Ira Gostin
Be Your Company's Chief Storyteller
Ira Gostin - G8 Strategies
Wednesday, Jan 19
Speaker: 3 – 4 pm / Networking: 2 – 3 pm
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Ever wonder why so much marketing falls flat? Been frustrated that you aren't getting the type of growth you had hoped for with your marketing? Join marketer and communicator Ira Gostin to kick off the year as he helps you transform yourself into your business's Chief Storyteller.
Gostin will present not only the science behind a good business story, but easy to follow steps to revitalize your flat messaging and marketing into a vital and lead generating magnet. Join us as Biz Cafe kicks off 2022 with some solid skill information and more than a few laughs!
Ira’s presentation includes:
What is a story and why does your business need one?
It's not all about "Once Upon a Time"
Why does a good story work to increase business?
How can you make changes in your marketing right now?
Leave with a ready-to-use elevator pitch
About our Speaker
Ira is a marketer, communicator, entrepreneur and storyteller who truly thrives on helping companies create growth opportunities. He currently works with global brands to create strategic IR, communications and marketing campaigns to help them move the needle.
He has created and sold an agency, been a senior executive at one of the most creative full-service agencies in the region and helped propel a multinational, publicly traded company from a $400 million IPO to $5 billion in market cap with listings on the TSX and NYSE. Ira has worked on over $1 billion in equity raises and acquisitions in his career.
Ira is as comfortable in a suit and tie on the floor of the stock exchange as he is with safety gear and hard-hat at a mine site.
Ira began his professional career as a photojournalist with the Associated Press, traveling the world telling the stories of our society. Following his transition into marketing, Ira worked at several industrial and B2B companies as a marketing director, VP of investor relations and corporate communications strategist before transitioning to the agency side.
He has a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach, an MBA with an emphasis in marketing from the University of Phoenix, Reno, and is a graduate of the Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University. Ira has also attended executive education at New York University, Stanford University and the Colorado School of Mines.
Ira mentors business start-ups and students through numerous organizations and is a mentor with the UC Davis Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The Long Beach Accelerator, The Ozmen Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Nevada, Reno and at California State University, Long Beach.
Ira’s home base is Reno, Nevada, with his wife Erin, adult children and dogs. He is a baseball enthusiast, coffee aficionado and Formula 1 racing fan. In his spare time, he and his wife travel the West with dogs and kayaks, enjoying the outdoors.
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