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Member Since 12/7/07 | Last Update 2/12/08

Wendy Marx

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Wendy Marx has been called a B2B Buzz Guru. Using her experience in marketing, PR and journalism, she has helped virtually unknown B2B companies become leaders in their space and helped existing brands and individuals become even more effective.

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Wendy Marx has been called a B2B Buzz Guru. Using her experience in marketing, PR and journalism, she has helped virtually unknown B2B companies become leaders in their space and helped existing brands and individuals become even more effective.


Her firm won two first place Gold Mercury Awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s New York and New England chapters for its launch of two startups.

Before founding Marx Communications, Wendy worked for AT&T and GE Capital in marketing and public relations managerial positions and was part of the team that helped develop the highly successful AT&T Universal Card.

Her technology and business articles have appeared in The New York Times, Computerworld, InformationWeek, Brandweek and Advertising Age, among others. She has written advertorials for Fortune and Forbes on management topics. Her writing skills earned her a position teaching business writing at the University of Michigan Business School. She writes a blog on personal branding for Fast Company, blog. fastcompany.com/experts/wmarx.

She launched as a pro bono project, “Jane Doe No More,” www.janedoenomore.org, a rape victim advocacy organization, whose founder was featured on Dateline NBC. Wendy serves on “Jane Do No More’s” advisory board.

She is a cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Grraduate School of Journalism. When she's not helping build brands, you can find her on the tennis courts or ski slopes.

Specialties: B2B public relations and brand building

 

 

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B2B buzz guru

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B2B public relations, marketing communications, building reputations online and off

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www.marxcommunications.com

Public Profile

www.fastcompany.com/user/186

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Member Blog | 0 recommendations | May 09, 2008 8:00 am
If you’re small, there’s no reason to think small. That was the message for me from a terrific event I was privileged to attend last weekend in New York City. Some 20 PR professionals...
Member Blog | 0 recommendations | May 02, 2008 8:42 am
Change. It’s certainly been the mantra of the Democratic primary race but it also has an important place in personal branding. Take my profession, public relations. Just as the Internet...
Member Blog | 0 recommendations | April 25, 2008 8:32 am
During the height of the Iraq war, you couldn’t turn on the TV or listen to the radio without hearing a military analyst make pronouncements about the war. What we didn’t know at the time was...
Member Blog | 0 recommendations | April 17, 2008 6:03 pm
How do you get 60 bloggers to create a huge buzz for a book none of them has read? Just ask Rohit Bhargava,...

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I've noticed a funny phenomenon when I type: My fingers sometimes type out words that are spelled similarly or may even be derived from the word I intended, but are not. I notice other people also...