Five Great Apps for Monitoring Your Business’ Online Reputation

Five Great Apps for Monitoring Your Business’ Online Reputation

Contributed by Derek Champagne An important part of building your brand is monitoring your brand’s reputation both on and offline.  Offline, you can accomplish this by reviewing customer service requests, returns of products or requests for additional services – even better, you can actually speak directly to your customer and ask them about their experience or how they found you. Online reputation monitoring gets a […]

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BLS interview with The Ravington, part 3

Derek continues his interview with Amber Gustafson the co-owner of The Ravington and former celebrity wedding planner from Los Angeles, California. Amber Talks about the History of Centerton and the Look of the Ravington Derek: Welcome back to the Business Leadership Series, our guest today is Amber Gustafson, co-owner of The Ravington and a celebrity wedding planner. Amber, let’s talk about The Ravington, the building itself. I see […]

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BLS interview with The Ravington, part 2

Derek continues his interview with Amber Gustafson the co-owner of The Ravington and former celebrity wedding planner from Los Angeles, California. Amber Discusses What to Do at a Crossroads Derek: Lets jump back to your Los Angeles days. I know a lot of the listeners will be at a crossroads themselves so I’m going to ask you a couple of questions. Tell me about, you said you spent almost a […]

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Interview with entrepreneur Amber Gustafson

Interview with entrepreneur Amber Gustafson

This week Derek Champagne interviews Amber Gustafson.  Amber Gustafson is a former celebrity wedding planner and co-owner of The Ravington. In this episode Amber discusses developing her first business, taking a bridge in life, and talks about her newest passion/project: The Ravington. www.theravington.com www.facebook.com/theravington Amber@theravington.com Listen to Podcast

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BLS interview with The Ravington, part 1

In his new Business Leadership Series Derek Champagne, CEO of The Artist Evolution and author of new marketing book: Don’t Buy a Duck, speaks with some of the best and brightest in business leadership to gain some insight into their unique ideas and keys to their successes. In this edition of the Business Leadership Series, Derek chats with special guest and Northwest Arkansas native Amber […]

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Derek Champagne on BLS, part 2

Derek Champagne, owner of The Artist Evolution and author of the Best Selling book, Don’t Buy a Duck, takes the guesswork out of marketing by sharing 5 common crisis points to avoid in advertising your brand. Read part 1 here.  Listen to the full podcast here. [Derek]: Welcome back to the business leadership series. Before the break we talked about identifying yourself, about identifying your target customers, and […]

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Derek Champagne on BLS, Part 1

Derek Champagne on BLS, Part 1

Derek Champagne talks about the 5 crisis points in marketing your brand from the following interview. Listen to the podcast here.  Derek: And thank you for joining us today on the business leadership series. I am your host Derek Champagne. Like many of you listening I myself am an entrepreneur and a small business owner. I am the CEO of a company called the artist evolution […]

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5 Marketing Strategies You Thought Were Dead (But Aren’t)

5 Marketing Strategies You Thought Were Dead (But Aren’t)

Contributed by Derek Champagne Here’s the simple truth:  just because the only use you’ve found for this year’s phone book was to help prop up the sagging middle of your sofa, doesn’t mean that it’s dead for all advertisers. In fact, there are a few “those are still around” marketing strategies that you shouldn’t put down for the count just yet. Here are some strategies […]

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