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Amy Francetic is the founder of Buoyant Ventures, a new woman-owned venture fund in Chicago that invests in digital climate solutions. Her journey began at Evergreen Climate Innovations, where she co-founded and led the company as CEO, before moving on to Energize Ventures, a $165 million venture fund that propelled cutting-edge digital technologies to optimize energy equipment and infrastructure. As a member of the Advisory Board for the WISER Institute at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Amy's influence extends beyond her ventures, shaping the future of sustainable solutions. Her remarkable contributions have been recognized with numerous accolades, such as "20 Most Inspiring Chicagoans," Crain's Chicago "Tech 50 Leader," and the "Leading Woman in Technology" from the Illinois Technology Association. She has a BA from Stanford University, and has over 25 years experience in the energy and high technology sectors, including the founding of two companies. About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning PR agency VSC has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like Ample, Actual, Sesame Solar, Synop, Vibrant Planet, and Zume among many others.

Hello, I'm Marina. I am a technologist, mom, leadership coach, cruciverbalist and aquarian ;) UNBOSSED IS... “Paths To Success of Amazing Tech Women in Chicago” To interview the ONLY ~40 women CTOs (out of over 700+ CTOs) in the Chicago area To interview the few female CEOs of Tech companies in Chicago To interview women in critical political positions in Chicago To focus on other women in positions of Tech leadership in/from the Chicagoland area To inspire other women and help them see themselves in these positions, so that we can step toward closing the gender & racial gap in technology I welcome you to ask questions, participate, and join me as we explore these topics by emailing me at marina@unbossed.io or visiting www.unbossed.io Available on- Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTz6_FepG04QTs1BjFLBjw/ Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eUhfH8E Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e7cWtBv Google Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/enjChPt And others.. Today's Episode: Interview with Amanda Lannert, CEO at Jellyvision Amanda Lannert is CEO of Jellyvision and has been a key figure in driving the company since its founding in 2001. Her focus at Jellyvision is on the company's strategy, improving processes to better scale operations, partnership development, and customer acquisition to continue fueling the company's growth. Under Amanda's leadership, Jellyvision has grown to serve more than 1500 mostly Fortune 1000 clients with ALEX, the most helpful employee decision support platform on the planet. In 2019, 18 million employees and $120 billion dollar's worth of premium decisions were entrusted to ALEX. Meanwhile, the company has been recognized as the Best Software Company and Best Culture by the Moxies, the Lighthouse winner by the ITA, a top 10 best place to work in Chicago by The Chicago Tribune and the #1 place for millennials to work in Chicago according to Crain's. Prior to joining Jellyvision, Amanda managed global brands for Kellogg's while at Leo Burnett, in addition to spending two years in a new business and new brand development think tank. She attended Haverford College and Edinburgh University. Amanda was named CEO of the Year at the Moxie Awards in 2014 and 2015, Woman in Tech in 2016, Woman of the Year for the Chicago Rotary Club of 2018, and was recognized as 2016's Industry Champion by the Illinois Technology Association. She has been profiled in the Chicago Tribune and Crain's. Amanda is also active in Chicago's startup community, serving as a board member of SpotHero, KnowledgeHound, NowSecure and Popular Pays, as a Council Member for the Zell Fellows Program at Kellogg, and as a member of ChicagoNEXT. She also serves as “Super Mentor” for Chicago incubators Impact Engine and TechStars, where she was also named Mentor of the Year. Amanda is quick to laugh and enjoys a good cupcake. Book Recommendations: The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - Daniel Coyle A Little Life: A Novel Audible Logo Audible Audiobook –Hanya Yanagihara --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marina-malaguti/support

Amanda Lannert is the CEO of Jellyvision, the maker of interactive benefits communication software ALEX. Since taking over Jellyvision's helm in 2011, Amanda has played a key role in the company's success: she spearheaded Jellyvision's pivot from a services agency to a profitable software-as-a-service company, growing the company's customer count by 250% in the last three years.   Amanda was named CEO of the Year at the Moxie Awards in 2014 and 2015, Woman in Tech in 2016, Woman of the Year for the Chicago Rotary Club of 2018, and was recognized as 2016's Industry Champion and 2018's CEO of the Year by the Illinois Technology Association.

KL049 Jeremie Bacon CEO, Imagineer Technology Group Service Centric Leadership Episode Summary I interviewed Jeremie Bacon, the CEO of the Imagineer Technology Group and Chairman of the Illinois Technology Association. We discussed Service Centric Leadership from the top! Bio Jeremie is the CEO for Imagineer Technology Group and a SaaS entrepreneur who has been building and advising technology companies since the early 2000s. As co-founder of Backstop Solutions Group, he pioneered SaaS platforms in the financial services and CRM markets before serving as President of Itiviti and co-founding Synap. When not at work, he can be found spending time with his wife and four children, reading, or eating piles of donuts to power his ultramarathons and adventure races. Website https://www.imagineertechnology.com/   LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremiebacon/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/imagineer-technology-group/   Twitter https://twitter.com/jeremiebacon https://twitter.com/imagineer_tech Leadership Quote “It’s not enough to know what the goal is, you have to understand the why behind it.”  George H.W. Bush   Subscribe, share and review on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/keep-leading/id1461490512 Please visit KeepLeadingPodcast.com ( https://eddieturnerllc.com/keep-leading-podcast/) for a full transcript of this episode. The Keep Leading!® podcast is for people passionate about leadership. It is dedicated to leadership development and insights. Join your host Eddie Turner, The Leadership Excelerator® as he speaks with accomplished leaders and people of influence across the globe as they share their journey to leadership excellence. Listen as they share leadership strategies, techniques and insights. For more information visit https://eddieturnerllc.com or follow Eddie Turner on Twitter and Instagram at @eddieturnerjr. Like Eddie Turner LLC on Facebook. Connect with Eddie Turner on LinkedIn.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diversity is more than a buzz word. It’s the way companies should be doing business, but are they? Our guest today is Julia Kanouse, CEO of the Illinois Technology Association. She pointed out the hypocrisy of a major tech company’s failed diversity effort. Somebody at the company Photoshopped two women executives into a group photo, hoping it would show off the company’s diversity. Besides reacting to the picture, Julia also addresses the ways businesses are succeeding and failing at diversity. She explains why just adding women and minorities to your company’s roster is not enough, and how the next generation of workers is checking out your business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

HOST: MARK LONGO, THE OPTIONS INSIDER MEDIA GROUP GUEST: Jeremie Bacon, CEO, Imagineer Technology Group Provide our listeners with an overview of your background in the financial technology space. What is Imagineer Technology Group? Tell us about your 3 different product offerings. What is Clienteer Web? Do you notice any unique challenges within your different niches (hedge funds, venture funds, private equity) or are they effectively the same from a software design point of view? When a fund reaches out to you, what is the #1 thing that they are looking for? Marketing? IR Documentation? What is the big driver? Do you notice any particular unique needs for the institutional players in the derivatives space vs. traditional equities? They say the fund management software industry is booming. Why is that? What is driving that growth? What can we do to grow the alts pie and get more funds into alts? What are you seeing in the institutions and crypto markets? What is the latest with the Illinois Technology Association? And much more...  

Joining the show this week is Toni Preckwinkle. Bill and Toni discuss the upcoming runoff Mayoral election, and who has better experience for the job. Toni discusses with Bill ways she would try to solve certain issues with the City, such as fixing the pension problem, TIF Reform, and if there would be changes to the City Council after the election. In this week's round table segment, Bill is joined by Ray Long and Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Tribune, Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun-Times, and Heather Cherone editor of The Daily Line. The Round Table opens up with this week’s news of Lori Lightfoot getting the endorsement of Willie Wilson, and what that means for the runoff election. Also, discussed is the NBC mayoral debate. How did Lightfoot and Preckwinkle do? Lynn provides an update from Washington D.C, Governor Pritzker has unveiled his graduated income tax, and the round table gives their analysis. This week's community spotlight segment is with Nick Gale. Nick explains a new report by the Illinois Technology Association that looks at 300 tech companies in Chicago to illustrate where gender gaps exist. ITA CEO Julia Kanouse says Chicago companies are doing well, but can do better in terms of putting women in VP/SVP levels and C-Suite positions. Just 26% of women hold one of the 1100 vice president or senior vice president positions at the 300 companies evaluated. Of the current 922 C-suite positions, women held 13.6 % of them. ITA also sponsored a"Shadow Day" Friday, International Women's Day, giving a group of female Chicago public school students exposure to what it's really like to work in the tech-sector. Kanouse says that 100 students were hosted by 20 companies.

Joining the show this week is Toni Preckwinkle. Bill and Toni discuss the upcoming runoff Mayoral election, and who has better experience for the job. Toni discusses with Bill ways she would try to solve certain issues with the City, such as fixing the pension problem, TIF Reform, and if there would be changes to the City Council after the election. In this week's round table segment, Bill is joined by Ray Long and Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Tribune, Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun-Times, and Heather Cherone editor of The Daily Line. The Round Table opens up with this week’s news of Lori Lightfoot getting the endorsement of Willie Wilson, and what that means for the runoff election. Also, discussed is the NBC mayoral debate. How did Lightfoot and Preckwinkle do? Lynn provides an update from Washington D.C, Governor Pritzker has unveiled his graduated income tax, and the round table gives their analysis. This week's community spotlight segment is with Nick Gale. Nick explains a new report by the Illinois Technology Association that looks at 300 tech companies in Chicago to illustrate where gender gaps exist. ITA CEO Julia Kanouse says Chicago companies are doing well, but can do better in terms of putting women in VP/SVP levels and C-Suite positions. Just 26% of women hold one of the 1100 vice president or senior vice president positions at the 300 companies evaluated. Of the current 922 C-suite positions, women held 13.6 % of them. ITA also sponsored a"Shadow Day" Friday, International Women's Day, giving a group of female Chicago public school students exposure to what it's really like to work in the tech-sector. Kanouse says that 100 students were hosted by 20 companies.

Women Entrepreneurs and Technologists with Nicole Yeary In this episode we are talking about women entrepreneurs and technologists. Our guest, Nicole Yeary has some amazing stories about how getting laser focused yields real results and how saying yes more often could be a game changer. She shares her High-5 model for success with us. Nicole has led Ms.Tech, a Chicago-based company focused on seeing more women start and scale technology, and tech enabled companies, as the founding President since 2014. Nicole also guides the next generation of startup companies through a strong partnership between Ms.Tech and 1871 as the co-facilitator of WiSTEM, a curriculum-based program that connects women to capital, community, and technology resources. Since 2010, Nicole has made it her mission to see more women capture the resources needed to build scalable startup companies.  In just under a year, Ms. Tech was recognized in “Crain's Guide to Networking” as one of “Six Great Tech Groups, practically guaranteed to commune with the scene's best and brightest!" Nicole is also a sponsoring member of the United Nations, UN Women, Social Enterprise Alliance, Internet Society and OpenID.   Most recently Nicole was recognized as one of Chicago's “Top 100 Innovators” by Tribune, awarded "Prominent Woman in Tech" by the Illinois Technology Association, 35 Under 35 Making an Impact, among the 100 Most Inspirational Women by Today's Chicago Woman, recognized as 2017 YWCA Promise Leadership Award, MAFA Masters Honoree as an “Industry Entrepreneur Emerging Leader,” recognized as a 2016 Women Tech Leader by Chicago Woman Magazine, and among Huffington Post's "Women In Tech.” 
 Themes explored in this week's episode: Learn about Ms. Tech - a group of tech women in business and business women in tech. Be inspired by Nicole's background and how a tweet from Jeffrey Gitomer, famous author, helped ignite her path Why getting laser focused and letting everything else go can be a key to success The importance of tech incubators The Yin and Yang of women in tech Why its not all about the founders (hint: it takes a village and every role is important) Nicole's unique “high 5” approach How saying “yes” more often is a game changer Just jump! Why we don't give up “when it gets messy”    

As society becomes more forward-thinking, smart technology is moving into our homes. Todays’ guest, Chad Curry, joins Monica to talk about smart home technology and other pieces of technology that affect REALTORS® and homeowners. In addition to discussing what types of technology are emerging, Chad shares several resources that can help inform consumers about how people are using smart home technology and what benefits there are. Chad works as the Managing Director of the Center of REALTOR® Technology. Founded in 2001, its initial purpose was to help improve data standards in the real estate industry. Since he took over in 2011, they’ve started looking at emerging technology, and what smart home technology means for consumers, as well as autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence. They have a lab where people can come see what they’re doing and are involved in outreach. There are several different types of smart home technologies — some of these include smart hubs, thermostats, smart locks, cameras, and air-quality systems. You can visit their website (see below) for handouts for these different verticals, that describe the pros and cons as well as how they work and why people are interested in them. For REALTORS®, you can share these with your clients as well. Smart technology really started to grow with the Nest thermostat. It has a lot of features that allow you to save energy. Currently, they test about 80 different devices in their lab. Many people consider these devices to be for younger buyers, but really they are for all sorts of consumers. At the Center for REALTOR® Technology, they are looking at partnering with the University of Illinois to create a smart home for people who want to age in the place. The main goal is home energy management, and also creating universal design systems that make it easier to access things in the house. This includes voice activation that could control the lights and the locks. Devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home both have numerous business they partner with and are compatible with several devices. Right now these devices communicate one-way, but they do allow for a lot of control and a lot of freedom. The instant connection with the voice activation can also save time by cutting out micro-interactions and prevent distraction (if you aren’t having to use your phone to access them). Some devices may stay with the house or may move with the individuals. They are usually so connected with a person’s phone, but they can be reset if the homeowner wants to leave them behind. CRT has developed an application called Smart Home Checklist that allows you to walk through a house with a client with smart home technology and identify which devices they want to leave behind, and then they can use the list to know which devices they need to reset for the next homeowner. REALTORS® need to remember that even if you are not using the products, your clients could potentially be using them. REALTORS® need to be knowledgeable about them because they are part of the transactions. You have to think about what’s important to your buyers in owning a new home, and Chad provides some resources that can help facilitate these conversations with your clients. When it comes to privacy, we need to think about what privacy means for us. Some people aren’t comfortable with having the voice assistant devices in their homes. Some of these have mute buttons that deactivate the microphone when it’s on so it won’t pick up what you’re saying. Letting some data be accessible to companies can provide a benefit to the consumer. Chad shares some examples of what he benefits from when he travels. There are some digital identify projects being worked on that may provide us more control over our online data. When it comes to showing a house that has smart home technology, you want to be aware and talk about this with a potential buyer. Monica and Chad talk about the smart city movement, and examples in Chicago and Toronto where projects are monitoring things like air quality, temperature, and humidity, as well as foot traffic and car traffic. There are matters of privacy, but Chad explains some of the measures in place to protect privacy. The data collected from these projects is valuable for commercial real estate, as well as for urban planners. Insurance and utility companies often offer rebates or discounts for installing smart devices in the home. The Center for Real Estate Technology is working the Department of Energy on a project called the Home Energy Information Accelerator. This provides data sort of like a Carfax for the home. Having this data allows you to take action on improving the efficiency of the home, and also allows you to have the history of that data that you can share with potential buyers to increase the value of the home. There are some other smaller smart home technologies available. There are air quality sensors, and Chad talks about some sensors they are working to develop that will collect data for the whole house on how the home performs. Chad also talks about the Roomba vacuums and how they learned that as they move around the room they create a map of that space. On the subject of robots, there are certain tasks that computers and robots can take over, and in some cases, that’s fine because it allows us to focus on other areas of work that focus on elevating the work itself. The in-person interaction remains incredibly important for the emotional aspects of buying a house. Blockchain is usually presented in the context of bitcoin or other crypto-currency. It is a type of database where there is a historical database of things that are changed, rather than things being overwritten. Chad talks about how this database can benefit REALTORS® by making transaction time more efficient. Having a higher degree of visibility and transparency is only good for the industry. Blockchain may also allow people to be assigned digital IDs, which will allow websites to ask permission to access different parts of data. Self-driving cars are another way of the future. An average car owner uses their car about 5% of the time they own the vehicle. This allows a lot of downtime for the vehicles to be parked somewhere, and in some cases that might cost a lot of money. With autonomous vehicles, your car could take you to work and then work as an Uber or something before it comes back and picks you up from work. They may also make driving safer and decrease traffic and parking violations. People are worried about the future of work, but Chad thinks it’s not something to be worried about. The type of work may change, but there will likely be a lot of opportunities to work with our hands. Maker spaces are becoming more popular, where people have access to things they wouldn’t normally have for themselves. This access to tools can help people create things they wouldn’t otherwise be able to create.  Additional Links: Center for REALTOR® Technology Website Smart Home Simplified Smart Home Checklist Smart Home Glossary Smart Home FAQ CRT Ledger Recast City Netatmo Cameras Center for REALTOR® Development – OnlineLearning.REALTOR® Live Designation Classes – Training4RE.com 2018 Classes: Two-Hour E-Learning, or Eight-Hour Classroom class on Smart Home Technology Guest Bio: The Center for REALTOR® Technology is a multi-disciplinary technology research and development group at NAR. We investigate emerging technologies and determine how they would be used to support REALTORS®. CRT also offers consultation to members on their web properties and strategies for improving their technological acumen. Check our work out at https://crtlabs.org. * Research, write and develop white papers and thought pieces on various technology topics and how they affect the future of real estate. * Designed the layout, charts, and graphs for the annual Technology Survey. * Overall lead in initial implementation of http://www.REALTOR®.org using latest technologies, such as Responsive Web Design, HTML5/CSS3, and jQuery in 2011. * Collaborate with multiple departments, senior management, CEO, and association members to improve technologies and promote innovation. * Present to audiences ranging from state and local associations to crowds of 600+ at national industry events. * Board member of the Real Estate Standards Organization, the standards body that oversees the RETS standard as well as others. * Team Lead for the Case Studies Group in the newly formed Internet of Things Council. * Member of Illinois Technology Association. Host Information: Monica Neubauer Speaker/Podcaster/REALTOR® Monica@MonicaNeubauer.com FuntentionalLiving.com FranklinTNBlog.com

#AskTheExpert. featuring Andy Crestodina, author of Content Chemistry and founder of Orbit Media. Hosted by Ross Brand of Livestream Universe. Subscribe to the podcast: https://rossbrandrecordings.com/ (https://rossbrandrecordings.com). Andy Crestodina is the Strategic Director and co-founder of http://orbitmedia.com/ (Orbit Media Studios), an award-winning, 38-person web design firm in Chicago. He has been in the web design and interactive marketing space since January of 2000. In that time, Andy's helped thousands of people do a better job getting results online. He's a true evangelist for content marketing and ethical digital marketing. Together with the team at Orbit Media, Andy has put out some of the best digital marketing advice available in hundreds of practical articles, including posts on virtually all of the top marketing websites. Then there's the book, https://www.orbitmedia.com/content-chemistry-pages-61.php (Content Chemistry), which is currently in it's third edition. Andy is also a regular speaker both locally and nationally. Not only is Andy a founder of Content Jam, Chicago's largest content marketing conference (currently in it's fifth year) but he's also a regular face on the national circuit. If you go to a content marketing conference, the one Chicagoan you're mostly likely to hear is Andy Crestodina. It's likely that you've read something from him or heard him speak on topics including content strategy, search and Analytics. Those topics are evidence of his generosity, since Orbit is a web design company and doesn't actually do marketing. Andy teaches not to generate web design leads, but to help people get better results from the websites they already have. Andy's focus is on Chicago. He's a member of the Illinois Technology Association and the Economic Club of Chicago. He's a mentor and regular teacher at 1871, helping startups get started. Andy still maintains open office hours during which he helps any who signs up with anything they need, from strategy to Analytics, career advice to introductions. He's also a member of the local B Corporation community. Part of that commitment to the local community can be found in Chicago Cause, the non-profit donation program than Andy help found. Currently in its seventh year, total donations of digital marketing services exceed $100,000. Andy is one of the most passionate, committed and generous teachers in marketing. You can find Andy on Twitter and Instagram with the username @Crestodina. Show TopicsThe elements of Content Marketing How to measure the effectiveness of your content? How to know where on social media to spend your time The myth of the “duplicate content” penalty Andy's formula for headline writing How to maximize SEO value from your blog posts Strategies for getting other people to share your content

Andy has been in the web design and interactive marketing space since January of 2000. In that time, he's helped thousands of people do a better job getting results online. He's a true evangelist for content marketing and ethical digital marketing. Together with the team at Orbit Media, Andy has put out some of the best digital marketing advice available in hundreds of practical articles, including posts on virtually all of the top marketing websites. Then there's the book, Content Chemistry, which is currently in it's third edition. Andy is also a regular speaker both locally and nationally. Not only is Andy a founder ofContent Jam, Chicago's largest content marketing conference (currently in it's fifth year) but he's also a regular face on the national circuit. If you go to a content marketing conference, the one Chicagoan you're mostly likely to hear is Andy Crestodina. It's likely that you've read something from him or heard him speak on topics including content strategy, search and Analytics. Those topics are evidence of his generosity, since Orbit is a web design company and doesn't actually do marketing. Andy teaches not to generate web design leads, but to help people get better results from the websites they already have. Andy's focus is on Chicago. He's a member of the Illinois Technology Association and the Economic Club of Chicago. He's a mentor and regular teacher at 1871, helping startups get started. Andy still maintains open office hours during which he helps any who signs up with anything they need, from strategy to Analytics, career advice to introductions. He's also a member of the local B Corporation community. Part of that commitment to the local community can be found in Chicago Cause, the non-profit donation program than Andy help found. Currently in its seventh year, total donations of digital marketing services exceed $100,000. Andy is one of the most passionate, committed and generous teachers of marketing in Chicago.

Andy has been in the web design and interactive marketing space since January of 2000. In that time, he's helped thousands of people do a better job getting results online. He's a true evangelist for content marketing and ethical digital marketing. Together with the team at Orbit Media, Andy has put out some of the best digital marketing advice available in hundreds of practical articles, including posts on virtually all of the top marketing websites. Then there's the book, Content Chemistry, which is currently in it's third edition. Andy is also a regular speaker both locally and nationally. Not only is Andy a founder ofContent Jam, Chicago's largest content marketing conference (currently in it's fifth year) but he's also a regular face on the national circuit. If you go to a content marketing conference, the one Chicagoan you're mostly likely to hear is Andy Crestodina. It's likely that you've read something from him or heard him speak on topics including content strategy, search and Analytics. Those topics are evidence of his generosity, since Orbit is a web design company and doesn't actually do marketing. Andy teaches not to generate web design leads, but to help people get better results from the websites they already have. Andy's focus is on Chicago. He's a member of the Illinois Technology Association and the Economic Club of Chicago. He's a mentor and regular teacher at 1871, helping startups get started. Andy still maintains open office hours during which he helps any who signs up with anything they need, from strategy to Analytics, career advice to introductions. He's also a member of the local B Corporation community. Part of that commitment to the local community can be found in Chicago Cause, the non-profit donation program than Andy help found. Currently in its seventh year, total donations of digital marketing services exceed $100,000. Andy is one of the most passionate, committed and generous teachers of marketing in Chicago.

Andy has been in the web design and interactive marketing space since January of 2000. In that time, he's helped thousands of people do a better job getting results online. He's a true evangelist for content marketing and ethical digital marketing. Together with the team at Orbit Media, Andy has put out some of the best digital marketing advice available in hundreds of practical articles, including posts on virtually all of the top marketing websites. Then there's the book, Content Chemistry, which is currently in it's third edition. Andy is also a regular speaker both locally and nationally. Not only is Andy a founder ofContent Jam, Chicago's largest content marketing conference (currently in it's fifth year) but he's also a regular face on the national circuit. If you go to a content marketing conference, the one Chicagoan you're mostly likely to hear is Andy Crestodina. It's likely that you've read something from him or heard him speak on topics including content strategy, search and Analytics. Those topics are evidence of his generosity, since Orbit is a web design company and doesn't actually do marketing. Andy teaches not to generate web design leads, but to help people get better results from the websites they already have. Andy's focus is on Chicago. He's a member of the Illinois Technology Association and the Economic Club of Chicago. He's a mentor and regular teacher at 1871, helping startups get started. Andy still maintains open office hours during which he helps any who signs up with anything they need, from strategy to Analytics, career advice to introductions. He's also a member of the local B Corporation community. Part of that commitment to the local community can be found in Chicago Cause, the non-profit donation program than Andy help found. Currently in its seventh year, total donations of digital marketing services exceed $100,000. Andy is one of the most passionate, committed and generous teachers of marketing in Chicago.

Andy has been in the web design and interactive marketing space since January of 2000. In that time, he's helped thousands of people do a better job getting results online. He's a true evangelist for content marketing and ethical digital marketing. Together with the team at Orbit Media, Andy has put out some of the best digital marketing advice available in hundreds of practical articles, including posts on virtually all of the top marketing websites. Then there's the book, Content Chemistry, which is currently in it's third edition. Andy is also a regular speaker both locally and nationally. Not only is Andy a founder ofContent Jam, Chicago's largest content marketing conference (currently in it's fifth year) but he's also a regular face on the national circuit. If you go to a content marketing conference, the one Chicagoan you're mostly likely to hear is Andy Crestodina. It's likely that you've read something from him or heard him speak on topics including content strategy, search and Analytics. Those topics are evidence of his generosity, since Orbit is a web design company and doesn't actually do marketing. Andy teaches not to generate web design leads, but to help people get better results from the websites they already have. Andy's focus is on Chicago. He's a member of the Illinois Technology Association and the Economic Club of Chicago. He's a mentor and regular teacher at 1871, helping startups get started. Andy still maintains open office hours during which he helps any who signs up with anything they need, from strategy to Analytics, career advice to introductions. He's also a member of the local B Corporation community. Part of that commitment to the local community can be found in Chicago Cause, the non-profit donation program than Andy help found. Currently in its seventh year, total donations of digital marketing services exceed $100,000. Andy is one of the most passionate, committed and generous teachers of marketing in Chicago.