Online Success Journey

Resa Gooding is a Marketing Automation and CRM expert who specializes in leveraging platforms like HubSpot, InfusionSoft, and Salesforce to help companies generate more leads, improve conversion rates, and close more deals. Resa is the co-founder and Client Services Director of Cacao Media, a HubSpot-certified Platinum Partner Agency with offices in Tel Aviv, New York, and Nairobi. Using CRM and marketing automation processes set up by Resa and her team, startups and traditional companies are able to spend more time closing deals instead of being bogged down by administrative tasks. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Resa now lives in Israel with her family (she came to Israel in 2007 for a 2-week vacation… which turned into a 12-year hiatus). When she’s not planning/executing her clients’ marketing strategies or training teams, you’re most likely to find Resa sharing her marketing and sales expertise with a captive audience at any given co-working space.

Bill Bice has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company at age 14, putting on road races, then starting ProLaw Software, the first integrated ERP for law firms at age 18. After selling the company Bill became a VC as a founding partner in the Verge Fund, investing in high tech, high growth companies in the Southwest. One of the core things that Bill has learned in building and investing in companies is that the go-to market is always the hardest part of growing a business. He got so frustrated in trying to get great marketing for his companies that he decided to tackle the problem. A programmer at heart, Bill founded boomtime, tackling marketing as a technology problem and building the world’s first marketing-as-a-service platform: fuse. Instead of reinventing the wheel, boomtime applies proven marketing techniques at scale.

Jeff Schechter, aka "Shecky" has had the entrepreneurial bug his entire life. He started his first business right out of college, and over the years has been involved in numerous businesses ventures. His love for real estate investing began in the 1980's, when he rehabbed 5 of his own residences, before the term "house-hacking" even existed. Since those early days of torn up kitchens and bathrooms, he's bought and sold many properties, and is an active investor to this day. In addition to investing, he operates a private consulting practice. He thrives on helping people realize their full potential... not just in business and investing, but in all aspects of life.

Rytis Lauris is a co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, the powerful marketing automation platform. Rytis has gained notoriety within ecommerce community for his insights on omnichannel and the future of ecommerce. As a successful entrepreneur who has spent more than 10 years building and bootstrapping startups, Rytis discovered ecommerce marketers have very specific needs around automation. Since 2014, Rytis has made it his mission to help and empower small and medium-sized ecommerce merchants, sharing his knowledge and expertise with the online and business communities. In his spare time, Rytis can be found bike riding and achieving his personal goal of reading one book a week.

Suzanne Brown is a strategic marketing and business consultant and work-life balance speaker, strategist, and bestselling and award-winning author. She empowers women, especially moms, to think differently about balance, using her own story and insights from interviews with more than 110 professional working moms. She covers practical topics like productivity and time management, being more intentional with your time, the importance of mentors and sponsors, and finding time for self-care. Suzanne has been featured in Forbes, Shape, Reader’s Digest, Bustle, Working Mother, and Time. Suzanne, her husband, and their two active young boys live in Austin, TX. In their downtime, they can be found hiking local trails or finding some new nearby or far away adventures.

Darcy is the founder of Propel Marketing & Design. Propel is a full-service marketing agency located in South Florida that works with companies of all sizes. One facet of the organization and one of Darcy’s true passions is in educating and training small businesses and entrepreneurs on improving their brand’s online presence and website rankings. She is a recognized public speaker and educator on topics related to traditional marketing, content marketing, SEO, social media, WordPress, PR, and other digital marketing strategies. Over the past few years through online and in-person trainings, she’s taught over 17,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Jessi Beyer is a Transformational Speaker and Mental Health Advocate who works with young adults by offering a path forward to healing through discovering your “why”, activating your passions, and living in your purpose. Jessi believes that discussions are the missing ingredient in removing the stigma surrounding mental health. Because of this, she’s on a mission to help those around her feel valid, heard, and appreciated in their mental health struggles and know they’re not alone. Jessi holds a BA in psychology from the University of Minnesota, has landed coverage in over twenty media outlets, and has experience presenting to large groups at universities and conferences. Outside of her professional life, Jessi is a K9 search and rescue trainee and a proud pet mom.

PJ Taei is the founder of UScreen, an all-in-one video streaming and monetization tool with thousands of video creators for people wanting to create their own online video presence.

Ian Reynolds is a Partner and Chief Solutions Architect at Zibtek, a software development firm focused on helping businesses of all sizes in the US solve their core problems with software. They empower entrepreneurs, growth companies, enterprises and visionary firms to achieve greater profitability and efficiency, valuation and ultimate success by building the right tools through custom software. Ian has spent the better part of his career in consulting and has served in diverse industries across the spectrum of business.

Melvin Figueroa is a web designer, branding expert, and the founder of Mello Multimedia. For the past decade, Melvin has been working passionately in the design industry, creating brand identities and building websites for small business owners on both a local and national scale. Melvin has always believed that websites should be more than just something nice to look at and should serve each individual business in a more dynamic way. By understanding his client’s behaviors, pain points, and benefits of their product or service, Melvin is able to create them a website that will act as a 24/7 salesperson and help take their business to the next level. This past year, Melvin has spoken at Goldman Sachs 1,000 Small Business Cohort as well as the Rhode Island Black Business Association about the importance of having a strong online presence and how it can make a deep impact on businesses.

Hayk Tadevosyan is a proud father, husband, deacon, athlete and entrepreneur passionate about serving his community and inspiring others to reach their goals. Hayk owns and operates a thriving insurance and construction business that he built from scratch after immigrating to the United States at only 13 years of age with his father while having only a few hundred US dollars in their pockets. From humble beginnings in Armenia, where he lived without the luxury of running water or electricity, often going hungry, to now a successful businessman who coaches and consults other business owners, professionals, aspirants and team members on replicable sales systems, processes of entrepreneurship and personal development – Hayk has been described by many as a modern example of the American dream in action.

Chris Palmisano is Chief Operating Officer/Chief Revenue Officer and Board Member at Rocket Dollar. He has held leadership roles in sales, marketing, business development, and operations at Khorus Software, SolarWinds, and Google. He is a mentor at startup accelerators, a guest lecturer at business schools, an angel investor, Founding Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, and an advisor to CEOs. Chris is a former Marine Corps officer and lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma, from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, an MS from Boston University, a BS from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a US patent in mobile computing.

Justin A. Goodbread, CFP®, CEPA®, CVGA®, owner of FinanciallySimple.com, is a nationally recognized financial planner, financial educator, wealth manager, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He has 20+ years of experience starting, buying, owning, and selling businesses. Justin is a two time winner of the Investopedia Top 100 Advisor award and Exit Planning Institute’s Exit Planner Leader of the Year. Recently, Justin published his first book: The Ultimate Sale. In it he shows business owners how to create long-term value and accelerate growth in their company with the ultimate goal of selling the business for top dollar when the owner wants to retire.

Jack Gibson began his entrepreneurial journey at 19, and founded his first company at the ripe old age of 21. Operating a successful nutrition consulting and distribution company, he had built a multi-million dollar venture before he was old enough to rent a car. Soon thereafter, he bought his first home as an investment. One quickly became five, and then the bug hit. He became obsessed with learning everything about Real Estate Investing and soon had over 50 investment properties generating passive income. Today, Jack spends his time mentoring other entrepreneurs, building his real estate investment portfolio, and helping other investors to build a brighter future through the power of turnkey real estate income.

Kelly Glover started podcasting in 2007 (back then it was herweekly community radio show with the music & ads cut out). In the 12 years since her first podcast was published, Kelly graduated from The Australian, Film, Television & Radio School, hosted herown syndicated radio show, produced podcasts for the Mamamia Women's Network and launched her own podcast agency, The Talent Squad.

After launching his first business at 24 years old straight out of college, JF struggled with success in growth until realizing he was the problem. Key insights then came like: "A business net worth will never out grow the self worth of his owners". Armed with this realization over the last 9 years, he's learned much about himself, the business and the spiritual world. Today he's confident he has a lot to give back to any young driven individual wanting to reach their next level.

Sean Webb probably knows the human mind as well as anyone can, and his talent at helping others to get the most from their minds is exceptional. His books have helped top executives become better leaders, they’ve helped U.S. Navy SEALs sharpen their minds beyond the most elite training levels previously available, and they’ve even helped readers self-cure their lifelong substance addictions. Although his work includes logically modeling human emotions for the world of Artificial Emotional Intelligence (artificial consciousness), his deeper passion lies in helping individuals supercharge their minds and lives with the knowledge of how their mind actually works, so they can manipulate their mind’s output levels. Sean loves sharing the practical neuroscience of how to hack the mind to generate happiness and increase efficiencies from within.

Matt Giovanisci is a serial entrepreneur, starting websites like Swim University that make over $250,000 annually after a decade. He's founded personal finance brands and podcasts and coffee education sites, homebrewing hobby sites and more. He has been fired, laid off, and collected unemployment. He's glad it all happened, because without those moments, he's convinced that he wouldn't be where he is today – in a home office in Boulder writing about becoming mildly successful.

Genecia Alluora is former Miss Singapore and Southeast Asia Woman of Excellence 2010. She is the Founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female entrepreneur network in Southeast Asia that connects more than 200,000 women across the region, with presence in 7 countries, she is passionate about helping women to take their businesses from offline to attracting clients ONLINE, get recognition & build a brand. Her epic journey from being in a six-figure debt to making her first million fueled her passion to empower women to do the same. Genecia is a globally renowned speaker and leading women’s empowerment expert with over a decade of experience speaking on stages worldwide.

Matt Johnson is a marketer, entrepreneur, podcast expert and musician. As founder of Pursuing Results, a podcast PR and production agency based in San Diego, Matt runs a worldwide virtual team helping business coaches and agencies break in and dominate their niche through podcasting. Matt currently hosts niche business podcasts such as YouX and Real Estate Uncensored, and recently a free training on how you can get featured on the right podcasts to grow your business.