Client-side panelists reveal suggestions for agency & vendor partners at February meeting

A panel of Internet strategists from Umpqua Bank, LaCrosse Footwear, Mentor Graphics and the Portland Trailblazers (all members of the Internet Strategy Forum) answered key questions about what makes great agency and vendor partners at the February meeting of the Internet Partner Forum.

IPF Founding Member companies ISITE Design, OakTree Digital and Volt Techncial & Creative Communications were joined by representatives from several other companies including Summit Projects, HMH, SplashCast, viaLanguage and EasyStreet.

Below you can listen to MP3 audio of the 4 panelists answering the question “What separates great agencies and other vendors from the rest of the pack?”(IPF Member companies receive the entire podcast of the event).

> Audio clip of answer from Dan Harbison of the Portland Trail Blazers

> Audio clip of answer from David Hawkins of Umpqua Bank

> Audio clip of answer from Ron Fuller of Mentor Graphics

> Audio clip of answer from Katie McDonald of LaCrosse Footwear

Panel for 2/20 meeting finalized with addition of Umpqua Bank Brand VP

We have finalized the panel for the meeting on February 20th at 6:00pm with the addition of Umpqua Bank’s David Hawkins, VP of Brand.

This is part 2 of our series “What Clients Really Want from Partners”.  At the meeting in December the group consenus was to do the same topic, but this time invite some mid-size companies on the panel vs. the very large companies on the December panel.

So the final panel is:

David Hawkins, VP & Brand Manager @ Umpqua Bank

Katie McDonald, Director of Consumer Sales @ LaCrosse Footwear

Dan Harbison, Director of Interactive Marketing & Media @ Portland Trail Blazers

Ron Fuller, Web Manager, Corporate Marketing @ Mentor Graphics

Early bird pricing ends on 02/12. 

I this looks interesting and you would like to attend, you can register here.