Martech Zone Interviews

  Muhammad Yasin is a public speaker, e-book author, and Director of Marketing for HCC Medical Insurance Services. In his role, Muhammad Yasin is responsible for the brand building and lead generation strategy of several dozen social media accounts with over a quarter of a million followers. His work in social media has been featured in the Indy Star, Inc.com, Marketing Professors, and more. Ryan Brock is the Founder & CEO of Metonymy Media, a company of poets and fiction writers turned pros. Ryan’s background in classics, philosophy, literature, and creative writing has helped him build a niche company that focuses solely on telling compelling stories through the written word. In his position, he works with creative writers and teams from small businesses and multi-million dollar corporations alike to create great content.

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Rob Fuggetta is the world’s foremost authority on brand advocacy. Fuggetta is the founder and CEO of Zuberance, a leading social media marketing company that powers award-winning advocacy programs for consumer and business brands. A twenty-year veteran of Silicon Valley, Fuggetta has played a leadership role in three start-ups including Genuity, a Verizon spinout. He was formerly a partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., the legendary Silicon Valley marketing and communications firm that helped put Apple on the map. Fuggetta is the author of “Brand Advocates: Turning Enthusiastic Customers into a Powerful Marketing Force,” published by John Wiley & Sons (2012).

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Two members of the Formstack team will be joining us: Chris Lucas, VP of Business Development, and Nicole Witt, Director of Customer Experiences & Partnerships. Chris finds new partnership opportunities and oversees a great marketing team at Formstack. With a wide range of experiences including Organic and Paid Search, PR, Content & Social Marketing, Lucas brings over 12 years of marketing and communications experience to Formstack. Nicole manages the Customer Experience Team and Formstack's Integration Partner Program. She loves that Formstack helps small businesses operate like big businesses. Before joining Formstack, Nicole was the VP of a startup motorsports marketing company and has worked in business development and marketing roles in the technology industry. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Network of Women in Business (NOWIB), Indiana's oldest women's professional networking group. Nicole is an IU graduate and enjoys spending time with her husband Eric and their dog Daisy, exercising, reading, and drinking wine.

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Jay Baer is the President of social media and content accelerator Convince & Convert, providing strategic consulting to leading companies throughout North America. A digital marketing pioneer, Jay has worked with more than 700 companies since 1994, including 29 of the FORTUNE 500. Named one of America's top social media consultants by Fast Company magazine, Jay is also the co-author of The NOW Revolution, a leading book on social business. His Convince & Convert blog was named the #1 content marketing blog in the world, and he's also the host of the popular weekly Social Pros podcast. 

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  Tom Foremski, is the founder and editor of the popular and top-ranked news site, Silicon Valley Watcher, reporting on the business and culture of innovation. In May 2004, Tom became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to make a living as a full-time journalist blogger. Tom has been reporting on Silicon Valley and the US tech industry since 1984. His current focus is on the convergence of media and technology--the fuel for a new era for Silicon Valley. This is affecting businesses world wide.

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  Crystal Grave, President & CEO of Snappening, is a seasoned marketing and sales professional with over 15 years of branding, public relations, strategic development and sales experience. During this 15-year tenure, she has also been involved with planning dozens of personal and professional events for anything from a handful of friends to more than 50,000 spectators.  Crystal has an extensive network of professionals in and around event industry and has relied upon this network to create an incomparable online event planning service. Snappening is the result of tireless research and development with professionals in a variety of disciplines along with feedback and suggestion from a variety of consumers, professional planners and venue managers.

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We are thrilled to announce that we had the opportunity to speak with the lovely Susan Cain,  the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts this past week. Susan provided some very insightful answers into the differences between extroverts and introverts, and how this dynamic is affecting the way we work, communicate, and live. The conversation will be released today, August 24, at 3 p.m. EST. Susan gave a TED talk this March, speaking about some of her personal experiences of being an introvert and how people respond to it. In our culture, a lot of people do not realize that a third to a half of people are introverts. Furthermore, it is greatly misunderstood. Introversion is largely about how people respond to stimulation and specifically, social stimulation. Extroverts obviously generate a lot of "noise" and stimulation in response to social situations, while introverts digest and observe. In a very aggressive and dominant American culture, you can see how it is easy for there to be a bias towards introverts.  

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Jonathan founded Improved Performance Group (IPG) in 1994 to teach others the secrets of his sales success. Previously, he was the top sales and management performer for all companies that he had worked for, including Olivetti, NBI, ROLM and PictureTel. Now the IPG team provides customized sales and leadership training to companies around the world. They’ve trained more than 16,000 people in 23 countries through online, video, or classroom instruction.  IPG also provides one-on-one coaching and ongoing email, telephone, videoconferencing or in-person support.

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Erik is the co-owner and VP of Creative Services for Professional Blog Service in Indianapolis. He co-authored No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing (Pearson, 2011) and Branding Yourself: Using Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself (2nd ed., Pearson, 2012). He also helped write Twitter Marketing for Dummies (Wiley 2009). Erik has been blogging since 1997, and has been a published writer for more than 25 years. He has been a newspaper humor columnist for 19 years, and is published in 10 newspapers around Indiana. Erik frequently speaks about blogging and social media for nonprofit organizations and small businesses.

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Shel Israel is CEO of SI Associates. He consults, writes and speaks about social media. He has worked with more than 150 startups during a 30-year career as well as many of the world’s largest enterprises including Dell Computer, SAP, CNET and Wells Fargo Bank. He is co-author [with Robert Scoble] of Naked Conversations, considered by many to be the seminal book in bringing social media into traditional businesses and is also author of Twitterville, The Conversational Corporation and is currently working on his new book, The Disruptors: FireStarters of Social Media.

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