Thought Leader Thursday – Jason Sadler

Posted by Jeremy L. Knauff | January 7th, 2010

Thanks for being a part of Thought Leader Thursday today Jason. You’ve become quite the media sensation by taking something that we all do every single day, getting dressed, and finding a way to make money doing it. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came up with this idea?

I’ve been in marketing/design for over 10 years, when I graduated college I worked a 9-5 gig and hated it. I co-founded a web design company from my couch and saw some great success from that for 2 years before trying to make money wearing t shirts. I knew that companies were cutting back on their advertising budgets and that lots of companies weren’t able to use social media (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc). I figured t-shirts were an easy enough item for companies to make and…

Thought Leader Thursday – Gab Goldenberg

Posted by Wildfire Marketing Group | November 19th, 2009

Thanks for joining us on Thought Leader Thursday today Gab. You’re well known throughout the SEO community, especially for your link building services, and have been featured in mainstream and trade media and have spoken at various tradeshows. Could you share the story of how you got into the field and a little bit of your history with our readers?

I’ve always been into politics, ever since I was a kid. It was something we talked about a lot at home and I just grew up around it. I remember liking that my dad got me an autographed picture of our then Prime Minister, Jean Chretien. That was before he was disgraced in the Sponsorship Scandal…

So when I turned 18, I wanted to influence the national federal election, and I decided to start a blog. I read up on promoting sites…

Thought Leader Thusday – Kathy Kelley

Posted by Wildfire Marketing Group | November 12th, 2009

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience with us today on Thought Leader Thursday, Kathy. For our readers who don’t know, Kathy founded a forum named HysterSisters.com in 1998, which has grown to a membership of over 175,000 members. A few years later, she went on to help launch The Admin Zone, a website devoted to building forums. Kathy, can you tell us what motivated you to head down this path?

Thanks for the opportunity to talk to you today. The Internet was quite young and content was thin in 1998. I launched HysterSisters as a content website, providing frequently asked questions (and answers) surrounding women’s medical issues. The site had articles and a guestbook. You might remember those guestbooks: Bravo (I think?). They were simple, hosted elsewhere, and allowed visitors to write a few lines to the owner…

Thought Leader Thursday – Andy Beal

Posted by Wildfire Marketing Group | November 5th, 2009

Thanks for being a part of Thought Leader Thursday and sharing your insight with us today Andy. For those that don’t know, you are an author, speaker and reputation management guru, to name just a few of your talents. Can you tell us a bit about how you ended up where you are today, and what it took to get here?

One part luck, one part hard work, and the remainder a blessing from God!

I’ve spent the last ten years of my career focusing on Internet marketing–particularly search engine optimization. A few years ago, I started getting requests to help clients “clean up” their Google reputation–pushing down negative items when you Google their name. Between 2005 and 2007, that expanded to other areas and I found myself helping businesses manage all aspects of their online reputation. I coauthored Radically Transparent, which…

Thought Leader Thursday – Chris Brogan

Posted by Wildfire Marketing Group | August 6th, 2009

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us today Chris. You’ve helped thousands of companies to improves their social media marketing through consulting, your blog and your newsletter. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you ended up as one of the leaders in your industry?

It’s weird to talk about, because I was doing this for over a decade for my own interests, and without a business plan in mind. I just realized that these tools like blogging and social networks and presence applications like Twitter gave us a way to interact that really helped bring together like-minded people. To be honest, there was no industry when I started. I’m not a marketer or a PR person by trade. I’m a technologist. I just applied my business communications passions with my use of the tools,…