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Brian Clark is a serial entrepreneur based in Boulder, Colorado. He’s the founder and CEO of Rainmaker Digital, your host for the event and the company behind Copyblogger, StudioPress, Rainmaker FM, and the Rainmaker Platform.

Brian began publishing online in 1998, and by 1999 he had his first entrepreneurial success — powered by what is now known as content marketing. He went on to launch two additional offline businesses using purely online marketing and infrastructure, attaining even greater success.

Rainmaker Digital has never taken venture capital, and made it to 8 figures in annual revenue without advertising. It was the Copyblogger audience that provided the catalyst for the multimillion dollar digital commerce company he heads today. It’s this success that’s made Brian one of the recognized pioneers of the $44 billion content marketing industry.

Melanie Deziel is an award-winning branded content strategist and consultant, and the founder of The Overlap League, the native advertising newsletter. She is a board member of the Native Advertising Institute, has served as an executive judge for the Digiday Content Marketing Awards, and travels the country educating marketing, sales and editorial teams on branded content strategy. Melanie is the former Director of Creative Strategy for Time Inc., where she led ideation for sponsored content programs across 35+ publications, and was the first editor of branded content at The New York Times, where she conceived and wrote in-depth pieces sponsored by advertisers, including the “Women Inmates” piece created in partnership with Netflix and Orange Is The New Black and the “Grit & Grace” feature on The New York City Ballet presented by Cole Haan, which earned the OMMA for Best Native Advertising Execution in 2014 and 2015 respectively. You can find Melanie on Twitter and elsewhere as @mdeziel.

Pamela Wilson is Executive Vice President of Educational Content at Rainmaker Digital. She leads the Copyblogger side of the business, which has been teaching people how to build online authority since 2006. She directs the Authority advanced content marketing training program, and the Copyblogger Certification program. Pamela owns BigBrandSystem.com. She’s writing a book about content marketing, which you can learn more about on ZerotoBook.FM, her podcast with bestselling author Jeff Goins.

The original conversion copywriter, Joanna Wiebe teaches fast-growing companies how to craft copy that moves people to action. She is the creator of Copy Hackers and the cofounder of Airstory, a collaborative writing platform.

Chris Garrett is Chief Digital Officer at Rainmaker Digital, a veteran blogger, and the co-author of ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income with Darren Rowse. Chris is instrumental in combining marketing strategy with technology, leading our development team, and also helping Rainmaker Digital customers to use our tools and services. Chris is a unique blend of writer, developer, teacher and marketing technologist, for people who want to use the web to grow their business.

Andrea Vahl is a Social Media Consultant and Speaker and is the co-author of Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies. She was the Community Manager for Social Media Examiner, one of the most influential social media news sites, for over 2 years and was named 50 Favorite Online Influencers of 2014 on Entrepreneur.com. She also uses her Improv comedy skills to blog as a slightly cranky character, Grandma Mary – Social Media Edutainer on her site at www.AndreaVahl.com.

Kevan Lee works on content and marketing at Buffer, where he writes for the 1 million monthly readers of the Buffer Social blog and helps spread the word about Buffer’s smart and powerful software-as-a-service platform. His writing has appeared in Time, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Inc.

Jeff Walker is the author of the New York Times #1 best seller LAUNCH. His launch strategies have literally transformed the way stuff is sold online.

Back in the old days before he started teaching his “Product Launch Formula,” almost no one in the bootstrapped online entrepreneurial world talked about “product launches” and the idea of a “million dollar launch day” seemed almost ludicrous. But now, in the post-Product Launch Formula world, the million dollar (and multi-million dollar) launches barely raise an eyebrow.

But Jeff’s techniques are not just for established businesses and gurus with big platforms – he’s now taught thousands of students (who operate in hundreds of niches), and they’ve generated more than $500 million in sales.