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Dean Mavrikos is the Channel Growth Manager at Kentico, a fully integrated digital experience platform (DXP). He started at the company as a Business Development Representative before becoming the Director of Business Development for North America, where he led hiring and training initiatives for a team of business development representatives. In 2023, Dean assumed the role of Channel Growth Manager, where he supports a diverse range of implementation partners throughout North America. Alongside his role at Kentico, Dean is actively involved in various industry initiatives and endeavors.

In this episode…

In competitive sales, success hinges on resilience, adaptability, and an unrelenting dedication to excellence. However, beyond performance pressures, how do personal and professional growth contribute to a fulfilling and successful career?

Sales and business development leader Dean Mavrikos acknowledges the significance of upholding a healthy lifestyle and mindset, even in the face of rejection. Prioritizing self-care and well-being enables him to stay focused and energized when confronting challenges. Rather than letting setbacks deter him, Dean views them as opportunities to refine his sales skills and enhance his approach. Through consistent refinement and adaptation, he has transformed rejection into resilience, emerging from each setback stronger and more determined than before.

In this recent episode of The Growth Fire Podcast with Kevin Hourigan, Dean Mavrikos, Channel Growth Manager at Kentico, shares insights on the intersection of personal and professional growth in leadership. Dean discusses his journey into sales, strategies for overcoming rejection, and the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and mindset for success. 

Join Virgil Carroll as he hashes over what has been one of the most over-talked about changes in global digital marketing in a very long time - the implementation of GDPR. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation rewrites the book on digital personal privacy and creates a new mandate for how organizations need to respect and protect individual’s data. While this topic has been talked about in a million different ways, today’s podcast offers a different angle. We focus on how difficult GDPR is to implement as part of your digital strategy while exposing some of the myths and overreactions around these new regulations. You might not think you should care about regulations from the European Union, but GDPR compliance is a huge step in the direction of showing your customers that their privacy really matters to you!

To help gain a better perspective on GDPR, Virgil is joined by David Komárek, the Content Management Product Owner at Kentico Software. David led the charge at his organization to make Kentico CMS software to be one of the first fully GDPR-compliant Content Management Software solutions on the market. During the discussion, David will share the complex journey Kentico had to take and what they learned about their own data practices as well as those of their customers. David recommends "First, try to learn as much as you can about GDPR . . . use somebody who is informed in GDPR and who can educate your internal staff . . . then look at the data and what you're doing with it". Virgil and David also discuss how to understand what is important to do in managing your customer’s privacy and give some good real-world advice on how to start your compliance journey.

Resources discussed:

• https://www.kentico.com/product/all-features/marketing/gdpr-and-data-protection - About Kentico’s GDPR readiness
• https://www.kentico.com/product/resources/whitepapers/gdpr-compliance-and-your-cms/gdpr-compliance-and-your-cms.pdf - Whitepaper on being GDPR compliant
• https://www.eugdpr.org/ - European Union GDPR regulations

On this episode two guests from Kentico, Bryan Soltis and Jim Panagas, joined host Craig Israel and Senior Director of Development Bruce Williams in the studio to discuss regulations data collection and storage and storage regulations, user privacy and technology’s impact on content. 

Check out the episode show notes to learn more. 

When it comes to choosing a Content Management System (CMS), businesses have to pick between many options that are available to help them achieve their business goals. At the end of the day, however, not all CMS platforms are created equal. Bryan Soltis, Technical Evangelist at Kentico Software, joined co-hosts Bruce Williams and Craig Israel in the thunder::cast studio to provide an overview of Kentico, a Content Management System that we partner with. During their conversation, Bryan shares why Kentico is a great option for businesses of all sizes. Marketed as an all-in-one solution, Kentico is an easy-to-use, customizable and user-friendly tool to help your company build an innovative website. Listen up and get familiar with this industry-leading platform.