Permanent Link: https://blogs.babson.edu/entrepreneurship/2015/03/23/rebranding-and-telling-your-story/
On March 10, Brianna Stiklickas’15, founder and CEO of Meet Eugene, joined the Butler Venture Accelerator program for a peer to peer session on her story of rebranding the company and different wants to tell your story effectively. Meet Eugene is an exotic pet food company that currently focuses on pet foods for hedgehog. Stiklickas said that…
Ted Schleuter, chief brand officer and the founder of Crunch Brands, was recently on campus to share his insight on branding. He was currently part of various assignments such as Unreal Candy, Sperry Top-Sider, New Balance, Pan-Mass Challenge and Aceso. Schleuter has been wtih Digitas, Arnold Worldwide and Greco Ethridge Group. Schleuter created Crunch Brands for…
On September 30, Megan Driscoll, president of PharmaLogics Recruiting came to speak to Babson students and the Butler Venture Accelerator. PharmaLogics Recruiting is located in Boston, MA. Their mission is to be the number one bio-pharmaceutical recruiting company in the world, by placing top talent at companies devoted to the development of medicine that improves…
The importance of marketing does not change regardless of size of a firm. Small and large firms should invest in marketing aggressively in order to get their name out and to go against competitors. On Wednesday, April 16, Dan Marques ’07, senior online marketing manager at Reebok visited Babson. Although he is working at one…
Helping companies succeed using technology is one of my passions, and I get to do this every day for clients. I started Wiz Studios just over 6 months ago, and since then, I have met with numerous startups through the Butler Venture Accelerator who all have the same questions about their web strategy. Here are some tips…
On April 2nd, Paul Schmidt, HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing Consultant visited Babson College to help students and entrepreneurs to promote their businesses using inbound methodology. Inbound methodology provides techniques to help convert strangers into customers and promoters. The methodology includes four steps: attract, convert, close, and delight. Instead of using the traditional outbound marketing methods which…
Post from Dakota McKenzie ’14 & Guy Horgan ’14: Earlier this month, Founder and CEO of the ultra-popular company RunKeeper joined Dakota McKenzie and Guy Horgan for the inaugural event of “Meet The Founder.” During his one-hour talk, he discussed everything from the fear of starting a company, to the future of exercise paired with…
We have all seen the statistics on startups’ demise- depending on the source and the industry the start-up is operating in the numbers are anywhere from 30 to 80 percent. Of course not all failures are created equal. Some of the most common mistakes credited with killing startups are going into business for the wrong…
On March 8-11, 60,000+ people convened in Anaheim, CA for Natural Products Expo West, one of the largest Natural/Organic Food Products shows in North America. 88 acres was able to send one-half of our founding team to check out the competition, network with the natural products community, and keep up to date on new trends…
So what is social media? Social media is media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. It is categorized based on content- rich content, real-time content, social applications and social networking platforms. So how can social media be used strategically? The first step in using social media effectively for businesses is to…
