Author Archives: Inka

Inka is an innovative business strategist and marketer with proven skills in business development, marketing, planning and communications, applying a visionary, yet analytic and pragmatic point of view. With over 20 years of in-house executive experience, she has lead branding efforts in fields as diverse as PC security, international consumer goods, and home decor. Inka contributed to the growth of Birkenstock Footprints, PC Guardian, Portal Publications, through customer driven, innovative approaches in sales channel, PR, lead management, product segmentation and expansion efforts, partnering with organizations such as Woolrich, Stanford University and QVC with co-branding efforts that resulted in significant launch and growth campaigns for the organizations.

Prior to the launch of Greenfire Strategies, Inka gained industry experience working with large financial organizations, major retailers, healthcare organizations and government, advising in fields ranging from wireless technologies, security, apparel, publishing, home decor, gift and garden. She has worked with channel partners such as CDW, C-Net and Dell, large retail chains such as Target, Borders, Barnes and Noble, Macy’s and Nordstrom, as well as numerous small to mid-size businesses. Inka also brings an international perspective, working with companies in the Far East, Europe and Latin America, and is a fluent German speaker.

Looking for social content?

If you are struggling to come up with clever new social content try setting up search terms with  Google Alerts to get fresh content delivered to you. Google alerts sends you messages in real time as content is created online for your specified search terms. While most marketers are already using this clever feature to [...]

B2B Marketing Insights

I attended last weeks B2B Marketing Forum in San Francisco. The speakers and topics continue to be relevant to what enterprise marketing teams are faced with in their current brand marketing efforts. Panelist included:

Pam Didner – Integrated Marketing Manager Intel
Kevin Cox – Senior Director of Marketing SAP
Scott Anderson  – Vice President of Customer Communications [...]

Maximizing Online Event Registrations

Maximize leads and make event registration exciting and successful through a thoughtful, creative and suspenseful registration process to increase attendance and social shares. Leave your audience with a memorable “brand experience”.
Key Elements of Creating an Exciting Event Registration Process Online
Today, I wanted to share some tips on making the event sign up process creative [...]

Aspects of a Successful Lead Nurturing Processes

Decision makers & influencers
Let’s assume that your targets have become aware of a “need”. Your job is not to “sell” any longer, but to make them “buy”.  You now have the opportunity to position yourself as the “solution”.
There are three key areas of problems:

Strategic business decisions that need to be addressed
Financial considerations that have [...]

Best Lead Generation Strategies

No matter what the size of your company is, creating and managing an effective online lead generation campaign part of every business strategy today.
With the proliferation of online media, strategies vary widely from email marketing, to online event marketing, to social media, advertising and content publishing.  We’ll try to cover each in a separate column [...]