MailChimp , took us on a tour of their office in Ponce City Market. CBS came and filmed.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 18, 2014

As I try to find ways to do more to help our community and generally “do more” (more on that here and here and here ), I’ve created an organization called MATCH. The idea is fairly simple: match digital marketers/technologists with non-profits or other community groups. Atlanta Personal' Pretty simple.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 19, 2021

Ever since I went through Leadership Atlanta in 2013 , I knew I needed to find a way to make an impact against systemic racism. The idea came to me a few years later that the best way for me to do this would be within my industry – marketing and advertising. It took me four more years to figure out how to get started.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 19, 2021

Ever since I went through Leadership Atlanta in 2013 , I knew I needed to find a way to make an impact against systemic racism. The idea came to me a few years later that the best way for me to do this would be within my industry – marketing and advertising. It took me four more years to figure out how to get started.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 24, 2014

But the things he says about the Atlanta Tech Village and the people busting their asses there are just flat wrong. In the article, Michael says: “…if you went to Atlanta Tech Village, 60 percent of the people there would be exactly what I think what you were trying to describe with me. And I hope we still are after this.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

Even with modern technology that enables casting a wider net for your market reach, most professionals rely significantly on a local client base. If that local base doesn’t exist, they move to where one does, or they change their practice to mirror the local market.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 27, 2018

Put another way, you can build a business that grows and achieves great things, while also working hard to make your community (and the world) a better place. One of my “missions,” if you will, is to show that you can do well by doing good.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

After catching up on old times, we started talking about things that we were both doing to help the community. Dave’s influence on my life when I was such a young man, and then my experience a few years ago with Leadership Atlanta , propelled me to want to do more to help other people. Wow, I’m old.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 4, 2014

Moira Vetter (CEO of Modo Modo ) recently received the highest honor anyone in marketing in Atlanta can receive. She was named the AMA’s Marketer of the Year. We are not productizing and peddling marketing services. This is the eigth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Many of you have probably read by now that I am returning from Austin to my roots in Atlanta. Even in the early Peachtree Software days, the decision to build our company in Atlanta was not made without some careful consideration. It’s not always easy to “break in” to a new community.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

While I’ve loved working in digital marketing, I’ve always wanted to try my hand at building software for actual people rather than for companies. Today the Atlanta Business Chronicle ran an article about the new company, Dragon Army , that David Cummings , Ryan Tuttle and I are starting. and The Coca-Cola Co.,

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

It’s always been important to me to be involved in helping others, but my life took a course correction when I went through Leadership Atlanta in 2012-13. Boards I’m on: Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce – I’m as passionate as anyone about my city. Match Atlanta – Connecting markters with nonprofits.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 2, 2014

Both cities had growing digital marketing communities and we were sure that if we opened up shop in one of those cities that we’d benefit from new companies to prospect and new employees to bring on board. The reasons: - There is still plenty of business to be had in Atlanta. Don’t leave until you absolutely have to.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 24, 2021

For our Atlanta friends, we just took our family to ice skate at Atlantic Station and to see the lights at the Horse Mansion (yeah, I’d never heard of it before either). If you can believe it, the thing I heard the most was, “You’re from Atlanta, and we don’t think that’s a big enough market.” Say what?).

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 7, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; and the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing. . Midtown/Tech Square and Atlanta Tech Village are obviously both here to stay.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 11, 2015

The Switchyards mantra: Where consumer and design-focused companies grow in Atlanta. Atlanta needs a focused effort to give consumer-oriented startups a chance. And I say that not to deliver any criticism to our venture and angel community. Downtown Atlanta needs some startup love. Has a nice ring :).

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If they charge well above the market average then they are usually either greedy or motivated to do something on their own that you are basically funding. You are probably wondering how do I know if they are asking for more than the market rate or not?

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Last year, I co-founded a nonprofit in Atlanta with Adam Walker called 48in48. The mission: to empower communities to help 48 local nonprofits in 48 hours by assisting their marketing and technology efforts through hackathon-style events. We held our first event in Atlanta in October and it was amazing.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

a new coworking and meeting space at the Springdale General social impact community in East Austin where you can only be a member if you are a social impact entrepreneur. Like our downtown location, meeting space will be provided at low or no cost to non-profits and community organizations, but unlike downtown there is free parking!

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jeff Coyle, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for MarketMuse. It's the best investment I ever made.

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