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Featuring people with good ideas from all over the Internet.

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Patrick King – A Life of Making Something Out of Nothing

In February 1995, Patrick King woke up in the rain behind a gas station, 17 and homeless. Picking himself up from that point, Patrick has developed a legacy of ...
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Amy Levy – Leading Public Relations Professional

Amy Levy has led her own firm, Amy Levy Public Relations, Inc. (ALPR) for eight years.  She boasts experience at national advertising and public relations firms, in house on ...
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Jim Zahniser – Seasoned Skeptic, Communications Professional

With experience that began with his first “real job” as a daily newspaper reporter and moved through PR agencies, independent consulting and in-house positions, Jim Zahniser has a well-earned ...
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Sarah Nelson – CEO of Npress and Practice Marketing Revolution

Sarah Nelson is currently the Founder and CEO of Npress and the Practice Marketing Revolution. Sarah has been helping doctors and dentists get new patients and keep them since ...
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Mirja Riester – Activist for sustainability in marketing

Mirja Riester is the chief strategic officer at RIESTER one of the largest independent advertising and public relations firms in the western United States. She established the European method ...
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Jon Leland – Visionary electronic media communicator

Jon Leland, president & creative director of ComBridges,  is a leading communications expert who has been a visionary media innovator for almost 40 years. In the seventies, Mr. ...
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John Koenig – Gen Y Business & Social Entrepreneur

John Koenig is an experienced digital marketing consultant, specializing in search engine marketing, social media, web analytics and usability. He has worked in-house at both search marketing and interactive ...
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Bruce Silverman – What Hasn’t He Done?

Bruce Silverman is one of America's best known and well respected marketing-communication and branding experts. A broad-view strategist, he served as executive creative director at four of America's largest advertising ...
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Ian Lurie – Internet Marketing Consultant and Curmudgeon

Ian Lurie is Chief Marketing Curmudgeon and President at Portent Interactive, a firm he started in 1995. Portent is a full-service internet marketing company whose services include SEO, ...
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Richard Kahn – CEO of eZanga.com

Richard K. Kahn, CEO of eZanga.com, has been a leader in the online advertising industry since 1993. He founded SEM and search engine eZanga in 2003. Over the past ...
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Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski – Bridging Heart & Marketing

Judith Sherven, PhD and Jim Sniechowski, PhD are a husband and wife psychology team and best selling authors of 6 books, including #1 bestseller The Heart of ...
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Giancarlo Massaro – Entrepreneur and Founder of AnyLuckyDay

Giancarlo Massaro is a college student and 20-year-old entrepreneur who has built the business AnyLuckyDay around giving away products for free. He started his entrepreneurial journey at ...
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Nick Vivion – Travel Filmmaker & Co-Founder of Unicorn Booty

Nick Vivion is a 27 year-old traveler and filmmaker currently based in Seattle. Thanks to an ex-Army brat father, Nick has been traveling since he was very young. ...
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Gary Vaynerchuk-Businessman who loves his family & the NY Jets

Gary Vaynerchuk is a New York Times bestselling author and American businessman who was born in Belarus and immigrated to the United States as a young child. Gary’s entrepreneurial ...
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CJ Bruce – CEO of Video Army, Technology & Media Nerd

CJ Bruce was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. He studied Media Arts and Political Science at the University of Arizona and has been producing videos since he was ...
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Daniella Jaeger – IdeaMensch East Coast PR Rep

Daniella Jaeger is a Jill-of-all-trades and a firm believer that focused passions combined with diverse talents is a winning recipe for executing brilliant ideas. She recently picked up and ...
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Marian Calabro – History marketing and writing maven

Marian Calabro is the founder and president of CorporateHistory.net, a firm that helps companies use their past to position themselves for the future. She is also the voice of ...
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Thubten Comerford – CEO of Social Potency, Avid Idea Igniter

Thubten grew up in Malibu, California in the 1970s surrounded by 
celebrities. His classmates included Charlie Sheen, Chris Penn, Rob
Lowe, Dean Cain, Robert Downy, Jr., Holly Robinson Peete and ...
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Tim O’Leary – Author, Blogger and CEO of R2C Group

Tim O’Leary the co-founder and CEO of The R2C Group. Since founding the advertising agency with his wife Michelle Cardinal in 1998, The R2C Group has catapulted ...
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Jay Schwartz – President of IdeaWork Studios

Companies of all sizes understand how crucial it is to have tools that will more effectively sell their products, help them compete in the marketplace, aid in developing brand ...
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David Langton – Visual Intelligence Expert

David likes to say that intelligence comes to each of us in different ways, some are gifted with analytical skills, others are book-smart, some are good at public speaking, others ...
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Paige Arnof-Fenn: Founder/CEO of Mavens & Moguls

Paige Arnoff-Fenn began her marketing career in brand management at Procter & Gamble in 1990. She ran a joint venture within the Department of the Treasury for the 1996 ...
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Ben Herman – Founder of Mad Fish SEO & Mad Fish Elements

Ben Herman is an Oregon native, who’s lifelong appreciation and interest in technology led him to a the career in online marketing, and web development, and ultimately to build ...
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Pamela Wilson – Award-winning graphic designer and marketer

Pamela Wilson is an award-winning graphic designer and owner of Zurek Design Inc.  Zurek Design, Inc. clients include Efficiency Engineers; Katherine Scott's Voice of Destiny; Malt Advocate magazine; ...
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Kent Lewis – President/Founder of Anvil Media & Formic Media

As President of Anvil Media, Inc., Kent Lewis is responsible for managing operations, marketing and business development to achieve the search engine marketing agency's mission: ...
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Sherice Jacob – Pixel Pusher, Copywriter, Flavored Coffee Fanatic.

Sherice Jacob helps business owners improve website performance and increase conversions through her blog at iElectrify.com. She has a passion for the web, and is a strong ...
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Seth Godin – Author & The Most Popular Blogger In the World

Seth Godin is an author, blogger and entrepreneur. He's best known for his blog, the most popular in the world by single author. His books have been translated into more ...
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Brianne Burrowes | Editor-in-Chief, Blogger, Fashionista

A born creator,  Brianne Burrowes'  favorite childhood picture is an image of herself holding chunky crayons to a granular coloring book page. With her hair in pigtails and six-year-old chub ...
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Chris Wright – Product Marketing Manager at Google

Chris Wright was born in Butte (that's not meant to be funny), graduated from the University of Montana, and has been working at Google since 2003. He has ...
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Katy Kippen – More ideas than time

As a young girl, Katy had more ideas than time to work on them; the same is true of Katy today. Katy spent much of her youth overseas with her military ...
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Chris Halliwell – Technology Marketing Zelig

Chris Halliwell is an experienced business-to-business marketing professional focused on helping technology-enabled companies become market-driven.  Her teaching, consulting, and process facilitation clients include Analog Devices, Baker Hughes, Corning, Intuitive Surgical, ...
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Shawna Harch – Shaping Thought With Words 


Although she originally wanted to design the next artistic masterpiece, Shawna Harch ended up with her fingers on the keyboard. She thanks her mother, who spent many years as an ...
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Spencer Helm – Internet Marketer Realizing His Father Was Right

Spencer was born in the metropolitan and international cultural capital of Billings, Montana. Desperate to show young Spencer ‘how the other half lives’, his parents put an emphasis on traveling ...
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Jeff Hasen – Brand Architect, Mobile Marketer, Tech Evangelist

Jeff Hasen builds, strengthens and protects brands that impact people near and far. He has led results-driven programs for the world's largest food company, the globe's unifying sports showcase and ...
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Robert Moss – Copywriter, ex-cinematographer, storyteller

Robert got into advertising by accident. As a cinematographer on music videos, documentaries, low budget features and spots, Robert's connections at Panavision as well as at post-production facilities were eager ...
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Clark Benson – Founder of Ranker and serial entrepreneur

Clark Benson is the founder of Ranker, a consumer web startup that is a platform for ranking . . . anything.  Ranker is Benson's 5th startup; all prior startups were ...
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Ryan Wines – Indie music thought leader and occasional heretic

Born three weeks overdue and weighing in at nearly 10lbs at birth, Ryan made a big impact early on, giving his poor mother nearly 24 hours of intense labor. Since ...
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Jakki Mohr – High Tech Marketing Professor, Author, Consultant

Dr. Mohr is a Regents Professor, the Jeff and Martha Hamilton Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor of Marketing in the School of Business Administration at the University of Montana-Missoula.  She ...
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Evan Ferrari – Music geek and Strategic Planner

Evan is that guy you ask to hook you up with a new mixtape or playlist when your current one gets old, he talks a lot of trash about basketball ...
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Adam Steffen – Brand fanatic, strategic thinker, scotch aficionado

Adam was born and raised in the great state of Montana by two busy executives. He lived in great American cities throughout Montana such as Chinook, Great Falls, Whitefish -- ...
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Evan Davies – Idea Mensch, Online Marketer, Fly Fisherman

Growing up outside of Milwaukee, WI Evan doesn’t stray far from the hard-working and personal work ethic that the Midwest is known for. With an internal driving ambition for ...
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Mario Schulzke – IdeaMensch Founder

Mario Schulzke was born in Germany,  raised with the help of his Prussian great-grandmother, educated by nuns and is in constant attempt to live an interesting life. He has ...