SPEAKERS
Gary Vaynerchuk
Entrepreneur and Author of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy
@garyveeOnline marketing trailblazer Gary Vaynerchuk is a 33-year-old entrepreneur whose dual identity as both business guru and wine guy has made him known as the "Social Media Sommelier." A self-trained wine expert, he revolutionized the wine industry with his video blog, "Wine Library TV," and grew his family wine business from $4 million to $60 million in five years. Over the years, Gary has parlayed his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business into successful careers as a speaker, consultant and New York Times Best-Selling author.
Ali Brown
Award winning CEO, featured on Secret Millionaire
@alibrownAli Brown is an entrepreneur mentor and CEO of Ali International, a company that ranked in the 2009 Inc. 500. She was named one of Forbes' Women to Watch, one of Ernst & Young's Winning Women for 2010, and was featured in the 2011 season finale of ABC's Secret Millionaire. Ali provides business and success advice and resources to 50,000 members globally via www.AliBrown.com.
Chris Brogan
Entrepreneur, Author of Google Plus for Business and Co-Author of Trust Agents
@chrisbroganChris Brogan is a renowned expert on the intersection of business, media and technology. He is a New York Times Bestselling author of books like Trust Agents, Social Media 101 and Google Plus for Business. He is also a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. His blog, chrisbrogan.com, is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. Chris is president of Human Business Works, a media and education company and is also the co-founder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.
Pamela Slim
Author of Escape From Cubicle Nation
@pamslimPamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. A former corporate manager and entrepreneur for more than a decade, she deeply understands the questions and concerns faced by first-time entrepreneurs.
Geoffrey Moore
Author of Crossing the Chasm
@geoffreyamooreGeoffrey Moore is a prolific voice on business growth and market expansion. He is a best-selling author and globally known for his expertise in market development and business and investment strategies. During his career, Geoffrey has consulted with some of the leading companies in the technology industry. He is a Venture Partner at Mohr Davidow, and serves as an advisor to many of the firm’s portfolio companies, including Infusionsoft. His books, Escape Velocity, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, Living on the Fault Line and Dealing with Darwin are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is managing director of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.
Darcy Juarez
Director of Marketing, GKIC
@daryj9Darcy Juarez has spent the last 7 years creating marketing systems in the direct response and information marketing world that have gained national attention and earned her accolades in 2007 and 2009. As the director of marketing/operations for Dentist Profits and now the director of marketing for GKIC, Darcy has a ton of experience and knowledge when it comes to Infusionsoft and automation. In fact, she was the winner of our Ultimate Marketer contest in 2006! Darcy has taught thousands of business owners her step-by-step strategies for creating their own success and obtaining more time and more profits.
Rich Schefren
Founder, Strategic Profits
@richschefrenRich Schefren is an entrepreneur with an education in accountancy and strategic planning. He has a proven track record of business development and marketing excellence. In 2004 Schefren formalized his consulting business by launching Strategic Profits, whose target market is currently Internet marketers. Rich teaches entrepreneurs how to have control over their lives, have certainty that their businesses will operate efficiently without their presence and the have the ability to leverage resources so they can achieve their dreams.
Jermaine Griggs
Owner, Hear and Play & 2011 Infusionsoft Ultimate Marketer
@realhearandplayJermaine has always had a great passion for music. At the age of 16, he decided to share his love with others and started Hear and Play, which helps people learn to play music without reading sheet music. Jermaine's passion for using Infusionsoft earned him the title of Ultimate Marketer at the 2011 InfusionCon.
Ramon Ray
Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com
@ramonrayAs a journalist, tech evangelist and editor of Smallbiztechnology.com, Ramon brings his unique dose of humor, insight and practical advice to thousands of business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals across the country. A former small business technology consultant, Ramon is also the author of Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses and Technology Resources for Growing Businesses.
Loral Langemeier
Best-Selling Author of The Millionaire Maker
@loralLoral Langemeier is one of today's most visible and innovative money experts. A New York Times, USA Today and Amazon best-selling author and a leading entrepreneurial speaker, Langemeier has coached thousands of success stories around the world by giving them the simple tools to generate cash and build wealth. She is author of four national best-selling books: The Millionaire Maker, The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing, The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life and her just-released book, Put More Cash In Your Pocket. Loral is a valued Infusionsoft customer and partner and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs realize success.
Brent Leary
Co-Founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC
@BrentLearyBrent Leary is a crm industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and award winning blogger. He is co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC, an Atlanta based CRM advisory firm covering tools and strategies for improving business relationships. In 2009 he co-authored Barack 2.0: Social Media Lessons for Small Business.
Recognized by InsideCRM as one of the 25 most influential industry leaders, Leary also is a past recipient of CRM Magazine's Most Influential Leader Award. He serves on the national board of the CRM Association, on the advisory board of the University of Toronto's CRM Center of Excellence, and on the editorial advisory board for The Atlanta Tribune. Leary writes regularly for Inc.com and MyCustomer.com, and serves as Blogger-in-Residence for TheSocialCustomer.com. He hosts the "One on One" conversation series at SmallBizTrends.com, and teams up with Paul Greenberg on the CRM Playaz video show. He blogs at BrentLeary.com.
Paul Greenberg
Managing Principal, The 56 Group, LLC
@pgreenbeIn addition to being the author of the best-selling CRM at the Speed of Light, Paul Greenberg is the Managing Principal of The 56 Group, LLC, a customer strategy consulting firm, focused on cutting edge CRM and Social CRM strategic services. He is a founding partner of the CRM training company, BPT Partners, LLC, a training and consulting venture composed of a number of CRM luminaries that has quickly become the authoritative training for the CRM industry.
Brad Martineau
Founder of Sixth Division
@bradmartineauBrad was the sixth employee at Infusionsoft back in the day. He spent six years building the product and knows a thing or two about how it works. Now he runs Infuse My Business to help entrepreneurs unleash the fury of Infusionsoft in their business. He's excited to present at InfusionCon and rub shoulders with more entrepreneurs at InfusionCon.
Mike Corak
EVP of Strategy, Managing Director, Ethology
@mikecorakMike Corak is the EVP of strategy at ethology, a digital marketing agency headquartered based in Scottsdale with offices in Portland and Los Angeles. Mike has over 14 years of experience researching, strategically planning and managing successful digital marketing programs for a wide range of clients including some of the world's leading brands like Coca-Cola, Nike, FedEx and more. An agency veteran, Mike has both executed tactics hands-on and managed entire agency digital departments in his career. Mike is a frequent speaker and blogger on all things digital, and will soon be officially launching www.digitalmarketingstrategy.com.
Mike Searls
Founder of SuccessTrainingSystems.com
@mikesearlsMike Searls is a seasoned entrepreneur and business builder. A recipient of the prestigious Inc. 500 Award and recently named the GKIC "Marketer of the Year." Mike has built and sold two successful companies, most recently, a company he built from scratch to $30 million. As the founder of Success Training Systems, his mission is to teach other entrepreneurs to do what he has done-start, build and sell a successful business. Mike publishes the "VIP Insider Newsletter" and is a sought-after speaker on entrepreneurship.
Bob Keen
Founder, ResponseFlow
@infusionwpBob Keen, the founder of ResponseFLOW, Inc., has been programming since 1979. In 2009, he ran into Infusionsoft and the fascination that ensued lulled him out of retirement. Since then, Bob has developed some of the most popular Infusionsoft add-on products on the market, such as infusionWP, the membership plugin for Infusionsoft and WordPress. He is a frequent contributor to the Infusionsoft community forum and a recognized API developer.
Leanne Harvey
Director of Marketing, Entrepreneur Press
@leanneharveyLeanne Harvey is the Director of Marketing at Entrepreneur Press, the book publishing division of Entrepreneur Media which is also the parent company to small business powerhouse - Entrepreneur magazine. She is a publishing industry veteran with a proven track record of book, author, and platform development partnered with marketing, sales and distribution experience. She created the Entrepreneur House Author program to help aspiring authors achieve their publishing goals.
Marc Summers
Founder & CEO, Automated Marketing Ltd.
Marc Summers is an Infusionsoft Certified Consultant who started using Infusionsoft just over four years ago for his seminar business. He soon found himself swamped with questions on how he was doing certain things (like automating the whole booking process). As a result, Marc became a consultant for many Infusionsoft users and now runs Automated Marketing Ltd., which employs 16 full-time Infusionsoft experts in the UK who develop plug-ins and website integrations for Infusionsoft users around the world. Systemization and automation are Marc's specialties.
Alexis Neely
The Family Wealth Planning Institute
@AlexisNeelyAlexis Neely has built two million-dollar businesses, published a bestselling book and appeared on many of the top television shows as a legal expert, all while raising two kids and discovering her Truth. Today, she trains, coaches and strategizes with business owners on how to put in place the business and life foundations needed to truly think and play big through her ground-breaking Money Map technology and her LIFT Foundation System.
Tim Ash
Bestselling Author & CEO, SiteTuners
Tim Ash is author of the bestselling book Landing Page Optimization and CEO of SiteTuners, a firm that specializes in improving website conversion rates through landing page diagnosis and redesign, conversion consulting, a/b and multivariate test plan creation, and client training/mentoring. Since 2002, SiteTuners has improved conversion rates for over 850 clients large and small, including Canon, Google, Expedia, CBS, Sony Music, Facebook, Nestle, Verizon Wireless, Texas Instruments, Cisco, and Coach.
Tim is a highly-regarded keynote and conference presenter, and the chairperson of Conversion Conference, the first worldwide conference series focused on improving online conversions. He has published hundreds of articles about website usability, best practices in landing page design, tactics to improve website conversion rates, and is the host of the Landing Page Optimization podcast on WebmasterRadio.fm.
Andy Mackensen
Co-Founder, H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending
@andymackensenAndy Mackensen, social entrepreneur and long-time Infusionsoft customer, believes entrepreneurs should effect positive change by actively seeking solutions to the world's greatest challenges. As co-founder of HUMAN Healthy Vending, he grew revenue from zero in 2009 to $6M in 2011. In 2011, HUMAN was named one of America's "100 Brilliant Companies" by Entrepreneur Magazine and one of America's "100 Most Promising Companies" by Forbes Magazine. Andy is devoted to helping other passionate social entrepreneurs jumpstart a rewarding career that gives back to a worthy cause-solving the childhood obesity epidemic.
Laura Roeder
Social Media Consultant & Author of Facebook Fame
@lkrLaura Roeder is a social media marketing expert empowering small businesses to claim their brand online. Laura is the founder of Creating Fame, Your Backstage Pass to Twitter and author of Facebook Fame: The Facebook Marketing Bible for The Small Business. She was named to the Empact100 top young entrepreneurs age 30 or younger list and has been featured on Fox News, Forbes.com and quoted in the Los Angeles Times and CNET. Laura has been an Infusionsoft customer for over three years and travels the world educating entrepreneurs on leveraging technology to increase profits.
Jeff Liesener
Chief Food Officer, Topline Foods
@toplinefoodsJeff spent seven years in corporate America before deciding it just wasn't for him. After getting some experience in the seminar business, Jeff started High Achievers Network and promoted speakers like Tom Hopkins, Jim Rohn and Jack Canfield. He sold the business in 2008 to start a new dream: Topline Foods, a Phoenix company that provides home delivery of all-natural and organic foods.
Jennifer Bourn
Owner, Bourn Creative
@jenniferbournJennifer Bourn is the creative mind and strategist behind Bourn Creative, an award-winning, full-service brand, website and design firm out of Sacramento, CA. Jennifer is a two-time, Amazon best-selling author of Millionaire Moms in the Making, Success Rituals 2.0: Winning Habits of High-Achieving Women and How She Does It and How You Can Too. Jennifer is also a highly successful Infusionsoft customer.
Scott Palangi
Owner, Palangi Kickboxing
Scott has a passion for helping clients supercharge their fitness routines. At Palangi Kickboxing, he mixes strength training, cardio and kickboxing to whip people into the best shape of their lives. An avid student of marketing, Scott has tripled his revenue and doubled active member enrollment in just two years.
Skip Miller
Founder and President, M3 Learning
Skip Miller is Founder and President of M3 Learning, a ProActive Sales and Sales Management Training Company based in the heart of Silicon Valley.
As President of M3 Learning, Skip has provided training to hundreds of companies in over 35 countries. He created M3 Learning to "make a salesperson better on each individual call." M3 Learning's signature selling methodology, ProActive SellingTM, is unique in its high-definition focus on the tactics of selling and proactive sales cycle control.
Skip is the author of the runaway bestseller, ProActive Sales Management. Ranked number one by Amazon for five consecutive years, it has have been translated into multiple languages worldwide and has become the classic textbook for Sales Managers, both new and seasoned alike. He is also the author of four other bestselling books including ProActive Selling, Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting, Ultimate Sales Tool Kit, and More ProActive Sales Management. He is currently at work on his sixth title.
Janette Gleason
Director of Marketing, Gleason Tax Advisory Group and Gleason Financial Group
@JanetteGleasonJanette and her husband, Joe Gleason, have been small business owners for over six years in the tax and financial planning industries. With her teaching background and passion for Infusionsoft, Janette has been assisting service professionals with centralizing their systems, implementing time-saving strategies, segmenting their databases to launch laser-focused marketing campaigns, and rolling out the red carpet to provide superior customer service to clients. In addition to her marketing endeavors, Janette is also the owner of an online children's clothing boutique.
Adam Metz
Author of There Is No Secret Sauce and The Social Customer
@theMetzAdam Metz is the VP of Business Development at Metz Consulting the social concept. Metz has consulted with nearly 100 companies on how to acquire, manage, monetize and retain customers from the social Web. His first book, There Is No Secret Sauce, has sold or downloaded over 3,000 copies and is currently in its third printing. Adam's second book, The Social Customer, was released in September and has hit #1 on the Amazon marketing charts. Adam is also an Infusionsoft customer.
Matthew O'Brien
Founder/CEO, Mint Social
@BlogsterMatt O'Brien has over 19 years of experience in the digital media, from Fortune 500 companies to Internet technology startup firms. In addition to founding Mint Social, Matt has developed educational curriculum that brings the best marketing, sales and leadership minds together to help businesses quickly and efficiently implement social media to impact their bottom line.
Debbie Green
Founder, Minutes Matter
@minutesmatterDebbie Green founded Minutes Matter, a leader in software used by interior designers internationally. She has grown the business to where this software has become the top tool used by the design community. Debbie tours the country educating designers and sharing her creative, innovative ideas. She also presents seminars on implementing today's technology. Minutes Matter was recently named 'Most Innovative Firm of the Year' in the WOW Awards.
Becki Crosby
Owner and Creative Designer, Whippy Cake
@whippycakeBecki is the owner and creative designer behind Whippy Cake, an Arizona based small business that started with selling hair accessories for women and children and has grown in a few short years into a brand of its own. In addition to product sales, Whippy Cake now offers a successful blog, styling workshops, product marketing consultations and video tutorials. Becki has been a guest speaker at conferences throughout the US including TCC, Creative Estates and SNAP.
Julie Goldman
Founder & CEO, The Original Runner Company
The Original Runner Company is the world's first non-slip fabric aisle runners for weddings and special events. Julie's unique aisle runners have graced the weddings of Kim Kardashian, Kevin Jonas, Fergie, Nicole Ritchie and many more. In addition, Julie's products and entrepreneurial story have been featured on the television shows “Shark Tank”, “Today Show”, “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch”, “The View” and “CBS Sunday Morning” in recent years. Her client base is international and she ships her custom-made aisle runners and accessories worldwide so her marketing needs are vast. She has successfully implemented CRM and marketing automation into her small business and as a result, has seen increased staff efficiency and boosted sales.
INFUSIONSOFT SPEAKERS
Clate Mask
CEO and Co-Founder
@ClateMaskAs Infusionsoft's CEO, Clate leads the company's vision, strategy and growth. His entrepreneurial spirit sparked early in his career and evolved into the software industry while he was at About.com. From there, Clate co-founded Infusionsoft with brothers Scott and Eric Martineau as a way to give small businesses a leg up with smart marketing automation tools designed just for them. His passion for helping small businesses grow is the driving force behind the company's success.
Scott Martineau
Co-Founder and Vice President, Customer Service
@scottmartineauScott's mission is to solve the challenges small businesses face in marketing their products and services. His vision guides the customer experience for Infusionsoft users, leading our support, services and training teams in our goal to revolutionizing the way small businesses grow. His own entrepreneurial experiences and his understanding of what small businesses need enable him to continually evolve our software in innovative and successful ways.
Richard Tripp
Vice President, Product Management and Strategy
@rtrippBefore coming to Infusionsoft, Richard started five companies and spent nearly a decade honing his product development skills at companies like Intuit, Symantec and Novell. As Infusionsoft's head of product management, Richard evaluates industry trends and customer feedback to determine which enhancements will make Infusionsoft even better. His entrepreneurial career combined with decades of software development experience gives him a deep understanding of the needs of small business owners.
Kathy Sacks
Vice President, Communications
@kathysacksA magazine editor, veteran communications pro and proven entrepreneur, Kathy's marketing career spans over 15 years and covers all sides of marketing, journalism and public relations. At Infusionsoft, she leads brand awareness and takes our small business revolution message to the masses. Kathy's entrepreneurial spirit is evident in her successful history of growing organizations, including a boutique PR firm and a publishing company, into highly respected companies.
Marc Chesley
Vice President, Development and Technology
@guitarlawyerWith a blend of technical proficiency and entrepreneurial fire, Marc leads our software engineering, systems administration and email deliverability teams in translating vision and design into tangible product that helps small businesses be more successful. Prior to joining Infusionsoft, Marc successfully founded, grew and sold as computer services company. He has also held executive positions for WinForce Technologies, Inc. and IT Partners.
Greg Head
Chief Marketing Officer
@gregheadazGreg's passion for helping emerging technology companies with their marketing and growth strategies has led to a successful career in the software industry. His impressive track record of creating winning products, brands and businesses includes 15 years helping helping to grow ACT! and SalesLogix from startups into global brands. Now Infusionsoft's CMO, Greg is the architect behind the company's marketing strategy.
Aaron Stead
VP of Sales, Infusionsoft
@aaronsteadAs Infusionsoft's vice president of sales, Aaron is instrumental in driving our overall growth strategy. A proven leader with an extensive background in mid-market CRM software, Aaron has a knack for getting to the heart of customers' needs creating benefits to match.
Prior to joining Infusionsoft, Aaron grew several North American revenue channels for UK-based Sage, a global CRM software firm. He has a B.A. in business administration and communications from Arizona State University and an M.B.A. from the Ken Blanchard College of Business at Grand Canyon University.
Jordan Hatch
Marketing Automation Guru
@jordanhatchJordan (aka "Jason" from the Mastermind Calls) is Infusionsoft's resident marketing automation guru. There isn't a person in the world that has taught more small businesses about the power of marketing automation. He's full of valuable ideas and he inspires ideas through his own creativity.
TJ Lorenzen
Training Manager
@tjlorenzenAs one of the first Infusionsoft employees, TJ has been involved in support, implementation, product management and training. TJ has directly helped close to 800 small business owners grow their businesses.
Kyle Leavitt
President and Co-Founder, CustomerHub
@kyleleavittKyle left his role as director of sales at Infusionsoft in April of 2008 to launch a software business of his own. Soon after, CustomerHub was released as an Infusionsoft add-on product and quickly became a leading product in the Infusionsoft community. CustomerHub grew rapidly until it was acquired by Infusionsoft in October of 2011. Kyle is thrilled to be back as a part of the Infusionsoft team and continues his passion of growing the CustomerHub product.
Brian Gates
Director of Product Management
Before coming to Infusionsoft, Brian founded four different companies and developed several hundred products and services in a variety of vertical markets ranging from consumer goods to SaaS applications. Using his strong user experience background, Brian facilitates the translation of target user benefits into meaningful feature development.
Amy Rushia
Lead Gen Manager
@amersrAmy Rushia has over 11 years of experience with online marketing and media, website management and online promotions. She's a self-proclaimed "Web geek," having spent her entire career working in the interactive industry. Working closely with the Infusionsoft marketing and sales team, runs lead generation efforts for the company and works to bring in quality prospects each month for the sales team.
Joe Manna
Community Manager
@joemannaJoe is Infusionsoft's resident social media expert, overseeing all of the company's social activities including Facebook, Twitter, the InfusionBlog and our new Community. He's also the go-to guy for internal social media education and strategy, and often represents our team at events.
Francis Jones
Trainer
@infusedfrancisFrancis came to Infusionsoft with a strong background in training and education. He loves to train, and it shows in his interaction with his audiences. He has a passion for small business and enjoys helping small business owners learn how to grow.
Cindy Eagar
Partner Program Manager
@cindyeagarCindy focuses on nurturing strategic, mutually profitable relationships with referral partners, Infusionsoft Certified Consultants, add-on partners and affiliates. She has built solid programs that positively impact not only Infusionsoft's growth, but also the growth of our partners and the marketing automation industry.
Matt Peterson
Training Specialist
@mattinazMatt Peterson worked with small businesses long before he joined the Infusionsoft team. He ran his own freelance copywriting business, helping many businesses refine their marketing strategy and brand visibility through clean, captivating content. He brings his content expertise to the customer education team, where he gets to work with Infusionsoft users around the world and help them crush their marketing roadblocks.
Mike Bast
Training Specialist
@michaelbastMike has been with Infusionsoft for over three years. He started on the sales floor and then moved into training. He was an independent producer for the History Channel before coming to Infusionsoft. His expertise is in film and video for the Web.
Dee Allomong
Training Coordinator
@dallomongDee has spent over eight years providing marketing and technology support, consultation, and training to small business owners. She enjoys helping customers plan their marketing automation strategy and follow system best practices. Her passion for making Infusionsoft simple to learn inspires her to make our User Guide articles easy to understand, ensuring customers can reach their goals faster than ever.
Thomas Jones
Infusionsoft Email Compliance Account Manager
@Tj_emailguyThomas brings a background of sales and marketing to the customer support team. He is passionate about customer service and loves working with our customers. He loves getting to know the customers he deals with and is constantly trying to figure out the best way to help them. The experience he gained founding two companies gives him a unique insight into what our customers need and what they are trying to accomplish. If you think he looks a little like Francis, then you'd be right; they're twins.







