Marketing Technology with Douglas Karr

Christopher Carfi is a Senior Strategist on the Silicon Valley anthill. He joined Ant’s Eye View from Edelman Digital, where he was a Vice President in Edelman’s Silicon Valley office. Prior to Edelman, he was a co-founder and CEO at Cerado, which was founded in 2002 to provide software and services that enable businesses, organizations and associations to better connect and understand their customer and member communities.

Mark W. Schaefer is a globally-recognized blogger, educator, business consultant, and author who blogs at {grow} — one of the top marketing blogs of the world. Mark has worked in global sales, PR, and marketing positions for nearly 30 years and now provides consulting services as Executive Director of U.S.-based Schaefer Marketing Solutions. His clients include both start-ups and global brands such as Cisco, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, and the UK government.

Jody Thompson, along with her partner Cali Ressler, is the Fouder of CultureRx and co-creator of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE). Her first book, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It, was named "The Year's Best Book on Work-Life Balance" by Business Week. She has been featured on the covers of BusinessWeek, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Magazine, Hybrid Mom Magazine, and HR Executive Magazine as well as in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, USA Today, and on Good Morning America, CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN.

  Jascha Kaykas-Wolff oversees all Mindjet marketing efforts including branding, product marketing, demand generation, advertising, public relations, community, and web operations. Prior to Mindjet, Kaykas-Wolff served as senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Success at Involver, the world's largest social marketing platform. He previously headed Global Marketing for Webtrends, the leading customer intelligence platform that founded the web analytics industry.

Jason Cohen is the Founder & CEO of WPEngine, a premium WordPress host provider. He's started four companies in the last 12 years, two as co-founder, two as sole founder. Two were bootstrapped, one angel-funded, one VC. All were profitable within two years; two of them have successfully sold for cash. 

  Darren Capik is the founder and President of Watch It Now Entertainment.  His business philosophy and his personal philosophy are closely aligned with the ideology that by pursuing a solid goal of bettering yourself through quality fitness and nutrition you can live a longer and more fulfilling life.  In an age of processed everything the process of fitness remains true and strong and Darren is committed to creating the best quality products to help others achieve a higher level of fitness and health.

  Robby Slaughter is a workflow and productivity expert. His focus is helping organizations and individuals to become more efficient, more effective and more satisfied at work. Robby is a regular contributor in several regional magazines and has been interviewed by national publications such as the Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of a new book titled “Failure: The Secret to Success.”

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  Brian Goffman is CEO and co-founder at Optify. Brian brings more than a 15 years of experience as an Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist to Optify. Along with Erez Barak, Brian co-founded Optify with the mission of making B2B real-time online marketing easy, profitable and measurable. Brian is responsible for Optify’s overall strategic direction, including product development, marketing, team building and fundraising.

This week, we'll be talking about all the great shows and guests we've had on the show from the past. 

Delivra is an email marketing software and services provider that helps a variety of organizations execute email marketing campaigns. Join us to hear insight from the team on the email marketing industry and what changes they anticipate in 2012.

Starr is an international publicist and an “authority in social media marketing”. She has trained and worked with thousands of entrepreneurs and businesses around the planet including corporations, non-profit organizations, authors, CEOs and associations worldwide. She has over 1200 active and direct relationships with editors, writers and segment producers worldwide and has secured placement and coverage for herself as well as her clients in media outlets around the globe, including Oprah mag, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Good Morning America and The Today Show to name a few. In addition, I have secured major book, co-branding and licensing contracts for my clients worldwide through the power of social networking.

Mari Smith is a passionate social media leader, specializing in relationship marketing and Facebook mastery. She is coauthor of Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day and her next book The New Relationship Marketing is now available. Connect with her at www.marismith.com.

Jim Kukral writes and markets books. His company, Digital Book Launch, helps aspiring authors reach best-seller status through creative Internet marketing. 

Kimberly has been in the customer experience business since 2000, and is the president and co-founder of Measure Consumer Perspectives. Measure CP provides businesses with feedback through mystery shopping, brand auditing, and mobile.  She is also a wife, mother of two, and customer service diva.