Marisa Smith, president and founder of internet marketing agency The Whole Brain Group, will be speaking at Eastern Michigan University’s Search Engine Marketing Workshop. The second annual workshop will be held on November 16 at the Marriott Eagle Crest Conference Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Marisa will be presenting the Lead Quantity vs. Lead Quality workshop along with Kevin Woodward, Director of Digital Strategy at re:group. Lead Quantity vs. Lead Quality: How to Determine Your Formula for Success A successful lead generation strategy places equal weight on generating the right quantity of leads to meet your sales goals, as well as [...]
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Earlier this week Twitter launched a new profile page design in an apparent effort to stay abreast of the current visual trend. Following the lead set by fellow social media giants Facebook and Google+, Twitter is turning its focus to images. Both Facebook and Google+ recently rolled out new profile designs featuring cover photos as the primary visual component of the page. The new Twitter profile similarly features a prominent header photo centered over the tweet stream at the top of the page. According to Twitter’s blog, the new profile will “help you get to know people better through their pictures.” Not only is the header [...]
There have been some recent developments in the past few weeks that might affect how you interact with your social media marketing channels. Check out our round-up of the latest social media news: Facebook Updates Email Addresses, adds Comment Editing Facebook was recently in the news for suddenly changing every member’s profile to display their ‘@facebook.com’ email address, instead of the user’s preferred email address. Email sent to your Facebook address would end up in your Facebook inbox. This was a sudden change for many users (including many who did not even know they had a @facebook.com email address). TIP: [...]
CONCENTRATE, 12/8/2010 Marisa Smith’s company changed its name three years ago and its business model last year. Today what is now The Whole Brain Group is bigger and more lucrative after a year of growing in Ann Arbor. “We really transformed ourselves 100 percent,” says Smith, president of The Whole Brain Group. “We went from a bad 2009 to triple what we had in 2010. Switching gears has been really a go for us.” The Whole Brain Group focused primarily on software development when the recession hit. It lost a lot of that work, forcing it to take on a broader [...]
Press Release from our Partner The HRP Consulting Group on the addition of Nick Slack to the HRP team as the Director of Consulting Services. New York, N.Y. (November 8, 2010) The HRP Consulting Group (HRP), a leading consulting firm specializing in providing expert advice to Human Research Protection Programs (HRPPs) and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), is pleased to announce the addition of Nick Slack to the HRP team as the Director of Consulting Services. Slack’s addition to HRP signals the company’s continued growth and underscores its ongoing commitment to providing the highest level of expertise and customer service to [...]
Media Contact: Jason Lalak Women Impacting Public Policy 415-434-4314 jlalak@wipp.org Detroit, MI – July 27, 2010 – Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) has named three Detroit women as recipients of AT&T Innovator of the Year for the Detroit area. The women were recognized at a recent conference on healthcare in Detroit hosted by WIPP for their effectiveness in strengthening the healthcare industry by leveraging technology in their own businesses. Marisa Smith is the President of the Whole Brain Group and single-handedly designed the company’s most innovative offering, AccreditStation. AccreditStation is an online web-based tool to automate the preparation of application [...]
Committee Passes Pam Byrnes’ Bill to Expand ‘IT’ Industry Ann Arbor businesses advocate Byrnes’ plan to drive investment, create jobs LANSING – On Wednesday, February 24, 2010, The House Committee on New Economy and Quality of Life passed legislation sponsored by Speaker Pro Tempore Pam Byrnes (D-Lyndon Twp.) that will increase investment in the information technology, or “IT” industry, and create good-paying jobs. Representatives of Ann Arbor-based businesses SRT Solutions and the Whole Brain Group testified in support of the plan that would include software development as a specific growth sector eligible for state funding through the 21st Century Jobs Fund.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 29, 2009, ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Whole Brain Group, LLC announces an increase in the sales of its AccreditStation® product during the first half of 2009. Yale University joined its growing list of clients, including the following research institutions that recently renewed their AccreditStation® contracts: The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, University of Colorado Denver, Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Lifespan in Rhode Island, and the Cleveland Veterans Administration Hospital. Institutions use AccreditStation to eliminate hundreds of hours of manual labor that is spent assembling documents for their AAHRPP® accreditation application [...]
