{"id":3331,"date":"2021-06-30T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketingdirection.com\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2023-12-28T17:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T22:24:04","slug":"marketing-direction-receives-university-of-south-florida-fast-56-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/marketing-direction-receives-university-of-south-florida-fast-56-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing Direction Receives University of South Florida \u201cFast 56\u201d Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (June 29, 2021)\u2014<\/strong>Marketing Direction is proud to announce it has been selected as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usfalumni.org\/s\/861\/02-alumni\/index.aspx?sid=861&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=2218\">USF \u201cFast 56\u201d<\/a> Bull Businesses. The Fast 56 identifies, recognizes and celebrates the world\u2019s fastest-growing University of South Florida Bull-owned or led businesses.<\/p>\n<p>President and Founder of the St. Petersburg-based marketing company (as well as USF alum), Christy Vogel, said, \u201cEarning a spot on this prestigious list was a goal of mine back when I started Marketing Direction almost 12 years ago. I must admit in the early years I questioned if we\u2019d ever achieve it. But with the stellar team we now have in place, I should have never doubted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USF Fast 56 includes a wide variety of Bull-owned businesses including Aerospace &amp; Defense Engineering firm McCormick Stevenson, manufacturing company Jabil and logistics company BlueGrace Logistics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About Marketing Direction<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marketing Direction provides outsourced marketing experts to companies that can\u2019t justify the expense of a full-time marketing department. They provide their clients with a senior-level marketing professional who functions as a Lead Marketer to a team of marketing experts. They begin their long-term relationships with their clients with a proven process called the Marketing Direction Strategic Blueprint\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing Direction provides complete marketing resources from research and strategy to marketing plans, advertising, media buying, direct mail and public relations support for both digital and traditional marketing efforts. Among the firm\u2019s services are direct marketing, website design, search engine marketing, social media, creating and implementing webinars and workshops and developing sponsorship and partnership opportunities for its clients. For more information visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingdirection.com\/\">http:\/\/www.marketingdirection.com\/<\/a>\u00a0or call 888.495.4441.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (June 29, 2021)\u2014Marketing Direction is proud to announce it has been selected as one of the USF \u201cFast 56\u201d Bull Businesses. The Fast 56 identifies, recognizes and celebrates the world\u2019s fastest-growing University of South Florida Bull-owned or led businesses. President and Founder of the St. Petersburg-based marketing company (as well as USF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingdirection.com\/.website_ef101ba0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}