Called a “web marketing guru” by the New York Times, the Story of how Marcus Sheridan 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.
Since this achievement, Sheridan has become a highly sought after global speaker and consultant in the digital sales and marketing space, working with hundreds of business and brands alike to achieve their potential in a rapidly evolving marketplace, ultimately helping them to become the most trusted voice in their perspective industry.
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Internet marketing training: Training agencies, advertisers, and resellers on PPC, SEO, usability, conversion optimization, and more. Official Google AdWords Seminar Leader and conducted more than 60 officially Google-supported AdWords Seminars for Success, attended by more than 4,000 marketing professionals.
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Annie makes data sexy and teach marketers how to do the same through a variety of training resources.
Specialties: Web analytics, SEO, PPC, social media, and competitive analysis.
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Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning horror and thriller author, editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. He was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers. His books have been sold to more than two-dozen countries. Two of his novels (ROT & RUIN and DEAD OF NIGHT) are in development for film.
He writes in several genres. His young adult fiction includes ROT & RUIN (2011; now in development for
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Justin Champion is passionate and dedicated to helping businesses effectively tell their brand story and is currently the Content Marketing Professor for the HubSpot Academy. Justin has 6+ years experience in the field of digital media and has helped companies such as Wrangler Jeans, Majestic Athletic, Pendleton Whisky, and Rock and Roll Marathon Series grow their businesses through story-telling. He brings his experience and curiosity to help solve content marketing needs both online and offline.
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Luciano turns data and research into actionable, easy to understand, business insight for tech-focused startups, SMBs and nonprofits.
He is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Utah and hold an MA in Economics, an HBA in History and a BS in Political Science all from the U of U.
He has conducted hundreds of primary research and data mining projects, and teach data analytics, marketing research, statistics and economics at multiple universities.
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Millennial *gasp* Marketer. Google Adwords & Bing Ads PPC Manager. If you follow me on Twitter, you will see that he makes amateurish, but fun memes about SEM.
He is a regular guest blogger on PPC Hero and a participating member of #PPCChat on Twitter, a weekly Twitter chat among professionals specifically focused on best practices in PPC.
Susan has spent the last 11 years in the digital marketing space, starting with content and email marketing, and eventually making her way into PPC over 9 years ago. Paid media quickly felt like home, and I've done it in some form ever since, including:
- Paid search (Google AdWords, Bing)
- Display
- Remarketing/Retargeting
- Facebook ads
She has worked with and for many household names like Circuit City and General Motors, and many small businesses who needed some paid media help. Accounts have ranged in size from $1,000 a month in spend to over $1mm.
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Bjorn is a serial entrepreneur and has founded three successful internet software companies focused on driving profitable online revenues.
Most recently, Bjorn and his Co-Founder, Eric Maas, started Finch to solve the biggest challenge with paid search using automation and innovation. Finch focuses on doing one thing for their clients: creating profitable business growth. To accomplish this, Finch built a highly-scalable model where programmatic advertising takes center stage.
Finch is a Certified Google Partner and is proud to have a global team of Google certified AdWords Specialists. They are established in 12 countries and has over 300 clients and are headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. They also have offices in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia. Finch has been recognized by on the Inc. 500 in 2013 on the “500 Fastest Growing Companies in America.”
Prior to Finch, Bjorn founded and ran Infopia, a SaaS eCommerce platform backed by top Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Infopia captured over $1B in online revenues annually for their clients.
JD Prater is a Senior Account Manager in charge of training and education at Hanapin Marketing. He's a digital marketing strategist with a passion for turning data into actionable stories. His expertise is in developing integrated digital marketing road maps to successfully attract, engage and convert audiences.
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At Adobe, Cory leads a team that is at the heart of enabling our business to be social: from sales and marketing to support and HR. We're aggressively trying new things and evolving our approach to social media to meet the demands of our business and the expectations of our customers.
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Purna has over a decade of digital marketing experience, both in-house and agency. She lives, breathes, and dreams SEO, PPC, Voice Search and content marketing.
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