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Dina Baker

A strategic marketing and communications leader in Fortune 50 to startup organizations, Dina applies her broad industry experience to accelerate the growth of new brands and complex brand families. A visionary leader, driver, collaborator, consensus builder, advisor, and mentor, she crafts exceptional design and develops high-performing, loyal teams aligned with strategy, structure, and growth. Excelling at digital and traditional marketing, creative execution; media and stakeholder relations; and internal and external communications, Dina balances near-term goals and long-term strategy with immersion in the mission, vision, and business objectives.

The Revenue-Ready Marketing Playbook, Part 2: In a Noisy Market, Make Clarity Your Competitive Edge

Tue, Apr 22, 2025 | Posted by Jyotsna Makkar

This is Part 2 of the Revenue-Ready Marketing Playbook, a 4-part series for mid-market CEOs who want marketing to move the needle.

A CEO once said to me, “We know our product delivers real value. Our customers are happy. But when we show up in the market, it feels like we’re saying the same thing as everyone else.”

That stuck with me, not just because it was honest, but because it’s common. In crowded markets, sounding the same is the fastest way to become invisible. Buyers tune out. Sales cycles drag. Margins shrink. And despite how strong your actual offering is, you keep getting boxed in as “just another option.”

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Listening with Eyes Wide Open: Harmonizing Voice-of-Customer and AI Insights for CEO Success

Wed, Feb 21, 2024 — In my experience, growth successes and challenges almost always have some foundation in voice-of-customer (VoC). That’s a sweeping statement, but as a CEO if you lack up-to-date insight into what your customers want and need, how they anticipate that changing, and how they think of your brand, your offerings, and your competition, you may be running your company with your hearing impaired. As someone who uses hearing aids, I know I need to wear them and look directly at a speaker, or I miss information and must make guesses to fill in the blanks. That invariably slows me down and leads to misunderstandings and errors.

New Year’s Resolutions for Businesses: Fine-tuning your appetite for growth

Tue, Jan 16, 2024 — Final in a 3-part series Oh, that resolution to exercise more and eat a healthier diet. It sounds so right—but incredibly daunting. Can I keep it up? When it comes to our own fitness, plenty of folks help us with tools, plans, and the mindset to climb that mountain. But we need to select the right ones, at the right price—or an intended investment in our future could instead be a wasted expense we can’t afford. And it couldn’t hurt to have an accountability partner who keeps us honest.

New Year’s Resolutions for Businesses: What self-work do you need to do?

Thu, Jan 11, 2024 — Second in a 3-part series Reflecting on Business Self-Improvement It’s a common question people are asking themselves in January: What’s the self-work I need to do this year to make myself healthier, happier, more financially secure.... But as a CEO obliged to your board, employees, and stakeholders, are you asking the same questions of your business?

New Year’s Resolutions for Businesses: Charting the Way Forward

Mon, Jan 8, 2024 — First in a 3-part series Reflecting on the Past and Setting the Stage for the Future It’s January. You’ve probably thought about New Year’s resolutions, even if only to decide firmly against them. January also is when my husband and I mark our birthdays. So, while we aren’t the formal resolution types, we are especially prone to take this time to think about the year behind, the year ahead, and where we want to be in the future.

Brand Confusion Won’t Work, Even if it’s Intentional

Fri, Jun 23, 2023 — On June 22, 2023, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about “the H-bomb,” which I learned refers to mentioning that you are a student at or an alumnus of Harvard University. Harvard College’s dean, in a Crimson (the campus newspaper) article where he was asked to give a word of advice to seniors, decided that the best use of this opportunity was to say “Don’t gratuitously drop the H-bomb.”

Beyond the Elevator Speech: Messaging that Truly Leverages Your Employee Brand Advocates

Wed, Oct 19, 2022 — Who is the most important brand ambassador at your company? Is it you, the CEO, whose job it is to motivate, inspire, and exude confidence in your company, its products, and its services? How about your business development team, whose sole purpose is to funnel new client lifeblood into your veins and arteries? Or is it the marketers, who toil to define and develop your brand and make it ready for prime time?

B2B Brand Positioning: How to Claim Your Company’s Land of Opportunity

Wed, Sep 14, 2022 — For more than 100 years, scientists and philosophers have been asserting that if a tree falls in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, then it does not make a sound. The lesson for marketers is resounding: If your brand is not resonating in its preferred landscape, it is likely that your most desired buyers will never be there to hear what you have to say.

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