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Paige Velasquez Budde is co-founding partner and CEO at Zilker Media, an Austin-based agency building people-driven brands. During her tenure as CEO, Zilker Media has been named one of the Fastest Growing Companies in Austin and Best Places to Work two years in a row by Austin Business Journal and has been listed on Austin Inno’s Coolest Companies. She has been featured as a speaker on strategic business influencers and led workshops for organizations such as Ernst & Young, Harvard Medical School, Entrepreneurs Organization, The University of Texas athletics and Women Presidents Organization. She delivered a TEDx Talk at the University of Texas Business School in March 2023.


the STRATEGIC BUSINESS influencer
BUILDING A BRAND WITH A SMALL BUDGET
Don’t just follow trends—become a leader who shapes them.
As traditional marketing tactics continue to falter in today’s business landscape, simply amassing followers and leading with a corporate logo is no longer enough. This essential guide offers a new, seven-step approach to brand building and provides the tools for any leader to compete with giants by showing them how to amplify what most already do best: teaching and relationship building as a way to build trust in a way corporations cannot.
Strategic Business Influencers may not be as famous as the mainstream celebrities the word “influencer” usually evokes, but they are converting the intangible benefits of influence into significant impact on their revenue and profits.
your REPUTATION as a leader is a POWERFUL ASSET
How effectively are you positioning your brand to accelerate trust and drive meaningful business growth?
the ERA of THOUGHT LEADERSHIP for EXECUTIVES
AFTER AN HOUR WITH PAIGE, YOUR AUDIENCE WILL HAVE THE TOOLS TO:
- Discover why thought leaders in your organization are your best competitive advantage
- Build a meaningful, authentic executive brand that drives acceleration for your business
- Conduct an online brand audit and make intentional changes to create a strong first impression to ramp up visibility for you and your company
- Execute a proven thought leadership plan used to build platforms for some of the world’s leading thought leaders and companies
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10 WAYS TO LEVERAGE YOUR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP TO GROW YOUR IMPACT & BUSINESS
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Leaders today face an uphill battle. Trust in institutions and corporations is at an all-time low, and the noise in the marketing landscape is louder than ever. To compete and win, every day leaders must learn how to leverage their leadership as their most powerful business asset—without spending a fortune on marketing. In today’s world, the loudest voice isn’t always the most powerful—but the most trusted one is.
How to make the right first impression online as an executive
How to make the right first impression online as an executive. In today’s environment, the first place most customers, journalists, investors and thought leaders will interact with you and your “brand” is not in person or over the phone—it’s online via your website or social media channels.
Your entire first impression as the CEO now happens directly on page one of Google. Do you know what page one looks like on Google for a search on your name or business name?
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