193: Power mom that can teach you to brand your work through innovating, marketing, and consulting with Deedra Determan

D2 Branding was founded by Deedra Determan. Determan has 20+ years of marketing experience starting on the agency side at Ackerman McQueen Advertising Agency to 10 years in the television industry launching news at KOKI Fox 23 making it one of the top Fox affiliates in the country. She later consulted Clear Channel Television's stations across the country on marketing, promotions, advertising, social media, and website integration. Determan went on to launch niche websites for moms including 918moms.com, 405moms.com, and MoneySavingQueen.com with over 100,000 moms visiting the websites each month. One year after launching, she sold the websites to Griffin Communications. Determan then followed her true passion in launching D2 Branding, an innovative marketing firm igniting brands to be the market leader in their industry through marketing, public relations, social media, advertising, strategic partnerships, sales, website creation, search engine optimization, content creation, video production, graphic design, and more! Although Deedra likes to downplay it, but we have noticed her extreme competitiveness when it comes to being known as the most stylish member of the Thrive15 teamGOAL: A past goal of Deedra’s was to build and launch a site for moms. ACTION STEPS:In starting to accomplish this goal she hired a college person to build the website and then sat down to do something every day.QUOTES:“You have to have a game plan”“Seek out someone who knows”“You can have an idea all day long but you have to take action every day”RESOURCE LINKS:You can find her at Thrive15.comDeedra’s Facebook Deedra’s Twitter For more action steps and ways to learn how to take consistent and regular actions forward check out our "daily action steps for a champion” with me Anthony Witt tcepodcast.com/plan