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David Karandish is Founder & CEO of Capacity – an enterprise artificial intelligence SaaS company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Capacity’s secure, AI-native support automation platform helps teams do their best work. Prior to starting Capacity, David was the CEO of Answers Corp. He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for north of $900m. David sits on the boards of Varsity Tutors (an on-demand, real-time learning platform in the ed tech space), Create a Loop (a computer science education non-profit tackling the digital divide by teaching kids to code), and Prepare.ai (a non-profit providing educational resources and strategic guidance about Artificial Intelligence to individuals, communities, and companies). David lives in St. Louis with his wife, Erin and four kids. When not working, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing ukulele.
Deniz has been in the Digital Marketing industry, mainly SEO for over 10 years. Before starting his own business, he has worked at numerous companies, expanded his skill set by taking on various roles within the digital industry. From account management to tech, to sales and team leading. Deniz applies holistic strategies for all his customer's projects.
Deevo is a photographer, videographer, blogger, serial entrepreneur, former corporate executive, single father of two promising young ladies and now an emerging strategy consultant who is fast making his way as an expert in creative digital architecture to help small businesses and entrepreneurs brand and market using social media effectively. His current company, Fusion Photography, is an international photo, video, and content creation studio, based in Charlotte, North Carolina and is consistently recognized as one of the top three photography studios in the south. Prior to Fusion, Deevo started, scaled and then sold the largest adult social company in the Carolinas. Running concurrently to his entrepreneurial life, he worked for a Fortune 50 company for over 20 years as the Senior Project Director managing multi-million dollar projects and international business teams.
Deevo is currently the Co-Director of Sprout Connectors, a human-centered digital outreach agency, with offices in Charlotte and Hilton Head and is the co-anchor of the popular podcast Mind Body Business.
Deevo is currently the Co-Director of Sprout Connectors, a human-centered digital outreach agency, with offices in Charlotte and Hilton Head and is the co-anchor of the popular podcast Mind Body Business.
Desanti Carden is a musician and entrepreneur based in Houston, Texas. She founded "Tough Luck" the media company and posts regularly on her self-titled Youtube channel. Her content is focused on solo-preneurship and human optimization to educate her audience on the importance of being aware of one's biological and mental health and how it impacts executing on their dreams.
A poorly trained or untrained team is costing your business money and time every day! That's why Dr. Tonya Robertson (founder of Focused Training Solutions) and team are proactive about ensuring that service-based business owners understand the importance of developing their teams to be more of an asset in order to increase profitability. Focused Training Solutions is not the average employee training agency. Dr. Robertson and team take a holistic, strategic, and relational approach to ensure the ongoing success of businesses.
Deborah Myers, CEO of VirtuArte, is a specialist in assisting businesses and individuals cultivate a culture of genuine gratitude through meaningful and thoughtful gestures of appreciation. Among the suggested gestures of appreciation are the unique handcrafted items, Deborah finds during her travels in the developing world, that can be given as gifts. In doing so VirtuArte is assisting artisans generate a sustainable income, continue their traditional craftsmanship, and pass their skills on to the next generation.
In this episode of CEO Chat Podcast + I AM CEO Podcast, host Gresham Harkless interviews Diane Conklin, an internationally known author, entrepreneur, coach, consultant, speaker, copywriter, marketing and business growth strategist, and implementation specialist. Diane is a direct-response marketing expert who specializes in helping business owners achieve rapid, strategic, and leveraged business growth through Complete Marketing Systems.
Throughout the interview, Diane shares her expertise and insights on direct response marketing, providing valuable strategies and tactics that can help businesses grow. She discusses the importance of creating complete marketing systems that drive results and maximize return on investment. Diane's innovative marketing strategies and campaigns have earned her the title of Glazer-Kennedy Marketer of the Year.
Listeners can learn more about Diane and her work on her website, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts, where she shares further valuable content and resources related to marketing and business growth.
Overall, this episode offers practical advice and strategies from a leading direct response marketing expert, making it a valuable listen for entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses and achieve rapid and strategic growth through effective marketing systems.
Throughout the interview, Diane shares her expertise and insights on direct response marketing, providing valuable strategies and tactics that can help businesses grow. She discusses the importance of creating complete marketing systems that drive results and maximize return on investment. Diane's innovative marketing strategies and campaigns have earned her the title of Glazer-Kennedy Marketer of the Year.
Listeners can learn more about Diane and her work on her website, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts, where she shares further valuable content and resources related to marketing and business growth.
Overall, this episode offers practical advice and strategies from a leading direct response marketing expert, making it a valuable listen for entrepreneurs looking to grow their businesses and achieve rapid and strategic growth through effective marketing systems.
Dee is the founder of MDM Associates who is committed to providing a complete themed event service, from the preparation to the execution of the themed event plan.
Deborah is a social entrepreneur and a human rights activist. She dedicated the last 10 years studying the issue of human trafficking and working on counter-trafficking measures at places like the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Prior to her work at the United Nations, she worked at a renowned European private institute for health. There, she successfully managed the health institute while gaining knowledge and experience in natural therapies and skincare based on Chinese medicine. Deborah founded Aurore to deliver a new and sustainable solution to combat the complex issue of human trafficking. Her focus is on empowering trafficking survivors and at risk individuals through employment. She adopts a bottom-up approach to help decrease the incidence of human trafficking by building stronger communities. She holds a BA in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and a MA in Social Enterprise from the School of International Service at American University.
Doug Ludlow is CEO of MainStreet, a company that helps small businesses and startups claim tax credits most accountants never claim. Before MainStreet, he served as Chief of Staff for Google's SMB and NBU Ads, was the Founder of Hipster (acquired by AOL in 2012) and Happy Home (acquired by Google in 2016). Doug has a BA in History and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and currently lives in San Jose with his wife Sara and two children Charlotte and William.
