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Ken Lempit, President of Austin Lawrence Group, joins the final Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Business Manifestation. Hear how to manifest success in your business and life, lower your churn rate, the most common mistakes CEOs make, how to grow as a SaaS company, and Ken’s transition from the corporate world to his family business. Connect with Ken at AustinLawrence.com and on LinkedIn. Thank you for listening to Happy Marketer Connection! Stay tuned for our new podcast which will focus on Community Powered Marketing – coming in Q1 2021

Michael Neuendorff, Executive Coach, Trainer, and President of Build and Balance, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Connection. Hear how to connect with your audience, tips for optimizing your LinkedIn profile, how businesspeople connected before LinkedIn, how to stay dedicated to your work, and how Michael has kept his entrepreneurial spirit. Connect with Michael on LinkedIn, YouTube, and BuildAndBalance.com

Jay Wong, Founder of Podcast Your Brand, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Progress over Perfection. Hear how to decide the theme of your podcast, whether a podcast is right for your brand, how to build a community with your podcast, the triangle effect from a strong podcast, email list, and private group, and how Jay takes an agency approach to podcasting. Connect with Jay at DoneForYouPodcast.co and on Instagram at @TheJayWong 

Erica Solomon, Beauty Director, Customer Experience Partnerships at Brandshare, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Beauty Trends. Hear the top beauty trends and how changing consumer habits are impacting development, the vital role product sampling has in driving trial and loyalty, alternatives to in-store sampling, and some growing beauty brands to keep your eye on. Connect with Erica at Brandshare.US

April Martini, Co-Founder of Forthright People, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Personal Branding. Hear the key essentials for building your personal brand and steps to get started, ways to balance the focus on your personal brand vs. the company brand, how to approach finding the right business partner, moving projects forward without delays, and the benefits of working with small businesses. Connect with April at Forthright-People.com and on LinkedIn

Jessica Lauria, a skilled Marketing Consultant with experience on the client- and agency-side, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Relationships. Hear how to build strong relationships with your agency partners, how the client-agency dynamic has changed, what to look for in a marketing agency, how to give helpful feedback, and Jessica’s lessons from both client-side and agency-side. Connect with Jessica on LinkedIn

Emma Isaacs, Founder and Global CEO of Business Chicks, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Winging It. Hear the importance of becoming an expert at failing, the why and ways to avoid overplanning, how to pivot and pivot again, create an organization that inspires, and how Emma has grown her business while raising a “half dozen” kids. Connect with Emma on Instagram at @BusinessChicks and @EmmaIsaacs, and at BusinessChicks.com and EmmaIsaacs.com

Craig Dubitsky, Founder of hello products and Chief Innovation Strategist at Colgate, joins Happy Marketer Connection for an epically positive episode about the benefits of being friendly. Hear how to make friendliness your business game-changer, why FOMO is changing the retail landscape, how to create a brand that makes people smile and a company culture that fosters creativity and happiness, and Craig’s journey from starting hello products to it being acquired by Colgate-Palmolive. Connect with Craig at hello-products.com and on LinkedIn

Julie Levi, President and Founder of Progressive Promotions, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Passion, Patience, and Persistence. Hear what it takes to succeed as a Salesperson and Entrepreneur, what true persistence looks like and why it's worth it, the ways Sales has changed over the years, how to hire and support your business development team, and the Sales lessons Julie’s family shares with each generation. Connect with Julie at ProgressivePromotions.com or on LinkedIn

Pia Marquez, Digital Marketing Sr. Manager at Del Monte, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss building your Personal Brand. Hear why it's important to develop your personal brand, the benefits of working for small and large companies, why marketers should take a page from designers by building their own websites, how to add skills at each stop of your career, cultivating mentors, and finding what you’re truly passionate about. Connect with Pia at PiaMarquez.com

Dustin Finkel, Founder and CEO of Ancient inGRAINed Snack Co, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Relationships. Hear how to grow your network, create beneficial relationships across industries, how Dustin created Ka-Pop!, his experiences on Shark Tank and QVC, and how to have a solid financial understanding of your company. Connect with Dustin at KaPopSnacks.com with the code TOPKAPOP, on Amazon, and at orders@KaPopSnacks.com

Zachary Weinberg, Director of Amazon Advisory at Gartner, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss eCommerce trends. Hear how eCommerce has changed in recent years, how to dominate your category on Amazon, what the top brands are learning from challenger and D2C brands, what new e-tailing trends are here to stay, and what you can learn from a failed project. Connect with Zachary on LinkedIn

Chris Teigland, Executive Chef and Co-Owner of Community and Birdhouse, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Creativity. Hear how to come up with creative products and services, find creative inspiration, the challenges and marketing opportunities with running a restaurant, what to do with negative consumer feedback, and the parallels between cooking and playing in a rock band. Connect with Chris at EatAtCommunity.com and EatAtBirdhouse.com

Tim Hayden, Chief Executive Officer of Brain+Trust and an expert in data collection and protection, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Privacy and Profits. Hear how companies use your consumer data, the paradox between privacy and personalization, how you can leverage data as a business, the impact of the CCPA, and why Tim believes marketers need to move quickly to build direct consumer connections. Connect with Tim at BrainTrust.Partners, NextPracticeGroup.com, and on Twitter at @YourBrainTrust, @WhatsNext_TNP, and @TheTimHayden

Lewis Schiff, Chairman of Birthing of Giants and Moonshots and Moneymakers, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Entrepreneurism. Hear how to disrupt your industry, harness your passion to create a thriving business, stay inspired with your work, the key to building lasting value in your business, how Lewis’s program partners with Oxford and MIT to support game-changing ideas, and why he believes entrepreneurs will be the ones to innovate our way out of the global health crisis. Connect with Lewis at BirthingOfGiants.com and BirthingOfGiants.com/TheFirstHabit

Lindsay Stein, Chief Executive Officer of the nonprofit Today, I'm Brave, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Bravery. Hear how to market a nonprofit, determine your core mission, develop strategic partnerships, what it means to be brave, and Lindsay’s pivot from journalist and Editor-in-Chief to CEO of a nonprofit. Connect with Lindsay at Lindsay.Stein@TodayImBrave.org and on Instagram at @Lindsay_Stein

Max Branstetter, Founder and Podcast Producer at MaxPodcasting, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Growth. Hear how to start a professional-sounding podcast, use your podcast as a marketing tool, find guests for your podcast, tips for hosting and producing a podcast, and Max’s personal favorite episodes of the Wild Business Growth Podcast. Connect with Max at MaxPodcasting.com and the Wild Business Growth Podcast

Shonda Brown, Senior Associate Brand Manager at Church and Dwight, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Pivoting. Hear how to pivot your career and marketing strategies, the game-changing insights that come from online brand communities, what Shonda has learned about cats and cat owners from her online community, how to market organically, and why Shonda decided not to become a lawyer. Connect with Shonda on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram

Rachel Braun Scherl, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SPARK Solutions for Growth, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss being a Pioneer. Hear how to pioneer a new industry, how Rachel became the Vagipreneur, the difference in working for small and large companies, the top three skills every businessperson needs, and how to create a creative pitch. Connect with Rachel at SPARKSolutionsForGrowth.com, RachelBraunScherl.com, and on social media at @RBScherl and @RachelBraunScherl

Cathy Murphy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Venus Media Group, joins Happy Marketer Connection to discuss Balance. Hear how to connect your brand with women and stay true to your company purpose, why it's helpful for your business to be platform-agnostic, the reason Cathy took the entrepreneurial leap, and how to achieve work-life balance even in the era of remote school. Connect with Cathy at VenusMediaGroup.com and on social media at @VenusMediaGroup