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    Marketing executive and behaved citizen by day, unruly insomniac by night. A dash of mania, a sprinkle of wonder, combined with a heaping tablespoon of impulsiveness. Unwilling to follow the masses, longing for truth and meaning, having some fun along the way.

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    one of my recent favorite shots; a house on the island of Burano, Italy. See my portfolio here.

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    Another favorite recent shot from Burano. See my portfolio here.

A sort of blog from Ben Saren, a Marketing executive and behaved citizen by day, an unruly insomniac by night.

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New media entrepreneur, currently Vice President of Marketing at Litle & Co. Find out more on my LinkedIn profile.

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MARKETING EXECUTIVE AND BEHAVED CITIZEN BY DAY, UNRULY INSOMNIAC BY NIGHT.

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Ben is an entrepreneurial and innovative executive with 15 years of marketing, technology, and business development experience for B2B, B2C, and Internet businesses. Ben is currently Vice President of Marketing at Litle & Co., one of America’s fastest growing companies and a pioneer in e-commerce payment solutions and Payments Intelligence.

Ben is one of those rare individuals that you meet and just know will be successful. For nearly 10 years I have watched him take on numerous challenges with conviction, drive and integrity. His leadership and steadfast belief has been the driving force in the creation and success of CitySquares. It has been a pleasure to call him a colleague and friend.

Jason Pavona
Executive Vice President
Litle & Co.

Prior to joining Litle, Ben was Co-Founder and CEO of CitySquares.com, the pioneer in hyper-local search, with the backing of several of the world’s most recognized investors including Mark Cuban and Jonathan Kraft.

Known for disrupting and challenging the status quo, Ben has been covered from industry blogs to The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and Mass High Tech. He’s a frequent speaker on innovation, Payments Intelligence, Internet trends, and entrepreneurship and has presented at conferences ranging from Web 2.0, and Search Engine Strategies, to The Kelsey Group conferences, New England New Media Association, the Web Innovators Group. Ben regularly speaks about entrepreneurship at Boston area colleges and universities.

Prior to Litle & Co. and CitySquares, Ben ran an Internet and technology consulting group, serving Internet start-ups and multinational corporations, alike. He’s also held positions in IT and business development at start-ups such as Delphi.com, Prospero Technologies, and at multinationals such as Bell Atlantic, Digital Equipment Corporation, GE Capital, RSA, and Parametric Technologies Corporation.

 

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Creating a Trade Show Booth Experience

Posted on April 3rd, 2011 in Marketing with 2 Comments

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One of the projects my team just took on at Litle was revamping the trade show booths. Litle is at something like 25-30 shows this year, exhibiting at them. I was disappointed with how little information there is on the web on designing a trade show booth experience. Not designing the booth itself, that’s not hard, but the experience of the booth – how to really make it effective. I liken this to a casino floor, or a car lot. A trade show booth is more than just graphics, a table, some freebies, or booth babes. So we were left

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What is Mojo?

Posted on February 6th, 2011 in Concepts with 4 Comments

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What is this thing we call mojo? Well, Wikipedia says:

Mojo (pronounced /?mo?d?o?/) is a term commonly encountered in the African-American folk belief called hoodoo. A mojo is a type of magic charm, often of red flannel cloth and tied with a drawstring, containing botanical, zoological, and/or mineral curios, petition papers, and the like.[1] It is typically worn under clothing.

We all know when we say, “we have mojo” or “we need to find our mojo” we’re not talking about a magic charm, we’re talking about getting our groove on, our swerve on, etc. But … Read more

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Passion Renewed

Posted on January 21st, 2011 in Entrepreneurship with 5 Comments

Just as entrepreneurship requires unbridled enthusiasm, passion, and dare I say faith, so does a job. I know that may come as a surprise to some, because rarely do most of us wake up in the morning and spring out of bed with unbridled enthusiasm for going to their job. But success doesn’t come without it.

I recently started my new job (yes, a job) at Litle & Co., just north of Boston in Lowell. Litle employees a little less than 200 people. It’s a very innovative company that powers the payment processing for brands like Gilt Group, GoDaddy, … Read more

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