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These marketing keynote speakers can cover a wide range of topics including growth hacking, paid media, SEO, email marketing, content marketing, social media, sales funnels, Ecommerce, conversion rate optimization, copywriting, video marketing, analytics, and more.
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Seth Godin
1. As a Stanford Graduate, Seth Godin is considered one of the perennial marketing influencers of our time.
2. He has written over 17 books on advertising, leadership, and entrepreneurship where he produces highly innovative ideas on the future of marketing.
3. He is widely known for bringing the idea of “permission marketing” to the forefront of the industry.
4. As a marketing conference speaker, Seth speaks at select events inspiring audiences to always focus on their customer first.
Ryan Deiss
1. Ryan Deiss is a best selling author, founder of multiple companies collectively employing hundreds around the globe, and one of the most dynamic digital marketing keynote speakers on in the United States today.
2. He is the founder and CEO of DigitalMarketer.com and Founder and Managing Partner of RivalBrands.com and plattr.com.
3. Ryan is the creator of the “Customer Value Optimization” methodology and have introduced and popularized many of the digital selling strategies that modern companies now take for granted.
4. He is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America.
Guy Kawasaki
1. Rising up through the world of Silicon Valley, Guy Kawasaki got his claim to fame when he established himself as the first “Apple Evangelist”.
2. He coined the term and helped position the company to what it is today.
3. As a venture capitalist he helps many new brands position themselves in a meaningful way that garners attention.
4. He has published 9 books and is the brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz.
5. Guy is a highly sought-after marketing public speaker who educates audiences on how to position their brand in a way that authentically connects with consumers.
Neil Patel
1. Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg and Hello Bar. He helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue.
2. He was listed in The Wall Street Journal calls as a major influencer on the web, on Forbes as one of the top 10 online marketers, and on Entrepreneur Magazine because he created one of the 100 most brilliant companies in the world.
3. He was recognized as a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by President Obama and one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 35 by the United Nations.
4. He is the coauthor of Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum published in September 2016.
5. Neil Patel has also been awarded Congressional Recognition from the United States House of Representatives.
6. As a digital marketing guest speaker, he is passionate about teaching entrepreneurs how to drive traffic through SEO and social media.
Gary Vaynerchuk
1. Firstly, as soon as he left college, he took control of his family’s wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in just five years.
2. He is the current CEO of VaynerMedia, one of the world’s hottest digital agencies.
3. He is the New York Times best-selling author of Crush It!; The Thank You Economy; Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook; and #AskGaryVee.
4. Gary also currently hosts The #AskGaryVee Show, a way of providing as much value as possible by taking questions about social media, entrepreneurship, startups, and family businesses and giving his answers based on a lifetime of building successful, multi-million dollar companies.
5. Gary is considered one of the top inspirational marketing speakers because when he is on stage, he will hype up the crowd to think big and take action.
Tim Ash
1. Tim Ash is the author of two bestselling Landing Page Optimization books (with over 50,000 copies sold worldwide, and translated into six languages),
2. He is the founder of SiteTuners, a strategic conversion rate optimization agency with offices in San Diego, and Tampa.
3. Tim has created deep expertise in user-centered design, persuasion and understanding online behavior, neuromarketing, and landing page testing.
4. In the mid-1990s he became one of the early pioneers in the discipline of website conversion rate optimization (CRO).
5. Tim has been mentioned by Forbes as a Top-10 Online Marketing Expert, and by Entrepreneur Magazine as an Online Marketing Influencer To Watch.
6. As a digital marketing speaker, Tim delivers presentations that will help your audience understand how to convert customers the smart way.
Avinash Kaushik
1. Avinash Kaushik is the author of two best selling books: Web Analytics 2.0, and Web Analytics: An Hour A Day (100% of the proceeds from both books are donated to The Smile Train, Doctors Without Borders and Ekal Vidyalaya).
2. If you are looking for a keynote speaker for a marketing event, then you should definitely consider Avinash. He has received rave reviews for bringing his energetic, inspiring, and practical technology and analytic insights in his speaking engagements with companies like Unilever, Dell, Time Warner, Vanguard, Porsche, and IBM.
3. He has received several awards for his amazing work such as “Statistical Advocate of the Year” from the American Statistical Association, “Rising Star” award from the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation, 2010, and “Most Influential Industry Contributor” from the Web Analytics Association, 2011.
4. He is also the The Co-Founder and Chief Education Officer for Market Motive
Mark Schaefer
1. Mark Schaefer is a globally-recognized digital marketing conference speaker, educator, business consultant, and author.
2. His blog {grow} is hailed as one of the top marketing blogs in the world.
3. Mark has worked in global sales, PR, and marketing positions for more than 30 years and provides consulting services as Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions.
4. He has post graduate degrees in marketing and organizational development; holds seven patents; and is a faculty member of the graduate studies program at Rutgers University.
5. For three years, Mark studied under the late Peter Drucker (a world-renowned consultant and author, hailed as the founder of modern management).
6. Mark is the author of six best-selling marketing books: KNOWN, Social Media Explained, Return on Influence, Born to Blog, The Content Code, and The Tao of Twitter – named the best-selling book on Twitter in the world.
Jay Baer
1. Jay spent 20 years in digital marketing, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 30 of the FORTUNE 500.
2. His current firm – Convince & Convert – provides social media and content marketing advice and counsel to leading companies such as Oracle, Salesforce.com, California Tourism, Billabong, Hardee’s, DOLE and more.
3. His second book, Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype, was #3 on the New York Times business best seller list, and a runaway #1 Amazon best seller.
4. Jay’s Convince & Convert blog was named the world’s #1 content marketing blog by the Content Marketing Institute, and is visited by more than 200,000 marketers each month.
5. Jay also hosts and produces the Social Pros podcast, which is downloaded 25,000 times monthly.
6. As digital marketing public speaker, Jay is passionate about inspiring organizations to think outside the box and to focus on helping people before asking them to buy.
Russell Brunson
1. In 2003, Russell sold a software called ZipBrander. ZipBrander was a viral marketing tool that not only drove laser-targeted traffic to your website, but helped increase backend profits, automatically.
2. In 2005, Russell created another product selling “How To Create A Potato Gun” DVDs. This was a simple instructional course, where buyers had an option to purchase his potato gun kit (which included all the needed supplies) as an upsell.
3. He reached top ranking status in several network marketing companies, winning a Ferrari and generating 1.5 million leads in just six weeks from just selling stuff over the internet.
4. Together with his partner Todd Dickerson, Russell launched their sales funnel software ClickFunnels in October 2014, and the company grew to $100,000,000 in the first three years with 100,000 active users.
Jeff Bullas
1. Jeff was featured on Forbes as a “Top 20 Influencer of Chief Marketing Officers” in 2018, #1 Global Content Marketing Influencer in 2018, and also listed on Forbes as one of the “Top 20 Influencers of CMO’s” in 2017.
2. He has also been ranked by Apollo Research in the “Top 20 Influencers of Digital Marketers in the USA” in 2016, #1 Global “Digital Marketing Influencer” still in 2016, and #1 Content Marketing Influencer from 6 million plus daily web updates in 2015 by Appinions.
3. He was also included on Entrepreneur.com as one of the “50 Online Marketing Influencers to Watch” in 2015.
Jon Youshaei
1. He was named a top marketer by Forbes and Entrepreneur and praised by Inc. Magazine for “cracking the code for going viral”.
2. He is a YouTube marketing guru, business writer and creator of Every Vowel, a popular workplace cartoon series called “the Dilbert for millennials.”
3. As the Head of Creator Product Marketing for YouTube, Jon worked with the platform’s influencers to help them grow their communities and create viral content that generates millions of views.
4. Currently, he works at Instagram as the Product Marketing Manager for their new video platform, IG.
5. Because of his unique topics and a strong stage presence, Jon was also ranked by NPR as “one of the best commencement speakers since 1774” (alongside Sheryl Sandberg, Steve Jobs and JFK).
Amy Bishop
1. She has created and implemented multichannel digital strategies for a variety of companies of all sizes from start-ups and small businesses to Fortune 500 and global organizations spanning several industries worldwide.
2. She is an expert in e-commerce, lead generation, and localized site-to-store strategies.
3. She recently launched Cultivative LLC, a certified performance marketing agency.
Rand Fishkin
1. In 2004, he created the SEOmoz blog, which, over the next decade, became the world’s most popular community and content resource for search marketers.
2. In 2007, Rand became CEO of SEOmoz, Inc (now called Moz), the software company he co-founded with his mom based on the blog’s success.
3. In the same year, he proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Geraldine DeRuiter, with a TV commercial that received widespread publicity (and, later, an awkward appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show). The two married in 2008 in a move Rand consistently refers to as the best, luckiest one of his life.
4. Over 7 years as CEO, Rand grew Moz from 7 employees to 134, revenues from $800K to $29.3 million , and traffic from 1 to 30 million annual visitors.
5. Rand is also the co-founder of Inbound.org, a site that is dedicated to sharing articles about marketing from across the web, alongside Dharmesh Shah. The site was sold (for no profit) to Hubspot in 2014.
Dharmesh Shah
1. Dharmesh Shah is co-founder and CTO of HubSpot. Prior to founding HubSpot in 2006, Dharmesh was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, which was acquired by SunGard Data Systems in 2005.
2. In addition to co-authoring “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs”, Dharmesh founded and writes for OnStartups.com — a top-ranking startup blog and community with more than 700,000 members.
3. In 2013, Dharmesh published HubSpot’s Culture Code, which has gathered up to four million views on SlideShare.
4. He was listed in Inc. Founders under 40 in 2016, he is an active member of the Boston-area entrepreneurial community, an investor in over 60 startups, and a frequent speaker on startups, inbound marketing, and company culture.
5. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UAB and an MS in the Management of Technology from MIT.
Sean Ellis
1. Sean Ellis is the host of The Breakout Growth Podcast, which is an informative podcast for entrepreneurship.
2. He is the author of hacking Growth which was published in 16 languages.
3. He is a digital marketing guest speaker, and runs workshops around the world to implement a cross-functional approach to growth which he calls growth hacking (a term he coined in 2010).
4. Sean helped to bring five companies to market as VP Marketing/Growth that exceeded billion-dollar valuations including Dropbox, LogMeIn, Eventbrite, Uproar, and Lookout in addition to launching and selling two businesses as both Founder and CEO.
Andrew Davis
1. Andrew is listed as Top 20 on Meetings & Conventions Magazine’s List of Favorite Speakers, just after President Bill Clinton and Anderson Cooper.
2. 2nd Most Influential Content Marketer in the World, between the Godfather of Content Marketing, Joe Pulizzi and the master of customer service, Jay Baer.
3. USA TODAY Best Business Book Finalist and Awarded for best-seller author with his book Brandscaping: Unleashing the Power of Partnerships.
Ann Handley
1. Ann is the Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author of two books titled Everybody Writes and Content Rules
2. Regarded as one of the top 10 LinkedIn Influencers and Writer.
3. Named 1 of 7 people shaping modern marketing in the world today.
4. She is a partner at MarketingProfs and Founder of ClickZ, an organization designed to build future entrepreneurs.
Larry Kim
1. He is the founder and and assistant CEO of Marketing of MobileMonkey, the world’s best chatbot marketing platform for marketing and customer support on Facebook Messenger, Web Chat, and SMS.
2. He’s been named Search Marketer of the Year from PPC Hero (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017), Search Engine Land, and the US Search Awards.
3. He also won special recognition from the United States Senate & House of Representatives for his work in creating jobs in the Boston economy.
4. Larry is ranked the #8 most popular author on Medium. He’s a contributor to CNBC and Inc. Magazine.
Amy Porterfield
1. Amy Porterfield is an online marketing expert and founder of a multi-million dollar digital course business.
2. Through her bestselling courses and top-ranked podcast, Online Marketing Made Easy, Porterfield has paved the way for even the newest online entrepreneurs to bypass the overwhelm, and instead generate exciting momentum as they build a business they love.
3. It only took her 4 years to hit her first million-dollar year, and less than 10 years to launch 8 successful digital courses, enroll 40,000+ students, grow a community of over half a million people, and be on track for a $10 million dollar year.
Rebecca Lieb
1. She was vice president at Econsultancy, where she launched the company’s U.S. operations and grew the business to profitability in one year.
2. Rebecca was also VP and editor-in-chief of The ClickZ Network for over seven years, and for part of that time also ran the redoubtable SearchEngineWatch.com.
3. She is a frequent digital advertising public speaker on topics related to digital marketing and media.
4. She is the author of the book, The Truth About Search Engine Optimization, which instantly became an Amazon best seller. It was then followed by Content Marketing, one of the first books on that topic.
Robert Rose
1. Over the last ten years, Robert and his firm The Content Advisory have worked with more than 500 companies, including 15 of the Fortune 100.
2. Robert has provided strategic marketing advice and counsel for global brands such as Facebook, Salesforce, NASA, CVS Health, McCormick Spices, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
3. He has more than 20 years of experience keynoting, hosting and speaking with groups of all sizes about the strategic transformation of marketing in a digital world.
4. From 2002 to 2009, Robert served as Vice President, Marketing and Strategy for CrownPeak; a software-as-a-service company focused on Web content solutions for online marketers, leading the company’s marketing and product development efforts.
Sujan Patel
1. As one of the leading digital marketers and co-founders of Web Profits, Sujan Patel works with companies such as LinkedIn, Expedia, Intuit, and SalesForce.
2. His marketing public speaker lectures will cover such topics as growth hacking, conversion rate optimization, how to hire the best people, and how to scale your business.
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