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David C. Levine has seen more financial products, services, and transactions than most investors will see in a lifetime. David was the Director of National Sales for one of the financial services industry's fastest growing independent broker-dealers which at its peak had over 1,000 registered representatives. Most recently, David was the Director of Business Development for the broker-dealer and registered investment advisor divisions of a publicly traded financial services firm with hundreds of brokers, tens of thousands of clients, and billions of dollars of assets under management. David has been licensed as a general securities representative, a registered principal, investment advisor and insurance agent for Life, Health, Variable, Fixed, and Equity Indexed Annuities. David also successfully developed and licensed Retirement Planning software to a top 10 Mutual Fund Company. David left the financial services industry behind to help protect investors going forward. He is the founder and CEO of InvestorP

Entrepreneur, speaker and author Jay Maharjan's latest book is Winning Lessons for Entrepreneurs in the Conceptual Economy. A new economic model is unfolding gradually before our eyes, but the future remains unclear. While we don't yet fully understand this new model, one thing is for sure: The Knowledge economy we have come to know is changing. With a unique background in engineering, art and management, Maharjan is singularly qualified to lay out the clear challenges and opportunities that both entrepreneurs and the workforce will encounter in this new economy. Through personal anecdotes -- ranging from his first internship where he devised an entrepreneurial solution that saved Chrysler millions...to his successful launching and scaling of companies in multiple verticals -- Maharjan provides the reader with a roadmap for navigating the changing economic landscape. Jay started his entrepreneurial career in 2001 with one of his earlier companies selected as THE 'start up' company that was ahead of its ti

Mark Shaefer, Executive Director of {grow}, is among the most acclaimed and accomplished marketing consultants in America, with a special emphasis in social media marketing.  He's an AdAge magazine “Power 150″ marketing blogger, TweetSmarter 2011 Global Twitter User of the year, and Peer-elected 2011 B2B Twitter User of the Year. He has won numerous international awards for his blog {grow}, is the author of three bestselling marketing books, and owns seven patents. His book The Tao of Twitter is the best-selling book on Twitter in the world and was named the B2B Magazine (UK) social media book of the year. His book Return On Influence was named to the elite “Top Academic Titles” of the year by the American Library Association, which declared it a “path-finding” and “essential” book. Mark has 30 years of global sales and marketing experience and two advanced degrees, in business and applied behavioral sciences. He is a globally-recognized business writer, university lecturer, and innovator, receiving seven i

Dr. Joe Rubino, CEO of the Center For Personal Reinvention, is acknowledged as one of the world's foremost experts on the topic of elevating self-esteem. He is a life-changing personal development and success coach on how to restore self-esteem, achieve business success, maximize joy and fulfillment in life and productivity. He is known for his groundbreaking work in personal and leadership development, building effective teams, enhancing listening and communication skills, life and business coaching and optimal life planning. His 12 best-selling books and audio programs are available in 24 languages and in 59 countries and include: The Self-Esteem Book: The Ultimate Guide to Boost the Most Underrated Ingredient for Success and Happiness in Life.The Success Code, Books I & IIThe Magic Lantern: A Fable about Leadership, Personal Excellence, and EmpowermentThe Legend of the Light-Bearers: A Fable about Personal Reinvention and Global TransformationThe Seven Blessings: A Fable about the Secrets to Living Y

Shel Horowitz is an author, international speaker, columnist, and marketing consultant. He believes that businesses can succeed by embracing principles of honesty, integrity, and environmental responsibility. The first of his books on marketing was published in 1985, and since then he has written several other award-winning books and hundreds of articles on marketing. His focus has been primarily on ethical, green, and frugal marketing. Stressing values-based, big-picture marketing that tends to be less expensive than traditional approaches, he develops marketing methods and materials based in such guerrilla marketing techniques as forming partnerships, attracting media publicity, and using social media effectively. Shel was still a teenager when he started doing publicity and marketing for grassroots environmental and community organizations with zero promotional budget. There wasn’t even money available for stamps, so he hand-delivered press releases on a three-speed bicycle. Trained as a journalist, he f

Bob "The Teacher" Jenkins has served as a business coach and online marketing trainer for thousands of coaches, entrepreneurs, and business leaders around the world. He loves helping coaches impact more people with less effort through leveraged online marketing strategies. He’s the author of Take Action! Revise Later, 21 Ways To Grow Your Coaching Business, and over a dozen online training courses. He also co-facilitates Hotseat Holiday Business Growth Retreats with Therese Sparby. For ten years, Bob taught U.S. History to freshman and World Religions to seniors at a public high school in Maryland. That sparked his online nickname, Bob The Teacher, which is much better known than his real name.

Jay Baer is the founder of ConvinceandConvert.com and host of the Social Pros podcast. Known as a hype-free social media and content strategist and speaker, he is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype. Jay has consulted with more than 700 companies on digital marketing since 1994. He was named one of America’s top social media consultants by Fast Company magazine, and the Convince and Convert blog is ranked as the world’s #1 content marketing resource. An active angel investor, he’s also involved in an advisory capacity with several social media and content marketing start-up companies. At Convince & Convert, he oversees big picture ideas for corporate clients, helps agency customers understand and profit from social and digital services, and spreads the gospel of social and content acceleration with dozens of speaking engagements annually. Convince & Convert is not an agency but social and content accelerators. They help you get bet

Barry Moltz gets business owners growing again by unlocking their long forgotten potential.  With decades of entrepreneurial experience in his own business ventures as well as consulting countless other entrepreneurs, Barry has discovered the formula to get stuck business owners unstuck and marching forward.  Barry applies simple, strategic steps to facilitate change. Barry has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 20 years. After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities.  He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation.  His first book, “You Need to Be A Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business” describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business.  It is in its fifth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai. His

Mark Fidelman is the CEO for Raynforest Inc, an Influencer Marketing Network, and the author of Socialized! which some call “the playbook for Social Business”. He provides an insider's view of the modern business world based on his years of experience working as an executive and consultant within the Global 3000. He's also a contributor to Forbes.com where he writes about social, mobile and marketing trends.

John Lynn, @techguy on Twitter, is an avid blogger and online entrepreneur who runs 25 highly trafficked blogs across 3 niches: Healthcare IT, Reality TV, and Vegas Startup companies. He has a broad range of IT skills and the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical groups due to his strong experience in healthcare IT (specifically electronic medical record), social media, and SEO. He recently acquired a Healthcare IT Career company to compliment the existing Healthcare IT blogs. He has a range of skills in marketing, blogging and SEO along with a strong ability to create compelling content quickly. He teaches others how to do what he does at Slow and Steady Blogging.

Lori Ruff is known as the LinkedIn Diva. She's a trainer, speaker, author and CEO of Integrated Alliances Social Media. One of the most connected women on LinkedIn, she specializes in B2B sales and marketing and credits passion, persistence, and courage for her success. She has been ranked as an AGBeat Top 50 Industry Influencer of 2014, Forbes Top 10 Women Social Media Power Influencer of 2013, Top 23 Social Media Power Influencer of 2012, and Moody’s Top 50 Favorite People of 2012. She's the author of the upcoming “Keep It Real: Living Life Fearlessly” and co-host of “RockTheWorld with LinkedIn” radio. She offers free training information at RockLinkedIn.com.

Greg Arnold is an empowering speaker, trainer, mentor and success coach. His unique leadership style is based on his years of business building and highly successful experiences. He has been involved in the home-based business industry for 40 years. During that time he has built successful businesses in the financial industry and network marketing, and teaches others how to effectively build online subscriber lists. Greg has built teams of several thousand distributors, starting from scratch, with three different companies. He also has 5 years experience as a successful Network Marketing company CEO and he is the author of the wildly entertaining book; The Multi-Level Mangler In King Arthur’s Court which was in Amazon’s top 1% of best sellers for over three years. With a background as a winning high school football coach, Greg is able to help people bring our their inner champions -- including the drive to move forward regardless of what stumbling blocks stand in the way. Greg can show you how to perform at

Robert Imbriale, the President of Ultimate Wealth, Inc., is passionate about success. It’s a topic he has studied most of his adult life, and his favorite tool for creating success is a small business. He’s a very knowledgeable marketing expert of both on and off-line marketing strategies and he has helped many business owners turn an idea into a profitable business – some of those have reached the million-dollar mark inside of 18 months. Known as The Motivation Coach, Robert is a powerful speaker, seminar leader, business strategy expert, marketing expert, and a person who clearly understands human potential. His unique combination of human psychology with his passion for the tools that make business possible give him what some refer to as an “unfair advantage” when it comes to helping his clients in business.

As an award winning filmmaker and actress, Adryenn Ashley  is used to transforming herself and others into riveting onscreen characters. "There are no obstacles, only opporunities," she says. She uses her well honed techniques to transform everyday entrepreneurs into successful business celebrities. As a mentor to CEOs worldwide, she is directly responsible for adding significant revenue to her client’s bottom line. Adryenn founded Wow! Is Me, Inc. after developing a proprietary marketing formula that works with both retail and service based businesses.  Her clients are from every industry, and offer a diverse selection of offerings. Her high-end product line, Red Carpet Results, helps clients create their expert authority profile online and in the media to keep them top-of-mind with their ideal clients. Her fundamental belief is that everyone has a special skill -- a unique quality worthy of praise and profit -- and her mission is to help clients find that skill or knowledge and craft a profitable plan to

Chris Brogan is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, marketing consultant, and pioneer in the social media marketing industry. He is also the creator and publisher ofOWNER Magazine. OWNER is a digital magazine dedicated to covering the business curriculum for your future. Whether you are the owner of a business, or just the owner of your cubicle with a lot of goals and intentions, it is created for you. Their goal is to help you with insight, instruction, interviews, innovation, and interesting perspectives that will be helpful for your intentions. It's not about small biz versus big, but about old perspectives versus new. It's a gathering point for all those reinvented wheels, those people who were called crazy... the carnival of freaks and those who don’t quite fit in.

Jon Ferrara has over 20 years of pioneering experience in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation (SFA). Jon won Entrepreneur of the year for co-founding the bestselling GoldMine CRM in 1989 -- with over 2 million users, one of the most successful enterprise software companies of its day. In 2009, Jon founded Nimble.com to reinvent Relationship Management for our Social Era. A popular sales and marketing speaker, Jon is an evangelist who believes that intelligently nurturing key business relationships is a crucial pillar of growing a business. Relationships make or break your business — and they’re hard to manage in our noisy world. Jon and his team built Nimble to smartly combine all your contacts, email, social signals, activities, and follow-ups everywhere you work. They deliver context and insights so you can be quick and agile at growing your business... You can be Nimble.

Kate Buck (aka “kbj” or @katebuckjr on Twitter) is the Founder and CEO of KBJOnline, a social media management and consulting agency in Austin, Texas. Kate has worked with some of the top names in Internet Marketing as well as consulted with dozens of entrepreneurs, businesses and nonprofits both around the globe. She is the creator of the Let’s Get Social training program, in which more than 10,000 social media managers have participated. In addition to speaking at leading interactive marketing conferences and conducting training events around the country, Kate has also hosted wildly popular social events. Prior to founding KBJOnline, she served for three years as the LandmarkConnect Community Manager for Landmark Education, a leading global training and development company. A student herself, Kate is fascinated with the technology that connects people of like minds and interests around the world. Kate is passionate about training and developing social media managers and teams in the most effective strateg

Can you really, systematically and consistently get the results you want from others while making them feel genuinely good about themselves, about the process, and about you? Our guest says, “Absolutely!” Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at corporate conventions and for entrepreneurial events. He regularly addresses audiences ranging in size from 50 to 16,000 — sharing the platform with notables including today’s top thought leaders, broadcast personalities, Olympic athletes and political leaders including a former United States President. Although for years he was best known for his book Endless Referrals, over the past few years it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver (coauthored with John David Mann) that has captured the heart and imagination of his readers. It's been a best seller on The Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek lists, and has consistently stayed in the top 25 on 800ceoread’s Business Book Best Seller List. It’s been translated into 21 languages and is his fourth book to sell over 250,000

Lisa Buyer is a speaker, journalist, and educator on the trending topic of public relations and how it is influenced by social media and search engine optimization. The author of Social PR Secrets: How to Optimize, Socialize and Publicize your Company's News, Lisa has a degree in journalism and more than 20 years experience as a public relations agency owner. Her experience blends the traditional fundamentals of public relations, corporate communications and branding with today's influence of digital media.  Social media and public relations {Social PR} are a powerful marketing match and potential good karma for a brand. Social PR and search engines redefine how we communicate, deliver news, receive news, find information, and make decisions -- whether it is our next vacation, investment, computer, doctor, lawyer, or hair salon. The public relations cycle no longer relies on traditional journalism to deliver company news... now that news is social, mobile, visual, and optimized to best reach target markets.

Austin Gunter is a Social Architect, Content Marketer and Community Builder for Startup companies, including being the Manager of Content & Community for WPEngine, a managed hosting platform for WordPress. His role is to be the Community Face of the company, which means he has customer conversations from the “pre-sales” questions on social media channels, to developing relationships with customers long-term for potential biz dev opportunities. He travels and speaks at lots of conferences, and brings customer feedback to the product team. Along the way, he has developed content marketing strategies. He analyzes and develops content and product narratives that can drive messaging on social media, online communities, and product marketing. He believes in developing trust online over time, and bending over backward to maintain the trust. He believes that the best marketing on the planet is the kind of marketing that finds out a potential customer’s real needs early and is willing to tell them they *shouldn