For the past nine months I’ve been working on putting together Startup Voodoo, a thought leadership conference around startups and entrepreneurism in the Midwest. What we didn’t realize when we set the date, was that the event fell on a holy Jewish holiday and today I expressed my sincerest apologies on it here on the [...]
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A recognized thought leader in developing reputation management and digital marketing strategies, Aaron Perlut helps a broad range of organizations — ranging from Fortune 500s to professional sports teams to economic development authorities to well-funded technology startups — shape reputation and market brands in an evolving media environment. With a career spanning more than 20 years in media and marketing, he helps leads St. Louis-based integrated marketing and reputation management firm Elasticity, contributes to SocialMediaToday, HuffingtonPost and Forbes; and is active in the entrepreneurism and startups community as co-founder of the annual Startup Voodoo conference.
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Aaron Perlut hates being static. Having written speeches for government officials, launched exchanges for the Affordable Care Act, introduced new Pepsi products, managed communications around power plant fatalities, nuclear security, labor strife, smoking cessation; created global thought leadership platforms for Fortune 100 executives, crafted anti-hipster campaigns as a means of positioning national tax brands — he’s clearly been around the block a few times.
After building his career as a national media relations and reputation management strategist, Aaron was an early adopter in the digital media space, creating communities and becoming active in blogging before Facebook, Twitter, and some very influential blogs alerted the rest of the world that new media really mattered. More important, he grasped early-on that block and tackle communications would not work, particularly living in silos. Instead, more creative and unique organizational or brand narratives must be developed and delivered across multiple, integrated channels to break through the clutter of a crowded information landscape and deliver tangible results.
Aaron’s track record of success has proven-out while working with organizations and brands like H&R Block, UPS, AT&T, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Charter Communications, Papa John’s, Pepsi, Capital One, CafePress, Entergy, Progress Energy, SunEdison, the Virginia Department of Transportation, Emerson Electric, PacifiCare, Charter Communications, Anheuser-Busch/InBev, and others.
Outside of work, Aaron is a typical, deeply flawed human being who faces the same challenges as any other upright mammal.
He is married to perhaps the most tolerant woman on the planet and has two increasingly mouthy children, as well as a dog named Chewbacca. Aaron’s woebegone Chicago Cubs and Washington Bullets (he does not accept the name “Wizards”) bring him continued pain an anxiety, as do vegans, vegetarians, nor those who do not recognize the rugged good looks that come with a life of facial hair.
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In the wake of the major algorithmic updates named for adorable animals (Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird, to name a few), there has inexplicably been another round of doomsayers decrying the value of SEO, claiming it is all but dead. Yes, SEO has changed, but it’s never been more valuable as it relates to social media and [...]
Continue readingAs Facebook, and for that matter, most social media outlets, dive deeper into pay-for-play for brands, at least they are taking the more transparent route….unlike daytime talk shows have in the past. Read more here on SocialMediaToday.com……
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