The journey of building a successful and relevant company through  strong strategic decisions, working with the right people, and staying grounded...
Will Margiloff, CEO/Founder of IgnitionOne Inc. (an award-winning Customer Intelligence Platform enabling marketers to understand, value and engage with their customers in real-time) , joins Pavan Bahl and Marc Raco on location at the IgnitionOne Summit in New York.
In this episode:

A vision of the company eight years ago vs. now
Surroundng yourself wth people smarter than you
Keepng executives in touch wth client needs
Why being a C-Level person makes you a seller
Strategy vs. making it happen, having a lot of people believe in what you're dong
The nature of the word/name "Will", the nature of a successful entrepreneur
Selling a banner ad in 1995
Working in the invisible fence field
Gettng managerial experience as Internet became commercialized
Ended up buying a business, then exiting, and then buying it back
Two strategic acquisitions in 2007/2008 during financial crisis
Growing lke a weed by investing in downturn while others were trying to build back up
The anticlimactic way Margiloff found out about the sale the first time
Reflecting on how many millionaires he created
---and staying grounded
A lot of people at IgnitionOne that came from that first journey
You have to have people around whom you trust
Opening minds on certain topics, creating a summit in its seventh year, leading in digital overall
Education internally
Finding peace whle traveling
Leveraging calls whle exercising on a treadmill
Managing time better
Why traveling matters, if you only know how you do things you don’t know how anyone else does

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