Zarb Students Honored Again!!

Our undergraduate students participated in the 2015-2016 Marketing EDGE Collegiate ECHO Challenge by Facebook and were announced one of the winners of the competition. In particular, Hofstra won the “2nd Place Silver.” There were more than 225 entries in this year’s worldwide competition, which were judged by 58 seasoned professionals across the marketing industry at companies such as Domino’s Pizza, Ernst & Young, Fidelity Investments, The Fossil Group, GlaxoSmithKline, Guthy/Renker, Thomson Reuters, Worldvision International, and more. From among 30 semifinalists, Facebook’s judges made the final determinations for 1st Place Gold, 2nd Place Silver, 3rd Place Bronze, and Honorable Mentions.

This year’s marketing challenge centered on the social media network Facebook. Each team was asked to create an integrated marketing campaign/plan  with the goal of increasing the awareness and consideration of Custom Audiences. This year, Facebook was proud to partner with Marketing EDGE to sponsor this year’s ECHO Challenge.

The Zarb Student Silver Winners of the Marketing EDGE 2016 Collegiate ECHO Marketing Challenge are: Elaina Levenson, Jordan Richmond, Dolly Schuttinger, and Julia Rondeau. Faculty Advisor: Professor Songpol Kulviwat, Department of Marketing & International Business.

With this award, our Hofstra students on the Silver-winning team split a cash prize $1,000. In addition, Marketing EDGE awarded $2,500 in scholarships to Hofstra University’s Department of Marketing and International Business.

Please join us in congratulating the above students for their outstanding works and won the second place “Silver” this year.

Here is our winning commercial:

Note: The Marketing EDGE is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to Educate, Develop, Grow, and Employ college students in the field of marketing. The organization is the only national nonprofit solely committed to affecting the lives of thousands of students and shaping the marketing industry of the future as diverse, inclusive, and highly skilled. (www.facebook.com/marketingEDGEorg)

Zarb Professor Interviewed on Database Marketing

This television interview of Hofstra University’s Professor Joel Evans (from the Zarb School of Business) recently appeared on Fios1’s Money & Main$treet program. The interview was conducted by host Giovanna Drpic. It deals with several aspects of database marketing — from a small firm perspective. Database marketing can be a great aid to company success!
 
 

 

Self-Branding Across Roles and Life Stages: Part 3

Recently, Zarb School of Business Distinguished Professor Joel Evans of Hofstra University did an extended radio interview with Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D. on self-branding from different perspectives and across our diverse roles. Self-branding — how we see ourselves and how we want to be perceived by others — is a key to long-term personal and career success.

In this post, we are including Part 3 of the interview, which is broken into three parts/posts.
 

How can you use self-branding to consider what you want to do after college?

• Click on the self-assessment test URL at the Radio America page for this program. http://goo.gl/Fwdy9r

 

How can you use self-branding after retirement?

• We have to first ask ourselves what we want to do in our retirement? Be a volunteer, travel more, work part-time, be more active as a grandparent, serve on local boards, etc.?
• For each of these roles, we need a different (and maybe new) self-brand that we can project to others.
• Our self-brand should be reflective of the role we are pursuing.
  • Here’s a personal example. I’m reaching the point where I am thinking about retiring from my full-time job in a couple of years.
  • My wife thinks I’ll go crazy in retirement (HER perception of my self-brand).
  • On the other hand, I have a good idea what I want to do then, as I recast my self-brand. I want to teach a graduate class at least once a year. I want to do volunteer work for a health-related nonprofit organization. I want to stay active in social media. I want to keep going to the gym and mingling with people there. I’m sure that as the time approaches, I will come up with more “to do” items. [Besides traveling more]
  • No matter what, I will have a strong impact on how others see me.

 

Self-Branding Across Roles and Life Stages: Part 2

Recently, Zarb School of Business Distinguished Professor Joel Evans of Hofstra University did an extended radio interview with Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D. on self-branding from different perspectives and across our diverse roles. Self-branding — how we see ourselves and how we want to be perceived by others — is a key to long-term personal and career success.

In this post, we are including Part 2 of the interview, which is broken into three parts/posts.
 

How can you translate your self-brand into a resume?

• Join LinkedIn and browse through the profiles of others in the field you would like to have a career. Look at their descriptions of themselves.
• Always do multiple drafts of a new resume and show them to people you trust. Include key words that are included in each job description.
• You should always articulate your self-brand at the top of a resume. ( How – an example) Again, include buzz words from job descriptions.

Senior professor at Hofstra’s Zarb Business School. Long-time consultant. Leading textbook author. Active blogger & LI group manager. Motivated teacher. Frequent speaker. (22 words)

• The resume should be modified to fit the job description. This is 2016, not 1976. There is no excuse for not modifying your resume to the position sought.
• A self-brand statement should reflect the stage of your career that you are in currently.

 

Self-Branding Across Roles and Life Stages: Part 1

Recently, Zarb School of Business Distinguished Professor Joel Evans of Hofstra University did an extended radio interview with Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D. on self-branding from different perspectives and across our diverse roles. Self-branding — how we see ourselves and how we want to be perceived by others — is a key to long-term personal and career success.

In this post, we are including Part 1 of the interview, which is broken into three parts/posts.

 

• These are some factors to consider:
  • You must have a clear sense of your self-brand.
  • What are my short-term and long-term career and personal goals?
  • How close am I to reaching these goals?
  • What specific activities must I engage in/do (in each role and life stage) to reach these goals?
  • When I set my self-brand for each role & life stage, is it perceived that way by others? Can others get beyond stereotypes? Often, others do not see us as we see ourselves.
    • If I relate this to myself, I know there are clear differences in how I view myself and how others view me – and this has evolved through my own life stages and roles undertaken.
    • Today, I am a senior citizen by virtually every definition and seen as such by some others; but I don’t see myself that way.
    • For example, as a professor, even though I am the “old guy,” I run three blogs and I’m very active in social media. So, clearly, the stereotype about seniors and social media doesn’t apply to me.
    • Also as a professor, I understand that my students today see my gray hair, wrinkles, and bald spot and do not relate to me the same way now as they did when I started teaching. To address this, I wear loud and colorful ties and socks with fun patterns (such cats’ faces), and I show a lot of videos.
    • In another recent role, as father of the bride, my friends and family saw another side of me. But it was the other side that I wanted them to see.
  • Authenticity is imperative for a self-brand to be perceived as desired by others. Faking won’t cut it.