The Big Mouth Blog

Leveraging top business awards — Each step of the way

Public Relations and marketing professionals learned the do’s and don’ts of getting their company (or client) nominated for major business awards and leveraging the recognition each step of the way during a networking panel and breakfast at The Olympic Collection in West Los Angeles. Panelists included Patrick Hainault, vice president of SMB Marketing at Inc. magazine; [...]

Networking breakfast & panel: How to get nominated for top awards programs and tout your success

Public relations and marketing professionals: Please join us from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, for a free five-star breakfast, networking and panel discussion about major awards programs such as Inc. magazine’s prestigious “Inc. 500/5000“ and Ernst & Young’s global “Entrepreneur Of the Year” awards. You’ll learn the do’s and don’ts of getting [...]

LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner win Ernst & Young’s National Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Ernst & Young’s annual Entrepreneur of the Year program honored LinkedIn executives Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner as the overall national award winners Saturday at the firm’s Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, Calif. Now in its 25th year, more than 1,800 people were nominated for the award. The companies of the nominees have annual [...]

Los Angeles ranks third nationally for fastest growing private companies

Private companies in the greater Los Angeles region are thriving, according to the recently published “Inc. 500 list” from Inc. magazine which ranks the nation’s fastest growing private companies. Los Angeles ranked third in the nation with 42 companies on the list, just behind Washington, D.C. (50 companies) and New York (43 companies). The industries most represented [...]