Brad Smith is the COO of Jack Grace, a premier golf footwear company specializing in high-quality saddle golf shoes with unique saddles you can swap. Brad has a diverse background in marketing, customer service, strategy, politics, and international retail. Before joining Jack Grace, Brad was at Skullcandy, a hyper-growth consumer lifestyle brand, where he worked on numerous projects to move the company forward, including the company IPO, a strategic rebuild of the customer service department, and overseeing the $10M marketing budget through a major corporate restructuring. He has spent his career diving into problems to get them resolved with short-term and long-term solutions.
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Lori is the founder, president and CEO of Brilliance Business Solutions. Brilliance specializes in B2B eCommerce - setting up websites for manufacturers and distributors that allow their customers to order from them online. Last year the company won a Future 50 award, recognizing the 50 fastest growing companies, from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, and Lori was awarded a Woman of Influence award from the Milwaukee Business Journal. Before Lori started Brilliance, she was a flight controller at NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
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Bri Seeley is an inspirational woman who supports women around the world to bring their visions to life. Through her signature six-month training outlined in her bestselling book, Permission to Leap (and her podcast by the same name!) she guides entrepreneurs through the process of leaping from the day you commit to your vision, all the way through each stage, up until the day you land softly on the other side of it all. A catalyst, speaker, and author, she is a regular contributor for The Huffington Post and Influencive and is known by many for her compassionate, yet tell-it-like-it-is guidance that creates massive and epic changes in every woman she encounters. Bri has been featured on NBC's The Today Show, Forbes, Inc., Medium, Free Enterprise, Kickstarter, and PBS. In 2016, she received the Outstanding Small Business award from the Los Angeles Mayor's Office.
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In his role as director of product marketing at Datorama, Jay Wilder supports more than 2,000 leading brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms worldwide, and brings a radically different approach to marketing analytics with an (AI) machine learning powered end-to-end platform that integrates, standardizes, and visualizes marketing data for deep analysis and insights. He is an expert on digital marketing, content marketing, customer stories and community building, sales enablement and readiness, market/competitive analysis, and all things data-driven marketing.
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David Sasson is the president of overstockArt.com. His strengths are business strategy, innovative solutions, marketing and sales, and general business management and leadership. His leadership focus is on building a team of individuals that are committed to their growth goals and the exciting environment that they are building.
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Lifelong entrepreneur Steve Weiss is founder of MuteSix, a performance marketing powerhouse and the most awarded Facebook social advertising agency in the U.S. In 2017, MuteSix was named one of Inc. magazine's “Best Workplaces” and ranked #341 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. Steve is a highly regarded speaker on entrepreneurship, eCommerce, and Facebook advertising. He has been a featured speaker at Mumbrella, Affiliate World Europe, the Digital Growth Summit, the Seller Summit, and can be heard weekly on the “Spend $10K a Day” digital media podcast.
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Howard Partridge is an international business coach, #1 Amazon bestselling author, and an in-demand conference speaker. He grew up on welfare, started his first business out of the trunk of his car, and went on to create a multimillion-dollar, turnkey enterprise. He has owned nine small businesses, and for two decades has helped small business owners revolutionize their businesses and have more freedom in their lives. His new book is The Power of Community: How Phenomenal Leaders Inspire Their Teams, Wow Their Customers, and Make Bigger Profits. It includes a proven, step-by-step approach to transforming your organization — by tapping into the human need to connect and feel valued by others.
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Holly Gage is a UK-based independent marketing consultant. She has worked in B2B marketing for almost 20 years, including for companies such as Bluewolf (a partner with Salesforce), and as head of Marketing Services for EMEA. She has developed marketing strategies and executed campaigns across Europe, Asia, and North America, and is passionate about helping organizations make sense of marketing technology, and use it to improve the way they engaged with their customers.
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Effective Leadership Start by Becoming the Person You Want Everyone Else to be
Jeff Piersall is founder and CEO of SCB Marketing. He has devoted his career to inspiring, motivating, and connecting entrepreneurs, business leaders, and communities through his four business journals, numerous specialty publications, marketing services, and speaking engagements. Jeff co-authored the book, Dogs Don’t Bark at Parked Cars: Your GPS in an Era of Hyper-Change, a motivational guide for success in a continually changing business environment that transcends generations and professions.
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DRIVING TRAFFIC AND LEVERAGING YOUR BRAND ON AMAZON
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Fahim is founder of the San Francisco-based eShopportunity, an e-commerce growth consulting firm. Prior to starting his own business, he was a category manager at Amazon where he owned and managed a multi-hundred-million-dollar category and one of the largest categories in the U.S. During his tenure, he was able to grow his business >50% despite a flat market. Fahim founded eShopportunity in 2014 to help brands better understand and grow their online business. Fahim has spoken at several leading e-commerce conferences and has been a featured guest on many webinars and podcasts.
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Matt Rhodus is director and industry principal for Strategic Initiatives at NetSuite, the world's leading provider of cloud-based business management software. Matt helps lead and manage the retail apparel, footwear, and accessories vertical and the cross-functional team that represent the NetSuite AFA across all products. He is focused on closing new business, delivering growing existing business, delivering product to meet current and future customer needs, solutions Innovation, sales and pipeline building, market position, messaging and awareness, as well as customer delivery and success.
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“Getting people to connect and tell their stories about your brand is the Holy Grail of after-transactional marketing.”
Tony is the driving force and creative genius behind Hammitt, a true American luxury brand based in Los Angeles. A lifelong entrepreneur, Tony established his pattern of success early, through his startups in the construction and finance industries, before moving on to high fashion. Tony’s primary goal at Hammitt is to create a successful American brand built on the European model where design and craftsmanship lead, and product is made to order and crafted for a lifetime. Tony is respected for his business success and remembered for his endless optimism, inspiring positivity, and ever-present smile.
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Caitlin Halpert is the Growth Engineer at 3Q Digital. She’s responsible for driving growth, efficiency, and new ideas to enable 3Q to best serve current and future clients. She has worked in digital marketing since 2011 and held positions at Dealer.com and iSearchMedia before joining the 3Q team in March 2014. Her experience includes management of paid search, paid social, comparison shopping, Amazon Marketing Services, YouTube, and Display. She’s worked with a variety of clients from eCommerce to subscription services to B2B lead generation.
Caitlin specializes in data-focused digital marketing experimentation to push past “best practices” to drive the performance for agency clients. As an industry thought leader, she has spoken at HeroConf, SEMpdx, and SMX East, West, and Advanced.
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