The Utah DMC Blog

Our Guest Presenter: Ernie Harker

Our June 23, 2021, Utah DMC's live online event featured Ernie Harker, brand igniter, speaker, and author. He began his career as a digital artist, founded a creative production studio called 8fish, and has had much success in brand development for a variety of clients. One of his most recognizable successes was leading the rebranding of Maverik Country Store into a $3 billion adventure brand.

This was Ernie's first time presenting for the Utah Digital Marketing Collective, and we were thrilled to have him here to present: Ignite Your $Billion Brand!

Doc had the opportunity to go live on this broadcast with Ernie as he shared his extensive branding knowledge with our audience. He discussed brands he’s worked with, as well as the techniques he’s found that work when it comes to building your brand.

Keep reading to catch a recap of the event below. (Note: This post is a high-level recap. At the end of this post, you can watch the entire replay of the event with audience Q&A, as well as download his full presentation deck and Brand Development Workbook from the BrightTalk interface.)

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Our Guest Presenter: Shubu Mitra

Our June 9th, 2021, Utah DMC live online event welcomed Shubu Mitra, COO, and co-founder of MarCaps, based out of Atlanta, Georgia. MarCaps is a new consulting agency made up of five members that bring over 50+ years of marketing experience. 

Prior to MarCaps, Shubu worked for Agile Measurement and managed the online and offline marketing, advertising, and promotion efforts through agile data-driven approaches. Shubu has a background in not only online and offline marketing but also worked in connection effectiveness with Coca-Cola, where he led their global effectiveness efforts for brand marketing.

This is Shubu's first time presenting for Utah DMC, and we were thrilled to have him here to present: Three Things Marketing Organizations Can Do to Drive Growth.

Doc and AJ had a blast on this live broadcast with Shubu, and now we are thrilled to share the opportunity for you to learn from Shubu as well via this recap and event replay. (Note: This post is a high-level recap. At the end of this post you can watch the entire replay of the event with audience Q&A, as well as download her full presentation deck from the BrightTalk interface.)

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Our Guest Presenter: Josh Aston

Our May 26th, 2021 Utah DMC live online event featured Josh Aston and his business partner Jessica Chase.  Josh has nearly 20 years of experience in marketing and has used this experience to launch his own Utah-based programmatic agency, Above The Fold. In addition to Above The Fold, Josh currently serves in an advisory CMO role at Blaast and was previously VP of Marketing for Progrexion/Credit.com, Brixio, and 1-800-CONTACTS.

Over the past couple of decades, Josh has managed teams of up to 50 people and been entrusted with marketing budgets of $60M annually. In Josh’s most recent position, he led a digital marketing team that took a company with under $1M in annual revenue to being valued at $1.2B. Josh has a proven skillset that includes creating aggressive digital marketing strategies, content, and channels aimed to increase business development and visibility.

This is his first time presenting for Utah DMC, and we were thrilled to have him here to present: OK. I’m Embarrassed to Ask, but What is Programmatic?

Doc, AJ, and David had a blast on this live broadcast with Josh and Jessica, and now we are thrilled to share the opportunity for you to learn from Josh and Jessica as well, in this recap and event replay. (Note: This post is a high-level recap. At the end of this post you can watch the entire replay of the event with audience Q&A, as well as download her full presentation deck from the BrightTalk interface.)

Our Guest Presenter: Susan Wenograd

Our May 12th, 2021, Utah DMC live online event featured Susan Wenograd, Director of Paid Media/Acquisition at Nextiva in Richmond, Virginia. Susan has almost 20 years of experience in marketing in-house and with agencies. She is recognized as a leading authority on digital marketing. Her specializations include paid search, paid social, lead generation, and e-commerce.

This is her fifth time presenting for Utah DMC, and we were thrilled to have her back to present: The Tricky & Sometimes Messy World of Digital Agency & Client Relationships.  

Susan has hired, managed, and grown teams, and over the years she has seen common patterns emerge between clients and agencies. During this presentation, she explains that these patterns occur repeatedly, and they often come down to basic elements that go back to the beginning of the agency/client relationship.

Doc and AJ had a blast on this live broadcast with Susan, and now we are thrilled to share the opportunity for you to learn from Susan as well in this recap and event replay. (Note: This post is a high-level recap. At the end of this post you can watch the entire replay of the event with audience Q&A, as well as download her full presentation deck from the BrightTalk interface.)

Our first speaker was Michael Salamon.

He covered trail assessments and condition surveys or TRACS. Most of his experience is in UX/UI and he partners with wearelousy.com. He came up with his three-step training because he keeps running into the same problem. No one has a post-purchase plan in their customer journey.

Our most recent SLCSEM event was held at the Salt Mine in Sandy, Utah. A collaborative working space for small and big teams alike, it served the perfect setting for the speakers we had in store that evening. 

Brad Geddes opened up DMC 2016 with his training on Advanced AdWords. Geddes is the official Google AdWords Seminar Leader and has conducted more than 60 officially Google-supported AdWords Seminars for Success.

Join SLCSEM.org for one of our favorite events of the year! 
@DannySullivan Speaks @SLCSEM February 20, 2013

Widely recognized as the search marketing industry leader, Danny Sullivan is the founding editor of top trade publications Search Engine Land and Marketing Land, Chief Content Officer and co-creator of the educational conference series, Search Marketing Expo.
Sullivan returns to Utah to spend an evening talking to 200+ Internet Marketing professionals.