The largest gathering of social pros, period!
You’ll rub shoulders with the world’s top social media authorities when you attend Social Media Marketing World. Every speaker is hand recruited.
“All the greatest minds of social media from all around the world. I speak all over the world. This is the one I always look forward to every year,” said Mark Schaefer.
We have recruited the top marketing experts, thought leaders, influencers, and creators to be your instructors. You will never find a larger talent pool at one single event.
“Everyone is approachable, everyone is welcoming. We have people here who have built tremendous brands, six, seven, eight, nine figure businesses, and you can sit down and you can have a coffee with them,” said Roberto Blake.
Here’s a list of presenters who are spoke at Social Media Marketing World 2019. The 2020 lineup is coming soon, but expect all the top names to return.
Mari Smith: Mari is known as “the Queen of Facebook,” and one of the world’s foremost experts on Facebook marketing and social media. She’s a Forbes‘ Top Social Media Power Influencer, author of The New Relationship Marketing, and co-author of Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day. Mari is an in-demand speaker and Facebook Partner who has taught business owners at live Facebook events across the US. Her agency provides consulting and training on Facebook marketing best practices for SMBs and brands.
Jay Baer: Jay helps businesses clone their customers. He is a 7th generation entrepreneur, has written 6 best-selling books, and has founded five multi-million dollar companies. He is the President of Convince & Convert, a consulting firm that works with the world’s most iconic brands gain and keep more customers. A recent inductee into the Professional Speaking Hall of Fame, he’s also an avid tequila collector, and a certified barbecue judge.
Amy Porterfield: Amy Porterfield is an online marketing expert and the host of the top-ranked podcast, Online Marketing Made Easy. She’s worked with mega brands like Harley-Davidson and Peak Performance Coach, Tony Robbins, where she oversaw the content team and collaborated on ground-breaking online marketing campaigns. Through her bestselling digital courses and popular podcast, Amy’s action-by-action approach proves that even the newest online entrepreneurs can bypass the overwhelm, and instead generate exciting momentum as they build a business they love.
Michael Stelzner: Michael is the founder of Social Media Examiner, author of the books Launch and Writing White Papers, and the man behind Social Media Marketing World–the industry’s largest conference. He’s also host of the Social Media Marketing podcast, founder of the Social Media Marketing Society, and the central character in The Journey, an episodic documentary.
Joel Comm (live stage host): Joel is a New York Times bestselling author, blockchain enthusiast, social media marketing strategist, live video expert, technologist, brand influencer, futurist and eternal 12-year old. With over two decades of experience in publishing, social media, and mobile applications to expand reach and engage in active relationship marketing, Joel leaves audiences inspired, entertained, and armed tools to create highly effective new media campaigns. He is co-host of The Bad Crypto Podcast, a top cryptocurrency show making the future of digital payments easy to understand.
Sunny Lenarduzzi (live stage host): Touted as a “marketing master” by Entrepreneur.com, Sunny is a leader in the video marketing field. From developing a series for Hootsuite that increased subscriptions by 75% to hitting 1 billion impressions in 1 day on a live-streaming campaign with Applebees, Lenarduzzi knows how to create content that works. Through 1-on-1 programs, Sunny and her team have helped clients generate over $5 million in revenue directly from YouTube content.
Mark W. Schaefer: Mark is a globally-recognized author, speaker, podcaster, and business consultant who blogs at {grow} — one of the top five marketing blogs of the world. He teaches graduate marketing classes at Rutgers University and has written six best-selling books including his new book KNOWN: The Handbook for Building and Unleashing Your Brand in The Digital Age. His many global clients include Pfizer, Cisco, Dell, Adidas, and the US Air Force. A frequent keynote speaker, Mark has appeared as a guest on media channels such as CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and CBS News.
Brian Solis: Brian is principal analyst and futurist at Altimeter, the digital analyst group at Prophet and has been called one of the greatest digital analysts of our time by CMOs and CEOs of top brands. Additionally, Brian is an award-winning author of seven best-selling books including X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, What’s the Future of Business (WTF) and The End of Business as Usual. Brian is also a world-renowned keynote speaker and digital anthropologist. He studies disruptive technology and its impact on business and society. In his work, he humanizes trends to help people understand how the world is changing, why and what to do about it. His current research explores digital transformation, corporate innovation, experience design, culture 2.0 and the future of industries, trends and behavior. With a loyal online audience of over 600,000 people online, his work makes him a sought-after thought-leader to leading brands, celebrities and startups.
Peg Fitzpatrick: Peg is the co-author of the best-selling book The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users and beloved blogger. She has spearheaded successful social media campaigns for Virgin, Audi, Mercedes, Google, and Motorola as well as brand ambassadorships for Adobe, Nestle, and Kimpton Hotels. She works in the trenches of social marketing with global brands every day. Peg’s worked directly with the teams at Pinterest, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn.
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Jon Loomer: Jon is a Facebook marketing coach, author, speaker and strategist. He became an early user of Facebook for business purposes while working for the National Basketball Association in 2007. Jon launched Jon Loomer Digital in late 2011, and in little more than a year established JonLoomer.com as well as his Facebook Page as go-to resources for Facebook marketing research, guides and tutorials.
Viveka von Rosen: Viveka is co-founder of Vengreso, the world’s largest full-spectrum social selling provider. Known as the @LinkedInExpert, she’s the author of the best-selling LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day and LinkedIn: 101 Ways to Rock Your Personal Brand.
Marcus Sheridan: Marcus has been called a “web marketing guru” by The New York Times. The story of how Marcus was able to save his swimming pool company, River Pools, from the economic crash of 2008 has been featured in multiple books, publications, and stories around the world. Marcus has become a highly sought-after global speaker and consultant in the digital sales and marketing space, working with hundreds of businesses and brands to become a trusted voice in the industry.
Sue B. Zimmerman: Sue B. Zimmerman is a social media educator, energetic speaker, and in-demand business coach. Her blog was ranked as one of the Top 10 Social Media Blogs in 2017 by Social Media Examiner. She’s also a popular CreativeLive instructor who Huffington Post named one of the Top 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs in 2017. Whether she’s on stage or working with her clients, Sue B. Zimmerman is driven to help business owners leverage the power of Instagram to meet (and exceed) their goals.
Chalene Johnson: New York Times best-selling author of Push, Chalene is a lifestyle and business expert, motivational speaker, and podcast host. She and Bret, her husband of over twenty years, are the founders of the SmartLife movement. Today, with her husband, Chalene runs a fun loving, collaborative team focused on helping others live a healthier, more simplified life through their online academies, membership sites, and live, sold-out seminars.
Andrea Vahl: Andrea is a social media coach, speaker, and strategist and is co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies. She is the co-founder of Social Media Manager School and loves to spend all day running Facebook ad campaigns. She is also a stand-up comedienne in her spare time.
Amanda Bond: Amanda Bond is owner of The Ad Strategist and the creator of The StrADedy System. Entrepreneur Magazine calls her a “Facebook advertising genius” due to her unique mix of creativity and her vast analytical experience—from analyzing hundreds of millions of client ad impressions. A fiery personality, Bond mixes education and entertainment in a straight shooting way to show people the right way to do Facebook advertising.
Ann Handley: Digital marketing pioneer, writer, speaker Ann inspires and instructs businesses how to create ridiculously good marketing that delivers real-world results. IBM named her one of 7 people changing modern marketing. Ann is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author of two books, including Everybody Writes and Content Rules. She is the chief content officer of MarketingProfs, a LinkedIn Influencer, and an E.B. White superfan. Ann lives in Boston, where she works out of her backyard Tiny House.
Leslie Samuel: Leslie is the creator of Become A Blogger and host of the Blogging with Leslie podcast, where he teaches the craft of professional blogging. Leslie’s mission is “Changing the world one blog at a time.” He is a former university professor and has a passion for education. As the head of training for the Social Media Marketing Society, he ensures social media marketers get the training they need to stay on the leading edge of the industry.
Tim Schmoyer: Since 2011, Tim Schmoyer has been one of the leading YouTube strategists in the online video industry. His company, Video Creators, has been featured by FOX, Forbes, BBC even YouTube themselves as his team trains creators and brands to master YouTube and use it as a place to spread messages that change lives. Their clients have organically grown by over 14 billion views and 61 millions subscribers under their guidance. Today he lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife and seven children.
Daniel Harmon: Daniel is co-founder and chief creative officer at Harmon Brothers. He creative directed and helped write hit ad campaigns for Squatty Potty (300 million views), Purple (400 million views), Chatbooks (100 million views), and FiberFix (50 million views), and he helped creative direct Poo~Pourri’s “Girl’s Don’t Poop” (50 million views). Harmon Brothers’ campaigns have helped drive over $300 million in sales. Daniel is married and has six kids—his greatest accomplishments.
Zach King: Zach is an online filmmaker personality with a combined following of over 40 million across all online platforms. Zach started out making short special-effects videos on Vine and quickly expanded his following to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Musical.ly. He competed on Season 28 of The Amazing Race and recently launched a groundbreaking series of Augmented Reality children’s books. He continues to expand his influence to other platforms, collaborating with top companies such as AT&T, Disney Animation, and Universal Studios.
Molly Pittman: Molly is the co-founder of DigitalStrategyBootCamps.com. Molly started as an intern at DigitalMarketer and excelled to the position of VP of Marketing in less than 5 years. Her podcast, Perpetual Traffic, has been downloaded over 3M times and sometimes ranks #1 in Business & Marketing :). Molly has personally spent over $10M+ on paid traffic channels like Facebook, Google, and Twitter while still maintaining a positive return on ad spend.
Luria Petrucci: Let’s make YOU a live streaming pro! Luria helps you create professional live streams that put you a notch above what everyone else is doing and sets your brand apart. Over 11 years, Luria has created over 4,000 videos with over 1 billion views using video and live streaming shows. She’s appeared on CNN, NBC, FOX, NBC, MSNBC, ABC and BBC. She’s worked on live video for top brands like AT&T, Samsung, GoDaddy, and Panasonic. And top influencers like Amy Porterfield, Pat Flynn and Michael Hyatt.
Derral Eves: As a highly respected video marketing strategist, Derral has been on YouTube since 2005. He has helped over 21 channels go from zero to over a million subscribers each, generating over 34 billion video views and counting. Derral has been the executive producer on several viral video campaigns, including Squatty Potty’s ice cream pooping unicorn ad. Derral’s own YouTube channel is the largest “How To” channel in the world.
Roberto Blake: Roberto is a creative entrepreneur with a background in visual branding, content marketing and advertising. With over 1000 videos of education based content on YouTube he has built a following of over 200,000 and his work has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and Huffington Post. He is the owner of Create Awesome Media, a digital agency focused on video marketing and content strategy. Roberto is also the host of the Create Something Awesome Today Podcast, which focuses on educating and empowering creative professionals.
Steve Dotto: Steve spent 15 years as host and executive producer of Dotto Tech, a nationally syndicated TV show. Labeled “Canada’s most respected geek”, Steve has entertained and educated millions of Canadians on all aspects of technology. YouTube is Steve’s new network of choice, where he serves two communities, a traditional “How To and Productivity” stream, which follows his TV tradition, and a new focus on learning the keys to growing and ultimately monetizing a YouTube channel.
Madalyn Sklar: Madalyn is a leading Twitter marketing expert who’s ranked the #1 social media influencer in Houston. Each week she hosts the #TwitterSmarter chat that brings people together in an active one-hour discussion. Since launching three years ago it has reached over 6 billion impressions. Madalyn also hosts the #TwitterSmarter podcast, the weekly #SocialROI chat that’s presented by ManageFlitter, and co-hosts the weekly Communities That Convert podcast with Kami Huyse.
Donna Moritz: Donna is an Australian visual content strategist and founder of the award-winning blog, Socially Sorted, consistently listed as a leading global social media blog. She helps brands leverage the power of visual storytelling and content strategy in their business. Donna is a sought-after speaker and trainer in the marketing and tourism industries internationally and her content has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Social Media Examiner.
Christopher Penn: Christopher is the vice president of marketing technology at SHIFT Communications, a public relations firm, as well as the co-founder of PodCamp New Media Community Conference, and co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee podcast. He is an adjunct professor of Internet marketing and the lead subject matter expert and professor of Advanced Social Media at the University of San Francisco. He’s also the co-author of Marketing Blue Belt: From Data Zero to Marketing Hero.
Jenn Herman: Jenn Herman is a social media consultant, speaker, and globally recognized Instagram expert. She is the forefront blogger on Instagram marketing. Jenn provides tips, resources, and training for small to medium-sized businesses that need to structure their social media strategies. Jenn has been featured in Inc., Fox News, Yahoo Finance, HuffPost, The Verge, CBS Radio LA, and numerous other podcasts and publications. She is the author of Instagram for Business for Dummies, among other publications.
Bryan Kramer: Bryan is the president and CEO of PureMatter a content, social and digital marketing agency, and one of the fastest growing private companies in Silicon Valley. He is the author of the book, Shareology, and is one of the world’s foremost leaders in the art and science of sharing, and uses his knowledge as a global keynote speaker and strategist who consults Fortune 500 clients such as IBM, Cisco and Pitney Bowes.
Jasmine Star: Jasmine is an internationally recognized photographer, who dropped out of law school, picked up a camera and pursued her dreams. She built a worldwide brand from scratch and leveraged Instagram to build a six-figure business in her first year. Jasmine empowers entrepreneurs to build a brand and market it on social media.
Lou Mongello: Lou is a former attorney who left the practice to pursue his passion, and is now a recognized Disney expert, author, entrepreneur, and host of WDW Radio, an award-winning podcast (once ranked #2 overall on iTunes and named Best Travel Podcast for 9 consecutive years) about the Disney Parks. Lou provides mentoring, consulting, and workshops to individuals and organizations looking to build their businesses and brands. Foundation of America.
Rebekah Radice: Rebekah is the founder of RadiantLA, a digital marketing training and development company, international keynote speaker, creator of the PREP Performance Method, and the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth. With over 20 years experience, Rebekah has trained thousands of growth-driven leaders on her PREP Performance Method. Through this process, entrepreneurs to enterprise get the skills, systems, and processes necessary to improve social media engagement, generate quality leads, turn conversation into conversions, and increase revenue.
Park Howell: Park is a storytelling expert with 30 years of advertising experience who has run his own agency for 20 years. He is the founder of the Business of Story, a proven platform to help businesses achieve epic growth for their enterprise and people. His weekly podcast features story artists from around the world who help listeners craft and tell compelling brand stories that sell. Park teaches international executives how to advance their social initiatives through storytelling at the Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership program at Arizona State University.
Cathy Hackl: Cathy is an Emmy-nominated communicator turned virtual reality & augmented reality global speaker, producer, and futurist. LinkedIn recently named her the #4 Top Voice in Technology globally on the platform in 2018. She’s a Lead Futurist at You Are Here Immersive Labs, one of the Southeast’s most prominent XR labs. She is also the author of Marketing New Realities: An Introduction to VR & AR Marketing, Branding & Communications.
Ian Cleary: Ian is the founder of RazorSocial, a writer for Forbes, an instructor at Rutgers University, and co-author of Digital Marketing Growth Hacks. He has the unusual mix of strong technology and strong marketing skills. Content marketing is an area he’s passionate about and he loves working with brands to drive improved results from content. When he’s not at the office in his home country of Ireland, he can be found on stage at some of the top marketing conferences around the world.
Alisa Meredith: Alisa is a sought-after speaker and teacher on the topics of Pinterest and Promoted Pins in particular, having spoken at Social Media Marketing World (this is year three!), Agents of Change, and appeared on The Art of Paid Traffic and Social Pros podcasts. She lives in coastal North Carolina with her pampered pups Spike (who only eats eggs and Spam), Pepe the couch potato Cavapoo, and more cats than she’d like to admit to.
Kate Ahl: Kate is the owner of Simple Pin Media, a Pinterest management company and hosts the weekly Simple Pin podcast. She has a passion for helping business owners grow their business using Pinterest. Kate aims to teach actionable, simple steps that help business owners move forward successfully instead of feeling overwhelmed.
Dennis Yu: Dennis is the chief technology officer of BlitzMetrics, a digital marketing company that offers clients top-notch analytics on all major social networks. He’s an internationally recognized lecturer in Facebook marketing and has spoken in 17 countries. Dennis has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, LA Times, National Public Radio, TechCrunch, Fox News, CBS Evening News and is co-author of Facebook Nation – a textbook taught in over 700 colleges and universities.
Rick Mulready: Rick is an industry-leading authority on simplifying online marketing and Facebook ads for entrepreneurs and small businesses. He’s the host of The Art of Paid Traffic podcast. With 12 years corporate Internet advertising experience, Rick has worked with AOL, Yahoo!, Funny or Die and Vibrant Media where he sold and managed online ad campaigns for some of the largest brands in the world. In addition to creating industry-leading training courses, Rick consults with entrepreneurs and businesses on their Facebook advertising and marketing strategy.
Annie Cushing: Annie is the founder of Annielytics.com. She lives for data. By day she gathers it and makes it runway ready. By night she dreams about her next vis fix. The only thing that thrills her as much as getting knee deep in data is teaching other marketers how to sexy up their data. And when she’s not knee deep in data, she’s usually in a dragon boat somewhere.
Jeff Sieh: Jeff is owner and creative director at His Design, Inc. where he has worked to help clients market themselves in the best way possible using a variety of mediums for over 14 years. He is also “Head Beard” at Manly Pinterest Tips where he is the creator and host of The Manly Pinterest Tip Show. With top tips, comedy, storytelling, and just plain fun, Jeff teaches Pinterest techniques unlike any other. Jeff is also on the social team at Social Media Examiner and manages their Pinterest and Instagram accounts. Visit www.manlypinteresttips.com where Jeff explores visual marketing with character as big as his beard.
Ian Anderson Gray: Ian is a confident live video marketing coach and founder of the Confident Live Marketing Academy. He’s an international speaker and blogs and live streams at Seriously Social. Ian helps business owners & entrepreneurs to level up their impact, authority, and profits confidently using Live Videos. As well as being a geek, husband, and dad to two kids, Ian’s also a professional singer and lives near Manchester in the UK.
Andy Crestodina: Andy is a co-founder of Orbit Media, an award-winning, 38-person web design company in Chicago. Over the past 18 years, Andy has provided web strategy and marketing advice to more than 1000 businesses. Andy teaches marketing and has written hundreds of articles on topics like analytics, content strategy, email marketing, search optimization and social media. He is also the author of Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing.
AJ Wilcox: AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads pro who founded B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific ad agency, in 2014. As official LinkedIn partners, they manage the world’s most sophisticated advertising accounts worldwide. He’s a ginger and triathlete. He and his wife live in Utah with their 4 kids and his company car is a wicked-fast gokart.
Justin Brown: Justin is a Netflix-featured producer and video marketing specialist helping entrepreneurs leverage the power of online video to build and scale their businesses. After 20+ years in professional video with top-level credits on international film, documentary, and extreme sports productions, Justin created the Primal Video YouTube channel, growing it to a multi-six figure automation-driven online business. Together with his brother Mike, he now teaches their systems for creating quality videos, growing a targeted audience and monetizing your influence at PrimalVideo.com.
Andrew Pickering: Andrew is one half of ‘Andrew and Pete’ – the fun content marketing duo who help businesses and brands get faster results from their content. They have a weekly YouTube show called Marketing Unboringed, run the UK’s leading content marketing membership community, called ATOMIC, and are winners of the ‘Digital and Social Media Company of the Year Award’, and ‘Business Personality of the Year Award’. They are authors of ‘The Hippo Campus’ and ‘Content Mavericks’ and host one of the UK’s largest digital marketing conference, ATOMICON.
Peter Gartland: Pete is one half of ‘Andrew and Pete’ – the fun content marketing duo who help businesses and brands get faster results from their content. They have a weekly YouTube show called Marketing Unboringed, run the UK’s leading content marketing membership community, called ATOMIC, and are winners of the ‘Digital and Social Media Company of the Year Award’, and ‘Business Personality of the Year Award’. They are authors of ‘The Hippo Campus’ and ‘Content Mavericks’ and host one of the UK’s largest digital marketing conference, ATOMICON.
Branden Harvey: Branden is a storyteller focused on the good in the world. He’s the host of the podcast Sounds Good, the creator of the Goodnewspaper, a printed newspaper full of good news, and has built an online community over more than 250,000 world changers. He’s helped brands like Disney, Square, Southwest Airlines, and (RED) tell meaningful stories with heart all over the world. He’s been written about and featured by media including The Washington Post, Seventeen Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and Mashable.
Shep Hyken: Shep is the chief amazement officer of Shepard Presentations, New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement. Recognized as one of the leading experts in customer service and experience, Shep works with companies to build loyal relations with their customers and employees. He is the author of numerous books including The Amazement Revolution, Amaze Every Customer Every Time, and The Convenience Revolution.
Nicholas Kusmich: Nicholas is an international speaker, founder of the H2H Media Group and the Marketers Council, and creator of The Art Of Lead Generation. He is best known as a leading Facebook advertising strategist and for having the highest ROI’s in the industry (up to 30, 973.32%). He works with A-List clients including top thought-leaders, NYT best-selling authors, Top Inc 500 and fast growth companies creating advertising campaigns that allow you to scale your business at will.
Chris Mercer: Chris (aka “Mercer”), the co-founder of MeasurementMarketing.io, is a sought-after measurement marketing expert. He has been helping marketers, marketing teams, and agencies, plan out what’s important to measure in their marketing, build measurement systems (using Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics), create actionable dashboards, and use those dashboards to forecast and optimize their marketing results. In short, Mercer helps marketers know, trust, and grow their numbers.
Chris Dayley: Chris is a digital marketing entrepreneur, speaker, and neuromarketer who gets excited about helping businesses learn what their users want on their website, using psychology-based testing and analytics. He started his Conversion Optimization agency Dayley Conversion in 2014, which he later merged with Disruptive Advertising, where he currently works as VP of site testing and optimization.
Shaun Ayala: Shaun leads the marketing strategy and specialty division creative team at Best Buy. He is an award-winning Snapchat storyteller, widely recognized for his interactive and engaging Snapchat games and the host of the weekly show, This Week: Snap News. He has partnered with popular brands including FOX, Paramount Pictures, and NFL Chargers to create interactive Snapchat stories. Shaun was featured in New York Magazine, recognized as a Snapchat star, and named one of the top 101 Snapchat accounts to follow.
Alex Khan: Alex is Germany´s most followed social media coach and has worked with Red Bull, Microsoft, and Lufthansa. During Periscope’s official launch, Alex started a case study using Periscope and social media to build his personal brand (AlexKhan.tv). Within a year, he had 400,000 followers and Huffington Post named him one of the Top 10 Live Video Influencers. His hashtag #WeKhan registered 100 million impressions within the first three months.
Jessika Phillips: Jessika is a social media strategist and founded NOW Marketing Group in 2010 with only a laptop and a vision. The company is now a Forbes recognized Agency Partner and a certified inbound partner with Hubspot. NOW Marketing Group works with more than 100 clients across United States and beyond, choosing to serve – not sell. Jessika also teaches comprehensive relationship marketing, presents in a weekly videocast “Magnet Marketers” and hosts one of the largest social media Midwest conferences, Social Media Week Lima.
Duncan Wardle: Having worked for Disney for 25 years, most recently as head of innovation & creativity, Duncan now serves as an independent innovation and design thinking consultant, helping companies embed a culture of innovation and creativity access their organizations. He is a multiple TEDx speaker and contributes to Fast Company. Duncan also holds the “Outstanding American Citizen Award” presented at the White House, an Hons. Doctorate from Edinburgh University, and the Duke Edinburgh Award, presented by Her Majesty the Queen.
Nicky Kriel: Award-winning Nicky Kriel is one of the UK’s top social media influencers. She is an internationally recognized trainer, speaker and consultant and is the author of How to Twitter for Business Success and Converting Conversations to Customers. She is passionate about inspiring and empowering businesses to use social media to grow. She believes that Twitter is an essential element of any social media strategy.
Andrew Warner: Andrew was one of the pioneers of the Internet startup scene. The online greeting card company he started in 1997 grew into a $35+ million per year (revenue) business. He followed it up by creating Grab.com, an online contest site offering the world’s first billion jackpot, which was backed by Warren Buffett. After selling those companies he launched his podcast, Mixergy, where he interviews other founders about how they built their companies. It features founders of Airbnb, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Pixar and over a thousand other fascinating start-ups.
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Mike Kim: Mike ditched his comfy C-suite marketing job in pursuit of career freedom. He now hosts the #1 ranked podcast on personal branding in iTunes, The Brand You Podcast, and helps brands clarify their message. Mike has crafted the messages and marketing campaigns for some of today’s top thought leadership brands including Donald Miller, Suzanne Evans, and Catalyst Leadership. You can read his blog at mikekim.com.
Brian Fanzo: Brian inspires, motivates, and educates businesses on how to leverage emerging technologies and digital marketing to standout from the noise and reach the millennial and generation z consumers. He is the founder of iSocialFanz which has helped launch digital and influencer strategies with the world’s most iconic brands like Dell EMC, Adobe, IBM, UFC, Applebee’s and SAP. A proud pager-wearing millennial and dad of three girls, Brian hosts two podcasts FOMOFanz and SMACtalk.
Molly Mahoney: Known across the net as The Prepared Performer, Molly is a master at helping entrepreneurs and artists up their visibility and online presence by leveraging the newest and most powerful features Facebook has to offer. Molly shares her vast expertise from running highly converting ads, to hosting Facebook Live broadcasts, to creating Facebook Messenger bots that serve clients and customers in a uniquely authentic way.
Susan Wenograd: Susan is a Facebook ads expert who specializes in Facebook ad funnels. She’s also a consultant and regular speaker on Facebook ads. She helps businesses setup funnels, manage Facebook advertising campaigns, perform paid media audits.
Rich Brooks: Rich runs flyte new media, an award winning digital agency. His new book, The Lead Machine: The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing is based on his 20 years of experience leading that company. He is also founder of The Agents of Change, an annual conference and weekly podcast that focuses on search, social and mobile marketing. As the “tech guru” on the evening news program, 207, he breaks down all things digital for the NBC affiliates in Maine.
Amy Landino: Amy is the award-winning host of AmyTV, a YouTube series dedicated to helping women go after the life they want. With more than 12 million views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers, she is a leading authority on digital attention. Author of the best-selling book Vlog Like a Boss, Amy also cofounded Aftermarq, a content innovation studio that provides strategy for brands who want to grab the attention of those who matter to their mission.
Brett Curry: Brett is the CEO of OMG Commerce an eCommerce marketing agency and Google Premier Partner. Brett started his first marketing agency in 2003 and launched his first search engine marketing campaign in 2004. Brett is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Google Shopping published by Shopify. He is also the host of the eCommerce Evolution Podcast highlighting what’s new and what’s next in eCommerce.
Tyler J. MCall: Tyler believes in the power of stories and relationships for creating communities and moving people to action. As a go-to Instagram marketing strategist for creatives and online business owners, Tyler empowers others to show up online in a genuine and intentional way so they can grow their business and grow their impact.
John Nemo: John is an online course creator and the bestselling author of LinkedIn Riches: How To Use LinkedIn For Business, Sales & Marketing! John has rewritten and optimized LinkedIn profiles for business and social media marketing influencers including Chris Brogan, Mari Smith, John Lee Dumas, and many others. John’s work has been featured by Social Media Examiner, Inc. Magazine, American City Business Journals, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, LinkedIn’s official marketing blog, and many other publications.
Mary Kathryn Johnson: Mary has been nicknamed the “ChatBotMom” by the Messenger marketing community because of her infectious energy and passion for chatbots. Her innovative use of conversational marketing techniques has helped her clients sell millions in products and services, and her client successes were cited by Entrepreneur.com as examples of how to grow revenue using chatbots.
Dana Tran: Dana is a digital coach and bot expert, who is passionate about teaching others how to build interactive and personalized Messenger Bot experiences. She writes about bots at ThinkTuitive.com and is a contributor for Social Media Examiner. She’s also the co-founder of CodelessBot.com, a collection of plugins and templates to help non-techies enhance their existing Messenger Bot.
Caitlin Bacher: Caitlin is a leading expert on building meaningful online communities that change the world. She helps online course creators and coaches build wildly engaged and profitable Facebook groups inside her signature course, The Fab FB Group System. She is the host of two free Facebook groups: #SOCIALBOSS, which helps over 35,000 entrepreneurs start and grow a profitable FB group, and The Successful Course Creator, which helps course creators scale their business to 7 figures and beyond.
Bruce Irving: Bruce Irving is the marketing visionary behind SmartPizzaMarketing.com and host of the weekly Smart Pizza Marketing podcast. On his podcasts, he interviews the leading minds of the pizza and restaurant industry. Bruce is a top marketing consultant, a former pizzeria owner and now runs Smart Pizza Marketing, a full-service digital agency designed and created specifically to help local business owners get more customers.
Ben Beck: Ben loves working at the intersection of technology and marketing. In addition to researching marketing technology to identify new best practices, he also enjoys building chatbots and working with a breadth of marketing tools, such as Marketo, Hubspot, SalesForce, ManyChat and Optimizely. Despite his near addiction to marketing tech, he also loves to get away from it all and spend time in the outdoors with his wife and two boys.
Azriel Ratz: Through his years of experience in online marketing Azriel has perfected his strategy for companies to find their ideal audiences and create the most relevant ads for their businesses. The long-term success of these Facebook campaigns earns an average return of five times the ad costs.
Chris Ducker: A serial entrepreneur and author of the bestsellers, Virtual Freedom and Rise of the Youpreneur, Chris owns and operates several businesses that house over 350 full-time employees internationally. He’s also a trusted international business mentor, keynote speaker, podcaster, blogger, as well as the founder of Youpreneur.com – the world’s number one personal brand business education company, as well as being the self-proclaimed ‘Proudest Brit’ doing business online.
Dan Gingiss: Dan is the author of Winning at Social Customer Care: How Top Brands Create Engaging Experiences on Social Media and the co-host of the Experience This! podcast. Dan’s career has spanned 20 years in multiple disciplines including marketing, social media, customer experience, and digital design. He has led social media efforts at three Fortune 300 companies – Discover, Humana, and McDonald’s. He is a die-hard Cubs fan and a pinball wizard.
Cate Stillman: Cate is the author of Body Thrive and Master of You. She is a leader in the field of Ayurveda, peak performance, and habits, as well as a global community builder and podcaster with 2 million downloads. Cate founded Yogahealer.com in 2001, a $1.5 million a year business that she runs with her remote team of 10 contractors and 40 workstudies so she can ski, surf and run rivers with her family in the Tetons and Mexico.
Jennifer Watson: Jennifer is an Emmy-winning meteorologist, speaker, podcaster, and social media specialist at The Weather Channel. She co-manages The Weather Channel’s social pages, posting forecasts and breaking weather information. She works on a variety of social media campaigns for the company, including the successful launch of their Facebook Live strategy, which has opened new avenues for fan growth, engagement, and brand awareness. She has been featured in Chief Content Marketer Magazine, along with several podcasts including FOMOFanz, Social Media Social Hour and WeatherBrains to name a few.
Pat Flynn: Pat is a father, husband, and entrepreneur who lives and works in San Diego. He owns several successful online businesses and is a professional blogger, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and host of the Smart Passive Income and AskPat podcasts, which have earned a combined total of over 55 million downloads, multiple awards, and features in The New York Times and Forbes. He is also an advisor to ConvertKit, LeadPages, and Teachable.
Cliff Ravenscraft: For more than a decade, Cliff had been known as the Podcast Answer Man. He’s trained tens of thousands of individuals how to successfully launch an audio podcast. Today, Cliff is a business and life coach. He mentors coaches, consultants and thought leaders through the transition from their unfulfilling day job to their own responsible and profitable online business so that they can live the life of their dreams and do the work they feel most called to do in this world.
Carlos Gil: Carlos is an award-winning digital storyteller with over a decade of experience leading social media strategy for LinkedIn, Winn-Dixie, Save-A-Lot, and BMC Software. Presently, Carlos is the CEO and founder of Gil Media Co., a full-service marketing firm based in Los Angeles, California which works with Fortune 500 clients including DocuSign, Western Union, and Keller Williams as well as Social Media Career Academy, a consultancy for enterprise-level brands and online course platform.
Dana Malstaff: Dana is the founder of Boss Mom LLC. She launched the brand in 2016 with the Boss Mom Podcast and her first book Boss Mom. With a Facebook group community of over 33,000 people and 20,000 students, Dana helps women all over the world lose the guilt and build sustainable online businesses. She believes we need to show our children that doing what we love can be financially viable.
Neal Schaffer: Neal is a leading authority on digital transformation. He consults and trains businesses on social media marketing strategy, influencer marketing, and social selling initiatives. As president of the social media agency, PDCA Social, Neal teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute in Ireland, and the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. Neal is the author of Maximize Your Social. His upcoming book, The Business of Influence, covers how businesses can leverage the potential of influencer marketing.
Megan Conley: Megan is a digital marketing expert and the CEO and founder of Social Tribe, a social engagement agency that builds and delivers leading-edge social, content and influencer programs for enterprise brands. Since opening its doors in 2009, Social Tribe has worked with global businesses such as SAP, Micron Technology, Panera Bread and America’s Best Racing, driving measurable business impact and real-world results.
Melanie Deziel: Melanie is a keynote speaker, award-winning branded content strategist and founder of StoryFuel. She is on the board of the Native Advertising Institute and travels the world teaching branded content strategy. Melanie was the first editor of branded content at The New York Times and wrote the “Women Inmates” piece for Netflix, which won the OMMA for Best Native Advertising in 2014.
Steve Chou: Steve is the founder of MyWifeQuitHerJob.com, a blog that reaches millions of readers interested in ecommerce and selling physical products online. He also runs a top business podcast of the same name with over a million downloads, a popular online training course with thousands of students and an annual conference specially catering to ecommerce entrepreneurs called The Sellers Summit.
Natasha Takahashi: Natasha is the chief marketing officer and co-founder of School of Bots and the host of the popular show, There’s a Bot for That. She co-founded School of Bots in 2017 to serve the need for bot education and it has grown to be one of the leading chatbot education brands, teaching 3,500+ people in 30+ countries around the world. Their unique approach to chatbots consists of scaling marketing, sales, and operations efforts with automation and intimacy. Natasha’s marketing agency has built 90+ chatbots for brands and influencers.
Bella Vasta: Bella is the author of the book, The Four Types of Dogs Every Business Needs and a podcast host of the long-standing show, Bella In Your Business. She is an authority on building Facebook groups and Bella has helped grow all types of businesses from multi-million-dollar corporations to mom and pops, with a unique understanding in all stages. She has been featured in Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, ABC, NBC, FOX.
Dan Shure: Dan is an SEO consultant and co-owner of Evolving SEO with his wife Sarah. As a consultant, he has helped companies like WGBH (Boston’s NPR), Sumo, and more grow traffic up to 20x. His popular, entirely self-produced SEO Podcast Exports on the Wire has amassed almost a half a million downloads since launching in 2016. Dan’s SEO articles and interviews have appeared in publications such as The Next Web, Drift.com, Moz and Entrepreneurs on Fire.
Mike Rhodes: Mike is the co-author of the best-selling book on Google Ads, The Ultimate Guide to Google Adwords, and the CEO and founder of WebSavvy, recently named by Google as one of the top 18 agencies. Mike is in his 15th year of creating profitable Google Ad campaigns for global businesses. In addition to being in the trenches with his team, he teaches competitor agencies to scale their agencies via his second business AgencySavvy.
Stephanie Liu: Stephanie Liu is one of the most sought-after international speakers on live video, known for her dynamic stage presence and cutting-edge Facebook engagement tactics. As an ad agency veteran, Stephanie has helped Fortune 500 companies and small businesses skip the guesswork on how to build their brands online. She is most notably known for her Facebook Live show called Lights, Camera, Live®, where she helps businesses succeed with live video.
Oli Billson: Oli’s superpower lies in strategizing and implementing conversion-led, money-making sales and marketing funnels. He started his first business at the age of 15 and now owns a portfolio of four multi-million dollar businesses, one of which is international with 170 franchises. He is a consultant to many well-known entrepreneurs and business growth experts. His latest venture is NextLevelBusiness.com, where he helps “normal” businesses transform into fast-growth businesses.
Kate Talbot: Kate is the author of the best-selling Snapchat book, Oh Snap! which IBM named ‘Book of the Month.’ She is also a marketing consultant, speaker, and has led social media at Virgin America and Kiva. She teaches a post-graduate course on Snapchat at Digital Marketing Institute and guest lectures at Stanford and University of San Francisco. Kate writes a monthly column for Women@Forbes and is featured on NPR, Nasdaq, NBC News, HuffingtonPost, and VentureBeat.
Chris Brogan: Chris is a business advisor and content marketing consultant. He is also a highly sought-after professional speaker and The New York Times best-selling author of nine books and counting. His latest is called Find Your Writing Voice. Chris has spoken for or consulted with the biggest brands you know, including Disney, Coke, Google, GM, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker, Titleist, Scotts, Humana Health, Cisco, Sony USA, and many more.
Owen Hemsath: Owen is a YouTube marketing consultant specializing in small business growth. He has made over 1,000 videos for the web and has a YouTube channel with almost 1 million minutes of watch time. Having recently defeated cancer in the same year he doubled his business, Owen is uniquely qualified to show small business owners and entrepreneurs the pathway for making money with online video – no matter what stage of business you’re in.
Andrew Hubbard: Andrew is the founder of Hubbard Digital, a social media advertising agency that specializes in helping online educators scale their businesses with Facebook and Instagram ads. Andrew is known for his innovative approach to advertising. He has designed and executed strategies for some of the biggest digital product launches in the industry, as well as evergreen campaigns that generate millions of dollars every year for his clients.
Michael Melaro: Michael is a public speaker, writer, mentor and executive in the furniture industry with established authority in social media marketing and online reputation. He is the senior director of retail performance for The Wellsville Group, a top Ashley HomeStore licensee with annual revenues in excess of $100 million. He is also the co-founder and principal of Brandcrush Creative, which has more than twenty years of combined experience in marketing and advertising consulting.
Rachel Farnsworth: Rachel is a creator, blogger, and Facebook video guru. Her Facebook page, The Stay At Home Chef, Facebook Watch Show, Recipe, and website, www.TheStayAtHomeChef.com, reach hundreds of millions of people each month. With over two thousand Facebook videos under her belt, and over four billion views on the content she has created, Rachel has learned what it takes to succeed on Facebook.
Chris Strub: Chris is a traveling mobile storyteller with a passion for working with nonprofit organizations. As the ‘Giving Day Guy,’ Chris drives measurable increases in online donations by hosting and producing live-streamed video content. His live-streamed, cross-country road trip in 2015 is the focus of his first book and film, 50 States, 100 Days. Chris has worked with Humana, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and Live.me, and served as a 2017 National Red Kettle Ambassador for The Salvation Army.
Erin Gargan King: Erin is an Amazon #1 best-selling author of Digital Persuasion: Sell Smarter in the Modern Marketplace and digital persuasion expert. She sold her first two companies, Jump Digital Media and PMS.com before the age of 30. In 2010, she founded Socialite Agency, a social media firm whose clients include The Oscars, ABC/Disney, VISA, Target, Siemens, Hitachi, and others. Erin helps sales, marketing, and event professionals attract attention and increase influence by becoming more effective digital communicators.
Goldie Chan: Known as the “Oprah of LinkedIn” according to Huffington Post, Goldie’s LinkedIn video channel garnered 3 million+ views and is the platform’s longest-running daily show. Goldie also runs Warm Robots, a corporate social media strategy agency and helps companies like WeWork and Skype tell brand stories and navigate C-level executives. Goldie is a Forbes Fellow, member of the Producer’s Guild of America, New Media Council, and a Stanford University graduate. She has been regularly featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, and more.
Caitlin Angeloff: Caitlin heads global social strategy & operations at DocuSign, the pioneer and global standard for eSignature and digital transaction management. An experienced social media leader, Caitlin oversees all of DocuSign’s social media channels, listening and analysis, social support, the DocuSign blog, employee advocacy, influencer programs and more. Prior to DocuSign, Caitlin was CEO and co-founder of Admosis, a leading social content strategy and social advertising firm.
Dan Knowlton: Dan is a UK-based digital and social media marketing expert who has grown KPS Digital Marketing into a multi-award-winning business that has worked with global and local brands including Fifa, Nestle, Citibank, Eurotunnel, and Boston Consulting Group. In addition to running KPS, Dan is known for giving his best insights away on stage around the world. Fingers at the ready, you’ll be writing a lot of notes when he speaks.
Tom Breeze: Tom is the author of Viewability: Harness the Power of YouTube Ads and Be There for Your Customer — When It Really Counts. With a Master of Psychology, Tom is a speaker who teaches businesses around the world how to advertise successfully on YouTube. He is also the founder and CEO of his company, Viewability, which specializes in YouTube advertising, boasting an impressive client list of international personal and corporate brands.
Ilana Wechsler: Ilana is a former data analyst, turned PPC expert. An authority in both Google and Facebook advertising, she is the founder of boutique digital agency Green Arrow Digital which handles over $1 million/year in Pay Per Click campaigns. In addition, she runs an online training membership where she shows business owners exactly how to run profitable digital ad campaigns for themselves. Ilana is also the host of a popular Podcast called Talking Web Marketing.
Sean Cannell: Sean Cannell is a best-selling author, YouTuber, international speaker, and business coach who built a seven-figure media company helping entrepreneurs and creatives build their influence and income with online video. Sean’s YouTube channels have over one million subscribers, his videos have been viewed over 43 million times and he has been featured as one of the “20 Must Watch YouTube Channels That Will Change Your Business” by Forbes.
Tanner Larsson: Tanner is the founder and CEO of Build Grow Scale, an ecommerce education and optimization company, and the author of Ecommerce Evolved. He and his team pioneered a new system for rapidly dialing in websites called “Revenue Optimization”. They work in the trenches every day with companies like Guthy Renker, Scientific American, Men’s Health, BlackFriday.com, and Discovery Channel. They also conduct private workshops to help small businesses implement the same Revenue Optimization systems on their stores.
Shelita Burke: Shelita is a data scientist, AI social media expert, entrepreneur, and award-winning international pop star. By combining data science with behavioral science and AI, she has generated 29 million Twitter impressions and millions of Spotify plays on her latest releases. In addition, she is a popular keynote speaker at major social media and AI conferences empowering marketers with her innovative approach to growing large audiences.
Sarah O’Grady: Sarah believes in the power of thumb-stopping creative, and she’s spent the last 4 ½ years at Lenovo challenging her organization to create more of it. As head of worldwide social strategy for Lenovo, she’s helping drive the brand’s awareness and consideration through unique and culturally contagious content like their Extreme I.T. franchise. Prior to Lenovo, Sarah worked in-house at L’Oreal and Ethan Allen, and her client list has included Martha Stewart Living, CVS Pharmacy, and Sony Playstation.
Ray Edwards: Ray is a sought-after marketing communications strategist and the author of several books, including the best-selling How to Write Copy That Sells. He has been a guest writer for top voices in business and leadership, including Michael Hyatt, Tony Robbins, Jeff Goins, Jack Canfield, Joel Comm, Mark Victor Hansen, Stu McLaren, and more. Ray is also the host of the top-rated iTunes business podcast, The Ray Edwards Show. He blogs at RayEdwards.com.
Melissa Cassera: Melissa is an award-winning publicity strategist, storytelling expert, and professional screenwriter. Through her totally-addictive workshops, on-demand classes, and wildly-popular newsletter—she’s here to show you how to create an obsessed fan base through the power of storytelling while making every step feel like a guilty pleasure. A few of her guilty pleasures? Epic movie trailers, trashy novellas, and all.the.coffee.
Tyler Anderson: Tyler is a social media marketing entrepreneur, speaker, and host of the Casual Fridays Podcast. He’s the founder and CEO of Casual Fridays, a social media marketing agency that specializes in hospitality, tourism, and entertainment. He’s also the co-founder of Tack, a user-generated content management tool. Tyler works with prominent brands like Marriott, San Diego Tourism Authority, KAABOO, and the Los Angeles Chargers.
Robert Rose: Robert is the founder and chief troublemaker at The Content Advisory, the consulting and advisory group of The Content Marketing Institute. His third best-selling book, Killing Marketing, co-written with colleague Joe Pulizzi, has been called “loaded with ideas to turn marketing into profit centers.” Over the last five years, Robert has worked with more than 500 companies of all sizes, including 15 of the Fortune 100.
Ursula Ringham: Ursula is an innovative leader in influencer marketing, social media, live video, and video series. She is an early adopter in utilizing the latest technologies to generate awareness and to build community about SAP solutions and technologies. Good storytelling is at the core of everything she does. Ursula previously worked at Adobe and Apple in their Developer Relations organizations, helping companies bring products to market. In her spare time, Ursula writes thriller novels about the high-tech industry.
Travis Wright: Travis is a top marketing technologist, author, keynote speaker, startup advisor, and growth strategist. He is the former global digital and social strategist at Symantec for the Norton brand and co-founder of CCP Digital, a Kansas City and SF-based digital ad and content agency. He’s the author of Digital Sense, The Common Sense Approach to Social Business Strategy, Marketing Technologies, Customer Experience and Emerging Technologies. He also co-hosts one of the top-ranked blockchain podcasts, The Bad Crypto Podcast, with Joel Comm.
Ralph Burns: Ralph is the founder and CEO of Tier 11, a digital advertising agency that specializes in helping businesses scale through Facebook and Instagram advertising. Ralph’s agency manages a portfolio of Facebook and Instagram advertising customer accounts in over 40 industries with an annual spend in excess of $70 million. His podcast, Perpetual Traffic, has been downloaded over 4 million times and has helped tens of thousands of people grow their businesses through Facebook and Instagram advertising.
Nick Nimmin: Nick helps content creators grow their brands and businesses using YouTube. On his personal channel, where he shares the tools, resources, and information video creators need to grow their presence online, he has grown his own subscriber base by over 320k subscribers, added 10’s of thousands of targeted readers to his email list, and turned his website TuberTools.com into a growing resource for the video making community. Nick hosts a weekly stream called Nimmin Live.
Phil Mershon: Phil is the director of events for Social Media Examiner, where he oversees two signature events: Social Media Marketing World and Social Media Success Summit. Previously, Phil was a training consultant with Koch Industries and spent over 20 years working churches and non-profits in leadership roles. Phil is also a jazz saxophonist and songwriter.
Jennifer Priest: Jennifer is a sought-after social media strategist and educator specializing in hashtags and Pinterest SEO. Creator of the Smart Pin PRO system, Jennifer’s mission is to empower creative business owners of all sizes to grow their business with smart, analytics-based strategies. As owner and chief strategist at her consulting firm, Smart Creative Social, Jennifer has been leading massively successful social media campaigns for top craft and DIY brands since 2009.
Michelle Matheus: Mish is a California native who is an expert in social media and content marketing. She has successfully built global digital and social campaigns for the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, the San Francisco Giants, the Sundance Institute, and many Fortune500 companies. She began her career in Silicon Valley working with tech and media startups as well as entrepreneurial centers. She’s passionate about empowering the next generation of innovators leaders. Mish also loves pizza and pugs.
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George B. Thomas: George has more than 20 years of industry experience, is an inbound and video marketing Jedi, and Inbound Evangelist at Impulse Creative. Chances are you’ve heard George on the Hubcast or seen him speak at an event. George is a HubSpot accredited trainer with 13 certifications including inbound, email, and content certifications. George is an inbound, video, content, and social marketing leader. George enjoys learning, teaching, and developing solutions for companies who want to work hard and grow.
Track Leader
Kelly Noble Mirabella: Known for her enthusiasm, creativity, and passion for demystifying social media, Kelly has been helping professionals use social media to market their businesses for over 10 years. Whether trying out Facebook Live or building your own chatbot, you can count on Kelly to guide you with skill and flair for totally stellar results.
Angus Nelson: Angus helps brands build alliances with the audiences they want to reach. He’s a speaker, strategist, consultant, and business coach. He’s worked with executives at Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Whole Foods, Coke, Adobe, and Swisscom. He hosts the “Up In Your Business Show” podcast; and been featured on Aol.com, Huffington Post, and VentureBeat. He crusades “human experiences” to explore issues around #InfluencerMarketing and #BrandStorytelling.
Dustin Stout: Dustin is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and digital marketing consultant. His blog, Dustn.tv, was named one of the best social media blogs by Social Media Examiner and continues to be a growing resource for marketers, entrepreneurs and bloggers alike. He is also the co-founder of Warfare Plugins, makers of the best social sharing plugin for WordPress, Social Warfare.
Josh Elledge: Josh is the founder of upendPR.com and is a weekly syndicated newspaper columnist – reaching more than 1.1 million readers. He also regularly appears on more than 75 TV stations across the country – having appeared on TV or radio more than 1500 times. Josh lives in Orlando, FL and is a US Navy veteran, a dad of three awesome kids, and is a self-proclaimed fitness geek and improv comedian.
Jen Lehner: Jen is a digital marketing strategist, adjunct professor of digital marketing at Cleveland State University, the founder of The Front Row Framework® and the author of the book, Create Your Own Alexa Flash Briefing: Grow Your Business and Your Audience…No Tech Skills Required! Her podcast, The Front Row Entrepreneur, has featured guests like Gary Vaynerchuck, James Altucher, and Whitney Johnson. Her Alexa flash briefing (a Featured Briefing on Amazon.com) broadcasts daily online marketing news. She is currently spreading the word about the business benefits of Alexa Flash Briefings.
David Nihill: David is the author of the best-selling book, Do You Talk Funny? and the founder of FunnyBizz Conference. His work has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Forbes, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Independent, TV3, Newstalk and The Irish Times. A graduate of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, he calls San Francisco home when immigration officials permit, and was named on the 2017 Irish America 100 List.
Laura Petersen: Laura Petersen (@LaptopLaura) is a tall Math and Psychology teacher turned entrepreneur, international bestselling author, international speaker, podcaster, and persuasive writing expert. She helps people write, self-publish, and leverage bestselling books to tell your story, grow your business, and make a bigger impact. Laura loves international travel (44 countries and counting!), coconut milk lattes, and doing fun things around San Diego with her husband and their dog Tuck.
Amanda Webb: Amanda helps small businesses fight the content gremlins. Those guys that sit on your shoulder, whispering in your ear, telling you that you are wasting your time online. Her weapon? Building measurable content marketing strategies that are time efficient and deliver results. Before running her own business, she worked in the Irish film industry on films including Angela’s Ashes. Also loves cats, Dr. Who and cycling the Irish countryside.
Brooke B. Sellas: Brooke is the in-the-trenches founder and CEO of B Squared Media, a done-for-you social media management and advertising agency. In 2017, B Squared Media was named Sprout Social’s ‘Partner of the Year’ and in 2018, Brooke was named a ‘Top 25 Brand Builder in New Jersey.’ Brooke’s marketing mantra is “Think Conversation, Not Campaign” so be sure to give her a shout.
Ramon Ray: Ramon is also a four-time entrepreneur, best-selling author, global speaker, and event producer. His most recent book is Celebrity CEO and he’s the founder of SmallBizTechnology.com and Smart Hustle Magazine. Ramon’s been invited to the White House, testified to Congress and is a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy. Ray also loves burnt pancakes, bacon and eggs.
Erica Mandy: Award-winning journalist, speaker, and former TV news reporter, Erica is leading a movement to ENJOY staying informed. She’s founder and host of the daily news show, theNewsWorthy, where she combines a decade of journalism experience with her own style to provide “fast, fair and fun” daily news updates in less than 10 minutes. theNewsWorthy has been featured on multiple platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Salon.com’s list of “12 Essential Current Events Podcasts.”
Anna Powers: Anna is an online business mentor and copywriter who’s passionate about helping business owners view sales as service. She built her coaching and copywriting business to six figures while she was still a practicing litigator, and now happily runs her multi-six-figure business full-time. Anna founded the Magnify Mastermind for women who want to scale their results in business while honoring God. She hosts the Faith Forward Online Business podcast and leads her online copywriting course, Magnetic Messaging™, several times a year.
Jessica Jensen: With 18 years of experience, Jessica is a digital marketer at heart. She cultivated expertise over her career at Nestle, Adidas, Microsoft and Qualcomm and managed multi-million dollar campaigns encompassing a portfolio of channels including social media, content strategy, web, PR, and influencer marketing. Prior to this, she graduated with an MBA from Pepperdine University. Outside of work, Jessica co-hosts the Social Currency podcast and lives in San Diego.
Laura Rubinstein: Laura is co-founder of Social Buzz Club, a content amplification network. As an award-winning social media and marketing strategist, she has optimized marketing plans for over 1000 small businesses and is the author of best-selling book, Social Media Myths BUSTED: The Small Business Guide to Online Revenue.
Michael O’Neal: Michael is the founder and host of the award-winning business and entertainment podcast, The Solopreneur Hour with Michael O’Neal. The show features lively and highly engaging conversations between Michael and his guests, who share remarkable stories, advice and practical tips to help his audience take charge of their business pursuits. Michael has an extensive professional background and formal education in social media, branding, web and print design, network marketing, and Internet marketing.
Tuck Ross: Tuck is an award-winning, strategic innovator with 15+ years of marketing, digital, ecommerce, retail and management experience in consumer-centric environments. Tuck joined Synchrony’s Care Credit brand as SVP, Consumer Products and Marketing, in January 2018 to drive innovation in financial and digital products in addition to managing the customer brand and marketing strategy. Responsibilities include product portfolio and consumer marketing strategy and go-to-market programs, including digital services, content and the customer relationship lifecycle.
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