Online Success Journey

Chris Pistorius is the founder of KickStart Dental Marketing which has consistently been listed as one of the top dental marketing companies in the country. Having over 15 years of experience in dental marketing, he has worked with countless dentists & orthodontists, and he shares his expertise by giving marketing seminars across the country and hosting a weekly dental marketing podcast. Before starting his dental marketing agency in 2009, Chris worked for online marketing giants AOL, Time Warner & MapQuest. He holds several online marketing certifications and is trained by Google on how businesses can get the most out of their marketing efforts. He’s also the author of “The Ultimate Guide to Internet Marketing for Dentists.” Chris resides in the Denver, CO area with his wife Michele and two kids Kaitlyn & Brody.

Ai Ching Goh started her professional career with a degree in Experimental Psychology and a media position at P&G. She quickly discovered her entrepreneurial spirit, and transitioned to a startup mindset. Ai Ching co-founded a web app, which turned into Piktochart, a visual communications tool that makes it easy to condense and consume information. Piktostory, the latest product to the suite, enables content creators to repurpose their videos easily. As a startup that operates from Penang, but serves over 25 million users globally, Ai Ching has taken an unconventional approach to growth. She goes against the grain of what the startup world teaches passionate entrepreneurs in areas including talent management, culture ”pruning" and bootstrapping.

Joy Clausen Soto is a keynote speaker who inspires audiences with her story of perseverance. She followed her dream to become a dolphin trainer at SeaWorld San Diego. After that Joy pursued another dream by going to film school to become a filmmaker. Then at twenty-five she found a lump on her throat and an aggressive form of cancer. She made a documentary on her journey with the hope of showing a story of survival. Joy has spoken at TEDx, appeared on The Ziglar Show and most recently published her memoir entitled, “Joy: The story of a dolphin trainer, filmmaker, and cancer survivor.” Joy Clausen Soto is the founder of the annual Dolphin Interaction Program for patients multiple children's hospitals. Joy lives in San Diego with her husband and two kids.

Recognizing the challenges faced by vacation owners, Ryan Beachum has sought to apply his knowledge of the hospitality industry to provide desperately needed solutions. Ryan saw an opportunity to serve timeshare owners beyond what was offered. Beachum envisioned a company that would help timeshare owners share their unused time by connecting the millions of prepaid nights found at select timeshare resorts to people searching the leading online travel agencies, and it's been lauded for it's growth. In 2016, Ryan created HelloVacay and has consistently led the industry in independent resort marketing and resales. Now, in 2021 he is set to launch a subscription-based, wholesalepriced travel membership in partnership with the Priceline Group.

Pascal Bachmann is an international speaker, author, life, and business strategist who empowers and coaches businessmen to be healthy and successful leaders in business and life. After being a professional athlete on a world-class level, having a praxis for Asian therapies, creating 7 businesses in 3 different industries, generating more than $20 Million, and coached more than 20,000 people, he is in the position to share what he learned. The view and experiences from 3 different angles make him and his approach unique. He doesn’t share what he learned from books, but what real-life taught him.

Meredith Kallaher moved to Miami in 2012 and soon after purchased The Scout Guide Miami, a franchised publication featuring locally owned businesses. Guided by the principle that everything you need to live a well-curated life can be found within your own community, Meredith helped guide her clients' ideal customers straight to their doors. Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Accountancy, received her CPA and spent the first 6 years of her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC. The combination of her experience proved to be perfect to create Meredith's new Digital Marketing Agency that helps business owners with Facebook and Instagram Ad Strategy and Management Agency, website conversion copy writing, or Kajabi build-outs, helping businesses EXPLODE their sales goals!

Salena is host of the popular podcast Bringing Business to Retail, as well as a global speaker & presenter on scaling retail businesses. She has developed a reputation for being allergic to ‘playing small’ - combining a no-nonsense approach with a deep understanding of exactly what is needed to be a successful independent retailer. Everything she does is focused on helping other business owners take the action they need to flourish, succeed and realize their big vision.

Bill McCormick discovered the power of LinkedIn and social selling when he and his wife started their advertising specialty company over 5 years ago. With only a handful of clients, he quickly became a student of social selling, discovering how to find leads and generate sales. Now, Bill’s passion is to take what he’s learned and pass that on to those in sales, helping them leverage LinkedIn to build stronger relationships, taking connections from the digital space to the face-to-face. Bill is the CSO of Social Sales Link as well as a member of The Sales Experts Channel where he co-hosts a weekly show, Making Sales Social which will be released as a podcast in the very near future.

Rowan Wiechmann is a High Performance Coach and founder of The Pure Man. As an Entrepreneur and former Military Sergeant, Rowan is a Leader of Ambitious Entrepreneurs, engaging them for 2-7 Times their growth in Business and all areas of their lives.

Connect with Chelsea Cohen, an Amazon inventory management expert and the co-founder of SoStocked.com, which is an Amazon inventory management software. Chelsea’s also a 7-figure Amazon seller, speaker & consultant. Her regular clients include 7 & 8-figure sellers. She has been featured on AM/PM Podcast, Seller Stories with Jungle Scout & the Amazing Summit stage, among others.

Joe Bernstein Founded Drop the Armor Wellness because he is on a mission to help other men feel the love and freedom that he learned to cultivate when his life fell apart in 2013. After learning to thrive romantically in response to divorce, losing 160 lbs without diets, and leaving his 1st career to build a mission focused business, he became LIT UP to help other men do the same. His clients are often successful business owners, executives in tech, top individual performers, leaders, creatives, entrepreneurs or anyone who wants a Lit Up Life. They are big hearted men that often feel stuck in their heads, stuck in their careers and desiring more social or romantic connection. Joe helps them to let go of overthinking and using stress as a motivator, to live a life rooted in a clear head, an open heart, and solid guts.

Arif is a CTO, technology disruptor and angel investor. He specialises in combining strategy with cutting-edge technology to deliver impact at speed for the modern business world. He has experience managing budgets c.$1bn+, P&L $900m+, and led teams of 2,000+ people. He has also been a founder and angel investor to multiple successful start-ups. Arif uses a pragmatic, value driven style to find ways that the latest innovations and next-generation technology can fuel company success to transform businesses and improve financial performance. He currently advises some of the World's largest and most iconic companies on digital innovation, growth, strategy and technology.

Jim Clouse is the Founder, CEO and inventor of ClikitySplit, the world’s first and only real time dynamic marketing engine as well as the world’s fastest vertical search engine. Jim is a pioneer in online mapping and GPS use, built his first website in February 1998, has been making his living online full-time for the past 23 years and in 2020 received a patent on his real time marketing technology. ClikitySplit is built for both business owners and end users, and through it's unique approach and technology implementation Jim wants to level the playing field and help savvy marketers differentiate their business, seize attention and earn the end user’s patronage.

Shaahin Cheyene is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of the start-up Accelerated Intelligence. Cheyene shares his passion to accelerate intelligence through his latest company and products and is positioning the company to be the leader in the brain nutrition space. Born in Iran, Cheyene is an award winning entrepreneur, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, California. In the early 1990′s while still in his teens, Cheyene spearheaded the “Smart Drug Movement” by inventing and branding the original legal Herbal Ecstacy, which became a global phenomenon selling millions of units all over the world. In the early 2000’s Cheyene worked with several major pharmaceutical companies to bring the technologies and benefits of plant medicines to the mainstream. In 2000 Cheyene invented, patented and developed a revolutionary new medicine delivery technology with the Vapir Vaporizer, which continues to sell millions of units worldwide, preparing Vapir for the public markets but subsequently selling it in 2006.

Aidan Sowa is a entrepreneur who got into the digital marketing space in 2016 due to working with the MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge. Aidan is now the founder and CEO of Sowa Marketing Agency. Sowa Marketing Agency is a Rhode Island company that specializes in helping entrepreneurs get featured in the media, guaranteed. Aidan believes all entrepreneurs should focus on building their brand as they either have the choice to differentiate themselves from their competition or die as a commodity.

Lisa is Chief Marketing Officer at Marketplace SuperHeroes, an 8-figure online education and services platform for people who want to create a 5-7 figure income stream selling simple, everyday items on Amazon. Lisa has played a key role in Marketplace SuperHeroes’ rapid growth from 0- $10MM. Marketplace SuperHeroes and their rapidly expanding team of 80 people aim to impact 1 million people worldwide. Her and her partners' new and exciting venture called Grow My Reach are now focusing on helping existing business owners to create Perpetual Launch systems and adopt the marketing strategies and methods that have helped these unknown entrepreneurs build multiple 8+ figure businesses.

Let's Talk Subscriptions! For over 20-years, Paul has built, scaled, and sold multiple subscription-focused businesses and today runs the largest conference and trade group focused on the DTC subscription space. An around-the-clock volunteer firefighter, husband, and father of four, Paul's passion for helping others is a central part of his character. From launching a SaaS company at SXSW to building one of the biggest brands in the subscription box economy, Paul has a handle on every aspect of a subscription-focused business and knows exactly how they succeed… and fail.

Jarod Spiewak is the founder and lead strategist of Comet Fuel, a boutique, strategy-first, marketing agency. Jarod got his start in the world of marketing at the age of 14 to make money online to pay for college, which he started attending at 15. Years past, and several next-to free gigs and “real jobs” later (including as a marketing strategist), Jarod didn't feel as though the agency that he wanted to work for existed, so he started it instead. Over the past few years, Comet Fuel (formerly Blue Dog Media) focuses on long-term growth without the typical agency BS, and has successfully managed over $10MM in advertising spend and has returned millions of dollars in profit to their clients.

Raúl Galera is the Chief Advocate at ReferralCandy, an app that allows ecommerce brands to set up and run customer referral programs. ReferralCandy is the leading platform in terms of referral marketing for ecommerce brands. Founded over 10 years ago, ReferralCandy has helped over 30,000 brands leverage the power of word-of-mouth and turn their customer base into their marketing team. Referral marketing is a blend of organic content, community marketing and influencer marketing. Word-of-mouth is a powerful channel for both successful global names as well as new, niche brands. Referral marketing blends perfectly with brands that have a clear customer-centric approach, making it affordable for companies of any size to attract new customers while retaining existing ones. Raúl has been leading ReferralCandy’s partnership efforts for the past five years, working alongside marketing agencies, media and tech companies. On a regular day, you’ll likely find him with a half-full cup of coffee next to him and a salsa pl

With broad experience providing executive leadership and business counsel to companies across industries including retail, manufacturing, energy, medical/bio and tech, Andrew founded DOPE CFO and has built a national cannabis accounting/bookkeeping and tax training program to help students in all 50 states unlock a new world of clients, empowering them to start their own practices and create a stream of wealth for themselves in the newly developed Cannabis and CBD/Hemp industry. Andrew was runner up for Portland Business Journal's CFO of the Year in 2017, making him the first cannabis CFO to ever be nominated. He has served in Big 4 including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, as well as the winner of the 1995 Gold Medal Award for the highest score on the CPA exam. He is an expert in cannabis startups, CFO services, turnaround and high-growth strategies, capital sourcing, mergers, exits and wealth protection.