Peerless Insurance had recently appointed Mike McUne as the company’s new vice president of marketing. He was previously with Liberty Northwest where he was a marketing consultant and supervising business analyst. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
Lancope, Inc.’s officials has recently designated Jody Ma Kissling as their new vice president of marketing. She has previously worked with companies like Technology Builders, Inc. as well as SecureWorks and Support Technologies. Kissling graduated from the Wake Forest University with cum laude recognition, and had received her MBA degree in Marketing from Georgia State University. There’s more about her appointment on this news link.
Michael Ziegler recently joined Buzzmedia as the company’s new Senior Vice President, Sales. Prior to joining Buzzmedia, he was with Break Media as their VP for Sales. Ziegler brings to the team over two decades of experience in the field of business development, sales, and integrated marketing. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
Quantance Inc. has recently designated Michael Girvan Lampe as the company’s new Vice President of Sales. He will contribute to the team his comprehensive sales experience spanning 25 years in the field of communications, semiconductors, and computers. Lampe had previously worked with Marvell Semiconductor as Head of Sales for the EMEA Region. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
Robyn L. Peters was recently appointed as Walgreens’ new group vice president of managed market sales. She was most recently with Pfizer, Inc. as their vice president of U.S. payers and national accounts, including corporate and government customers. Peters will bring to the team her 25 years of experience in the health care industry. There’s more about her appointment on this news link.
Many people daydream of breaking free of the 9 to 5 to “be their own bosses.” But is entrepreneurship as glamorous as all that? If you think running a small business means leisure time and big paychecks, think again. There are few things as difficult as getting a business off the ground, let alone running it long-term. Read my 10 reasons you don’t want to start a business, and if you don’t run off screaming, keep reading this post.
How Can I Be Sure?
My advice to you is to read and do as much research as possible before you dive in to a new business idea (and burn the bridge to your comfortable day job). A few books that will help you ask yourself the right questions are The Entrepreneur Equation and Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership. Rather than sugarcoating entrepreneurship, both books take a hard look at what is really required day to day.
Engauge has recently welcomed Teresa Caro as the company’s new Vice President of Social Marketing. Prior to joining Engauge she was with Razorfish as their leader in the Social CRM department. Caro was also previously employed by rDialogue as VP of Strategy. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
I just read Danny Sullivan’s crappy results post. I was working on similar post last night. Anyway, if he thinks his results are bad take a look at mine…
I am not friends with MG Siegler nor am I connected to him in anyway on Google+, but when I search for any random word that he has mentioned in his status updates or posts in G+, he is within my top 5 results.
Again, MG Sielger is not in my circles nor am I in his.
These are the most irrelevant results I have ever seen in Google. Also, I am sure SEOs are off to the races to fill up their circles to fill up your search results. 
Anyway, the Evil/Antitrust debate has been overly discussed and to be honest, I don’t care. But I will say this, the more Google+ is promoted anywhere on google.com pages & results, the worse it is going to get for them.
#1. Thousands of websites depend on Google to get business and pageviews. As Google increases google properties’ search rankings and push down other websites, the more anger these companies will have. We aren’t just talking about one company(Netscape) we are talking about thousands of companies that absolutely depend on Google for their survival. Expect a major backlash. And just because Google is free does not mean that they can’t use their dominant power to be anti-competitive, so don’t expect that to be a useful defense.
#2. Google’s result quality has been fading fast and this most recent change has made it much worse imo. If my results are this bad now, how much worse is this going to get as they continue to push their own content? When quality gets bad people will move to better sites. I switched to Bing months ago and even if I didn’t, I know how to shut off the G+ results within the results so that doesn’t really matter to me. However, if you were to ask 90% of the people outside of the tech community how to shut off personal results they would probably ask, “What are personal results?” If the serps continue to slide like they have been, expect them to lose a lot of market share. Which could be good. It would be great to have a new search engine that uses Google’s original philosophies.
The Finish Line, Inc. was recently joined by Jay Custard as the company’s new Vice President for Digital Marketing. He was previously with Crocs for four years and had served as the company’s Vice President, E-Commerce, Global. Custard had also worked with Crispin Porter + Bogusky/texturemedia. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
John Washko was recently named as the new Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Elite Meetings International, Inc. He was, for the past four years, part of the company’s Advisory Board. Before he became part of Elite, Washko was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at The Broadmoor. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
Ian Lancey was recently designated as the new Sales Director for Chemence. He will contribute to the team his more than 16 years of experience working in the adhesive and chemical fields. Lancey has done business development, distribution work, management, as well as international sales in the past. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
Putnam Investments has recently welcomed Steven McKay as the company’s new Regional Sales Director. He was previously with Hartford Retirement Services as their Divisional Vice President, Northeast Divisional Sales Manager. In addition, Joseph Kaplan was also hired as the Regional 401(k) Sales Director for New York City and New Jersey. Ryan Tolmie, who has been with Putnam for the past 13 years was also promoted to the post of Regional 401(k) Sales Director. Tolmie will be managing the areas of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. There’s more about these appointments on this news link.
DiCentral has recently appointed Kyle Jordan as the company’s new Vice President of Marketing. She became part of the company back in 2009, and brings to the team her comprehensive experience in the high tech marketing management field spanning 15 years. Jordan’s previous clients include Sun Microsystems, Avaya, Adobe, FileNet and IBM. There’s more about her appointment on this news link.
Cove Street Capital was recently joined by Greg Farber, CIMA® as the company’s new Director of Institutional Marketing and Client Service. He brings to the management team over 15 years of experience in the marketing and business development fields. Farber was formerly with the Advisory Services Group at J.P. Morgan Securities, where he was their managing director of business development. There’s more about his appointment on this news link.
Sales and Marketing People On The Move – 2/3/2012