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Marketing
Non-Profit Strategy
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Entrepreneurship
Strategic Management
Technology Marketing
Social Media Marketing
E-Commerce
Online Marketing
Political Marketing
B2B (business-to-business)
Business-to-Business Marketing
Biography
Ben Bentzin is a lecturer in the Department of Marketing and co-founder/CEO of Interactive Health Technologies, LLC, (www.ihtusa.com), an Austin company offering digital technologies for assessing physical fitness and motivating children and adults to self-manage their wellness. In his previous ten-year career as a Dell Inc. executive, Ben Bentzin had various responsibilities for marketing, product development and e-commerce, including heading marketing for Dell’s consumer/small business division, product marketing for Dell Dimension and Dell Latitude brand computers, and development of business to business e-commerce.
As a community leader, Ben serves on the board of Austin public radio stations KUT/KUTX and is an adult leader for Boy Scout Troop 990.
Ben Bentzin holds an M.B.A in marketing and strategic management from the Wharton School at the University Of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Finance from Arizona State University.
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Education (2)
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School: MBA., Marketing and Strategic Management 1992
Arizona State University - W.P. Carey School of Business: B.Sc., Finance 1989
Media Appearances (7)
Barton Creek, McCombs School, SXSW and more
Austin 360 online
2017-02-14
At the University of Texas McCombs School, former Dell executive and Long Center advocate Ben Bentzin teaches a high-powered course in marketing. He divides the class of 30 or so into teams who spend the semester figuring out how to promote a nonprofit or for-profit project.
Dollar signs: Texas businesses using emojis to draw more customers
Dallas Morning News online
2016-06-15
“It’s a language younger people use, and a good way to relate to people is to speak to them in their language,” said Ben Bentzin, a marketing professor at the University of Texas in Austin.
This startup wants to save you a trip to the gas station
Marketplace radio
2016-01-29
Ben Bentzin said sticking to denser areas is the key. “They’re going to have to think about how they can market this in a way that gets the attention of the customers they want — those who are in dense areas — without being too annoying to those who love the concept but can’t be served."
Is There Room For Another Fitness Tracker? Texas Firm Is Counting On It
NPR online
2015-11-27
Li's only advertising on social media. That's not a lot of reach, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, says Ben Bentzin. He studies the marketing of technology at the University of Texas. He says Li's plan will work if he generates buzz in a niche market.
Jeb Bush already a winner — when it comes to campaign logos
Dallas Morning News online
2015-06-19
Ben Bentzin, a marketing lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, said that eventually the logos of well-known and well-funded candidates will become emblematic of who they are and what they want to do. And the most effective logos incorporate the candidate’s name as a brand.
World at Your Fingertips
The Texas Economy online
2011-01-01
Ben Bentzin, a lecturer at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, says HomeAway’s business plan to think globally from the outset steered it toward success. “One of the big values for HomeAway is what’s called the network effect,” Bentzin says. “The more property that’s advertised on HomeAway, the more the value of HomeAway grows almost geometrically.”...
It’s Just Business
Austin Business Journal online
2008-11-30
Ben Bentzin, the president of the board and marketing lecturer in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, says that other than getting used to nonmonetary rewards, everything that applies to business applies to nonprofits. “The fundamentals of good business are the fundamentals of good nonprofits,” says Bentzin, who was the founding chairman of the Long Center for the Performing Arts.
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